Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is in the headlines again after coming to the defense of the now-deported immigrant he previously pardoned — even though the immigrant was convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.

In his response to the Trump administration, Walz appears to be exploiting the empathy of his Democrat voters and ignoring the disturbing reality of what the immigrant did.

“Tim Walz and people like him will take that compassion and they will abuse it,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck begins.

“Walz responded to the Trump administration because Trump deported a pedophile that was a legal immigrant here that Tim Walz had pardoned,” he says. “You’re pardoning a pedophile?”

“So Tim Walz comes out and talks about the Trump administration deporting that illegal migrant convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl. How is Tim Walz not being recalled? Why is there not an impeachment hearing on Tim Walz?” he asks. “He pardons an illegal migrant convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl.”

The predator, Glenn notes, is “not an American citizen.”

“There’s no reason to have a threat in here that’s not an American. We have our own threats,” he says.

In a horrifying response to Trump’s deportation of the predator, Walz said, “Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day? And I want to be very clear: These are horrific crimes.”

“Yeah, Tim. I think that did make his children that apparently he left behind more stable,” Glenn comments. “Yeah, they got rid of a child rapist as a father.”

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Democrats who are still hoping to win one of Maine’s seats in the U.S. Senate after Graham Platner’s unceremonious exit were likely disappointed by the Democratic debate Thursday.

The social media team for the Republican National Committee had a field day posting various clips from the debate that displayed the candidates’ absurdity and/or extremism.

‘They say we want to hurt people. I don’t want to hurt anybody, I just want to use the bathroom.’

Transgender-identifying candidate Ashley Webb got the most attention with the bizarre statements he made from the stage. In one video, Webb tries to list his qualifications to serve in the Senate.

“I ran for office several times. Didn’t win,” Webb explained with a brief laugh, “but I did run. And then, I’m a songwriter, and then I write my own books.”

Then Webb, who was wearing a dress, added: “I wouldn’t lie to the people, and I wouldn’t deceive the people, like we’re being deceived right now … like what’s going on with ICE.”

Webb went on to explain why he supported the rights of trans-identifying individuals to use any bathroom.

“And then with the trans community, we’re being dehumanized,” Webb said. “They say that we want to hurt people. I don’t want to hurt anybody, I just want to use the bathroom. … If they want me to use the men’s room, I will, but I don’t want to be assaulted.”

Webb also supported expansion of gun restrictions nationally.

“I think a national red flag law would probably be more appropriate. If you’re a danger to society, you shouldn’t have a gun,” he said in another video posted by the RNC.

Other candidates used the platform to bash the Democratic Party and to advocate abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

And many had warm thoughts about Platner, despite his embarrassing shortcomings.

“The single idea from Graham Platner that spoke most deeply to me is that he’s right. The democracy that we thought we had has been deeply corrupted by those in power in Washington,” said Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who failed miserably to unseat incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R) in 2014.

“We need someone who’s gonna stand up for Mainers, and Graham Platner was right! The system’s rigged!” said Dan Kleban, co-founder of Maine Beer Company.

The New York Post compiled a video of some of the cringiest moments from the debate.

RELATED: WATCH: Graham Platner’s video denial of sexual assault sounds EERILY similar to that of Eric Swalwell

After the debate ended, a television commentator tried to gently acknowledge the lack of pizzazz from the candidates.

“When it comes to charisma, Platner had a lot of advantages. … I don’t think that any of those people that we saw just now have that card to play,” Ron Schmidt said.

The winner of the Democratic scramble to replace Platner will go up against Collins in November.

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Fluoride use in drinking water has long been a contentious debate, resulting in multiple state bans in recent years.

Now, a new study shows that the chemical compound could have brutal effects on brain cells and cognition when consumed by humans or animals.

‘Structural damage to the central nervous system may occur.’

Brain drain

Florida became the second state after Utah to ban fluoride from its drinking water systems in 2025, and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) may have been ahead of the curve if a recent study on fluoridization effects are to be believed.

A brain research study published on Science Direct is claiming point-blank that fluoride consumption can lead to cognitive dysfunction.

The study used living mice and HT-22 cells, mice brain cells, and concluded that “structural damage to the central nervous system may occur in human and animals after fluoride exposure.”

The mice were exposed to fluoride for five months, absorbing it through water as sodium fluoride, as it is typically delivered through drinking water systems or toothpaste. One group of mice consumed drinking water that had 50mg of sodium fluoride per liter, a second group drank water with 100mg/liter, and a third group drank pure deionized water.

The mice who had fluoride showed losses in brain and body weight compared to the control group, as well as a decrease in cognitive ability.

The HT-22 cells decreased in numbers with the increase of fluoride concentrations, while cell survival rate gradually decreased. At the same time, the number of axons and dendrites — which facilitate communication within the nervous system — decreased as fluoride concentrations increased.

RELATED: MAHA allies rage over Trump’s support for controversial weed-killing chemical

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Muddled mice

To test the fluoride-induced neurotoxicity, the team of scientists evaluated learning and memory capabilities through a behavioral study known as the “step-down test.”

Researchers placed the mice on a platform, where the surrounding floor delivered a mild electric shock. Then, the researchers recorded how many times the animals mistakenly jumped down after learning about the shock. These errors were considered a lapse in “avoidance memory,” PsyPost wrote.

The test reportedly showed a distinct drop in cognitive performance among the mice who were exposed to fluoride. The group that had a medium dose made more errors than those drinking the pure water, and while the highest dose group made even more errors, it wasn’t statistically significant compared to the medium-dose group.

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Ban wagon

While readers should be aware that the study was carried out entirely by scientists in mainland China, the debate over fluoridization in water is not limited to the communist country.

Around the same time Florida banned the process in 2025, at least five other states were having policy discussions about doing the same: Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and New Hampshire.

In addition to the two state bans, nine other states have less than 50% of their population on fluoridated water, according to CDC data. Among the lowest are Oregon (26%), New Jersey (16%), and Hawaii (8.5%).

Globally, the United States is one of the highest users of fluoride in water, but not the top. According to World Population Review, the U.S. is ranked as No. 7 (73%) in usage behind Malaysia, Australia, Gabon, and Brunei, while allegedly 100% of both Singapore and Hong Kong populations are on fluoride water.

Other Western countries with significant usage include Ireland (73%), Israel (70%), New Zealand (61%), and Canada (44%). China’s rate is just 15%.

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A governing body in Europe has decided that female athletes are being harmed by broadcasting presentations.

The European Broadcasting Union put out a 23-page report recently that demanded broadcasters cease using camera angles that they say contribute to the “sexualization” of women.

‘Certain camera angles … cause discomfort for athletes and unnecessary distractions.’

EBU Executive Director Glen Killane called the “sexualization of women athletes through selective camera angles and editing choices” a significant concern in the sports world, so his union set out to put a stop to it.

To that end, the broadcasters announced new guidelines for how women’s athletics should be filmed, specifically track and field. This included barring camera angles from beneath pole vaulters going over the bar, for example, long shots of female athletes, and camera angles of the lower half of their bodies.

Readers were quick to voice their displeasure with the decision.

“Great idea, let’s make women’s sports even more unwatchable,” wrote one X user.

“The beauty of elite athletes’ physiques is an integral part of the spectacle. If athletes [prefer] to conceal certain body parts, they can simply wear more covering clothing,” another reader argued in response to a post from a track and field page.

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Another comment seemed to summarize the EBU’s perspective on the matter when a reader stated, “Why can’t they just wear what they want to and not worry about creepy camera angles?”

In the EBU guidelines, two female athletes offered similar sentiments. British Olympic pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw wrote that “on too many occasions cameras are zoomed in, showing super slow-motion action replays of athletes in undignified positions.”

She said this has resulted in online abuse.

Serbian Olympic long jumper Ivana Spanovic also said, “Certain camera angles, combined with gender stereotypes … cause discomfort for athletes and unnecessary distractions.”

It didn’t take long, however, for readers to point out that both Bradshaw and Spanovic have themselves posted images and video of their competitions from angles that will soon be banned.

Bradshaw posted images from angles nearly identical to those the EBU considers “compromising,” such as this photo and this photo.

Spanovic was also noted to have shared multiple images that seem to be obvious violations under the new guidelines, specifically this image.

RELATED: Caitlin Clark’s coach rampages about ‘racism’ and ‘homophobia’ after on-court abuse: ‘So much more toxicity’

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“Men wear shorts why can’t women. I’ve never understood this. This isn’t a bikini contest,” Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies wrote.

The debate has raged on for years, especially when it came to the track and field uniforms for the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

While some expressed outrage at the bikini-style women’s uniforms, it was later revealed that sponsor Nike had a plethora of options for athletes, including athletic shorts and longer tights. In fact, Nike said in 2024 that it offered over 50 different iterations and claimed that track and field athletes could “choose outfits that match their style and personal preference without sacrificing comfort during the games.”

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President Donald Trump enraged Democrats and other leftists — including the heir to George Soros’ activist empire — on Thursday by disclosing in his national address evidence pointing to the insecurity of American elections.

“Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost,” the president said. “This cannot be allowed to continue.”

‘We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it’s possible. There’s not a question. It’s not even for debate.’

While Democratic officials were still hyperventilating over Trump’s insistence that lawmakers pass the SAVE America Act to protect against the kinds of trust-breaking meddling that evidence suggests occurred in recent years, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin detailed in a Friday briefing what his agency plans to do to “secure our elections.”

“It shouldn’t be a partisan issue,” Mullin said. “This should be something that every American, regardless if you’re a Republican, you’re a Democrat, you’re an independent, you’re a libertarian — regardless of if you live in a blue state or you live in a red state — everybody should know that their vote counts. And we have individuals that are voting that shouldn’t be. It cancels out someone that should be.”

RELATED: Democrats go into FULL PANIC MODE after Trump exposes election interference from China and the deep state

Digging “just a little bit deeper” into some of Trump’s claims from the night before, Mullin said the Department of Homeland Security has identified 250,000 noncitizens who were registered to vote in just four states — California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada.

According to the DHS’ preliminary review, there were 190,832 noncitizens registered to vote in California; 35,152 in New Jersey; 15,903 in Nevada; and 14,576 in Pennsylvania.

Mullin issued warnings to the secretaries of state for these four states on Friday, asking them to confirm within two weeks whether they intend to collaborate with the DHS on voter security measures.

“Mind you, we have 46 other states,” said Mullin, who noted further that the DHS has worked with 23 “proactive states” to identify another 28,000 noncitizens on voter rolls, along with “400,000 individuals that are still registered to vote that are deceased.”

Again reinforcing concerns raised by Trump on Thursday, Mullin claimed that foreign adversaries are able to gain access to American voting machines.

“Talking about our machines, we know for sure that our foreign adversaries — not our allies, foreign adversaries — have parts that are vital pieces in our voting machines. We know that they can access what they consider the key to the back of these machines,” he explained.

“We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it’s possible. There’s not a question. It’s not even for debate,” Mullin continued.

In terms of remedies, the DHS secretary said his agency will not only apply “maximum pressure” flushing out noncitizens attempting to vote, but — working in concert with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick — will make new security enhancements “mandatory.”

Accordingly, states seeking reimbursements for administering federal elections must take steps to ensure both that their voting machines are secured and their voter registration lists are “scrubbed.”

“We are not going to spend taxpayer dollars reimbursing the state that is refusing to secure their elections,” Mullin said.

The DHS announced last week that all Homeland Security Grant Program recipients must:

submit a plan for phasing out certain electronic voting systems and shifting to hand-marked paper ballots;conduct a manual audit of at least 5% of all ballots cast after each federal election;reconcile the number of voters who participated in each federal election with the numbers of ballots cast; run voter rolls through the DHS’ citizenship verification database; anduse the Immigration Services’ Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system or another authorized government system to ensure that everyone working at polling places or operating election systems are American citizens.

“States must do their part to secure our election system, and we stand by to help,” Mullin said.

Mullin noted further that the DHS is working with the Pentagon to safeguard the voting systems used by military service members, and that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will release an updated election infrastructure plan providing states with the additional resources “they need to help from the cyber side.”

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The Trump administration is slamming the Democratic Party for ensuring our elections are less secure than the Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Pass.

White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson appeared on Newsmax on Friday and made the humorous suggestion that Olive Garden’s pasta pass has higher identification requirements.

‘Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats are taking election security!’

“I saw a tweet yesterday from Olive Garden of all places that in order to take advantage of their Never-Ending Pasta Pass, you have to show photo ID. And I thought, ‘That’s weird! Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats are taking election security!'” Jackson said while the show hosts laughed.

“So yes, President Trump is going to keep pushing this, and it just shows how absurd the Democrats are,” she added, “that they can’t even get behind commonsense policies that even somewhere like Olive Garden can say, ‘Hey we need this for us too!'”

Video of Jackson’s comments was posted to social media, where some on the left imploded with fury.

“They’re not asking for a f**king passport and a marriage certificate,” responded left-wing influencer Joanne Carducci.

“Happy to show my ID at the polls if it came with unlimited breadsticks,” replied former Democratic New York City Councilman Justin Brannan.

“You know, I never quite thought of it that way because, unlike Ms. Jackson, I’m not quite insane,” said one detractor.

“Can’t wait to see what Applebee’s has to say about the Constitution,” said another critic.

Some accused Jackson of citing online rumors as a source, but she was indeed correct about Olive Garden asking for photo identification.

RELATED: ‘Dead on arrival’: Chuck Schumer says Dems will ‘go all out’ to defeat voter ID bill

Jackson posted the social media statement from Olive Garden confirming a valid photo ID is necessary to gorge endlessly on its fettuccine Alfredo or five-cheese ziti al forno.

“The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering,” said an Olive Garden message posted Thursday.

Finally, if this is the first time you’ve heard about the Never-Ending Pasta Pass, and you want to rush over to Olive Garden’s website to sign up, you’re too late. The 10,000 pasta passes have sold out.

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For years, Americans have watched home and rent prices climb out of reach, with many blaming everything from interest rates to a lack of new construction. But Ron Simmons argues that illegal immigration under the Biden administration has played the biggest role.

“Housing prices went up significantly during the time that Biden was president. And a lot of that, or some of that anyway, was due to the illegal immigration surge. And it triggered at least a 30% rise in home prices and a 20% rise in rents,” Simmons explains on “Relatable.”

“And this is according, not to some partisan organization, but this is according to the Dallas Fed,” he says, noting that the Dallas Fed “put out a paper that talks about the impacts of unauthorized immigration in the U.S. labor and housing markets.”

Researchers found “that while the influx of workers boosted employment with little measurable impact on wages, it also increased demand for housing in areas where supply was already limited.”

“So, places that are growing fast like Texas and a lot of the other red states, there had been a pressure on housing because it’s growing faster than we can build houses, and the illegal immigration has contributed to that,” Simmons explains.

“Unauthorized immigration accounted for roughly 30% employment growth and about 30% of home price growth and 20% of rent growth,” he reports.

Vice President JD Vance is also aware of who caused the rise in housing prices. During a November 2025 interview, he explained that “under the Biden administration, the price of a new home literally doubled in four years.”

“It went up 100%. Under the Trump administration, housing and rent prices are up about 1% to 2%. That’s actually in line with what you would like to see,” he explained.

“So, while it’s gone a lot better since we’ve removed most of the illegal immigrants, or a lot of the illegal immigrants that are in this country — I wouldn’t say most of them by any means, but a lot of them,” Simmons comments.

“And we certainly have shut down the border, I think as low as it has been since 1970, which is incredible,” he adds.

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Imagine buying a brand-new car and discovering it comes with a camera pointed at your face every time you drive.

Not the road. You.

Most drivers never realized their vehicles were quietly building behavioral profiles.

As of this week, that’s no longer optional across the European Union. Every new passenger car and van registered in the EU must include an interior camera as part of an Advanced Driver Distraction Warning system. The technology activates at about 12 mph, tracking your eyes, head position, and attention. If it decides you’re distracted or drowsy, it issues a warning.

Officials say it’s about saving lives.

Camera-ready

No one disputes that distracted driving is a serious problem. The question is whether constant driver monitoring is the only solution — or whether it creates infrastructure that could eventually be used for much more than safety.

According to the European Commission, the system is designed as a closed-loop safety feature. It analyzes driver behavior inside the vehicle and issues warnings when it detects distraction or drowsiness. Officials say it does not record video or transmit footage outside the vehicle.

The more important question is what happens next.

Once every new vehicle is required to have an interior camera, the hardware is already in place. Expanding what that hardware can do no longer requires redesigning millions of vehicles. It only requires new regulations, updated software, or new policies governing how the data can be used.

Safety regulations have added new technology to our vehicles for decades. Seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, backup cameras, automatic emergency braking, and forward-collision warning systems all became standard because they delivered measurable safety benefits.

An interior camera is different because it monitors the driver rather than the roadway.

Big picture

Europe may be moving first, but the United States isn’t far behind. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop rules requiring advanced impaired-driving prevention technology in future vehicles. While NHTSA has acknowledged that passive detection systems are not yet ready for widespread deployment, in-cabin monitoring remains one of the technologies under consideration.

In other words, this conversation is already happening here.

What makes that more concerning is how much information modern vehicles already generate. Over the past several years, investigations revealed that automakers, including General Motors and Honda, shared driving behavior data — including hard braking, rapid acceleration, speeding events, and time-of-day driving patterns — with data brokers. Those brokers, in turn, supplied information used by insurance companies to help determine premiums.

Most drivers never realized their vehicles were quietly building behavioral profiles.

Now add an interior camera capable of detecting whether you’ve looked at your navigation screen, reached for your coffee, glanced at a child in the back seat, or appeared drowsy after a long shift.

Americans have also watched roadside surveillance expand dramatically. Modern license plate reader systems now identify far more than license plates, using AI to recognize vehicle make, model, color, distinctive features, bumper stickers, roof racks, and travel patterns. Combined with connected-car telematics and interior cameras, those systems create an increasingly detailed picture of where you go, how you drive, and what you’re doing behind the wheel.

RELATED: The latest ‘solution’ to reckless driving could limit freedom for all of us

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Who pays?

Let’s not ignore the economic incentive behind all of this surveillance.

Every mandate creates winners. Camera manufacturers gain a guaranteed market. Software companies secure long-term licensing contracts. Automakers pass compliance costs on to consumers through higher vehicle prices. And the data generated by these systems may become valuable in ways nobody can fully predict today.

Consumers pay for all of it.

They pay more for the vehicle while giving up another measure of privacy inside what has traditionally been one of the last personal spaces they control.

Highway robbery

Supporters argue these systems only issue warnings, and today that’s true.

But history suggests technology rarely remains limited to its original purpose once the infrastructure exists. Software evolves and regulations change. Data that wasn’t considered valuable yesterday often becomes indispensable tomorrow.

We’ve already watched driving data migrate from vehicles to data brokers and, in some cases, insurance companies. We’ve also watched roadside camera networks expand well beyond their original mission. Neither happened overnight; both expanded gradually.

Every responsible driver wants safer roads. My concern is what happens after every new vehicle comes equipped with hardware designed to watch the person behind the wheel.

For more than a century, the automobile has represented personal freedom. When driving increasingly means being observed, analyzed, and potentially scored, the relationship between drivers and their vehicles begins to change.

Europe has already decided that every new car should watch its driver. Americans should decide whether they’re comfortable heading down the same road before it quietly becomes the default here as well.

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United States Vice President JD Vance sat down for a wide-ranging interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. The eyebrow-raising interview included skewering Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, discussing the Epstein files, and explaining aliens possibly being demons.

In the nearly three-hour podcast interview released Wednesday, Vance said many Republicans are “skeptical” because many Democrats want it to be illegal for voters to show identification when voting in elections.

‘I admire the f**king sheer tenacity that he has in being full of s**t.’

Vance asked, “Why not just have voter ID?”

Rogan said opposition to voter identification requirements makes it seem “like you want people to cheat.”

Vance declared, “If you don’t want to cheat in the election, then just make everybody actually show an ID.”

When Rogan asked about the United States’ military action against Iran, Vance said he would support President Donald Trump’s overseas intervention as long as the decisions are “legal and ethical.”

Vance stated, “The goal is certainly good, which is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.”

The prolific podcaster asked about the release of the files related to the investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The vice president conceded that the administration had “mishandled” the Epstein files.

“If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle it — especially the communications of it,” Vance said.

“We absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files. We just did,” Vance admitted.

However, Vance stressed there was no truth to theories that the White House was attempting to hide anything about the Epstein files.

Vance declared himself to be one of the original “Epstein conspiracy theorists” and said that he has “probably gone down every single rabbit hole we could go down.”

Vance added, “But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is because we were trying to hide something? No.”

Vance said former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s claim about having binders of documents on her desk made “people mistrust the entire effort” and “overstated what we had and what we didn’t have.”

Vance said that he does “like” Bondi and that the binder incident was likely her “trying to respond to the political moment.”

Vance noted, “We did release all these files. Did it take longer than it should have taken? Yes.”

Vance said the Epstein files should have been “dropped at the very beginning” once all the reviews and redactions had been done.

“We should have just done it as quickly as possible,” Vance stated.

Vance said he believes that Epstein “clearly” had connections to the highest level of American and Israeli intelligence.

“Yeah, Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel or another country — or both,” Vance said. “Look, he clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence.”

RELATED: JD Vance reveals the heartbreaking conversation that convinced him to have a fourth child

Rogan — who showed support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a democratic socialist, in 2020 — said that he is “really concerned” about Americans rallying around socialism.

“I’m really concerned that people think that’s a good idea and that they think that socialism just hasn’t been done correctly,” Rogan told Vance. “That drives me nuts.”

Rogan said socialism “always leads to one thing: It leads to a very powerful military government that controls the population — period, end of discussion.”

Vance agreed with Rogan’s assessment.

“The whole argument of communism is that you seize the means of production,” Vance said. “But because the most powerful means of production is the human mind, you ultimately have to get into totalitarianism.”

Vance expressed concern that artificial intelligence could unintentionally usher in communism.

“The fundamental challenge of AI is, it’s going to unleash a lot of wealth creation, but if that wealth creation all goes to some segment of people, you’re going to have communism,” Vance warned.

“But if you don’t ensure that there’s some broader prosperity from that wealth creation, we have run this experiment before, and it leads to communism,” he added.

Vance and Rogan both agreed that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is “full of s**t.” The pair rehashed the time when Newsom told a group that he “cannot read a speech.”

As Blaze News reported in February, Newsom apparently attempted to appeal to a reportedly majority-black audience at a book tour stop in Atlanta.

“I’m not trying to impress you,” Newsom told the group. “I’m just trying to impress upon you, I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy. I’m not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got a 940.”

“You never see me read a speech because I cannot read a speech,” Newsom added.

Vance said of Newsom, “He’s full of s**t.”

Rogan replied, “He’s so full of s**t. Admirably full of s**t. I admire the f**king sheer tenacity that he has in being full of s**t.”

Rogan asked Vance about remarks he made earlier this year, where he revealed that he believes aliens could be demons.

“I’m not one of these people who’s, like, a hyper-rationalist,” Vance responded. “I think that there are things happening in the world that we’re not always seeing. I believe in God.”

“If you look historically at things that are similar to the alien phenomenon, where some strange being, it kind of looks like a human being, but … that’s not human, and it shows a particular interest in human beings, and then it takes the human beings and does weird experiments on them.”

Vance said either it is “bulls**t,” you’re “talking to a crazy person,” or aliens could be demons.

“Just because I believe in the supernatural doesn’t mean I believe in everything supernatural,” Vance continued. “But if we’re talking about an extraterrestrial being that is human-like but not human that contains effectively infinite powers and is torturing human beings, you can call it an alien if you want, but I think there’s a lot of historical precedent to call that a demon.”

Rogan described an alleged alien encounter where the extraterrestrial healed a man. Vance replied, “Extra-powerful beings, in this case communicating telepathically, helping people, sounds like an angel.”

The entire “Joe Rogan Experience” interview with JD Vance can be seen here.

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Night owls who stay up watching TV or on their devices are known to get a little less sleep, but there is another factor that is contributing to a lower quality of life.

A glance at studies over the last decade have shown that watching devices in the bedroom and at night before bed has increased, with nearly half the population giving in to the blue glow.

‘When people eat may be just as important as what they eat.’

ET phone home

A 2025 study of more than 120,000 participants found that over 40% (~50,000) reported daily screen use before bed.

However, another nighttime ritual is contributing to poor health, specifically among women: late-night eating.

A study from New Zealand evaluated hundreds of women and their eating habits, tracking body-fat percentage, body mass index, and fat ratio.

Broken down into “evening types” and “morning types,” those who stay up late had a higher body-fat percentage than the morning people.

Staying up seemed directly related to diet, as the study showed the nighthawks consumed more energy, protein, carbohydrates, and fat after 8 p.m.

The ET group also had a reportedly worse lipid profile, which refers to blood sugar levels.

RELATED: Doctors found a mass in her stomach — and the bizarre cure for it in the fridge

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Night feeding

The bodies of women who were evening types burned off less energy and ate food that is less nutrient-dense as well. This was coupled with lower dietary intake in the morning and eating more in the evening. The study said that evening intake was “significantly associated” with a higher body-fat percentage.

For evening type ladies, there was also a “potentially greater susceptibility to obesity.”

Compared to the morning types and those in between, evening types had a 20.3% higher body mass index and had approximately 6% more body fat. There was also a +12.6% difference in the android fat to gynoid fat ratio; meaning a greater proportion of body fat is concentrated in the abdomen area rather than the hips and thighs.

This all came despite the ETs and MTs both consuming similar amounts of energy and nutrients.

“The research highlights that when people eat may be just as important as what they eat,” said a senior author of the study, Rozanne Kruger, per Newsmax.

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Hitting the sack? Don’t snack

According to Kruger — a professor and nutrition researcher at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia — limiting food late at night could improve health even in those who feel the need to stay up.

The study further concluded that the timing of meals in relation to when a person goes to sleep is important to ongoing “metabolic health outcomes.”

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As I’ve spoken on the topics of adoption and abortion all across this nation, woke professors, miseducated student activists, politicians, and fake feminists have told me that I should have been aborted. It isn’t always in those exact words, but it’s always the exact sentiment.

I heard it most bluntly at Harvard.

We live in a culture that says if you’re unplanned, you will be unwanted and unloved. It’s simply untrue.

I’d been invited to speak at one of the inaugural events for Harvard Law Students for Life. The night before, lying in my hotel room, my mind kept betraying me: I’m not worthy. I’m not worthy. I don’t come from an Ivy League school. How could I possibly hold my ground on Harvard soil?

Speak, man

The next morning, standing in the shower, still telling myself I couldn’t do this, I looked up to shift the water and reached for the nozzle — and just laughed. Printed on the showerhead was a single word: SPEAKMAN. Speak, man. I’d never seen that brand before in my life, but it branded my heart with a divine confidence. I was made to do this.

The room, when I arrived, was packed. The Harvard professor invited to offer the opposing view showed up late with nothing prepared. I shared my personal story, dispelled the myth of the “unwanted” child, and laid out the numbers: More black babies are aborted than born alive in some American cities; abortion rates among blacks is up to six times higher than among whites — a gap poverty and insurance rates alone can’t explain.

They didn’t like my take on history, equality, or abortion’s violent inequity. The hour-long Q&A that followed was a cacophony of ad hominem attacks and jeers that had almost nothing to do with the subject matter. The professor called my adoption story — a story where a woman proved she was stronger than her circumstances and chose life for her child — “a cute story.”

Afterward, several students came down to share more of their animosity. One called me a vulgar name. Another asked how it felt to be a puppet. And one activist leaned in and told me, flatly, that I should have been aborted.

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Hate, not debate

At another Christian college, a dean pulled me aside after a similar talk and told me, “Thank you so much for that. You handled that with so much grace.” Two days later, his own department sent a school-wide email denouncing me, claiming my comments made students “feel unheard, underrepresented, and unsafe.” Truth, it turns out, is unsafe. Victimhood is potent.

This has been my experience at too many colleges and universities. They want to hate, not debate. Higher learning has become mired learning from coast to coast. It’s not every school, not every professor, not every student. But it’s endemic to academia. The solution is courage. Like fear, it’s contagious. Unlike fear, it illuminates, educates, and motivates.

Brokenness into breakthrough

I can never let lies like that faze me. My own story is reflected in so many other lives the world is quick to write off — lives that need someone to care, someone to speak, someone to act. I fight for the most marginalized among the marginalized, because that was once me.

We live in a culture that says if you’re unplanned, you will be unwanted and unloved. It’s simply untrue. My life began in violence but became one of victory. I’m forever grateful my birth mom didn’t remove me from the frame of life. That painfully courageous decision sent ripples through time — to my own marriage, to my four children, to family I didn’t even know existed until last fall.

None of us can control the circumstances of our conception. None of us can control much of what happens in our lives for that matter. God turns brokenness into breakthrough all the time. How we rise when we’re faced with the seemingly insurmountable shows the true beauty and resilience of our humanity. In a world that is constantly searching for meaning, this simple truth is sometimes the most evasive: We’re all meant to be.

This article was adapted from Ryan Bomberger’s new memoir, “Should Have Been Aborted.”

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Frightening messages between a teen couple were read aloud during a pretrial hearing earlier this week for a 16-year-old accused of killing five members of his girlfriend’s family.

Illinois State Police stated that all the victims were related to the accused’s 15-year-old girlfriend, who is identified in court records only by the initials W.T. since she is being charged as a juvenile. Her boyfriend, Ja’ymier Davis, is being prosecuted as an adult under Illinois law, which requires juveniles age 16 or older who are charged with first-degree murder to face adult criminal proceedings.

‘Babe, I’m finna lose my whole family for you.’

The couple is accused of killing the girl’s grandmother Patricia May, 74; aunt Cherie May, 49; sister Shania Thompson, 25; cousin Devin May, 24; and brother Quentin Thompson, 21.

During Wednesday’s hearing in St. Clair County criminal court, prosecutors read a series of chilling Instagram chats between Davis and the girl prior to the killings.

“Well, your auntie is going to be easy. We can have her at gunpoint and stab her [expletive],” Davis wrote.

“I can do that. I love blood,” the girlfriend allegedly responded.

She added, “Babe, I’m finna lose my whole family for you.”

It was revealed in court that the girl’s mother discovered messages in which the pair allegedly listed relatives they intended to kill.

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Prosecutors also allege that at the time of the arrest, law enforcement officials discovered Patricia May’s severed thumb, which the pair had cut off to access her cell phone.

Davis is facing 12 criminal charges, including five counts of first-degree murder, dismembering a human body, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery, aggravated vehicular hijacking, and unlawful use of a stolen firearm.

However, his attorney is claiming self-defense.

“This is not a case where he is the hunter; he is the hunted,” part-time public defender Patrick Sullivan said. “The truth will come out.”

St. Clair County Assistant State’s Attorney Dan Lewis argued during the pretrial hearing to keep Davis in jail.

“If he gets out, there’s every indication that he will finish what he started,” Lewis said.

Associate Judge Sara Rice agreed and ordered Davis to remain in custody.

Authorities have not yet disclosed a motive for the killings.

Illinois State Police said the investigation began Sunday after the body of Cherie May was discovered at the Samuel Gompers Homes public housing complex in East St. Louis. Authorities said two additional victims, Patricia and Devin May, also were found dead there.

Quentin Thompson and Shania Thompson were killed at Jones Park and in an alley at 39th Street and Summit Avenue, respectively. Two other family members, Santosha Scott and Tiffany Thompson, survived after they also were shot at Jones Park.

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Lamarian Smiley, whose wife survived the attack, spoke to KSDK and said the teen couple posted a “hit list” on Instagram.

“It’s all because y’all wanted to be together, so … they wanted to eliminate everybody that had a problem with the situation,” Smiley said.

He noted that his wife survived only because the pair ran out of bullets and were unable to kill her.

Smiley, along with police, also said the gun used in the spree was stolen from the girl’s mother.

“Her daughter took the keys from her purse, unlocked the lockbox, and took the firearm,” he added. “The police were notified as soon as they found out that the firearm was taken.”

The St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s Office is seeking to have the 15-year-old girl tried as an adult.

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For years, the Epstein files have fueled endless speculation, conspiracy theories, and demands for transparency — which have resulted in widespread disappointment among Americans demanding to know the truth.

Now, on the biggest podcast in the world, Vice President JD Vance is offering one of the administration’s most direct explanations yet for why the highly anticipated document release left so many Americans frustrated.

“The Epstein files were supposed to be released,” Joe Rogan said to Vance on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “And there was a tremendous amount of resistance to those files being released. That concerned a lot of people because if you’re talking about very wealthy, powerful people that were engaged in crimes.”

“So you’re basically saying the fear is that whatever’s in the Epstein files was used to blackmail the administration into doing the Iran thing,” Vance replied.

“Or, at the very least, the people that were involved in the Epstein files that didn’t want them coming out had undue influence,” Rogan said.

“I say this with all candor, we absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files. Like we just did. But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is because we were trying to hide something? No,” Vance explained.

Instead, Vance believes the reason the administration “screwed up the comms” was that former Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed the client list was on her desk.

“So, what was the purpose of that performative display of the Epstein files, and she was saying there’s tens of thousands of hours of film?” Rogan asked.

“I don’t know what the purpose of it was, but I know that the effect of it was to make people mistrust the entire effort,” Vance answered, noting that he believes Bondi was “trying to respond to the political moment.”

Vance called himself one of the “OG Epstein conspiracy theorists” and admitted to going “down every single rabbit hole.”

“The original sin of the Epstein investigation, and obviously I’m biased here, but it was not what Donald Trump and the administration did in 2025. It was, you have to go back to 2007, 2008, the original Alex Acosta investigation of Jeffrey Epstein where he basically dropped the federal charges,” he explained.

“You go to the original warrant back in 2008, what was he looking for? What was he allowed to look for? What were they collecting? It was not looking at a broader conspiracy,” he added.

“That’s fascinating,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments.

“I don’t know if we’ll ever find out the truth,” he adds, “but that was fascinating.”

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