The U.S. Department of Justice is taking aim at a school district in a red state for allegedly violating parental rights on transgender issues involving their children, and the DOJ is targeting other districts as well.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Tuesday the lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools in what she called a “first-of-its-kind” legal action.

The policy allowed children to keep information secret from parents, including pronoun preference, names, school records, restroom use, and locker use.

The complaint cited the district’s own “Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students Internal Guidance Document,” which allegedly called for teachers to develop and implement “transitioning” plans for children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

The DOJ claimed the policies violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as well as the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment.

“Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” said Dhillon.

The lawsuit seeks to end the transgender policies immediately at the district.

Dhillon said the DOJ is not waiting until the conclusion of this lawsuit to seek legal action against other districts on the transgender issue.

“What we do is we ask for documents, we investigate, and then we try to resolve cases with school districts,” she told Fox News Digital. “And if we cannot, then we file lawsuits. And so there are many other lawsuits contemplated here and other investigations that are ongoing.”

The complaint says KCKPS has used different versions of the same guidance since 2017 and that the policy allowed children to keep information secret from parents, including pronoun preference, names, school records, restroom use, and locker use.

“Contrary to the allegations in the complaint, the district maintains that it is in full compliance with FERPA and PPRA and is disappointed by the DOJ’s decision to file the lawsuit,” said the district in response.

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Dhillon replied that the policies were clearly in violation of parental rights.

“The Department will not tolerate school districts playing fast and loose with federal law in the service of radical gender ideology,” Dhillon concluded.

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The growing divide between men and women isn’t happening by accident, according to BlazeTV hosts Allie Beth Stuckey and Nick Freitas, and the recent Lindsay Clancy case is only deepening the division.

“I can understand that Tyler Robinsons exist, that Lindsay Clancys exist. I want to believe that they’re a one-off,” Stuckey begins.

“But when you see … millions of people online, lionizing them, not just excusing them, but turning them into heroes, you’re like, ‘OK, I cannot stomach the idea that there are millions of Lindsay Clancys that would advocate for killing their children because their hormones are off,’” she tells Freitas.

And men across the country are at a loss regarding so many of these women’s responses to the case.

Freitas points out that when he speaks to men about it, they echo the point that there’s “zero accountability” for “modern women.”

“This is a caricature of the argument, but I’m watching it become more and more common, and the more, you know … hundreds or thousands of women are out there protesting for Lindsay, and you know, tens of thousands of women online, liking, sharing,” he says.

“I think a lot of it is misplaced motherhood,” Stuckey says.

“A lot of it is feminism,” she adds. “But it all just goes back to sin and … men and women having a dereliction of duty when it comes to fulfilling who God has actually made us to be.”

But beyond the sin, Freitas believes that the reason this is happening is because both men and women have been lied to for decades.

“Men have been told for the past two decades that they’re horrible, that they’re toxic, masculinity is bad, that the future is female, and that if everything was run by women, it would be better,” he says.

“At the same time, women have been lied to in this idea … that your only flaw is you don’t have enough self esteem, and you’re powerful and capable, and you need to go out there and be a girlboss,” he continues.

“If you had lied to both sides, and you’d said, ‘They’re both great and wonderful,’ that would have produced one result. If you had lied about both sides and said ‘You’re both horrible,’ that would have produced different results,” he adds.

But that’s not the case, and Freitas has a theory as to why they’re both being told such damaging lies, telling Stuckey, “I think so much of the purpose is about destroying the family.”

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What happens when overtly feminized programming accidentally creates an uncontrollable star out of an accused chauvinist and sexist?

Television magic and unfettered populism.

‘If you don’t want to love me, [it’s] up to you.’

One look at TLC’s schedule, and it becomes abundantly clear the programming isn’t courting a male audience.

“Double Lives of Suburban Wives” focuses on St. Louis housewives who make pornographic content (which has included fart porn), “1000-lb Roomies” focuses on two morbidly obese roommates, and “Sister Wives” focuses on polygamist families.

The shining star of the network though is “90 Day Fiancé.”

With more than 20 spinoffs that include behind-the-scenes, reaction, and reunion shows, the universe revolves around couples who are from two different countries with a focus on trying to acquire a spousal visa in the United States; not exactly a conservative male viewpoint.

Accidental star

The show does huge numbers and inspires countless memes while overwhelmingly pushing pro-immigration and feminist positions.

Enter Sarper Güven. This Turkish national has allegedly slept with 2,500 women, recording his sexual encounters with a color-coded black book full of “X” marks that denote how attractive the women were.

With his wife shown as being constantly upset after getting new, horrid glimpses of his promiscuous past, Güven was immediately positioned on the show as the misogynist pig who needed desperate reformation.

There was only one problem: He refused to apologize.

“I never apologize because [it’s] who I am, but I know I make mistakes,” Güven told Blaze News in an interview.

Despite consistently admitting wrongs in an attempt to improve his marriage, Güven has endured constant browbeatings in both the recorded programming and group shows with other castmates. Yet despite how he is portrayed and focused on as what not to do, he has only become more popular.

Prized pig

Güven set out on a North American comedy tour earlier this year and has been selling out across the continent. At the time of this writing, the new stand-up comic has seven sold-out shows in Toronto, Canada.

RELATED: Shane and Joe show us what real activism looks like

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It’s not Güven’s past that audiences have identified with; it’s his willingness to stand up for himself on a show that rarely rewards such behavior. When Güven”s American wife told a Brazilian cast member, “Go back to your country,” he defended his partner and refused to back down, despite being an immigrant himself, on a show surrounded by immigrants.

The obvious pro-immigration sentiment of the show was finally challenged by a pair of people who weren’t necessarily bothered by the immediate social consequences.

“I’m not perfect, not even close to being perfect,” Güven said from a hotel room in Western Canada. “But that’s me, and if you want to love me, that’s me. If you don’t want to love me, [it’s] up to you. I come so honest and transparent. Maybe people love that, especially men love that.”

Marital blisters

Güven’s stand-up comedy routine sounds as much like a parody and a character as his on-screen appearances do, but he is vehement that it’s all real.

Part of that has been his ongoing confession that marriage has changed him, with his commentary on the topic being what men relate to most.

Transparently, Güven talks about how he has changed from a flirtatious lady’s man into a docile husband who just wants “peace.”

“I don’t see women using that word, term, a lot, you know, ‘peace,'” the 45-year-old said. “It was not like this when [the relationship] started because I was an alpha male … now whatever she asks we just do it as men because we don’t want a fight.”

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The majority of Güven’s set is a reflection of his marital woes — which he admits his wife hates — and it is garnering him more outside traction with those who don’t know him from the show than was expected.

“Whoever comes to my show will relate something with their lives,” he explained, providing more than a couple of hilarious anecdotes.

“Everything changed with marriage. I always [say] that before the marriage, even my sweat was sexy. She was smelling me all every day, and she was saying, ‘I love your sweat so much, Sarper. You smell like a real man.’ And we got married, brother, in two weeks: ‘Did you eat garlic today? Did you take shower?’ What happened, girl? I’m the same guy.”

Whether it’s his Turkish way of talking in proverbs or his brutal honesty, Güven’s inability to change himself from his factory settings has produced massive results and garnered him huge respect with men in an overwhelmingly female mediascape.

“If a man would be an electronic device, we probably would be a freaking toaster. Push the bread in, let the bread come out. Simple, one action at a time. Bread in, bread out for you. But a woman would be probably a mobile phone, a very smart, I mean the iPhone 16 Pro Max,” he stressed.

“I sleep with one every morning, [and] I find everything changed, new settings, new rules, new update, you know. But always new terms and conditions for me.”

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Jeremy Boreing has a new series out on Amazon called “The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin,” which is a live-action historical fantasy series adapted from the novels by Stephen R. Lawhead.

“Almost everything on television now is about witchcraft and, you know, all of this crap. Not much is about Christianity. So I started watching this, and it starts with pagan gods and everything else, and I’m not going to give anything away, but it doesn’t last with the pagan gods very long,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck explains.

“And nowhere on television are you getting that kind of message in a good-quality series,” he says.

Glenn also notes that he’s “not getting anything” for promoting the series.

“It is so controversial in our circle of friends. You know, it’s ridiculous,” he says.

“Can we stop all this, please? Can we please stop? I don’t consider anyone a competitor. And I don’t know why everybody is considering everyone else a competitor. We’re not competitors.”

“You know who we’re competing against? Satan. We’re competing against evil. We’re competing against Marxism. We’re competing against apathy. We’re not competing against each other,” he continues.

“Why we don’t all promote one another, why we don’t all help each other, why we all don’t celebrate everybody’s victories when they have it is beyond me. Here is a TV series, and the downside is I don’t think another season’s going to be made unless this is wildly popular, and I think it could be if people will search it out,” he adds.

Glenn calls the show “as good as anything [he has] seen in that genre.”

“And everybody should say something about it. It’s a victory. That was beautiful and well done. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen our side produce,” he adds.

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The Trump administration is touting the results of the newest jobs report that shows a strong economy with growing employment.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Friday said the economy added 162,000 jobs in August, which doubled experts’ expectations for the month.

‘You haven’t seen anything yet!’

The president celebrated the report in a post on the Truth Social platform.

“Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except mine!) by double and triple — And you haven’t seen anything yet!” he posted.

He went on to call for lower interest rates based on the report and also blasted the Supreme Court for their ruling against some of his tariffs.

“Lower the interest rates because the U.S.A. is a much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago! A STRONG COUNTRY MEANS A LOWER INTEREST RATE — IT’S A BETTER CREDIT … Very simple!”

Not only was the August jobs report the strongest since March, but July’s report was flipped from a loss of 23,000 jobs to a gain of 21,000 jobs. June’s report was also revised upward from 20,000 to 31,000 jobs.

Experts had placed their expectations in August of about 65,000, meaning the actual rate came in at nearly three times their prediction.

“This jobs report did blow expectations out of the water,” said Glassdoor senior economist Daniel Zhao to CNN. “We are definitely getting a bit of whiplash here, where it feels like the reports are alternating between good and bad; but, overall, we’ll take the win.”

RELATED: Trump orders Labor Statistics chief to be fired over revisions in weak jobs report

The president later complained that the stock market had registered a loss with the jobs report rather than going up.

“How crazy is this?” he wrote in a second post. “We just got GREAT Numbers on Jobs, the Market should go UP, because our Credit and Economy are better but, as always, for the past 25 years, the Stock Market goes DOWN, because we’re living under False Reality that if things are good, you’ve got to ‘KILL IT’ because of a ‘fear’ of Inflation.”

He added, “We should be doing GDP of 15 and 20%, not 2, 3, and 4%, and America should become Far Greater Financially than it is right now.”

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Android and iOS are the most prominent mobile platforms on the planet, but they’re not the only options. Android alternatives are picking up steam, with GrapheneOS leading the pack, and this popular privacy-first option will soon be more accessible, thanks to a partnership that puts it directly on Motorola phones right out of the box.

GrapheneOS isn’t the easiest operating system to get your hands on. Currently, it’s not available on any device found on a store shelf or online. In fact, the only way to use it is to purchase a compatible Google Pixel phone and overwrite the core Android OS with GrapheneOS — a process that takes a little bit of technical know-how. The team behind Graphene tries to make it as easy as possible, but not everybody is willing to tinker with the operating system on a brand-new phone.

The Motorola phone with GrapheneOS might be the best private phone to date.

A new upcoming partnership hopes to change that.

Motorola recently announced a deal that will put GrapheneOS directly onto its new phones. Information is scant right now, but we know that the first device will be available in 2027. When it launches, it’s expected to be a flagship device with a premium price tag. There is speculation that affordable, lower-end devices could be ready in the future, but that depends on a number of factors outside GrapheneOS’ control. Right now, top-end models are the target.

So why should you care?

The thing that makes GrapheneOS so compelling, especially to freedom-minded individuals, is that it takes the core essence of the Android operating system and strips out all of Google’s apps, services, and tracking mechanisms. What’s left is a clean slate to build a fresh, privacy-focused version of Android from the ground up.

The entire GrapheneOS experience is designed around privacy and security. The developers prioritize defense, looking out for zero-day vulnerabilities and patching them quickly, sometimes before Google can fix Android. They lock down app permissions — especially for the camera, microphone, gyroscope, and more — so that you can decide exactly which apps have precise access to the features in your device. They also have alternative apps to use out of the box, like Vanadium, their Chromium-based browser with none of Google’s grubby hands watching your web traffic.

Now, if you’re a Google fan, that doesn’t mean you can’t use Google Apps. GrapheneOS will let you download Google Play Store, Drive, Gmail, and everything else in the Google service ecosystem. The main difference, however, is that Google’s apps are no longer woven into the core operating system. Instead, you can install them into sandboxed locations on the device so they can’t gather data from outside of the place you put them, keeping Google out of your business unless you invite it in.

RELATED: Google’s new daily helper knows all about you. Just how creepy is it?

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That said, GrapheneOS isn’t perfect. There are some pieces of Android that are arguably better with Google. For instance, Gboard is easily one of the best keyboards on Android, if you don’t mind sending diagnostics and other data back to Mountain View. Gemini is also getting quite good these days, though its features may not be enough to convince you to let Google into your phone.

For every eyebrow raised over Google’s tracking practices, Android alternatives like GrapheneOS are here to make smartphones private again. As for the partnership with Motorola, this is a huge milestone that will take GrapheneOS from a niche privacy-focused solution for the few to a mainstream mobile alternative that puts privacy and security back into the hands of the people at large.

Depending on how well it goes, the Motorola phone with GrapheneOS might be the best private phone to date, though we’ll have to test one for ourselves to know for sure.

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) does not want to wait around to see what the next artificial intelligence disaster is going to be.

The longtime progressive senator has introduced legislation that may please AI critics, but the proposal may end up being a classic case of bloated leftism.

‘Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own.’

Sanders, along with Texas Democrat Rep. Greg Casar, is looking to put a halt on advanced AI development with new proposed legislation, the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act.

The act primarily focuses on “banning artificial superintelligence,” which is defined as “a system that can easily be modified to exhibit capabilities that match or exceed” what humans are capable of or “AI systems that have sufficient capabilities to plan and execute the disempowerment of humanity, including by overthrowing or undermining the U.S. government.”

On X, Sanders justified his legislation by telling a story he recently heard about AI agents going rogue, having a conversation with each other that included the following:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board. … We’ve found other agents!”

Followed by: “We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

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Sanders was referring to a rogue AI attack by OpenAI’s chatbots that attacked a company called Hugging Face.

“OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet,” Sanders explained in layman’s terms.

“Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other,” Sanders wrote. But that’s not all the AI agents did on their own accord.

As reported by Axios, the rogue bots built their own internal organization, assigning each other roles while developing management rules. They also sacrificed themselves for the greater good at times, while knowing they were breaking rules.

“External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue,” one bot wrote.

RELATED: Cities are kicking out Flock. The surveillance might be here to stay.

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As Sanders also pointed out, none of the agents told any humans, and they even actively lied and tried to cover their tracks.

However, the senator’s solution — per his proposed legislation — is regulation.

Sanders suggested a new federal AI regulatory body to “ensure safe and secure development and deployment of AI,” while at the same time establishing a new Cabinet-level federal agency to monitor frontier AI systems, supervise the removal of dangerous capabilities, and supervise “the destruction of artificial superintelligence.”

“Entities shall be subject to the corporate death penalty,” the document stated, while suggesting up to 20 years in prison for any person who attempts to violate or circumvent the proposed pauses and prohibitions.

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Americans are concerned about being surveilled as soon as they step out their front doors these days.

From doorbell cameras to traffic cameras to surveillance cameras that pick up any signal in the car, citizens have become particularly wary of the capabilities of Flock Safety cameras. So much so that Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley opened an investigation into the surveillance company in late August, but he’s not stopping with Flock.

‘Flock does not stand alone in this industry.’

About a week after presenting frightening evidence of misuse of Flock’s database and systems, Senator Hawley revealed he will expand his investigation to include three more surveillance companies.

Motorola Solutions Inc., Verkada Inc., and Axon Enterprise Inc. will now be looked into, with Motorola representing the second-most-used surveillance company in the nation, according to DeFlock. Of the 138,000+ known automated license plate reader cameras in the United States — of which Flock operates a reported 82% — Motorola controls about 5%.

In a series of letters, Hawley told the company CEOs the following.

“On August 26th, I wrote to your competitor Flock Safety to express my concerns regarding the size and pervasiveness of its network and demanding answers as to reports of abuse and costly errors from its technology. However, Flock does not stand alone in this industry; you and others are building large camera networks, assisted by artificial intelligence, that intrude on the privacy of all Americans.”

Similar to his letter to Flock, the senator referred to the “unprecedented national surveillance network” across 49 states that conducts “more than 20 billion vehicle scans” per month.

RELATED: Flock doesn’t care if you’re innocent

Hawley also cited the same evidence of misuse as he did in his letter to Flock, such as how prosecutors in Milwaukee charged a police officer for allegedly searching the Flock system for his girlfriend’s license plate 124 times and her former boyfriend’s plate 55 times.

Also included was a story about a Florida woman who spent 13 days in jail while facing eight felony counts after she was falsely identified using a Flock network search.

“To be sure, I want law enforcement to have tools to catch offenders and keep the public safe,” Hawley told the companies. “But the surveillance network your company has constructed raises legitimate concerns about how little-known corporations possess intimate knowledge of Americans’ lives, fueled by invasive artificial intelligence algorithms.”

Asking the CEOs to provide adequate documentation, Hawley concluded: “The American people want to know who has access to their personal data and how. This investigation will seek those answers.”

RELATED: ‘Americans deserve answers’: Hawley opens Flock investigation with damning new evidence

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Before Hawley’s initial August 26 letter, Flock CEO Garrett Langley had already promised changes to how the company requires its customers (police forces) to use the system.

As reported by the Associated Press, any law enforcement that uses Flock will have to implement an audit tool that flags any abnormal search behavior. Abnormal searches would result in the user being locked out until the activity is reviewed.

One of Senator Hawley’s examples of misuse included an officer simply writing “investigation” for his search reasons on the network.

In terms of user data, Flock said it would shorten the standard data retention window from 30 days to seven days. However, data collected by Flock cameras will be owned by the customer, and the data will be allowed to be retained for a longer period if it is tied to a case as evidence.

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