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<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62039137&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/> The Manhattan-size comet known as 3I/ATLAS that flew eerily close to the sun as well as several other planets has ignited a spirited debate surrounding the comet’s true meaning — with some pointing out that it could be an extraterrestrial spacecraft.And Harvard’s renowned astrophysicist Avi Loeb is among them, proposing a 40% chance that alien technology hides inside the mysterious comet.“Do you believe that, with what we’ve seen from 3I/ATLAS, that there is a chance that life form is on it, whether the life form is dead or alive?” BlazeTV contributor Jeff Fisher asks Loeb on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”<h3></h3> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Z2B2jaNClo?rel=0&start=4953" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>“It’s possible,” Loeb responds. “It’s possible that life was delivered to the solar system from outside. We just don’t know, you know, and scientists are very good at pretending to be the adults in the room saying, ‘You know, that’s what we think,’ but the point is, you know, nature is much more imaginative than we are.”“And the best way to learn is to observe and study whatever nature delivers to our backyard. And the thing about a visitor from outside the solar system or that comes to our backyard is, you know, that it’s a new risk that nobody considered before,” he continues.“And why is it, do you think, that other scientists are so reluctant to admit the possibility that this is alien tech or that there’s alien tech out there?” BlazeTV host Pat Gray asks. “I mean, it’s a massive universe, and certainly there’s life in it other than us.”“Well, I think, first, they are quite arrogant in thinking that there is nothing as intelligent as we are, and that includes not only scientists but other people” Loeb responds.“I think it’s arrogant to believe that because most of the stars, you know, formed before the sun by billions of years, and there are 100 billion stars. So just thinking that we are the smartest in the class of intelligent civilization is really arrogant. Makes no sense,” he continues.“And, you know, one way to find them is not by waiting for a phone call like we did for 60 years waiting for a radio signal," he says. "Instead, let’s just check our backyard."<h2>Want more from Pat Gray?</h2>To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/pat/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_patgray" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:45:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/3iatlas-why-are-scientists-desperate-to-deny-intelligent-aliens-could-exist</guid><category>Video</category><category>Camera phone</category><category>Upload</category><category>Free</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Pat gray unleashed</category><category>Pat gray</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>3iatlas</category><category>Scientists</category><category>Avi loeb</category><category>Alien intelligence</category><category>Extraterrestrial</category><category>3i atlas</category><category>Space</category><category>Nasa</category><category>Outer space</category><category>Alien life</category><category>Alien technology</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62039137&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>BBC allegedly deceptively edited Trump’s Jan. 6 speech into riot lie</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/bbc-allegedly-deceptively-edited-trumps-jan-6-speech-into-riot-lie</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/bbc-allegedly-deceptively-edited-trumps-jan-6-speech-into-riot-lie.jpg?id=62038550&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/> President Donald Trump was accused of inciting a riot at the Capitol during his speech to supporters on January 6, 2021. An allegedly deceptively edited clip from that address, which aired on a BBC special just a month before the 2024 presidential election, created the impression that those accusations against Trump were accurate.The BBC's one-hour Panorama special "Trump: A Second Chance?" featured a clip where the president appeared to say, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."'As well as altering Mr. Trump's words, the documentary also showed flag-waving men marching on the Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, 2021, after the president spoke, which created the impression Trump's supporters had taken up his "call to arms."'However, an internal memo obtained by the <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-report-reveals-bias-donald-trump/" target="_blank">Telegraph</a> accused the BBC of heavily editing the clip by allegedly splicing segments of his speech that were nearly an hour apart.An unedited version of Trump's speech revealed his actual words."We're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're gonna walk down. We're gonna walk down any one you want, but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness; you have to show strength, and you have to be strong. ... I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard," Trump <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial" target="_blank">said</a>.Approximately 54 minutes later, while discussing his concerns about election integrity, Trump said, "Most people would stand there at 9 o'clock in the evening and say, 'I wanna thank you very much,' and they go off to some other life, but I said something's wrong here, something's really wrong, can't have happened, and we fight.""We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore," Trump added.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/republicans-enraged-by-weaponized-fbi-arctic-frost-investigation-biden-dojs-watergate" target="_blank">Republicans enraged by weaponized FBI Arctic Frost investigation: 'Biden DOJ's Watergate'</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="42a542eb4cac406fdc65ff2d4ff57063" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="6cda9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62038556&width=980"/> Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ImagesThe allegedly manipulated footage, which aired last October, made Trump "'say' things [he] never actually said," according to a 19-page dossier on the BBC's alleged bias."As well as altering Mr. Trump's words, the documentary also showed flag-waving men marching on the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, after the president spoke, which created the impression Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms.' In fact, the footage was shot before Mr. Trump had even started speaking," the Telegraph wrote.When BBC managers were alerted about the misleading edits, they allegedly "refused to accept there had been a breach of standards."RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/analysis/analysis-fbis-jan-6-pipe-bomb-update-omits-key-evidence-withholds-video" target="_blank">Analysis: FBI’s Jan. 6 pipe bomb update omits key evidence, withholds video</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c7802ac746ea04785b4a856da9522df3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="423ab" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62038564&width=980"/> Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty ImagesMichael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, wrote the bias dossier before leaving his role in June. "While we don't comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback, it takes it seriously and considers it carefully," a BBC spokesperson told Blaze News. "Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debated."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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/bbc-allegedly-deceptively-edited-trumps-jan-6-speech-into-riot-lie</guid><category>News</category><category>Bbc</category><category>Telegraph</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>Trump</category><category>Trump administration</category><category>Trump admin</category><category>January 6</category><category>Jan 6</category><category>Fake news</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Candace Hathaway</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/bbc-allegedly-deceptively-edited-trumps-jan-6-speech-into-riot-lie.jpg?id=62038550&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Wisconsin mom who criticized 'woke, White' social justice coordinator beats defamation lawsuit</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/mom-lawsuit-dei-woke-defamation</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/wisconsin-mom-who-criticized-woke-white-social-justice-coordinator-beats-defamation-lawsuit.jpg?id=62038371&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C104%2C0%2C104"/> A mother and activist who criticized a "social justice coordinator" was able to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservative-mom-sued-calling-dei-teacher-woke-celebrates-defamation-case-tossed" target="_blank">overcome</a> a defamation lawsuit by a former English teacher.Mary MacCudden accused Scarlett Johnson of harming her reputation when Johnson wrote critical messages in Oct. 2022 about MacCudden's job at the Mequon-Thiensville School District in Wisconsin.'I felt I had to fight back in this case. ... I had to stand up because this would never stop.' "Why the hell am I paying for a ‘Social Justice Coordinator’ in my school district?" Johnson wrote with a screenshot of MacCudden's LinkedIn profile. "This is just what @mtschools needs; more woke, White women w/ a god complex. Thank you, White savior."Johnson went on to describe diversity, equity, and inclusion practitioners as "woke lunatics" who "bully" parents "into silence and compliance."Attorneys for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty argued that Johnson's criticisms were merely "run-of-the-mill social media posts" that were protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.The Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday on Johnson's side."We conclude that Johnson’s statements do not constitute defamation. Thus, we reverse and remand for the circuit court to enter summary judgment in Johnson’s favor," the court said.The ruling found some of the terms she used were subjective, while others were "vague and do not have a clear meaning or definition."Johnson told Fox News Digital that the lawsuit was intended to silence parents from criticizing DEI policies."I felt I had to fight back in this case. It couldn’t be like the other. I had to stand up because this would never stop," she said. "They’d keep going after parents like me."RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/activists-outraged-dei-fired-corps" target="_blank">Equity activists are outraged that 'white guilt' has run out after corporations force out DEI chiefs</a> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/faZ791CM-rc?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe> Luke Berg, the deputy counsel for WILL, <a href="https://will-law.org/moms-for-liberty-activist-scarlett-johnson-wins-her-appeal/" target="_blank">praised</a> the ruling."Scarlett, like all of us, has the right to question and criticize her government," read the statement. "The defamation lawsuit against her was meritless and should have been promptly dismissed. We are pleased that the Court agreed, and that Scarlett can put this distraction behind her."MacCudden’s attorney, James McAlister, did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/mom-lawsuit-dei-woke-defamation</guid><category>Dei lawsuit</category><category>Mary maccudden</category><category>Scarlett johnson</category><category>Dei woke lawsuit</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/wisconsin-mom-who-criticized-woke-white-social-justice-coordinator-beats-defamation-lawsuit.jpg?id=62038371&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>'Major' Halloween terror plot thwarted by FBI involved links to ISIS, 'LGBTQ+ community': DOJ</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/halloween-terror-plot-ferndale</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/major-halloween-terror-plot-thwarted-by-fbi-involved-links-to-isis-lgbtq-community-doj.png?id=62038153&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/> The U.S. Department of Justice released a criminal complaint detailing the stunning accusations related to an alleged ISIS-related Jihadi <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/jihadi-attack-thwarted-fbi-dearborn" target="_blank">terror plot</a> thwarted in Michigan.Federal Bureau of Investigation officials searched several locations Friday and arrested three suspects before FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau had prevented a major terror attack planned for Halloween weekend.Prosecutors say that messages between the co-conspirators show references to other terror attacks that they wanted to emulate.On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1985375270027530470" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">posted</a> the unsealed criminal complaint against two individuals, though as many as five were allegedly involved."Our newly unsealed complaint reveals a major ISIS-linked terror plot with multiple subjects arrested in the Eastern District of Michigan targeting the United States," wrote Bondi. "According to the complaint, subjects had multiple AR-15 rifles, tactical gear, and a detailed plan to carry out an attack on American soil."Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud allegedly purchased a shotgun and an AR-15 and practiced shooting with three other co-conspirators, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-us-citizens-arrested-alleged-isis-inspired-halloween/story?id=127136216" target="_blank">according</a> to the complaint.They are both U.S. citizens.The FBI found over 1,600 rounds of ammunition during a search of their homes, as well as multiple AR-15-style rifles, shotguns, handguns, and tactical vests, the complaint said.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/ap-hezbollah-backlash-critic-pagers" target="_blank">AP gets annihilated online for sympathetic report on terrorists injured in Israeli pager attack</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fc755e553b2bf7070c2efc70752fa07d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="46eb3" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62038144&width=980"/> Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images The investigation began when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official found alarming terror-related images and searches on a phone of one of the co-conspirators after they returned to the U.S. from traveling abroad.Prosecutors say that messages between the co-conspirators show references to other terror attacks that they wanted to emulate. The alleged plot was targeting innocents in the Ferndale suburb of Detroit."Many of the clubs and bars in this area intentionally attract members of the LGBTQ+ community," read the complaint.One of the co-conspirators also allegedly wanted to go to Syria to join ISIS and was trying to persuade the others to follow. Five men were <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/11/03/michigan-terrorist-plot-attack-fbi-halloween-kash-patel/87042902007/" target="_blank">questioned</a> by law enforcement, and two were released.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/ice-texas-ambush-attack-terror" target="_blank">10 members of terror cell charged with attempted murder over 'ambush' attack on ICE facility, feds say</a> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_YPQqPBJN1E?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe> On Sunday, Amir Makled, an attorney for one of the suspects, said he had reviewed the matter and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/detroit-michigan-halloween-terror-plot-fbi-patel-d4758edbde0b18c19ca7b38f9e836904" target="_blank">claimed</a> there had been no plot, just a group of young gamers."I don’t know where this hysteria and this fearmongering came from," said Makled."If these young men were on forums that they should not have been on or things of that nature, then we’ll have to wait and see," he added. "But I don’t believe that there’s anything illegal about any of the activity they were doing."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>! ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/halloween-terror-plot-ferndale</guid><category>Halloween terror plot</category><category>Thwarted terror plot</category><category>Michigan terror scheme</category><category>Ferndale attack</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/major-halloween-terror-plot-thwarted-by-fbi-involved-links-to-isis-lgbtq-community-doj.png?id=62038153&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Deportations top 2 million under Trump — and most aren't by force</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/deportations-top-2-million-under-trump-and-most-aren-t-by-force</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/deportations-top-2-million-under-trump-and-most-aren-t-by-force.jpg?id=62037715&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/> Deportations and border security have been a crucial part of the second Trump administration, and nine months in, the government has started to release some results. Despite seemingly constant obstruction from Democrats, the administration has begun to deliver on its promises of mass deportations."The president is all about results, ... and what President Trump, Secretary Noem, and our law enforcement have been able to do in the past 270 days, despite the injunctions, despite the obstruction from sanctuary city politicians and these activist judges, is really nothing short of extraordinary," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1985380902847877478">said</a> in a Fox News interview on Monday.'While ICE actions targeting criminal illegal aliens have captured most of the attention, the phenomenon of large-scale self-deportation is probably even more significant.'She went on to report that over 2 million illegal aliens have left the country since the beginning of Trump's term, citing an October 27 <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/27/dhs-removes-more-half-million-illegal-aliens-us" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press release</a>.McLaughlin claimed in the press release that the majority of the deportations have been voluntary: "More than 2 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. including 1.6 million who have voluntarily self-deported and over 527,000 deportations."RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-reportedly-sends-300-national-guard-members-to-portland-from-california-democrats-are-seething" target="_blank">Trump reportedly sends 300 National Guard members to Portland from California — and Democrats are seething</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="400ee9270ec1cd5a629b7baaba37dea5" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="319e7" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62037747&width=980"/> Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty ImagesAccording to a March 2025 <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/how-many-illegal-aliens-are-united-states-2025-update" target="_blank">study</a> by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, there are an estimated 18.6 million illegal aliens in the United States."While ICE actions targeting criminal illegal aliens have captured most of the attention, the phenomenon of large-scale self-deportation is probably even more significant," Ira Mehlman, media director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Blaze News. Mehlman emphasized that illegal aliens are "rational" actors. If the perceived benefits of coming to the United States are unavailable to them because of their illegal status, they will likely leave voluntarily or not immigrate at all. "If we ... make it difficult to enter, difficult to find employment or access benefits and services, and that there is a reasonable chance that you might be apprehended and removed, illegal aliens will make similarly rational decisions: Many fewer come here illegally, and many of those who are here decide that they should leave on their own," Melhman told Blaze News. The government is also offering illegal aliens $1,000 and a free flight to self-deport, according to the press release.Deterrence and shifting incentive structures for illegal immigrants have been key to turning the tide on the Biden border crisis, but more work needs to be done, as DHS admits."This is just the beginning. ... DHS, ICE, and CBP have not just closed the border, but made historic strides to carry out President Trump's promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country," the DHS press release continued. "Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence: Migrants are now turning back before they even reach our borders.""Migration through Panama's Darien Gap is down 99.99%," McLaughlin added, referring to the dangerous route connecting South and Central America that many immigrants use on their way to America. In the interview, McLaughlin also added that 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will soon be hired to assist with immigration operations. 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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/deportations-top-2-million-under-trump-and-most-aren-t-by-force</guid><category>Politics</category><category>Ice</category><category>Dhs</category><category>Tricia mclaughlin</category><category>Kristi noem</category><category>Fair</category><category>Federation for american immigration reform</category><category>Illegal aliens</category><category>Immigration</category><category>Cbp</category><category>Self-deportation</category><dc:creator>Cooper Williamson</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/deportations-top-2-million-under-trump-and-most-aren-t-by-force.jpg?id=62037715&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>90-year-old golf legend Gary Player reveals secrets for living to 100</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/90-year-old-golf-legend-gary-player-reveals-secrets-for-living-to-100</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/90-year-old-golf-legend-gary-player-reveals-secrets-for-living-to-100.png?id=61971871&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C1%2C0"/> Golf and PGA Tour legend Gary Player is still playing as he turns 90.The South African was the first international player to win at the Masters in 1961, and a star was born. Even though Player broke the tournament's rules by taking the prized green jacket back home with him in 1962 despite losing to Arnold Palmer — only the reigning champion can take the jacket home, for that year only — a lifetime later, he is still making headlines.'I really suffered a lot. A lot.'In April, Player shocked the crowd in Augusta, Georgia, teeing off at 89 years old and finishing his shot with a signature <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/golf/article/masters-2025-gary-player-now-89-is-living-life-better-than-everyone-in-his-latest-trip-to-augusta-national-135046887.html" target="_blank">high kick</a>."I'm standing here for the 67th time, and I think the word is gratitude, just being here," Player said at the time.He turned 90 years old on Nov. 1, and now one of the sport's oldest stars is sharing his secrets to living a long life."Under eat. Exercise. Read. Prayer/meditate. Love. Ice bath. Gratitude. Sleep. Laugh a lot. Keep busy. Friends. Do things you don't want to do," he said recently.The secrets were not his, though. While he may have the rules written on a laminated card in his wallet, he once received the advice from a gerontologist as a list of 12 keys to living to 100."All the gerontologists varied to a degree, but basically what they all agreed on to live a long time is under eat," Player told <a href="https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2025/10/28/golf-legend-gary-player-turns-90-years-old-whats-his-secret/86944039007/" target="_blank">Golfweek</a>. "Everybody's eating too much. Obesity, which is killing them."Publicly declaring that living to 100 is now his goal, Player shared more of his regimen for good health.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/align/justin-bieber-faith-scripture-god" target="_blank">Justin Bieber confesses Christian faith in candid livestream</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a53ff5ed862172df6aa8a5c788e170df" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="57886" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61971888&width=847&height=763&quality=50&coordinates=0%2C128%2C0%2C133"/> Arnold Palmer (L) presents Gary Player (R) with the green jacket at the 1961 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Photo by Augusta National/Getty Images Working out or playing golf as many days as possible is part of Player's plan. Weight training, walking the beach, and swimming are included."But not far out," he said. "Because I'm very wary of sharks."The thought of living to 100 is in Player's head "every day," he explained, saying he thinks he will get there so long as he does not contract a disease. "[It] can happen because the food is all sprayed, you know, and it's the things that prevent you from becoming a hundred."Player opened up about his younger years in South Africa, saying that when he was a kid he thought of golf as nothing more than a "sissy sport."Soccer, rugby, and cricket were more revered in his eyes."When you experience what I experienced as a young man, which is living like a junkie or a dog ..." he told the outlet. "I went to this great school, which really helped me, but I'd go home at night, nobody there, cook my own food. I'd get up at 5:30 in the morning to travel to school."When he eventually started playing golf, Player said he made a promise to himself that if he ever became a champion, he would help others in a similar situation.He continued, "So I really suffered a lot. A lot. I lay in bed for two years on and off wishing I was dead, crying in bed. That was the greatest gift bestowed upon me ever. And that's what made me a world champion."RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/nba-coach-former-player-arrested-in-mafia-tied-nationwide-gambling-bust" target="_blank">NBA coach, former player arrested in Mafia-tied nationwide gambling bust</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="89230874e9e3acfbf0413642046b138c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e3786" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61971882&width=980"/> Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images Player has 24 wins on the PGA Tour and <a href="https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions/player/01955/gary-player" target="_blank">22 wins</a> on the PGA Tour Champions. He has victories in nine majors, winning three Masters: 1961, 1974, and 1978. He also has 118 international wins.Player was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.Through all his success, Player says he knows why people die — it comes from retirement."I think people retire too early," he said. "To me, it's a death warrant," he explained. "They say, 'I've worked hard; I'm going to take it easy.' And yes, literally, they do. They go home and they sit there and they overeat and they watch television and they die within three years."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>! ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/fearless/90-year-old-golf-legend-gary-player-reveals-secrets-for-living-to-100</guid><category>Fearless</category><category>Gary player</category><category>Golf</category><category>South africa</category><category>Health</category><category>Masters</category><category>Sports</category><dc:creator>Andrew Chapados</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/90-year-old-golf-legend-gary-player-reveals-secrets-for-living-to-100.png?id=61971871&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Kamala Harris pushes to lower voting age to 16 — in honor of 'climate anxiety'</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/climate-change</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62038201&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/> Former Vice President Kamala Harris is calling for the voting age to be lowered to 16, arguing that Generation Z — a group she says has grown up under the shadow of the “climate crisis” — deserves to have a stronger political voice.“I think we should reduce the voting age to 16. I’ll tell you why. So Gen-Z, they’re age about 13 through 27. They’ve only known the climate crisis. They’ve coined the term ‘climate anxiety’ to describe fear of not only being able to buy a home, but fear it’ll be wiped out by extreme weather, but fear of having children,” Harris said on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast.“They know everything that’s happening right now is going to impact them more than anybody older than them for the most part, in terms of how these systems work. If they’re voting, right now, at 16 and up, they’re going to be talking about the importance of climate,” she added.BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales sees right through Harris’ charade, saying there’s a “reason why they have infiltrated the education systems,” and it’s simply an attempt to “brainwash the youth.”<h3></h3> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FApGtcRyX2c?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>Especially considering the fact that recently, Harris boldly asserted that the youth are “stupid.”“What else do we know about this population, 18 through 24? They are stupid. That is why we put them in dormitories and they have a resident assistant. They make really bad decisions,” Harris said in a speech, which drew laughter from the audience.“And there it is. Really bad decisions like voting for Democrats and Democrat policies. This is why the Democrats are importing their voters from other countries. This is why they advocate for lowering the voting age,” Gonzales comments.“Because anyone with two functioning brain cells who can communicate and understand the values and principles upon which this country was founded understand that their policies are simply r*****ed,” she continues.However, Gonzales points out that while Harris is still fearmongering about climate change in hopes that the youth will take it as gospel — even Bill Gates has taken a step back from climate alarmism.“The guy who was pushing that message for years, one of the main ones, Bill Gates, he’s like, ‘Actually, it’s not — we’re just not going to do this anymore,’” Gonzales says.“In fact, he even wrote this big essay encouraging his rich friends to shift resources away from the battle against climate change and into like, ‘let’s help the starving kids,’ which I would also caution you about that because Bill Gates is an evil son of a b***h. So don’t trust a word of what he says,” she continues.“Now why the flip? Because it was all a lie. The climate-change hoax was specifically to control this narrative, to get people fearful and anxious and scared,” she says, adding, “I mean, I would be scared, too, if I actually believed that the world was going to end.”<h2>Want more from Sara Gonzales?</h2>To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/sara/?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.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:40:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/climate-change</guid><category>Sharing</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Camera phone</category><category>Upload</category><category>Free</category><category>Video</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>Kamala harris</category><category>Vice president kamala harris</category><category>Climate alarmism</category><category>Bill gates</category><category>Climate change</category><category>Climate anxiety</category><category>Gen z</category><category>Generation z</category><category>Climate crisis</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62038201&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Pity equals power for the progressive class</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/pity-equals-power-for-the-progressive-class</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/pity-equals-power-for-the-progressive-class.jpg?id=62037054&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C107"/> American politics once revolved around ideas — tax reform, national defense, energy independence, health care. But one side of the aisle has abandoned the work of persuasion for the theater of grievance. The modern left no longer campaigns on what it can build but on what has supposedly been done to it.Victimhood has become the left’s organizing principle. The emotional currency of grievance has replaced the intellectual currency of ideas. That shift isn’t just cynical; it’s corrosive. It undermines the American spirit of self-reliance, accountability, and perseverance — the virtues that built this country in the first place.Let others compete for who has suffered most. America’s story has never been written by its victims — only by its victors.Consider New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Last month, he delivered a tearful campaign speech recalling how his “aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she didn’t feel safe in her hijab.” The story went viral. Media outlets rushed to elevate it as another morality play about post-9/11 Islamophobia.Within days, however, fact-checkers discovered that the “aunt” didn’t live in New York City — and wasn’t his aunt at all but his father’s cousin. The story collapsed, but the damage was done.Even if the tale were true, Mamdani’s framing was an insult to truth. His version turned the “victim” of 9/11 into someone who merely felt uncomfortable. The real victims were the firefighters who ran into burning towers, the police who breathed toxic dust for months, the passengers of Flight 93 who fought back knowing they would die, the families who never saw their loved ones again. To recast that national tragedy as a story about personal unease is moral inversion.<h2>Privilege posing as persecution</h2>Mamdani is no symbol of oppression. He was born in Uganda to two global elites: filmmaker Mira Nair and Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani. Educated at elite institutions, including Bowdoin College in Maine, he embodies privilege — not persecution.He’s not alone. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has built her career on the same inversion. A graduate of Boston University, raised in a comfortable Westchester suburb, AOC is a product of the meritocracy she derides. Her father was an architect; her family owned a home. Yet her political persona depends on playing the perpetual underdog — the marginalized woman of color silenced by “the patriarchy.”When criticized, she doesn’t answer with arguments but with emotion. Dissent becomes “hate.” Opposition becomes “bigotry.” As Newsweek once put it, “AOC’s weaponized victimhood undermines women.”<h2>Grievance as status</h2>This inversion — privilege masquerading as oppression — reveals something deeper about the left’s political psychology. Victimhood now confers moral authority. The more wounded you appear, the more virtuous you become. Pain is power.But grievance politics reshapes the citizen’s role in democracy. Instead of the proud American who builds and contributes, we get the dependent petitioner, perpetually wronged and perpetually in need of government rescue. The state becomes therapist and provider, not guardian of liberty.That’s why so many progressive campaigns sound like group therapy sessions. The message isn’t, “Here’s how we’ll improve schools or secure the border.” It’s, “Here’s who hurt us, and here’s who must atone.” The goal isn’t reform — it’s retribution.<h2>The vanishing of virtue</h2>When politics becomes a contest of feelings, truth and accountability vanish. Success is no longer measured by safer streets, better jobs, or stronger families, but by how “seen” or “unsafe” someone feels. Emotional satisfaction replaces objective progress.But the American promise was never about comfort. It was about courage — the willingness to build, to sacrifice, to endure. This nation doesn’t owe its strength to grievance but to grit.Think back to 9/11. The real victims weren’t the politically convenient ones. They were the firefighters who ran toward the towers, the police who never came home, the husbands and wives who never got to say goodbye, the children who grew up without parents. To twist their sacrifice into a sermon on discomfort dishonors them.RELATED:<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-lefts-new-religion-has-no-logic-and-aoc-is-its-perfect-preacher" target="_self"> The left’s new religion has no logic — and AOC is its perfect preacher</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2c1c9c74ad8f5367b8481ee0d242646b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="cf8ee" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62037067&width=1024&height=579&quality=50&coordinates=0%2C104%2C0%2C0"/> Photo by Bloomberg / Getty Images<h2>From grievance to gratitude</h2>The contrast couldn’t be clearer. One version of politics says, “I was wronged, therefore I deserve.” The other says, “I was blessed, therefore I will serve.” The left has built a moral economy where pain is currency. Conservatives must offer a different creed — one grounded in purpose, gratitude, and resilience.Freedom, not fairness, defines America’s promise. Adversity refines character; it doesn’t define it. As the nation nears its 250th birthday, we should remember who we are — a people forged by hardship and lifted by hope.Let others compete for who has suffered most. We’ll compete for who can spread the most good. America’s story has never been written by its victims — only by its victors.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/pity-equals-power-for-the-progressive-class</guid><category>Zohran mamdani</category><category>Alexandria ocasio-cortez</category><category>Democrats</category><category>Nyc</category><category>Opinion & analysis</category><dc:creator>Gates Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/pity-equals-power-for-the-progressive-class.jpg?id=62037054&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Liberal media remains DEAD SILENT on Biden FBI's Arctic Frost operation against conservatives</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/liberal-networks-remain-dead-silent-on-biden-fbis-insidious-arctic-frost-operation-against-conservatives</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/liberal-media-remains-dead-silent-on-biden-fbi-s-arctic-frost-operation-against-conservatives.jpg?id=62036405&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/> Recent history suggests that the liberal media will go to great lengths to amplify a story if it appears beneficial to the left even if the story lacks any basis in fact.Among the many cases that conform to this apparent pattern were liberal outlets' hysterical coverage of the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/from-obama-to-cnn-how-the-liberal-media-helped-facilitate-the-treasonous-conspiracy-about-russian-collusion" target="_blank">Russian collusion hoax</a>, Joe Biden's <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/media-cover-up-unravels-bidens-mental-struggles-confirmed-in-damning-leaked-tapes" target="_blank">supposed competence</a> as president, Jussie Smollett's apparent <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/nigerian-brothers-paid-by-jussie-smollett-to-stage-fake-hate-crime-speak-out" target="_blank">hate hoax</a>, the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-original-let-us-never-forget-the-lefts-reprehensible-behavior-toward-americans-who-refused-covid-jabs" target="_blank">efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines</a>, and <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-greenlights-sandmann-lawsuit" target="_blank">Covington Catholic students' harassment by radicals</a> during the 2019 March for Life in the national capital.On the flip side, factual stories that pose a political threat to the liberal powers that be tend to get little to no mainstream coverage. This is especially true of the latest revelations about the Biden FBI's Arctic Frost operation.According to recent analysis conducted by the media watchdog outfit NewsBusters, ABC, CBS, and NBC News avoided the story in their television broadcasts in recent days.'Not one single broadcast network aired one solitary second.'Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/worse-than-watergate-republicans-demand-answers-after-documents-reveal-fbi-spied-on-9-gop-lawmakers" target="_self">published</a> damning documents on Oct. 6 detailing how the Biden FBI sought private cellphone records from at least nine Republican lawmakers during Operation Arctic Frost — an operation that set the stage for at least one case brought against President Donald Trump by former Attorney General Merrick Garland's dubiously appointed special counsel, Jack Smith.Grassley released additional documents last week <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/damning-new-docs-reveal-whos-on-biden-admins-enemies-list-expose-extent-of-fbis-arctic-frost-dragnet" target="_self">showing</a> that Smith and his team subpoenaed records for over 400 Republican individuals and entities as part of what the Iowa senator called a "fishing expedition."Blaze News <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/not-one-story-liberal-medias-silence-regarding-bidens-enemies-list-is-deafening" target="_blank">previously noted</a> that as of midday Thursday, liberal news outfits such as ABC News, the Atlantic, CBS News, the New York Times, and the Washington Post had yet to cover the latest tranche of documents exposing how the Biden lawfare regime hounded American conservatives across the country in their print coverage.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/damning-new-docs-reveal-whos-on-biden-admins-enemies-list-expose-extent-of-fbis-arctic-frost-dragnet" target="_blank">Damning new docs reveal who's on Biden admin's 'enemies list,' expose extent of FBI's Arctic Frost</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="010d591f02a7d615032a6c41b41c66ce" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="4833c" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62037226&width=980"/> Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The media blackout was apparently just as bad when it came to television coverage.ABC, CBS, and NBC News not only neglected to cover the Arctic Frost bombshells on their flagship Wednesday night, Thursday morning, and Friday morning shows but apparently dodged over the weekend as well, <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/10/30/networks-hide-stunning-new-claims-about-jack-smiths-lawfare" target="_blank">reported</a> NewsBusters."There was no discussion, at any time and on any of the Sunday shows, about the use of the extraordinary powers of federal law enforcement against those perceived to be in support of President Donald Trump ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run," <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/11/02/sunday-show-roundup-elite-sunday-shows-hide-operation-arctic" target="_blank">wrote</a> NewsBusters analyst Jorge Bonilla."There was no discussion about the subpoenas, obtained in secret, against 197 individuals — including multiple Members of Congress. There was no mention of the slew of subpoenas against nonpartisan organizations perceived to be in support of the former president," continued Bonilla. "There was no mention of the secretive nature of the subpoenas issued to banks and Big Tech organizations, which came with their own gag order, which may well constitute an impeachable offense for the judges that issued such orders.""Had any of this happened under a Trump administration, you’d have everyone across the dial howling bloody murder," added Bonilla."Not one single broadcast network aired one solitary second," Media Research Center President David Bozell <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/evangeline-faussie/2025/11/01/bozell-tells-derek-hunter-not-one-network-aired-second" target="_blank">noted</a> on Friday. "Normally they'll mention it in the most innocuous way so they can later say, 'We covered it,' but this time they didn't even bother."Blaze News confirmed that, except for one sympathetic NBC News article about Jack Smith on Wednesday, news outlets ABC, CBS, and NBC did not report on the Arctic Frost allegations made last week.Rather than address the historic weaponization of the FBI against sitting senators and conservative groups, talking heads on the liberal networks instead exhausted airtime yammering about the construction of the White House ballroom, the potential expiration of SNAP benefits, Prince Andrew's loss of title, and talk of the weather.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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/liberal-networks-remain-dead-silent-on-biden-fbis-insidious-arctic-frost-operation-against-conservatives</guid><category>Media</category><category>Liberal media</category><category>Arctic frost</category><category>Weaponization</category><category>Joe biden</category><category>Biden</category><category>Merrick garland</category><category>Jack smith</category><category>Cnn</category><category>Abc</category><category>Cbs</category><category>Nbc</category><category>Fake news</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Joseph MacKinnon</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/liberal-media-remains-dead-silent-on-biden-fbi-s-arctic-frost-operation-against-conservatives.jpg?id=62036405&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Why spanking a child is not cruel but Christian</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/abide/why-spanking-a-child-is-not-cruel-but-christian</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/why-spanking-a-child-is-not-cruel-but-christian.jpg?id=62003960&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C1%2C0"/> I recently read a <a href="https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781587436642_the-myth-of-good-christian-parenting" target="_blank">new book</a> so steeped in self-righteousness that I contemplated watching a few Barack Obama speeches as a palate cleanser.<a href="https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781587436642_the-myth-of-good-christian-parenting" target="_blank">"The Myth of Good Christian Parenting,"</a> by Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, is less a work of theology than a sermon for soft parents — a long sigh bound in paperback. Every page drips with condescension, assuring readers that discipline is outdated, obedience is oppressive, and spanking is somewhere between a sin and a war crime.Children don’t need friends with car keys. They need moral architects. The parents who fear offending their children will soon be ruled by them.Their thesis is that corporal punishment has no biblical or moral grounding. Modern parenting should replace the rod with reasoning, the command with conversation. It’s the kind of argument that sounds enlightened until you remember what actual children are like.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/align/blue-state-punishes-christian-parents-then-progressive-lie-crumbles-in-the-process" target="_self">Blue state punishes Christian parents — but progressive lie crumbles in the process</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6dbf7aafb59dc8ecae8e35819149b28c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="0c964" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62004004&width=980"/> D-Keine/iStock/Getty Images<h2>Swat analysis</h2>Children, bless them, are beautiful little anarchists. Left to their own devices, they’d eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, go to bed once a month, and discover that the toilet doubles nicely as a Jacuzzi for Legos. They’re not wicked, but they are wild. Civilization begins at the moment a parent says no — and means it. A gentle talk about “boundaries” might work on a golden retriever, but toddlers are not guided missiles of rational thought. They’re tiny tyrants with juice boxes.That’s why spanking, properly understood, isn’t cruelty but calibration. It reminds a child that choices have consequences, that freedom comes with form. Scripture <a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/13-24.htm" target="_blank">puts it bluntly</a>: He who spares the rod hates his son. That’s not an endorsement of violence but a defense of reality. Actions have outcomes. Cause meets effect. Love, in its purest form, isn’t permissive; it’s corrective.Of course, the definition of "violence" has never been more expansive than it is today. Everything is violence now — words, glances, even silence. The modern parent can wound a child simply by saying “no.”When language is warped like that, meaning vanishes. A light swat becomes indistinguishable from abuse, and firmness becomes indistinguishable from fascism. The result is a generation of parents too frightened of headlines to raise human beings.What we’ve bred instead are families where authority is on paternity leave and discipline forgot to clock in. Many parents seem desperate to be liked by their children, as if approval were the same as affection. But children <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/stop-trying-to-be-your-childs-friend-instead-be-their-parent-d87d8a9c916c" target="_blank">don’t need friends</a> with car keys. They need moral architects. The parents who fear offending their children will soon be ruled by them.<h2>The discipline of faith</h2>I was spanked as a boy — not beaten, but spanked. There’s a world of difference. I hated it at the time, naturally. But I can see now that it taught something far bigger than compliance. It taught that love sometimes hurts, that boundaries aren’t barriers but guardrails. My father didn’t enjoy it, but he did it because he believed my soul mattered more than my sulking. And years later, I thank him for it.Contrast that with the new model — the “<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-is-not-a-fad/202403/whats-wrong-with-gentle-parenting" target="_blank">gentle parenting</a>” gospel that treats structure as sadism and guidance as grievance. It produces parents negotiating with toddlers like diplomats in Geneva. “Would you like to stop screaming now, sweetheart, or in five minutes?” Meanwhile, the child is scaling the curtains, painting the dog, and testing Newton’s patience.Spanking, done calmly and rarely, is not about pain but proportion. It communicates that wrong choices carry a cost and that the world won’t rearrange itself to spare your feelings. A child who learns that lesson young grows into an adult who doesn’t need therapy to survive a stern email.<h2>Built on boundaries</h2>The irony is that those now crusading against corporal discipline owe their manners to generations who believed in it. The men and women who built the schools, churches, and laws of the modern West were, without exception, raised in homes where clear boundaries existed. They understood that mercy means nothing without justice and love means little without limits.None of this means children should live in fear. The Christian view of discipline is inseparable from affection. The same hand that corrects should comfort. The difference between abuse and authority lies in motive. The abuser strikes to dominate; the parent disciplines to direct. The point isn’t punishment but perspective, to shape the will without breaking the spirit.But today, even perspective is suspect. To say a child is wrong is to commit ideological heresy. Every tantrum is “performance art,” every shriek “a statement.” The modern household has become a democracy of one, and its ruler is 4 years old.When people hear “spanking,” they imagine red faces and raised voices. But in most Christian homes, it’s quieter — a moment of consequence followed by conversation and reconciliation. It’s the living metaphor of moral cause and effect. Pain passes; lessons remain.<h2>Theology of the tap</h2>A society that forgets that truth doesn’t raise children. If anything, it raises dependents. Kids who mistake correction for cruelty will grow into adults allergic to accountability. They won’t admire their parents’ wisdom; they’ll diagnose it.There’s nothing barbaric about a well-timed swat on the backside. What’s barbaric is a generation raised without consequences, now stunned to learn that the world still has them.So no, spanking isn’t the enemy of Christian parenting — it’s one of its oldest allies. It has absolutely nothing to do with humiliation and everything to do with humility.I read "The Myth of Good Christian Parenting" and discovered the real myth: that you can raise grown-ups without ever acting like one. I hated being spanked when I was six. But watching parents haggle over chores like diplomats and negotiate bedtime like hostage situations, I now consider it an early rescue mission — and, in many ways, an act of mercy.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/abide/why-spanking-a-child-is-not-cruel-but-christian</guid><category>Spanking</category><category>Christian parenting</category><category>Abide</category><category>Corporal punishment</category><category>Lifestyle</category><category>Books</category><category>Faith</category><dc:creator>John Mac Ghlionn</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/why-spanking-a-child-is-not-cruel-but-christian.jpg?id=62003960&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Trump admin agrees to partially fund food stamps as Democrat shutdown approaches record</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-admin-agrees-to-partially-fund-food-stamps-as-democrat-shutdown-approaches-record</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-admin-agrees-to-partially-fund-food-stamps-as-democrat-shutdown-approaches-record.jpg?id=62037358&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C341%2C0%2C80"/> President Donald Trump's administration will partially foot the bill for the food assistance program SNAP as the government shutdown rages on. Key government programs like SNAP officially lapsed over the weekend after Democrats voted over a dozen times throughout October against reopening the government. As the shutdown inches toward a record-breaking length, the Trump administration has agreed to partially fund SNAP benefits. 'There’s a new sheriff in town.'Two federal judges <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.60750/gov.uscourts.rid.60750.21.0_1.pdf">ruled</a> on Friday that the Trump administration needs to spend a $5.25 billion emergency fund before officially cutting off SNAP. This will only cover about half of the $9 billion spent per month on SNAP benefits.The judges also said the Department of Agriculture could move around its funds to supplement SNAP for the month of November, but the Trump administration will likely refrain, calling it an “unacceptable risk.” RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrat-induced-shutdown-poised-to-break-record-as-key-programs-lapse">Democrat-induced shutdown poised to break record as key programs lapse</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f80e32194cb7824fd8c258abbfd6802a" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="7b785" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62037367&width=980"/> Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images“Section 32 Child Nutrition Program funds are not a contingency fund for SNAP,” Patrick Penn, who oversees the SNAP program at the USDA, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.60750/gov.uscourts.rid.60750.21.1_1.pdf">wrote</a> Monday. “Using billions of dollars from Child Nutrition for SNAP would leave an unprecedented gap in Child Nutrition funding that Congress has never had to fill with annual appropriations, and USDA cannot predict what Congress will do under these circumstances,” Penn added. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is also seizing the opportunity to comb through SNAP recipients to ensure that only Americans and not illegal aliens are receiving the taxpayer-funded benefits.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-urges-senate-to-deploy-the-nuclear-option-on-filibuster" target="_self">Trump urges Senate to deploy the 'Nuclear Option' on filibuster</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2411353f390b562ca84a829833541d23" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="bb431" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62037377&width=980"/> Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images"On my first day [at USDA,] we told every state to send us their SNAP data so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families," Rollins <a href="https://x.com/SecRollins/status/1985007736896053318">said</a>. "29 states stepped up. 21 blue states refused — and two SUED US FOR ASKING! And guess what? In just the states that cooperated, we’ve already uncovered massive fraud.""The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens," Rollins added. "They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census. There’s a new sheriff in town. [President Trump] will not tolerate waste, fraud, or abuse while hardworking Americans go hungry."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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-admin-agrees-to-partially-fund-food-stamps-as-democrat-shutdown-approaches-record</guid><category>Donald trump</category><category>Brooke rollins</category><category>Snap</category><category>Snap benefits</category><category>Food assistance programs</category><category>Food stamps</category><category>Democrat shutdown</category><category>Government shutdown</category><category>White house</category><category>Trump administration</category><category>Department of agriculture</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Rebeka Zeljko</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/trump-admin-agrees-to-partially-fund-food-stamps-as-democrat-shutdown-approaches-record.jpg?id=62037358&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Candidate arrested for allegedly breaking into GOP rival's Ohio home — just days before Election Day</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/kevin-farmer-arrest-burglary-candidate</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/candidate-arrested-for-allegedly-breaking-into-gop-rival-s-ohio-home-just-days-before-election-day.jpg?id=62037040&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C124%2C0%2C124"/> Violence prevention was one of the planks on the campaign platform for Cincinnati City Council candidate Kevin Farmer before he was arrested for alleged burglary.The 39-year-old was arrested on Saturday at the home of Republican congressional candidate Rosemary Oglesby-Henry, after allegedly <a href="https://www.wlwt.com/article/cincinnati-city-council-candidate-kevin-farmer-arrested/69225225" target="_blank">breaking</a> a garage window to gain entry. Prosecutors said Oglesby-Henry had video footage of Farmer breaking into the home.'He is an abuser, and I will not back down. I will use the law, the right way, to protect women and to set my life back on track.'The arrest was just the latest in a series of alleged criminal interactions between the two.Farmer told WLWT-TV that he would be dropping out of the race for the Cincinnati City Council. However, he will still appear on the ballot for the Nov. 4 election and is not endorsed by any party.He is officially <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kevin_Farmer_(Ohio)" target="_blank">listed</a> as nonpartisan, but his donation page <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=RDHFHPJ8ANPPA" target="_blank">includes</a> the image of a raised fist, which is often <a href="https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/the-raised-fist-a-history-of-the-symbol/" target="_blank">used</a> by socialists and communists. A post on his official X account <a href="https://x.com/VoteKevinFarmer/status/1944287769196728346" target="_blank">complained</a> that the Ohio GOP had not endorsed him despite being a registered Republican.Oglesby-Henry had previously accused Farmer of squatting at her home before she was arrested in late September for allegedly pointing a gun at Farmer in her home."While Mr. Farmer remains squatting in my home today, he used law enforcement to bring a false case against me and had me jailed without cause," said Oglesby-Henry. "He is an abuser, and I will not back down. I will use the law, the right way, to protect women and to set my life back on track."She went on to categorically deny the accusation and pointed out that police did not recover a firearm and she fully cooperated with police. Oglesby-Henry was charged with aggravated menacing over the incident.In July, Farmer was charged with domestic violence and assault against Oglesby-Henry. She eventually dropped the charges and was given a protective order against Farmer.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/libs-weiss-jeffries-face-nation" target="_blank">Furious liberals blame Bari Weiss takeover at CBS after Democrat leader fumbles tough question on 'Face the Nation'</a> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uFfmZ8oY24A?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe> The WLWT report pointed out that Farmer had run on violence prevention as well as providing more resources to underserved communities.Court records <a href="https://www.hcso.org/justice-center-services/inmate-search/inmate-detail/?id=1813750" target="_blank">indicate</a> that Farmer is charged with violating a protection order in addition to burglary.He is being held on a $60,000 bond and would need to wear an ankle monitor if released.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" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_self">Sign up here</a>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/kevin-farmer-arrest-burglary-candidate</guid><category>Rosemary oglesby-henry</category><category>Kevin farmer</category><category>Burglary arrest</category><category>Candidate domestic violence</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/candidate-arrested-for-allegedly-breaking-into-gop-rival-s-ohio-home-just-days-before-election-day.jpg?id=62037040&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Cop driving patrol car doesn't mess around when he spots alleged gunman on the run — and reaching for his waistband</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/fresno-police-officer-hits-alleged-gunman-with-patrol-vehicle</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/cop-driving-patrol-car-doesn-t-mess-around-when-he-spots-alleged-gunman-on-the-run-and-reaching-for-his-waistband.png?id=62035918&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C36%2C0%2C37"/> Video from police in Fresno, California — newly released Friday — indicates that an officer was on an unrelated call in the area of the River Park Shopping Center on Aug. 20 when he heard gunshots from a restaurant parking lot around 5:30 p.m. <a href="https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/crime/suspect-hit-fresno-police/" target="_blank">KSEE-TV reported</a> that the restaurant is Ruth's Chris.'He's reaching!'Police said surveillance video shows George Ruiz, 18, firing shots at a passing vehicle.The officer ran toward the sound of gunfire and saw Ruiz running off, police said. The officer then saw the suspect attempting to carjack a vehicle in a shopping center parking lot, police said, adding that the victim was able to drive away.Police said Ruiz shot once at the vehicle during the attempted carjacking, hitting the car, but those inside the vehicle weren't hurt.Police said the officer ran after Ruiz toward the Sam's Club parking lot and broadcasted over radio the suspect's description and the direction of the foot pursuit.After the radio call, two other officers in a marked patrol vehicle spotted Ruiz on the run — and reaching for his waistband, police said.The officer driving the patrol car struck Ruiz with the vehicle, and the officers arrested Ruiz, police said.One officer is heard in the below video advising that "he's reaching!" in reference to the suspect going for his gun just before the arrest, police said. The relevant segment begins around the 4:40 mark:RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/wild-police-video-cops-ram-car-driven-by-female-armed-robbery-suspect-who-actually-tries-to-run-away-after-freeway-crash" target="_blank">Wild police video: Cops ram car driven by female armed robbery suspect — who actually tries to run away after freeway crash</a> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kbISoxi9OxU?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>Police said Ruiz dropped his handgun after getting hit.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/crazy-video-unhinged-driver-hits-teen-girl-crashes-through-dollar-tree-wall-with-her-still-on-hood-the-end-is-even-wilder" target="_blank">Crazy video: Unhinged driver hits teen, crashes through Dollar Tree wall — with teen still on hood. The end is even wilder.</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8fbad7149d1eafda0f999e5abce7f473" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="c78a2" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=62036278&width=980"/>Image source: Fresno (Calif.) Police bodycam video screenshotHere's a screenshot showing the opposite angle:RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/long-island-police-praised-for-using-suv-to-neutralize-woman" target="_blank">Long Island police commissioner defends officer's use of SUV to neutralize gun-toting woman who threatened to shoot herself and others</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b5071e4505933a3d2f44096f78b3e712" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="b861e" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=62036283&width=980"/>Image source: Fresno (Calif.) Police bodycam video screenshotThe following is a close-up image of Ruiz's loaded gun, police said.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/fl-trooper-crash-dui-runners" target="_blank">VIDEO: Florida trooper crashes head-on into accused drunk driver to stop her car from plowing into runners of 10k race</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f8f53ddf5a23cd926b8bab2157e795f2" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="a2901" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=62036378&width=980"/> Image source: Fresno (Calif.) PoliceRuiz was taken to a hospital, treated for leg pain, and released, police said, adding that he provided a statement admitting to the shooting.Ruiz was booked into jail for the shooting, firearm-related charges, and resisting arrest, police said, adding that no officers were hurt during the incident.Fresno County Jail records indicate Ruiz was still behind bars Monday afternoon; his bail is listed as $575,000.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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/fresno-police-officer-hits-alleged-gunman-with-patrol-vehicle</guid><category>Crime thwarted</category><category>Fresno</category><category>California</category><category>Police</category><category>Bodycam video</category><category>Gunman</category><category>Attempted carjacking</category><category>Shooting</category><category>Arrest</category><category>Cop hits suspect with vehicle</category><category>Crime</category><dc:creator>Dave Urbanski</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/cop-driving-patrol-car-doesn-t-mess-around-when-he-spots-alleged-gunman-on-the-run-and-reaching-for-his-waistband.png?id=62035918&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Democrat-induced shutdown poised to break record as key programs lapse</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrat-induced-shutdown-poised-to-break-record-as-key-programs-lapse</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/democrat-induced-shutdown-poised-to-break-record-as-key-programs-lapse.jpg?id=62035809&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C81%2C0%2C389"/> The Democrat-induced government shutdown is set to break the record for the longest shutdown in history. Senate Democrats blocked the GOP's clean funding resolution on September 30, initiating the government shutdown on October 1. Over a month has passed since then, with the shutdown inching toward the 35-day record after over a dozen failed Senate votes. 'REPUBLICANS, BE TOUGH AND SMART!'If this <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/here-s-every-time-senate-democrats-voted-to-keep-the-government-shut-down">streak of failed votes</a> continues through midnight Wednesday as expected, the government shutdown will have surpassed the previous record-holding 35-day shutdown from President Donald Trump's first term. Although neither party has indicated that a deal is on the horizon, Trump has urged Republicans to deploy the nuclear option to bring the shutdown to a close. RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-urges-senate-to-deploy-the-nuclear-option-on-filibuster">Trump urges Senate to deploy the 'Nuclear Option' on filibuster</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="60afc6c193d5241fbe2fd4f1c07f7b4d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e2fc6" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62036318&width=980"/> Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, NOT JUST FOR THE SHUTDOWN, BUT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE," Trump <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1985175252129726543">said</a> in a Truth Social post. "WE WILL GET ALL OF OUR COMMON SENSE POLICIES APPROVED (VOTER ID, ANYONE?) AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! REMEMBER, THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY, AS SOON AS THEY GET THE CHANCE. OUR DOING IT WILL NOT GIVE THEM THE CHANCE.""REPUBLICANS, BE TOUGH AND SMART! THE DEMS ARE CRAZED LUNATICS, THEY WILL NOT OPEN UP OUR COUNTRY NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IRREPARABLY HARMED!"Trump's calls to eliminate the filibuster would allow Republicans to pass their funding bill with a simple majority as opposed to the 60-vote threshold currently in place. Only three Democrats have consistently crossed the aisle and voted with Republicans to reopen the government, falling short of the 60 votes needed. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, an institutionalist, has always been against eliminating the filibuster. Despite pressure from the president, Thune <a href="https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1984264546715140457">maintains</a> that his "position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged." RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/unfit-for-the-gavel-house-gops-sound-off-on-judge-boasberg-stand-with-senators-in-calling-for-impeachment" target="_self">'Unfit for the gavel': House GOPs sound off on Judge Boasberg, stand with senators in calling for impeachment</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1cb29db6ca89914eb1c3a56d856ca352" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="c52d2" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62036379&width=980"/> Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesWhile Congress shows no signs of progress, millions of Americans lost key government benefits like food assistance programs that lapsed over the weekend. Programs like SNAP affect citizens across the country, but Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is taking the opportunity to clean house, <a href="https://x.com/SecRollins/status/1985007736896053318">ensuring</a> illegal aliens are not taking advantage of the program."I'm glad to see the Trump administration is working to get to the bottom of why 41 million people are on SNAP and why this program exploded on Joe Biden's watch," <a href="https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1985375004645617761" target="_blank">said</a> Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has repeatedly voted with Democrats against the funding bill, in a post on X. "It's time to root out the waste, fraud, and abuse."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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:35:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrat-induced-shutdown-poised-to-break-record-as-key-programs-lapse</guid><category>Donald trump</category><category>Chuck schumer</category><category>John thune</category><category>Government shutdown</category><category>Rand paul</category><category>Brooke rollins</category><category>Senate democrats</category><category>Senate republicans</category><category>Snap benefits</category><category>Schumer shutdown</category><category>Filibuster</category><category>Government programs</category><category>Government benefits</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Rebeka Zeljko</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/democrat-induced-shutdown-poised-to-break-record-as-key-programs-lapse.jpg?id=62035809&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Vibe shift: No rap in the Top 40 for the first time since 1989</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/fearless-with-jason-whitlock/rap-music</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62036208&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/> Kendrick Lamar’s song “Luther” has just dropped out of the Billboard Top 40, making it the first time in 35 years hip-hop is not represented on the coveted list of music.And BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock could not be happier.“I just want to praise Jesus for that miracle, I just want to thank God for making this happen, and I hope that hip-hop music, the current form of it, never reappears in the top 40. I think it’s an indication once again that there is a cultural shift, a vibe shift, going on in America,” Whitlock explains.“Are we reading too much into it, or this an indication that the world is healing and people are coming out of the demonic cult of hip-hop music?” Whitlock asks his panel.<h3></h3> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nex-U3kevB8?rel=0&start=2409" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>“It’s an excellent sign,” BlazeTV contributor Chad O. Jackson says.“And I think it’s high time that something like this occurs,” he adds.However, BlazeTV contributors Shemeka Michelle and Virgil Walker are admittedly “cynical” when it comes to it being a good sign.“I’m happy to see that, you know, hip-hop is taking a nose dive, especially in its current iteration. You know, we grew up, Jason, in the '80s and understood kind of the old school hip-hop, kind of the golden era of hip-hop. Then soon after that, the ‘90s came along, and we got gangster rap, and that became the new cool,” Walker says.“If you didn’t have enough profane words in your content, if you didn’t have enough sexualizing of women in your content, you weren’t going to be a hit. And that’s only amplified over the course of the last 20 years since 2000,” he continues.“I think it's wonderful that for at least a moment, at least a minute, at least a point in time, we’re not going to be bombarded with that kind of crash chaos ... but my thought process, kind of like Shemeka said, is that, you know, we’re gonna have to give this a few weeks or so to see if it doesn’t show up again,” he says.“So I anticipate it’ll make a rise again,” he adds.<h2>Want more from Jason Whitlock?</h2>To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/fearless/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_jasonwhitlock" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/fearless-with-jason-whitlock/rap-music</guid><category>Free</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Upload</category><category>Video</category><category>Camera phone</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Fearless with jason whitlock</category><category>Jason whitlock</category><category>Fearless</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>Rap</category><category>Hip hop music</category><category>Kendrick lamar</category><category>Luther</category><category>Shemeka michelle</category><category>Chad o jackson</category><category>Virgil walker</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62036208&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Rapper thanks Trump for defending Nigerian Christians; president threatens to 'completely wipe out' their jihadi attackers</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/rapper-thanks-trump-for-defending-nigerian-christians-president-threatens-to-completely-wipe-out-their-jihadi-attackers</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/rapper-thanks-trump-for-defending-nigerian-christians-president-threatens-to-completely-wipe-out-their-jihadi-attackers.jpg?id=62035924&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/> Nigeria is a fast-growing country with an <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/nigeria-population/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">estimated</a><a href="https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/nigeria/#people-and-society" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> population</a> of over 239 million. <a href="https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/nigeria/#people-and-society" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">According</a> to the CIA Worldbook's 2018 estimate, roughly 53.5% of the Nigerian population is Muslim and roughly 45.9% of the population is Christian.Despite being over 100 million strong, Nigeria's Christian population faces <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigates-why-are-islamists-targeting-catholic-priests" target="_blank">brutal persecution</a> at the hands of radical Muslim groups.President Donald Trump, who <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-signals-new-foreign-policy-priority-combat-the-persecution-of-christians" target="_blank">vowed</a> ahead of the 2024 election to "protect persecuted Christians," made abundantly clear over the weekend that those now savaging the followers of Christ in Nigeria may soon reap the whirlwind, courtesy of the U.S. military.While the Nigerian regime has decried Trump's efforts to prevent further bloodshed, others have celebrated the American president's interest in <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blessed-are-the-peacemakers-trump-brings-an-end-to-another-bloody-war-ahead-of-nobel-prize-announcement" target="_blank">resolving yet another conflict</a> — including Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj, who thanked Trump and his team on Saturday.<h2>Background</h2>The Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors now <a href="https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/persecution/countries/nigeria/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ranks</a> Nigeria as the seventh-worst place for Christians in the world, noting that "Christians are particularly at risk from targeted attacks by Islamist militants, including Fulani fighters, <a href="https://www.dni.gov/nctc/terrorist_groups/boko_haram.html" target="_blank">Boko Haram</a> and <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2022-08/nigeria-owo-attack-arrest-catholic-church-military-ondo.html" target="_blank">ISWAP</a> (Islamic State West Africa Province)."According to the watchdog, over 4,100 Christians were killed for their faith between October 2022 and September 2023 alone — an average of 11 Christians slaughtered every day. During that same period studied by Open Doors, over 3,300 Nigerian Christians were abducted. The situation appears to have grown more dire in the years since.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/nigerian-christians-are-being-murdered-by-islamic-radicals-this-congressman-has-had-enough" target="_blank">Nigerian Christians are being murdered by Islamic radicals. This congressman has had enough.</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="100774927f36125bcb814b0dbf8c5c17" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="d0113" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62035557&width=980"/> Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images A <a href="https://intersociety-ng.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Nigeria-Headquartering-22-Islamic-Terror-Groups-In-Africa-Seeking-To-Obliterate-Christianity-And-Indigenous-Cultural-Heritage-And-Impose-Sultanate-In-Nigeria-By.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> issued in August by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law indicated that Fulani fighters and other jihadists massacred over 7,000 Christians in the first seven months of this year.While some academics have <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392206.2021.1925035#d1e904" target="_blank">warned</a> against grouping the mass-killing Fulani herder-militant groups with other Islamist outfits targeting Christians — claiming their attacks are instead driven by economics or <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/africans-praise-lord-alton-for-demanding-action-against-genocide-of-nigerian-christians/" target="_blank">climate</a> — the Fulani attacks appear to have a religious motive as well.Jeff King, president of <a href="https://www.persecution.org/" target="_blank">International Christian Concern</a> and a leading expert on religious persecution, <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blaze-news-investigates-why-are-islamists-targeting-catholic-priests" target="_blank">told</a> Blaze News earlier this year that like Boko Haram, the Fulani militants, a group of traditionally nomadic cattle herders seeking greater grazing lands for their livestock, "are also driven by Islam's practice of using violence to subjugate territories to Islam. In fact, the Fulanis are the driving force behind radical Islam's massive land-grab of a huge swath of Africa known as the Sahel. They are motivated by a desire to rebuild a caliphate they had built in the 1700s and 1800s."The persecution of Christians by the Fulani militants and other radical Muslim groups has <a href="https://persecution.org/2025/10/31/trump-announces-cpc-designation-for-nigeria/" target="_blank">reportedly</a> worsened since Bola Ahmed Tinubu became Nigeria's president in 2023.<h2>Taking action</h2>Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) and <a href="https://x.com/Robert_Aderholt/status/1934043659202355492" target="_blank">other lawmakers</a>, confronted with indications that the situation is worsening for Nigeria's Christians, have called on the Trump administration to take action."Since Boko Haram's insurgency in 2009, more than 50,000 Christians have been murdered and more than 5 million have been displaced. Just this year, a priest was kidnapped and murdered on Ash Wednesday. 54 Christians were martyred on Palm Sunday," Moore <a href="https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1975294912745906229" target="_blank">noted</a> early last month. "At least <a href="https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1975294914511659206" target="_blank">250 priests</a> have been attacked or killed in the last decade. More than 19,000 churches have been attacked or destroyed since 2009 — averaging three per day."Moore, who indicated that elements of the Nigerian regime have reportedly been involved in recent anti-Christian attacks, <a href="https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1975294923609153670/photo/2" target="_blank">asked</a> Secretary of State Marco Rubio to designate Nigeria as a <a href="https://www.state.gov/frequently-asked-questions-irf-report-and-countries-of-particular-concern" target="_blank">Country of Particular Concern</a>. Evidently the administration similarly feels strongly about the matter.'If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet.'President Donald Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115470116607441456" target="_blank">announced</a> on Friday that he was applying the designation and asked Reps. Moore and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) along with the House Appropriations Committee to immediately look into the matter. "Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter," <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115470116607441456" target="_blank">wrote</a> Trump. "I am hereby making Nigeria a 'COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN' — But that is the least of it. When Christians, or any such group, is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria (3,100 versus 4,476 Worldwide), something must be done!"The CPC designation is applied under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to nations engaged in severe violations of religious freedom. The designation can carry with it significant economic and diplomatic consequences. Nigeria was <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-report-on-international-religious-freedom/nigeria" target="_blank">previously slapped</a> with the designation by the first Trump administration in 2020, but this was subsequently lifted by the Biden administration.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/align/bill-mahers-shocking-defense-of-christians-and-what-it-reveals" target="_blank">Bill Maher's shocking defense of Christians — and what it reveals</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9157743a8fc24d44b406f739a3840ed4" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="b51fd" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62035567&width=980"/> Aftermath of a terrorist attack on a Catholic Church in southwest Nigeria. AFP/Getty ImagesNicki Minaj was among those who celebrated Trump's decision, <a href="https://x.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1984566555460485280" target="_blank">stating</a>, "Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God.""No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion," said the rapper. "Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice. Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously. God bless every persecuted Christian. Let’s remember to lift them up in prayer."Republican Reps. Moore, Cole, and Mario Díaz-Balart (Fla.) <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/cole-diaz-balart-moore-commend-president-trumps-cpc-designation-nigeria-action" target="_blank">noted</a> in a joint statement, "With President Trump announcing he will be redesignating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, the United States is making clear in one resolute voice: religious persecution will not be tolerated. The scourge of anti-Christian violence and oppression of other religious minorities by radical Islamic terrorists is an affront to religious freedom. This is a critical step in mobilizing leadership and attention to confront evil extremism."Just in case the designation wasn't enough, Trump threatened a military intervention in the event that the Nigerian regime fails to protect Christians."If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, 'guns-a-blazing,' to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities," Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115476385101120405" target="_blank">said</a> in a Truth Social post on Saturday evening. "I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!" added the president.Fresh off blowing an apparent narco-trafficking vessel <a href="https://x.com/SecWar/status/1984816590940987802" target="_blank">to smithereens</a>, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed the Department of War was "preparing for action."<blockquote class="rm-embed twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1984751436102791607">
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<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> The promise of a reckoning clearly made officials over in the Nigerian capital of Abuja nervous.President Tinubu <a href="https://x.com/officialABAT/status/1984640117361840491/photo/1" target="_blank">rushed out</a> a statement on Saturday claiming that his nation "stands firmly as a democracy governed by constitutional guarantees of religious liberty."The characterization of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality, nor does it take into consideration the consistent and sincere efforts of the government to safeguard freedom of religion and beliefs for all Nigerians," wrote Tinubu. "Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so. Nigeria opposes religious persecution and does not encourage it."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" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_self">Sign up here</a>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:05:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/rapper-thanks-trump-for-defending-nigerian-christians-president-threatens-to-completely-wipe-out-their-jihadi-attackers</guid><category>Jihadists</category><category>Nigeria</category><category>Nigerian</category><category>Christians</category><category>Persecution</category><category>Islam</category><category>Islamists</category><category>Muslims</category><category>Africa</category><category>Boko haram</category><category>Fulanii</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Joseph MacKinnon</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/rapper-thanks-trump-for-defending-nigerian-christians-president-threatens-to-completely-wipe-out-their-jihadi-attackers.jpg?id=62035924&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Tylenol manufacturer bought despite lawsuit, months of scrutiny by Trump administration</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/tylenol-manufacturer-bought-despite-lawsuit-months-of-scrutiny-by-trump-administration</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/tylenol-manufacturer-bought-despite-lawsuit-months-of-scrutiny-by-trump-administration.jpg?id=62035551&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C60%2C0%2C60"/> Kenvue, which has been under increased scrutiny recently after the Trump administration alleged a link between Tylenol and autism, is being acquired by Kimberly-Clark in a multibillion-dollar deal.According to a Monday <a href="https://www.news.kimberly-clark.com/2025-11-03-Kimberly-Clark-to-Acquire-Kenvue,-Creating-a-32-Billion-Global-Health-and-Wellness-Leader" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press release</a>, Kimberly-Clark will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Kenvue common stock in a cash and stock transaction that values Kenvue at approximately $48.7 billion.Just last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Kenvue and its former parent company, Johnson & Johnson."We are excited to bring together two iconic companies to create a global health and wellness leader," said Mike Hsu, Kimberly-Clark chairman and chief executive officer."We look forward to working with the Kenvue team to bring these companies together and are confident that we will drive significant value for our combined shareholders," Hsu continued."Our combination with Kimberly-Clark unites two highly complementary portfolios filled with iconic, beloved brands and everyday essentials that people trust and count on throughout their lives," said Kirk Perry, chief executive officer of Kenvue.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/headaches-continue-for-tylenol-brand-as-texas-ag-files-lawsuit-over-alleged-autism-link" target="_self">Headaches continue for Tylenol brand as Texas AG files lawsuit over alleged autism link</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5be7a2ec3ffb4c92942b7b6fec5e61fc" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="f6bb1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62035385&width=980"/> Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for KenvueKenvue, however, has increasingly been viewed as a liability as allegations of a link between prenatal use of Tylenol and autism have been leveled by members of the Trump administration and other leaders.Just last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/headaches-continue-for-tylenol-brand-as-texas-ag-files-lawsuit-over-alleged-autism-link" target="_blank">sued</a> Kenvue and its former parent company, Johnson & Johnson. Paxton said, "Johnson & Johnson attempted to escape responsibility by illegally offloading their liability onto a different company," apparently referring to Kenvue.Kimberly-Clark's current portfolio — which includes well-known brands such as Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, and Goodnites — will combine with Kenvue, which produces brands including Aveeno, Band-Aid, Johnson's, Listerine, Neutrogena, and, of course, Tylenol. The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kimberly-clark-kenvue-tylenol-98d5fd39c12b25524e3188da2e840436" target="_blank">reported</a> that Kimberly-Clark shares dropped 15% before the market open and Kenvue's stock rose more than 20%. Blaze News reached out to Kimberly-Clark for comment but did not receive a response. 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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/tylenol-manufacturer-bought-despite-lawsuit-months-of-scrutiny-by-trump-administration</guid><category>Politics</category><category>Trump administration</category><category>Tylenol</category><category>Kenvue</category><category>Kimberly-clark</category><category>Autism link</category><category>Mike hsu</category><category>Johnson & johnson</category><category>Ken paxton</category><dc:creator>Cooper Williamson</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/tylenol-manufacturer-bought-despite-lawsuit-months-of-scrutiny-by-trump-administration.jpg?id=62035551&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Mississippi Delta sheriffs and officers arrested over alleged Mexican drug cartel bribery scheme</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/mississippi-sheriffs-arrested-fbi-scheme</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/mississippi-delta-sheriffs-and-officers-arrested-over-alleged-mexican-drug-cartel-bribery-scheme.jpg?id=62031927&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C165%2C0%2C166"/> More than a dozen law enforcement officials in the Mississippi Delta area <a href="https://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/2025/10/30/mississippi-drug-trafficking-bribery-scheme/?utm_campaign=SocialFlowFeed&utm_content=news&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow" target="_blank">were charged</a> by the Department of Justice for allegedly accepting bribes from what they believed to be members of a Mexican drug cartel.U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner said at a news conference Thursday that the DOJ secured indictments against 20 people, including two elected sheriffs as well as 14 current or former law enforcement officers. The investigation was conducted over several years.'The law must apply equally to everyone regardless of the title or position they hold. Know that if you betray the people’s trust in Mississippi, you will face consequences.'"We're here today to talk about some incredibly serious allegations that mark a very — it’s just a monumental betrayal of public trust," said Joyner. Law enforcement officers and their accomplices allegedly provided safe passage to people they believed were drug traffickers in exchange for money. They were allegedly led to believe they were helping transport 25 kilograms of cocaine. "They are also indicted for related firearms offenses and, of course, individual counts related to specific runs throughout the Mississippi Delta," he added.Washington County Sheriff Milton Gaston and Humphreys County Sheriff Bruce Williams were among those arrested."Law enforcement is only effective when the community they protect can trust the law enforcement officers are honestly serving the community’s interests," said FBI Special Agent Robert Eikhoff. "This type of corruption strikes at the heart of the community."Some of the alleged bribes ranged between $20,000 and $37,000, according to prosecutors.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/toledo-democrats-corruption-bribery-extortion" target="_blank">Four Toledo City Council members, all Democrats, arrested by FBI on bribery charges</a> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tzuGfqdQvjs?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves released a statement about the indictments."The law must apply equally to everyone regardless of the title or position they hold," Reeves wrote. "Know that if you betray the people’s trust in Mississippi, you will face consequences."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>! ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:47:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/mississippi-sheriffs-arrested-fbi-scheme</guid><category>Mississippi delta</category><category>Sheriffs arrested</category><category>Police arrested</category><category>Fbi investigation</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Carlos Garcia</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/mississippi-delta-sheriffs-and-officers-arrested-over-alleged-mexican-drug-cartel-bribery-scheme.jpg?id=62031927&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>'It's all my fault': Father's chilling confession leads deputies to car trunk with his 4 dead children inside, police say</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/father-chilling-confession-murder-children</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=61990406&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C35%2C0%2C35"/> A <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/tag/north-carolina" target="_blank">North Carolina father</a> was charged with the murders of his four children after authorities said he called 911 to make a chilling confession to police.Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, was arrested at his home in Zebulon — roughly 20 miles northeast of Raleigh — on Tuesday. 'It's a lot to explain, but in a nutshell, it's all my fault. This is my fault. This is bad.'Dickens was charged with four counts of murder. Dickens faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole or the death penalty if he is convicted of murder.Dickens is being held without bond in the Johnston County Jail.Just after 10 p.m. Monday, the Johnston County Sheriff's Office said it received a call from Dickens that "he had killed his children."Dickens was heard saying in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgEDEP6LrlI" target="_blank">911 phone call</a>, "I killed my stepson. It's a lot to explain, but in a nutshell, it's all my fault. This is my fault. This is bad."Dickens said he didn't "cut" or "shoot" anyone but admitted to "beating on them sometimes" and that he "over-disciplined" his stepson. He added that the situation "spiraled," and "it got worse and worse and worse." Dickens also said he was a "coward" and admitted to using marijuana and consuming alcohol.Dickens said he was attempting to "do the right thing" and revealed that he was "trying to turn himself" in to law enforcement. The suspect said he was "willing to do whatever" officers request of him when confronted by police. Deputies were soon dispatched to Dickens' property.The Johnston County Sheriff's Office said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JohnstonNCSheriff/posts/1246350707525673" target="_blank">statement</a>, "Mr. Dickens stated to deputies that his 3-year-old son was inside the house alive and four of his other children were deceased inside the trunk of a vehicle in the garage of the residence. Mr. Dickens' 3-year-old son was located and found unharmed in the residence."Police also said a "preliminary investigation discovered what were believed to be multiple bodies in the trunk of a vehicle in the garage."Investigators determined that the human remains in the vehicle "had been there for a long period of time."Deputies accused Dickens of killing his three biological children, aged 6, 9, and 10, as well as his 18-year-old stepchild.The sheriff's office did not specify how the children died or identify a possible motive.In a Wednesday <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KpbI_9W73s" target="_blank">press</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KpbI_9W73s" target="_blank"> conference</a>, Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell accused Dickens of beginning to murder his children months ago.Bizzell said 6-year-old Leah Dickens likely was killed in May, 9-year-old Zoe Dickens was estimated to have been killed in August, 10-year-old Wellington Dickens was killed in either late August or early September, and 18-year-old stepchild Sean Brassfield probably was killed in September.Don Pate, captain of the Johnston County Sheriff's Office's Criminal Investigations Division, said at the news conference that officers noticed an odor of "decay" as soon as they entered the residence.Pate said there was "evidence of criminal activity," including alleged attempts to clean up crime scenes within the house.Sheriff Bizzell noted that social services took the one surviving child for a medical evaluation and is now "safe."RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/father-murder-suicide-family-mental-illness" target="_blank">'Haunt me the rest of my life': Father reportedly kills family and himself in murder-suicide on same day as son's graduation</a> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a8d8tMp5Qw0?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>During the news conference, Bizzell revealed that Dickens' wife, 37-year-old Stephanie Rae Jones Dickens, died at her home on April 21, 2024. Jones was three months pregnant at the time of her death and had suffered from "excessive bleeding the night prior, but refused to go for medical treatment," Bizzell stated.Sheriff Bizzell said investigators previously determined that Jones died from complications from a miscarriage, and doctors ruled that her death was "natural."Bizzell said there are currently no plans to exhume the remains of Jones following the murder accusations against her husband.A neighbor told <a href="https://www.wral.com/news/local/zebulon-four-children-dead-oct-2025/" target="_blank">WRAL-TV</a> that she "never saw a child outside playing" at Dickens' home.Neighbor Fran Majkowski continued, "I never saw him mowing a lawn. ... The only time I ever saw them was the day they moved in, and like I said ... it was very ... you just get the feeling someone is to themselves."Debra Riley, who lives next door to Dickens, said he "became more of a recluse" after his wife died.Charles Moore, Dickens' great uncle, told WRAL that the father was an Iraq War veteran.Moore noted, "He was in the service, and he had a problem ever since he came back, I think."Moore claimed he last saw Dickens about a year ago, and he "seemed fine."Neither the Johnston County Sheriff's Office nor the Johnston County Public Defender's Office, which was appointed to represent Dickens in court, immediately responded to Blaze News' request for comment.Dickens is <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/28/father-children-car-trunk-garage-north-carolina/86953865007/" target="_blank">scheduled</a> to attend a probable cause hearing on Nov. 13, according to court records.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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/father-chilling-confession-murder-children</guid><category>North carolina</category><category>North carolina crime</category><category>Murder</category><category>Confession</category><category>Murder confession</category><category>Crime</category><dc:creator>Paul Sacca</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=61990406&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>2 more staffers ditch Graham Platner's troubled Senate campaign amid Nazi, communism scandals</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/two-more-staffers-ditch-graham-platners-radioactive-senate-campaign-amid-nazi-communism-scandals</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/2-more-staffers-ditch-graham-platner-s-troubled-senate-campaign-amid-nazi-communism-scandals.jpg?id=62034397&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/> Graham Platner, a 41-year-old oyster farmer and Marine veteran, <a href="https://x.com/grahamformaine/status/1957780836062826868" target="_blank">announced</a> on Aug. 19 that he was running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Maine. His stated objective was to challenge the "oligarchy," meaning both the Democrat establishment and the Republican incumbent, <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/here-are-the-four-republicans-who-betrayed-trump-again-joining-dems-to-undermine-the-maga-agenda" target="_blank">Sen. Susan Collins</a>.At the outset, Platner's campaign appeared to have incredible momentum. The leftist candidate raised several million dollars in a matter of weeks, managed to land endorsements from current lawmakers including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M), and struck a chord with locals, as reflected in early polls indicating that he had a sizeable lead over Democrat Gov. Janet Mills.Platner's campaign has, however, encountered a massive and potentially insurmountable obstacle: his radical past.'Platner is not a victim of opposition research. ... Accountability does not exist in playing the victim of your own behavior.'In the wake of damning revelations about the leftist candidate's social media posts and his newly concealed tattoo of a skull image similar to that popularized by Adolf Hitler's <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SS elite Nazi guard,</a> at least four key staffers have jumped ship.The latest individuals to call it quits are the campaign's national finance director, Ronald Holmes, and its treasurer, Victoria Perrone.Holmes, a Democrat operative who previously served as finance director on New York Democrat Rep. Josh Riley's congressional campaign, resigned on Friday, suggesting that Platner's campaign no longer met his "standards."RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/here-are-the-four-republicans-who-betrayed-trump-again-joining-dems-to-undermine-the-maga-agenda" target="_blank">Here are the 4 Republicans who betrayed Trump AGAIN, joining Democrats to undermine the MAGA agenda</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4d7c5c9929e5dc59179e54f410f5dde9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="9c63d" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62034422&width=980"/> Graham Platner. Photo by Sophie Park/Getty Images "I joined this campaign because I believed in building something different — a campaign of fresh energy, integrity, and reform-minded thinking in a political system that often resists exactly those things," Holmes <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7390017091254452224/" target="_blank">wrote</a> in a post on LinkedIn. "Somewhere along the way, I began to feel that my professional standards as a campaign professional no longer fully aligned with those of the campaign."A campaign spokesperson <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/platner-campaign-finance-director-resign-00631318" target="_blank">told</a> Politico, "Ron helped the campaign reach out to big-dollar donors, and we appreciated his efforts. But the reality is our campaign’s fundraising success has come largely from small-dollar donors.""Nearly 90% of what we’ve raised has come from small-dollar donations and online donors, which has been and [continues] to be run by our digital fundraising director," added the spokesperson.Timothy Facciola of the Judge Street Journal on Substack <a href="https://judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/exclusive-graham-platners-treasurer?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true" target="_blank">revealed</a> on Sunday that Holmes wasn't the only Platner staffer to pack it in last week.Citing a Federal Election Commission form that was <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00916437/1923912/" target="_blank">filed</a> on Friday as well as an unnamed source said to be familiar with the matter, Facciola reported that Perrone, the president and founder of the consulting firm Spruce Street Compliance, resigned as <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00916437/1923341/" target="_blank">treasurer</a> on Tuesday.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmartello/" target="_blank">Ben Martello</a> — a political strategist who served as an adviser to former Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.) — appears to have stepped into the role.Blaze News has reached out to Perrone and the Platner campaign for comment.Perrone, who has <a href="https://www.nyccfb.info/follow-the-money/registered-political-committees/" target="_blank">been</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/victoriaperrone_campaignfinance-publicfunding-compliance-activity-7343842079682228225-Ce4N/" target="_blank">closely involved</a> with Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayoral campaign, was apparently hired last month to help Platner's campaign deal with its various scandals.<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/graham-platner-maine-campaign-shakeup-ndas-controversies-00620849" target="_blank">According</a> to Politico, Perrone was the individual who pressed members of Platner's campaign team to sign non-disclosure agreements after his Reddit posts came to light — <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/liberal-senators-defend-democratic-senate-candidate-after-communist-identification-apparent-nazi-tattoo-exposed" target="_blank">including posts</a> in which he apparently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/17/graham-platner-sexual-assault-comments-senate-midterms/" target="_blank">identified</a> as a communist, branded rural white Americans as racists, suggested service members worried about being raped should buy "Kevlar underwear," and smeared all police officers as "bastards."Former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald (D) resigned as political director of Platner's campaign last month over the posts, <a href="https://www.wabi.tv/2025/10/18/graham-platners-political-director-resigns-over-candidates-controversial-comments/" target="_blank">noting</a>, "These statements were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind in a candidate for the United States Senate."Within days of McDonald's resignation, <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1980994834526847434" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">footage</a> went viral revealing that Platner had an apparent "totenkopf" tattoo on his chest — the symbol of the SS-Totenkopfverbande, the branch that guarded the Nazi concentration camps.Amid the fallout over the apparent Nazi tattoo, the Democrat candidate's longtime friend Kevin Brown similarly jumped ship.Brown, who took over as Platner's campaign manager on Oct. 21, announced days later that he was leaving, suggesting that the move was the result of new familial demands on his time.Brown <a href="https://wgme.com/news/local/platner-campaign-manager-steps-down-after-joining-campaign-last-week-social-media-maine-democrats-senate-race-republicans-susan-collins-janet-mills" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> in a statement obtained by WGME-TV, "Graham is a dear friend. I started this campaign Tuesday but found out Friday we have a baby on the way.""Graham deserves someone who is 100% in on his race, and we want to lean into this new experience as a family, so it was best we step back sooner than later so Graham can get the manager he deserves," Brown added.Platner reportedly suggested during a town hall last week that the Democratic Party was the cause of his recent run of bad luck, stating, "I'm running as a Democrat still, despite the fact my party is destroying my life.""Platner is not a victim of opposition research. This is what happens when you run for federal office," Genevieve McDonald said in a recent statement. "People scrutinize everything you've ever done. Every word and every action. Accountability does not exist in playing the victim of your own behavior."McDonald added, "We should not be having a debate about Nazi symbolism tattooed on the potentially top-ticket Democrat in Maine. The fact we are even willing to entertain it shows desperation within the party, not dedication, and how far we have fallen from rational thought."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>!]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/two-more-staffers-ditch-graham-platners-radioactive-senate-campaign-amid-nazi-communism-scandals</guid><category>Graham platner</category><category>Reddit</category><category>Maine</category><category>Senate</category><category>Candidate</category><category>Democrat</category><category>Democratic</category><category>Radical</category><category>Leftism</category><category>Janet mills</category><category>Susan collins</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Joseph MacKinnon</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/2-more-staffers-ditch-graham-platner-s-troubled-senate-campaign-amid-nazi-communism-scandals.jpg?id=62034397&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>‘Horror story’: RFK Jr. reveals chilling organ harvesting scandal</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/horror-story-rfk-jr-reveals-chilling-organ-harvesting-scandal</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62003547&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/> A shocking revelation from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has exposed what he calls a “horror story” inside America’s organ donation system.On a recent segment of Newsmax, RFK Jr. detailed a case in which a woman allegedly awoke while her organs were being harvested and did not live to tell the tale.“It’s a horror story, and part of it is because of the capture of the agency that was regulating ORR, had a — the board that was actually regulating organ harvesting was overlapping with the contractor that was actually harvesting the organs,” he began.<h3></h3> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k0ivqRAAxQA?rel=0&start=4350" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>“I had one instance where a family was waiting at the hospital for the body of their deceased relative. The relative was brought to one of these private organ harvesting centers, awoke while they were harvesting her organs, and then was brought back to the hospital ... where she died eventually,” he continued.“But the family, you know, brought litigation, and that’s the only reason that we learned of this story. We’ve done a complete investigation of that company. We’ve taken the contract away from that company, and we’re reorganizing it so that we will be regulating it and running it directly at HHS and this will never happen again,” he added.BlazeTV host Pat Gray is astonished.“That is bizarre. And they did a thorough investigation. Turns out it’s true?” Gray says. “That’s weird.”<h2>Want more from Pat Gray?</h2>To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/pat/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_patgray" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/horror-story-rfk-jr-reveals-chilling-organ-harvesting-scandal</guid><category>Free</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Video phone</category><category>Upload</category><category>Video</category><category>Camera phone</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Pat gray unleashed</category><category>Pat gray</category><category>The blaze</category><category>Blazetv</category><category>Blaze news</category><category>Blaze media</category><category>Blaze online</category><category>Blaze originals</category><category>Blaze podcasts</category><category>Rfk jr</category><category>Organ donation</category><category>Organ donor</category><category>Organ harvesting</category><category>Health and human services</category><category>Medical corruption</category><category>Big pharma</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62003547&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Gavin Newsom slams lying politicians — then defends Biden's mental acuity in stunning flip</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/gavin-newsom-slams-lying-politicians-then-defends-biden-s-mental-acuity-in-stunning-flip</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/gavin-newsom-slams-lying-politicians-then-defends-biden-s-mental-acuity-in-stunning-flip.jpg?id=62026146&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C66%2C23%2C85"/> California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom's irony detector may have been running low during a recent interview when he attacked lying politicians, then defended former President Joe Biden's mental fitness.Newsom told NBC's Kristen Welker about his disdain for dishonest politicians. In the next breath, Newsom insisted that Biden was perfectly fit to run for a second term despite the obvious decline that Democrats tried to cover up. 'There was no interaction I had that suggested otherwise.'"There is nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there and lies to you," Newsom <a href="https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1985004267993002453">said</a>. "And we all just sit there rolling our eyes, going, 'Give me a break.'"Welker followed up, asking whether Newsom felt Biden was fit to serve in office through January 2029, to which he said his priority was preventing Trump from serving a second term. RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/jon-stewart-shuts-down-liberal-journalist-s-joe-rogan-complaints">Jon Stewart shuts down liberal journalist's Joe Rogan complaints</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="008e29a8fc8c908cefa8707b66cfff15" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="c58d5" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62026301&width=980"/> Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images"My focus was frankly situational," Newsom said. "It was making sure Donald Trump didn't get back into office to experience everything that we're experiencing today.""There was no interaction I had that suggested otherwise," Newsom added. Welker pushed back on Newsom, asking him if he regrets not "sounding the alarm" on Biden's health earlier to pave a path for a stronger candidate going into November 2024."I'm not going to substitute myself for someone else or for popular opinion," Newsom replied. "I'm going to express my relationship to my truth with the former president of the United States, including at the end of his term, quite literally in December." RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/reporter-humiliates-kamala-harris-over-biden-health-cover-up-that-is-a-world-class-pivot" target="_self">Reporter humiliates Kamala Harris over Biden health cover-up: 'That is a world-class pivot'</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f77cc4fab7a1cb38bbea20ca5c118085" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="59f3d" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62026296&width=980"/> Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"There was nothing to suggest what you just said, or others have suggested, in terms of my interaction," Newsom added. "That's all I can be accountable for." 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>!]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:29:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/gavin-newsom-slams-lying-politicians-then-defends-biden-s-mental-acuity-in-stunning-flip</guid><category>Gavin newsom</category><category>Kristen welker</category><category>Joe biden</category><category>Donald trump</category><category>White house</category><category>Democrat party</category><category>2024 election</category><category>2028 election</category><category>Biden mental decline</category><category>Biden decline</category><category>Kamala harris</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Rebeka Zeljko</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/gavin-newsom-slams-lying-politicians-then-defends-biden-s-mental-acuity-in-stunning-flip.jpg?id=62026146&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>VIDEO: Sisters' theft of lobsters, ribeyes, and truffle butter explodes into checkout chaos and racial-slur rampage, cops say</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/video-shoplifting-fight-boston-viral</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/video-sisters-theft-of-lobsters-ribeyes-and-truffle-butter-explodes-into-checkout-chaos-and-racial-slur-rampage-cops-say.png?id=61999353&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=43%2C0%2C43%2C0"/> Two sisters attempted to steal luxury food items from a grocery store in <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/tag/Massachusetts" target="_blank">Massachusetts</a> last weekend — but the pair exploded when store employees confronted them about the stolen goods, according to police.The West Bridgewater Police Department said in a <a href="https://wbpd.com/west-bridgewater-police-arrest-and-charge-two-women-following-shoplifting-assault-at-supermarket/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawNxlP5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFkdjJRakVHZjZ4elVrSnpIAR451S5BJ1GOUjosr6S5a4uUMCFMSzCPPx5UgJO9wedzuYZNdGGHtsKHf8qX6A_aem_-Gf5ExsTzKGnN6G41N0mvw" target="_blank">statement</a> that officers were deployed to the Market Basket grocery store around 5 p.m. Saturday over reports of two customers "fighting with store employees."'They screamed and directed racial and demeaning words at [a store employee]. Those words included "p***y and [the N-word]," which were loud enough for everyone in the front of the store to hear, causing an offensive condition without a legitimate purpose.'"The investigation revealed that an employee had observed two women concealing high-priced items, including lobster meat, prime ribeye steaks, and truffle butter, in a bag while shopping," the statement reads. "The women did not pay for those items at checkout and were confronted by an employee."Police identified the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/tag/shoplifting" target="_blank">shoplifting suspects</a> as 37-year-old Olivia L. Byrd of Quincy and 28-year-old Rahjane J. Byrd of Hyde Park.Police said the pair were "argumentative, screamed obscenities, and assaulted two store employees."Alexander Oseas — a Market Basket employee — told investigators he grew suspicious of the sisters because most of the items in their cart were not bagged except for goods in a blue bag, the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/metro/market-basket-assault-shoplifting-arrest-sisters-w-bridgewater/" target="_blank">Boston Globe</a> reported."He tried to take the blue bag from them, and Rahjane tried to get it back, causing her to fall to the floor," the paper noted, citing a police report.In addition, Oseas and co-worker Wesley Kimbrel "pleaded with" the sisters to leave the store, but they allegedly "continued both their verbal and physical attacks" against the employees, the Globe reported.."Rahjane struck Oseas with the blue bag filled with groceries," the paper added, citing the report, and "Olivia then struck Kimbrel with her purse several times and slapped him across the face."The Globe, citing the report, also said Rahjane Byrd "struck Oseas several more times with the bag filled with groceries," and he suffered a small cut on his face.The violent incident was caught on video, and it shows one of the sisters smashing a worker in the face with her cell phone.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/video-carmax-rampage-car-showroom-plowed" target="_self">Rampage video: Insane moment driver plows SUV into CarMax showroom leaving 8 injured, 2 in critical condition</a> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D_V_s_WtHc0?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>Oseas said the sisters "became argumentative and belligerent and began to direct racial slurs and other demeaning terms at him," the paper noted."Both Rahjane's and Olivia's actions annoyed and inconvenienced the shopping public with their fighting and tumultuous behavior," the West Bridgewater police report read, according to <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2025/10/29/2-women-charged-after-allegedly-assaulting-market-basket-staff-who-caught-them-shoplifting-lobster-meat-ribeye-steaks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boston.com</a>. "They screamed and directed racial and demeaning words at [a store employee]. Those words included 'p***y and [the N-word],' which were loud enough for everyone in the front of the store to hear, causing an offensive condition without a legitimate purpose."The police report also said that "both females continued to scream obscenities and directed threats at both Oseas and Kimbrel as they made their way out of the store," according to the Globe.The sisters exited the grocery store, but police confronted the pair in the parking lot.The siblings informed officers that they were working for Instacart and that they were shopping for a customer, Boston.com noted.Olivia said she confronted an employee who she felt suspected her of shoplifting, the Globe said, citing the police report. Boston.com indicated Olivia alleged a store employee watched them closely as they paid for the groceries and tried to take their shopping cart when they were confronted.When the sisters were questioned about the expensive items in the blue bag, Olivia said the "bag was hers and that the items in it were an Instacart order canceled by one of her customers," the report stated, according to Boston.com.The Globe said Olivia claimed the proof of the Instacart cancellation had disappeared from her phone.Police noted in the report that the sisters' account of what happened in the grocery store was plagued by "inconsistencies," and the pair "were evasive, providing only the bare minimum to prove that the high-priced items in their shopping cart had been paid for," according to the paper.Olivia said her sister fell as she was pushed by an employee trying to take their shopping cart away, the report said."Olivia reacted and admitted to pushing and hitting the employee on the face with her phone,” the report stated, according to the Globe. "Olivia told me she should not have struck the employee but felt she needed to defend her sister." Police said the sisters were arrested and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, shoplifting by asportation, and disorderly conduct.A judge ordered the sisters not to enter Market Basket and to have no contact with employees of the grocery store.The suspects were arraigned Monday in Brockton District Court.The sisters pleaded not guilty to the charges and were released on personal recognizance.The Byrd sisters are scheduled to return to court on Dec. 17, according to records.The West Bridgewater Police Department and Market Basket did not immediately respond to <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/u/paulsacca" target="_self">Blaze News</a>' request for comment.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>!]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/video-shoplifting-fight-boston-viral</guid><category>Caught on video</category><category>Viral video</category><category>Robbery</category><category>Fights</category><category>Fight video</category><category>Crime</category><category>Massachusetts</category><category>West bridgewater police department</category><category>Market basket</category><category>Shoplifting accusation</category><category>Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon</category><dc:creator>Paul Sacca</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/video-sisters-theft-of-lobsters-ribeyes-and-truffle-butter-explodes-into-checkout-chaos-and-racial-slur-rampage-cops-say.png?id=61999353&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Riot, repeat: How America’s unrest became a bad rerun</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/riot-repeat-how-americas-unrest-became-a-bad-rerun</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/riot-repeat-how-americas-unrest-became-a-bad-rerun.jpg?id=62003697&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C107"/> History doesn’t just move forward — it echoes. Karl Marx once said history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, second as farce.” He meant it as a jab at 19th-century France, where Napoleon’s nephew attempted to replicate his uncle’s revolutionary drama not on the battlefield but rather through bureaucratic spectacle. Nevertheless, Marx’s insight fits modern America. Our cycles of unrest and outrage have become predictable theater — each act beginning with moral panic and ending in absurdity.The summer of 2020 was a national trauma. The killing of George Floyd was a tragedy that radicals turned into revolution. Riots swept through more than 2,000 cities, torching businesses, destroying neighborhoods, and leaving dozens dead. Egged on by the race-baiting activists at Black Lives Matter, mobs looted stores, assaulted police, and terrorized communities.The line between tragedy and farce is thinner than ever — and this time, we can’t afford to play the fool.Media outlets downplayed the carnage as “fiery but mostly peaceful.” Political leaders joined the chorus, afraid to confront the mob. Corporate America rushed to signal its virtue by taking the knee, pouring billions into “racial equity” schemes that enriched activists but divided the country.The real tragedy wasn’t just the damage — it was the betrayal. Spineless mayors and governors surrendered their cities. Police were handcuffed, budgets gutted, and criminals emboldened. The riots hollowed out public trust, replacing civic order with cultural resentment. America’s guardians became scapegoats, and justice itself became negotiable.<h2>From riot to parody</h2>Five years on, the rebellion has devolved into a pathetic sideshow. Antifa’s latest “resistance” — a handful of masked agitators harassing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as they carry out long-overdue deportations — feels less like revolution and more like performance art.Their vandalism is designed for TikTok, not for change: laser pointers at officers, graffiti on walls, choreographed scuffles for social media. It’s a boutique insurgency — staged in deep-blue enclaves, broadcast for dopamine hits, and forgotten the next day.The chaos of 2020 burned cities. The tantrums of 2025 barely dent a precinct wall. The tragedy has become farce.Still, both movements spring from the same poisoned root: a left-wing ideology that despises America’s foundations. BLM targeted police as enforcers of “white supremacy.” Antifa brands border agents as fascists for upholding immigration law.Both rely on the same tactics — decentralized mobs, anonymous online organizing, and emotional manipulation amplified by social media. Both seek power through grievance, not through persuasion. And both reveal how progressive rage, unmoored from reality, becomes self-parody.In 2020, rioters burned precincts and seized city blocks. They demanded “defund the police” and got it — along with record crime rates and broken neighborhoods. In 2025, their heirs spray-paint slogans and livestream tantrums. Their only victory is visibility.<h2>The digital theater of rage</h2>Social media turned riots into content. In 2020, doctored clips of “police brutality” fueled nationwide hysteria, empowered anti-cop lunatics, and <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/blm-doj-investigates-fraud-ap" target="_self">enriched grifters</a>. Today, the same algorithms push Antifa’s posturing, turning vandalism into viral spectacle.These platforms profit from outrage. They amplify emotion, suppress context, and reward hysteria. The result is a feedback loop of performative politics — activism as cosplay.After years of indulgence, government crackdowns have finally returned. ICE operates under firm executive backing. Local police departments no longer hesitate to enforce the law. The radicals, once protected, now find themselves exposed and outmatched.But even as law enforcement regains its footing, the left’s playbook remains unchanged. The grievances are repackaged, the slogans recycled, the media coverage predictable. It’s cultural Marxism with a TikTok filter — ideology as entertainment.Farce doesn’t mean harmless. Every protest turned stunt still corrodes civic life. Each viral act of defiance feeds distrust in law, borders, and the rule of order itself.The radicals thrive on illusion: fake oppression, fake urgency, fake rebellion. Meanwhile, real Americans bear the cost — higher crime, divided communities, and institutions too timid to defend themselves.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/align/the-lefts-costume-party-virtue-signaling-as-performance-art" target="_self">The left’s costume party: Virtue signaling as performance art</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8ff1588b7e841bc8b2650b21a0eb7b54" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="a2a11" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62003802&width=980"/> Photo by serazetdinov via Getty Images<h2>The lesson we refuse to learn</h2>The tragedy of 2020 proved that surrendering to the mob invites ruin. The farce of 2025 shows that ridicule alone isn’t enough to defeat it. Both demand resolve — the courage to confront lies, restore order, and defend the institutions that safeguard freedom.History doesn’t stop repeating itself; it stops being repeated. Whether America ends this cycle depends on whether its citizens choose firmness over fear, enforcement over appeasement, and truth over spectacle.Enough with the doctored outrage porn. The burning question is whether we’ll tolerate this clown show recycling into catastrophe or crush it with resolve that honors real American values.The line between tragedy and farce is thinner than ever — and this time, we can’t afford to play the fool.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/riot-repeat-how-americas-unrest-became-a-bad-rerun</guid><category>Opinion & analysis</category><category>Opinion</category><category>Riot</category><category>Riots</category><category>Antifa</category><category>Activism</category><category>Antifascism</category><category>Revolition</category><category>George floyd</category><category>George floyd protests</category><category>George floyd riots</category><category>Karl marx</category><category>History</category><category>Tragedy</category><category>Farce</category><category>Leftism</category><category>Ice raids</category><category>Portland</category><category>Black lives matter</category><dc:creator>Clifford Angell Bates Jr.</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/riot-repeat-how-americas-unrest-became-a-bad-rerun.jpg?id=62003697&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>The Robertsons open up about pornography: Childhood exposures and the road to freedom</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/unashamed/the-robertsons-open-up-about-pornography-childhood-exposures-and-the-road-to-freedom</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=61989864&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/> On a recent episode of “Unashamed,” the Robertson brothers and Zach Dasher dove headfirst into the infamous P-word. <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cjOA0qk4WBw?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe> Pornography has become an epidemic that enslaves millions and millions of people, most often boys and men. While it’s technically been around for millennia, the digital age has brought porn into the mainstream and made it nearly impossible to avoid. It’s on our televisions; it’s on our phones; even artificial intelligence has fused with the industry in ways that can only be described as sick and depraved.Today, many boys are exposed to porn long before they hit puberty.Al, who grew up in an era where pornography was still confined to magazines, says he first encountered it at a “very young” age — “probably 7 or 8 years old” — while living next door to the bar Phil owned and operated before his radical conversion to Christianity. This early exposure caused Al to struggle for years, even into his marriage.Zach Dasher has a similar story. When he was just 11 years old, his friend’s older brother put on an adult movie with the intention of introducing the younger boys to pornography. Years later, Zach learned from renowned Christian counselor Dr. Trent Langhofer that exposure to pornography before puberty has “the same effect on you as being sexually molested.”“It made a lot of sense to me because that was an imprint in me that I dealt with for years. ... I think that that early exposure probably set me on a trajectory of sin for many years,” he says.Jase, who was lucky enough to avoid exposure in his early years, says that he sees pornography as an issue that roots back to creation. God created Adam and said, “It’s not good for the man to be alone,” so out of His kindness, He created Eve and subsequently marriage and sex. Pornography, however, is a perversion of God’s good design.Not only does it isolate man, which God already said wasn’t good, it also taints his view of reality, and harms his relationships, especially the one with his wife, Jase explains.Al says something that helped him think differently about pornography was having his own daughters and wrestling with the reality that every girl on a magazine page or a screen is not only someone’s daughter but also an image bearer of God. “You start thinking like Jesus thinks,” he says.Zach found freedom in not just learning the truth but by taking action. Accountability was key in helping him break the cycle. Confession is the first step, he says, and if you’re married, it needs to be to your wife. “Now you’ve got skin in the game,” he says.“And then after the confession, you have to find new rhythms ... we are what we consume.”“If you consume something different, then you will become something different. You will worship what you behold. And so if you're beholding entertainment, then that's what you will eventually begin to worship,” he warns.Freedom is “truth coupled with discipline.”To hear more of the panel’s honest conversation, watch the episode above.<h2>Want more from the Robertsons?</h2>To enjoy more on God, guns, ducks, and inspiring stories of faith and family, <a href="https://get.blazetv.com/unashamed/?utm_source=theblaze&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=article_shortcode_unashamed" target="_blank">subscribe to BlazeTV</a> — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/unashamed/the-robertsons-open-up-about-pornography-childhood-exposures-and-the-road-to-freedom</guid><category>Unashamed</category><category>Al robertson</category><category>Jase robertson</category><category>Zach dasher</category><category>Robertson family</category><category>Pornography addiction</category><category>Pornography effects on marriage</category><category>Blazetv</category><category>Blaze media</category><category>Christianity</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=61989864&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Coddled Harvard students cry after dean exposes grade inflation, 'relaxed' standards</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/coddled-harvard-students-cry-after-dean-admits-too-many-are-too-easily-getting-as-calls-for-reform</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/coddled-harvard-students-cry-after-dean-exposes-grade-inflation-relaxed-standards.jpg?id=61990028&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C53%2C0%2C54"/> Harvard University's Office of Undergraduate Education released a 25-page report on Monday revealing that roughly 60% of the grades dished out in undergraduate classes are As. This is apparently not a signal that the students are necessarily better or smarter than past cohorts but rather that Harvard As are now easier to come by.According to the report, authored by the school's dean of undergraduate education Amanda Claybaugh and <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/27/grading-workload-report/" target="_blank">reviewed</a> by the Harvard Crimson, the proportion of students receiving A grades since 2015 has risen by 20 percentage points.'If that standard is raised even more, it's unrealistic to assume that people will enjoy their classes.'Whereas at the time of graduation, the median grade point average for the class of 2015 was 3.64, it was 3.83 for the class of 2025 — and the Harvard GPA has been an A since the 2016-2017 academic year."Nearly all faculty expressed serious concern," wrote Claybaugh. "They perceive there to be a misalignment between the grades awarded and the quality of student work."Citing responses from faculty and students, the report revealed that the specific functions of grading — motivating students, indicating mastery of subject matter, and separating the wheat from the chaff — are not being fulfilled.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/harvard-posts-deficit-of-over-110-million-as-funding-feud-with-trump-continues-to-sting" target="_blank">Harvard posts deficit of over $110 million as funding feud with Trump continues to sting</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="442b99833af7de8d575afc36daaae5b3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="8e206" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62000911&width=980"/> Photo by Zhu Ziyu/VCG via Getty Images "In the view of faculty, grades currently distinguish between work that meets expectations or fails to meet expectations, but beyond that grades don't distinguish much at all," <a href="https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1982903482748371398/photo/1" target="_blank">said</a> the report. "'Students know that an 'A' can be awarded,' one faculty member observed, 'for anything from outstanding work to reasonably satisfactory work. It's a farce.'"Claybaugh acknowledged that grades can serve as a useful and transparent way to "distinguish the strongest student work for the purposes of honors, prizes, and applications to professional and graduate schools." However, since As are now handed out like candy and many students have identical GPAs, prizes and other benefits must now be dispensed on the basis of less objective factors, which "risks introducing bias and inconsistency into the process," suggested the dean.The report noted further that Harvard University's current grading practices "are not only undermining the functions of grading; they are also damaging the academic culture of the College more generally" by constraining student choice, exacerbating stress, and "hollowing out academics."Steven McGuire, a fellow at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, <a href="https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1982916369961365989" target="_blank">highlighted</a> the admission in the report that Harvard owes much of its current crisis to its coddling of unprepared students."For the past decade or so, the College has been exhorting faculty to remember that some students arrive less prepared for college than others, that some are struggling with difficult family situations or other challenges, that many are struggling with imposter syndrome — and nearly all are suffering from stress," <a href="https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1982916369961365989" target="_blank">said</a> the report."Unsure how best to support their students, many have simply become more lenient. Requirements were relaxed, and grades were raised, particularly in the year of remote instruction," continued the report. "This leniency, while well-intentioned, has had pernicious effects."The new report is hardly the first time the school has suggested that Harvard undergraduate students tend to be coddled, intellectually fragile, ideologically rigid, and slothful.Citing faculty feedback, Harvard's Classroom Social Compact Committee indicated in a <a href="https://www.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum716/files/2025-04/CSCC-FINAL_Adopted-03.04.25-FINAL-ua_0.pdf" target="_blank">January report</a> that undergraduate students "have rising expectations for high grades, but falling expectations for effort"; often don't attend class; frequently don't do many of the assigned readings; seek out easy courses; and in some cases are "uncomfortable with curricular content that is not aligned with the student's moral framework."The January report noted further that "some teaching fellows grade too easily because they fear negative student feedback."Claybaugh's grade inflation report has reportedly prompted complaints and whining this week from students.Among the dozens of students who objected to the report and its findings was Sophie Chumburidze, who <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/30/students-react-grading-report/" target="_blank">told</a> the Harvard Crimson, "The whole entire day, I was crying.""I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best," said Chumburidze. "It just felt soul-crushing."Kayta Aronson told the Crimson that higher standards could adversely impact students' health."It makes me rethink my decision to come to the school," said Aronson. "I killed myself all throughout high school to try and get into this school. I was looking forward to being fulfilled by my studies now, rather than being killed by them."Zahra Rohaninejad suggested that raising standards might sap the enjoyment out of the Harvard experience."I can't reach my maximum level of enjoyment just learning the material because I'm so anxious about the midterm, so anxious about the papers, and because I know it's so harshly graded," said Rohaninejad. "If that standard is raised even more, it's unrealistic to assume that people will enjoy their classes."The student paper indicated the university did not respond to its request for comment.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>!]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/coddled-harvard-students-cry-after-dean-admits-too-many-are-too-easily-getting-as-calls-for-reform</guid><category>Academics</category><category>Academia</category><category>School</category><category>College</category><category>University</category><category>Coddled</category><category>Coddling</category><category>Student</category><category>Students</category><category>Harvard</category><category>Woke</category><category>Politics</category><dc:creator>Joseph MacKinnon</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/coddled-harvard-students-cry-after-dean-exposes-grade-inflation-relaxed-standards.jpg?id=61990028&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>‘Franken-wheat’: The real reason Americans can’t eat bread anymore</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/relatable/franken-wheat-the-real-reason-americans-cant-eat-bread-anymore</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61942431&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/> Across the country, Americans have begun realizing they have a gluten sensitivity — but other countries don’t have the same issue. And according to Christian homesteader Michelle Visser, it’s not the fault of bread, but rather, how it’s made in America.“Talking about other countries, back when we were adding into our flour and enriching it, other countries didn’t do that. In fact, in Italy, they had a pellagra outbreak around the same time that we were dealing with it here, but they responded completely different in little towns in Italy,” Visser tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey.“They literally built communal ovens, bread ovens, and they encouraged them to use good grains, which had not gone through the green revolution of our country ... and make whole wheat bread,” she explains.“They knew that it was related to folate, and they knew it was dietary, and they said, ‘What can we do? We have in these small towns a lot of poor people who can’t necessarily afford good food. So one thing is, let's at least give them the equipment to make the bread,’” she continues.<h3></h3> <iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KWYnVDznTP8?rel=0&start=2460" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe>And the result of this, Visser explains, was wiping out pellagra — which was attributed to spoiled bread and polenta.“So do you think gluten is unfairly demonized?” Stuckey asks.“I think it is,” Visser says, using Norman Borlaug, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, as an example of being focused on the wrong issue when it comes to gluten.“He had figured out how to manipulate wheat to give it a higher yield and to just simply grow more wheat for your buck. And while there’s definite advantages to understanding plant science, unfortunately, every time that we genetically change or we breed certain characteristics into any of our food, we are losing some nutrition,” she tells Stuckey.“When they started milling it with the steel mills, they went from 20 barrels of flour a day to 500 barrels of flour a day with no extra energy, no extra expense. So there’s definitely money involved in the whole story is what I’m saying,” she explains.“This bread that has been stripped of the good stuff, inserted with the synthetic stuff, that is maybe what’s causing the problems, especially in America,” Stuckey comments, surprised.“Yeah,” Vasser confirms, noting that we’ve also added more protein into modern-day wheat, which has created a “franken-wheat.”And then on top of what already is “franken-wheat,” wheat manufacturers have begun using pesticides and herbicides.“If you are not buying organic flour, glyphosate is in trace amounts in your flour. It’s just, it’s there ... if we are exposing our gut to glyphosate, we are killing the good bacteria. We’ve had gut problems in this country for many decades ... and I think a lot of it has to do with this glyphosate in our flour.”<h2>Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?</h2>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.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/shows/relatable/franken-wheat-the-real-reason-americans-cant-eat-bread-anymore</guid><category>Video phone</category><category>Upload</category><category>Camera phone</category><category>Free</category><category>Video</category><category>Sharing</category><category>Youtube.com</category><category>Relatable with 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 originals</category><category>Franken wheat</category><category>American bread</category><category>Gluten</category><category>Gluten insensitivity</category><category>Gluten sensitivity</category><category>Gluten free</category><category>Glyphosate</category><category>Allie beth stukey</category><category>Relatable</category><dc:creator>BlazeTV Staff</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61942431&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>AI can fake a face — but not a soul</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/ai-can-fake-a-face-but-not-a-soul</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/ai-can-fake-a-face-but-not-a-soul.jpg?id=62003211&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C1"/> The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/business/tiktok-ai-avatars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e08.tu8K.h_Wo8bNU5j1h&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New York Times</a> recently profiled Scott Jacqmein, an actor from Dallas who sold his likeness to TikTok for $750 and a free trip to the Bay Area. He hasn’t landed any TV shows, movies, or commercials, but his AI-generated likeness has — a virtual version of Jacqmein is now “acting” in countless ads on TikTok. As the Times put it, Jacqmein “fields one or two texts a week from acquaintances and friends who are pretty sure they have seen him pitching a peculiar range of businesses on TikTok.”Now, Jacqmein “has regrets.” But why? He consented to sell his likeness. His image isn’t being used illegally. He wanted to act, and now — at least digitally — he’s acting. His regrets seem less about ethics and more about economics.The more perfect the imitation, the greater the lie. What people crave isn’t flawless illusion — it’s authenticity.Times reporter Sapna Maheshwari suggests as much. Her story centers on the lack of royalties and legal protections for people like Jacqmein.She also raises moral concerns, citing examples where digital avatars were used to promote objectionable products or deliver offensive messages. In one case, Jacqmein’s AI double pitched a “male performance supplement.” In another, a TikTok employee allegedly unleashed AI avatars reciting passages from <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/business/video/tiktok-ai-avatar-disinformation-hitler-digivid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”</a> TikTok removed the tool that made the videos possible after CNN brought the story to light.<h2>When faces become property</h2>These incidents blur into a larger problem — the same one raised by deepfakes. In recent months, digital impostors have mimicked public figures from <a href="https://catholicvote.org/bishop-barron-speaks-out-against-ai-generated-videos-impersonating-him/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bishop Robert Barron</a> to the pope. The Vatican itself has had to denounce fake homilies generated in the likeness of <a href="https://catholicvote.org/youtube-shuts-down-channel-posting-fake-pope-leo-sermons/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leo XIV</a>. Such fabrications can mislead, defame, or humiliate.But the deepest problem with digital avatars isn’t that they deceive. It’s that they aren’t real.Even if Jacqmein were paid handsomely and religious figures embraced synthetic preaching as legitimate evangelism, something about the whole enterprise would remain wrong. Selling one’s likeness is a transaction of the soul. It’s unsettling because it treats what’s uniquely human — voice, gesture, and presence — as property to be cloned and sold.When a person licenses his “digital twin,” he doesn’t just part with data. He commodifies identity itself. The actor’s expressions, tone, and mannerisms become a bundle of intellectual property. Someone else owns them now.That’s why <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/garydrenik/2025/01/14/55-of-audiences-are-uncomfortable-with-ai-are-brands-listening/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">audiences instinctively recoil</a> at watching AI puppets masquerade and mimic people. Even if the illusion is technically impressive, it feels hollow. A digital replica can’t evoke the same moral or emotional response as a real human being.<h2>Selling the soul</h2>This isn’t a new theme in art or philosophy. In a classic “Simpsons” episode, Bart <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBopoVW3auI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sells his soul</a> to his pal Milhouse for $5 and soon feels hollow, haunted by nightmares, convinced he’s lost something essential. The joke carries a metaphysical truth: When we surrender what defines us as human — even symbolically — we suffer a real loss.For those who believe in an immortal soul, as Jesuit philosopher Robert Spitzer argues in “<a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/06/14/rescuing-god-and-science-from-scientism/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Science at the Doorstep to God</a>,” this loss is more than psychological. To sell one’s likeness is to treat the image of the divine within as a market commodity. The transaction might seem trivial — a harmless digital contract — but the symbolism runs deep.Oscar Wilde captured this inversion of morality in “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” His protagonist stays eternally young while his portrait, the mirror of his soul, decays. In our digital age, the roles are reversed: The AI avatar remains young and flawless while the human model ages, forgotten and spiritually diminished.Jacqmein can’t destroy his portrait. It’s contractually owned by someone else. If he wants to stop his digital self from hawking supplements or energy drinks, he’ll need lawyers — and he’ll probably lose. He’s condemned to watch his AI double enjoy a flourishing career while he struggles to pay rent. The scenario reads like a lost episode of “Black Mirror” — a man trapped in a parody of his own success. (In fact, “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2386296/?ref_=ttep_ep_3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Waldo Moment</a>” and “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710978/?ref_=ttep_eps_tp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hang the DJ</a>” come close to this.)RELATED:<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/return/cybernetics-promised-a-merger-of-human-and-computer-then-why-do-we-feel-so-out-of-the-loop" target="_self"> Cybernetics promised a merger of human and computer. Then why do we feel so out of the loop?</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="97a9082e81a49f97cb29515432f745a9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e14e6" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=62003227&width=980"/> Photo by imaginima via Getty Images<h2>The moral exit</h2>The conventional answer to this dilemma is regulation: copyright reforms, consent standards, watermarking requirements. But the real solution begins with refusal. Actors shouldn’t sell their avatars. Consumers shouldn’t support platforms that replace people with synthetic ghosts.If TikTok and other media giants populate their feeds with digital clones, users should boycott them and demand “fair-trade human content.” Just as conscientious shoppers insist on buying ethically sourced goods, viewers should insist on art and advertising made by living, breathing humans.Tech evangelists argue that AI avatars will soon become indistinguishable from the people they’re modeled on. But that misses the point. The more perfect the imitation, the greater the lie. What people crave isn’t flawless illusion — it’s authenticity. They want to see imperfection, effort, and presence. They want to see life.If we surrender that, we’ll lose something far more valuable than any acting career or TikTok deal. We’ll lose the very thing that makes us human.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/ai-can-fake-a-face-but-not-a-soul</guid><category>Opinion & analysis</category><category>Opinion</category><category>Tiktok</category><category>Hollywood</category><category>Artificial intelligence</category><category>License</category><category>Likeness</category><category>Actors</category><category>Artists</category><category>Boycott</category><category>Soul</category><category>The simpsons</category><category>Bart simpson</category><category>Scott jacqmein</category><category>Adolf hitler</category><category>Mein kampf</category><category>Entertainment</category><category>Pope leo xiv</category><category>Robert barron</category><category>Robert spitzer</category><category>Black mirror</category><category>Copyright</category><category>Fair-trade human content</category><category>Faith</category><dc:creator>Auguste Meyrat</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/ai-can-fake-a-face-but-not-a-soul.jpg?id=62003211&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>Dad goes absolutely primal on stranger who reportedly opened his home's front door and told his 'little daughter' he's a cop</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/news/toledo-ohio-father-beats-up-man-who-opens-his-homes-front-door-claims-hes-a-cop</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/dad-goes-absolutely-primal-on-stranger-who-reportedly-opened-his-home-s-front-door-and-told-his-little-daughter-he-s-a-cop.png?id=62001675&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C20%2C0%2C21"/> A family in Toledo, Ohio, got a most unwelcome visitor Saturday afternoon — a male they didn't know who allegedly opened their front door and announced to a young daughter that he was a police officer."This guy came through the back alley, came to the front door, and he was trying to open the entrance," Steven Aranda <a href="https://www.13abc.com/2025/10/27/toledo-father-beats-up-man-who-impersonated-police-officer-family-home/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told WTVG-TV</a> of the frightening encounter. "And my little daughter said, ‘What are you doing?’ She said, ‘You don’t belong here,’ and then he said he was a Toledo cop."'I threw him down on the ground — slammed him on the concrete and beat him up.'Charging documents indicated that Parker Jackson, 33, claimed he was a police officer and needed to check on the children in the home, the station said.Aranda told WTVG Jackson didn't look like a police officer, and a Toledo Police report Blaze News obtained indicated that Jackson provided no identification backing up his claim that he was a cop.The station said Aranda was concerned about protecting his children and took matters into his own hands.'I snatched his a*s up, and I threw him down on the ground — slammed him on the concrete and beat him up," Aranda told WTVG. “I pinned him down until the cops got here.”Indeed, Jackson's arrest photo shows him with a bloody, swollen lip and a cut above his eye. The police report also said Jackson was showing "visible symptoms of intoxication" by the time officers arrived. In fact, the report added that Jackson appeared to have been carrying several opened and unopened cans of Milwaukee's Best Ice beer at the time of his arrest. The report also said Jackson acknowledged opening the home's front door and claiming to be a police officer.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/dad-tells-cops-he-caught-a-rideshare-driver-sexually-assaulting-his-daughter-so-he-did-what-dads-do" target="_blank">Dad tells cops he caught a rideshare driver sexually assaulting his daughter. So he did what dads do.</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9eec6dd7b6f000e78762fcc6301612d7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="d9701" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.png?id=62003014&width=980"/> Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesJackson pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated trespassing, inducing panic, and impersonating a police officer, WTVG reported, adding that a judge ordered Jackson to stay away from the family and set his bond at $1,500.Aranda told the station his four children were shaken by the incident.“The kids were kind of scared a little bit 'cause, you know, they ain't been playing outside now in the past few days because you can’t trust nobody no more,” he noted to WTVG. “Watch out for your kids where they play at and their surroundings.” You can watch the video of Aranda's interview with <a href="https://www.13abc.com/2025/10/27/toledo-father-beats-up-man-who-impersonated-police-officer-family-home/" target="_blank">WTVG here</a>.Jackson on Friday was still behind bars at Lucas County Jail, officials told Blaze News.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>!]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/news/toledo-ohio-father-beats-up-man-who-opens-his-homes-front-door-claims-hes-a-cop</guid><category>Crime thwarted</category><category>Lucas county sheriff's office</category><category>Ohio</category><category>Toledo</category><category>Intruder</category><category>Father</category><category>Physical attack</category><category>Self-defense</category><category>Protecting family</category><category>Home intruder</category><category>Impersonating police officer</category><category>Crime</category><dc:creator>Dave Urbanski</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/png" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/dad-goes-absolutely-primal-on-stranger-who-reportedly-opened-his-home-s-front-door-and-told-his-little-daughter-he-s-a-cop.png?id=62001675&width=980"></media:content></item><item><title>The poisoned stream of culture is flowing through our churches</title><link>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-poisoned-stream-of-culture-is-flowing-through-our-churches</link><description><![CDATA[
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/the-poisoned-stream-of-culture-is-flowing-through-our-churches.jpg?id=61995331&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C1%2C0"/> On most days, the creek that runs behind our home in Montana looks like something out of a painting. The water tumbles over slick stones, swirls beneath the wooden bridge, and flashes like glass in the sunlight as it winds through the trees.On hot afternoons, I take off my boots and stand in it awhile, letting the cold mountain water swirl around my feet. Even in August, it stays clear and shockingly cold — refreshing on hot, dusty feet. It looks so pure and inviting that you’d think you could cup your hands and drink from it.The world’s water might soothe for a moment, but it can’t sustain. Only Christ, the living water, can cleanse, restore, and refresh a parched heart.Yet I know better. While helping a rancher move some cattle across the property, a few of them wandered down into that same creek. They lingered there, swishing tails and doing what cows do. The water still looked clear from a distance, but you certainly wouldn’t drink from it. Even a Supreme Court justice wouldn’t need a biologist to figure that out.The water in that creek started high in the mountains, clean and cold. It was once pure, but animals do what animals do. People, though, take it further. We pollute on purpose. That’s not instinct; that’s sin. We talk about free will, and we have it. But left to ourselves, we use it to wreck what was good. The culture isn’t just wandering into the water; it’s content to poison it, and sinners seem to care less about a polluted stream than cows do.<h2>Downstream from belief</h2>We’ve all heard that politics flows downstream from culture. But if you trace that current far enough, you’ll find that culture flows downstream from belief. Whatever people worship, they eventually legislate into law. Today, we have ceased worshipping God. Instead, we bow before slogans, systems, and grievances that mollify us rather than giving worship to the one to whom it is due. From a distance, it all looks good — flowing with energy, language, and even a sense of virtue. But somewhere upstream, something has wandered into the water — or been poured into it.Too often, the church is wading downstream, cup in hand, trying to stay “relevant” while drinking what has already been polluted. The poison is sin itself, the moral waste of self-worship that seeps in until it becomes part of the current.When the church starts drinking downstream, the songs continue, the sermons sound familiar, and the branding shines. But the taste changes. Conviction weakens, holiness becomes optional, and relevance becomes everything. We echo the world’s vocabulary of identity and justice without the foundation of repentance and redemption. The message gets muddied, and we don’t even notice the shift.And when that happens, the thirstiest suffer first. Those are the ones who come to church desperate for something real.<h2>What really sticks</h2>I’ve spent 40 years as a caregiver, and I’ve learned what real thirst feels like. When you’ve poured yourself out for years, almost any water looks good. You pray for strength, for truth, for something steady, and too often what comes back sounds like marketing. You sit in church and hear, “Claim your victory,” “Speak life,” or, “Step into your blessing,” and you wonder if anyone sees the wreckage you live with. Then, from another pulpit, you hear, “God understands,” “It’s not that bad,” or, “Everyone struggles.” It sounds compassionate, but it isn’t. It’s corrosion.The first slick of contamination began with the serpent questioning the Word of God, and all too many pulpits echo that same hiss today. They downplay sin, soften the edges, and serve up messages that keep people comfortable yet captive. They offer sympathy instead of repentance. That’s not grace; that’s decay.Ornate and large pulpits don’t necessarily mean clean water. Visibility isn’t the same as vision. The purity of the message isn’t measured by the size of the platform of the one delivering it but by how faithfully it points upstream to Christ Himself.Truth, the real kind, usually starts with one hard word: repent. It’s upstream, and it’s not easy to get there. But that’s where the water runs clean. Downstream, you’ll only find a little contamination, a little compromise, a little manure, and just enough to make you sick.RELATED: <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/scripture-or-slogans-you-have-to-choose" target="_self">Scripture or slogans — you have to choose</a> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="69eecb1adeab18f0a9fab1753883cb8f" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="42800" loading="lazy" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=61995365&width=980"/> freedom007 via iStock/Getty ImagesI’ve tested the various platitudes and slogans in the emergency room, ICU, and dark watches of the night more times than I can count. None of them hold up.Here’s what does.Only one water stays pure no matter who steps in it. It’s the same water that met a Samaritan woman at a well. It’s the same water Isaiah promised when he wrote, “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.” That’s the invitation — not just to the church, but to every soul that’s dry and staggering: Walk upstream.<h2>Go upstream</h2>When we drink deeply from that pure spring, holiness stops feeling like a burden and starts feeling like oxygen. It gives clarity instead of confusion, courage instead of compromise.That’s the call to the church and to every weary heart. Don’t drink what the world has trampled. Don’t settle for water that only looks clean from a distance. Polluted streams can’t quench the thirst of thirsty people.The world’s water might soothe for a moment, even cool our weary feet, but it can’t sustain us. Only Christ, the living water, can cleanse, restore, and refresh a parched heart.So go upstream. The source is still pure, and it’s still flowing.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-poisoned-stream-of-culture-is-flowing-through-our-churches</guid><category>Opinion & analysis</category><category>Faith</category><category>Caregiving</category><category>Gospel</category><category>Purity</category><category>Poison</category><category>Culture</category><category>Politics</category><category>Jesus christ</category><category>Living water</category><category>Christianity</category><category>The church</category><dc:creator>Peter Rosenberger</dc:creator><media:content medium="image" type="image/jpeg" url="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/the-poisoned-stream-of-culture-is-flowing-through-our-churches.jpg?id=61995331&width=980"></media:content></item></channel></rss>

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