The Supreme Court has closed the curtain on the last opportunity for Alex Jones to try to escape paying a $1.4 billion judgment to the families of the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

A group of parents and a first responder sued the popular Infowars talk show host after he suggested that the shooting may have been a hoax orchestrated to help push extreme gun control laws. The 15 plaintiffs won a judgment in 2022 that awarded them $965 million in damages. A judge later added $473 million in punitive damages.

‘And like that, it’s finally, finally over.’

The court offered no explanation with their denial of the appeal.

Attorneys for Jones argued that the judgment unfairly punished Jones for statements made by his listeners and breached his First Amendment right to free speech.

“The result is a financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions,” they wrote in the petition for appeal.

Attorney Matt Blumenthal, who was on the team representing the Sandy Hook families, applauded the decision by the Supreme Court.

“And like that, it’s finally, finally over,” Blumenthal wrote on social media.

“SCOTUS denied Alex Jones’s last-ditch, baseless appeal, upholding our $1 billion+ verdict against him and Infowars on behalf of Sandy Hook families and a first responder,” he added. “Judgment is FINAL. Good day for justice. Bad day for Alex Jones.”

Jones has declared bankruptcy and thus far avoided paying anything to the families.

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Twenty elementary school children and six educators were murdered in the Sandy Hook attack in 2012.

“Was hard to imagine this day 7+ years ago when I filed the first of these cases. Our courageous clients’ long quest for justice is definitively won. No greater honor than fighting for them,” Blumenthal added.

Blaze News reached out to Jones for comment.

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The Catholic Church holds that the Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life” in which Jesus Christ is substantially present. It appears, however, that for Antifa-championing retired priest Larry Dowling and a handful of other clergymen, the Eucharist might double also as a political prop.

Dowling, who appears to spend much of his retirement pushing leftist propaganda on social media, led a Eucharistic procession on Saturday from St. Eulalia Church, where pro-abortion activist Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) spouted off about immigration, toward the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Chicago in Broadview, Illinois.

The processing facility in Broadview has been heavily targeted in recent weeks by radicals critical of the Trump administration’s faithful enforcement of federal immigration law. As as result, additional security supports have been implemented, including extra fencing.

‘A procession through the public streets is to be held as a public witness of veneration toward the Most Holy Eucharist.’

In footage of the political procession, Dowling can be seen leading a gaggle of photographers and holding a monstrance, the container meant to hold the Eucharist, in the faces of state police while asking for access to the facility. It is unclear whether the monstrance contained a consecrated host at the time.

Footage also shows a supposed nun and others giving political speeches in front of an altar temporarily erected near the facility.

An expert on canon law who spoke to Blaze News on the condition of anonymity indicated that “this seems completely inappropriate.”

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The 1983 Code of Canon Law provides that “when it can be done in the judgment of the diocesan bishop, a procession through the public streets is to be held as a public witness of veneration toward the Most Holy Eucharist.”

The expert noted further that while canon law holds that “it is for the diocesan bishop to establish regulations [ordinationes] which provide for the participation in and the dignity of processions,” “it remains completely inappropriate” to use the Eucharist as a prop.

‘The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership exploited this holy event for political purposes, thus trivializing, if not defaming, its raison d’être.’

David Inczauskis, a Jesuit priest who served as the master of ceremonies, acknowledged that the procession was organized by the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, a grant-reliant anti-ICE outfit that provides training on how foreign nationals can evade federal immigration and authorities and is committed to transforming “racial, economic, social and environmental structures.”

Blaze News has reached out to Dowling, Inczauskis, and Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago for comment.

Dr. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said in a statement to Blaze News:

The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership is a left-wing advocacy organization whose mission statement says nothing about Christianity or Catholicism. More revealing is what it flags on its website — a strong commitment to merging “Liberation Theology & Community Organizing.” Liberation theology is a curious admixture of Marxism and Christianity, and in practice it has done more to oppress than liberate the masses in developing countries. As such it is bizarre to learn that this radical entity held a Eucharistic procession to a migrant detention center in Illinois, a facility run by ICE.

It appears that the participants in this political procession were keen on shaming federal agents and securing a photo opportunity — and judging from the event’s recent coverage in publications such as the leftist blog Common Dreams, WBBM-TV, and the propaganda outfit MeidasTouch, the radicals got at least half of what they wanted.

“Eucharistic processions are a decidedly solemn event whereby the Blessed Sacrament is carried out of a church and into the streets; many Catholic parishes conduct such a procession on the feast of Corpus Christ, the body of Christ,” continued Donohue. “What Catholics do not do is exploit Eucharistic processions to advance a partisan agenda.”

“Quite frankly, the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership exploited this holy event for political purposes, thus trivializing, if not defaming, its raison d’être,” added Donohue.

In addition to potentially using Holy Communion as a prop, the protesters subsequently did their best to push a false narrative.

Dowling said in a statement on Facebook, “We went to pray and have a few of us clergy and religious women bring Holy Communion and the love of the Christian community to the men and women detained there under inhumane conditions.”

The retired priest claimed that when the processionists allegedly asked to administer Holy Communion to the detainees inside the facility, “the answer came back very clearly: NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION AND PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE! NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER ANY SOLACE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN FEARFUL AND SUFFERING INSIDE! NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, THE LOVE OF GOD INTO THIS PLACE!”

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“Yesterday, we witnessed another level of evil,” claimed Inczauskis. “Not only are migrants being torn away from their families and friends. They are also being torn away from their religious communities. ICE is severing the Body of Christ.”

Contrary to the narrative advanced by Dowling and Inczauskis, the Department of Homeland Security indicated to Blaze News that compassion was precisely why ICE couldn’t immediately oblige the processionists’ last-minute request for entry.

“Over the past month, rioters have swarmed the Broadview ICE facility and Chicago streets. They have assaulted law enforcement, attacked law enforcement with vehicles, thrown tear gas cans, slashed tires of cars, been arrested with firearms in their possession, blocked the entrance of the building, and trespassed on private property,” said a DHS official. “Our ICE staff informed the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership that the Broadview processing center was not able to accommodate visitors on such short notice, for their safety as well as that of detainees and staff, and due to the ensuing riots.”

The official noted further that “as ICE law enforcement has seen a surge in assaults, disruptions, and obstructions to enforcement, including by politicians themselves, any requests to tour processing centers and field offices must be approved by the Secretary of Homeland Security.”

Such requests should be filed a week in advance to “prevent interference with the President’s Article II authority to oversee executive department functions,” added the official.

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President Donald Trump will fulfill his promise to give Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, the day that marks the late conservative leader’s 32nd birthday.

On September 11, President Trump announced that he would award Kirk the Medal of Freedom. Kirk was assassinated on September 10 while holding an event at Utah Valley University.

While announcing the award, Trump called Kirk “a giant of his generation, a champion of liberty, and an inspiration to millions and millions of people.” Kirk was known as a leading advocate of free speech and open debate, with his open-mic conversations on college campuses across the country drawing large crowds.

Trump and Kirk were close allies. Kirk used his organizations Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action to mobilize voters for the 2020 and 2024 elections. His efforts have been credited as instrumental in reshaping the GOP and helping Trump return to the White House. President Trump traveled to Phoenix to deliver remarks at Kirk’s memorial service on September 21.

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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest award the United States can bestow on a civilian. Previous recipients include William F. Buckley Jr., Milton Friedman, and Rush Limbaugh. Kirk’s medal will be presented to his widow, Erika. Kirk’s two children are also expected to attend, as is Vice President JD Vance — a longtime friend and ally of Kirk. The ceremony will take place in the White House Rose Garden.

You can watch the ceremony below:

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Despite warnings from the Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services, one liberal state is still defying federal orders.

Since February, the Donald Trump administration has required a return to normalcy through the presidential action titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” After many public battles with left-leaning states — including Maine, which recently passed a law banning men from women’s sports — one standout midwestern state is still refusing to comply.

The federal actions feel like ‘retribution against a state that is proud of its defense of communities that have been marginalized.’

After the Office for Civil Rights and HHS announced the Minnesota Department of Education and its high schools were in violation of Title IX, the federal government offered a resolution that would require the state to revise gender guidance, mandate Title IX compliance, and adopt “biology-based definitions,” among other terms.

However, the state is now openly stating that it actually has no statement at all.

As reported by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Solicitor General Liz Kramer sent a letter to the Trump administration stating that it would not offer a “substantive response” to federal demands due to a lack of clarity surrounding the government shutdown.

The solicitor general reportedly added that “if the federal government intends to follow the law, it would need to follow an extensive, multi-step administrative process before any federal funding to Minnesota education programs or activities could ever be terminated.”

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White House assistant press secretary Liz Houston issued a statement in response to Minnesota’s claims on Friday.

“While Minnesota officials continue to intentionally endanger female athletes with their radical embrace of gender ideology, President Trump is committed to restoring commonsense policies and keeping men out of women’s sports,” Houston said.

At the same time, school board members from across the state have issued statements in support of keeping boys in girls’ sports. For example, St. Louis Park School Board member Sarah Davis said there exists a “need to be standing up for transgender children, especially right now when they are under attack.”

Rachel Hartland from the Hopkins District School Board said the federal actions feel like “retribution against a state that is proud of its defense of communities that have been marginalized.”

The school board member added that the letter she signed was a symbol of her willingness to “stand up for each other and our kids against anyone, including the federal government.”

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Minnesota has been in the national spotlight regarding this issue for quite some time. Specifically, a male baseball player dominating female athletes in softball has garnered widespread attention.

Charlie Rothenberger, who goes by “Marissa,” is a 6-foot male athlete who has dominated the sport over the last two years and unsurprisingly led his team to a state championship in 2025.

Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke (D), a male that purports to be transgender, defended the idea of boys playing in girls’ sports while Rothenberger’s team was in the playoffs in early June.

“Trans girls are girls,” Finke said at the time. “They deserve the right to play sports and engage in physical wellness activities, just like every other child growing up in our beloved state.”

Hours later, Rothenberger pitched a complete game and had two doubles to send his team to the state finals.

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Actor George Clooney says his children have a much better life growing up in France than they would have in Hollywood.

Clooney moved his family to France in 2024, taking root in Cotignac, a village in the southeast.

‘I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life.’

After years of activism in the United States and abroad, Clooney revealed in an interview with Esquire that he did not want to raise his kids immersed in Hollywood culture, with their heads buried in technology and trying to avoid paparazzi.

“Yeah, we’re very lucky,” he told the outlet. “You know, we live on a farm in France. A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid I hated the whole idea of it. But now, for them, it’s like — they’re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in.”

The interview with Clooney was painted as a majestic refuge for a star looking for a simple life, living on a farm with hundreds of acres of sprawling grapevines and olive trees, driving his kids around on a tractor.

“They have a much better life,” Clooney continued. “I was worried about raising our kids in L.A., in the culture of Hollywood. I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life. France — they kind of don’t give a s**t about fame. I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don’t want them being compared to somebody else’s famous kids.”

Clooney’s exodus from L.A. begs the question: Where in the world is a more progressive, Democrat-led landscape than California? The actor’s history of activism would suggest he should feel right at home under Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

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The tip of the iceberg is Clooney’s endorsement, and then retraction of support, for President Biden in 2024. Perhaps a condemnation from former first son Hunter Biden was enough for Clooney to want to permanently check out, but that was not exactly his first rodeo in politics.

Clooney was pictured sitting with then-Vice President Biden in 2009 before claiming that electing him as president in 2020 would be a “return to civility.”

In 2012, Clooney and his father were arrested and released at a Washington, D.C., protest against alleged human rights abuses in Sudan by its government.

In 2020, Clooney and his and wife, Amal, donated $500,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative following George Floyd’s death during the infamous “Summer of Love.” The organization claimed at the time that the “United States did not commit to racial equality, [and] slavery did not end in 1865.”

In their statements regarding policing in America, the group urged the country to “reimagine public safety and community health, reallocate funds from traditional policing to services that promote public safety and more effectively address the conditions that create poverty, inequality, and community distress.”

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Citing his father’s insistence that it was his “civic duty” to stand up to bullies and racists, Clooney told People in 2020 that he felt he was in the same situation with his kids.

“I’m in the same situation as most fathers of 3-year-olds: I don’t want my children when they’re 15 years old to turn around and say, ‘There was a time when they were putting kids in cages? … And what did you do about that?'” Clooney boldly claimed.

“And if the answer is ‘nothing,’ then I would be ashamed,” he said.

In 2019, Clooney continued his activism on behalf of Sudan, connecting it to a need for action against climate change.

“Global warming is making the desert larger; violence is moving people off the land — and they are moving by the millions,” he told CNN. “You care not just because it is the right thing to do, which it is, but because at one point or another, it is something that we will be dealing with,” he claimed.

While the Clooneys call France their current home, they still own a villa in Italy, a home outside London, and residences in L.A. and New York City, according to Yahoo.

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The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 50 Mexican officials and politicians for alleged connections to various cartels. More officials are likely to lose their visas as the administration looks to both cut off the cartels and increase pressure on the Mexican government to take a harder line against the criminal elements within the country.

‘This situation occurs in a complex binational context.’

In a statement to Reuters, a senior U.S. State Department official said that visas held by foreign officials can be revoked “at any time” if the official is engaging in “activities that run contrary to America’s national interest.”

Mexico is not the first Latin American country to have officials lose their U.S. visas. According to the Guardian, more than 20 judges in Brazil have had their visas revoked, and 14 politicians and businessmen in Costa Rica have lost their visas.

Only a few Mexican officials have publicly stated that their visas have been revoked, as visa records are private under U.S. law. The governor of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Avila, stated in May that both she and her husband had their visas revoked. In a post on X, she wrote that “this situation occurs in a complex binational context.”

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Her husband, Carlos Torres Torres, is a former member of the House of Deputies, the lower house of Mexico’s Congress. Both Torres and Avila are members of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena party.

These visa crackdowns are part of a wider Trump administration policy of taking a hard line against the criminal elements in South and Central America. In addition to increased diplomatic pressure on Mexico and other Latin American countries, the administration has deployed Navy assets to the Caribbean and conducted lethal strikes on boats being used by cartels to smuggle drugs.

Despite reports that many of the Mexican officials who have lost their visas are members of the ruling Morena party, the U.S. State Department told Reuters that the U.S. has “a good working relationship” with the Mexican government and “look[s] forward to continuing to advance our bilateral relationship in the interest of the America first foreign policy agenda.”

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is sharing the wealth with U.S. allies in Europe and NATO.

Since late 2024, Zuckerberg’s tech giant has made Llama — its own large language model — available to foreign countries within the Five Eyes security partnership between the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Now, Meta is expanding the access to other countries while partnering with advanced-AI military contractors.

‘We’re building for completely on-device deployment of AI.’

Wearable products, AI programs, and other tools are being shared with allies in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, in order to enhance “decision-making, mission-specific capabilities, and operational efficiency,” Meta wrote.

The technology includes a partnership with Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s industry-leading augmented reality defense company.

Calling the effort the “largest of its kind,” Meta’s partnership is meant to equip soldiers with enhanced decision-making capabilities. This is apparent with Anduril’s recently released EagleEye, an AI/AR warfighter helmet.

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EagleEye represents the best of what the video game world has to offer, brought to life.

Not only does the helmet display directional mapping as if belonging to a gamer dropped into a first-person shooting game, but it also provides a form of X-ray vision that allows users to see allies and enemies on the map through coordinated data.

The AR tech also utilizes spatial audio and frequency detection to alert operators of hidden threats. Rear and flank sensors also ensure that the allied soldier is not ambushed.

Anduril’s Lattice AI is also making waves, and it too looks like something gamers will recognize.

Using data from drones, sensors, and satellites, it creates a real-time 3D battlefield map. The program boasts a wide range of deployable formats, including detecting battlefield threats or intrusions on border security.

In November 2024, Meta opened-sourced its Llama model for the U.S. military and its contractors to build upon. That move is now paying off, as Meta will now share what the company EdgeRunner has built, a closed-ended chatbot for soldiers.

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EdgeRunner AI is essentially a search function for soldiers; it can be run as a local program on almost any consumer-grade device, and according to Meta, it can be used to identify safe locations for aircraft or even accurately translate languages.

“This is all part of our joint effort to ensure the warfighter has access to advanced AI technology at the tactical edge,” an EdgeRunner spokesperson told Return. “What’s especially unique about our work with Meta is that we’re building for completely on-device deployment of AI, meaning it’s running locally on your laptop, workstation, or smartphone, disconnected from the cloud.”

This method avoids the necessity for uninterrupted cloud connectivity, which helps keep the data out of the enemy’s hands, too.

The AI program has an all-encompassing goal and is specifically designed to be adaptable to different job titles. This means it will be coupled with logistics, maintenance, and combat roles.

Meta is spreading its footprint worldwide and said because of this, it hopes allies will deploy the AI ethically, responsibly, and in accordance with “relevant international law and fundamental principles.”

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Left-wing activists have expressed their outrage at what they say is an act of erasure against the queer community by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on political murals.

Abbott had given cities 30 days to remove political murals from public spaces, and the Texas Department of Transportation reiterated the order to the city of Austin.

‘An absolute breach on freedom of speech and a breach on our queer history.’

The city agreed to remove the Pride rainbow crosswalk on Fourth Street as well as a Black Lives Matter mural on Eleventh Street. They were at risk of losing state and federal funding if they didn’t comply with the order.

But local activists are incensed.

“It feels like a slap in the face to the community,” Austin Pride president Micah Andress said to KTBC-TV. “I don’t understand why this is political. It’s a rainbow crosswalk. It’s certainly not a safety hazard.”

Andress wants the city to resist the order and keep the crosswalk.

“If we’re as progressive as we say we are, and we have all the protections that the city says we do, we should be protecting this,” Andress said. “We shouldn’t be erasing it. We’re not going anywhere. We’ve always been here. We’ll always be here.”

“It is an absolute breach on freedom of speech and a breach on our queer history,” said Veronica Jones, a resident of Austin.

“It’s just important for every community, no matter what you believe, to have a space where you can be your authentic self and be celebrated,” said Chris Collier, another resident. “I would hate to see this block become any less colorful.”

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Others are upset at the removal of the Black Lives Matter street mural.

“Just because they want to erase something from the street, it doesn’t erase the sentiment, it doesn’t erase the message,” said Austin Justice Coalition founder Chas Moore. “The message remains the same, that Black lives matter, Black artists matter.”

A similar order in Florida garnered the same responses from drag queens in Miami Beach.

“Our pride is getting erased just like that,” said a drag queen named CC Glitzer. “It’s very painful.”

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The United States has been cracking down on drug trafficking and other illegal activities in the Western Hemisphere, specifically targeting Venezuela in recent months. Trump has consistently announced airstrikes against “narcoterrorist” boats, and Tuesday saw the most recent tactical strike.

Trump announced on Tuesday on Truth Social that the Department of War carried out an airstrike against a vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing those aboard.

‘The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold.’

“Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela,” he said in the post.

Trump explained the reason for the strike and its aftermath: “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed.”

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Trump’s post about the airstrike comes days after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the creation of a “new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force” in USSOUTHCOM’s area of responsibility. The mission of the task force, according to Hegseth, is “to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe.”

USSOUTHCOM, or U.S. Southern Command, is one of 11 combatant commands under the Department of War. USSOUTHCOM’s area of responsibility includes the land mass of Latin America south of Mexico, the waters adjacent to Central and South America, and the Caribbean Sea. It is also responsible for securing the Panama Canal, according to its website.

“The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold,” Hegseth added.

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Drone defense systems are far more developed than the average person may be aware of.

In December 2024, there were estimates of over 5,000 reports of drone sightings off the East Coast of the United States, including huge clusters in New Jersey.

‘We’re going to start to see the increasing development of … directed-energy weapons or high-powered microwave systems.’

Despite the mass confusion surrounding the mystery drones, citizens were told there existed no national security threat and even, at times, that what they saw was probably just a plane.

However, the Joe Biden administration did not seem to let Americans know at the time that the Department of Defense (now Department of War) is far more equipped to handle drone swarms than is commonly understood.

This was made apparent by Jake Adler, the biotech entrepreneur behind the clay-based hemostatic Kingsfoil. The young businessman revealed to Blaze News that drone warfare has prompted the use of direct-energy weapons that are being quickly developed to lower defense costs.

The ongoing threat has resulted in a type of “escalation tax,” Adler explained, in which the constant use of drones has necessitated the creation and deployment of cheaper defense mechanisms.

Adler referred to companies like Allen Control Systems, which have taken massive strides in developing new methods of knocking drones out of the sky. Some companies are even using microwave technology.

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ACS’ Bullfrog system is fairly simple: an autonomous weapon targets unidentified aerial vehicles and blows them away with high-caliber rounds, all while being exceptionally portable, at just 165 pounds for some models.

Then there’s Epirus, which offers “long-pulse high-power microwave systems with AI and advanced electronics to protect and sustain civilization.”

Simply put, Epirus uses energy weapons to neutralize dozens of drones at a time and has successfully completed trials in which it took out 49 of 49 and 61 of 61 targets successfully and simultaneously.

“We’re going to start to see the increasing development of countermeasure systems coming from companies like Eperis, which are doing directed-energy weapons or high-powered microwave systems,” Adler noted. “So we’re kind of seeing the development of novel platforms that can more effectively knock down, you know, a hundred drones for five cents.”

The use of these systems tied into Adler’s broader point that the neutralizing of drone threats forces a reliance on human fighters.

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Adler’s company Pilgrim has been focusing on bolstering soldier capability in the battlefield, and in addition to its medical technology, he has long looked to target another sensitive area: sleep.

‘Warfighters have really bad sleep,” Adler offered. “A great deal of them are sleep-deprived. One of the challenges is that you’re taking an 18-year-old … and putting them into a highly stressful environment where the expectation is, realistically, very limited sleep. And that’s sort of around the age where sleep patterns are still getting reinforced, right? So you’re kind of disrupting the natural evolution or really the natural growth of the brain, which can kind of create challenges around combat effectiveness [and] accuracy.”

This “laundry list” of externalities that are affected by sleep are on Adler’s to-do list, and he has looked to get away from the use of pharmaceuticals (stimulants and sedatives) in order to tackle those issues.

Through a previous project called NeuSleep (now officially on pause), Adler had soldiers use a sleeping mask equipped with brain stimulation and monitoring devices for heart rate, blood oxygenation, and sleep stages. The device would stimulate the brain to modify sleep patterns, allegedly making three-hour naps feel more like five or six hours of sleep.

“We’d be able to monitor if you were in REM or if you’re in light sleep. … We could basically shock you and improve your sleep quality. The joke that we had internally was that we were shocking people to sleep, which didn’t really get very far in terms of marketing,” he laughed.

Adler, like many others, solidified the idea that the Trump administration has placed increased emphasis on developing its network of companies that place high importance on advanced technologies for the individual and treat the soldier as the focus.

Companies like Pilgrim, Anduril, and EdgeRunner AI are moving at light speed, and the general populace is blissfully unaware. Systems that are in place to protect citizens are now under scrutiny from young entrepreneurs who have signaled that a lot of military and defense tech is slow-moving or out of date, and they want to do something about it.

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Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of “Relatable,” is receiving praise from across the internet after she debated 20 so-called “liberal Christians.”

Last month, Stuckey participated in the latest installment of Jubilee’s “Surrounded” series. The format is simple: Stuckey presents four “claims,” and participants take turns debating her until a majority of the participants vote that opponent out. Rinse and repeat for 20 minutes for each claim.

‘Allie Beth is a much better debater than I ever thought.’

These are the four “claims” that Stuckey presented:

The Bible says that marriage is only between one man and one woman.Abortion is a grave moral evil.Empathy can be toxic and lead to sin.Progressivism and Christianity are at odds.

Most of the counter-arguments to Stuckey’s claims were not novel. But what made this Jubilee debate different from previous installments was, for the most part, the respect that participants showed Stuckey through their disagreements.

Not only did most of the participants debate Stuckey with respect, but most of them sought to understand Stuckey’s positions. And unlike previous Jubilee debates, none of Stuckey’s interlocutors melted down or reduced the debate to personal attacks and mudslinging.

Of course, most of Stuckey’s opponents held their ground — as did she. But Stuckey still managed to find common ground with many of them — and a few even ended up agreeing in principle with her claims.

Comments on the debate video were filled with praise, not only for the respect demonstrated between Stuckey and her interlocutors, but for Stuckey’s command of scripture and Christian theology and the grace that she showed each and every person.

Here are just some of the highlights:

“The difference between Christian’s debating Christian’s vs Christian’s debating non Christian’s is crazy. This was the most respectful debate on jubilee I’ve ever seen.””I’m not very religious and don’t know who any of this people are, but I have to confess this woman made me actually rethink my stands in abortion …““Allie just demonstrated 1 Peter 3:15 so well. This woman was prepared to give a defense and did so with gentleness and respect.““Allie Beth Stuckey was clear, understood her positions well, was winsome, respectful, humble, and stood her ground. Even if you disagree with her, she provided an excellent model for civil debate and represented her positions well.““Im not a religious person but… This was probably the most respectful debate episode I’ve seen on this channel and totally enjoyed it.““Allie Beth is a much better debater than I ever thought.““If you compare this to literally any other surrounded where both sides are not explicitly Christian this might be one of the best advertisements for Christianity as a baseline position of all people regardless of political belief I have ever seen.““Even with any disagreements, This is what a debate should look like.““This is probably the realest sermon these folks have had in a minute. Conviction has entered the chat.”

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Liberal media are pushing their latest narrative that Antifa does not actually exist — and is much less of a threat than right-wing terrorist groups.

However, despite their new talking points — which BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales points out they’ve all adopted eerily at the same time — they’ve been reporting on Antifa’s existence for years.

“It’s so interesting. Just like with everything else that the left wants to pretend isn’t happening, it’s not happening. Antifa isn’t a thing,” Gonzales mocks on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“However, one slight problem for them: The internet is forever,” she adds, before pulling up an ABC News article from 2021 with the headline, “After a year of protests, Portland residents have waning patience for antifa.”

The subhead read, “Rose City Antifa is one of the nation’s oldest active antifa groups.”

“Oh, okay, so back in 2021, we were actually not just talking about Antifa was a thing; we were actually dating how old the nation’s oldest active Antifa group was, because that’s how much of a thing we all could admit that they were,” Gonzales says.

ABC News then released a special on “Nightline” in 2021 interviewing members of Rose City Antifa, where they did not show the members’ faces and altered their voices.

“The use of violence is a tactic of how we keep our communities safe,” one of the members told the interviewer.

“The use of violence is there to maintain safety for us and make sure that when people like Proud Boys or Nazis or fascists come to our city and want to do that harm, then we are not allowing that,” the member said.

“There are a lot of reasons why people would engage in property destruction. I think that one of the reasons that people will break windows is a lot of times like symbolic of the way that the city will protect things of material value but not its people,” they added.

“It’s just symbolic,” Gonzales comments. “The vandalism is just symbolic.”

“Reason that out in your head, why it makes you a fascist or a communist to, you know, believe in things like property rights. It’s kind of the opposite. But these people, they just said it themselves,” she continues.

“But now we’re supposed to believe it doesn’t exist,” she adds.

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The iconic MTV network is shutting down several channels in the U.K., prompting many to lament the demise of the last of its music-only channels after 44 years.

MTV was launched in 1981 and revolutionized the music industry by airing music videos 24 hours a day and later developing the MTV Video Music Awards. It has since lost viewership and relevance, and the U.S. all-music channels closed in 2011.

‘Music videos were being commoditized, and they went for the logical choice: maximum money with a global brand.’

On Friday MTV said it was shutting down five channels: MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live.

MTV in the U.S. had phased out music videos over many years after the rise in popularity of reality television shows. MTV HD will continue broadcasting some reality TV programs including “Teen Mom” and “Geordie Shore.”

Former MTV video jockey Adam Curry suggested in an emailed statement to Blaze News that the network chose the path to its demise after ignoring the rise of the internet.

“The writing was on the wall when the game show ‘Remote Control’ broke the 1.0 rating barrier in 1988. MTV Networks had already purchased BET and launched VH1. Music videos were being commoditized, and they went for the logical choice: maximum money with a global brand. I can’t blame them,” Curry wrote.

He recounted how he registered the MTV.com website in order to help publicize his show during his time as a video jockey. He was one of the first to run a website from his home server.

“At the time, MTV’s legal counsel told me they had no interest in the internet, because they had registered the AOL keyword. LOL,” he continued. “Later MTV Networks sued me over the domain name, and I countersued. We settled … out of court, and I have no further comment on the matter.”

Blaze News reached out to MTV for comment.

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Other former video jockeys also commented on the announcement.

“End of a trailblazing, once upon a time, one of a kind era,” wrote Jasmine Dotiwala on social media. “MTV, the world’s first 24-hour music broadcaster, is to stop showing rolling pop videos in the UK after almost 40 years when it closes five channels at the end of the year.”

“We need to support these artists, and we all need to dance again and listen to music,” said Simone Angel to the BBC. “And I know we do that online in our own little bubbles, but MTV was the place where everything came together. So it really does break my heart.”

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