BLACKFEET NATION — NFL Network broadcaster Jason Kelce ignited faux media outrage Sunday when he called the league’s Washington franchise the Redskins — six years after the team’s name and native imagery were claimed by cancel culture as its trophy kill.

If Kelce is looking for allies, he’ll find them among most Americans, few of whom obey the command to call the team by its official new name, the Commanders.

‘The [Redskins] logo was the most powerful logo in NFL history, because it actually had meaning behind it.’

He’ll also find allies in Blackfeet Nation and among the family of Chief John Two Guns White Calf, an American hero who, according to a NYT obituary, served as the face of the U.S. Mint’s famous 1913 Indian Head nickel and, posthumously, the Washington Redskins for 48 years.

“The team’s new stadium [slated to open in 2030] needs to honor John Two Guns White Calf in the right way, because he was their image, their logo, from 1972 until 2020,” Thomas White Calf told Blaze News in a recent interview, while standing in the shadows of 8,894-foot White Calf Mountain.

Blaze News reached out to representatives for Jason Kelce and did not receive a response in time for publication.

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The White Calf family are already on the record saying they want the NFL and the franchise to reclaim the Redskins name, the native legacy of “braves on the warpath,” and the proud portrait logo of Blackfeet Chief Two Guns White Calf.

The family, however, were silenced for years by the same media outlets trying to silence Kelce today.

Media outrage against the Redskins exploded suddenly in October 2013. President Obama criticized the team on Oct. 5. The National Congress of American Indians issued an incendiary report to mainstream media outlets on October 10. Within days, the Associated Press, ESPN, NBC Sports, New York Times, and other major media outlets published and broadcast scathing attacks on the team.

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Dan Snyder, the previous owner of the Redskins, succumbed to the withering media attack and dropped the team name and native imagery in 2020. Current owner Josh Harris inherited the public relations nightmare when he bought the team in 2023. The White Calf family stated their wishes to meet with the team in a previous Blaze News report.

Despite years of widespread reporting on the Redskins name and image, Thomas White Calf’s interview with Blaze News was the first-ever media interview about the issue in the Blackfeet Nation homeland of “the most photographed native in history,” as Thomas White Calf called the family patriarch.

He was joined by his mother, Delphine, a great-niece of Two Guns; brothers Shawn and Chris; and his nephew Chris.

“Nobody ever asked us for our opinion. Nobody ever asked what we thought,” Thomas White Calf added, standing on the edge of a spectacular valley overlooking Saint Mary Lake in northwest Montana.

“This is where it all started from. The face of the Washington Redskins. The face of the Indian Head nickel. This is where Two Guns White Calf was born and raised. This is his land.”

The mainstream media not only silenced the White Calf family, they erased the heroic life story of Two Guns from the Redskins’ cancel-culture narrative during a withering seven-year attack on the team orchestrated by the far-left, Soros-funded National Congress of American Indians.

The media never mentioned White Calf’s name, even though his face was the entire center of the manufactured controversy. Even worse, the NCAI dehumanized White Calf as an anonymous “savage and clownish caricature.”

White Calf was in fact an American hero who fought to preserve native heritage and force the U.S. government to honor tribal treaties from this remote Blackfeet homeland to the halls of power in Washington, D.C. His death in 1934 was front-page news coast to coast.

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If any journalists visited Blackfeet Nation, they would find monumental mountain peaks, sprawling Big Sky prairie, and sparkling rivers and lakes. Blackfeet Nation covers 2,400 square miles — about the size of Delaware — wedged between Glacier National Park and Alberta, Canada.

The White Calfs spoke from a precipice site of three monumental iron teepees, a tribute to an ancestral Blackfeet settlement with a spectacular view.

Blackfeet Nation is a land of spiritual beauty and profound continental impact. Despite the media blackout, Blackfeet Nation plays an outsized role in North American hydrological history and in American cultural history.

Just southwest of White Calf Mountain is the imposing face of Triple Divide Peak (8,018 feet).

“It’s the most sacred mountain to the Blackfeet, to our ancestors,” said Shawn White Calf.

And for good reason: Triple Divide Peak is one of the only points on earth at the corner of three continental watersheds.

It’s also the only mountain on earth whose snowmelt ends in three oceans. Waters from the peak run northeast to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean, southeast to the Mississippi River, then the Gulf of America and the Atlantic Ocean; and west to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean.

The Blackfeet, despite their remote location, see themselves as the caretakers of all North American waters.

Two Guns White Calf was the caretaker of the original Americans.

He forged a bond with the leaders of the United States — a nation that arose only from the blend of traditions between indigenous Americans and European migrants. Among his other notable acts of unity, President Calvin Coolidge was made a member of Blackfeet Nation while Two Guns was chief.

The United States honored the Blackfeet chief in its currency; the nation’s most popular sports league honored him in the football team in the nation’s capital.

And then that face and that history were canceled. So no, Kelce didn’t commit a gaffe. He echoed the feelings of the Blackfeet people and the White Calf family and the 90% of American Indians who claimed they were not offended by the Redskins in the only two major polls of native opinion (Annenberg, Washington Post).

“The history is finally getting out there, and people are learning more and more about Two Guns and the powerful history behind it,” said Thomas White Calf.

“The [Redskins] logo was the most powerful logo in NFL history, because it actually had meaning behind it.”

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A French official has responded to President Donald Trump blaming Islam and mass migration for the violent riots in France.

Nearly 500 people were arrested in just one day in connection with massive riots that French officials claim are about the conditions in schools. Education Minister Édouard Geffray reported that at least 24 schools were ransacked or set on fire.

The Ministry of Justice said more than 5,000 people had been arrested in the rioting and that 87% of the arrestees were minors.

While many news reports characterize the rioting as a result of French citizens expressing their outrage against education conditions, Trump tied it to Islam and mass immigration.

“What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!” he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

The post captured a lot of attention and led to a tepid response from Jean-Noel Barrot, the French foreign minister.

“If we do not write our own story, others will write it for us,” said Barrot.

He went on to accuse France’s “rivals, adversaries, and partners” of attempting to interpret the rioting in a self-serving manner.

Organizers claim as many as 450,000 people are participating in the massive protest and rioting, reportedly to oppose the educational system offered in France. The French Ministry of the Interior said 488 people were just arrested on Tuesday and 43 law enforcement officers had been injured, AA reported.

In one startling case, a 15-year-old had his hand reportedly blown off by a police stun grenade that detonated.

Another individual lost teeth, and others reportedly suffered eye injuries, according to The Hill.

Some have tied the rioting to increased immigration enforcement ordered by the European Union in June. The new policies included increasing deportations and constructing detention centers abroad.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz also blamed immigration for the rioting in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I think we would always condemn lawlessness, condemn the violence that we’re seeing in Paris,” Waltz responded.

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“But I think we also have to recognize that when you have open borders, when you [have] this pro-migration, unchecked immigration kind of policy, coupled with policies over the years that deny people basic energy, that overspend on all kinds of other government programs, that you see a level of frustration boiling to the surface,” he added.

In a letter dated Monday, the Ministry of Justice said more than 5,000 people had been arrested in the rioting and that 87% of the arrestees were minors. Only about a third of them are being prosecuted.

At least 900 high schools were expected to be blockaded or closed on Tuesday.

“The French are notorious for strikes, labor stoppages, and street demonstrations. It’s a core part of the Fifth Republic’s civic culture,” said Theo Wold, a former Trump official, to Fox News Digital. “What’s new is the violence, lawlessness, and rioting. This is a consequence of mass immigration.”

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Any thrill I might have experienced upon learning an “East of Eden” adaptation was in the Netflix pipeline was rapidly extinguished by memories of the latest screen desecrations of beloved classics.

Earlier this year, provocateur Emerald Fennell turned Emily Brontë’s Gothic tragedy “Wuthering Heights” into cheap fodder for the smut-obsessed. This summer, Netflix retconned Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie” — complete with culturally fluent pioneers and a DEI-mandated American frontier.

They are systematically eliminating our clearest portraits of evil because behind them lies the Christian realities that inspired them.

As for Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey,” I thought it was a cinematic success, but it still made the face that launched a thousand ships a lesson in representation, while casting transgender “Elliot” Page as the Greek warrior Sinon, who’s not even a Homeric character.

I’m already recoiling thinking about the heresy that animates feminist auteur Greta Gerwig’s upcoming “Narnia” reimagining, which intends to emasculate Aslan and turn Lewis’ sacrosanct creation myth into a secular 1950s “rock opera.”

I could go on, but that’s enough to make plain the pattern of Hollywood’s utter disregard for adapting the literary canon faithfully. Always it must infuse its warped catechisms, lest we plebeians forget where it stands.

But being the masochist I am when it comes to these matters, I watched Netflix’s “East of Eden” anyway, and I have to tell you, I was genuinely gutted by what I witnessed. Not annoyed by predictable woke tropes, although those were there too. No — gutted.

My visceral shock, however, was less about the revision of John Steinbeck’s perennial Cain and Abel allegory and more regarding what that deliberate modification reveals about the dismal state of our culture.

Will the real Cathy Ames please stand up?

If you haven’t read Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” (and please do!), I’ll take the liberty of giving you a little teaser: The novel’s antagonist, Cathy Ames, is certainly one of the most heinous villains in American literature, if not in the entire Western canon.

The book introduces her with this haunting bit of prose: “I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.”

And that’s an apt entrance for Cathy. She is a monster at birth, a mutant at the soul level, a fiend cloaked in human flesh. Modern-day psychologists would diagnose her as an incorrigible sociopath who takes pleasure only in the torture, humiliation, and demise of other people.

Cathy is also what critics call a “static character”: She undergoes virtually no meaningful change over the course of the novel. More unsettlingly, she remains almost impossible to relate to at a human level. Steinbeck gives her no humanizing backstory that draws our sympathies, no redeeming ethical or moral arc, no thing we might point to and say, “See, that’s why she behaves so horribly.”

Static characters are almost humorous in their simplicity, and they serve a variety of purposes in literature. But in Cathy’s case, her function is symbolism. She is an emblem for unadulterated evil, and that’s neither my nor the literary authorities’ verdict. It’s Steinbeck’s. In a letter, he called Cathy Ames “a total representative of Satan.”

It’s a tailor-made description, given she frames two young boys for sexual abuse, drives a man to suicide, and burns her parents alive all by the age of 16 and the end of the chapter that introduces her. In hopes you will read the book for yourself, I won’t spoil the rest of the unspeakable horrors that unfold at Cathy’s polluted hand.

But as sinister as she is, Cathy Ames plays a paramount role in this story. “East of Eden” is a moral epic, meaning it’s not just an entertaining tale about fictional people and events. It actually employs those things for the explicit purpose of drawing our attention to the cosmic war between good and evil, heaven and hell, God and the devil. Cathy, as I’ve already noted, represents the dark side of that epic struggle. Humanize her in any way and you collapse the entire framework.

But surprise, surprise — that’s exactly the sin the makers of Netflix’s “East of Eden” committed.

A moral epic gets the Hollywood makeover

Writer Zoe Kazan told Reuters, “We wanted our audience to be able to identify with every single character, the ones that are good on the surface and the ones that are evil on the surface because if we think about people that are evil or bad as being not human, we don’t learn anything about ourselves.”

A pleasant sentiment, except no logical reader could conclude that Steinbeck’s Cathy Ames is evil “on the surface.” He makes it unmistakably clear from the outset that she is not just a perpetrator of evil but the embodiment of evil itself. “A malformed soul” are his exact words.

So to correct Ms. Kazan, Cathy is nonhuman in that she lacks the very qualities that make one so — empathy, moral quandaries, regret, emotional baggage, anything that would resonate with a real human being. The Bible gives Lucifer no domesticating backstory, so why should his literary stand-in have one?

Actress Florence Pugh, who plays Cathy in the series, had her own nauseating comments: “She can still make terrible decisions and face awful consequences, but there can also be … an understanding of her history and her past, which makes her the way that she is.”

Except being a static archetype, there’s literally nothing in Cathy’s history or past to explain her savagery. The fact that she is inherently and incurably evil is the entire point of her character.

But that won’t do for Hollywood. It must tinker and snip at a classic until it creates its desired Frankenstein’s monster. Thus Kazan gave the diabolical Cathy Ames a tragic backstory, turning her from a Satan figure into a woman we can pity, even as she destroys. She suffers abuse, acquires trauma, is driven to desperation, and, of course, experiences the cold hand of misogyny. It’s not even worth delving into. Suffice it to say it’s a lie. More important to me is the “why” behind it.

When killers get poignant backstories

The show’s egregious misreading of Cathy raises an important question: Are the makers of this blasphemous series just stupid, or are they up to something?

That’s a rhetorical question. You know as well as I do there’s an agenda at play. What might surprise us is how ugly it is.

Obviously, these Hollywood revisionists are well aware Steinbeck’s Cathy Ames is not a sympathetic character in any sense of the term. But they chose to rewrite her as one anyway — and it has nothing to do with the audience wanting to “learn something about themselves,” as Kazan sold it.

“Introspection” is a reasonable sop to satiate the masses, but it’s a ruse. Cathy must be remade, for she represents the very thing the progressive left wants to retroactively undo. As long as objective evil breathes, it stands as a barrier to their dark vision for the world: a dystopia ruled by moral relativism, where one man’s act of slaughter is another man’s tragic mental break.

Or should I say woman’s? After all, the morally intact part of the nation has been watching, mouths agape, for months now as thousands of people (most of them mothers) fought for a woman who admitted to methodically strangling her three young children to death in a basement. “Postpartum psychosis” was an evocative enough backstory to tip the pity scales in Clancy’s favor.

A similar and equally disturbing trajectory of events surrounded the premeditated stalking and murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. His admitted killer, Luigi Mangione, was made into a sympathetic vigilante by radicals who cheered his “courage.” His chronic pain, denied claims, and manifesto then made him an ideal mascot for progressives’ agenda to blame “the system” rather than the criminal.

Karmelo Anthony, the “good kid” who stabbed an unarmed student after a verbal confrontation, claimed self-defense, and was cast as a victim of racism, is yet another example.

There is a pattern here, and it reveals a dark truth: There is much power to harness when you give a killer a poignant backstory.

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Television tells a vision

But backstories, even those belonging to killers, are not off limits. On the contrary, they are the lens that allows us to see the gray, the nuance that tempers dichotomous thinking. Much good results from understanding motive so long as the line of objective morality remains unblurred — because for every degree it fades, Pandora’s box opens a hair more. And then suddenly, the demons are too numerous to count. And they do not go back in the box willingly.

But Steinbeck’s Cathy Ames is designed to make us look at those bloodthirsty demons, not the complexities of real people living in a broken world. To adapt her character, or any similar character, in this way is a calculated attempt to corrupt what C.S. Lewis called the “Law of Human Nature,” the idea that man is born with a moral radar.

No doubt entertainment has been powerful in the dulling of man’s intrinsic moral compass. Under the guise of artistic license, it surreptitiously conditions the masses. True to its name, television tells a vision — in this case, that evil is really just the manifestation of trauma or poverty.

By turning a Satan symbol into a tragic figure, a Netflix series becomes propaganda for the progressive push for absolution. And of course, the communists are cheering. Explaining away evil is their vision too, you know. The only difference is their endgame isn’t equity or decarceration; it’s dominion.

Christianity in the crosshairs

I initially thought it was ironic they chose a famous moral epic — the least fitting vessel — to undermine the idea of pure evil. But then I realized that’s exactly why they chose “East of Eden.” They are systematically eliminating our clearest portraits of evil because behind them lie the Christian realities that inspired them. If your goal is to unmake evil, Christianity is where you must aim the arrow.

Steinbeck’s 600-page epic boils down to a single word. After God rejects Cain’s offering in Genesis 4, he tells the soon-to-be fratricidal murderer: “Sin lieth at the door … and thou shalt rule over him.” After a long spiritual journey, the character Lee discovers that the Hebrew translation for “shalt” — timshel — is less of a command and more of a gracious offering.

Despite Satan and his wicked pull on the hearts of man, “thou mayest” rule over evil. That is the lesson Cathy’s son Cal — who fears he has inherited his mother’s malevolent nature — walks away with.

But when you get rid of objective evil, what is there to rule over? That’s what really guts me. By painting evil as buried trauma, the series offers a secularized, counterfeit timshel. Biblical permission to recognize and deny Satan’s influence turns into a therapy session on handling our misfortunes better than our forebears. It would be a decent message if it didn’t obscure precisely the cosmic war between good and evil that “East of Eden” seeks to illuminate — a darkness our culture exploits for any number of nefarious ends.

The war is real, however, and there’s no opting out of it. You can distort works like “East of Eden” to pretend that it isn’t, but you remain a combatant nonetheless. Just one who’s chosen to fight for the losing side.

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Another underage suspect in the horrific attack on a 5-year-old girl in Cleveland, Ohio, has been found to be delinquent of nine charges that included attempted murder and rape.

A 10-year-old boy previously pleaded guilty to attempted rape and felonious assault for his part in the heinous attack.

‘My daughter was not my daughter. Her hair was scalped from her head. She had bruises and blood all over her body.’

The 11-year-old female suspect was addressed as M.H. in court. On Friday, a judge found her delinquent on the charges, which is the equivalent of an adult conviction but for minors.

The girl was attacked on Sept. 13, 2025, in a field near E. 148th Street and St. Clair Avenue, according to Cleveland police.

The girl testified that her clothing was removed and she was strangled with her own shirt.

Antavia Kennibrew, the mother of the victim, testified in court against M.H., as did the 10-year-old boy. Kennibrew said her daughter was treated at a hospital for weeks after the attack.

“When we left the hospital, she went through severe behavioral changes. She kept saying she’s not pretty anymore. She kept saying Earth is a bad place,” she said.

In previous comments, she said the attack left her child “unrecognizable.”

“What I saw was unbelievable,” Kennibrew said. “My daughter was not my daughter. Her hair was scalped from her head. She had bruises and blood all over her body. Her eyes were filled with blood. Her lips and mouth were filled with blood.”

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Kennibrew said the judge answered her prayers when she found M.H. delinquent on all the charges.

“I was very vulnerable. I told the whole world what had happened to my baby,” she said. “And I just was hoping, hoping that somebody like, you know, they will help me fight. And they did. And they did. And my baby, she got her justice. She got her justice.”

She added that she wants M.H. to face the full punishment allowable by law.

“The maximum for whatever she’s able to get,” Kennibrew added. “I want her to know that she should never did this. Like, she needs to be able to live with that every day.”

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Sometimes a symbol becomes more than a symbol.

A flag is a simple piece of fabric. But what it represents — a country, a people, a history — can inspire us deeply. And when that flag is planted by someone who has chosen to stand beside you in your darkest hour, it becomes something more: a message that you are not alone.

A flag planted by someone who has chosen to stand beside you in your darkest hour becomes a message: You are not alone.

That is what I think about when I see an Israeli flag planted by a church in America.

In 2024, we began Flags of Fellowship with a simple idea. Christians across America would plant Israeli flags at their churches and in their communities in memory of the innocent lives taken on October 7, 2023.

We could not have known how far that simple act of friendship would travel.

This year, more than 4,375 churches, synagogues, universities, and organizations around the world are participating in Flags of Fellowship. Together, they will plant more than 5.2 million Israeli flags. The movement now reaches 12 countries, with more than 1,775 participating churches and organizations outside the United States and Canada.

Every one of those flags tells a story.

It tells an Israeli family that we remember. It tells the Jewish community that someone sees what happened to us. And it tells the world that October 7 did not destroy the friendship between Christians and Jews. If anything, that friendship has grown stronger.

Last month, we gathered in Israel at Banias Church in Nazareth for the first Flags of Fellowship event of this year. Church volunteers and community members planted 1,200 Israeli flags before Christian and Jewish leaders spoke and prayed together. The Armenian Christian Association’s children’s and youth choir sang the Lord’s Prayer.

Israel is home to Christians, Jews, Muslims, and people from many countries and backgrounds. We do not always agree. We do not always see the world in the same way. But there is profound beauty when people who are different choose to stand together.

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When a church plants an Israeli flag, it is not making a political statement. It is making a spiritual one: a declaration of friendship, remembrance, and faithfulness to those who are hurting.

That is what I hope people see when they look at Flags of Fellowship: not simply flags, but friendship; not simply remembrance, but solidarity.

The world has changed since October 7. So much attention is given to division, hatred, and the people who tear things down. But another story is being written.

It is being written in churches across America and around the world. It is being written by pastors who stand before their congregations and say that Israel is a friend. It is being written by families who plant an Israeli flag outside their homes, by Christians who pray for Israel, and by Jews who are discovering, sometimes for the first time, how deeply many Christians care about them.

It is written one flag at a time.

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I have had the privilege of watching this friendship grow for years. I have sat with Christian leaders who opened their churches to Israeli flags. I have heard from pastors whose congregations embraced this initiative with extraordinary enthusiasm. And I have spoken with Israelis who are deeply moved to learn that, thousands of miles away, people they have never met are standing with them.

As we mark another anniversary of October 7, I am reminded that remembrance is not only about looking backward. It is also about deciding what kind of future we want to build.

Choosing courage over fear. Friendship over division. Love over hatred.

There is a phrase we often use at the Fellowship: Our enemies burn the flag; our friends plant it.

That is the choice behind Flags of Fellowship. Millions of flags, planted by thousands of congregations and organizations, say the same thing to the Jewish people: You are not alone.

I am deeply grateful for every one of them.

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As the civil lawsuit and renewed criminal investigation into what allegedly happened inside Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity house move forward, the public argument over blame has become largely binary: her or them.

“Consent” has become the watercooler word. Was she responsible for putting herself in that situation, or were the men responsible for what happened afterward?

Brotherhood isn’t helping your brothers get away with bad things. It’s demanding that your brothers be better men.

But I want to bring two more parties into the conversation: dads and the “manosphere.”

I keep asking myself a question I don’t see asked nearly enough: Where were the other young men?

Not the seven fraternity members accused in Jane Doe’s lawsuit. I mean the other brothers who may have been in the house or who saw the fraternity Snapchat thread during the night.

According to the civil complaint and reporting on the messages, a photo of Doe appeared in a group chat, and messages invited other fraternity members to come upstairs. The public record does not establish what every recipient knew or whether each was physically present. But the question remains: What had those young men been taught a man should do if he realizes something terrible may be happening down the hall?

More frightening is the thought of what my sons would have done if they were in that house.

That’s where dads — and the competing vision of masculinity being sold to young men online — belong in this conversation.

I have two boys under 10, and I’ve noticed the standard most dads emphasize: Don’t be the bad guy. Don’t bully other kids. Don’t take advantage of your friends.

Fine. But that’s the floor.

Your goal as a father isn’t merely to raise boys who won’t commit evil. It’s to raise boys who will confront it.

Too often, we obsess over raising boys who aren’t predators. We don’t spend nearly enough time raising protectors. Strength isn’t demonstrated by what you can take from somebody weaker. It’s demonstrated by what you’re willing to risk on that person’s behalf.

I’m not raising my sons to walk away from the Cornell fraternity house room. I’m raising them to open the door and stop what’s happening. Sometimes avoidance is the right answer, and avoidance takes judgment. Other times intervention is the right answer, and intervention takes courage.

The manosphere teaches young men that masculinity is something you prove through acquisition: women, sex, money, muscles, followers, status, dominance. Men advertise their “body count” as if the number of women they have slept with were a masculine achievement. Women become objects, not obligations. That’s rotten.

Most critics focus on how the manosphere distorts the way young men see women. They spend less time on how it distorts the way young men see other men. The entire system is a hierarchy: Who’s the alpha? Who’s weak? Who’s afraid? Who’s willing to go the farthest?

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Now imagine being the 19-year-old fraternity brother who realizes something is badly wrong upstairs. Stopping it may mean risking exactly what this worldview tells him matters most: the approval of other men.

The popular phrase goes, “Character is what you do when no one’s watching.” Good. But I’m also teaching my boys that character is doing the right thing when everyone is watching — and when doing it makes you unpopular.

Applied to the Cornell allegations, the manosphere tells a young man not to be the buzzkill. Actual masculinity tells him to be willing to become the least popular man in the house. Open the door. Stop what’s happening. Find her clothes. Get her somewhere safe. Call the police if necessary. Accept the social consequences tomorrow.

That’s courage.

The stakes rise when the wrongdoer is your friend: your frat bro, your teammate, your lifelong best friend. We teach boys that loyalty is a masculine virtue. It is. But we have confused loyalty with complicity.

We take our friends’ keys when they shouldn’t drive. Likewise, dragging your friend out of a room when he is about to do something horrific isn’t betraying him. It may be the most brotherly thing you can do for him.

Brotherhood isn’t helping your brothers get away with bad things. It’s demanding that your brothers be better men.

The manosphere didn’t arrive in a vacuum. Boys have been begging for someone to tell them what a man is, what strength looks like, and what we owe other people. If fathers don’t answer those questions, someone on TikTok happily will.

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The answer to the manosphere isn’t telling boys that masculinity is toxic. It’s giving them a better version of it.

My biggest fear as a father concerns the moments when I won’t be there. Fatherhood has an expiration date on enforcement. Eventually my sons will face a situation without me standing beside them.

Then it won’t be who’s beside them. It will be what’s inside them.

If I’m successful, their standard won’t be “don’t get arrested” or even “don’t participate.” It will be this: When everyone else loses his head, keep yours. And when somebody vulnerable needs help, help.

The courts will determine legal culpability in the Cornell case. New York Attorney General Letitia James is now overseeing the renewed criminal investigation, while the civil lawsuit proceeds separately.

Fathers don’t need to wait for either process to ask what would have happened if their own son had been there.

We shouldn’t settle for hoping he wouldn’t have participated. We should raise the son who would have stopped it.

​Civil lawsuit, Criminal investigation, Fatherhood, Toxic masculinity, Character, Cornell 7, Lawsuit, Manosphere, New york, Letitia james, Opinion & analysis 

A researcher at a Russian plague laboratory is dead, dozens of people have reportedly been quarantined, and several hospitals have been shut down.

Naturally, people are starting to ask questions.

And BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau are a little concerned.

“Dozens have been quarantined after a researcher at a Russian plague laboratory dies of an unknown infection,” Stu says. “I will say, I don’t really want there to be Russian plague factories or observatories anymore.”

“No,” Dave agrees, “but what will be exciting is when we find out that our tax dollars have somehow been funding it.”

However, while dozens have been quarantined, Stu believes “it’s important to note, quarantine does not mean you have the virus or disease.”

“Being quarantined means they’re worried that you had contact with someone or contact with someone who had contact with this particular woman,” he says.

“So, it doesn’t mean all these people have the illness. However, it’s the freaking plague. So, we better be pretty careful,” he adds.

Meanwhile, Russia is saying it “had nothing to do with that.”

“It was just a normal illness. It’s no big deal. This is all out of a massive precaution,” Stu says, mimicking Russia. “Which may be true, but they did close down four different hospitals, three of which they have direct evidence of a contact tracing to those hospitals. The fourth one just kind of being out of extra, extra special security measures.”

The outbreak bears a striking resemblance to the Wuhan lab leak preceding the COVID pandemic, which Dave points out is “kind of terrifying.”

“Especially because this is, you know, a replay of things that have happened in the past,” he adds.

“You mean conspiracy theories about COVID-19?” Stu asks.

“Conspiracy theories about things that were proven correct. That’s what I mean,” Dave says.

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