Police are asking the public for help to identify other possible victims of a 19-year-old who referenced a satanic online cult and sent lewd photos to a child.

Jacob William St. Peter of Leonardtown was arrested by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland on Feb 3., according to a statement from the Nampa Police Department.

‘It systematically targets vulnerable youth, beginning with seemingly harmless interactions, before escalating to coercion, blackmail, and demands for explicit or self-harm content.’

Police said they were contacted in December by a Nampa resident who reported that an unknown adult man had sent “unsolicited explicit images” to a minor online. A digital forensic examination of the minor’s devices found that the suspect had used the moniker “randysaystrade” on various platforms.

They found explicit content along with references to 764, an online grooming cult that police described as engaging in “coordinated grooming and coercive exploitation of vulnerable adolescents.”

Members of the 764 satanic network target emotionally vulnerable underage children and then coerce them into a spectrum of self-abuse that includes cutting, eating their own hair, and even suicide. The U.S. Dept. of Justice has said cult members often have the victims record the self-abuse, and then the footage is “circulated among members to extort victims further and exert control over them.”

St. Peter faces felony charges of sexual abuse of a child under 16 years of age. He remained under custody in Maryland and awaits extradition to Idaho after receiving a $100,000 bond.

Det. Noah Monroe of the Nampa Police Special Victims Unit said the case is a good reminder for parents to restrict and monitor their children’s access to social media.

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“Communicating with strangers online carries serious risks, particularly for minors, as predators exploit trust to manipulate and harm,” Monroe said.

“The ‘764’ network exemplifies these dangers,” he explained. “It systematically targets vulnerable youth, beginning with seemingly harmless interactions, before escalating to coercion, blackmail, and demands for explicit or self-harm content. Parents and guardians must remain proactive in supervising online activity and educating children about these threats.”

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While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales was thrilled when it was announced that the plans to build EPIC City in Plano were shut down, she isn’t surprised that more like it are popping up in Texas.

“If you’re noticing EPIC City, expect that there are 10 more EPIC cities happening very quietly in sleepy little areas where people probably would not be paying attention. And expect it. They’re not going to stop,” Gonzales says.

“So now the rural, sleepy Kaufman County in the state of Texas has some new land development interest,” she continues, noting that it’s “where nobody would expect.”

“But curiously enough, according to the Daily Caller, in 2022 … a company by the name of Kaufman Solar bought up a giant parcel of land, and no one batted an eyelash. No one thought anything of it until they now learned that a mysterious buyer from the Middle East is trying to buy up 2,000 plus acres right next to that solar panel farm to build a sustainable city,” Gonzales says.

In addition, at a recent county commissioner court meeting, Gonzales explains that a “lawyer came and gave notice that he was formally requesting a public hearing on approving three new water districts for this particular firm who wants to buy up this land.”

“Now it turns out a little bit later in that court hearing, the attorney confirmed that the potential developer is SEE Holding. Now this is a Dubai company. This is a UAE, like, it is a Middle Eastern company. So what do we make of this?” Gonzales asks after playing a clip of the meeting.

“What do we make of this new interested buyer who wants to buy up all of this, like, 20,000 plus people are just going to put right in here and like why?” she asks again.

“It smells weird. It’s a little fishy … the fact that it is Dubai money … that it is Middle Eastern money, the fact that it is SEE Holdings, it’s weird guys. It’s weird.”

“So be on high alert. The trend in this state is that Islam is coming and Islam is trying to take over,” she adds.

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The Seattle Seahawks trampled the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, but the postgame chatter barely touched football. Fans and pundits argued about anthems, halftime, commercials, and what the whole spectacle “said” about America.

For better or worse, the Super Bowl serves as the premier civic liturgy of the American empire, a night when strangers share the same screens and offices share the same small talk. When that ritual becomes another front in the culture war, the country loses one more place to breathe.

Americans once used the game to share food, laugh at ads, and pretend for a night that they still belonged to one people. This year, the country used the game to rehearse separation.

Families fight. Politics intrudes. Resentments pile up. Holidays still force a pause. Thanksgiving and Christmas push people back to the same table, reminding them that the argument cannot become the relationship.

When even the ritual itself turns into the argument — when Thanksgiving and Christmas are no longer about gratitude or celebrating the birth of Christ but rather who can win a political debate — the family slides from conflict toward rupture. A nation works the same way. Shared ceremonies do not solve deep disagreements, but they keep disagreement from becoming total separation.

From national pastime to litmus test

Americans rarely stop living their separate lives to watch the same thing at the same time. Streaming splinters audiences. Social media isolates communities. Even big films and best-selling books now fall into ideological silos.

The Super Bowl remains one of the few national events that still compels common attention. People who hate sports tune in for the ads so they can follow the conversation at work the next day. A shared celebration, however frivolous, still binds people who otherwise share little else in common.

This year’s Super Bowl looked like a country at war with itself.

The broadcast opened with two national anthems: the familiar Francis Scott Key standard and the newer “black national anthem” that appears at more NFL events each season. The league has leaned hard into woke activism, from corporate rituals to social campaigns, and it rarely hides the moral it wants viewers to absorb. Two anthems signal two constituencies. Two constituencies begin to behave like two nations.

A cultural sorting mechanism

The halftime show sharpened that divide. The NFL chose Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican artist who performs almost entirely in Spanish, and the set centered on Hispanic identity. The stage recreated a bodega, complete with an “EBT welcome” neon sign. The performance leaned into sexual provocation, with dancers simulating sex acts and same-sex grinding played for shock and applause. The show ended with performers hoisting foreign flags, a tableau that read less like cultural flair and more like a victory lap.

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A large portion of the audience did not buy what the league sold. Ratings suggested many viewers tuned out during the set. Some did so out of prudishness, others out of irritation at the message, others out of confusion. Either way, the halftime show did not function as a shared moment. It became a sorting mechanism.

Turning Point USA offered a competing halftime program featuring country artists singing about America and Jesus Christ. The stream broke records and reportedly became YouTube’s largest live broadcast. The accomplishment deserves credit. The need for it should worry anyone who wants a coherent nation. Instead of one shared celebration, Americans built parallel ceremonies, then congratulated themselves for avoiding each other.

Who is the customer here?

The commercials followed the same pattern. One spot from a mortgage lender portrayed a family of color moving into a mostly white neighborhood and encountering casual racism until they instructed the residents on diversity and inclusion. The ad did not wink. It preached.

Another strange commercial, backed by Patriots owner Robert Kraft, aimed to address rising anti-Semitism. It showed a Jewish student harassed in a school hallway as classmates mocked him and stuck a note reading “dirty Jew” to his backpack. The boy reached his locker, where a black student offered solidarity based on shared experience with hatred from whites. The ad then unveiled a “blue square” social media campaign modeled on the “black square” campaign that followed George Floyd’s death in 2020.

NFL owners did not back away from the woke script. They turned the dial higher.

Two different worlds

The next day I went to my barber, and he described the shift in real time. Small talk drives that job. For most of his life, the Monday after the Super Bowl brought lively chatter about the best plays and the funniest ads. This year, customers wanted to talk politics. They complained about the anthems, the halftime, the messaging, the moral scolding. The game itself barely came up. Friendly banter about the MVP and next season’s prospects gave way to arguments about what kind of country this still is.

That exchange captured the larger problem. Conservatives and liberals increasingly inhabit different worlds. They share geography, but they do not share premises. They do not share authorities. They do not share the same media diet, the same moral language, or the same sense of what counts as a fact. When they occupy the same room, they talk past each other. When they can avoid the room, they do.

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The old American civic fracture ran along a map. The new fracture runs through families, workplaces, churches, and neighborhoods. The country did not divide into North and South. It divided into competing moral nations layered on top of the same territory. Each tribe builds its own institutions, its own entertainers, its own narratives, and, increasingly, its own rituals.

No stable regime can endure that kind of division indefinitely. One side will eventually impose cultural dominance on the other, with power used to punish dissent and enforce conformity. Or the country will choose some form of national divorce, formal or informal, with communities separating as much as law and logistics allow.

The Super Bowl did not create this crisis. It revealed it. A shared civic ritual lets people practice unity without requiring uniformity. Americans once used the game as a harmless excuse to share food, laugh at ads, and pretend for a night that they still belonged to one people. This year, the country used the game to rehearse separation.

A nation that cannot share a football game cannot share much else for long.

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When Team USA freestyle skier Hunter Hess used his platform at the Olympics to bash President Donald Trump, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales pointed out that “you don’t actually have to represent this country.”

“There is one Olympian who took that very seriously, actually, which was Eileen Gu,” Gonzales comments. “So, she at the time expressed her support for Hunter Hess.”

“You’ll notice by her last name, Gu, she’s competing for China, but that’s not the whole story. She’s actually American-born, and she entered the conversation, and she slammed Trump. She told the Atlantic, ‘I’m sorry that the headline is eclipsing that the Olympics has to be so unrelated to the spirit of the games,’” she continues.

“She was born in America. She was raised in San Francisco. She trained in this country with U.S. ski and snowboard. She was educated by Stanford University, which is probably why she’s such a dips**t, and she is competing in her second Olympic games representing China,” she explains.

Gu reportedly has an American father and a Chinese mother who was a first-generation Chinese immigrant to the United States.

“She has been afforded all of these luxuries from this country, and she chose to take her talents over to the Chinese Communist Party, where they do unspeakable things to innocent civilians, and on top of that has made millions in endorsements from her decision to represent China instead of the United States,” Gonzales says.

“So, it’s like $23 million that she’s making from going off and representing China. How absolutely disgusting can you be?” she asks.

“She’s walking around with all of these luxuries from America. And then she turns around and takes her talents that she was able to achieve from us and takes them to China. And then on top of that … wants to lecture us on Donald Trump and ICE,” she adds.

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The Democratic governor of New Jersey is taking action to oppose operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in her state.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Tuesday that she is going to restrict ICE agents from state property as well as launch an online portal to track agents’ movements.

‘She is putting a target on their backs. It’s dangerous and completely backwards.’

“ICE is making everyone less safe. Today, I’m taking action to protect New Jerseyans. First, I’m signing an Executive Order to ban ICE from launching actions from any state property,” Sherrill posted in a statement on the X platform.

She then linked to the site run by the New Jersey Attorney General’s office “where people can upload videos of ICE interactions they see in our state.”

The website says people can report “incidents involving harmful conduct by, or negative interactions with,” federal agents.

“If you’re approached by an agent or see an ICE operation taking place, and you’re at a safe distance — send us your videos,” Sherrill added.

She touted another website set up by the state to ensure “people know their Constitutional rights when interacting with federal agents,” and to connect residents with “important resources” that include “pro-bono legal services.”

Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey immediately criticized the portal.

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“The Governor of New Jersey just launched a state portal to track ICE agents,” he wrote. “These are federal officers removing violent criminals from our streets, and she is putting a target on their backs. It’s dangerous and completely backwards.”

However, the information gathered through the portal will not be shared with the public.

The website is available in 22 languages.

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