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  3. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190083&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=240%2C0%2C240%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>If owning a farm was a dream of yours, there’s finally some good news. A new action plan announced by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will prevent foreign countries from buying up U.S. farmland, as well as protect U.S. land from being used in ways that could harm America.</p><p>“With this announcement today, we are taking this purpose and our American farmland back. American agriculture is not just about feeding our families but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us,” Rollins said.</p><p>“Today we announced the USDA’s national farm security action plan. This plan includes seven key action items. The most important, the first of the seven, is securing and protecting American farmland ownership, actively engaging at every level of government to take swift legislative and executive action to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries,” she continued.</p><h3></h3><br/><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f97c8358fd49eca347bd135f86486b00" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pK6KzHPJbzw?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span><p><br/></p><p>BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales thinks it's crazy that foreign adversaries were ever allowed to buy any American land in the first place.</p><p>“Farmland, houses, developments. I don’t care what it is. I think it’s kind of crazy that we allow that to begin with, but particularly with farmland,” Gonzales says, noting that in the state of Texas, the farmland Chinese nationals were buying were “peculiarly near military bases.”</p><p>“And looking at this, the geography of it was very, very scary. Apparently, that’s not just in Texas, that is across the country,” she continues, adding, “Over 227,000 acres of farmland are owned by Chinese investors.”</p><p>After several Chinese nationals were caught attempting to smuggle dangerous pathogens that could poison Americans via crops, Gonzales finds it all a little disturbing. </p><p>"This is a no-brainer to me. Like, they are owning 227,000 acres of farmland, and they have every intention of bringing in pathogens and bacteria," she says, adding, "They are always 10 steps ahead of us, and we're asleep at the wheel. And thankfully, it looks like in this instance, that won't be happening anymore under the Trump administration."</p><h2>Want more from Sara Gonzales?</h2><p>To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_saragonzalesunfiltered" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/farmland</guid><category>Camera phone</category><category>Free</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Upload</category><category>Video</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Sara gonzales unfiltered</category><category>Sara gonzales</category><category>The blaze</category><category>Blazetv</category><category>Blaze news</category><category>Blaze podcasts</category><category>Blaze podcast network</category><category>Blaze media</category><category>Blaze online</category><category>Blaze originals</category><category>China</category><category>Farmland</category><category>Us farmland</category><category>China buying us land</category><category>China banned from buying us land</category><category>Foreigners banned from buying us land</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190083&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>More Hispanic voters support Trump's deportations despite media incitement, poll finds</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/more-hispanic-voters-support-trumps-deportations-despite-media-incitement-poll-finds</link><description><![CDATA[
  4. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/more-hispanic-voters-support-trump-s-deportations-despite-media-incitement-poll-finds.jpg?id=61192375&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=111%2C0%2C111%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>A new poll found that support for President Donald Trump's mass deportations surged among Hispanic voters between May and July.</p><p>Many on the left and some in the media have been trying to persuade Hispanics that the deportations are motivated by racism, but that endeavor appears to have fallen on deaf ears, according to the newest Cygnal poll.</p><p class="pull-quote">'There’s little question that among his most attractive qualities is voters’ beliefs that he keeps his promises from the campaign.'</p><p>The poll found that support for deportations had surged among Hispanic voters by 7 percentage points over only two months.</p><p>Overall, 50% of Hispanic voters supported deportations, while 48% opposed them. There was an 11% rise in support for deportations among Hispanic voters who said they "strongly support" the policy.</p><p>The same poll found that black voters had also increased in their support for deportations, but at a smaller margin. White voters had dropped in support by a slight 3% but had much higher rates overall compared to blacks and Hispanics.</p><p>According to the poll, 65% of white voters and 53% of black voters support deportation.</p><p>Other results from Cygnal were <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1943295684729540825" target="_blank">touted</a> by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for showing that voters saw the president as a politician who keeps his promises.</p><p>Half of voters <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3466775/trump-campaign-promises-kept-cygnal-poll/" target="_blank">said</a> the president fulfills campaign promises "better than most politicians," and 38% said he does so "much better than most."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/karen-bass-la-raid-bovino" target="_blank"><strong>Border Patrol chief has defiant message for Mayor Karen Bass after she claims to have stopped ICE raid in Los Angeles</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8c09628759019591e2b922a6ebf2a661" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aNYYzCxMyAE?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span> </p><p>Cygnal President Brent Buchanan said that fulfilling promises is a "ramrod" for Trump's agenda.</p><p>“Trump was able to not only attract first-time voters in 2024 but also convert some would-be Harris voters, and when you look at this data, there’s little question that among his most attractive qualities is voters’ beliefs that he keeps his promises from the campaign and could care less about what the D.C. establishments thinks about enacting his agenda," he explained.</p><p>The poll had an error margin of 2.51% and included opinions of 1,500 people.</p><p>The president's popularity may be pivotal in the next elections, which will determine whether Democrats can regain control of any part of the government and stand athwart the Trump agenda after the first two years of complete Republican control.</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>! </em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:20:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/more-hispanic-voters-support-trumps-deportations-despite-media-incitement-poll-finds</guid><category>Latinos for trump</category><category>Poll trump deportations</category><category>Do hispanics support trump</category><category>Do hispanics support deportations</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/more-hispanic-voters-support-trump-s-deportations-despite-media-incitement-poll-finds.jpg?id=61192375&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Trump 'was right' on immigration, admits John Kerry</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-right-border-john-kerry</link><description><![CDATA[
  5. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-was-right-on-immigration-admits-john-kerry.jpg?id=61192286&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=166%2C0%2C166%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>John Kerry made an astounding admission in the ongoing debate on border enforcement, and it is not going to make Democrats happy.</p><p>The former climate czar in the Biden administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-kerry-admits-trump-right-border-says-told-biden-democrats-missed-immigration" target="_blank">admitted</a> that Democrats had fumbled border enforcement and said that President Donald Trump had been right. He made the comments in an interview on the "Reflections" podcast on BBC.</p><p class="pull-quote">'If you're going to define your nation, you have to have a border that means something.'</p><p>"The first thing any president should say, any president, or anybody in public life, is, without a border protected, you don't have a nation — I believe that. If you're going to define your nation, you have to have a border that means something," Kerry said.</p><p>"We have a system," he added. "I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, 'I'm going to enforce the law.'"</p><p>When the host said the president was likely to take Kerry's comments to mean that he was right, Kerry agreed.</p><p>"He was right," Kerry replied. "The problem is, we all should have been right. Everybody should have been right, doing the same thing, all moving in the same direction."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/karen-bass-la-raid-bovino" target="_blank"><strong>Border Patrol chief has defiant message for Mayor Karen Bass after she claims to have stopped ICE raid in Los Angeles</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8ebe9e9a7a518b696c789673a765bc53" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r2IId_FoMJM?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span> </p><p>He went on to say Democrats should have done more to shut down the border, which was one of Trump's most repeated campaign promises.</p><p>"They just allowed the border to continue to be sieged, under siege," he said.</p><p>The president has been able to virtually shut down the U.S.-Mexico border to illegal crossings, and he has significantly increased the number of deportations, despite pushback by local lawmakers and challenges in court.</p><p>Kerry also served as the secretary of state under former President Barack Obama and lost a presidential campaign to former President George W. Bush in 2004. He had been previously <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/john-kerry-frustrated-that-first-amendment-protects-what-the-world-economic-forum-regards-as-disinformation" target="_blank">lambasted</a> for bemoaning that First Amendment rights prevented the government from squelching disinformation. </p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>! </em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:30:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-right-border-john-kerry</guid><category>John kerry on immigration</category><category>John kerry</category><category>Trump immigration</category><category>Dems admit trump was right</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-was-right-on-immigration-admits-john-kerry.jpg?id=61192286&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Karen Bass says LA anti-ICE riots 'never happened' as the media reported them</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/karen-bass-riots-never-happened</link><description><![CDATA[
  6. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/karen-bass-says-la-anti-ice-riots-never-happened-as-the-media-reported-them.jpg?id=61192191&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=111%2C0%2C111%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is getting ridiculed for arguing that the mainstream media exaggerated "a couple of incidents" of <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-national-guard-ice-riots" target="_blank">vandalism</a>  during anti-ICE protests into full city rioting.</p><p>Bass made the comments at a media briefing Thursday, where she was confronted by a reporter who challenged her on the spread of anti-ICE violence. He cited the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/ice-texas-ambush-attack-terror" target="_blank">terror attack</a> on an ICE facility in Texas allegedly planned and executed by heavily armed left-wing activists.</p><p class="pull-quote">'The way that it was portrayed nationally, was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992, which was completely and 100% inappropriate.'</p><p>"Well, let me just say that the quote-unquote 'riots' that were reported never happened," Bass responded.</p><p>"We did have a couple of incidents of vandalism and looting," she continued. "But the way that it was portrayed nationally was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992, which was completely and 100% inappropriate."</p><p>She was also dismissive of the alleged terror attack on an ICE facility in Texas and said she didn't know anything about it.</p><p>"And I think the example that you use — I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with it — it was from some other state," she added.</p><p>"Yes, Texas," the reporter responded.</p><p>"I have no idea what happened in Texas. What I do know is what happened in Los Angeles," she added.</p><p>At that point, Bass was whisked away by one of her aides.</p><p>The Republican National Committee posted a <a href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1943386600672579636" target="_blank">shortened</a> version of her comments, but the <a href="https://x.com/MissVega8888/status/1942780971960656376" target="_blank">extended</a> version of the video includes her argument that the rioting was exaggerated.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/karen-bass-la-raid-bovino" target="_blank"><strong>Border Patrol chief has defiant message for Mayor Karen Bass after she claims to have stopped ICE raid in Los Angeles</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="20e36afb808e44e96fb8aa266caf1d79" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lm7cHTTy9LA?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span> </p><p>Many critics online excoriated the mayor for downplaying the violence of the anti-ICE rioting.</p><p>"This is false. They rioted for nights on end. The rioters set Waymo vehicles on fire, torched police vehicles, held them captive under a bridge, and assaulted multiple officers," <a href="https://x.com/MediasLies/status/1943388428579512581" target="_blank">read</a> one popular response.</p><p>"Seriously, that's just ignoring reality. Leaders should address violence, not act clueless. LA isn’t immune to these issues," read <a href="https://x.com/KelvinCold1234/status/1943366402343100740" target="_blank">another</a> response.</p><p>"So those weren’t cement block pieces crashing down on police cars from all angles above and keeping police trapped under a freeway overpass?" <a href="https://x.com/Dev5641Devon/status/1943398909478604867" target="_blank">asked</a> another detractor.</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>! </em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:49:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/karen-bass-riots-never-happened</guid><category>Karen bass</category><category>Riots never happened</category><category>Anti-ice los angeles rioting</category><category>Karen bass vs reality</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/karen-bass-says-la-anti-ice-riots-never-happened-as-the-media-reported-them.jpg?id=61192191&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Wikipedia co-founder: Epstein, elite rings, and occult portals — what they don’t want you to know</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/relatable/wikipedia-co-founder-epstein-elite-rings-and-occult-portals-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know</link><description><![CDATA[
  7. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189713&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=240%2C0%2C240%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger found God in an unconventional way.</p><p>When he was introduced by a friend to the world of Jeffrey Epstein and the elites, he was forced to reckon with the idea that our culture is ruled by those who will do anything to defend their own immoral horrors.</p><p>“A friend of mine was opening my eyes to the existence of various — call them elite pedophile rings. Epstein was not the only one. You can look up the NXIVM case,” Sanger tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”</p><p>“And then there’s, like, ‘Pedowood,’ which is what we call the prevalence of pedophilia in Hollywood. It’s very weird that a lot of the people who are involved, or at least accused of being involved, in such activities have occult beliefs,” he continues.</p><h3></h3><br/><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="10979f7a46cd5bde7abe82937ff8f9c8" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g0WuUj9d6lQ?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span><p>According to Sanger, his friend knew some of these people personally and confirmed that’s why “they use all of these symbols,” like “the old one-eye.”</p><p>“People still notice that, but they used to do that all the time. I think they avoid it now, but generally speaking, a lot of movie posters would show up with this. That’s an occult symbol,” he explains.</p><p>Those who partake in these morally bankrupt rituals are willing to put a lot on the line to defend them, which Sanger explains must “at least mean that the spirit world is true” and that “demons exist.”</p><p>And because it opened his eyes to evil, he realized that its opposite, good, exists as well.</p><p>“Doesn’t that mean that it’s possible that God exists?” he says.</p><p>And that’s why, as he found himself digging deeper into the occult, he did not want to “open any portals.”</p><p>“I didn’t want to get into it,” he tells Stuckey. “But one thing I learned is that if you look at Masonic symbology, it’s based on a lot of Old Testament, like, temple symbology. What occultists like to do is to invert biblical symbols.”</p><p>“So, in other words, pervert them, twist them,” he adds.</p><h2>Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?</h2><p>To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/allie/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_alliebethstuckey" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/relatable/wikipedia-co-founder-epstein-elite-rings-and-occult-portals-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know</guid><category>Camera phone</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Upload</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Free</category><category>Video</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Relatable with allie beth stuckey</category><category>Relatable</category><category>Allie beth stuckey</category><category>The blaze</category><category>Blazetv</category><category>Blaze news</category><category>Blaze podcasts</category><category>Blaze podcast network</category><category>Blaze media</category><category>Blaze online</category><category>Blaze originals</category><category>Larry sanger</category><category>Wikipedia</category><category>Demons</category><category>Occult</category><category>Portals</category><category>Elites</category><category>Jeffrey epstein</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189713&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Florida man with meth pipe steals tourist train, picks up passengers for wild ride — and announces it's his 'birthday': Cops</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-man-meth-train-stolen-kew-west</link><description><![CDATA[
  8. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/florida-man-with-meth-pipe-steals-tourist-train-picks-up-passengers-for-wild-ride-and-announces-it-s-his-birthday-cops.png?id=61180600&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=399%2C0%2C399%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>A <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/tag/florida-man" target="_blank">Florida man</a> celebrated his birthday on July 4 by stealing a tourist train in <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/tag/key-west" target="_blank">Key West</a>, picking up passengers, and having a <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/tag/meth" target="_blank">meth</a> pipe in his possession, according to police.</p><p>Citing the arrest report, <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2025/07/07/florida-keys-man-marks-birthday-by-doing-meth-stealing-conch-train-and-picking-up-riders-cops-say/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WPLG-TV</a> said police received a call just before 11:30 a.m. Friday that a man had stolen the Conch Tour Train.</p><p class="pull-quote">The arrest report states Winslow picked up 'two random passengers' while driving the trolley.</p><p>Police officers responded to the Conch Tour Train Depot, where they were informed that one of the trackless trolley trains had been hijacked.</p><p>According to the arrest report, police said Jonathan Patrick Winslow of Big Torch Key — who indeed was celebrating his 57th birthday — left his Kia vehicle in the train depot's parking lot while it was still running "with rock music playing on the radio."</p><p>A train depot employee told police that Winslow claimed to have worked at the tourism business years ago and wanted to take a tour of the train, WPLG said, citing the arrest report.</p><p> However, the worker reportedly told officers that Winslow got into the trolley and drove away.</p><p>The employee was "confused" but allegedly told investigators that perhaps Winslow had received permission to drive the train. As you might imagine, that wasn't the case.</p><p>Tour company employees reportedly told police that GPS could track the train — and it turns out that it was on the move in downtown Key West.</p><p>The arrest report states Winslow picked up "two random passengers" while driving the trolley.</p><p>Police said officers were able to track down the stolen Conch Tour Train at the massively popular Southernmost Point Buoy tourist attraction and stop it before anything tragic occurred during the wild ride.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/hot-dog-nudist-resort-murder-elderly-couple" target="_blank">Cheap hot dog sparks deadly dispute at nudist resort that ends in grisly deaths of elderly couple and dog: Police</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="dcee1d473c5a59ff31d16648638ee44a" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2uNKUBw4jOM?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span>        </p><p>The arrest report states that Winslow "exhibited rapid speech and appeared excited" while officers informed him that he would be arrested.</p><p>Police allegedly claimed Winslow told them that he merely "borrowed" the train. WPLG reported that Winslow told officers that he previously worked at the Conch Tour Train Depot; police said he stressed that "today is his birthday."</p><p>Winslow was arrested and transported to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Key West jail facility.</p><p>Authorities said a methamphetamine pipe was discovered in Winslow's pocket when a corrections deputy searched him at the jail, according to the arrest report.</p><p>Winslow allegedly asserted, "It's a weed pipe." However, investigators disagreed.</p><p>Winslow was charged with burglary, grand theft auto, and possession of drug paraphernalia.</p><p>Jail records show Winslow was being detained on a $60,000 bond.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/kentucky-man-raccoon-mule-arrested-weird-news" target="_self">Man once tried to outrun police on a mule — now he's in jail for allegedly weaponizing a raccoon</a></strong></p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a>!</em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:09:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-man-meth-train-stolen-kew-west</guid><category>Florida man</category><category>Florida crime</category><category>Florida news</category><category>Strange news</category><category>Odd news</category><category>Weird news</category><category>Key west</category><category>Florida</category><category>Crime</category><category>Birthday</category><category>Methamphetamine</category><category>Train theft</category><category>Arrest</category><dc:creator>Paul Sacca</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/florida-man-with-meth-pipe-steals-tourist-train-picks-up-passengers-for-wild-ride-and-announces-it-s-his-birthday-cops.png?id=61180600&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Trump and Linda McMahon are crushing DEI in law and medical schools with a brilliant approach</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-linda-mcmahon-harvard-dei</link><description><![CDATA[
  9. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-and-linda-mcmahon-are-crushing-dei-in-law-and-medical-schools-with-a-brilliant-approach.png?id=61191978&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=119%2C0%2C119%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Donald Trump's battle with Harvard University has threatened the school's deep pockets, with one of the president's latest moves cutting off its woke foundations at the root.</p><p>For months, President Trump has been in a <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/why-trumps-war-with-harvard-hits-closer-to-home-than-you-think" target="_blank">standoff with Harvard</a> over student visas, foreign money, and anti-Semitism. While protests, occupations, and even intimidation of Jews have already led to the <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/22/harvard-university-loses-student-and-exchange-visitor-program-certification-pro" target="_blank">loss of certification</a> for the institution, the school's dedication to diversity and equity means it is now fighting off a dual-pronged attack.</p><p>On Wednesday, the Department of Education under Secretary Linda McMahon dropped a bomb on Harvard that could spell huge trouble.</p><p class="pull-quote">'When an institution ... abandons its mission ... it forfeits the legitimacy that accreditation is designed to uphold.'</p><p>The tough-to-swallow pill was handed to Harvard through the New England Commission of Higher Education, which was notified by the Trump administration that Harvard is in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws and therefore "may fail to meet the standards for accreditation set by the Commission."</p><p>The Dept. of Education said in a press release that Harvard must adhere to "non-discriminatory policies and practices" in its recruitment, admissions, and employment, among other activities. The Office for Civil Rights additionally found that Harvard is in violation of federal civil rights laws, which could also result in a loss of accreditation for the school.</p><p>Referred to as a "<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5335345-in-fight-with-columbia-trump-seeks-death-sentence/" target="_blank">death sentence</a>," a loss of accreditation could have a multitude of devastating outcomes for any school. According to Accredited Schools Online, <a href="https://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/resources/what-happens-school-loses-accreditation/" target="_blank">loss of accreditation</a> results in the loss of federal financial aid, an inability for students to transfer credits, and degrees no longer being recognized by employers or graduate schools.</p><p>Students are advised to leave schools that could soon lose their status to ensure their financial aid does not stop and their credits do not go to waste.</p><p>That is not all Harvard — and other schools like Columbia that have been similarly <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/education-department-threatens-columbia-universitys-accreditation/" target="_blank">warned</a> — have to worry about. An executive order from Trump in April is using a top-down approach to end wokeness in university degree programs.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/exposed-harvards-elite-law-journal-accused-of-discriminating-against-white-men" target="_blank">Exposed: Harvard's elite law journal accused of discriminating against white men</a></strong></p>        <blockquote class="rm-embed twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1942933822212858233">
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  13.        <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>                    <p>The executive order, titled "Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education," directly addresses associations that act as accreditors for the most important fields.</p><p>Specifically, the president <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reforming-accreditation-to-strengthen-higher-education/" target="_blank">targeted</a> the American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, as well as the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.</p><p>The legal council is the sole federally recognized accreditor and has required law schools to "demonstrate by concrete action a commitment to diversity and inclusion," including by "commit[ting] to having a student body [and faculty] that is diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity."</p><p>The medical committee, which is the only federally recognized body that accredits doctor of medicine degree programs, requires schools to engage in "ongoing, systematic, and focused recruitment and retention activities, to achieve mission-appropriate diversity outcomes among its students."</p><p>Trump's executive order looks to cut the snake off at the head by ending these requirements from accreditors.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/why-trumps-war-with-harvard-hits-closer-to-home-than-you-think" target="_blank">Why Trump’s war with Harvard hits closer to home than you think</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="217a292c8225461b3a40a80eb269d117" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="b851d" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61191158&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photographer: Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images</small></p>            <p>Regarding the moves, Secretary McMahon said the accrediting bodies play a significant role in preserving academic integrity. </p><p><span></span>"Harvard University has failed in its obligation to students, educators, and American taxpayers. The Department of Education expects the New England Commission of Higher Education to enforce its policies and practices and to keep the Department fully informed of its efforts to ensure that Harvard is in compliance with federal law and accreditor standards."</p><p>HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bluntly warned that schools that fail to properly educate their students risk losing their legitimacy.</p><p>"When an institution — no matter how prestigious — abandons its mission and fails to protect its students, it forfeits the legitimacy that accreditation is designed to uphold," he said. </p><p>Kennedy added, "HHS and the Department of Education will actively hold Harvard accountable through sustained oversight until it restores public trust and ensures a campus free of discrimination."</p><p>In a statement to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5335345-in-fight-with-columbia-trump-seeks-death-sentence/" target="_blank">The Hill</a>, a Harvard spokesperson said the school is taking "substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community." </p><p>Harvard also said it "not only shared its comprehensive and retrospective Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias Report," but also outlined the ways it has "strengthened policies, disciplined those who violate them, encouraged civil discourse, and promoted open, respectful dialogue."</p><p>Harvard went on to say that it will continue to comply with the accreditation commission to maintain its "uninterrupted" status, which it has maintained "since its initial review in 1929."</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em><br/></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-linda-mcmahon-harvard-dei</guid><category>University</category><category>News</category><category>Hhs</category><category>Department of education</category><category>Civil rights</category><category>Harvard</category><category>Trump</category><category>Linda mcmahon</category><category>Executive orderrs</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Andrew Chapados</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-and-linda-mcmahon-are-crushing-dei-in-law-and-medical-schools-with-a-brilliant-approach.png?id=61191978&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Ken Paxton's wife files for divorce, cites 'biblical grounds'</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/ken-paxton-wife-divorce-biblical</link><description><![CDATA[
  14. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/ken-paxton-s-wife-files-for-divorce-cites-biblical-grounds.jpg?id=61192018&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=169%2C0%2C169%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>The viability of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate came into question when his wife <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-sen-angela-paxton-divorce-ag-ken-paxton/#" target="_blank">announced</a> Thursday that she is divorcing him on "biblical grounds."</p><p>Paxton is challenging long-time Republican Sen. John Cornyn for the seat in the Senate he has held for 23 years.</p><p class="pull-quote">'I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose.'</p><p>The revelation prompted Angela Paxton, who is a Texas state senator, to release a <a href="https://x.com/AngelaPaxtonTX/status/1943366217479393512" target="_blank">statement</a> on social media.</p><p>"I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation," she wrote. "But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage. I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose."</p><p>The Texas attorney general also <a href="https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1943371224094048566" target="_blank">posted</a> on social media about the divorce.</p><p>"After facing the pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny, Angela and I have decided to start a new chapter in our lives," he wrote. "I could not be any more proud or grateful for the incredible family that God has blessed us with, and I remain committed to supporting our amazing children and grandchildren. I ask for your prayers and privacy at this time."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/exclusive-paxton-notches-key-endorsement-from-texas-congressman-in-fight-to-unseat-cornyn" target="_blank"><strong>Paxton notches key endorsement from Texas congressman in fight to unseat Cornyn</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ef5722f74e01a2634ea71d87bd4c0eb8" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4bD2yxVdSRU?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span> </p><p>Angela Paxton accused her husband of adultery and said that they no longer lived together as of June 2024, according to the filing <a href="https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-07-10/state-sen-angela-paxton-files-for-divorce-from-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton" target="_blank">obtained</a> by KUT News.</p><p>"The marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities between Petitioner and Respondent that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship and prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation," the filing reads.</p><p>Rumors of infidelity had followed Paxton in the past.</p><p>The couple have been married for 38 years and have four children and five grandchildren.</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>! </em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/ken-paxton-wife-divorce-biblical</guid><category>Ken paxton</category><category>Ken paxton for senate</category><category>Paxton cheating allegations</category><category>Angela paxton divorce</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/ken-paxton-s-wife-files-for-divorce-cites-biblical-grounds.jpg?id=61192018&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Vought slams Fed Chair Powell over 'grossly mismanaged' luxury renovations</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/vought-slams-fed-chair-powell-over-grossly-mismanaged-luxury-renovations</link><description><![CDATA[
  15. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/vought-slams-fed-chair-powell-over-grossly-mismanaged-luxury-renovations.jpg?id=61191975&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C275%2C0%2C100"/><br/><br/><p>In his latest crusade to rein in spending, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has set his sights on the Federal Reserve. </p><p>Vought called out Chairman Jerome Powell for greenlighting luxury renovations to the Fed's Washington, D.C., headquarters that exceeded the original budget by roughly $700 million, totaling roughly $2.5 billion. The renovations include a rooftop terrace with gardens, VIP dining rooms and elevators, "premium" marble, and water features. </p><p>"The president is extremely troubled by your management of the Federal Reserve System," Vought said in a statement. "Instead of attempting to right the Fed's fiscal ship, you have plowed ahead with an ostentatious overhaul of your Washington, D.C., headquarters."</p><p>"The cost per square foot is $1,923 — double the cost for renovating an ordinary historic federal building," Vought added. "The Palace of Versailles would have cost $3 billion in today's dollars!"</p><p class="pull-quote">'Chairman Jerome Powell has grossly mismanaged the Fed.'</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/vought-gives-glenn-beck-hint-about-where-things-stand-between-trump-and-musk"><strong>Russ Vought gives Glenn Beck hint about where things stand between Trump and Musk</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="237534288bb4573088588b2b032abde8" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="41175" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61191981&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images</small></p><p>Vought also pointed to Powell's congressional <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvEnsEjllz0">testimony</a> in June, where he denied that the lavish renovations were taking place. Vought said Powell's testimony "raises serious questions" about the renovation's compliance with the National Capital Planning Act, which would require the project to be approved by the National Capital Planning Commission. </p><p>"Although minor deviations from approved plans may be inevitable, your testimony appears to reveal that the project is out of compliance with the approved plan with regard to the major design elements," Vought said. "This would bring the project outside of the NCPC's approval and thus in violation of the NCPA, and require the Fed to immediately halt construction and obtain a new approval from the NCPC before proceeding any further."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/exclusive-trump-2026-budget-to-slash-funds-for-migrant-programs"><strong>Exclusive: Trump 2026 budget to slash funds for migrant programs</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1b4cbb3ac4c53b3232085053ec74ab9e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="d2bfa" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61191980&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</small></p><p>The renovations were originally <a href="https://www.ncpc.gov/docs/actions/2021September/8113_Marriner_S_Eccles_and_Federal_Reserve_Board-East_Building_Renovation_and_Expansion_Commission_Action_Sep2021.pdf">approved</a> by the NCPC in September 2021 and featured plans to include the luxurious water features, terrace gardens, VIP elevators, and private dining rooms. </p><p>During the hearing, however, Powell insisted that these renovations were not taking place despite no changes being made to the original project. </p><p>“There’s no VIP dining room. There’s no new marble. There are no special elevators,” Powell <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/30/business/jerome-powell-accused-of-lying-to-congress-over-2-5b-palace-of-versailles-hq-revamp/">said</a> during the hearing. “There are no new water features, there’s no beehives, and there’s no roof terrace gardens.”</p><p>Powell claimed that the construction plans previously approved in 2021 have since changed. Despite his claim, the Fed would not be able to change these plans without formally submitting the modifications to the NCPC and the Commission of Fine Arts. According to the NCPC's website, the latest approval for the project was <a href="https://www.ncpc.gov/projects/8113/">submitted</a> in September 2021, and there have been no new requests filed since then. </p><p>Because of these discrepancies, Vought said OMB will be conducting further oversight on the project. </p><p>"Chairman Jerome Powell has grossly mismanaged the Fed."</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/vought-slams-fed-chair-powell-over-grossly-mismanaged-luxury-renovations</guid><category>Jerome powell</category><category>Russ vought</category><category>Omb</category><category>Office of management and budget</category><category>Federal reserve</category><category>The fed</category><category>Ncpa</category><category>Ncpc</category><category>Versailles</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>Trump administration</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Rebeka Zeljko</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/vought-slams-fed-chair-powell-over-grossly-mismanaged-luxury-renovations.jpg?id=61191975&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>'Great victory' for free speech: Pro-Trump influencer convicted over memes talks vindication with Glenn Beck</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/great-victory-for-free-speech-pro-trump-influencer-convicted-over-memes-talks-vindication-with-glenn-beck</link><description><![CDATA[
  16. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/great-victory-for-free-speech-pro-trump-influencer-convicted-over-memes-talks-vindication-with-glenn-beck.jpg?id=61191983&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>An appeals court on Wednesday overturned the felony conviction of a pro-Trump social media influencer who was facing prison time for posting satirical memes on Twitter.</p><p>Douglass Mackey, also previously known online as Ricky Vaughn, joined "The Glenn Beck Program" on Thursday to share his reaction to the recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.</p><p class="pull-quote">'Unfortunately, it's not part of the sweeping constitutional ruling that we wanted, but nevertheless, it's a great victory.'</p><p>After battling the charges for four and a half years and facing a seven-month prison sentence, Mackey told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, "Only faith can get you through it."</p><blockquote class="rm-embed twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1943383571202285881">
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  20.        <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>        <p>During the 2016 election, Mackey posted memes on his Twitter account, which he told Beck had about 10,000 followers. He noted that he previously had an account with over 60,000 followers, but it was suspended before he made the posts referenced in the Biden Department of Justice's case against him.</p><p>"Save time," the posts read. "Avoid the line."</p><p>It included instructions on how to "vote from home" for then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via text message.</p><p>The posts received only about 100 likes, according to Mackey.</p><p>Beck stated, "You have to be a nincompoop to believe this [meme is real]."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/appeals-court-tosses-out-biden-era-conviction-of-social-media-troll-for-election-interference" target="_blank"><strong>Appeals court tosses out Biden-era conviction of social media troll for election interference</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="08654d20d98569750b0a19ea40b2c4eb" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="54965" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190306&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images</small></p><p>Despite what some would argue was a clear satirical post, Mackey was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer-douglass-mackey-sentenced-after-conviction-election" target="_blank">convicted</a> in 2023 of conspiracy against rights for attempting to interfere with Americans' right to vote in the 2016 election.</p><p>Mackey shared the details of his arrest with Beck.</p><p>"Four FBI agents knocked on my door at 7 a.m., and that was seven days after Joe Biden was inaugurated," he said. "They said, 'Are you Douglass Mackey? We have a warrant for your arrest.' The first words out of my mouth were, 'For what?'"</p><p>"At the time, I wasn't even on Twitter. But back in the 2016 election cycle, I tweeted thousands of times. So I had no idea. But I did know that once they make you an enemy that it's like, 'Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime,'" Mackey continued. "I was very curious to see what they had cooked up."</p><p>Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston, one of the three judges on the appeals court panel, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/nyregion/douglass-mackey-trial-twitter-misinformation.html" target="_blank">found</a> that prosecutors' evidence was "inadequate to show his knowing participation in a conspiracy."</p><p>While prosecutors claimed that 4,900 unique phone numbers texted the number provided in Mackey's meme, 98% received an automated reply informing them that Clinton's campaign was not affiliated with the post, Livingston noted.</p><p>"The government presented no evidence at trial that Mackey's tweets tricked anyone into failing properly to vote," the judge wrote.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/critics-ask-whether-doj-will-give-jimmy-kimmel-the-douglass-mackey-treatment-for-election-interference" target="_blank"><strong>Critics ask whether DOJ will give Jimmy Kimmel the Douglass Mackey treatment for 'election interference'</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="814ed07b4d92417350eba9e77b018d51" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="302d9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190299&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images</small></p><p>Mackey called the case "a total humiliation" for the Biden DOJ.</p><p>He expressed some disappointment that the appeals court's decision was not a "sweeping" constitutional victory.</p><p>"These appellate courts, once they come to a conclusion on, let's say, one of the grounds, they don't rule on all the other grounds," Mackey explained. "Unfortunately, it's not part of the sweeping constitutional ruling that we wanted, but nevertheless, it's a great victory."</p><p><em><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em></em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self"><em><em>Sign up here</em></em></a><em><em>!</em></em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/great-victory-for-free-speech-pro-trump-influencer-convicted-over-memes-talks-vindication-with-glenn-beck</guid><category>News</category><category>Glenn beck</category><category>Douglass mackey</category><category>Ricky vaughn</category><category>Hillary clinton</category><category>2016 presidential election</category><category>Presidential election</category><category>Presidential election 2016</category><category>Joe biden</category><category>Biden</category><category>Biden doj</category><category>Biden administration</category><category>Department of justice</category><category>Doj</category><category>Memes</category><category>Meme</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Candace Hathaway</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/great-victory-for-free-speech-pro-trump-influencer-convicted-over-memes-talks-vindication-with-glenn-beck.jpg?id=61191983&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>DHS rips into 'FAKE NEWS LIE' from CNN that Sec. Noem delayed search and rescue teams in Texas flooding</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/dhs-fake-news-cnn-noem</link><description><![CDATA[
  21. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/dhs-rips-into-fake-news-lie-from-cnn-that-sec-noem-delayed-search-and-rescue-teams-in-texas-flooding.jpg?id=61191297&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C104%2C0%2C104"/><br/><br/><p>The Department of Homeland Security forcefully denied an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/fema-texas-flood-noem?cid=ios_app" target="_blank">article</a> from CNN claiming that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem delayed deployment of search and rescue teams to the devastating flooding in Texas.</p><p>The CNN story said that search and rescue teams are usually deployed in anticipation of a disaster, but in the case of the Texas floods, they were delayed by several days after the flooding event. The report blamed a new cost-saving measure implemented by Noem that required a personal sign-off for any spending above $100,000.</p><p class="pull-quote">'Display of activist journalism and distracts from the robust, coordinated federal response led by Secretary Noem that has saved over 900+ lives.'</p><p>The report depended on four sources from the Federal Emergency Management Agency who spoke to the outlet anonymously. They said the $100,000 sign-off requirement would significantly hamstring their efforts.</p><p>DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told CNN that other search and rescue assets were used before the need for FEMA resources rose to the point that Noem signed off on the expenditure.</p><p>“FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric deadweight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens,” read a statement from McLaughlin. “The old processes are being replaced because they failed Americans in real emergencies for decades.”</p><p>CNN also claimed that by Monday, only 86 FEMA staffers had been deployed to the disaster, which was "a fraction" of the response typically ordered for such an operation. That number increased to 311 staffers by Tuesday evening.</p><p>On Wednesday the official account for DHS <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1943065698768765202" target="_blank">responded</a> on social media.</p><p>"This is a FAKE NEWS LIE from CNN. This reporting is an unapparelled [sic] display of activist journalism and distracts from the robust, coordinated federal response led by Secretary Noem that has saved over 900+ lives," read the statement.</p><p>"While these 'journalists' slept comfortably in D.C., Secretary Noem deployed to Texas, working day and night to approve every possible need that search and rescue workers had," the agency added. "Within moments of the flooding in Texas, DHS assets, including the U.S. Coast Guard, tactical Border Patrol units and FEMA personnel surged into unprecedented action alongside Texas first responders. The U.S. Coast Guard alone rescued over 230 Americans."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/ny-cartoon-texas-maga-victims" target="_blank"><strong>NY newspaper nailed with backlash over cartoon mocking MAGA victims of Texas floods: 'Twisted, vile, and shameful'</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ddc4a5c24a842b06655a46b2773b49ca" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e9spy0h9Hno?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span> </p><p>The statement went on to tout Noem's "breakthrough" management of the emergency response that focused on sending funding support immediately to the states to jump-start local response efforts.</p><p>"President Trump approved a Major Disaster Declaration, hours after Governor Greg Abbott’s request. By Tuesday, FEMA had deployed 311 staffers, providing support and shelter for hundreds of people," the statement added. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS is reforming FEMA to prioritize state-led, locally executed disaster response, as Texas has exemplified."</p><p>Blaze News reached out to CNN for comment about the response from the DHS, and a CNN spokesperson responded with the following statement: “We stand by our reporting.”</p><p>At least 119 people are confirmed dead from the flooding. </p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>! </em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/dhs-fake-news-cnn-noem</guid><category>Noem delays</category><category>Texas flooding disaster</category><category>Cnn vs noem</category><category>Dhs rips into cnn</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/dhs-rips-into-fake-news-lie-from-cnn-that-sec-noem-delayed-search-and-rescue-teams-in-texas-flooding.jpg?id=61191297&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Epstein survivor SPEAKS OUT on celebrities she encountered</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/prime-time/epstein</link><description><![CDATA[
  22. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187746&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Juliette Bryant is an alleged survivor of Jeffrey Epstein who was lured into his orbit under the pretense that Jean-Luc Brunel’s modeling agency would skyrocket her modeling career.</p><p>“I was at a bar restaurant with a friend of mine, and then I was approached by a woman called Naja Hill, who apparently worked for Fox News years later. She approached me, and she said that her friend was here,” Bryant tells BlazeTV host Alex Stein on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”</p><p>Hill allegedly called her friend the “king of America” and told her he was there with Bill Clinton, owned his own island, and his friend owned Victoria’s Secret before asking her if she’d like to meet him.</p><p>“It would be good for obviously my modeling career, you know, I was young,” she tells Stein, “it sounded like the most amazing opportunity.”</p><h3></h3><br/><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="106af43b1a4ac386b4294ccacfbd3161" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FWvmr5d1Ta8?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span><p>Bryant then tells Stein that she went to a restaurant where Epstein, Clinton, and Kevin Spacey, along with a few others, were waiting, before they all met and shook hands.</p><p>“Bill Clinton actually held onto my hand for a very long time. It was very weird,” she says.</p><p>The next day, Hill called Bryant to tell her that Epstein “really liked” her, thought she’d “be great for Victoria’s Secret,” and that she should bring her modeling portfolio to the Cape Grace Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where they were staying.</p><p>While there, she saw Clinton give a speech at the Western Cape Peninsula Technikon, which she describes as a lower income university in the Western Cape.</p><p>“I obviously wanted to go watch the speech, and I did, and what I did notice was Kevin Spacey was filming all the students in the hall. I don’t know why,” she tells Stein. “After the speech, we went back to the hotel, and then they looked at my modeling portfolio, and the girls were sitting there, and Bill Clinton walked past and witnessed the whole modeling casting.”</p><p>“Then, Epstein looked at my modeling portfolio and said he thought I’d be perfect for Victoria’s Secret, and he wanted to bring me over,” she explains. “After that, his office started phoning, and Leslie Graff arranged to get me a visa, and get me to New York, and I was there within three weeks.”</p><p>After Epstein’s arrest and alleged suicide, some of the celebrities Bryant saw with Epstein denied being affiliated with him — including Kevin Spacey, who claimed in an interview that he didn’t know who Epstein was when he was flying on Epstein’s airplane.</p><p>“I don’t understand how someone can fly on someone’s airplane and sit at dinner with them and not know who they are. I mean, that’s an ultimate lie,” Bryant says. “It’s very strange that he’s gone out and done this interview, because it makes you wonder why. It’s like, is he about to be exposed further? What about his accusers that were found dead?”</p><h2>Want more from Alex Stein?</h2><p>To enjoy more of Alex's culture jamming, comedic monologues, skits, and street segments, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/primetime/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_alexstein" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/prime-time/epstein</guid><category>Camera phone</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Upload</category><category>Video</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Free</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Prime time with alex stein</category><category>The blaze</category><category>Blazetv</category><category>Blaze news</category><category>Blaze podcasts</category><category>Blaze podcast network</category><category>Blaze media</category><category>Blaze online</category><category>Blaze originals</category><category>Epstein</category><category>Jeffrey epstein</category><category>Epstein island</category><category>Juliette bryant</category><category>Epstein survivor</category><category>Bill clinton</category><category>Prince charles</category><category>Michael bay</category><category>Kevin spacey</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187746&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Republicans should offer Biden’s doctor immunity — under these circumstances</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/republicans-should-offer-bidens-doctor-immunity-under-these-circumstances</link><description><![CDATA[
  23. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/republicans-should-offer-bidens-doctor-immunity-under-these-circumstances.jpg?id=61191959&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C37%2C0%2C38"/><br/><br/><p>Former President Joe Biden’s White House doctor pled the Fifth to every question asked by House Oversight Committee experts Wednesday. He doesn’t want to cooperate, but more, he is worried that he’s in real legal jeopardy. He should be worried, and Republicans should play hardball but also keep one thing in mind: Dr. Kevin O’Connor is just a mob doctor — and they’re after the bosses.</p><p>The scope of O’Connor’s evasiveness <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/watch-oversight-committee-releases-dr-oconnors-deposition-video/" target="_blank">in video released</a> by the committee is wild to watch. Citing his lawyers, he begins by asserting his right not to self-incriminate under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to questions as basic as whether he understands the rules of how questioning will work, a request that he speak clearly and respond to questions verbally, instructions for him to ask for clarity if he doesn't understand a question, and a warning that if he lies or conceals the whole truth, he can be charged with perjury.</p><p class="pull-quote">Who knew about all this? Who told Biden’s doctor what, and when did they do so? Those people matter more than the doctor, but he could prove useful in getting to them.</p><p>Then they got to the meat of it, asking whether there’s “any reason” he would not be truthful in his answers, whether he had ever been asked to lie about the president’s health, and whether he ever believed the president was unfit to “exercise his duties.” Fifth, Fifth, Fifth. Oh, and his lawyers finished up with a statement citing his duty to protect the privacy of the patient-doctor relationship.</p><p>Except that wasn’t his only duty. The White House doctor is a military officer charged with legitimately private matters, such as if the president is suffering from some embarrassing discomfort, but also his fitness for exercising the constitutional duties of his office. If the doctor believes the president is unable to serve, he’s required to report this to the Cabinet and potentially answer to Congress. O’Connor clearly felt differently.</p><p>“On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” he repeated, verbatim, to every question asked. “I am not a lawyer and must follow my lawyers’ advice on this matter.”</p><p>Democrats set a powerful and recent precedent when they charged former White House officials Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro with contempt of Congress and sent both men to prison with thousands of dollars in fines. There are consequences for defying Congress, and the example is fresh in Washington's minds.</p><p>Republicans should take this precedent seriously, and by all signs, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is taking it seriously. Prison should be on the docket, and the committee should loudly and publicly make this clear. But putting the doctor in prison should not be the actual goal.</p><p>O’Connor is just the equivalent of a mob doctor, and you don’t put mob doctors in prison when you can get more out of them than that. If he needs to plead the Fifth at all, there’s good reason to believe his lawyers know he’s in deep trouble. When he has to plead the Fifth to questions about being asked to lie, it’s a very strong indication that the president’s mental decline was more broadly known — and potentially illegally hidden — from lawful oversight.</p><p>We know a neurologist who specializes in Parkinson’s disease visited the Biden White House at least eight times, and we know the White House spokeswoman refused to answer why. So what was the reason?</p><p>Who knew about all this? Who told Biden’s doctor what, and when did they do so? Those people matter more than the doctor, but he could prove useful in getting to them. So while Republicans should publicly (and seriously) threaten prison time, in private, they should offer Dr. O’Connor immunity.</p><p>There are different types of immunity they can offer, too. There’s transaction immunity, or blanket immunity, from prosecution in exchange for useful evidence that helps the committee move up the totem pole.</p><p>Then there's use immunity, which would protect O'Connor from being prosecuted over things he reveals in his testimony or evidence derived from that testimony. That way, if he fails to disclose important details that investigators uncover independently, he can be prosecuted for those — and thus has reason to be entirely and totally truthful and helpful.</p><p>There’s even limited-use immunity, which would promise a legal shield over violating certain laws within certain periods of time.</p><p>The doctor’s got a lot on his hands here. More, he’s friends with the Biden family, not just a randomly selected military attaché. That bodes poorly for him, but don’t let that distract from the goal of unraveling the plot to the highest levels possible.</p><p>The available tools here are extensive. Congress just has to use them.</p><p><a href="https://link.theblaze.com/click/35301187.0/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlYmxhemUuY29tL25ld3NsZXR0ZXJzL2JlZGZvcmQ_dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJsYXplLWJlZGZvcmQtbmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MjAyNDA1MDEtaXNzdWUtYmVkZm9yZC1uZXdzbGV0dGVy/000000000000000000000000B98a9ceb2" target="_blank"><strong>Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter</strong></a><br/><em><em>Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford’s newsletter.</em></em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/republicans-should-offer-bidens-doctor-immunity-under-these-circumstances</guid><category>Opinion &amp; analysis</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Christopher Bedford</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/republicans-should-offer-bidens-doctor-immunity-under-these-circumstances.jpg?id=61191959&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Trump's Education Department stops Clinton-era giveaway for illegal aliens</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-s-education-department-stops-clinton-era-giveaway-for-illegal-aliens</link><description><![CDATA[
  24. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-s-education-department-stops-clinton-era-giveaway-for-illegal-aliens.jpg?id=61191883&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/><br/><br/><p>The Trump administration's Department of Education <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-taxpayer-subsidization-of-postsecondary-education-illegal-aliens" target="_blank">announced</a> a move to prevent American tax dollars from being used by illegal aliens.</p><p class="pull-quote">'Under President Trump's leadership, hardworking American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for illegal aliens to participate in our career, technical, or adult education programs or activities.'</p><p>On Thursday, the Education Department revealed that it rescinded a Clinton-era interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that allowed illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer subsidies for postsecondary education.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/americas-largest-teachers-union-declares-war-on-the-trump-administration-will-use-kids-as-foot-soldiers" target="_blank"><strong>America's largest teachers' union declares war on the Trump administration, will use kids as foot soldiers</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-16x9">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d50109bd0031036e402087d98c8c5e95" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="cdeef" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61191879&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C52%2C0%2C582"/>                <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">            Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images        </small>        </p><p>The department's new interpretive rule also ensures that unqualified illegal aliens remain ineligible to access programs authorized under the Higher Education Act, including Pell Grants and student loans. </p><p>The Clinton administration issued a "Dear Colleague" letter in 1997 that "erroneously exempted career, technical, and adult education programs from being subject to PRWORA," the department wrote.</p><p>In a Federal Register <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-12925.pdf" target="_blank">notice</a> that has not yet been published, the Education Department wrote, "On February 19, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14218 (Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders), directing agencies, among other actions, to ensure that federally funded programs are operating in compliance with PRWORA."</p><p>"For the reasons described herein, the Department has concluded that Federal programs administered by the Department that provide postsecondary education and other similar benefits, including adult education and career and technical education programs, are 'Federal public benefits' subject to the citizenship and immigration verification requirements of PRWORA," the department declared.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/america-first-in-action-trumps-hhs-slams-the-brakes-on-illegal-aliens-draining-taxpayer-funds" target="_blank"><strong>America First in action: Trump’s HHS slams the brakes on illegal aliens draining taxpayer funds</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a703deacaaf07290162a9156b8cd29bf" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="de694" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61191886&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)</small></p><p>U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon argued that taxpayer-funded education programs were only meant to be accessed by American citizens.</p><p>"Under President Trump's leadership, hardworking American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for illegal aliens to participate in our career, technical, or adult education programs or activities. The Department will ensure that taxpayer funds are reserved for citizens and individuals who have entered our country through legal means who meet federal eligibility criteria," McMahon said.</p><p>The Trump administration's HHS made a similar <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/america-first-in-action-trumps-hhs-slams-the-brakes-on-illegal-aliens-draining-taxpayer-funds" target="_self">announcement</a> on Thursday, stating that it rescinded a Clinton-era interpretation that allowed illegal immigrants to receive federal health care benefits. </p><p><em><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em></em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self"><em><em>Sign up here</em></em></a><em><em>!</em></em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-s-education-department-stops-clinton-era-giveaway-for-illegal-aliens</guid><category>News</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>Trump</category><category>Trump administration</category><category>Trump admin</category><category>Department of education</category><category>Education department</category><category>Linda mcmahon</category><category>Clinton</category><category>Bill clinton</category><category>Clinton administration</category><category>Clinton admin</category><category>Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act</category><category>Prwora</category><category>Illegal aliens</category><category>Illegal immigrants</category><category>Immigration crisis</category><category>Immigration</category><category>Illegal immigration</category><category>Illegal immigration crisis</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Candace Hathaway</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-s-education-department-stops-clinton-era-giveaway-for-illegal-aliens.jpg?id=61191883&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>'Complete madness': Court blocks Trump's birthright citizenship policy with universal injunction by another name</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/complete-madness-court-blocks-trumps-birthright-citizenship-policy-with-universal-injunction-by-another-name</link><description><![CDATA[
  25. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/complete-madness-court-blocks-trump-s-birthright-citizenship-policy-with-universal-injunction-by-another-name.jpg?id=61190444&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/><br/><br/><p>President Donald Trump signed an <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14160-protecting-the-meaning-and-value-american-citizenship" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">executive order</a> on his first day back in office titled "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." The order, set to go into effect on July 27, made it U.S. policy not to issue citizenship documents to a person whose mother was unlawfully in the country and whose father was neither an American citizen nor a permanent resident at the time of the person's birth.</p><p>A number of individuals, organizations, and states took the Trump administration to court over the order, obtaining universal injunctions against its implementation. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 27 that these injunctions "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts."</p><p>Liberal litigants, desperate for an alternative, have since pursued universal injunctions under the guise of class-action lawsuits.</p><p>Joseph Laplante of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire is among the federal judges who is apparently happy to help torpedo the democratically elected president's agenda.</p><p>On Thursday, Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee, <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70651853/63/barbara-v-trump/" target="_blank">granted</a> class action status to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the birthright citizenship order, certifying the babies of illegal aliens and temporary migrants as a class.</p><p>He then <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70651853/64/barbara-v-trump/" target="_blank">issued</a> a preliminary injunction, temporarily shielding the supposed class from the order's enforcement.</p><p>After the Supreme Court ruling in <em>CASA</em>, immigration activists <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70651853/5/barbara-v-trump/" target="_blank">requested</a> that Laplante certify a class "of all current and future children who are or will be denied United States citizenship by Executive Order No. 14160 ... and their parents."</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/game-of-whack-a-mole-leftists-have-new-favorite-alternative-to-universal-injunctions-for-blocking-maga-agenda" target="_blank">'Game of whack-a-mole': Leftists have new favorite way to block MAGA agenda — without universal injunctions</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="83ff469e360c558d17f8de5471ac2046" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="d0fca" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61191147&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images</small></p><p>Laplante obliged the activists, although he slightly narrowed the certified class, enjoining the Trump administration from implementing the order with regard to:</p><blockquote>all current and future persons who are born on or after February 20, 2025, where (1) that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.</blockquote><p>"This ruling is a huge victory and will help protect the citizenship of all children born in the United States, as the Constitution intended," <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-order-certifies-nationwide-class-protecting-all-impacted-babies" target="_blank">said</a> Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, which argued the case.</p><p>This class-wide injunction has the same effect as a nationwide injunction.</p><p class="pull-quote">'This needs to end.'</p><p>Laplante's decision comes just a week after the Obama judge overseeing a case concerning Trump's asylum ban certified all border-jumping asylum-seekers "who are now or will be present in the United States" as a protected class, then <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-fighting-unconstitutional-power-grab-by-obama-judge-who-reopened-the-floodgates" target="_self">barred the administration</a> from expelling members of the class — a ruling the government quickly appealed.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-fighting-unconstitutional-power-grab-by-obama-judge-who-reopened-the-floodgates" target="_blank">Trump fighting 'unconstitutional power grab' by Obama judge who reopened the floodgates</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ff6e2d2fd5a568638fc1cb0ecce9a8a1" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="f4882" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61191149&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images</small></p><p>Justice Samuel Alito <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf" target="_blank">cautioned</a> district courts against such actions in his concurring opinion in <em></em><em>CASA Inc.</em>, noting, "Rule 23 may permit the certification of nationwide classes in some discrete scenarios. But district courts should not view today's decision as an invitation to certify nationwide classes without scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23. Otherwise, the universal injunction will return from the grave under the guise of 'nationwide class relief.'"</p><p>A senior White House official speaking to Blaze News this week about liberal litigants' class-action strategy noted, "We're ready to go immediately. We're prepared for every outcome."</p><p>Laplante's ruling has already prompted some outrage among Republicans.</p><p>Rep. Mike Collins (Ga.) <a href="https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1943341612408373680" target="_blank">noted</a>, "No one elected judges to make nationwide policy. This needs to end."</p><p>"This is absurdity and complete madness that has to end," <a href="https://x.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1943343943824904215" target="_blank">wrote</a> Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.). "We cannot allow activist judges to halt the work of a president who is carrying out the work that the American people elected him to do."</p><p>Evidently fed up with the games played by activists on and off the bench, Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) <a href="https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/1943340121945673820" target="_blank">indicated</a> he will introduce legislation next week to "end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants once and for all."</p><p>Laplante's ruling won't go into effect for seven days, affording the Trump administration time to appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals to stay the relief.</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:46:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/complete-madness-court-blocks-trumps-birthright-citizenship-policy-with-universal-injunction-by-another-name</guid><category>Donald trump</category><category>Birthright citizenship</category><category>Joseph laplante</category><category>Universal injunction</category><category>Injunction</category><category>Citizenship</category><category>Illegal aliens</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Joseph MacKinnon</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/complete-madness-court-blocks-trump-s-birthright-citizenship-policy-with-universal-injunction-by-another-name.jpg?id=61190444&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>'It's gangland': AOC's district is an open-air market for guns, prostitution, and illegal vendors</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/nyc-gangland-aoc-queens-roosevelt</link><description><![CDATA[
  26. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/it-s-gangland-aoc-s-district-is-an-open-air-market-for-guns-prostitution-and-illegal-vendors.png?id=61190373&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C1%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>All eyes are on the New York district represented by Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after a group of violent, illegal alien gang members were arrested by federal authorities.</p><p>Eight members of the18th Street gang — a transnational gang started by Mexicans  — were pulled off of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York, an area in AOC's district that is now rife with gang activity and illegal migrants.</p><p>The suspects, seven of whom are illegal immigrants, are accused of unleashing terror in Queens through "assaults, extortion," drug trafficking, and more, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/aoc-red-light-district-ruled-violent-migrant-gang-taken-down-feds" target="_blank">Fox News</a>.</p><p>This is just the tip of the iceberg, according to locals, who say these gang members are part of a complex network of criminals who have been burrowing into the city for years.</p><p class="pull-quote">'Roosevelt Avenue is like a completely different world — fake passports, guns, prostitution, all out in the open.'</p><p>A sense of safety is now considered a luxury in Queens, as constant outbreaks of violence and theft have permeated the streets. In a game of "pick your perennial poison" on Roosevelt Avenue, New Yorkers get to experience the third world through a bevy of prostitutes, illegal street vendors, and hotels packed to the brim with illegal immigrants paid for by their own tax dollars. </p><p>As they rubberneck their way down their own streets, citizens also need to keep a firm grip on their electronics as cellphone-snatching illegal aliens whisk by on <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/eric-adams-nyc-scooter-gang" target="_blank">scooters</a>.</p><p>"At their peak, migrant gangs in Midtown Manhattan were pulling off 10 to 15 robberies a day," <a href="https://medium.com/@viralnewsnyc/how-migrant-gangs-nearly-broke-new-york-city-was-it-foreign-influence-a833c074b1ac" target="_blank">said</a> investigative reporter and New Yorker Oren Levy. </p><p>"The phone-snatching scooter crews alone hit 30 to 40 victims daily, swooping in like vultures to snatch phones and vanish before anyone could blink," Levy reported.</p><p>Not only are taxpayers footing the bill for the migrant hotels, but the hotels themselves have become operation centers for gang members to gather and coordinate their activities.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/creep-grabs-young-woman-waiting-for-train-and-tells-her-you-re-mine-now-but-men-nearby-aren-t-about-to-let-that-happen" target="_blank">Creep grabs young woman waiting for train and tells her, 'You're mine now.' But men nearby aren't about to let that happen.</a></strong></p><blockquote class="rm-embed twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1908683990866808940">
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  30.        <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>                    <p>Highly organized gangs with specialized crews rob anyone from kids to seniors as they pickpocket, shoplift, and run guns all around Gotham City. These crimes involve GPS trackers, <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/warning-burglars-using-electronic-devices-disable-wifi-homes/14950485/" target="_blank">Wi-Fi jamming devices</a>, and encrypted phones to stay under the radar as they conduct home invasions and robberies.</p><p>This, all under Ocasio-Cortez's watch, has residents describing the area as the "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHemSMPMXZE" target="_blank">third world</a>."</p><p>"Roosevelt Avenue is like a completely different world — fake passports, guns, prostitution, all out in the open," reporter Levy told Blaze News.</p><p>"As someone who actually knows the location, I'll tell you the truth: It's gangland. The city shows up, cleans it up for a moment, and then it all goes right back to the same mess. Nothing ever really changes in gangland," Levy reinforced.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/president-trump-goes-scorched-earth-on-aoc" target="_blank">President Trump goes SCORCHED-EARTH on AOC</a></strong></p>        <p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e4b2e51599442f3609dd18e74e47b18f" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VHemSMPMXZE?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span>                        </p>            <p>In addition to the crime, the "third-world" feeling on Roosevelt is hammered home by the endless columns of illegal street vendors.</p><p>"I understand people want to make a living the right way without hurting anyone, but when you walk down Roosevelt Avenue, vendors line the blocks from one end to the other," Levy explained. "Some of them are completely unsanitary, and at times it looks and feels like a third-world country."</p><p>Even the most <a href="https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/people-sell-food-along-along-roosevelt-avenue-which-passes-news-photo/1489205314" target="_blank">sophisticated photography</a> is unable to hide the <a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/street-vendor-sells-products-along-roosevelt-avenue-in-news-photo/1619880504" target="_blank">countless vendors</a> who make the streets even tighter and more unsafe for residents.</p><p>But public safety is indeed the top priority, according to Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.). Meng told Fox News that "dangerous criminals who commit violent crimes must be held accountable."</p><p>There are indeed plenty of those criminals to choose from, according to Levy.</p><p>"I've been on the ground there, breaking story after story," he said, pointing to <a href="https://x.com/ViralNewsNYC/status/1905680898802016543" target="_blank">brothels</a> being run out of bodegas and random <a href="https://x.com/ViralNewsNYC/status/1911509738099012085" target="_blank">street stabbings</a>.</p><p>A person was even reportedly stabbed for not giving a person a cigarette. "That's the state of Roosevelt," the reporter sadly admitted.</p><p>Representatives for Ocasio-Cortez did not reply to Blaze News' request for comment.</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em><br/></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/nyc-gangland-aoc-queens-roosevelt</guid><category>Crime</category><category>New york</category><category>Aoc</category><category>Queens</category><category>Illegal immigration</category><category>Migrants</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Andrew Chapados</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/it-s-gangland-aoc-s-district-is-an-open-air-market-for-guns-prostitution-and-illegal-vendors.png?id=61190373&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Did cloud seeding cause the Texas floods? Glenn Beck speaks with the man with the most fingers pointed at him</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/did-cloud-seeding-cause-the-texas-floods-glenn-beck-speaks-with-the-man-with-the-most-fingers-pointed-at-him</link><description><![CDATA[
  31. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190150&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Over Fourth of July weekend, Kerrville, Texas, was devastated by catastrophic flooding along the Guadalupe River, which rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes. The floods have claimed more than 100 lives, many of whom were children, but that number is expected to rise, as there are still several missing people.</p><p>While Central Texas is known for flooding — sometimes severe flooding — what happened last week is unprecedented in its severity. Many aren’t convinced that this was just a freak act of nature. There are growing theories that the floods were caused by human tampering with weather patterns — specifically cloud seeding, a technique where chemicals are released into clouds to encourage them to produce precipitation.</p><p>One person in the crosshairs of this theory is Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of Rainmaker, a U.S.-based climate technology company specializing in cloud seeding. He’s been directly blamed for the Texas floods after it was discovered that his company seeded clouds in Texas just two days before the torrential rain began.</p><p>Yesterday, Glenn Beck invited Doricko on “The Glenn Beck Program” to plead his case.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4b2ddac44cf6feb81d185d3a604559b4" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/urDlcfpv0sM?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span>        </p><p>“So explain what cloud seeding does and how you know you didn't have anything to do with [the floods],” Glenn says.</p><p>While weather modification sounds like a modern practice, Doricko says it’s been going on since the 1940s when it was developed “to increase water supply for farms, for ecosystem conservation, for reservoirs, for residences, and also our industries.”</p><p>Cloud seeding “relies on identifying liquid in clouds and then releasing particulates, specifically silver iodide, into those clouds that the water freezes onto into big snowflakes and then become heavy enough to fall as rain,” Doricko explains, noting that the practice is “paid for by farmers and utilities and government entities that want more water for their constituents.”</p><p>While cloud seeding is a highly effective practice — it “can produce tens of millions of gallons of precipitation distributed over hundreds of square miles over the course of about an hour or two,” Doricko says — it could not produce the amount of precipitation that fell in Central Texas last weekend. “The remnants of tropical storm Barry that blew in and caused the flooding, that storm dumped <em><em>trillions</em></em> of gallons,” he differentiates.</p><p>One of the reasons Doricko has been specifically blamed for the deadly Texas floods is because Rainmaker seeded clouds in Texas on July 2 — two days before the rain began.</p><p>“We seeded two clouds, two small clouds, with about 70 grams’ worth of silver iodide,” he says, noting that while there was rainfall as a result, the clouds “dissipated about two hours after” and “could not have stayed suspended in the atmosphere by the time that the flooding started happening.”</p><p>Further, in accordance with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation’s suspension criteria, Rainmaker stopped its cloud-seeding operations even before the National Weather Service issued flood warnings.</p><p>“We at Rainmaker earnestly believe that this is God’s kingdom to steward, and it is our job to do no harm and do as much good as we can,” Doricko tells Glenn, noting that he became a Christian at age 20 and was actually “baptized in Dallas.”</p><p>While he stressed the need to “be cautious” to “mitigate any potential for any damage,” he also warned against banning the technology outright. Not only would it “prevent farmers from having water,” but it would also put even greater distance between the United States and China, which has an enormous weather modification program.</p><p>“The United States a year ago spent $2.4 million on cloud-seeding research,” while “China has an annual budget of $1.4 billion for cloud seeding and weather modification,” says Doricko. “They have 35,000 employees in their weather modification office,” and “they have two universities that offer bachelor's degrees in weather engineering.”</p><p>“If the United States bans this technology wholesale ... not only will we be behind China, but we won't have regulatory statutes or the capability to monitor who is modifying the weather in the United States and otherwise,” he warns.</p><p>While Doricko agrees that weather modification sounds scary, cloud seeding is distinct from other more extreme weather modification practices. Cloud seeding encourages precipitation using “existing puffy clouds,” but “geoengineering is a global climatic intervention designed to either cool the planet down or create reflective high-altitude clouds,” he tells Glenn.</p><p>But Glenn still has questions. He points to speculation that the devastating double hurricanes — Helene and Milton — that impacted Florida and North Carolina last year were a result of cloud seeding.</p><p>“I never believed any of that stuff, but can it be done?” he asks.</p><p>“No. It, at this point in time, cannot be done,” Doricko replies.</p><p>However, he is a proponent of exploring how we might “mitigate severe weather,” like hurricanes, in the future. “I think that it would be abdicating our responsibility to try to tend to the world that God gave us if we didn't at least think about it,” he says.</p><p>To hear Glenn’s response, watch the clip above.</p><h2>Want more from Glenn Beck?</h2><p>To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/glenn/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_glennbeck" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/did-cloud-seeding-cause-the-texas-floods-glenn-beck-speaks-with-the-man-with-the-most-fingers-pointed-at-him</guid><category>The glenn beck program</category><category>Glenn beck</category><category>Augustus doricko</category><category>Cloud seeding</category><category>Weather modification</category><category>Geoengineering</category><category>Blazetv</category><category>Blaze media</category><category>Kerrville</category><category>Kerville texas</category><category>Texas</category><category>Texas floods</category><category>Camp mystic</category><category>The glenn beck program</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190150&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>America First in action: Trump’s HHS slams the brakes on illegal aliens draining taxpayer funds</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/america-first-in-action-trumps-hhs-slams-the-brakes-on-illegal-aliens-draining-taxpayer-funds</link><description><![CDATA[
  32. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/america-first-in-action-trumps-hhs-slams-the-brakes-on-illegal-aliens-draining-taxpayer-funds.jpg?id=61190974&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/><br/><br/><p>President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services made a significant step on Thursday toward preventing illegal aliens from draining taxpayer funds.</p><p>The HHS <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/prwora-hhs-bans-illegal-aliens-accessing-taxpayer-funded-programs.html" target="_blank">announced</a> that it has rescinded the Clinton administration's interpretation of an act that allowed immigrants unlawfully in the U.S. to receive federal benefits.</p><p class="pull-quote">'For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans' tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration.'</p><p>A press release explained that, for over two decades, the HHS used the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to "improperly extend[] certain federal public benefits to illegal aliens."</p><p>The Clinton administration's 1998 interpretation "improperly narrowed the scope of PRWORA, undercutting the law by allowing illegal aliens to access programs Congress intended only for the American people," Trump's HHS wrote.</p><p>The department called Thursday's announcement "a significant policy shift" to comply with federal law.</p><p>"The new policy applies PRWORA's plain-language definition of 'Federal public benefit,' reverses outdated exclusions, affirms that programs serving individuals, households, or families are subject to eligibility restrictions, and clarifies that no HHS programs have been formally exempted under PRWORA's limited exceptions," the HHS said.</p><p>The HHS estimated that the changes would result in American citizens having up to $374 million annually in additional funds for Head Start services. <a href="https://acf.gov/ohs/about/head-start" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">According</a> to the Office of the Administration for Children & Families, Head Start supports "children's growth from birth to age 5 through services centered around early learning and development, health, and family well-being."</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-admin-targets-federal-funding-to-planned-parenthood-over-possible-violations-of-law-executive-orders" target="_blank">Trump admin targets federal funding to Planned Parenthood over 'possible violations' of law, executive orders</a></strong><span></span></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ac1cadb3433384c810ca0fcf8ea2164e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="02da6" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190980&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images</small></p><p>ACF's acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison stated that the department "is committed to providing and protecting resources that serve America's most vulnerable."</p><p>"Head Start’s classification under the new PRWORA interpretation puts American families first by ensuring taxpayer-funded benefits are reserved for eligible individuals," Gradison said.</p><p>The administration's new policy will impact several other programs, including Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant, the Community Services Block Grant, the Health Center Program, the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness Grant Program, the Title X Family Planning Program, and the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant. <br/></p><p>The list is "not exhaustive," the agency added.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-admin-making-sure-illegal-aliens-dont-get-food-stamps" target="_blank"><strong>Trump admin making sure illegal aliens don't get food stamps</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="85da3a3c114aaa8ee43951c2628d1534" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="963a4" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190982&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</small></p><p>HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated, "For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans' tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration."</p><p>"Today's action changes that — it restores integrity to federal social programs, enforces the rule of law, and protects vital resources for the American people," he said.</p><p>The HHS stated that the policy change aligns with Trump's February executive order, "<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-open-borders/" target="_blank">Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.</a>"</p><p><em><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em></em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self"><em><em>Sign up here</em></em></a><em><em>!</em></em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/america-first-in-action-trumps-hhs-slams-the-brakes-on-illegal-aliens-draining-taxpayer-funds</guid><category>News</category><category>America first</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>Trump</category><category>Trump administration</category><category>Trump admin</category><category>Trump's hhs</category><category>Department of health and human services</category><category>Health and human services</category><category>Hhs</category><category>Robert f. kennedy jr.</category><category>Robert f kennedy jr</category><category>Rfk jr</category><category>Rfk jr.</category><category>Clinton</category><category>Bill clinton</category><category>Clinton administration</category><category>Clinton admin</category><category>Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act</category><category>Prwora</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Candace Hathaway</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/america-first-in-action-trumps-hhs-slams-the-brakes-on-illegal-aliens-draining-taxpayer-funds.jpg?id=61190974&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Sometimes the most Christian thing to do is shut up</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/sometimes-the-most-christian-thing-to-do-is-shut-up</link><description><![CDATA[
  33. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/sometimes-the-most-christian-thing-to-do-is-shut-up.jpg?id=61187821&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C52%2C0%2C53"/><br/><br/><p>I didn’t want to write this. I still don’t.</p><p>The push notification lit up my phone while I was working out — campers swept away as the Guadalupe River surged dozens of feet in under an hour. I walked out of the gym and teared up in my truck.</p><p>Now I’m stuffing sunscreen and swimsuits into two trunks. My older two kids head off to sleepaway camp next week. How do I tell them the adventure they’re so giddy about just turned fatal for other families? What can a keyboard jockey like me offer when other parents are living a nightmare? My first instinct was to close the laptop, whisper a prayer, and stay quiet.</p><p>But silence isn’t always the faithful response.</p><p>Entire campsites — from Kerr County to the back roads of Texas Hill Country — have been wiped away. Parents who expected mosquito bites and ghost stories are now scanning riverbanks for anything recognizable. They don’t need punditry. They need the rest of us to witness their grief without turning it into the next battleground in the culture war.</p><p>That’s the part I dread most.</p><p>Within hours of the first siren, the internet erupted in blame. Was it climate change? Outdated flood maps? Local negligence? Federal failure? Pick your camp, rack up your retweets, move the score marker. The bodies weren’t even identified before the hashtags started trending. It’s as if we’ve forgotten how to mourn without also trying to win.</p><p class="pull-quote">'Where was God?' feels like the only honest question when the water rises. But storms don’t mean vengeance, any more than sunsets are God’s apology.</p><p>Then there’s that phrase believers lean on — “thoughts and prayers.” “Ts and Ps,” as Gen Z sneers. If I lost one of my kids, those words would feel like a whispered lullaby in a room suddenly emptied of breath — tender, well-meaning, and painfully inadequate.</p><p>Not because prayer is pointless. Because the cliché is.</p><p>When calamity struck, Job’s friends “sat with him on the ground seven days … and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.” No carbon emissions debate. No X threads. Just presence. Silence. Solidarity.</p><p>Maybe that’s the posture we need now — especially along a river whose name, Guadalupe, traces back to “river of the wolf.” Creation still has teeth. Even waters we picnic beside can turn predator in a single thunderstorm. Wolves hunt in packs. They also protect their own. Maybe that’s the symbolism: The same river that devoured so many calls the rest of us to move as a pack — toward the survivors, not away.</p><p>Real faith doesn’t show up as a hashtag. It comes in the form of casseroles and chain saws, spare bedrooms and <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/want-to-help-texas-flood-victims-heres-what-you-can-do" target="_self">Venmo links</a>. It hauls soggy photo albums into the sun. It listens more than it lectures. When Jesus met Mary and Martha at the tomb, He wept before He preached. Maybe that’s the order we’ve lost.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/liberal-women-quickly-learn-what-happens-when-you-say-vile-things-about-little-girls-killed-in-the-floods" target="_self">Liberal women quickly learn what happens when you say vile things about little girls killed in the floods</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="aeed636b06268de88b0394d125db64fd" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="42dc6" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187823&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images</small></p><p>So what can we do from a distance?</p><p><strong>Give</strong> until it pinches — money, blood, bottled water, even unused PTO if your workplace allows donations. Relief crews will need support for months, not days.</p><p><strong>Go</strong> if you can. Student ministries, church groups, skilled contractors — this work doesn’t end when the cameras leave.</p><p><strong>Guard</strong> these families’ dignity. Share verified donation links, not drone footage of recovered bodies. If you wouldn’t show the image to your child, don’t post it.</p><p><strong>Grieve</strong> aloud. Let your kids see adults who don’t numb tragedy with mindless scrolling.</p><p><strong>And yes, p</strong><strong>ray</strong><strong> </strong>— not as a substitute for action, but as its <em>source</em>. Prayer is oxygen for those on their feet. When the apostle James said, “Faith without works is dead,” he might as well have been looking out the window of a rescue chopper.</p><p>I get the temptation to shake a fist at heaven. “Where was God?” feels like the only honest question when the water rises. But storms don’t mean vengeance, any more than sunsets are God’s apology. Scripture calls Him a refuge and redeemer, not a puppet master yanking strings to break hearts. Turning away from God now is like fleeing the only lighthouse in a gale.</p><p>If grief makes prayer sound hollow, answer the hollowness with action — and with the stubborn belief that the Creator remains good, even when creation feels cruel.</p><p>I still don’t want to write this. I’d rather tuck my kids in tonight and pretend rivers respect property lines and holiday weekends. But if this piece offers anything, let it give permission to mourn without politicizing. For one day — one hour even — let grief be grief. Let dads hold their kids tighter. Let moms remind us that safety doesn’t come with a zip code. Let the church prove it’s more than a Sunday address.</p><p>With the sparklers of Independence Day barely cooled, maybe the most patriotic thing we can do is recover the lost art of compassionate presence. No monologue — including this one — can fill a bunk bed left empty. But through gifts, sweat, silence, and prayer, maybe we can shoulder a sliver of the weight.</p><p>If you’re reading this in a dry living room, remember the families whose furniture is floating somewhere downriver.</p><p>Before you post, pause.</p><p>Before you debate, donate.</p><p>If “thoughts and prayers” still feel hollow, add two more words: “Here’s how.”</p><p>Then go do it.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/sometimes-the-most-christian-thing-to-do-is-shut-up</guid><category>Opinion &amp; analysis</category><category>Texas</category><category>Flood</category><category>Hill country</category><category>Guadalupe river</category><category>Tragedy</category><category>Christianity</category><category>Camp mystic</category><category>Death toll</category><category>Book of job</category><category>Gospel</category><category>God</category><category>Rescue</category><category>Recovery</category><category>Survivors</category><category>Donations</category><category>Thoughts and prayers</category><dc:creator>Gates Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/sometimes-the-most-christian-thing-to-do-is-shut-up.jpg?id=61187821&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Ex-CIA Director John Brennan's bad year could get a lot worse: 'Maybe they have to pay a price for that'</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/ex-cia-director-john-brennans-bad-year-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse-maybe-they-have-to-pay-a-price-for-that</link><description><![CDATA[
  34. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-s-bad-year-could-get-a-lot-worse-maybe-they-have-to-pay-a-price-for-that.jpg?id=61190374&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C38%2C0%2C38"/><br/><br/><p>John Brennan, former director of the CIA and chief counterterrorism adviser to former President Barack Obama, appears to be having a rough year — and it's likely to get a lot worse.</p><h2>How it started</h2><p>On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/holding-former-government-officials-accountablefor-election-interference-and-improper-disclosure-of-sensitive-governmental-information/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">executive order</a> blasting Brennan and the 50 other former intelligence officials who signed the infamous <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oct. 19, 2020, letter</a>, which served to discredit the New York Post's factually accurate <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oct. 14 report</a> about the discovery and damning contents of Hunter Biden's laptop. </p><p>"The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions," Trump noted in the order.</p><p class="pull-quote">'All the world can now see the truth.'</p><p>To remedy this perceived injustice, Trump decided to revoke signatories' security clearances, which prompted Brennan to <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/john-brennan-tries-slithering-around-true-nature-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-after-losing-security-clearance" target="_blank">whine on MSNBC</a>, claiming this was just the president's effort to "try to get back at those individuals who have criticized him openly and publicly in the past."</p><p>There were, however, more skeletons in Brennan's closet the Trump administration wanted to take for a walk.</p><p>CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a <a href="https://www.cia.gov/static/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf" target="_blank">damning review</a> last week concerning how the agency under Brennan reached the conclusion that Russia tried to sway the 2016 election in favor of then-candidate Donald Trump.</p><blockquote class="rm-embed twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1940426958837592079">
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  38.        <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>Ratcliffe's review indicates that the intelligence community's December 2016 assessment, which was conducted at the urging of Obama and became a pillar of the Russian collusion hoax, was a rushed botch job impacted by "multiple procedural anomalies."</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/deep-staters-threaten-to-use-color-revolution-tactics-against-trump-admin-report" target="_blank">Deep-staters threaten to use color revolution tactics against Trump admin: Report</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="827cddbe38f5209aff38463de6ca89e4" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="129d1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190394&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Evy Mages/Getty Images</small></p><p>Despite high-level warnings that the Steele dossier — a political opposition research report <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-elections-presidential-elections-5468774d18e8c46f81b55e9260b13e93" target="_blank">paid for in part</a> by the Clinton campaign — "did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards" and posed credibility risks, Brennan reportedly included it in the assessment anyway, showing "a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness," says Ratcliffe's review.</p><p>The review also indicates that the direct engagement in the assessment's development by Brennan was "highly unusual in both scope and intensity" and "likely influenced participants, altered normal review processes, and ultimately compromised analytic rigor."</p><p>Ratcliffe <a href="https://x.com/CIADirector/status/1940452440937263396" target="_blank">noted</a> on X, "All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump."</p><p class="pull-quote">'I think they're crooked as hell.'</p><p>A week after the release of the report, Department of Justice sources <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-brennan-james-comey-under-criminal-investigation-doj-sources" target="_blank">revealed</a> to Fox News Digital that Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing related to the Russian collusion hoax, including allegedly making false statements to Congress.</p><p>While little detail has been provided about the investigation — the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/ratcliffe-brennan-cia.html" target="_blank">noted</a> that CIA and FBI officials have declined to comment, and the DOJ has indicated it won't comment on "ongoing investigations" — DOJ sources reportedly characterized the FBI's view of Comey and Brennan's interactions as a "conspiracy."</p><p>The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/09/trump-comey-brennan-justice-investigation/" target="_blank">confirmed</a>, however, that Ratcliffe referred Brennan to the FBI last week to be criminally investigated for allegedly lying to Congress.</p><p>The facts outlined in Ratcliffe's review appear to disagree with Brennan's 2023 assertion to Congress, under oath,  that he did not believe the Steele dossier should be included in the intelligence assessment.</p><h2>How it's going</h2><p>Seeing the writing on the wall, Brennan did what he does best: play the victim on cable news.</p><p>After Ratcliffe released his review, Brennan went on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" last week to <a href="https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1943048051092001032" target="_blank">invoke</a> Nazi Germany and suggest that the Department of Justice's investigation into him and Comey was straight out of the "authoritarian playbook."</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/vindicated-patels-fbi-uncovers-apparent-chinese-communist-plot-to-rig-2020-mail-in-vote-for-biden" target="_blank">Vindicated? Patel's FBI uncovers apparent Chinese communist plot to rig 2020 mail-in vote for Biden</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a37c6c3f7b909796862b958a112e6a28" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="131e3" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190391&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photographer: Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images</small></p><p>On Wednesday, Brennan picked up where he left off, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt3mt4mURts" target="_blank">telling</a> MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, "This is, unfortunately, a very sad and tragic example of the continued politicization of the intelligence community, of the national security process."</p><p>When <a href="https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1943000733332205802" target="_blank">asked</a> on Wednesday whether he wanted to see Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey thrown in jail, President Donald Trump said, "I think they're very dishonest people. I think they're crooked as hell, and maybe they have to pay a price for that. I believe they are truly bad people and dishonest people. So whatever happens, happens."</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/ex-cia-director-john-brennans-bad-year-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse-maybe-they-have-to-pay-a-price-for-that</guid><category>John brennan</category><category>Brennan</category><category>Cia</category><category>Intel letter</category><category>Russia</category><category>Russian collusion</category><category>Russia hoax</category><category>Hoax</category><category>Leftism</category><category>Democrat</category><category>Ratcliffe</category><category>Fbi</category><category>Doj</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>Comey</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Joseph MacKinnon</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-s-bad-year-could-get-a-lot-worse-maybe-they-have-to-pay-a-price-for-that.jpg?id=61190374&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Florida man sees back door of mom's home left open. So he goes inside, hears strange noises — and grabs a gun.</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-man-sees-back-door-of-moms-home-left-open-so-he-goes-inside-hears-strange-noises-and-grabs-a-gun</link><description><![CDATA[
  39. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/florida-man-sees-back-door-of-mom-s-home-left-open-so-he-goes-inside-hears-strange-noises-and-grabs-a-gun.jpg?id=61190403&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C43%2C0%2C44"/><br/><br/><p>A Florida man on the evening of the Fourth of July noticed a rear door of his mother's home in Osceola County was left open, so he entered the residence, <a href="https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/07/05/man-shoots-accused-burglar-in-mothers-home-osceola-deputies-say/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WKMG-TV reported</a>, citing the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/armed-intruder-breaks-into-home-after-midnight-but-homeowners-son-also-has-a-gun-and-permanently-takes-care-of-business" target="_self"><strong>Armed intruder breaks into home after midnight. But homeowner's son also has a gun — and permanently takes care of business.</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fbeadae64502263ff650eec06b6396f1" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="6f897" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=61190401&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Image source: Osceola County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office</small></p><p>After reportedly hearing strange noises, the man armed himself with a revolver, the station said. <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-shoots-intruder-attempt-burglarize-164327870.html" target="_blank">WOFL-TV reported</a> that the noises were coming from the back bedroom.</p><p class="pull-quote">'Don't let the libs hear about this ... they'll be pushing to put the shooter in jail.'</p><p>After the man called out to see if anyone else was in the home, an alleged intruder emerged from a hallway and charged toward him, WKMG said, citing the sheriff's office.</p><p>With that, the man fired a single shot into the alleged intruder's leg, WKMG reported.</p><p>Deputies responded around 8:30 p.m. to the home along Deer Run Road where the homeowner’s son was holding the alleged burglar — Mitchell Platt, 37 — at gunpoint, WKMG said.</p><p>The man who fired the shot was not injured, investigators added to WKMG.</p><p>Platt was hospitalized for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, was released, was then arrested, and was being held on no bond for charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling and possession of burglary tools, WKMG said.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/female-accused-of-stabbing-pregnant-woman-14-times-in-front-of-victims-5-year-old-daughter-over-2-pizza-delivery-tip" target="_self"><strong>Female accused of stabbing pregnant woman 14 times in front of victim's 5-year-old daughter over $2 pizza delivery tip</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9d84aad4cc077ef2d56471a6ac55fbf5" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e635a" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=61190397&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Mitchell Platt. Image source: Osceola County (Fla.) Jail</small></p><p>Osceola County court records show Platt "having a number of court cases relating to arrests for drug possession, theft, and burglary," <a href="https://www.wesh.com/article/osceola-county-home-intruder-shot-arrested/65303833" target="_blank">WESH-TV reported</a>.</p><p>Those with information about the incident are asked to call the sheriff’s office’s non-emergency line at 407-348-2222, WKMG noted.</p><p>Not all of the observers who left comments under Yahoo News' republication of WOFL's story were completely satisfied with the outcome of the incident:</p><ul><li>"You, sir, need more time at the gun range!!!" one commenter declared. "Why[?] Because IT lived."</li><li>"At the leg. Oh, please," another commenter lamented. "You ought to practice more at the range. Now, your tax [dollars are] ... taking care of this dude's medical bills, etc."</li><li>"The shooter needs to learn how to shoot — make every shot count — now, he will probably be sued by the [burglar]," another commenter opined.</li><li>"Don't let the libs hear about this ... they'll be pushing to put the shooter in jail," another commenter predicted. "How dare he [shoot] an intruder ... right libs?"</li><li>"Correct me if I'm wrong, but a revolver should hold six rounds. Dead men tell no tales. They also commit no more crimes," another commenter wrote.</li></ul><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:29:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-man-sees-back-door-of-moms-home-left-open-so-he-goes-inside-hears-strange-noises-and-grabs-a-gun</guid><category>Crime thwarted</category><category>Burglary</category><category>Shooting</category><category>Self-defense</category><category>Son protecting mother</category><category>Florida</category><category>2nd amend.</category><category>Gun</category><category>Gun rights</category><category>Arrest</category><category>Osceola county sheriff's office</category><category>Crime</category><dc:creator>Dave Urbanski</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/florida-man-sees-back-door-of-mom-s-home-left-open-so-he-goes-inside-hears-strange-noises-and-grabs-a-gun.jpg?id=61190403&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Washington just inched one step closer to bringing the Redskins back</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/washington-redskins-comeback-inching-closer</link><description><![CDATA[
  40. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/washington-just-inched-one-step-closer-to-bringing-the-redskins-back.png?id=61190055&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C1%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>It has been five years since fans of Washington's NFL team were robbed of their beloved moniker Redskins. Now, with new ownership since 2023, the team seems closer than ever to bringing the name and famous logo back.</p><p>In 2020, the franchise announced it would bend the knee to activism and retire the Redskins name as well as their logo, which bared the likeness of Blackfeet Chief John Two Guns White Calf. </p><p>It was even reported that the team would <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29454868/washington-nfl-team-says-retire-redskins-name-logo" target="_blank">avoid using</a> any Native American imagery at all. Now, as the walls of wokeness crumble all around, the team is slowly creeping toward a reintroduction of the old tradition.</p><p class="pull-quote">'We are excited to celebrate Washington's incredible history.'</p><p>Washington's NFL franchise used the embarrassing interim name of the Washington Football Team for 2020-2021, until becoming the Washington Commanders in 2022. When Josh Harris bought the team in 2023, the fire in fans to bring back the old name quickly started burning again.</p><p>For the upcoming 2025-2026 season, the Commanders took a step in that direction when they announced they would be bringing back their "Super Bowl Era" uniforms for three separate games. Celebrating their 1982, 1987, and 1991 Super Bowl wins, the team will bring back their iconic burgundy, white, and gold <a href="https://x.com/Commanders/status/1942930748060606725" target="_blank">uniforms</a>.</p><p>In a promotional <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juvNg898_5c" target="_blank">video</a>, the franchise showed off old footage featuring the Redskins logo, reliving the "grit" and the "glory" the fans felt in the 1980s and 1990s. Although, there was one obvious catch.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/does-cultural-appropriation-bother-navajo" target="_blank">Residents of Navajo reservation are asked if 'cultural appropriation' bothers them. Leftists won't like their answers.</a></strong></p>        <p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1a7a50838489fab1384812437343a719" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/juvNg898_5c?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span>                        </p>            <p>While mostly obscuring their "W" Commanders logo, the promo did make a point about embracing the future and will not feature the Redskins logo alongside their new jerseys.</p><p>The good news is that pressure, timing, and public opinion is definitely on the right side of history.</p><p>In April, the team announced plans to move back to the heart of D.C. with a <a href="https://www.commanders.com/news/mayor-bowser-and-washington-commanders-announce-historic-deal-to-bring-the-team-home" target="_blank">new stadium</a>. Then in early May, President Trump and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_zqI8p2jrw" target="_blank">announced</a> that D.C. would host the 2027 NFL Draft.</p><p>These moves coupled with the fact that the Blackfeet chief's family actually wants the team to <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/two-guns-white-calf-redskins" target="_blank">bring back the old logo</a>, and it certainly seems like the momentum is moving in a positive direction.</p><p>In a press release about the throwback uniforms, team president Mark Clouse even said the team was trying to find ways to connect the past to the present.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/two-guns-white-calf-redskins" target="_blank">'The fans want him back': Family of Blackfeet chief, the inspiration for Redskins' logo, calls for logo's return</a></strong></p>        <p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="131ecd71b5d2411543ab1f57b7af72a0" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="d16d0" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61190076&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Red Mesa Navaho High School, Teec Nos Pos, Arizona.  Photo courtesy of Rob Eno.</small></p>            <p>"Ever since Josh Harris and our ownership group acquired the team back in 2023, they've placed great value in finding ways to connect the past and present and honor those that made the burgundy and gold what it is today," Clouse said in a <a href="https://www.commanders.com/news/washington-commanders-announce-new-super-bowl-era-uniforms-helmet-for-2025-season" target="_blank">statement</a>.</p><p>"These uniforms recognize the most successful era of our franchise — one that reflects a culture of excellence and encompasses many historical moments and special memories amongst our fanbase. Our coaches, players, and the entire organization could not be more excited to celebrate our team's legacy while creating new memories in these uniforms this season," Clouse added.</p><p>At the same time, these comments could be interpreted as the team being willing to address the past, without making it a future reality.</p><p>For instance, during a 2024 preseason press conference,  owner Harris said that the old Redskins name "can't come back."</p><p>"We've been very clear, we can't, for obvious reasons, the old name can't come back," Harris explained, per <a href="https://www.audacy.com/theteam980/sports/washington-commanders/josh-harris-commanders-rebrand-old-name-cant-come-back" target="_blank">sports radio station the Team 980 AM</a>.</p><p>Noting that he wanted to "honor" the team's heritage and past, Harris said he was focusing on unity and "not things that might drive people apart."</p><p>In 2025 and beyond, though, bringing back the old name seems to be exactly what would bring fans back together. Hopefully for Redskins supporters, a new stadium, the draft, and President Trump can be big enough catalysts to make their wishes come to fruition.</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/washington-redskins-comeback-inching-closer</guid><category>Fearless</category><category>Washington redskins</category><category>Dc</category><category>Bowser</category><category>Football</category><category>Nfl</category><category>Woke</category><category>Natives</category><category>American indians</category><category>Sports</category><dc:creator>Andrew Chapados</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/washington-just-inched-one-step-closer-to-bringing-the-redskins-back.png?id=61190055&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>JD Vance EXPOSES the real coalition behind Zohran Mamdani</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/blaze-news-tonight/jd-vance-exposes-the-real-coalition-behind-zohran-mamdani</link><description><![CDATA[
  41. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189738&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>New York City just took a sharp left turn, voting for Muslim communist Zohran Mamdani over Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary.</p><p>And in a recent speech to conservative insiders, Vice President JD Vance succinctly explained how this happened — and why it signals a dangerous new phase for the American left.</p><p>“A 33-year-old communist, running an insurgent campaign, beat a multimillion-dollar establishment machine politician in the New York Democratic mayoral primary,” Vance said, noting that his win drove home “just how much the voters in each of the respective parties have changed.”</p><p>"If President Trump's victory in 2024 was rooted in a broad, working- and middle-class coalition, Mamdani's coalition is almost the inverse of that,"  he continued, explaining that his voters reflect “a left that has completely left behind the broad middle of the United States of America.”</p><h3></h3><br/><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="00261d480522b886dee714512ff356f4" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dhtb-LTHCmI?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span><p>“This is a guy who won high-income and college educated New Yorkers ... but he was weakest among black voters and weakest among those without a college degree. That’s an interesting coalition. Maybe it works in the New York Democratic primary. I don’t think it works particularly well in the United States at large,” he added.</p><p>Vance then called Mamdani’s voters “the party of highly educated but downwardly mobile elites.”</p><p>Blaze media senior politics editor and DC correspondent Christopher Bedford is impressed by Vance’s analysis.</p><p>“It was so spot-on,” Bedford tells BlazeTV hosts Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on "Blaze News: The Mandate." “A lot of what drives and unites them, if anything unites them much any more, is mutual loathing.”</p><p>“This is a coalition that’s not even largely driven by values. The working-class values, the green values, have gone by the wayside,” he continues, noting that their view of the world has become very observably bleak, as demonstrated by their response to the floods in Texas.</p><p>“A literal children’s doctor in Houston, Texas, earlier today posted on Facebook about how these children who were washed away from a girls' Christian summer camp, from all ethnicities by the way, deserved it, because of the way their parents voted,” he explains.</p><p> “That is hate. That is pure, pure hate,” he adds.</p><h2>Want more from 'Blaze News: The Mandate'?</h2><p>To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/blazenewstonight/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_blazenewstonight" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/blaze-news-tonight/jd-vance-exposes-the-real-coalition-behind-zohran-mamdani</guid><category>Video</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Free</category><category>Upload</category><category>Camera phone</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Blaze news tonight</category><category>Blaze media</category><category>Blaze online</category><category>Blaze originals</category><category>Blaze podcasts</category><category>Blaze podcast network</category><category>Zohran mamdani</category><category>Jill savage</category><category>Jd vance</category><category>Nyc mayoral primary</category><category>Andrew cuomo</category><category>Christopher bedford</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189738&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Trump’s mining plan is smart — but China remains in the room</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trumps-mining-plan-is-smart-but-china-remains-in-the-room</link><description><![CDATA[
  42. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trumps-mining-plan-is-smart-but-china-remains-in-the-room.jpg?id=61187300&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C50%2C0%2C50"/><br/><br/><p>The Trump administration, to its credit, is prioritizing the development of mining and critical minerals to protect U.S. economic and defense interests and secure a reliable domestic supply.</p><p>At the center of this effort is President Trump’s recent executive order “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production</a>.” The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, now known as the Permitting Council, spearheads these administration efforts. </p><p class="pull-quote">America needs to get real about sourcing its domestic critical mineral supply and supporting reliable mining partners in their operations abroad.  </p><p>Thankfully, it’s now<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/trump-administration-advances-first-wave-of-critical-mineral-production-projects/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> increasing</a> “transparency, accountability, and predictability for the permitting review process for ... critical mineral production projects.”</p><p>Abroad, the administration is also pursuing strategic deals, particularly by <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/11/2025/trumps-africa-envoy-laid-groundwork-for-minerals-deal-in-dr-congo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">supporting mining operators</a> in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A newly signed minerals agreement between the Congo and Rwanda — brokered as part of the U.S.-backed <a href="https://www.state.gov/peace-agreement-between-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-the-republic-of-rwanda/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">peace treaty</a> — <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-signs-rare-earth-minerals-deal-africa-2092499" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">marks</a> “a success for Trump against the backdrop of U.S.-China competition over critical minerals.”</p><p>With all this activity in the global mining sector, it’s essential that the U.S. government adhere to the following principle: Support and partner with real — and reliable — mining operators. </p><p>America can’t afford to gamble with startups backed by tech billionaires with no mining experience nor mining companies that are backed by China. We need to be realistic about supporting the mineral needs of “USA Inc.” Moreover, policymakers must not fall for the slick PR and flashy AI claims currently inundating the industry.</p><p>It’s time to stop the madness.</p><h2>Flashy ‘mining’ startups</h2><p>So who are the culprits driving this frenzy? The first is KoBold Metals, a California-based startup backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg. The company’s trio of green activist billionaire backers should raise significant concerns within the administration. Gates, for instance, was in Singapore recently touting the ill-advised return of support for “<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-energy/3401382/daily-on-energy-opec-eu-russia-cut-off-date-doe-delays-rules-federal-buildings/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">climate reform</a>.” </p><p>A deeper problem lies in KoBold’s misleading image. The company calls itself a <a href="https://www.koboldmetals.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mining firm</a>, but it has never run a mine.</p><p>Its strength lies in artificial intelligence and data harvesting, not excavation, logistics, or engineering. KoBold claims to lead “the world’s largest exploration R&D effort” using AI and novel hardware. The language sounds impressive. The reality is far less so.</p><p>KoBold lacks the infrastructure, operational know-how, and supply chain muscle needed for serious mineral exploration and production. At its core, it’s an AI platform masquerading as a mining company.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/lindsey-graham-ukraine-mineral-assets" target="_self"><strong>Graham says Ukraine has trillions of dollars of 'critical mineral assets' and could be 'the best business partner'</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1dd468866bf2391b721c57a30a3f5f5f" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="d985c" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187303&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Temizyurek via iStock/Getty Images</small></p><p>Even more troubling, the administration appears to be assisting KoBold in advancing a lithium mine in the DRC. According to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/bezos-backed-firm-signs-deal-to-advance-congo-lithium-mine" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>, the announcement came after the DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi met with Massad Boulos, Trump’s senior adviser for African affairs, to discuss potential American investment and security assistance in the DRC's fight against a rebel group in the east, which is backed by neighboring Rwanda.</p><p>I am confident Boulos, who also happens to be the father-in-law of President Trump’s youngest daughter, will soon come around and realize what’s real and what’s not.</p><h2>Lining China’s pockets</h2><p>Given the stakes, the administration must weigh reliability when deciding which mining companies to back. Rio Tinto doesn’t make the cut.</p><p>Yes, Rio Tinto is a real mining company. It’s been around since 1873 and operates on a global scale. But it doesn’t serve U.S. interests.</p><p>The Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd., or Chinalco, holds <a href="https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/RIO-TINTO-69030/company-shareholders/" target="_blank">a 14.56% stake</a> in Rio Tinto. Chinalco is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. That makes Beijing the company’s largest shareholder — and that alone should disqualify Rio Tinto as a potential partner.</p><p>Propping up Rio Tinto would only tighten China’s grip on the world’s critical minerals supply — at America’s expense. As international policy and trade analyst Dewardric McNeal recently <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/us-china-rare-earth-minerals-metals-geopolitics-power.html" target="_blank">wrote</a>:</p><blockquote>The United States must now treat critical minerals not as commodities but as instruments of geopolitical power. China already does. Escaping its grip will require more than mine permits and short-term funding. It demands a coherent, long-term strategy to build a complete supply chain that includes not only domestic capabilities but also reliable allies and partners.</blockquote><p>Exactly right. The U.S. needs a strategic, grounded approach — not one riddled with internal contradictions.</p><p>America needs to get real about sourcing its domestic critical mineral supply and supporting reliable mining partners in their operations abroad. The clock is ticking, and neither flashy startups nor Chinese-backed companies are the keys to solving this puzzle.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trumps-mining-plan-is-smart-but-china-remains-in-the-room</guid><category>Opinion &amp; analysis</category><category>Mining</category><category>Rare earth minerals</category><category>Deal</category><category>Treaty</category><category>China</category><category>Congo</category><category>Bill gates</category><category>Executive order</category><category>National security</category><category>Economy</category><category>Michael bloomberg</category><category>Jeff bezos</category><category>Artificial intelligence</category><category>Kobold metals</category><category>Startups</category><category>Business</category><category>Partnership</category><category>Felix tshisekedi</category><category>Massad boulos</category><category>Rio tinto</category><category>Aluminum</category><category>Strategy</category><dc:creator>Brian Garst</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trumps-mining-plan-is-smart-but-china-remains-in-the-room.jpg?id=61187300&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Jasmine Crockett somehow makes the Texas flood tragedy all about herself</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/jasmine-crockett-somehow-makes-the-texas-flood-tragedy-all-about-herself</link><description><![CDATA[
  43. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/jasmine-crockett-somehow-makes-the-texas-flood-tragedy-all-about-herself.jpg?id=61189940&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=18%2C367%2C129%2C386"/><br/><br/><p>Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas could not resist another opportunity to shine the spotlight on herself. </p><p>In the midst of the Texas floods that have claimed the lives of at least 120 loved ones, the Democratic rising star posted a video pointing the finger at President Donald Trump and talking about how the tragedy will most affect her. Notably, Crockett's district is roughly 300 miles away from where the floods raged through Kerr County, which is about the same distance between Boston and Philadelphia.</p><p class="pull-quote">Despite her long history of tone deaf remarks, Crockett has emerged as one of the most popular Democrats in her party.</p><p>Crockett starts the video by saying her "heart is truly heavy for all these families," before immediately making it about herself and how Trump is working around the clock to "hurt us."</p><p>"The sad part is I think that my heart is going to carry a level of weight that will continue to weigh me down as we have to continue to do our best to survive an administration that literally is against us," Crockett <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DLyYvZ6Op-o/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> in a post on Instagram. "An administration that is doing everything, in my mind, to hurt us and not help us, and it feels like we're fending for ourselves."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/here-are-the-top-3-least-patriotic-members-of-congress"><strong>Here are the top 3 LEAST patriotic members of Congress</strong></a></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">Rep. Jasmine Crockett somehow manages to make the Texas flooding disaster about her: “The sad part is, I think that my heart is going to carry a level of weight that will continue to weigh me down as we have to continue to do our best to survive.” <a href="https://t.co/J3TAQhmJ5T">pic.twitter.com/J3TAQhmJ5T</a><br/>— TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1942973518301241786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p>In the same post about the Texas flooding, Crockett made sure to give a shoutout to her hairstylist.</p><p>"My staff said y’all are commenting about my BOB!" Crockett wrote in the post. She thanked her stylist for "orchestrating the look" followed by a kissy face emoji.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/jasmine-crockett-says-trump-impeachment-inquiry-absolutely-on-the-table">Jasmine Crockett says Trump impeachment inquiry 'absolutely' on the table</a></strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/jasmine-crockett-says-trump-impeachment-inquiry-absolutely-on-the-table"></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3f86cba4d647025d255d90f533594ba5" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="2f285" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189992&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Court Accountability</small></p><p>Despite her long history of tone deaf remarks, Crockett has emerged as one of the most popular Democrats in her party. </p><p>In a hypothetical Senate primary, Crockett is leading with 35% support among Democratic voters, followed by former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), who polled at 20% support, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/09/exclusive-jasmine-crockett-holds-healthy-lead-in-hypothetical-2026-senate-race-shock-poll-shows/">according</a> to a poll conducted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Failed presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) were also tied for 13% in the poll. </p><p>Although Crockett has secured a healthy lead in the primary, she has not formally announced or publicly signaled her interest in running to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. </p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em></p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/jasmine-crockett-somehow-makes-the-texas-flood-tragedy-all-about-herself</guid><category>Jasmine crockett</category><category>Texas floods</category><category>Texas flooding</category><category>Kerr county</category><category>Texas</category><category>Democrats</category><category>Nrsc</category><category>Colin allred</category><category>Beto o'rourke</category><category>Joaquin castro</category><category>Texas senate race</category><category>John cornyn</category><category>Ken paxton</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Rebeka Zeljko</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/jasmine-crockett-somehow-makes-the-texas-flood-tragedy-all-about-herself.jpg?id=61189940&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Sandler ‘Happy’ to stick with original love interest for ‘Gilmore’ sequel</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/align/sandler-happy-to-stick-with-original-love-interest-for-gilmore-sequel</link><description><![CDATA[
  44. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/sandler-happy-to-stick-with-original-love-interest-for-gilmore-sequel.jpg?id=61187446&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C78%2C0%2C78"/><br/><br/><p>Score one for Adam Sandler.</p><p>The “Saturday Night Live” alum appears, by all accounts, to be a genuine good guy in the Hollywood ecosystem. He proudly shares his Jewish faith on screen, something you don’t typically see in blockbuster comedies.</p><p>When it’s time to make a new project, he calls upon his famous pals. He and Rob Schneider are rarely seen apart on screen. Loyalty matters.</p><p>Now, we’re learning how Sandler defied Hollywood ageism on his newest project. “Happy Gilmore 2” reunites much of the 1996 film’s cast, including Christopher McDonald (Shooter McGavin). It’s also set to feature Sandler’s squeeze Virginia Venit, played then and now by Julie Bowen.</p><p>The 55-year-old “Modern Family” alum expected the sequel to cast a younger, hotter actress opposite Sandler this time ’round. That’s just how Hollywood rolls.</p><p>Instead, Bowen got the call to reprise her “Happy Gilmore” character. And while she doesn’t have as much screen time as in the original, Sandler assured her how vital she is to the project.</p><p>“You’re the heart of the movie,” Sandler told her.</p><p>While the “Jack and Jill” star may seem an unlikely crusader against the industry’s double standards, it should come as no surprise to those who know anything about Sandler’s personal life. </p><p>The SNL alum has been married to wife, Jackie Titone — with whom he shares two daughters — since 2003. And not a whiff of sleazy scandal. </p><p>Which is more than we can say for many an outspoken Hollywood “<a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/joss-whedon-allegations.html" target="_blank">male feminist</a>.” </p><h2>Perry’s scary stage SNAFU</h2><p>Can things get worse for Katy Perry?</p><p>Her latest album got crushed by critics, and clips of her current tour drew social media mockery. She dipped a manicured toe in space, a trip that also generated a digital drubbing. Plus, she and her longtime steady, Orlando Bloom, just split.</p><p>Her latest indignity? A <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/03/watch-katy-perry-trapped-inside-suspended-ball-clinging-for-life-during-australia-concert/" target="_blank">stage prop misbehaved</a>, leaving her clinging for life midair. Her stop in Adelaide, Australia, hit a snag when a stunt involving a suspended sphere went haywire. She clung to the sphere’s bars while technicians rushed to fix the issue.</p><p>She emerged unhurt, but her ego took another hit along the way ...</p><h2>Star Trek: Trump Derangement Syndrome</h2><p>Oh, my!</p><p>George Takei has finally cut the cord on his iconic Sulu character from the original “Star Trek” series and multiple feature films. How? He’s now a full-time Trump critic, and he proved it anew with a pathetic performance on the immersive liberal holodeck known as CNN.</p><p>He <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2025/07/03/cnns-cornish-tees-takei-equate-trumps-deportations-fdrs" target="_blank">compared ICE’s deportation efforts</a> to the Japanese-Americans rounded up during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.</p><p>They’re not remotely similar, of course. The worst part? Takei was one of those Japanese-Americans swept up in the country’s anti-Japanese fever in the 1940s. He even <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jan/18/george-takei-allegiance-review-musical" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote a play</a> about those memories.</p><p>Now, all he can do is summon them to smite Orange Man Bad. Set phasers on “stunned” ...</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/return/the-technology-of-star-trek" target="_blank">The technology of ‘Star Trek’</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ad2a0c1676c8a51974ea0045bfdb87d6" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="6122f" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187459&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images</small></p><h2>We’d ‘Rather’ not </h2><p>The very last person who should speak out about CBS’ $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over a selective editing scandal is Dan Rather.</p><p>The disgraced newsman used the “60 Minutes” brand to peddle fake news about then-President George W. Bush to sway the 2004 election. It failed, in part, because an army of citizen journalists rose up and debunked it step by step.</p><p>Rather never backed down, despite losing his plush anchor chair. A 2016 movie about the incident asked audiences to believe both that the newsman got the basic story right — and that he could be convincingly played by Robert Redford.</p><p>The title? “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_(2015_film)" target="_blank">Truth</a>.” That’s Hollywood.</p><p>So, naturally, Variety turned to Rather to weigh in on the Trump settlement.</p><p>“It’s a sad day for journalism. ... It’s a sad day for ‘60 Minutes’ and CBS News. I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the president and a kneeling down and saying, ‘Yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners,” Rather said.</p><p>Variety couldn’t bother to tell readers who didn’t live through “Rathergate” why the Texas newsman is, to be kind, an unreliable narrator.<br/><br/>Then again, if anyone knows about fake news, it’s Danny Boy ...</p><h2>Putting the man in ‘romantic’</h2><p>What <em>can’t </em>the patriarchy do?</p><p>Director Celine Song of “Past Lives” fame is blaming men for the death of the rom-com. Her latest film, “<a href="https://southamptonplayhouse.com/blog/materialists-celine-song-interview?fbclid=IwY2xjawLSiulleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrb-AxN9nlQStPRoZ_A-YlDY3EDKfF47UsMd5TFFC7AXMD3nqR32G4iMPp-Y_aem_aLqgwwgEfJUb8zmuxZzSHg" target="_blank">Materialists</a>,” isn’t as frothy as most romantic comedies, but it loosely falls under that banner.</p><p>And it’s good!</p><p>That doesn’t mean Song’s approach to the subject is admirable. She says Hollywood stopped making rom-coms due to the patriarchy. Toxic men dismiss the genre as “chick flicks” and nothing more.</p><p>Except we never stopped loving rom-coms. The rom-com giants (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan) aged out of the genre. The newer versions offered up strained, gimmick-laden plots (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”), and some focused on lust, not love (“Friends with Benefits,” “No Strings Attached”).</p><p>And when young, attractive stars get a chance at rom-com glory, they often hit the bull’s-eye. “Anyone But You” wasn’t “good,” but it boasted the attractive duo of Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. And it made a whopping $220 million in global theaters.</p><p>Scapegoating the patriarchy is always a woke winner, but this time, the blame falls squarely on Hollywood’s stooped shoulders.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/align/sandler-happy-to-stick-with-original-love-interest-for-gilmore-sequel</guid><category>Hollywood</category><category>Entertainment</category><category>Culture</category><category>Adam sandler</category><category>Fake news</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>George takei</category><category>Star trek</category><category>Tds</category><category>Dan rather</category><category>Katy perry</category><category>Toto recall</category><dc:creator>Christian Toto</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/sandler-happy-to-stick-with-original-love-interest-for-gilmore-sequel.jpg?id=61187446&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Dana Bash and Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' ignore history to pin Texas tragedy on Trump and oil</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/dana-bash-and-bill-nye-the-science-guy-ignore-history-to-pin-texas-tragedy-on-trump-and-oil</link><description><![CDATA[
  45. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/dana-bash-and-bill-nye-the-science-guy-ignore-history-to-pin-texas-tragedy-on-trump-and-oil.jpg?id=61189958&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/><br/><br/><p>The catastrophic floods in Central Texas have claimed the lives of at least <a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/161-missing-central-texas-floods-live-updates/3881479/" target="_blank">120 people</a>, including 46 children. As officials and volunteers continue their search for the 173 still believed missing, liberals continue to spin the tragedy, exploiting Texans' loss and grief for political ends.</p><p>This was especially clear Wednesday <a href="https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/inside-politics/episodes/6e65dbfa-29b8-11ef-bb3e-bbba6400b728" target="_blank">on CNN</a>, where talking head Dana Bash and Bill Nye "the Science Guy" suggested that the Trump administration and American energy were somehow culpable for the flooding in Texas and North Carolina as well as the rains in Chicago.</p><p>At the outset of the interview, Bash insinuated both that floods are becoming more frequent and that they are the result of climate change — even though in the case of Texas, they took place in a region that earned the nickname "flash flood alley" with a pattern of heavy flooding that apparently <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/07/texas-flash-flood-alley/84490963007/" target="_blank">predates the combustion engine</a> by many centuries.</p><p>Political scientist Roger Pielke Jr. recently <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/07/texas-flash-flood-alley/84490963007/" target="_blank">directed the attention</a> of USA Today to a 1940 historical text on American floods that indicates "the same region of Texas that experienced this week’s floods has long been known to be a bull's-eye for flash flooding."</p><p>A century before that text was published, German immigrants in New Braunfels, Texas, reportedly had to contend with the same problem — and faced a Guadalupe River that would consistently rise 15 feet above its normal stand following heavy rains.</p><p>"The documented record of extreme flooding in 'flash flood alley' goes back several centuries, with paleoclimatology records extending that record thousands of years into the past," said Pielke.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/liberal-women-quickly-learn-what-happens-when-you-say-vile-things-about-little-girls-killed-in-the-floods" target="_blank">Liberal women quickly learn what happens when you say vile things about little girls killed in the floods</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="98cc488d371afea11393c805ded41b56" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="a6f2e" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189950&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images</small></p><p>"It's terrible," said Bash, referring to footage of flooding. "You keep hearing 'once in a lifetime,' 'once in a hundred years,' 'once in a thousand years.' At this point, it's not any more. It's just where we are with the climate and the environment."</p><p>After suggesting that "warm weather events are actually easier to tie to climate change," Nye — who for all his honorary doctorates has not earned a doctorate in any scientific field — said, "'What are we going to do about it?' is the ancient question. And [the answer] would be to stop burning fossil fuels."</p><p>"When you're in a hole, stop digging, and so on," continued Nye. "But the fossil fuel industry has been very successful in getting organizations like the U.S. Congress to think that it's really not happening."</p><p>After Nye smeared a critical source of American energy, Bash proved eager to tie its survival to President Donald Trump, stating, "And the first six months of the Trump administration, we've seen an end to some of the federal efforts on not just fossil fuel but other efforts that had been in place government-wide to promote alternative energy."</p><p class="pull-quote">'If we harness our outrage and come together to fight like hell for our collective future, we will win.'</p><p>Failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg <a href="https://archive.ph/9uui4#selection-1501.340-1501.476" target="_blank">noted</a> in a Tuesday op-ed that elected officials owe the Texas families who lost love ones "a sincere commitment to righting their deadly wrong, by tackling the problem they’ve turned their backs on for too long: climate change."</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/ny-cartoon-texas-maga-victims" target="_blank">NY newspaper nailed with backlash over cartoon mocking MAGA victims of Texas floods: 'Twisted, vile, and shameful'</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8b2d2f04aa0cb5f3256f2c8b63f01443" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="8f4b9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189951&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images</small></p><p>"The latest episode of horrific flooding isn't just about a natural disaster in one state," continued Bloomberg, who has poured cash into <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/michael-bloomberg-donates-millions-help-transition-away-coal" target="_blank">various</a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.org/environment/" target="_blank">climate alarmist initiatives</a>. "It's also about a political failure that's been happening in states across the country, and most of all in Washington. The refusal to recognize that climate change carries a death penalty is sending innocent people, including far too many children, to early graves."</p><p>Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra Club and former CEO of the NAACP, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/09/texas-floods-kerr-county-donald-trump-climate-change-environment-ben-jealous" target="_blank">claimed</a> in a Chicago Sun-Times piece that the Texas disaster "was a crisis written by the climate crisis and made far worse by the types of policies being pushed by this administration everyday [sic]."</p><p>Jealous, like Bloomberg and Nye, appears to think the flood a good enough excuse for Americans to join their war on fossil fuels, stating, "If we harness our outrage and come together to fight like hell for our collective future, we will win."</p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self">Sign up here</a></em><em>!</em>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:25:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/dana-bash-and-bill-nye-the-science-guy-ignore-history-to-pin-texas-tragedy-on-trump-and-oil</guid><category>Cnn</category><category>Dana bash</category><category>Texas floods</category><category>Floods</category><category>Climate</category><category>Climate change</category><category>Bill nye</category><category>Leftism</category><category>Bloomberg</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>Trump</category><category>Weather</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Joseph MacKinnon</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/dana-bash-and-bill-nye-the-science-guy-ignore-history-to-pin-texas-tragedy-on-trump-and-oil.jpg?id=61189958&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>The Epstein files may be Trump’s biggest liability yet</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-epstein-files-may-be-trumps-biggest-liability-yet</link><description><![CDATA[
  46. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/the-epstein-files-may-be-trumps-biggest-liability-yet.jpg?id=61187755&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/><br/><br/><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/epstein-memo-trump-bondi-maga#:~:text=President%20Donald%20Trump%20on%20Tuesday,Bondi%20quickly%20embraced%20those%20theories." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">President Trump snapped</a> at a reporter who asked him about Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday.</p><p>Trump is massively misreading his base on this one — and it could cost him the midterms.</p><p class="pull-quote">President Trump should not underestimate how much goodwill he’s lost among his base due to Pam Bondi’s mishandling of the Epstein files.</p><p>People <em><em>care</em></em> about the Epstein story, not only because of his sickening crimes against children but because evidence exists of a government cover-up.</p><p>Evidence like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-homicide-autopsy-michael-baden.html" target="_blank">Epstein’s autopsy</a> showing injuries incongruent with suicide; evidence like <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50296742" target="_blank">Buckingham Palace’s response</a> to ABC’s nuked report on Epstein, Prince Andrew, and President Bill Clinton; evidence like former federal prosecutor <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/11/13/alex-acostas-email-inbox-during-critical-period-of-jeffrey-epstein-case-missing/" target="_blank">Alex Acosta</a> saying he was told to back off because Epstein “<a href="https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1742943360304771513?lang=en" target="_blank">belonged to intelligence</a>” and then discovering his Justice Department emails had mysteriously disappeared.</p><p>And now, government officials are telling us to ignore the evidence in front of our eyes and believe them — without evidence. Nope. Not happening. We voted for radical transparency and <em><em>justice</em></em>. We’re not letting it drop.</p><p>The president should not underestimate how much goodwill he’s lost among his base due to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s mishandling of the Epstein files. People are furious. I would know — <a href="https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/liz-wheeler-trump-bondi-epstein" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I was collateral damage</a> in Bondi’s infernal Epstein binder debacle. She should have been fired on the spot.</p><p>Country singer John Rich tells a story about eating dinner with Trump, who turned to him and asked — genuinely curious — “Why do people boo at my rallies when I brag about the COVID vaccine?” And then Trump <em><em>listened</em></em> to Rich’s answer: People were hurt by that jab.</p><p>President Trump should listen to his base about Epstein, too.</p><p>We have been <em><em>hurt</em></em> by the deep state weaponizing the government against us: calling us terrorists, censoring us when we questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, or the origin of COVID, or rejecting transgender ideology. Trump’s base has been insulted, targeted, subject to violence, arrest, and political persecution for supporting him and our America First agenda.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-epstein-case-proves-one-thing-the-elites-are-protected" target="_self"><strong>The Epstein case proves one thing: The elites are protected</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a8e3b66c77b969ebac88f10e688513ad" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="c88c7" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187756&width=980"/>                        <small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images</small></p><p>Forgive us if we refuse to believe government officials now who are asking us to accept a narrative that contradicts the evidence we can see. We will no longer be subject to gatekeepers. Don’t insult our intelligence. Don’t belittle us.</p><p>We voted for President Trump because he promised justice.</p><ul><li>Justice for <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/align/generation-covid-bears-witness-to-devastating-toll-of-school-closings" target="_self">COVID</a>.</li><li>Justice for <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/egregious-security-failures-mar-attempts-to-catch-the-jan-6-pipe-bomber-house-report-says" target="_self">January 6 and the mysterious RNC and DNC pipe bombs</a>.</li><li>Justice for <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/glenn-beck-podcast/bill-barr-durham" target="_self">Russiagate</a>.</li><li>Justice for the phony <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/blazetv-specials/ukraine-corruption-obama" target="_self">Ukraine impeachment</a>.</li><li>Justice for the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/lawfare-strikes-again-rogue-judge-ignores-scotus-shields-500000-from-trump-s-immigration-crackdown" target="_self">lawfare against Trump</a>.</li><li>Justice for censorship and <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/frontier/behind-the-twitter-files" target="_self">Big Tech collusion</a>.</li><li>Justice for <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/rep-chip-roy-and-other-republicans-seek-to-repeal-face-act" target="_blank">jailed pro-lifers</a>.</li><li>Justice for <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigative-writer-steve-baker-says-fbi-wants-him-to-self-surrender-friday-in-dallas-over-his-jan-6-reporting" target="_self">journalists targeted by the FBI</a>.</li><li>Justice for parents labeled <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-details-extent-fbis-weaponization-law-enforcement-against" target="_blank">domestic extremists</a>.</li></ul><p>Justice isn’t dismissing those crimes and moving on. Justice means arresting the swamp creatures who perpetrated the crimes and dismantling the corrupt institutions that enabled them to do so.</p><p>That’s why the Epstein case is foundational. That’s why Trump’s base has a visceral reaction to being told we would get the Epstein files — and now we are told we’re getting nothing.</p><p>Bondi didn’t tell us the truth. She seems more interested in being a Fox News star than keeping promises. Something is fishy about the Epstein stuff — his racket, his death, his friends, his alleged intelligence agency connections. Patting us on the head and telling us “nothing to see here” is infuriating. It will not do.</p><p>President Trump should not underestimate the significance of this moment. He’s losing goodwill by the day — and Bondi is to blame.</p><p>Trump is smart. He cares about his base. He listens. He should listen now, so that it doesn’t cost him the midterms.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-epstein-files-may-be-trumps-biggest-liability-yet</guid><category>Opinion &amp; analysis</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>Trust</category><category>Credibility</category><category>Pam bondi</category><category>Kash patel</category><category>Dan bongino</category><category>Fbi</category><category>Department of justice</category><category>Jeffrey epstein</category><category>Suicide</category><category>Truckload</category><category>Evidence</category><category>Autopsy</category><category>Cover up</category><category>Prince andrew</category><category>Bill clinton</category><category>Epstein island</category><category>Blackmail</category><category>Justice</category><category>Truth</category><category>Transparency</category><dc:creator>Liz Wheeler</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/the-epstein-files-may-be-trumps-biggest-liability-yet.jpg?id=61187755&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Liz Wheeler tells Charlie Kirk: Bondi’s botched handling of the Epstein case is a stain on Trump’s legacy</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-liz-wheeler-show/liz-wheeler-tells-charlie-kirk-bondis-botched-handling-of-the-epstein-case-is-a-stain-on-trumps-legacy</link><description><![CDATA[
  47. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189090&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Yesterday, BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” made an appearance on Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s show to, in his words, “articulate and channel some of the frustrations that the base and the audience is feeling” in the wake of the DOJ and FBI’s announcement that the Epstein client list we were promised doesn’t exist.</p><p>Kirk picked the perfect person. Liz was hot out of the gate with her scathing <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/liz-wheeler-unleashes-fury-fire-pam-bondi-over-epstein-cover-up-scandal" target="_self"><u>condemnation</u></a> of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.<span></span></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u4"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");</script><div id="rumble_v6tr21g"></div><script>Rumble("play", {"video":"v6tr21g","div":"rumble_v6tr21g"});</script></div><p>“This has been an unforced error due to choices that Attorney General Pam Bondi has made,” Liz tells Kirk.</p><p>Back in February, Liz was invited to an exclusive White House event, during which she, along with other prominent conservative personalities, was given a binder by Pam Bondi labeled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1.”</p><p>Unfortunately, this file contained virtually no new information. Bondi admitted to the group that the binders didn’t have any “juicy, dirty details” because the “SDNY [was] hiding truckloads of documents,” per a whistleblower’s report, but that she had sent FBI director Kash Patel a formal request to release the complete files, promising Liz and the others that the full story was coming down the pike.</p><p>Months later, now we’re told there is no story, meaning there will be no accountability for the untold numbers of elites who were complicit in Epstein’s trafficking of underage girls.</p><p>Liz is furious at what she perceives as a bald-faced lie from Pam Bondi. During the White House meeting, “she actually bragged about creating that [binder] cover sheet,” which read “the most transparent administration in history,” she scoffs.</p><p>This performative act in tandem with her February appearance on Fox News claiming that the Epstein list was sitting on her desk pending review simply doesn’t square with the DOJ’s final verdict that “there’s no Epstein client list; there’s no blackmail operation; Epstein definitively killed himself … and [Americans] are not getting any more of these documents,” says Liz.</p><p>“The reason that the American people are having such a visceral reaction to this … is because we voted for justice when we voted for President Trump,” she tells Kirk. “This does not seem like justice.”</p><p>“We have this evidence [of Epstein’s crimes] before our eyes, and then we’re being told by government officials … that we should discount and ignore what we’re seeing … and instead believe them, and they’re telling us things that contradict the evidence that we’ve seen,” she explains. “The simple fact of the matter is Pam Bondi said she had the client list on her desk and she promised to release it, and then she didn’t do it.”</p><p>“What could make this right in your estimation?” Kirk asks.</p><p>“She’s a liability to the Trump administration. It’s costing him tremendous goodwill among his base,” says Liz, “and I say this sorrowfully because there’s a lot of things Pam Bondi has done that I like and that I agree with, but it’s time to not allow her to have this be something that tarnishes President Trump’s legacy and office. It’s time to move on from her.”</p><p>“Are you calling for her resignation?” asks Kirk.</p><p>“Yes, I believe President Trump should give her the option to resign because she didn’t tell the truth to the American people,” she says. “It’s the right thing to do.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">        <span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="85275d61d17e317b70deb2f3313f9737" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AvJqQV4ckRU?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span>        </p><h2>Want more from Liz Wheeler?</h2><p>To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/wheeler/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_lizwheeler" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.</p>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-liz-wheeler-show/liz-wheeler-tells-charlie-kirk-bondis-botched-handling-of-the-epstein-case-is-a-stain-on-trumps-legacy</guid><category>The liz wheeler show</category><category>Liz wheeler</category><category>Charlie kirk</category><category>Turning point usa</category><category>Pam bondi</category><category>Jeffery epstein</category><category>Epstein case</category><category>Fbi</category><category>Doj</category><category>Blazetv</category><category>Blaze media</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61189090&amp;width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>'Game of whack-a-mole': Leftists have new favorite way to block MAGA agenda — without universal injunctions</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/game-of-whack-a-mole-leftists-have-new-favorite-alternative-to-universal-injunctions-for-blocking-maga-agenda</link><description><![CDATA[
  48. <img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/game-of-whack-a-mole-leftists-have-new-favorite-way-to-block-maga-agenda-without-universal-injunctions.jpg?id=61185364&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/><br/><br/><p>Over the course of George W. Bush's entire presidency, 12 nationwide injunctions were issued by federal judges, halting or preventing the enforcement of executive branch policies. During Barack Obama and Joe Biden's presidencies, 19 and 28 nationwide injunctions were issued, respectively.</p><p><a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48476" target="_blank">According</a> to the Congressional Research Service, the first Trump administration was slapped with 86 nationwide injunctions.</p><p>Meddlesome U.S. district court judges proved more than willing this year to oblige liberal litigants in arresting the MAGA agenda by slapping the second Trump administration with scores of additional universal injunctions — 25 in Trump's first 100 days back in office and <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-might-not-fly-but-activist-judges-could-soon-find-themselves-grounded" target="_blank">dozens more</a> in subsequent months.</p><p>The U.S. Supreme Court finally put its foot down on June 27,  <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf" target="_blank">determining</a> in <em>Trump v. CASA Inc.</em> that the nationwide injunctions weaponized against the Trump administration by district court judges "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts."</p><p>It didn't take long — just hours, actually — for liberal litigants to seize upon a potential alternative means of achieving similar results, and once again, largely Democrat-appointed district court judges appear ready to deliver.</p><p>Dr. John C. Eastman, founding director of the <a href="https://www.claremont.org/center-for-constitutional-jurisprudence/" target="_blank">Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence</a>, told Blaze News that the new undemocratic game played by liberal activists and sympathetic U.S. district court judges will likely prompt further action from the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><p>While Eastman reckons the Trump administration will ultimately prevail — and a White House official told Blaze News that the administration is prepared for "all possible legal options" — its challengers will nevertheless attempt in the meantime to deny or postpone what Americans voted for in November.</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/even-sotomayor-bewildered-by-ketanji-brown-jacksons-dissenting-opinion" target="_blank">Even Sotomayor bewildered by Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissenting opinion </a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="38319dbe97ff92ec114a2add934cd15c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="a6e8d" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187201&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images</small></p><p>In <em></em><em>CASA Inc.</em>, the Supreme Court indicated that the nationwide injunctions "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts."</p><p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh recognized in his concurring opinion, however, that district courts may still be able to "grant or deny the functional equivalent of a universal injunction — for example, by granting or denying a preliminary injunction to a putative nationwide class under Rule 23(b)(2)."</p><p class="pull-quote">'They've got to pay close attention to the guardrails that go along with the rule 23 class certification process.'</p><p>Hours after the high court's ruling, <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/casa-de-maryland/" target="_blank">CASA</a>, the immigrant advocacy group involved in the litigation, filed a motion <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69563661/97/casa-inc-v-trump/" target="_blank">requesting</a> that the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland certify as a class all persons born in the U.S. on or after Feb. 19 who would be ineligible for birthright citizenship under President Donald Trump's Executive Order 14160 and <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69563661/96/casa-inc-v-trump/" target="_blank">asked</a> in an amended complaint that the court issue an injunction against the order on behalf of this supposed class.</p><p>In a <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69563661/98/casa-inc-v-trump/" target="_blank">corresponding request</a><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69563661/98/casa-inc-v-trump/"></a> for a preliminary injunction, CASA noted that the "Supreme Court's recent stay opinion acknowledges that courts may award injunctive relief beyond the named parties when the case is brought as a class action."</p><p>CASA referred to both Kavanaugh's concurring opinion and Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissenting opinion, in which she noted that "the majority leaves untouched one important tool to provide broad relief to individuals subject to lawless Government conduct: Rule 23(b)(2) class actions for injunctive relief."</p><p>"Justices Alito and Kavanaugh, in their concurring opinions, both tried to send a warning sign to the lower courts that this shouldn't be an automatic brand of class certification; they've got to pay close attention to the guardrails that go along with the Rule 23 class certification process," said Eastman. "One of those is commonality. You know, the members of the class have to have common issues, and with the preliminary injunction, that's just not true."</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/justice-alito-issues-reminder-of-what-scotus-must-do-even-if-unpopular" target="_blank">Justice Alito issues reminder of what SCOTUS must do, even if unpopular </a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2dbb5bf6886788c5c51ac30f6c9d80f4" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="c7bd3" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187402&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images</small></p><p>The government <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69563661/106/casa-inc-v-trump/" target="_blank">punched holes</a> through CASA's request on Monday, and among the issues it raised was precisely this: The plaintiffs cannot meet the requirements of Rule 23 because of a lack of commonality — "three plaintiffs have a pending asylum application; another is present in the United States on a tourist visa; another has TPS status; another is on a student visa; another is on an H-1B visa; and another fails to articulate her immigration status."</p><p>Eastman, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, stressed further that one of the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/irreparable_harm" target="_blank">key requirements</a> for a preliminary injunction is irreparable harm.</p><p>It is certainly a giant leap to say <em>all parties</em> in the class are at risk of irreparable harm.</p><p>"If you stand back and ask yourself, 'What's the irreparable injury here?' it's hard to find one," said Eastman. "If a baby is born and it's a year or two before the litigation is resolved, and in the meantime they're not deemed a citizen, but if Trump's executive order is ruled illegal or unconstitutional, then they're retroactively deemed a citizen, what's the harm? Okay, they've lost some financial benefits as a citizen in the meantime. Well, financial benefits are by definition not irreparable harm because they can all be compensated after the fact with interest."</p><p>"So the only way you get to irreparable harm is if, say, the parents are members of MS-13 and they're going to be deported and the child will be deported with them because he's not a citizen — then that could be an irreparable harm. But that's very idiosyncratic, tied to each individual," stressed Eastman. "There's no commonality."</p><p class="pull-quote">'The more they can throw barriers in the way of Trump accomplishing things, the more likely it is that they won't have as much to rebuild after they ride it out.'</p><p>Regardless of whether CASA succeeds in this attempt, it's clear that others will lean on class actions as an alternative. It has already begun.</p><p>The American Civil Liberties Union <a href="https://www.aclu.org/cases/refugee-and-immigrant-center-for-education-and-legal-services-v-kristi-noem?document=Complaint" target="_blank">challenged</a> Trump's asylum ban in February on behalf of three radical activist groups and a handful of foreigners denied asylum.</p><p>Last week, the Obama judge overseeing the resulting case, <em>Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services v. Noem</em>, certified all border-jumping asylum-seekers "who are now or will be present in the United States" as a protected class, then <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-fighting-unconstitutional-power-grab-by-obama-judge-who-reopened-the-floodgates" target="_self">barred the administration</a> from expelling members of the class — a ruling the government quickly appealed.</p><p>Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the ACLU who brought the case, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judges-keep-blocking-trumps-policies-despite-us-supreme-court-injunction-curbs-2025-07-09/" target="_blank">told</a> Reuters, "I think there's going to be a lot more class actions."</p><p>A senior White House official told Blaze News that in the wake of the <em>CASA</em> decision, "the Trump administration pushed aggressively against the nationwide injunctions by filing supplemental filings in the appellate courts and in the district courts," requesting that the courts narrow the scope of the injunctions to the parties before it. As this is sure to prompt desperation on the part of the plaintiffs, the official added, "Of course, the parties involved are going to try and seek the biggest sort of net they can by filing class actions."</p><p>The official noted, however, an inherent weakness in this strategy: "Class actions take a very long time — classes take a long time to certify."</p><p>"So they're going to be pushing, but that’s not a standard process," continued the official. "Justice Alito discussed the dangers of sort of trying to create a nationwide injunction via class action, and so that's not necessarily going to be a solution because the Supreme Court will push back to the extent that it’s not covering the affected party.”</p><p>Eastman anticipates another Supreme Court intervention.</p><p>He told Blaze News that the lower-court judges are likely going to ignore Alito's warning — not to view the decision in <em>CASA</em> "as an invitation to certify nationwide classes without scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23" — and "we'll be back up to the Supreme Court, now with just the same issue but under a different name: not a nationwide injunction but a nationwide class injunction. It's kind of a game of whack-a-mole, and it's really causing great harm to the rule of law."</p><p>Eastman outlined a likely course that will prompt action from the Supreme Court:</p><blockquote>What I expect we'll see in short order is a nationwide class action certified and then an injunction issued to every member of the class, and the Department of Justice will seek a stay of that. The court of appeals will deny it, and then [the government] will seek an emergency stay in the Supreme Court.</blockquote><p>When asked about the likelihood of this going back to the Supreme Court, the senior White House official said, “It totally could. Obviously, we would hope not for that to happen. But you know, Justice Alito made clear to litigants that they shouldn't abuse class certification in order to circumvent this <em>CASA</em> decision, so it's kind of indicating that the Supreme Court would not take lightly if district courts were doing the same thing that they were just doing, but it’s totally possible."</p><p>If the class action strategy does become a pattern, the senior White House official indicated the Trump administration is apparently "ready to go immediately. We're prepared for every outcome."</p><p>Concerning the broader campaign to neutralize the Trump agenda in the courts, Eastman stressed to Blaze News that the American left doesn't "have the White House, they don't have either branch of Congress, they don't have the Supreme Court, but they do have a lot of activist judges that were appointed on the lower courts."</p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/vance-identifies-the-perfect-mascot-for-the-democrats-then-outlines-what-america-actually-needs" target="_blank">Vance identifies the perfect mascot for the Democrats — then outlines what America actually needs</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">        <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4802e18951ca594fa1e6c194ebbf5803" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="4b2f4" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61187409&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images</small></p><p>"They're using that base of power to thwart the agenda of the president that the American people overwhelmingly elected," continued Eastman. "What's most interesting is they claim that Trump is undermining democracy when they are trying to thwart the results of the last democratic election."</p><p>While Eastman figures the Trump administration will come out on top in court, these efforts by activist judges and leftist litigants may nevertheless delay implementation of the president's agenda long enough for the left to recapture power and neutralize his executive actions by other means.</p><p>"They hope to be able to slow it down enough that they run out the clock, at least until after the midterm elections, with their hope that they will then control one or both branches of Congress to be able to stop them legislatively rather than judicially — but at the very least try and run the clock out all the way through the next term," said Eastman.</p><p>"Their view is that millions of people that work in the federal government are so overwhelmingly on the left-of-center side of the political aisle that once they get past the four years of Trump, it'll be back to business as usual, and they just need to ride it out," he continued. "The more they can throw barriers in the way of Trump accomplishing things, the more likely it is that they won't have as much to rebuild after they ride it out."</p><p>The White House official noted that "if the judicial branch doesn't collect itself and get better, then it's going to be the detriment of the American people who wanted these policies implemented."</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? 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