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  • DHS probe confirms Biden's FEMA refused aid to Trump-supporting disaster survivors Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:25:00 +0000


    The Federal Emergency Management Agency, while under the leadership of the Biden administration, was accused of skipping homes that displayed campaign signs supporting President Donald Trump in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

    A whistleblower report surfaced in late 2024 that FEMA relief workers had been ordered not to provide aid to people displaying Trump signs on their property, eventually prompting several firings at the agency.

    'They deliberately avoided houses displaying support for President Trump and the Second Amendment, illegally collected and stored information about survivors' political beliefs, and failed to report their malicious behavior.'

    Then-FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell told Congress that it was an isolated incident, blaming the misstep on a since-terminated employee.

    However, a Department of Homeland Security report released Tuesday revealed that the "abuses were widespread, systematic, and occurred during multiple disasters dating back to Hurricane Ida in 2021."

    Further, the probe claimed that the workers also violated the Privacy Act of 1974 by collecting information about the political beliefs of disaster survivors.

    The DHS report listed some examples of observed political signs and flags that FEMA relief workers documented.

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    Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    "Trump sign, no contact per leadership," a FEMA worker wrote in 2024 about a Florida home, according to the report.

    "A lot of explicit political flags, posters, etc. 'F**k Joe Biden' 'MAGA 2024' 'Joe Biden Sucks' 'TRUMP 2024,'" another worker allegedly noted in 2021 about a Pennsylvania residence. "We do not recommend anyone visiting this location."

    "Homeowner had sign stated ... this is Trump country," a third reportedly wrote about a Louisiana property in 2021.

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    Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images

    "The federal government was withholding aid against Americans in crisis based on their political beliefs — this should horrify every American, regardless of political persuasion," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated.

    "For years, FEMA employees under the Biden administration intentionally delayed much-needed aid to Americans suffering from natural disasters on purely political grounds," Noem continued. "They deliberately avoided houses displaying support for President Trump and the Second Amendment, illegally collected and stored information about survivors' political beliefs, and failed to report their malicious behavior. We will not let this stand."

    The DHS referred the case to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution.

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  • Roger Goodell dismisses outrage over Bad Bunny performing Super Bowl show Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:10:00 +0000


    The commissioner of the National Football League addressed the public outrage over the decision to have Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny perform during the halftime show at the Super Bowl.

    Many football fans were furious when the NFL made the announcement, especially after some anti-Trump comments of his resurfaced on social media.

    'He understands the platform that he's on, and I think it's going to be exciting and a united moment.'

    Commissioner Goodell defended the decision while speaking to reporters on Wednesday after the annual Fall League Meeting.

    "It's carefully thought through," Goodell said. "I'm not sure we've ever selected an artist where we didn't have some blowback or criticism. It's pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching."

    The 31-year-old rapper was born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio and has refused to perform on the mainland of the U.S. out of fear of the mass deportation policies of President Donald Trump. He has instead performed his shows in Puerto Rico, a territory of the U.S.

    Many were further antagonized when Ocasio responded to the outrage by joking that anyone who wanted to understand his performance would have to learn Spanish.

    "We're confident it's going to be a great show," Goodell continued. "He understands the platform that he's on, and I think it's going to be exciting and a united moment."

    He also pointed to Bad Bunny's popularity as the rationale for the decision.

    "He's one of the leading and most popular entertainers in the world," Goodell said. "That's what we try to achieve. It's an important stage for us. It's an important element to the entertainment value."

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    President Donald Trump weighed in on the decision and said he had never even heard of the rapper.

    "I don't know who he is," Trump said. "I don't know why they're doing it. It's, like, crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it's absolutely ridiculous."

    Goodell also faced criticism in February when he said the NFL would continue supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion policies despite so many companies abandoning them after Trump's election victory.

    The Super Bowl will be held on February 8, 2026, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

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  • Snoop Dogg caves to woke pressure and drops LGBTQ anthem for KIDS Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:00:00 +0000


    Not months ago, Snoop Dogg took aim at the LGBTQ+ messaging littering children’s television and movies — but in an embarrassing show of defeat, he’s now doing a complete 180.

    The rapper has now partnered with LGBTQ+ nonprofit GLAAD to create a new song for his animated children's show “Doggyland” titled “Love Is Love.”

    The song features animated dog families, which include same-sex couples and single and elder dogs as parents, with lyrics like, “Our parents are different, no two are the same, but the one thing that’s for certain is the love won’t change.”

    “‘Love Is Love’ is a record that my kids' program ‘Doggyland’ presented me, where it’s the song where it’s teaching love is love. It’s teaching parenthood, it’s teaching the situations that kids and the world is going through right now in a beautiful way through song, dance, melody, and just trying to get more understanding, clarity on how we live and the way we live,” the rapper told Jeremy Beloate — who makes a cameo in the new song — in an interview.


    “And I felt like this music is a beautiful, you know, bridge to bringing understanding. This is a program that we’ve been doing for years where we involve kids, and these are things that kids have questions about. So now hopefully we can help answer these questions and, you know, help them to live a happy life and understand that love is love,” he continued.

    “When we spoke about this a month ago, we said that he would not stand 10 toes down,” BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

    “Snoop is just showing that he goes wherever the check is. He has no morals. He has no values, and he’s not a gangster. He’s a fake gangster because gangsters stand on their business and they stand 10 toes down. Snoop doesn’t do that. Never has and never will,” she adds.

    “These gangsters can bully women and talk crazy with women, but when it comes to the LGBTQ, it’s a Deion Sanders like backpedal, and the next thing you know, you’re coming out with a song ‘Love Is Love,’” Whitlock agrees.

    “It’s one of the most demonic songs that’s ever been written,” he adds.

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  • Jasmine Crockett says 'karma' is making her 'strongly' consider running for a higher office Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:30:00 +0000


    Left-wing Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas said she is "strongly" looking to run for U.S. Senate after completing only one term in the lower house of Congress.

    The controversial politician made the comments while appearing on "The Lurie Daniel Favors Show" on SiriusXM. She said that efforts to run her out of office made her believe that "karma" might help her win an even higher seat to stymie her opponents.

    'The question will be whether or not we believe that we've got enough juice to expand the electorate.'

    "Every other day, there's a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary for the U.S. Senate race in Texas," Crockett said.

    "And I am looking. Because if you want to take my seat of 766,000 away, I feel like there has to be some karma in that to where I take your seat that is for 30 million away," she added. "So we are, you know, the primary is the primary. That's cool, but you got to win the general. So we are doing some testing here shortly to see if I can expand the electorate."

    Republicans in Texas are pushing to redistrict the state in an effort to convert more seats in the U.S. House from Democratic control to the Republican side.

    "And I think the key to winning Texas isn't about looking at the current electorate. It's about expanding the electorate. So the question will be whether or not we believe that we've got enough juice to expand the electorate and looking at those cross tabs and looking at which demographics are more inclined to come out who normally do not vote," she continued.

    "If we can expand the electorate, then I will strongly be considering hopping into the Senate race," Crockett concluded.

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    Crockett has become a popular figure on the left for her vitriolic attacks on President Donald Trump, which have also made her a target for her opponents on the right.

    "What is happening? Like, this is not America! This is a terrible nightmare! Somebody slap me and wake me the f**k up, 'cuz I'm ready to get on with it!" she said of the president in March.

    The 44-year-old is in her second term after easily defeating a libertarian candidate in 2024.

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  • Blue-state city battles ACLU to install archangel Michael statue honoring police Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:45:00 +0000


    Thomas Koch, the mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts, commissioned two 10-foot-tall bronze statues to complement his city's new public safety headquarters, a 122,000 square-foot facility that will ultimately house both the police department and the fire department's administration offices.

    One of the statues that the city asked renowned sculptor Sergey Eylanbekov to design depicts the winged archangel Michael stepping on the head of a demon. The other statue depicts Florian, a third-century firefighting Roman soldier, dumping water on a burning building.

    'The statues of Michael and Florian honor service — not a creed.'

    Despite the broader cultural significance of both figures and their longstanding association with first responders, groups loath to see any public signs of Christianity joined a number of local residents in suing to block the installation of the statues.

    While the Norfolk Superior Court granted a preliminary injunction last week blocking the installation of the two statues, the city of Quincy, evidently unwilling to surrender to iconoclastic secularists, has teamed up with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty to file an appeal.

    "We respect every citizen's beliefs, religious or not. But the statues of Michael and Florian honor service — not a creed," Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch said in a statement to Blaze News. "We’re hopeful that the court will reverse this order and allow our city to pay tribute to the men and women who keep our city safe."

    The lawsuit

    The lawsuit filed in May by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, names a number of Quincy residents as plaintiffs including

    • a Unitarian social justice warrior;
    • a self-identified Catholic who finds the "violent imagery" of good triumphing over evil to be "offensive";
    • a local synagogue member who suggested the images "may exacerbate the current rise in anti-Semitism";
    • an Episcopalian who believes that walking past such statues would amount to "submission to religious symbols";
    • several Catholics turned atheists apparently keen to avoid some of the imagery they grew up with; and
    • a lapsed Catholic who suggested the image of Michael stepping on the head of a demon was "reminiscent of how George Floyd was killed."

    The lawsuit states that "affixing religious icons of one particular faith to a government facility — the City's public safety building, no less — sends an alarming message that those who do not subscribe to the City's preferred religious beliefs are second-class residents who should not feel safe, welcomed, or equally respected by their government."

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    Quincy City Hall. Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.

    The complaint hammers home the significance of Michael in Catholicism, where he is recognized as the patron saint of police, yet neglects to note that Michael also features prominently in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic religious texts and traditions as well as in the Western literary canon and pop culture.

    While the suit hints at possible civic or professional accomplishments on the part of Florian that could be recognized with a statue, it again suggested that as the patron saint of firefighters, a statue of the historical figure would similarly "send a predominantly religious message."

    The plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit that the city violated Article III of the Massachusetts Declaration Rights, and suggested that the installation of the statues "will not serve a predominantly secular purpose," but rather to "promote, promulgate, and advance one faith, subordinating other faiths as well as non-religious traditions."

    The allegation of a violation of state law as opposed to a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution appears to have been strategic. After all, the U.S. Supreme Court has made expressly clear that "simply having religious content or promoting a message consistent with a religious doctrine does not run afoul of the establishment clause."

    Mayor Koch rejected the plaintiffs' thesis, underscoring in a sworn affidavit that he regarded it as "appropriate to erect statues of two internationally recognized symbols of police and fire service, an act which would also serve to inspire the men and women who work in the building."

    "There was nothing religious about this decision," continued Koch. "The fact that Michael and Florian each happen to be saints venerated in the Catholic Church is ancillary to their significance in the Police and Fire services, respectively."

    The injunction

    Quincy suggested in the suit that the plaintiffs lacked standing because they were "simply offended by the planned statues, and, unwilling to confine themselves to the ordinary means for airing ideological disagreements with the government — the political process — have sought to make a lawsuit out of it."

    Norfolk Superior Court Justice William Sullivan, who was put on the court by former Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, was evidently not persuaded.

    On Oct.14, Sullivan denied the city's motion to dismiss the lawsuit and granted a preliminary injunction against the erection of the statues, noting that the plaintiffs had demonstrated "that they are likely to succeed at proving that the permanent display of the oversized overtly religious-looking statutes have a primary effect of advancing religion."

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    Speaking to Koch's suggestion that the statues have secular significance and purpose, Sullivan wrote, "To the extent a statue of Saint Michael provides inspiration or conveys a message of truth, justice, or the triumph of good over evil, it does so in his context as a biblical figure — namely, the archangel of God. It is impossible to strip the statue of its religious meaning to contrive a secular purpose."

    Rachel Davidson, a staff attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts, celebrated the ruling, stating, "We are grateful to the court for acknowledging the immediate harm that the installation of these statues would cause and for ensuring that Quincy residents can continue to make their case for the proper separation of church and state."

    "Massachusetts citizens are free to practice their personal religious views by placing statues of saints or other religious iconography on private property," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. "But such religious iconography emphatically does not belong on government buildings where all must feel welcome."

    The appeal

    Becket, a firm focused on protecting religious liberty, announced on Tuesday that it will join the city of Quincy in appealing Sullivan's decision.

    "If allowed to stand, the decision would push cities across the Commonwealth to strip historic symbols from civic life whenever they carry religious associations," the firm said in a statement. "But the Supreme Court has upheld the use of symbols with religious roots in public life, including a World War I memorial featuring a cross, when they carry historical, cultural, or commemorative significance."

    Using private funding in the 1920s, the American Legion constructed the 40-foot-tall Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, to honor soldiers who perished in World War I. The sight of the cross evidently enraged iconoclastic secularists, who sought to have it toppled. While the Fourth Circuit proved more than happy to oblige them, the U.S. Supreme Court determined in its 2019 American Legion v. American Humanist Association ruling that the cross did not violate the Establishment Clause.

    The court also rejected the relevance of the test articulated by SCOTUS in its 1971 Lemon v. Kurtzman ruling as a way of guiding the court in identifying Establishment Clause violations, noting that the Lemon test presented "particularly daunting problems" in such cases that "involve the use, for ceremonial, celebratory, or commemorative purpose, of words or symbols with religious associations."

    While the Supreme Court has effectively rejected the Lemon test, Justice Sullivan leaned heavily on it in the Quincy case.

    "Everyone is free to have their own opinions about public art, but in America, the fact that something may have religious associations is not a legitimate reason to censor it," said Joseph Davis, senior counsel at Becket.

    "Our nation, like many others, has long drawn on historic symbols — including those with religious roots — to honor courage and sacrifice. The court should reject this lawsuit’s attempt to block these symbols of bravery and courage," added Davis.

    Quincy Police Chief Mark Kennedy's office indicated the police department will have no comment as the issue remains in the hands of the court.

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  • Trump pushes IVF to help families — but it ‘kills more babies than abortion’ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:30:00 +0000


    President Donald Trump has announced initiatives to expand access to in vitro fertilization and reduce associated costs — as each round of IVF can cost $12,000 to $25,000 — and one round is often not all it takes.

    “In the Trump administration, we want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children,” Trump said at the White House on October 16.

    “That’s why today I’m pleased to announce that after extensive negotiations, EMD Serrano, the largest fertility drug manufacturer in the world, has agreed to provide massive discounts to all fertility drugs they sell in the United States, including the most popular drug of all, the IVF drug,” he continued.

    While many Republicans have cheered Trump’s announcement, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is not on the same page.


    “Trump says that, you know, he’s unaware of conservative religious objections to IVF, but IVF is inherently pro-life. And I’ll just say it doesn’t surprise me at all that Trump has this position. IVF is extremely popular, even among Republicans, and he represents the position that a lot of people have,” Stuckey says.

    “But let me just explain something,” she continues. “The pro-life position is not just ‘more babies.’ We want more babies that are conceived in loving marriages between a man and a woman. Being pro-life doesn’t mean that we are pro every form of conception. Obviously, we can agree, right, that not every form of conception is moral and ethical.”

    “There is a cost to IVF. In fact, most babies, most embryos that are made via IVF, the vast majority of those embryos will never be transferred and will never make it to a live birth. In fact, the IVF industry kills more babies every year than the abortion industry does,” she explains.

    “If we really believe in our pro-life ethics, that a life is a life no matter how small, that human life starts at conception, then how we treat those embryos that are created in a lab that are frozen indefinitely, that are very often eugenically discarded because they’re the wrong gender or they have Down syndrome or they have some other kind of disability or they were just that unlucky extra guy that was created and their parents don’t want them anymore,” she says.

    “All of that really matters. It’s not only about not killing a baby inside the womb. It’s about not discarding and mistreating life that has been created,” she adds.

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  • Notorious pedophile Ian Watkins killed in prison; cops round up suspects in apparent murder of disgraced Lostprophets singer Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:30:00 +0000


    The former singer of the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, Ian Watkins, recently was attacked and killed in prison, according to authorities. Watkins was serving a sentence for multiple pedophilia-related offenses, including attempting to rape a baby.

    Police in England said Watkins was murdered at His Majesty's Prison Wakefield in Great Britain on the morning of Oct. 11.

    'Extensive inquiries remain ongoing in relation to the murder of Ian Watkins, and these arrests form part of that.'

    Watkins, 48, was pronounced dead at HMP Wakefield despite being given medical treatment for injuries suffered during a "serious assault."

    Last week, British authorities announced the arrest of two men — 25-year-old Rashid Gedel and 43-year-old Samuel Dodsworth. Both suspects were charged with murder in connection with Watkins' death.

    The West Yorkshire Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that two other men — ages 23 and 39 — also were arrested in connection with Watkins' death and charged with suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Police did not name the two new suspects.

    The senior investigating officer in the alleged murder said the investigation is ongoing.

    Detective Chief Inspector James Entwistle of the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team with the West Yorkshire Police Department stated, "Extensive inquiries remain ongoing in relation to the murder of Ian Watkins, and these arrests form part of that."

    "Ian Watkins' family are being updated as the investigation progresses," Entwistle said. "However, we do not anticipate any immediate developments at this stage."

    A spokesperson for the His Majesty's Prison Service told the BBC that it was aware of an incident at the prison but was "unable to comment further while the police investigate."

    The West Yorkshire Police Department and HMP Wakefield did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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    The Mirror noted that HMP Wakefield is known as "Monster Mansion," which "houses some of the U.K.'s most infamous and dangerous criminals, ranging from serial killers to terrorists and habitual rapists."

    Watkins appeared in court in 2019 after a mobile phone reportedly was discovered in his prison cell. Watkins told magistrates that he was imprisoned among "murderers, mass murderers, rapists, pedophiles, serial killers — the worst of the worst," according to the Guardian.

    Previously, Watkins was stabbed in prison while serving time for his child sex crimes.

    As Blaze News reported in August 2023, Watkins was held hostage by three fellow HMP Wakefield prisoners for several hours and stabbed.

    The Mirror previously reported, "The prison had to wait until a 'Tornado Crew' could be assembled — specialist officers trained in hostage situations. The three prisoners kept Watkins hostage for almost six hours — it is believed the attack took place on B wing, where 70 percent of the prisoners are serving life and 20 percent serving 10 years or more. So serious were his injuries, it is understood that he received emergency treatment from paramedics in an ambulance on the prison estate."

    Watkins was arrested in December 2012 and hit with several child sex crime charges.

    "During trial, it was revealed that the password to encrypted files on Watkins' computer was 'I F*K KIDZ,'" Rolling Stone previously reported.

    In December 2013, Watkins pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including conspiring to rape a child, three counts of sexual assault of children, seven counts involving making or possessing indecent images of children, and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image involving a sex act on an animal.

    The judge during the sentencing hearing described Watkins' crimes as "plumbing new depths of depravity," according to the Guardian.

    The disgraced singer was sentenced to 29 years in prison.

    Watkins' former band, Lostprophets, was founded in 1997 and topped the U.K. charts in 2006 after the release of its third album, "Liberation Transmission." Lostprophets broke up in 2013 when Watkins was sentenced to prison.

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  • Trump’s National Guard gambit misses the mark Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:15:00 +0000

  • Don’t miss the Share the Arrows watch party! Countdown begins NOW Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000


    On October 11, 6,700 women gathered at the Credit Union of Texas in Allen for Allie Beth Stuckey’s second annual Share the Arrows conference, a day filled with joy, encouragement, and sisterhood.

    Worship was led by Grammy-winning Christian artist Francesca Battistelli, who performed a vibrant mix of contemporary worship songs and timeless hymns.

    Speakers included Christian apologist and author Alisa Childers, homeschooling mother of 10 Abbie Halberstadt, Mama Bear Apologetics founder Hillary Morgan Ferrer, children’s rights advocate Katy Faust, non-toxic living advocate Shawna Holman, functional medicine nurse practitioner Taylor Dukes, and New York Times bestselling author Jinger Vuolo. Their talks spanned motherhood, health, and confronting cultural challenges with biblical truth.

    And the best part is: We’re doing it again! In just under two hours, BlazeTV+ subscribers can join the Share the Arrows watch party. Whether you attended and want to relive the experience or missed it but want to see what the buzz is about, this virtual event is for you.

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  • Democrats plan to add 'master ICE tracker' to website Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:55:00 +0000


    At a press conference on October 20, Democrat lawmakers announced their intention to create "a master ICE tracker" to track and document immigration enforcement operations by ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement entities.

    House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said the tracker will be located on the Oversight Committee "website," though whether he meant the Democrats' site or the general site is unclear.

    'This is a reckless assault on law enforcement that endangers ICE agents and compromises public safety.'

    At the press conference, Garcia lashed out against the Trump administration's ongoing immigration crackdown, accusing ICE of "misconduct" and "brutality." He claimed that ICE has been arresting American citizens "because they look like me, because they are of Latino origin."

    Speaking about the upcoming ICE tracker, Garcia said, "We are going to be tracking every single instance that we can verify, that the community will be able to send us information on." He said the tracker will launch "over the next couple of weeks."

    Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) joined Garcia in expressing outrage over the ongoing immigration crackdown: "What is happening to undocumented immigrants is also happening to U.S. citizens, which means that this can happen to anyone, to all of us, at any time."

    Garcia praised Bass for her commitment "to ensuring that every single moment of terror, of injustice that happens here in Los Angeles, and really across the country, is recorded."

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    Garcia, along with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), wrote to the Department of Homeland Security to demand detailed information on the "disturbing and increasingly frequent reports of unconstitutional detentions of U.S. citizens." The letter went on to say that President Trump "has embraced the use of federal immigration agents to terrorize communities nationwide."

    According to CBS Los Angeles, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement, "The Trump administration is fulfilling the president's promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, and any individuals who attempt to illegally interfere with operations or assault law enforcement officers will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."

    In a statement to Blaze News, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the Oversight Committee chairman, said: "Oversight Committee Democrats are completely unhinged. ... They're doubling down with a so-called 'master' ICE tracker designed to target and undermine lawful immigration enforcement. Let's be clear: This is a reckless assault on law enforcement that endangers ICE agents and compromises public safety."

    Garcia's office had not responded to a request for comment at time of publication.

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  • White House hammers Jen Psaki over comments about JD Vance's wife: 'Circle back on that, moron' Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:40:00 +0000


    Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki got a brutal slap-down from the White House over comments she made about Usha Vance, the wife of the vice president.

    The MSNBC host was mocking the vice president during an interview on the "I've Had It" podcast when she implied that his wife needed to be rescued from their marriage.

    'A dumbass who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things.'

    "The little Manchurian candidate, JD Vance, wants to be president more than anything else," Psaki said of the vice president.

    "I always wonder what's going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here; we'll save you!" she added.

    "Agreed! Yes!" replied one of the podcast hosts.

    "And that he's willing to do anything to get there," Psaki continued. "... He’s scarier [than Trump] in certain ways, in some ways. And he's young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he is a chameleon who makes himself into whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him."

    White House director of communications Steven Cheung slammed Psaki in a post on social media that included a video of the podcast exchange.

    "Jen Psuki [sic] must be transferring her own personal issues onto others. @jrpsaki is a dumbass who has no comprehension of the truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things," he wrote.

    "Circle back on that, moron," Cheung added.

    Psaki was mocked by many on the right for overusing the phrase "circle back" during media briefings to avoid answering difficult questions for the Biden administration.

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    Many from the right criticized Psaki for ridiculing the Vance marriage on social media.

    Psaki and the liberal podcast hosts went on to opine that the vice president didn't have the "rizz" to carry the Trump movement on his own. Rizz is a slang term invented by the youths to refer to attractiveness or charisma.

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  • 'These people are sick': Trump admin slams top Dem for justifying shutdown suffering Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:25:00 +0000


    House Democrats' second in command provided a jaw-dropping justification for the suffering inflicted on American families during the government shutdown, and the White House is having none of it.

    As the government shutdown approaches its fourth week, Americans are bracing themselves to miss paychecks and key government benefits like SNAP. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) admitted that the Democrat-induced government shutdown has been painful for families across the country but justified it because "it is one of the few leverage times [Democrats] have."

    'At some point, the Democrats are going to have to take yes for an answer.'

    "I mean, shutdowns are terrible," Clark said in a recent interview. "Of course, there are going to be families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously."

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    Democrats are holding federal paychecks hostage and using government benefits as leverage to accomplish a policy agenda Americans rejected at the ballot box last November. Rather than voting for the Republicans' clean, nonpartisan funding bill, which notably keeps spending levels at the same rate Democrats voted for over a dozen times in the past, Democrats are set on ramming through their own policies.

    The White House quickly condemned Clark's comments, calling Democrats "sick" for using the American people as leverage.

    "Not only are Democrats refusing to reopen the government and knowingly inflicting pain on the American people, but now they’re bragging about using struggling American families as leverage for their radical left agenda," White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson told Blaze News. "These people are sick.”

    The Democrats' counter funding bill would cost taxpayers $1.5 trillion to effectively reverse every legislative accomplishment Republicans secured through President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Democrats are also demanding that Congress address Obamacare subsidies immediately despite the fact that they expire at the end of the year.

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    Although Democrats have remained stubborn, their efforts are ultimately futile. Republicans hold a supermajority, meaning Democrats will never have the support to pass legislation on their own during this Congress. Even though Democrats are trying to force the GOP's hand, top Republicans have maintained that they are not responsible for the shutdown and that it's up to their colleagues across the aisle to do the right thing and reopen the government.

    "If the Democrats want to talk about subjects unrelated to ... getting the government open again, we’re happy to have those conversations," Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Tuesday. "But we’ve repeatedly now gone through this, and at some point, the Democrats are going to have to take yes for an answer."

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  • DHS reveals 'violent rap sheets' of illegal aliens arrested on NYC's Canal Street Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:10:00 +0000


    The Department of Homeland Security has provided the names and criminal histories of the illegal aliens who were arrested during an operation on New York City's infamous Canal Street black market.

    Federal agents swept through the area on Tuesday, as it is not uncommon for street sellers to be in the United States illegally. The operation turned chaotic after bystanders formed a mob to chase agents away, demanding they not target illegal aliens.

    On Wednesday, DHS said the illegal aliens arrested have "violent rap sheets" that include allegations of robbery, burglary, domestic violence, assaulting law enforcement, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, drug possession, and forgery. Each of the men arrested is from Africa, and at least five of them were released into the United States by the Biden-Harris administration.

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    • Mamadou Ndoye, "a criminal illegal alien from Mali, issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2008, was previously arrested for crimes including assault, recklessly endangering, counterfeiting third degree, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal sale of narcotics, possessing a controlled substance, possession of marijuana for sale, making false reports to law enforcement, and resisting arrest."
    • Muhammad Ndiaye, "a criminal illegal alien from Senegal, with previous arrests for domestic violence, robbery, receiving stolen property, burglary, fraudulent accosting, forgery, counterfeiting, sale of a controlled substance, obstruction, and disorderly conduct. He entered the U.S. on a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart in 1995."
    • Aboubakar Diakite, "a criminal illegal alien, with previous arrests for counterfeiting."
    • Sergigne Diop, "a criminal illegal alien from Senegal who entered the U.S. in April 2024 at the southwest border, was previously released into the U.S. by the Biden administration."
    • Alioune Sy, "an illegal alien from Senegal, entered the U.S. in May 2023 and failed to depart after his tourist visa expired."
    • Amadou Diallo, "a criminal illegal alien from Guinea who entered the U.S. November 2021 at the southwest border and was released by the Biden administration into the interior of the country."
    • Idy Sarr, "a criminal illegal alien from Senegal, issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2010 and previously arrested for obstruction, possession of forged instrument, counterfeiting, failure to disclose origin of recording, drug possession, and criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell."
    • Bokar Soko, "a criminal illegal alien from Mauritania, previously arrested for counterfeiting second degree THREE times. He entered the U.S. illegally on May 24, 2023, in a caravan of 26 people [and] was released by the Biden administration into the interior of the country."
    • Modou Mboup, "a criminal illegal alien from Senegal, previously assaulted Mexican law enforcement, and he entered the U.S. in September 2023 in a caravan of 140 people at the southwest border and was released by the Biden administration into the country."
    Despite the illegal aliens' alleged criminal histories, Democrats in New York decried the operation.

    "Thanks to the New Yorkers who mobilized quickly. #ICEOutOfNYC," New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said.

    "Today [Trump's] agents used batons and pepper spray on street vendors and bystanders on Canal Street. You don't make New York safer by attacking New Yorkers," Governor Kathy Hochul complained on X.

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  • Amazon's secret strategy to replace 600,000 American workers with robots Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:40:00 +0000


    Internal documents allegedly revealed that in the future, Amazon wants to avoid the costly human experience if it can.

    A scathing report by the New York Times that compiled interviews, along with what was described as a cache of internal documents, showed that Amazon executives have aspirations of replacing approximately 600,000 U.S. jobs with robots.

    'Leaked documents often paint an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans.'

    The corporate decisions would allegedly pass on savings to the customer of upwards of 30 cents per item, while at the same time avoiding the hiring of about 160,000 new employees in the United States that would be needed by 2027.

    In the internal documents, Amazon executives told their board members it was their hope to avoid making new hires by ramping up robotic automation, which would negate the need for more than 600,000 human jobs in the future. This would come at the same time that Amazon expected to double its sales by 2033.

    The alleged stated goal in the documents was to automate 75% of facility operations, while simultaneously executing good faith initiatives to avoid angering communities that are disparaged by the job losses. This included hosting parades and Toys for Tots programs that built upon an image of Amazon being a "good corporate citizen."

    Disturbingly, the documents reportedly discussed the idea of avoiding words that remind people of robots, an approach that Amazon strictly denied adopting.

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    A robot prepares to pick up a tote containing product during the first public tour of the newest Amazon Robotics fulfillment center on April 12, 2019, in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

    The New York Times reported that Amazon contemplated avoiding terms such as "automation" and "A.I." in reference to robotics and would have rather used terms like "advanced technology."

    Instead of "robot," the word "cobot" was discussed being used because it implies collaboration with humans.

    Amazon provided a statement to Blaze News from spokesperson Kelly Nantel, saying, "Leaked documents often paint an incomplete and misleading picture of our plans, and that's the case here. In our written narrative culture, thousands of documents circulate throughout the company at any given time, each with varying degrees of accuracy and timeliness."

    The statement continued, "In this instance, the materials appear to reflect the perspective of just one team and don't represent our overall hiring strategy across our various operations business lines — now or moving forward. The facts speak for themselves: No company has created more jobs in America over the past decade than Amazon. We're actively hiring at operations facilities across the country and recently announced plans to fill 250,000 positions for the holiday season."

    An Amazon spokesman also clarified that "the document the New York Times summarized in its story relates to future hiring, not existing employees."

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    Reporter Lewis Brackpool from Restore Britain told Return that while the numbers were troubling, the push for robotics could stand as a solution for the mass import of foreign workers.

    "While in a perfect world citizens could thrive in their employment without the worry of being replaced by overseas workers, ditching foreign labor in exchange for robotics seems more preferable than our current situation," Brackpool theorized.

    "A socialist-communist journalist by the name of Aaron Bastani once wrote a book called 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism,'" the commentator continued. "The book outlines a vision of a post-scarcity, post-capitalist society driven by technological advances such as automation, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. Even that is more preferable than to be replaced by the third world."

    Amazon employs approximately 1.1 million in the United States, representing about 70% of its global workforce, according to Red Stag Fulfillment.

    The company peaked at 1.61 million employees in 2021 and has a minimum wage of $18 per hour for all seasonable employees.

    Average pay reportedly increases by 15% for those employed for over three years.

    An Amazon spokesperson said the above statistics "aren't relevant" and pointed to a page on the company's own website that said, "Average pay is increasing to more than $23 per hour, and average total compensation is increasing to more than $30 an hour when you include the value of our industry-leading benefits package."

    Editor’s note: This article has been edited after publication to include the entirety of the statement from Amazon's spokesperson, while emphasizing Amazon’s position that the document summarized by the New York Times relates to future hiring, not existing employees.

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  • Dallas drag performer accused of grooming — after he celebrated kicking Sara Gonzales out of drag show Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:31:15 +0000


    BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has been called everything from a transphobe to a bigot for calling out drag performers as child groomers — but now she has some seriously damning receipts.

    Kiba Walker, who goes by Salem Moon, is a man she has called out many times for his “all-ages” drag performances in Dallas, Texas. Recently, Walker even celebrated kicking Gonzales out of one of his drag shows.

    “And in the words of our good friend who we removed from the building, Sara Gonzales, ‘The pressure worked, y’all.’ ... She’s no longer here, and she’s not going to get in here and try to tarnish our amazing event,” Walker said.

    While Walker sounded confident in his speech, Gonzales is having the last laugh.


    “Well, it turns out that he was accused of trying to groom underage boys. Uh-oh,” she mocks. “Some trouble, some trouble for Kiba, who is the first to tell you that I’m the problem, I’m the crazy one.”

    “I’m just a bigot for saying that perhaps it’s a bad thing when you have grown men who want to dress up and dance provocatively around young children. Maybe that’s a red flag we should be looking into,” she continues.

    While she notes that Walker is “innocent until proven guilty,” she also has receipts.

    “The victims have been posting about it online,” she says.

    The first alleged victim goes by the online name “Blade” and posted a long exposé about Walker making advances toward him when he was a teenager.

    “My experience with Kiba Walker (A.K.A. Kyle Davis or ElexVTuberEN). A recount of events from my teenage years that left me with lingering issues building trust and real connections with people. TW// Grooming, Pedophilia,” Blade wrote in a post on X, with a Google doc of his experience attached.

    The grooming allegedly began when Walker slid into the 15-year-old’s DMs, offering him free singing lessons.

    “Wow, what a nice gesture,” Gonzales scoffs. “That’s when he started littering in sexual references here, there. Oh, just a joke. They’re just jokes. Then that moved to flirting and then of course requests to trade nudes.”

    Blade also recalled Walker sending him porn that he “liked” and making a “game out of trying to arouse him at school.”

    “By the way, he also asked for videos of the kid jerking off. But I’m the witch, right? I’m just being transphobic. I’m just being transphobic for saying that any grown man who wants to perform like that in front of children is the problem,” Gonzales says.

    Walker then apologized to the boy for making him uncomfortable by sexting him, and left him alone — but came back later when he was only 16 years old, at which point the unsolicited sexting got worse.

    Another accuser compiled a document of similar evidence and shared it online as well.

    “I know you’re sick. You’re sick to your stomach,” Gonzales tells her audience. “I’m sick to my stomach too. But I think it’s important that we expose these people for who they really are because I’m getting sick and damn tired of being told I’m just hateful.”

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