The WNBA posted a video on its social media accounts earlier this week, and it may be one of the worst decisions the league has ever made.

The league, already shrouded in controversy over athlete statements and abuse of star Caitlin Clark, seemingly can’t afford to keep taking losses. Another hiccup on Wednesday, however, showed once again that the WNBA is not learning its lesson.

‘We recognized that the post missed the mark.’

Before a game between the Atlanta Dream and Dallas Wings, the WNBA posted a video that almost any sports fan would immediately recognize as inappropriate. The video shows two of the league’s more popular players betting on the outcome a game.

Dream forward Angel Reese and Wings guard Paige Bueckers are featured in a self-shot video — plastered across WNBA accounts — in which Reese is holding cash, joking with Bueckers about betting on their game.

“Imma see you next week on Wednesday. … I know y’all gonna lose, but if y’all lose … if y’all win, you get the $400,” Reese films herself saying to Bueckers.

Reese later explains that if her team wins, “You owe me $400.”

The video is framed as being fun and cute, with Bueckers being asked on the night of the game if she remembers her bet with Reese, suggesting that there was plenty of thought behind the editing.

Once fans started calling out the content, the WNBA quickly deleted the video and issued an apology.

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“While the social media post was intended to be lighthearted, WNBA players are well aware of the league’s policies prohibiting betting on WNBA games and receive training every year reinforcing those policies,” the WNBA said in a statement to the New York Times.

The league continued, “We recognized that the post missed the mark, removed it shortly after it was published, and addressed the matter internally.”

“We will also use this as an opportunity to re-emphasize with the players involved that conversations about wagering on WNBA games, even when intended as a joke, can have negative consequences,” the WNBA added.

The WNBA’s 2026 collective bargaining agreement explicitly states that wagering “money or anything of value on the outcome” of any WNBA game can result in a “fine, suspension, and/or dismissal and disqualification from any further association with the WNBA.”

Rules for the NBA, the parent company of the WNBA, are similar, stating that any player who wagers is subject to “a fine, suspension, expulsion, and/or perpetual disqualification.”

The NBA does enforce its rules, and shocking gambling scandals have rocked the league recently, resulting in court cases and lifetime bans. NBA champions Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones were arrested last October after being allegedly tied to a mafia-backed gambling ring,

Former Miami Heat player Terry Rozier was arrested this year on bribery and conspiracy charges related to gambling, while Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was banned for life over gambling in 2024.

Perhaps the most famous example of a professional athlete getting banned from his sport for betting on himself is Major League Baseball player Pete Rose in the late 1980s.

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The WNBA’s egregious error comes at a bad time for the league. In addition to issues with the league’s social media team and players, even owners are under the spotlight for the wrong reasons.

Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton was suspended for five games for confronting and cursing at teen girls who were supporting Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham after she said men shouldn’t be allowed in women’s sports.

Women’s sports activist Jennifer Sey shared her thoughts on the Keaton controversy with Blaze News.

“Is five games enough?” asked Sey. “Plenty of people are saying no. They’re calling for her removal from ownership, a far longer ban.”

Sey called the suspension a sign of a cultural shift, adding that “protecting teenage girls from grown adults who treat basic reality as a moral offense should not be controversial.”

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49ers coach Kyle Shanahan is insisting that a momentary distraction behind the wheel caused a crash between him and a young woman and left him with a broken nose, broken ribs, a broken hand, and stitches in his face.

And while it appears that he is taking accountability for his actions, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t buying the official story.

“This Kyle Shanahan story has gotten even more interesting to me,” he says.

“He holds a private, no-cameras-allowed press conference, or question-and-answer deal, with the local reporters in the Bay Area. No national media, no cameras,” he continues.

“What are we doing here?” he asks, pointing out that his injuries don’t quite match the accident.

“He’s going 20 miles per hour in an area that he knows is difficult terrain, and he’s reaching for his phone and he breaks his nose. He breaks three ribs. He breaks a hand. 40 stitches in his face,” Whitlock says.

“When I start thinking about it, it’s like somebody beat this man up, and I don’t believe it was the Tesla. I don’t believe it was the airbags in a Tesla or a Mercedes. I come away from yesterday even more suspicious,” he explains.

“So you’re saying this is Tiger Woods Thanksgiving 2009,” Steve Kim comments. “That’s kind of what you’re insinuating here. You said ‘beat up.’”

“And think about it. I can understand if you’re all tore up. You got bandages. Your nose is probably all busted. So you’re saying this is what you’re theorizing without saying it. His wife found out something and she took a nine iron to him,” he adds.

While Whitlock doesn’t believe it’s exactly like Tiger Woods, he does point out that “when you go to these lengths” to keep the story private, something feels off.

“It just doesn’t smell right to me,” he says.

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Nick Shirley, the independent journalist who exposed widespread welfare fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota, recently took to the streets of New York City to ask Americans about the rise of socialism in the United States.

And some of the answers he received were downright jaw-dropping.

‘The idea of a criminal is like a little bit funny to me.’

While walking through Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Shirley approached a young woman sitting on a park bench. During their conversation, she described herself as “pretty pro-communism” and said she was “not certain what prisons are actually doing for our society.”

“I’m pretty pro getting rid of prisons,” she added.

When Shirley asked where criminals would go if prisons did not exist, the woman replied, “Well, do I want criminals out in the open? Sure. I’m fine with that because the idea of a criminal is, like, a little bit funny to me.”

Shirley then raised a more specific question, asking whether someone convicted of raping a woman should be free to walk the streets.

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“I think my answer is yes,” she responded.

“I’m not sure, like, them going to jail is a solution to, like, whatever’s going on inside their heart.”

The woman added that she had been “raped,” explaining that she wouldn’t want the man to whom she referred to as her “rapist” behind bars either.

Another young woman whom Shirley interviewed leaned into the argument that communism has never truly been implemented.

“Communism as it is in the Marx-Engels ‘Communist Manifesto’ has never been implemented in society,” she said, adding that China, the Soviet Union, Cuba and Venezuela “aren’t real forms of communism” but rather, in part, the “byproduct of American interventionism.”

Shirley also spoke with a man working on his laptop, which displayed a sticker reading, “This machine kills fascists.”

The man expressed his support for the rise of communism and socialist ideas in the United States, pointing to Greenwich Village’s long history of embracing the ideology.

“I think it’s a good thing,” he said. “You’re in the home of democratic socialists in Greenwich Village. This is where it began and where it’s thrived … and I hope it spreads through the country.”

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When Shirley suggested that eliminating government fraud could free up resources without raising taxes, the man rejected the idea.

“Just because some thieves are stealing some stuff doesn’t mean that we should stop the system and stop taxing people and stop helping people,” he said. “Just because some people cheat doesn’t mean you should wipe out the system.”

Shirley cited a recent study by the Citizens Budget Commission that found New York lost nearly $11 billion in tax revenue over the past year as millionaires and billionaires relocated. But the man was unpersuaded.

“I don’t believe those numbers. Everybody wants to be here, so there’s no reason for them to leave.”

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Newly released bodycam video from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shows deputies fatally shooting a knife-wielding male who authorities said stabbed a deputy last month in a Lancaster parking lot.

The video was released Tuesday; the incident occurred June 20 after deputies responded to a 911 call, KABC-TV reported.

‘Stop reaching.’

“Hey, I just want to make a report of a guy with some knives, swinging them in public,” the caller told a dispatcher, KABC said, citing an audio recording the sheriff’s department released.

Surveillance video shows three sheriff patrol vehicles arriving at the scene, the station said, adding that authorities said the suspect — identified as Robert Castro — is seen in the video walking away from the deputies and across a parking lot.

“Before Deputy #1’s patrol vehicle came to a stop, Castro turned and rapidly walked in the deputy’s direction,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement, according to KABC. “Castro then ran at Deputy #1, drew a knife, stabbed the deputy, and Deputy #1 discharged his service weapon.”

A second deputy also opened fire and then checked on the other deputy, who was bleeding from a stab wound, authorities said, according to the station.

Investigators said the body camera video shows Castro removing a knife from his pocket before the stabbing, KABC reported.

Following the initial confrontation, the second deputy is heard ordering Castro not to move, the station said.

“When Castro moves his hand, Deputy #2 commands him to ‘Stop reaching,'” the sheriff’s department said, according to KABC, adding that the second deputy then opens fire.

Castro was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, the station reported, adding that the injured deputy also was taken to a hospital and treated for the stab wound.

Authorities said Castro was in possession of three knives at the time of the incident, KABC noted.

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“Following notification of this incident, DOJ’s California Police Shooting Investigation Team initiated an investigation in accordance with AB1506 mandates,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said in a statement last week, KABC reported.

After the state’s Department of Justice investigation is complete, it will be turned over to the department’s Special Prosecutions Section within the Criminal Law Division for independent review, the station said, citing a news release.

You can view the full sheriff’s department video here.

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Democrats in Maine have swapped one radical U.S. Senate nominee with a whole lot of personal baggage for another — this time, a nominee who shares a great deal more in common with his romantic “partner” than a house and children.

Graham Platner advanced from the Maine Democratic primary on June 9 and enjoyed the continued support of various Democrats including Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.), Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), and Sen. Ruben Gallego (Ariz.), even after it was revealed that he sent at least six women sexually explicit texts while married; previously identified as a communist; branded rural white Americans as racists and all cops as “bastards”; mocked Jesus and the Virgin Mary; and adorned himself with an apparent Nazi tattoo.

Second cousins only share 3.125% of their DNA.

Platner’s campaign was nuked earlier this month by a sexual assault accusation made by a woman he dated several years ago. Platner officially withdrew from the race on July 10.

Troy Jackson — a former state senator who was rejected by voters in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on June 9 — won the nominating convention to replace Platner on Saturday.

Jackson was once a defender of the unborn and the institution of marriage. Now, like Platner, he is a bona fide leftist who supports Medicare for all, wealth redistribution, the radical LGBT agenda, the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, late-term abortion, and codifying abortion rights nationally.

And like Platner, Jackson has some skeletons in the closet.

Recent reports have, for instance, painted him as an individual with anger management issues, and his hot temper got the better of him on at least one occasion. His campaign confirmed that during a private meeting inside the state Capitol, he hurled a plastic water bottle. Multiple sources alleged to CNN that he was aiming at a female lawmaker at the time.

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The Maine Wire’s Steve Robinson, citing tipsters from Jackson’s hometown of Allagash and genealogical records, revealed on Thursday that the bottle-chucker is also a cousin-lover of sorts.

Troy Jackson and Lana Pelletier — his live-in significant other and the mother of his two sons — reportedly share the same great-grandparents: Thomas Pelletier and Edith Thibodeau. According to the Wire, Thomas and Edith’s daughter Albertine was Troy’s grandmother, and their son was Lana’s grandfather.

In other words, the Democrat and his romantic partner are second cousins.

These second cousins — reportedly identified in family records as the children of first cousins — have never legally married, although they could under Maine law, which allows first cousins to marry, but they must provide a doctor’s certificate of genetic counseling.

Whereas first cousins share, on average, 12.5% of their DNA from common relatives, second cousins share only 3.125% of their DNA, according to the International Society of Genetic Genealogy.

The Jackson campaign did not reply to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Everyone knows cigarettes are full of chemicals: nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, and a long list of others you probably do not want anywhere near your lungs.

Now researchers are wondering whether smokers are also inhaling plastic.

A new study published in the European Heart Journal found that people with a history of smoking were almost six times as likely to have microplastics in their blood. Smoking was the only factor that still predicted the presence of microplastics after researchers adjusted for heart disease, inflammation, air pollution, and other variables.

The study looked at 61 patients undergoing heart procedures at two hospitals in Italy. Nineteen were suffering serious heart attacks, 20 had chronic coronary disease, and 22 had normal coronary arteries. Researchers found microplastics in 84.2% of the heart attack patients.

Microplastics are also in the air we breathe.

By comparison, they found plastic particles in 40% of the patients with chronic coronary disease and 31.8% of those with normal arteries.

But the smoking numbers were even harder to ignore. Every heart attack patient with a history of smoking had plastic in their blood. None of the nonsmokers with normal arteries did.

Patients who both smoked and had high long-term exposure to fine-particle air pollution all tested positive for microplastics. Among nonsmokers with lower pollution exposure, just 12.5% tested positive.

Not just the filters

That does not prove cigarettes are directly injecting plastic into your bloodstream. This was a small study, and the researchers cannot say exactly where the particles came from.

Still, the connection is strong enough to raise an uncomfortable question: Are smokers literally smoking plastic?

Cigarette filters are usually made from cellulose acetate, which is a type of plastic. Public health researchers have increasingly described discarded filters as a major source of microplastic pollution.

The World Health Organization has warned that cigarette filters contain microplastics and eventually break down into smaller particles after they are discarded.

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But the plastic found in the patients’ blood was mostly polyethylene, the material commonly used in grocery bags, bottles, food packaging, and countless other everyday products. So the cigarette filter itself may not be the main source.

Another possibility is that smoking makes it easier for plastic particles already floating in the air to get into the body. Microplastics are not just in water and food. They are also in the air we breathe. Smoking repeatedly pulls particles deep into the lungs while damaging the body’s normal defenses. It harms the cilia and mucus-clearing systems that are supposed to catch and remove unwanted material.

In other words, cigarettes may not be creating all of the plastic. They may simply be opening the door.

A disturbing clue

Once the particles get through the lungs, they can enter the bloodstream.

Researchers found microplastics in blood taken directly from the coronary circulation, the blood vessels that feed the heart. Heart attack patients had the highest concentrations and the widest variety of plastic particles. They also had higher levels of inflammation.

That matters because one of the big questions surrounding microplastics is whether they are simply passing through the body or actively causing damage. Scientists suspect they may contribute to inflammation, oxidative stress, and damage to blood vessels. But human research is still in the early stages.

A 2024 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found microplastics and nanoplastics embedded in plaque removed from patients’ carotid arteries. Patients with plastic in their plaque were more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke, or death over the next three years.

That study did not prove that plastic caused those outcomes. Neither does this one. There are plenty of reasons to be cautious.

The new study involved only 61 people. Just 19 were having heart attacks. The researchers did not fully measure diet, drinking water, packaging exposure, occupation, or every other possible source of microplastics.

They also tracked whether someone had a history of smoking, not exactly how much he smoked or how recently.

So this is not proof that every drag from a cigarette fires plastic particles straight into your arteries, but it is a disturbing clue. Smokers in this study were far more likely to have plastic in their blood. Every smoker suffering a heart attack tested positive.

Cigarettes already come with enough reasons to quit. You can apparently add “possibly smoking plastic” to the list.

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Colorado’s Energy Code Board has published its Model Low Energy and Carbon Code. The standards are sold as an efficiency measure. In practice, they lock years of new mandates into every home built in the state — and every mandate raises the price of housing.

Colorado lawmakers and utilities increasingly blame AI data centers for rising electricity bills. Data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and their growth deserves scrutiny. But they are a convenient scapegoat for a broader and more durable source of higher housing costs: state and local building and energy codes.

Policymakers who genuinely want cheaper housing should stop pretending affordability can survive endless mandates.

Colorado’s 2022 Building Greenhouse Gas Emissions law required local governments to adopt “electric-ready” and “solar-ready” provisions beginning in 2023. The new low-carbon model code tightens those requirements further.

In practice, every new home must be wired for a 208/240-volt electric-vehicle charger and sized to accommodate a future heat pump, electric water heater, and induction stove — whether or not the buyer wants or ever installs them. Multifamily projects must reserve charging spaces as a matter of course.

These requirements arrive well ahead of consumer demand. Fewer than 2% of vehicles on American roads are fully electric, while EVs and plug-in hybrids combined accounted for only about 7% of new vehicle sales in early 2026. Yet builders must oversize electrical panels and run extra copper wiring for a future many buyers may never use.

Builders aren’t absorbing those costs. They’re added to the mortgage.

New York offers another example. In 2023, the state passed the All-Electric Buildings Act, banning fossil-fuel hookups in most new residential construction and extending the requirement to commercial buildings later in the decade. A legal challenge and pressure over housing affordability forced Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration last year to delay enforcement pending an appellate ruling.

The cost is substantial. New-construction electrification requires heat pumps, all-electric appliances, additional labor, and upgraded electrical systems. An analysis commissioned by the New York State Association of Realtors estimated an added cost of $12,000 to $23,000 per unit.

State regulators argue that all-electric homes may save money over time. Builders and realtors dispute those projections. Either way, long-term operating savings do not erase the upfront price. That initial cost determines whether a project can be financed, whether it gets built, and whether a buyer can qualify for the mortgage.

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California shows what happens when supply restrictions accumulate for decades. The state’s median home value exceeds $775,000, more than twice the roughly $370,000 national median. Restrictive zoning, prolonged approvals, high fees, and litigation risk have already constrained supply. California’s 2025 Energy Code, effective in 2026, pushes new buildings further toward electric systems and tighter performance standards.

Supporters argue that electrification lowers emissions, reduces utility costs, and is cheaper to install during construction than to retrofit later. Some of that may be true. It still does not justify forcing every buyer to pay for electrical capacity and equipment he may never use.

If EV readiness and full electrification reliably paid for themselves within a few years, builders in competitive markets would advertise them as selling points. Builders adopted granite and quartz countertops, recessed lighting, smart thermostats, and other features because buyers valued them enough to pay. The need for a statewide mandate suggests the economics remain unattractive for many households.

Mandates also erase trade-offs. A first-time buyer may prefer a smaller electrical panel and a lower price. A retiree may have no intention of owning an electric vehicle. A rural homeowner may rely on propane or natural gas because it is cheaper or more dependable. Energy codes deny those buyers the option to decide which features justify the cost.

RELATED: Unaffordable housing is still ruining the party

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Data centers are an easy villain because their electricity demand is visible, concentrated, and new. Building codes are quieter. They spread smaller costs across every new house, apartment, and commercial project for years. That makes them less dramatic — and potentially more damaging.

A data center may strain one region’s grid. A statewide building mandate raises the cost of every new unit built under it.

Policymakers who genuinely want cheaper housing should stop pretending affordability can survive endless mandates. Colorado, New York, and California are showing what happens when officials demand more equipment, more wiring, and more compliance while insisting that homes remain affordable.

Voters should hold lawmakers accountable for codes that raise construction costs long after the current AI buildout slows. Housing does not become affordable through promises. It becomes affordable when governments stop forcing buyers to purchase features they neither chose nor need.

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Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and LGBT activists in the Michigan legislature were dealt a massive defeat on Thursday after a lengthy battle over a law that threatened to ruin counselors who help gender-confused children by compassionately grounding them in reality, not affirming delusions.

Luke Goodrich, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and attorney for the counselors, said in a statement, “This is a major victory for children, counselors, and common sense.”

‘Michigan is now admitting its law is unconstitutional.’

“Kids who are hurting deserve compassion, not a one-way ticket to harmful drugs, hormones, and surgery,” added the attorney.

Democrats in Michigan and Colorado put smiles on fellow LGBT activists’ faces in recent years by passing laws prohibiting so-called “conversion therapy” for minors.

Under Democrats’ House Bills 4616 and 4617 in Michigan and House Bill 19-1172 in Colorado — which defined “conversion therapy” as efforts to “change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity” — psychiatrists and mental health care providers who failed to indulge delusions or affirm homosexual inclination could face disciplinary actions, lose their licenses, and/or receive enormous fines.

Of course, these laws did not similarly prohibit gender ideologues from encouraging confused kids in therapy sessions to embrace the delusion that they are actually members of the opposite sex or to undergo sex-rejection medical procedures.

RELATED: Oregon’s war on confused children, by the numbers: It’s REALLY bad

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After ratifying her state’s version of the prohibition on reality-affirming counseling in July 2023, Whitmer stated, “We are banning the horrific practice of conversion therapy in Michigan and ensuring this is a state where you can be who you are.”

“As a mom of a member of the community and a proud, lifelong ally, I am grateful that we are taking action to make Michigan a more welcoming, inclusive place,” added Whitmer, whose daughter identifies as a lesbian.

The following year, a licensed Catholic therapist living in Lansing, Emily McJones, and the Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee, and Hillsdale Counties filed a federal lawsuit against Whitmer and the state of Michigan, arguing that HB 4616 constituted an attempt to control counselors’ speech that violates several constitutional protections.

“It violates the Free Speech Clause because it regulates speech based on its content and viewpoint and cannot satisfy strict scrutiny,” said the complaint. “It violates the Due Process Clause because it employs vague, undefined terms that invite arbitrary and selective enforcement. And it violates the Free Exercise Clause because it targets religious speech and interferes with the right of parents to direct the religious upbringing of their children.”

The lawsuit noted further that the law harms children, not only because it deprived them of the compassionate counseling they need but forced counselors “to ‘affirm’ children in the belief that they were born in the wrong body and help them undergo permanent, life-altering medical procedures that many will come to regret.”

The plaintiffs suffered an initial setback in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, where Judge Jane Beckering — an appointee of former President Joe Biden — denied their motion for a preliminary injunction and claimed that therapy amounts to conduct rather than protected speech.

In December 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the Biden judge’s decision. The case was subsequently kicked back to the district court, which issued a preliminary injunction against the law.

The final resolution of the matter was, however, put on the back burner pending the result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar regarding the law in Colorado. On March 31, SCOTUS determined that Colorado’s ban “regulates speech based on viewpoint” in violation of the First Amendment.

In light of the decisions by the Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit, the district court in Michigan delivered a final ruling on Thursday, permanently banning the enforcement of Whitmer’s controversial law.

“The Court hereby DECLARES that HB 4616, as applied to licensed mental health professionals engaged in therapy that consists exclusively of talking, violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” Beckering wrote in her final judgment. “The Court hereby PROHIBITS Defendants, their successors, agents, and all those acting in concert with them from enforcing HB 4616 against licensed professionals who engage in therapy that consists exclusively of talking.”

“Michigan is now admitting its law is unconstitutional,” said Goodrich. “Its surrender confirms that the Constitution and the best available science are on the side of counselors who help children find peace with their bodies. States still trying to censor that care should take note.”

Whitmer’s office did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Congress just passed one of the most significant housing reforms in decades, but the fine print tells a more complicated story.

While the new law prevents large corporate landlords from purchasing additional existing single-family homes, it leaves a major exception intact: Companies can still build and own entire rental communities from the ground up.

And Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm.

“Two weeks ago, the biggest housing bill in decades became law,” he begins.

“Here’s what it does do,” he explains, “If you’re a company and you own more than 350 single-family homes, you are not allowed to buy up any more of America’s existing houses. Wall Street is now barred from bidding against your daughter on a starter home. That is really good news.”

However, there is an exception.

“If a company builds a neighborhood of houses designed as rentals from the foundation up, it can own every last one of them,” he says. “So American Homes for Rent now expects every dollar of its growth this year to come from new construction.”

And while the bill comes with good news, Glenn points out that the bad is enough to keep Americans down.

“Go to a home auction, and watch two bidders on the same house. A family and a company, the same house, same price. May the best offer win. Who’s going to win? The company is,” he explains.

“The company wins every time. Every single time. And the starter home disappears. And the people who are doing this, they’re not evil. All they’re doing is arithmetic,” he continues.

“Now, that’s not a moral failure of the buyer, it’s a design feature of the tax code,” he adds.

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