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A Pennsylvania man who purports to be a woman has been arrested and held without bail after he allegedly threatened to kill former President Donald Trump last week.
On Friday, Paul Gavenonis, 74, approached a transportation office employee at Penn State University and attempted to purchase a commuter lot parking pass. During a conversation with the employee, Gavenonis mentioned a Trump rally scheduled to take place at PSU the following day.
'Frankly, I hope somebody would get him.'
As their conversation continued, Gavenonis then allegedly made violent threats against the former president. "I hate Donald Trump. I’d like to shoot that guy," he reportedly said while pretending to rack a gun with his hands, according to the New York Post.
"You can’t take a gun in or the students will see it," he allegedly added after discussing scaling a tall building.
Gavenonis' alleged comments worried the employee, who reported them to the authorities within minutes. Gavenonis was arrested just after 10:30 p.m. Friday, jail records showed.
When questioned by the U.S. Secret Service, Gavenonis allegedly admitted that he "probably" could kill Trump at a rally and that he had a rifle at home.
"Frankly, I hope somebody would get him," he also told federal and local law enforcement, according to the arrest affidavit.
Gavenonis was eventually charged with making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct, a court docket showed.
He was also denied bail in part because he was deemed "suicidal," the docket noted.
Screenshot of court docket
Both the court docket and jail records list Gavenonis as a white female. The Centre County Public Defender’s Office also claimed he uses she/her pronouns, the Post reported.
When Blaze News reached out to the Centre County jail, Lt. Mark Waite provided Gavenonis' booking photo but did not clarify whether he is being housed in a male or female facility.
The Kansas City Star reported that Gavenonis is a registered Democrat.
Three months ago, Trump came within millimeters of losing his life after Thomas Crooks fired multiple shots at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, about 140 miles west of the Penn State campus in State College. One bullet tore through Trump's ear, while another killed former fire chief Corey Comperatore. Two others were critically wounded.
Then last month, Ryan Routh allegedly set up a sniper's nest at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, with the intention of assassinating Trump. Fortunately, the suspect was spotted before he could fire a shot.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York City hotel room in 2005, according to a new lawsuit.
The California boy allegedly was interested in becoming an actor and/or rapper, according to Variety.
The boy later woke up in tears with his pants undone and pain in his anus and buttocks, CNN reported.
The lawsuit says the boy's parents hired a music industry consultant who recommended that the family travel from Los Angeles, where they lived, to New York to meet with music industry figures. The consultant allegedly arranged for the boy to have an "audition" with Combs, who reportedly requested to meet with the child alone before meeting his family.
The consultant brought the boy to Combs’ hotel room and left him alone with him, according to the lawsuit.
The boy reportedly performed a few rap songs for Combs, who allegedly told the 10-year-old he could “make him a star” and asked him how badly he wanted it.
According to the lawsuit, the “plaintiff responded, as might any 10-year-old child, that he would ‘do anything.'”
While in the hotel room, someone presented the boy with a soda. Shortly after drinking the soda, the alleged victim said he reportedly began to feel “a little funny.” The plaintiff’s attorney claimed the drink was spiked with drugs “including but not limited to GHB and/or ecstasy.”
Combs allegedly instructed the child to move closer to him and pushed him down, then told him something to the effect of “you have to do some stuff you don’t want to do sometimes.” The complaint alleged that Combs exposed his penis and told the boy to “kiss it.”
According to the complaint, the boy refused Diddy's sexual advances, but Combs forced the minor to perform oral sex on him. Soon after, the 10-year-old reportedly lost consciousness.
The boy later woke up in tears with his pants undone and pain in his anus and buttocks, CNN reported.
The 10-year-old allegedly told Diddy that he wanted to see his parents, and the Bad Boy Records founder reportedly threatened to hurt the child's parents if he said anything to anyone.
Once the consultant returned, she allegedly noticed the boy was “badly shaken.” The child's parents said their son appeared “lethargic and acting differently" after the "audition."
The lawsuit noted that since the purported sexual assault, the alleged victim suffered from “severe depression and anxiety, which leaves him hopeless and fatigued.”
A second new lawsuit accused Combs of sexually assaulting an aspiring 17-year-old male music performer during a 2008 audition for Combs' "Making the Band" TV show, in which Combs determines the fate of entertainment hopefuls.
During the first interview with the alleged victim — which was one-on-one with Combs — the lawsuit states that "Combs asked plaintiff hypothetical questions about handling situations involving sexual pressure.”
“As Combs described these scenarios, he began to sexually assault plaintiff by touching plaintiff both over and under his clothing, including groping and fondling his penis and instructing plaintiff to undress,” the lawsuit alleges.
The alleged victim claimed Combs threatened that he had the ability to “make or break” his career.
At the second audition, the hip-hop producer reportedly told the teen to undress in order “to demonstrate the ability to embody a ‘sex idol’ persona.”
“This encounter eventually escalated into Combs forcing the plaintiff to perform oral sex on him, and Combs sodomizing the plaintiff,” the lawsuit claims.
At the third and final audition, Combs and his bodyguard reportedly sexually assaulted the teenager.
According to the suit, the contestant was eliminated from the reality TV competition “as Combs claimed that plaintiff was untrustworthy due to his reservations about performing oral sex on his bodyguard.”
The new lawsuits against Combs were filed in the Supreme Court of the state of New York on Monday. They are the latest lawsuits against Combs from attorney Tony Buzbee, who said he's representing more than 120 individuals in civil lawsuits accusing the music mogul of sex crimes over the course of more than two decades. Buzbee said the youngest victim was only 9 years old when Combs allegedly sexually assaulted him.
Combs' attorneys did not address the specific allegations in the two new lawsuits but told CNN their client never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone.
“As we’ve said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to every new publicity stunt, even in response to claims that are facially ridiculous or demonstrably false,” Combs’ attorneys said in a statement. “Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone — man or woman, adult or minor.”
As Blaze News reported earlier this month, a lawsuit accused Combs and another male celebrity of raping a 13-year-old girl as a female star watched the alleged sex crime.
In September, Combs was arrested and hit with charges, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and interstate transportation for prostitution.
Federal prosecutors outlined sex acts known as “freak offs” during which Combs allegedly organized the transportation of sex workers across state lines and internationally — and often recorded them.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams previously said, "The freak offs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics — such as ketamine, ecstasy, and GHB [gamma hydroxybutyrate] — which Combs distributed to the victims to keep them obedient and compliant.”
Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Combs, 54, is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
He is facing at least 27 civil cases, and his criminal trial is scheduled to begin in May 2025.
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On Monday, a battleground state's supreme court ruling delivered a crushing blow to election integrity.
The Nevada Supreme Court concurred with a lower court's ruling that mail-in ballots that arrive up to three days after Election Day on November 5 "must be counted," even if a postmark "cannot be determined."
The ruling was a significant setback for the Republican National Committee, which argued that ballots without a legible postmark should not be counted after Election Day.
The court's decision upheld an August ruling by District Court Judge James Russell. Russell claimed that the ballots should be accepted to ensure that all eligible votes are counted.
The court filing read, "If a voter properly and timely casts their vote by mailing their ballot before or on the day of the election, and through a post office omission the ballot is not postmarked, it would go against public policy to discount that properly cast vote."
"Indeed, there is no principled distinction between mail ballots where the postmark is 'illegible' or 'smudged' and those with no postmark — in each instance, the date the mail ballot was received by the post office cannot be determined," it added.
The Nevada Supreme Court determined that the RNC lacked standing, claiming it failed to provide sufficient evidence that counting ballots without a postmark would be vulnerable to voter fraud or that current security measures were insufficient to address the concerns.
"The RNC asserts that it currently expends significant resources on election monitoring, but it would need to expend additional resources to specifically monitor mail ballots received without postmarks," the court filing read. "But the RNC already monitors elections. Accordingly, any additional resources it would expend would merely constitute 'continuing ongoing activities' or 'business as usual.'"
The justices also rejected the RNC's argument that mail ballots favor Democrats.
Five of the seven justices agreed with the high court's majority ruling. The two other justices concurred with the result but provided different rationales.
RNC spokesperson Claire Zunk told The Hill, "Requiring ballots to be postmarked on or before Election Day is a critical election integrity safeguard that ensures ballots mailed after election day are not counted."
"It is also a requirement of Nevada law. By allowing Nevada officials to ignore the law's postmark requirement, the state's highest court has undermined the integrity of Nevada's elections," Zunk added.
Elon Musk responded to the court's decision, writing on X, "This is messed up."
Musk urged Nevada voters to cast their ballots for Republican candidates.
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Armin Mizani, the mayor of Keller, Texas, explained on X why the joke made by roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe about Puerto Rico's trash problems will not sway him and many other Latinos from voting for former President Donald Trump.
Hinchcliffe's joke at the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday resulted in intense backlash for him and Trump.
"As one of the few Mayors in this country who is actually Puerto Rican (born and raised), lets get real for a moment and let me offer an explanation as to why [Trump] and [Vance] are surging in the polls amongst Latinos and why they’ll continue to do so through election day," said Mizani, who lived on the island until he was 9 years old.
Harris' support among Latinos in Nevada and Arizona is small when compared to President Joe Biden's support.
"For Latinos, faith, family, and economic opportunity motivates us - not some bad joke by a comedian. America has had a first hand account of the two choices before us," Mizani explained. "Under the Biden and Harris administration, Americans have seen record inflation, an open southern border, increased crime, the weakening of the family structure, and the taking away of God from our daily lives."
Under Trump, Mizani continued, "Americans saw secured borders, economic prosperity, a respect for people of faith, and a respect for American values. This is why I, along with millions of Latinos, will help re-elect President Trump back into the White House."
Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) likewise said a joke by an insult comic may not appeal to everyone, but the real issue is what has happened under the Biden-Harris administration.
"What isn’t a joke is how Kamala Harris destroyed our economy and allowed dangerous criminals to illegally enter our country and terrorize, rape and murder Americans," Rubio said. "And what isn’t a joke and truly outrageous is how 'journalists' are helping Kamala [Harris] with her dangerous campaign of hate by calling Trump the new Hitler and how MSNBC used old footage of Nazi rallies TO SMEAR TRUMP SUPPORTERS AS NAZIS!"
CNN reported Harris' support among Latinos in Nevada and Arizona is small when compared to President Joe Biden's support from that voting bloc in 2020. Harris is up 18 points with Latinos in Arizona, down from Biden's 24 points, and she is up only one point in Nevada, down from Biden's 26 points four years ago.
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Arabic readers are lambasting socialist Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York for publishing a flyer meant to court the Muslim vote with obvious errors.
Ocasio-Cortez posted an image of the flyer to her X account, but she was immediately assailed for incompetently putting out the image without enough proofreading.
'This is offensive and a stupid own goal at a time when you truly can’t afford it.'
"I can read Arabic so this is giving me severe psychic damage but I like to think that people who can't can at least see how wrong this looks? Like it is very very obviously not how Arabic looks even if you don't understand the language," read one response.
Blaze News confirmed the error with a fluent Arabic speaker who said the mistake appeared to be on the part of the graphic designer who placed the text on the image without maintaining the proper direction of the letters.
Ocasio-Cortez deleted the tweet after the ridicule, which was extensive and detailed.
"Incredible. @AOC's team clearly didn't even bother to consult an Arabic speaker for their flyer targeting Arab Americans. All the letters are disjointed and the words are reversed," replied Tamara Nassar, an associate editor at Intifada magazine.
"Today AOC presented illegible fliers with backwards Arabic script. The gibberish being a clear indication that neither Arabs nor Iranians work in her campaign," said comedian Chelsea Hart.
"No f***ing way," responded an account identifying as pro-Palestinian. "She is trying to grift Arab vote but clearly doesn't have a single Arab on her staff. Or even Central/South Asian cuz even they couldve pointed out the glaringly obvious error here."
"I BEG you to have someone who knows Arabic produce or at least review your outreach materials," replied Egyptian-American Amir Beshay. "This is offensive and a stupid own goal at a time when you truly can’t afford it."
"It is breathtaking how deeply unserious and racist @AOC is towards the Arab community," read another tweet.
Ocasio-Cortez and others on the left have been targeted by the pro-Palestinian fringe of the Democratic Party over their lack of extreme opposition to Israel. The politician's own party, the Democratic Socialists of America, are considering to censure her for daring to sign onto congressional bills that acknowledge Israel's right to exist.
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Weaponization of the government’s power against its opponents and even its own citizens has been steadily growing worse and for a reason.
FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is well aware as to why that is.
“To set the foundation for it, you have to go back to Barack Obama assuming office in 2009. So, a Kamala Harris presidency would mean 20 years. That’s an entire government career, a full generation of hiring that has gone across every single agency,” Friend tells Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show.”
“Now you have 20 years of ideologies,” he continues, adding, “and that’s how you’re getting things like McDonald's the other day, who had one franchise allow him to do one photo opportunity and then we had an E. coli breakout, CDC all over that one, and then the United States senators accusing them of price gouging and driving the stock share price down.”
Not only did the government jump at the chance to punish McDonald’s for allowing a photo op with a political opponent, but citizens across the country have fallen victim to the FACE Act.
“In the Biden administration, it’s been applied more than any other presidential administration in history,” Friend explains. “92% application towards pro-lifers, not people who were subject to fire bombings at their crisis pregnancy centers.”
“People do not know exactly the powers that are at their fingertips,” Friend continues. “They have the ability to have an assessment from the Patriot Act, which means that they can open up an investigation on any American for an articulable purpose. Don’t need probable cause of a crime.”
Deace is rightfully disturbed.
“In other words, you’re describing investigations in search of crimes. Not criminal investigations, but investigations in search of crimes. That’s what you’re describing,” Deace says.
“Find me a man, and I’ll show you the crime,” Friend agrees.
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With just a week until Election Day, Republicans' record early voting and registration turnouts may be sending warning signs to Democrats.
Roughly 27.4 million Americans nationally have cast their votes early, with some swing states already exceeding 2016 rates. Although Republicans have historically hesitated to embrace early voting, several swing states that collect data based on party affiliation show that Republicans are now outpacing their Democratic counterparts.
“You’d rather be in our position than theirs,” James Blair, a political director for Trump, told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s too early to start declaring victory, but the swings in our direction are very positive.”
'Looking at who is showing up, I would say Republicans should feel good and Democrats may have some work to do.'
Trump is currently outperforming Harris in Arizona by 1.5 points despite losing the state to Biden by 0.4% in 2020. At the same time, Republicans are also outpacing Democrats when it comes to early voting.
As of Monday, 32% of Arizona's electorate have cast their ballots by mail-in or early voting. Of those 1.4 million ballots, 589,000 are Republican ballots, 486,000 are Democratic, and 326,000 are from third-party or independent voters.
Arizona Republicans have also registered in greater numbers going into November compared to previous election cycles. As of October 2024, there are over 1.5 million registered Republicans and roughly 1.2 million registered Democrats. This nearly six-point registration gap between the parties is double the advantage Arizona Republicans had going into 2020.
Republicans hold a similar advantage in the neighboring Sun Belt state of Nevada. There, Harris is trailing Trump by an average of 0.7 points, although Biden won the state by 2.4% in 2020.
Republicans also have an unprecedented leg up in Nevada when it comes to early voting. Of the 712,000 early ballots that were cast as of Friday, over 280,000 are Republican ballots, 245,000 are Democratic, and nearly 180,000 were from unaffiliated voters.
There has also been a favorable shift toward Republicans with respect to voter registration. Of the 2.4 million registered voters in Nevada as of September 2024, there are about 718,000 Democrats, nearly 674,000 Republicans, and about 1 million third-party or unaffiliated voters. In contrast, of the 1.9 million registered voters in September 2020, about 742,000 were Democrats, 626,000 were Republicans, and 604,000 were third-party or independent voters.
Not only did overall voter registration in Nevada increase by roughly half a million, but there was also an increase in Republican, independent, and third-party registration while Democrats saw a decrease. However, unlike Arizona, Nevada implemented automatic voter registration in 2020, which may have contributed to this shift.
Some voters attribute Trump's edge in the Sun Belt to a broader shift among Latino voters. Polls comparing Harris' and Biden's support among Hispanics have shown that the current Democratic nominee is hemorrhaging support with the demographic, while Trump has managed to gain ground.
Farther east, in North Carolina, Trump is leading Harris by an average of 0.9 points, while also winning the state in 2020 against Biden and in 2016 against former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Although the race is tight, Republicans have made strides.
Over a third of North Carolina's eligible voters, or 3.1 million ballots, have been cast as of Tuesday. Of those early votes, Republicans are slightly outperforming Democrats, with roughly 1.1 million votes from Republicans and about 1 million from Democrats. Despite the close margin, Harris has actually pulled ads and resources from the state just a week from the election.
Although Republicans are slightly ahead, they are actually outnumbered when it comes to voter registration in North Carolina. As of October 2024, roughly 2.4 million voters are registered Democrats and 2.3 million are Republicans. The registration gap has significantly narrowed compared to October 2020, with over 2.6 million registered Democrats and 2.2 million Republicans.
Republicans are also gaining ground in Pennsylvania, the most electorally significant of the swing states. Although Trump lost the state to Biden in 2020 by 1.2%, the Republican nominee now boasts an average lead over Harris of 0.4 points.
Of the 1.4 million early ballots cast in Pennsylvania, nearly 815,000 have been cast by Democrats, while just 439,000 have been cast by Republicans. Although Democrats are outpacing Republicans, the GOP has begun to close the gap.
Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin don't collect data based on party affiliation, but there is still a record turnout for early voting and voter registration.
“Looking at who is showing up, I would say Republicans should feel good and Democrats may have some work to do,” Michael Bitzer, a professor at Catawba College, told the Wall Street Journal.
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This election season has been stuffed full of cringe-worthy moments, but Vice President Kamala Harris has overtaken all contenders with this latest entry into the contest.
'That was just so awkward. It was painfully awkward to even watch.'
Harris was speaking before a number of supporters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they began chanting her name. The presidential candidate attempted to make a point about their individual efforts when she made a bizarre request.
“Now I want each of you to shout your own name. Do that!” she said and laughed maniacally.
The crowd paused and quieted in confusion.
"Cuz it's all about all of us!" she said in the uncomfortable silence. "It's all about all of us!"
Video of the moment spread far and wide on social media, where it was met with hilarious ridicule. Just one post of the video garnered 5.4 million views on its own.
"She cannot control a crowd," replied commentator Collin Rugg. "To her credit, she never deserved to be in this position. She was installed."
"I honestly thought Hillary was the least likeable candidate ever in all our history, but I do believe Kamala has taken the title away from her," read another response.
"This has to be the most embarrassing moment I’ve ever seen at a political rally. I feel bad for her campaign staff. This is not what you want happening 7 days before an election," said another critic.
"That was just so awkward. It was painfully awkward to even watch. Ouch," read another tweet.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz didn't fare much better in the week before Election Day. A message meant to reach out to male voters was brutally mocked and ridiculed for a weird gaffe about football.
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Hurricane Helene coverage might be dwindling in the mainstream media, but Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker isn’t giving up on the victims.
“I actually met with the primary director here on the ground of FEMA,” Baker, who’s on the ground in North Carolina, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”
And what he’s found is “interesting.”
“There is absolutely incontrovertible evidence that FEMA has a much larger footprint on the ground in the disaster zone here. They have ten disaster relief centers already set up. They now have a massive warehouse with just thousands of pallets of dry goods, of drinks of water, all types of humanitarian aid and needs that are required to be delivered,” Baker explains.
“Yet all of the people also on the ground, working in these distant remote communities, never see them,” he adds.
Baker, who’s been working in two of the worst-hit areas in North Carolina, has seen “no FEMA.”
“Zero. Not one sign of them. So they have more goods, they have more services, they have more people,” he says. “They dwarf everyone else’s operations; we just don’t know where they’re delivering everything.”
When Baker did get a chance to speak with someone from FEMA, that individual's response was not comforting.
“I asked him, ‘Why are we not seeing the government agencies, federal agencies, state, local, county, whatever, out at these recovery sites?'" Baker explains. “He just shrugged and he said, ‘I think that they’re just tired of seeing the death.’”
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Tom Brady caused a stir with fans and media members who took offense to him using the term "spaz" when describing the way Josh Allen used to play.
Brady was in the commentary booth with announcer Kevin Burkhardt during the Buffalo Bills’ 31-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks Sunday afternoon. It was only about 13 minutes into the game when the former player started to rain praise on Buffalo's star quarterback.
"You really begin to take total ownership of the team as a leader in the workouts, in the offseason," Brady said on Fox.
"How you communicate to everybody and integrate new players becomes a great challenge to a quarterback like Josh [Allen] who has really lit the league on fire since he's been in the league."
'Sometimes he played like a spaz, like a grade-schooler on a sugar high.'
Then, Brady remarked on how Allen previously looked spastic or uncontrolled when he first came into the NFL but has greatly progressed since then.
"Sometimes he played like a spaz, like a grade-schooler on a sugar high, but now he's controlled the chaos. He's like a storm coming into town and you don’t want that storm coming into this town."
Brady's seemingly harmless comments, which co-host Burkhardt even chuckled at, were not taken likely by some viewers.
Awful Announcing's Brandon Contes called the statement an example of an "insulting term" that has been "deemed wildly offensive."
The writer added that the comment was an "ableist slur" and "meant as an insult."
The outlet's own readers overwhelmingly disagreed, calling the article "pathetic" while labeling the writer "the word police."
One reader joked that Brady should be put in jail for his use of the term while another reader simply called the writer a "blogging spaz."
Of course, other fans — responding on an X post — suggested muting their television whenever Brady speaks.
"Brady’s awful, mute the TV awful," one viewer wrote.
"Thankful for the mute button," another said.
"Brady is so cringe. He probably spent 45 minutes writing this out," a fan theorized while another simply wrote "F U Tom Brady."
The seven-time Super Bowl champion has made the media rounds since his retirement and has been featured in both the broadcast booth and a weekly roundup show for Fox Sports.
When Brady visited England to support Birmingham City, a soccer team he owns a minority share of, the former quarterback showed he indeed has a little bit of bite to his commentary.
Brady was clearly irritated when a Sky Sports reporter asked Birmingham chairman Tom Wagner about how Brady has been able to help the team. The only problem was Brady was standing right there.
"Why do you ask that like I'm not here?" Brady said, giving the interview an incredibly-awkward turn.
Brady has hinted multiple times in 2024 that he isn't opposed to a comeback in football, however that would now be far more difficult since he is now a part of the Las Vegas Raiders ownership group.
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A Catholic group released an eye-opening new ad revealing Kamala Harris' previous support for an "anti-Catholic hate group" and suggesting she harbors anti-Christian antipathy more generally.
On Monday, CatholicVote released the video ad featuring a photo of Harris posing with two drag queens from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at an LGBTQ-themed celebration in San Francisco in 2019. In the photo, Harris grins from ear to ear as she stands between longtime SPI member Michael Williams, aka "Sister Roma," and San Francisco transgender activist James Mitchell, aka "Saint Honey Mahogany," CatholicVote claimed.
'Kamala Harris does not care about Christians in this country.'
"Why is Kamala Harris posing with the founder of an anti-Catholic hate group?" a voice-over begins. "They mock our faith."
The ad then includes footage of members of SPI conducting sexual performances on sacred Christian symbols, including the cross.
"For Catholics, it’s hard to imagine anything more offensive," the voice of Bishop Robert Barron says.
"Kamala Harris does not care about Christians in this country," another male voice adds.
The ad closes by encouraging all Christians to vote this year to prevent Harris from acceding to the highest office in the land. "Christians can't stay home November 5," the voice-over says as the message "Reject Harris" flashes on screen.
In a statement, CatholicVote President Brian Burch referred to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as "a 'drag' troupe whose whole purpose is to mock and harass Catholics."
Not only do their costumes and makeup attack innocent and faithful nuns, Burch claimed, but SPI then routinely blasphemes Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Christianity in general by hosting "Hunky Jesus" competitions during which drag queens "perform stripteases, simulate sex acts, and mock the crucifixion."
Harris' appearance with the blasphemous drag queens is hardly the only time she has demonstrated anti-Catholic animus. In 2018, then-Sen. Harris grilled Brian Buescher, nominated to the federal bench by President Donald Trump, for his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's charitable organization.
During her line of questioning, Harris repeatedly implied that Buescher's association with the Knights of Columbus — which embraces Catholic teaching on abortion and marriage — meant he was unfit to serve.
The Biden-Harris administration has also engaged in ruthless lawfare against Christians who protest peacefully near abortion clinics, sending some to prison for years. The administration even targeted the Little Sisters of the Poor — a group of actual Roman Catholic nuns who dedicate their lives to serving Christ by assisting the elderly and vulnerable — over their moral objection to contraception.
Just last week, NBC News’ Hallie Jackson asked Harris whether she supported any restrictions on abortion, including "religious exemptions" ostensibly for performing abortions. Harris rejected the premise and indicated instead that abortion rights trumped all other considerations.
"I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body," Harris replied.
Harris did not clarify whether she also considers the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects the free exercise of religion, a "fundamental freedom."
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The federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and elsewhere is “pathetic” and “inexcusable” compared to the massive deployment of U.S. military resources made in other hurricanes since 2017, a former top Pentagon official tells Blaze News.
Casey Wardynski, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and Reserve affairs under former President Donald J. Trump, said the failing response by the Biden-Harris administration has the hallmarks of a political decision not to help because most of the affected areas are inhabited primarily by Trump voters.
“These are Americans who are apparently still in very dire straits a month after a disaster,” said Wardynski, who oversaw the Army’s manpower division from 2019 to 2021.
'I know the sense of urgency that you would’ve had with Trump. I don’t see it here.'
“We have any number of folks running around our country talking about global climate change, or whatever that is, and the need to change every aspect of life to minimize [climate] change,” Wardynski said. “And yet when a disaster hits and the weather plays dirty tricks on people, they don’t seem to be able to mobilize key resources to relieve the suffering and restore the lives of Americans.”
Wardynski said his criticisms are aimed at the policymakers, not the men and women with boots on the ground.
“It works from the president on down in terms of allocation of resources. The military services, the Department of Defense, typically get the word from the president in terms of the level of commitment to make to these kinds of disasters,” he said. “Obviously there have been disasters with a much greater level of commitment from the national level through the policymakers than this one has.”
“The people on the ground are doing yeoman work, both the folks that are there in the private capacity and the military people that are working under those circumstances — they’re obviously doing great work,” he said. “It’s not up to them to figure out whether we need a couple of engineer brigades or not. That’s up to the people at the Pentagon and the White House.”
Wardynski said in the largely rural areas of Western North Carolina that are dominated by Trump voters, most of the humanitarian relief is being done by volunteers, church groups, and non-governmental organizations. “Support from the federal and even state government is very, very thin, and that should not be the case,” he said.
There are 1,500 regular Army troops performing relief operations in North Carolina, paltry by comparison with the 142,000 Guardsmen who fought wildfires in 2022 or the 62,000 military troops who responded to Hurricane Ivan, Wardynski said. Elements from the XVIII Airborne Corps have been performing a wide range of duties.
The National Guard had more than 11,000 troops committed to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton relief missions, and nearly 2,000 remain on duty in North Carolina, officials said. The Army Corps of Engineers also has nearly 300 members on mission in North Carolina.
Last week North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the state was leading an “unprecedented response and recovery effort with the support of federal, local, and nonprofit partners.”
The Department of Defense committed more than 16,000 personnel after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Some 17,000 troops were deployed to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricanes Maria and Irma later that same year. The U.S. military committed 17,000 troops to Haiti after a 2010 earthquake and sent 15,000 to Indonesia after a tsunami in 2005.
So why only 1,500 Army troops for what many on the ground are calling “biblical” devastation from Helene?
“Here we are a month later, and people have no electricity, no water,” Wardynski said. “It is pathetic.”
“I know the response one would’ve seen with Trump, and I know the sense of urgency that you would’ve had with Trump,” Wardynski said. “I don’t see it here. I see it from good Americans where they just see another American as red, white, and blue.
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Brigade, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) speak with the local community to provide debris clearance assistance at Marshall, North Carolina, on October 10, 2024. Photo by Sgt. Nicholas Session/U.S. Army
“But I’m afraid some of these governmental levels, it looks like they see it through either blue or red lenses, and they’re giving it the response they think is appropriate for a time that’s drawing close to an election.”
Blaze News reached out to the Pentagon for comment but did not receive a reply by press time.
On Oct. 17, Blaze News asked the public affairs officer for the Army XVIII Airborne Corps why the authorized North Carolina strength was 1,500 for the hurricane and not 15,000.
“It's a great question,” said Maj. Aimee J. Valles. “We at the 18th Airborne Corps, we’re not policymakers. We’re not the decision-makers for that. We allow the folks who make those decisions to make that call, right? So I’d have to refer you to the DOD. They’re absolutely the ones cutting the orders, and also the governor. So the governor made a request for the amount of troops that he needed, and so I’d refer you to him as well.”
The Department of Defense should send combat engineering brigades from the National Guard to rebuild roads and bridges, set up temporary water pipelines, and install power grids, Wardynski said.
Wardynski said the Army could quickly send the 111th Engineer Brigade of the West Virginia National Guard, the 117th Engineer Brigade of the South Carolina National Guard, and the 194th Engineer Brigade of the Tennessee National Guard. There are eight such brigades in the National Guard, he said.
“They bring a ton of that equipment to bear to clear debris, put in roadways, put in pipelines, help prepare the way to bring in power, and restore services on the battlefield,” he said. “These are the guys that built the Burma Road into China from Burma through the mountains. They can do anything if you give them a chance.”
Combat engineer brigades would bring in large construction equipment for debris removal, road construction, bridge repair, and more.
“These National Guard units are handy in these kind of gap-filling moments,” he said. “They bring their own maintenance, they bring their own fuel, they bring their own medicine, they bring their own communications, they bring their own everything. And most [private] contractors aren’t set up to operate with no communication, no fuel, no maintenance, no logistics.
“They run dozers, Caterpillars, excavators, and they put in roads and all this kind of stuff for the Army,” Wardynski said. “This should have been happening now, and we shouldn’t still be looking at logistics by helicopter. The helicopters are great for quick relief, but you can’t restore power and you can’t restore water and you can’t restore fuel very reliably with Chinooks and Black Hawks. It’s a stop gap.”
Tent cities could house large numbers of displaced residents until more permanent housing can quickly be built, Wardynski said.
“These people with no homes, I mean, these kinds of things are not long-term solutions, but they’re better than living out in the open or some pup tents you might’ve had that survived this disaster,” he said. “A month in, this doesn’t seem reasonable any more.”
Wardynski said under the federal Stafford Act, the U.S. military has a significant role to play in disaster response, and it does not require taking away from preparedness to fight war if called upon.
Former President Donald J. Trump greets Adam Smith of Savage Freedoms Relief Operations, a group that turned a motorcycle dealership into a helipad and storm relief center, during a visit to Swannanoa, North Carolina, on Oct. 21, 2024. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images
“The Stafford Act federal law provides for federal aid to state and local government a case of a disaster,” he said. “It talks about cost-sharing. States are supposed to pay about 25% of the money. The federal government is expected to bring somewhere around 75% of money.
“That money comes through FEMA and through expenditures for things like engineer brigades that are mobilized, National Guard brigades that are brought up to scratch to respond to disasters, Reserve units that are brought up to scratch to respond to disasters.
“In the Trump years we moved heaven and earth to help in Puerto Rico. When there was a disaster there, terrific resources were expended,” he said. “Typically these resources are available, and they don’t cause you to stop doing something else to begin doing disaster relief.”
The Army Corps of Engineers has the ability to set up a power grid to serve tens of thousands of homes, Wardynski said.
“Their prime power capability is truck-mounted, can bring in 72,000 homes' worth of electricity on very quick notice. And they’ve done it before,” he said. “They did it when Trump was president in Puerto Rico. They even did it in the Maui fires. Where are they? Why are these people running off of Honda generators and fuel delivered by helicopters?”
Wardynski said the position that used to support him at the Pentagon coordinating military resources for disaster relief was eliminated by the Biden administration.
“The Biden bunch apparently didn’t see this as a priority. So that capability at the policymaking level ... that job doesn’t exist and those people don’t exist, even though had they had existed through decades before.”
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 161st Engineer Support Company (Airborne), 27th Engineer Battalion (Airborne), 20th Engineer Brigade remove debris during route clearance near Green Creek in Bakersville, North Carolina, Oct. 18, 2024. Photo by Staff Sgt. Charles Brock/U.S. Army
The military could help state and local governments by setting up temporary post offices and voting locations so that no one misses a chance to vote in the Nov. 5 election.
“There are resources that people in FEMA and the Army Guard and at the Department of the Army know about,” Wardynski said, “that could be put in place lickety-split to fly in on a helicopter, open a post office for a certain number of hours a day in these disaster areas, and collect absentee ballots and provide a way for people to communicate with loved ones and get a check and do banking and all the things you need to do.”
Wardynski said the feedback he has gotten from those on the ground in Western North Carolina leaves him with the feeling that politics continues to drive the lack of urgency to storm response.
“The resources that are coming in, flowing in, are still mostly private,” he said. “And then you've got state-level leaders bragging about a paltry response.”
Wardynski said it’s “inexcusable” that the post-Helene response is still in emergency mode.
“Roads and power and fuel and the necessities of living should be rolling in there,” he said. “And it doesn't sound like they are. We’re still at the NGO [non-governmental organization], private-citizen level of response, and it doesn’t sound like they’re getting a hell of a lot of help from the Stafford Act, federal and state level actors either.”
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Donald Trump was not messing around when he picked JD Vance to be his vice president — and Americans all over the country are starting to see why.
Vance is not only incredibly smart and extremely likeable, but he’s the farthest thing from “weird,” as the Democrats attempted to paint him. And his latest interview with comedian Theo Von is testament to that.
When Theo joked about cocaine, telling Vance that “you can’t even do cocaine in this country any more” because of the fentanyl crisis, Vance broke out in laughter. “Don’t say that, but I said it. But don’t say that any more,” Theo added, while Vance kept laughing.
“Dude, I was in an AA meeting, some guy had a fishhook stuck in his freaking cheek, dude,” Theo said in another joke, adding, “But he had two weeks clean.”
“He either had a really bad night or a really good night,” Vance shot back, before Theo, also laughing, took the joke even farther.
“Catch and release. He probably tried to come across the border,” he joked, while again, Vance laughed.
The back-and-forth joking between the two was peppered over some serious moments in the podcast, and Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” believes it was an excellent peek into the kind of man Vance really is.
“You can see, JD, even with his white T-shirt and his light blue jeans, he’s kind of a dork. But he can joke around and it’s humanizing and real, and that’s just in such contrast to what we’ve seen of Tim Walz trying to shoot a gun and all of just everything they’ve done with Kamala to try to make her look real,” Rubin says.
While the humanizing aspect of the interview was great, Vance did bring up issues very near and dear to his heart and expertly explained the obesity and fentanyl crises in their entirety to Theo.
“It contrasts just like the silly stuff and then a command of the issue,” Rubin comments. “China has declared war on us; we know what they’re doing. JD just laid it out there.”
“And he’s not calling on our troops; he goes out of his way to say, ‘We shouldn’t be sending troops into Mexico, but how about we just close the damn wall, close the damn border,’” Rubin continues, noting that from the literal health of America to the strength of our borders, the “level of competency” we’d see in a Trump administration is unmatched.
“I just thought that was a nice moment of the silly and the serious at once, and that is, again, in stark contrast to what we’re seeing on the other side,” Rubin adds.
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A motorist with a long criminal history allegedly tried to run over a father and son Saturday in Florida — but authorities said the father fatally shot the motorist.
Marcus Blicker, 47, followed two vehicles driven by a neighbor’s son and his friend and aggressively swerved toward them in traffic, deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup.
The neighbor's son called his father and told him he was being followed, the News-Journal said.
When the son and his friend got to the father's home on Jackson Lane in Port Orange, deputies told the paper that Blicker arrived there as well and started yelling and threatening the son and his friend. Port Orange is about 15 minutes south of Daytona Beach.
The homeowner fired warning shots, asking Blicker to leave, the News-Journal reported.
However, the paper said Blicker around 7:40 p.m. tried to ram them with his truck and was shot.
When deputies arrived at the scene, Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup, the sheriff's office told the News-Journal.
The incident was captured on video and audio recordings that support the accounts of the shooter and witnesses, deputies told the paper.
No criminal charges have been filed against the homeowner who shot Blicker, the News-Journal reported. The sheriff's office added to the paper that the shooting remains under investigation.
The News-Journal also noted that a Rottweiler in Blicker's truck was injured during the shooting, after which Volusia County Animal Services responded and took the dog for veterinary care. The dog is expected to recover, the paper said.
The News-Journal, citing court records, said Blicker has a long criminal history. He was arrested in 2020 for aggravated stalking, for which he served 12 months' probation, the paper said, adding that in 2012 he was sentenced to 12 months' probation for battery after punching a woman in the cheek at the Flagler Tavern in New Smyrna Beach.
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The Harris-Walz campaign is reportedly manipulating the social media platform Reddit and breaking the rules in order to control the narrative on the site and make Vice President Kamala Harris appear more popular than she actually is, according to a new investigation by the Federalist.
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Hollywood screenwriter David Simon, creator of "The Wire" and "We Own the City," announced that he had canceled his subscription to the Washington Post, adding his name to the many celebrities who announced that they were dumping the paper after the decision was made to cancel its endorsement of Kamala Harris for president.
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Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is waving the white flag in North Carolina, surrendering the state to former President Donald Trump as her campaign withdraws nearly $2 million in planned ad buys statewide.
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Jim Trotter, a current writer for The Athletic and New York Times who sued the NFL for racism, took to X on Tuesday to add a note to a published piece calling out his employer, The Athletic, for "watering down" his article accusing the NFL of having a "double standard" when it comes to player's expressing their political views.
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