President Donald Trump celebrated the jobs report published on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that American employers added jobs for the third consecutive month.

The report, which Trump called “great,” says the U.S. economy added 172,000 jobs last month; the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.3%; the number of unemployed people, 7.3 million, “changed little over the month”; and the labor force participation rate held at 61.8%.

‘Bodes ill for the country.’

Total employment growth for the months of March and April were revised up by 29,000 and 64,000, respectively.

“This is a labor market that is stronger than it was last year and is looking pretty darn solid, despite high energy prices and higher inflation generally,” Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC, told CNBC. “There’s no indication that the labor market needs support.”

While the labor market is purportedly healthy, there are a pair of potentially destabilizing trends under way behind the scenes: the overwhelming majority of new payroll jobs are going to women, and a staggering number of men have given up on finding a job.

Jason Riley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, recently highlighted that “the share of American men in the labor force has dipped to record lows.” Labor Department data revealed last month that one in three men were neither working nor looking for a job.

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The male labor-force participation rate has declined significantly in recent years, to say nothing of the precipitous decline that has taken place over the past century. The male LFP rate was 87% in 1948, 75% in 2000, and — according to the latest jobs report — 67.2% in May.

“The premature absence of millions of able-bodied men from our workforce, combined with the continuing retirement of the Baby Boomers and significant reductions in immigration, bodes ill for the country,” wrote Riley.

While there are multiple factors at play — Baby Boomers are, for instance, retiring en masse; young men are dropping off to study; there is diminished demand for non-college male labor; and prime-age men are falling to the wayside because of illness and disabilities — the Washington Post recently pointed out that:

the labor market has weakened since early 2025, with most job opportunities concentrated in areas typically dominated by women, including health care and private education. At the same time, several male-dominated industries, including manufacturing, transportation, and mining have shed jobs, leaving a mismatch between typical skill sets and job opportunities for men.

It’s evidently a new day for female labor.

Whereas in the mid-1970s, women held roughly 40% of jobs in the U.S. — not including agricultural work or self-employment — they now hold the majority of jobs in the country.

NPR’s “Morning Edition” reported that of the roughly 369,000 jobs created between the beginning of Trump’s second term and April, 348,000 jobs went to women and 21,000 jobs went to men. In other words, 94% of the jobs went to women and only 6% to men.

Courtney Parella, a spokeswoman for the Labor Department, stressed to “Morning Edition” that raw job counts provided a “misleading snapshot” of the labor market, adding that “both men and women are benefiting from a strong economy.”

Women have picked up the supermajority of net new payroll jobs in part because of the growth in female-dominated sectors, namely health care — where women hold roughly 80% of the jobs — and social assistance.

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The bitter feud over federal immigration enforcement funding is finally over after Republicans in the U.S. Senate were able to pass a funding bill Friday morning.

The bill secures $70 billion that will fund President Donald Trump’s directive for mass deportations by supercharging operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Customs and Border Protection.

‘No more slush funds for corruption. We must dismantle DHS and abolish ICE!’

The Senate voted 52 to 47 to pass the bill with one lone Republican joining the Democrats, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. It now goes to the U.S. House of Representatives for approval.

Democrats opposed the increased funding based on their criticism of operations under the Trump administration. Some pointed to the deaths of anti-ICE protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good, while others accused Trump of being motivated by racism.

Democrats were also pushing to include a provision in the bill outlawing the proposal for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to compensate Trump supporters persecuted by the federal government.

Republicans defeated that provision and passed the bill.

Democrats, as expected, were outraged.

“Early this morning, the Senate passed a $70 billion reconciliation bill to give ICE and CBP more funding to terrorize our communities, and violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.). “To avoid all transparency and accountability, they voted down EVERY amendment to protect our communities and rein in Trump’s corruption while Americans slept. We must hold the line as it moves to the House next week. NO more money to ICE and CBP. No more slush funds for corruption. We must dismantle DHS and abolish ICE!”

“While you were sleeping, Senate Republicans jammed through a $70 BILLION blank check for ICE,” responded Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.). “In the middle of a cost-of-living CRISIS, instead of focusing on how to lower your grocery bills, your gas bills, your health care bills, your housing bills, and the millions of other bills you are dealing with, they are focused squarely on passing more and more funding for an out-of-control agency for the remainder of Trump’s term.”

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Senate Republican Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) acknowledged that the anti-weaponization fund is no longer an option based on the testimony of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche before Congress, but Democrats are still not satisfied.

“Republicans refused to permanently outlaw Trump’s $2 billion slush fund, leaving taxpayers to rely on nothing more than a promise from Donald Trump’s personal fixer,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

Trump later said of the fund, “I love it. I think it’s so important.”

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Former first lady Jill Biden has been making the media rounds, with one of her latest stops being with the women of “The View” — and ending in disaster.

“For some reason, Jill Biden really just still wants to be the it girl. And so, she’s still doing this media tour. And it didn’t start well. It’s not going well. It’s not going to end well,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

In a clip from her appearance, Jill explained that she was terrified that Joe was having a stroke during one of the debates.

Co-host Sara Gaines responded, saying, “He’s given so much of himself and to see you even saying like, ‘I thought he was having a medical episode, I was concerned.’ Was there any part of you that went into protection mode of like, ‘Joe you can’t keep doing this?’”

“But the doctors told me he was fine. I’m not a doctor,” Biden responded, correcting herself, “I mean, I am a doctor.”

“Excuse me,” Gonzales comments. “I was informed if you don’t call her Dr. Jill Biden every single time you refer to her that you are rude and have no manners and now here she is accidentally admitting that she doesn’t even consider herself to be a doctor.”

“Now, obviously, she meant a medical doctor,” she added, recalling Whoopi Goldberg once using her platform on “The View” to champion making Jill Biden the surgeon general.

“Dr. Jill becomes a surgeon general. His wife. Joe Biden’s wife,” Whoopi once said on “The View,” before calling Jill a “hell of a doctor.”

“She’s a teacher but, you know,” Sunny Hostin chimed in, correcting a very confused Whoopi.

“Whoopi’s final look before that clip ended,” Gonzales says, laughing.

“Oh my gosh, like inject that into my veins. So confused. This poor bird is so confused,” she continues.

“The same woman who literally just said she’s a hell of a doctor. As if she knew. As if she’s like, ‘Yeah, I’ve watched her operate on someone before. She is one hell of a doctor.’ No, it’s just an education doctorate, by the way,” she adds.

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The U.S. built an entire export control system to keep its most powerful AI chips out of enemy hands, but a loophole may have made the system vulnerable to infiltration by China and other countries.

America’s chip export rules target where a company is headquartered, not who ultimately owns it — meaning a Chinese tech giant could set up a subsidiary in Singapore or Malaysia and buy chips the parent company never could.

‘The new Blackwell that just came out, it’s 10 years ahead of every other chip. But no, we don’t give that chip to other people.’

The Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department released new guidance Sunday, clarifying that a subsidiary of any company headquartered in a U.S. arms-embargoed nation — including China — still requires an export license to purchase advanced chips, regardless of where the subsidiary operates.

The requirement had technically been on the books since November 2023 — but the BIS acknowledged it had been receiving questions about whether it was still being enforced.

In May 2025, the bureau scrapped the Biden administration’s strict AI Diffusion Rule export framework. The Trump administration called it “overly complex, overly bureaucratic,” and warned that it would “stifle American innovation” and damage diplomatic relations with dozens of allied nations.

Pulling the Biden framework without a replacement in place, however, left the rules that govern who can buy these chips effectively unenforced. Furthermore, chips purchased during the loophole window do not have to be returned.

Former State Department official Chris McGuire, who helped build America’s chip export framework under Biden, sounded the alarm on X Sunday, writing that “Chinese companies have been buying these chips, very likely at scale.”

While the new guidance requires export licenses for subsidiaries of companies linked to U.S. arms-embargoed nations, it does not reinstate a separate safeguard: the requirement for offshore chip manufacturers to verify who is ultimately behind a purchase — a vulnerability that McGuire warned remains unaddressed.

Trump struck a deal on December 8, 2025, allowing China to purchase the H200 — a less powerful Nvidia data center chip and the company’s second-best — with Nvidia paying 25% of those sales back to the U.S. government. Trump announced the deal on Truth Social, writing that Chinese President Xi Jinping “responded positively.”

However, it appears China “chose not to” approve the purchases.

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While China was passing on the H200, a scaled-down export variant, Nvidia’s Blackwell chips — which defense analysts warn could serve as the foundation for next-generation autonomous weapons systems — may have been flowing freely through the back door.

The Blackwell chip was never supposed to reach any entities linked to U.S. arms-embargoed countries. Trump made that explicit while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One in November 2025: “The new Blackwell that just came out, it’s 10 years ahead of every other chip. But no, we don’t give that chip to other people.”

Al Jazeera reported that Nvidia said the company had been operating according to the clarified rules, claiming its “sales and vetting process is correct.” Nvidia also claimed China “has more than enough domestic chips for all of its military applications,” raising questions about the Chinese military actively seeking Nvidia chips in the first place.

Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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In the biggest upset of this primary cycle so far, businessman and farmer Zach Lahn defeated four other candidates in the Iowa Republican gubernatorial primary, including U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, who received President Trump’s late endorsement.

Lahn won by less than one percentage point and fewer than 1,700 votes out of nearly 215,000 cast. He fused together evangelicals, MAHA voters, a Turning Point USA endorsement, and late encouragement from yours truly for Iowa Republicans to vote strategically against Feenstra, who ran the most cynical campaign I have ever seen.

Even when Trump endorsed against him, Lahn was still the candidate saying the most Trumpian things to the base. That was all that mattered.

Back in February, Brent Buchanan, one of the best pollsters of the 2024 cycle, published research arguing that Republicans’ secret weapon for the 2026 midterms could be a fusion of MAHA messaging with traditional conservative themes. He added that “most Republican candidates are too cautious to grab it.”

Enter Lahn.

His issue-driven success may signal that the personality-driven retail politics that long defined Iowa, thanks to its first-in-the-nation presidential caucus status, is fading.

When I endorsed Adam Steen early in this gubernatorial primary, I had never met Lahn. I had never even heard of him. I chose Steen because he fit the kind of candidate Iowa Republicans have traditionally rewarded: high integrity, strong character, serious faith, and real governing experience.

Steen had essentially been the chief operating officer of Iowa for the past five years. He seemed like one of us during Republican Kim Reynolds’ popular and successful governorship. That level of trust and connectivity is what Iowa conservatives have long craved, and it helps explain why Pat Robertson, Mike Huckabee, and Rick Santorum found success here over the years.

In almost any earlier political era, Steen probably would have been where Lahn is now.

But the electorate has changed. Many evangelicals overlooked Trump’s past because they liked where he stood on the issues. They cared less about the résumé of the salesman than the sales pitch in front of them. In the final month of the primary, more Iowa voters answered the question “Do you know what time it is?” with one name: Zach Lahn.

Even when Trump endorsed against him, Lahn was still the candidate saying the most Trumpian things to the base. That was all that mattered.

Issues, not background.

That is likely where Republican politics will stay as the Fox News generation fades and the GOP gets younger. Younger Republicans include more people from broken homes, more people who have gone through divorce, more people who came to faith later in life, and more voters carrying baggage that no longer fits the old Pleasant Valley Sunday model.

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They are not looking for perfect biographies. They want results.

That hunger for results was strong enough to overcome Trump’s 11th-hour endorsement of Feenstra.

And yes, Trump’s endorsement helped. The president took a candidate whose negatives had climbed 20 points in the final three months and, in less than four days, gave him at least a 10-point bump without major media assistance. That should have finished Lahn.

But Iowa Republicans decided, with some irony, that the candidate Trump endorsed could not be trusted on Trump’s own issues as much as the candidate Trump opposed.

To be honest, the risk I took by supporting Lahn in the campaign’s final days had nothing to do with confidence in how that dynamic would play out. But here we are. For the sake of the state where my children are raising my grandchildren, I am grateful it ended this way.

Lahn had enough independent wealth to make himself visible and viable, no matter when or how Trump weighed in. With the right message on the right issues, he found the secret sauce.

So to Iowa Democrats and their Trojan horse candidate Rob Sand, here is our message: Now we fight.

All aboard the Lahn train.

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Brazil has very interesting ways of honoring its soccer team.

The South American country is often credited as being the most Catholic country in the world, and its people seemingly showed it as their team took off for the World Cup, hosted in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

‘The event represents the collective hope of the entire nation.’

Brazilians on the runway at Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão International Airport celebrated their team’s departure by conducting what has been described as both a gigantic blessing and a customary baptism-like ritual.

ESPN reported that the team’s Boeing jet was “blessed” by two airport fire trucks before departing Rio, with their water cannons blasting arches of water as the plane slowly moved through.

Catholicism and soccer are quite the big deal in Brazil; the country is often credited as having the largest Catholic population in the world, with approximately 182 million practicing worshippers, representing about 13% of the world’s total Catholics, according Premier Christian News.

Some Brazilian stars were baptized in 2025, including Liverpool star Alisson Becker and his former teammate Roberto Firmino.

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The Sun noted that the airport staff sought and received permission from the Brazilian Football Confederation to authorize the plane’s blessing before spraying the water on the Boeing 767-300ER.

International outlets have emphasized the importance of the world tournament to Brazil and its people, with Marca describing the “baptism” of sorts as customary for Brazilian aircraft before important takeoffs. It also said the event represents the collective hope of the entire nation that wants to bring home another World Cup title.

Brazil has the most World Cup wins of any country, with five. Germany and Italy both have four. Brazil is also the only country to have been in every single tournament since the World Cup began in 1930.

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This isn’t the first time Brazilians have given an airplane the royal treatment before the big tournament. In 2022, fans covered a different Boeing jet at a shopping mall with stickers and murals commemorating the team.

Branded with the Brazilian soccer logo, the 2026 team jet is priced at $170 million and was previously used by the Rolling Stones for their 60th anniversary tour in 2022.

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An actor known for his roles in “Jumanji” and “Top Gun: Maverick” was lethally stabbed in the chest outside a home in Los Angeles, and the main suspect is his girlfriend’s son.

81-year-old James Handy was found by Los Angeles Police Department officers in the front yard of a home in Tarzana in the San Fernando Valley.

‘I just killed the man of sin.’

An individual called 911 at about 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. “I am the son of man. I just killed the man of sin,” the caller told the 911 dispatcher, according to police.

When cops arrived, 44-year-old Michael Gledhill flagged them down and told officers that “he was the one they were looking for,” the police statement claimed.

Handy was found unconscious with a stab wound to the chest and was rushed to a hospital by paramedics, where he was pronounced dead.

Gledhill was booked on murder charges and held on a $2 million bail at the Van Nuys Jail. Police say he had been living with his mother, Handy’s girlfriend, at the Tarzana residence on Erwin Street.

The LAPD said there was no longer a threat to the public.

Police are asking for anyone with information related to the investigation to contact them.

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The “son of man” is a biblical phrase used in the New Testament as one of the descriptions of Jesus Christ. Others have used the phrase to refer to themselves as the second coming of Christ, most notably Charles Manson.

Handy had starred in about 150 movies and television shows going back to the 1970s. He is also known for his roles in the “Logan” movie as well as “Arachnophobia.”

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Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) introduced two new bills on Thursday targeting child exploitation through surrogacy and held a press conference with fellow Republican Reps. Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Randy Fine of Florida to discuss the details.

“We are here because we are concerned about the safety and the welfare of children — and, in particular, the use of surrogacy to get around [the law],” Perry said.

‘Children are not pets. Children are not property.’

Perry’s legislation is twofold. The first bill closes a dangerous loophole that allows registered sex offenders to legally obtain children through surrogacy agencies, and the second bars foreign nationals from using American surrogacy agencies to obtain U.S. citizen children altogether.

Protecting kids from creeps

The first bill, the Protecting Kids from Creeps Act, was sparked by a recent case in Pennsylvania.

Brandon Riley-Mitchell, a former high school chemistry teacher, pleaded guilty to felony child pornography charges after sending more than 12,000 texts to a 16-year-old student, soliciting nude photos, and sending roughly 20 nude images of himself.

He served time in prison and was designated a registered Tier I sex offender. Then, he and his male romantic partner obtained a newborn through surrogacy — legally.

The couple set up a GoFundMe to fund the surrogacy, seemingly without disclosing Mitchell’s sex offender status to donors.

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York County District Attorney Tim Barker confirmed to Newsweek that there was nothing prosecutors could do. Unlike adoption, which requires background checks, home studies, and court approval, private surrogacy agreements operate with virtually no oversight. Mitchell found the gap and walked right through it.

Perry’s bill slams that door shut with serious penalties.

Any sex offender who knowingly enters into a surrogacy agreement would face a mandatory minimum of 20 years in federal prison. Surrogacy agency employees who knowingly facilitate such a deal would face the same. Agencies that act recklessly would face a minimum of 10 years, would lose their 501(c)(3) status, and would be permanently barred from receiving federal grants.

The bill defines “sex offender” broadly — covering anyone who is, or ever was, required to register under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.

Rep. Burchett didn’t mince words about the importance of the bill.

“A sex offender — these dirtbags — we need to send them all to hell, but they’ve got no right to obtain a child through surrogacy. They lost that right when they committed a disgusting crime that put them on this list,” Burchett said.

Burchett closed with Scripture. “Jesus said, ‘How you treat the least amongst you is how you treat me,'” Burchett said.

Preventing foreign exploitation of US surrogacy

The second bill, H.R. 9132, which Perry said already has co-sponsorship, targets a separate but equally alarming problem: foreign nationals — including citizens of adversarial nations — using American surrogacy agencies to have children with U.S. citizenship.

Perry framed it plainly: “International commercial surrogacy, birth tourism — it’s a national security threat. It invites immigration fraud and malfeasance, and most importantly, it is an ethical, moral imperative — because we are allowing, if not facilitating, child endangerment.”

Perry pointed specifically to wealthy Chinese nationals exploiting the system. He cited the case of a Chinese man who fathered more than 100 children through U.S. surrogacy.

Other accounts describe Chinese men having surrogate children raised by nannies. One California agency owner described helping a client who wanted more than 200 children to build a family enterprise.

“There’s a mansion in California where people roll up to it like it’s a drive-thru and pick up these babies and send them to China,” Perry said. “This is horrific. And it’s horrific that it’s happening in the United States of America. Yet it is.”

Reportedly, more than 107 Chinese-owned surrogacy agencies are currently operating in Southern California alone. The issue was also addressed in a letter from Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi. Children born through these arrangements automatically receive U.S. citizenship — making them eligible to vote, access sensitive government positions, and eventually sponsor their foreign parents for immigrant visas.

Perry noted that even China has banned surrogacy domestically.

“We don’t want to be creating spies with American passports who are raised in China and have their allegiance to the Communist Party of China,” Perry said.

“If you live in one of these countries and you want to have a surrogate child, do that in your country. Don’t come to America.”

When Blaze News asked Perry whether he expects pushback from California Democrats, given that 107 Chinese-owned agencies are reportedly operating in their back yard, he didn’t hold back.

“I do expect a response from California Democrats. Unfortunately, they could have introduced this legislation — these things were occurring in their back yard. They were easy for us to find. Apparently, they not only don’t care about it, they’re good with it,” Perry said.

“Look, we’re on the high ground here. Doesn’t matter what the response is. I don’t know how you can defend sending children — newborns — to pedophiles.”

The bill would void any surrogacy contract between an American surrogate and a foreign national prospective parent and impose up to 10 years in prison on brokers who facilitate such agreements. Rep. Perry says the bill includes an exception for married couples of whom at least one prospective parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.

“Families are important to Americans, and we want to enable that,” Perry said. “But it also doesn’t oppose restrictions to ensure surrogacy or IVF clinic channels aren’t exploited by foreign nationals without allegiance to the U.S. or current and former sex offenders. That’s what we’re trying to get after.”

Rep. Fine offered a pointed summary: “Surrogacy is a special, almost holy procedure. … But like so many things in our culture, this noble, special, almost holy process where someone gives of themselves to make someone else a parent has been perverted and bastardized for those who would seek to do evil.”

“Children are not pets. Children are not property,” Perry said.

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Better 30-plus years late than never?

Ted Danson committed one of the most outrageous blackface routines ever in 1993. The “Cheers” star was dating Whoopi Goldberg at the time, and the two appeared at the New York Friars Club, a comedians’ hangout.

The tour’s stage visuals included the group’s crow logo dressed as Uncle Sam. The crowd spontaneously began chanting, ‘USA, USA!’

His mission? Roast Goldberg, then a legitimate star and recent Oscar winner for “Ghost.” Except Danson wasn’t, and still isn’t, a stand-up comic. So he went for “performance artist,” dressing in full blackface to riff on interracial couples and related themes.

Regrets, Danson has a few, even though Goldberg helped write his jokes.

“Your intentions do not matter. The impact you have on people is what matters,” he told super woke comic W. Kamau Bell on the latter’s podcast.

The moment never rose to the level of career cancellation. Few stars have worked more than Danson over the decades. He keeps finding long-running TV shows like “The Good Place,” “Becker,” and, most recently, “A Man on the Inside.”

Now, if we can only get Jimmy “Karl Malone” Kimmel canceled …

No Joy in ‘View’-ville

Did Joy Behar just get Wally Pipped?

Pipp famously played first base for the New York Yankees in the 1920s, but he took a day off to battle a headache issue. His replacement? Lou Gehrig, the “Iron Man” who went on to play 2,130 straight games for the team.

Joy Behar voluntarily stepped aside from “The View” this week to work on her play, “My First Ex-Husband,” set to bow on the West End.

Behar’s blend of ugly banter, misinformation, and ignorance seems impossible to replace, even temporarily.

Enter Kara Swisher, a far-left journalist known for covering the tech beat. And, boy, did she bring it during her “View” debut. She compared Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to a talk show host, suggesting he lacked combat experience.

That ignored Hegseth’s decorated military career, including two Bronze Star Medals, two Army Commendation Medals, and the Joint Commendation Medal.

Later, Swisher said Scott Pelley’s dismissal from “60 Minutes” was an attack on the media, not the fallout from publicly blasting his bosses. Finally, she ran to senatorial hopeful Graham Platner’s defense after the Maine resident’s wife had to bail him out of a gross sexting scandal.

Watch your back, Joy. Swisher is swinging a hot bat in the on-deck circle …

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Nothing to Crowe about

You’d think peaking in the 1990s would bring a bit of humility to a band.

Not for the Black Crowes, who broke out in a big way with songs like “She Talks to Angels” and “Jealous Again.” The band is back on the road, but a recent Florida tour stop became a prime example of rake stepping.

The tour’s stage visuals included the group’s crow logo dressed as Uncle Sam. The crowd spontaneously began chanting, “USA, USA!”

Rather than lean into the sentiment or simply smile over fans having a blast, lead singer Chris Robinson lectured them, according to TMZ. From the stage he snarked, “Thanks for the geography lesson. … I don’t know what you have to be so proud of right now.”

That landed poorly with the crowd, so he doubled down amid the boos and walkouts.

“For those of you f**king booing us, some of us are not afraid. And we most assuredly are not f**king ignorant.”

Here’s guessing his band won’t be playing that Freedom 250 concert, either …

Quentin unchained

This former video store clerk has had enough of Hollywood dreck, thank you. Except he’s so stuck on his 10th and “final” film that he’s not personally helping matters.

Quentin Tarantino penned a blistering essay this week on the current state of the Hollywood movie. Spoiler alert — it stinks, to paraphrase Jon Lovitz’s “Critic” character.

Since the pandemic, for me anyway, it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death. Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers, or just plain stupid s**t usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavorless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood.

Yikes.

Tarantino has pledged to stop making movies after he completes his 10th film. He seems stuck on number nine, following the roaring success of 2019’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

His planned final film, “The Movie Critic,” got scrapped in 2024. He’s gotten plenty of criticism for overusing the “N-word” on-screen and featuring too many feet close-ups over the years. Maybe penning a screenplay without his signature tics is proving harder than he thought.

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In the same week that a potential New World screwworm outbreak threatens Texas cattle, prompting a major response from the Department of Agriculture, Google has become the object of public ire as it attempts to move forward with a new mosquito experiment in a couple of states across the country.

As part of the project to “stop bad bugs with good bugs,” Google’s Debug program aims to release millions of sterile mosquitoes in order to combat and eradicate disease-carrying mosquitoes, the “deadliest animal on the planet.”

‘We do not consent to this experiment. Do not release the modified mosquitoes in our State.’

While the thought of fighting mosquitoes by releasing millions more mosquitoes may seem counterintuitive, the Sterile Insect Technique, as it is called, has proven effective in other bug species, including the aforementioned screwworm.

A singular species of mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, is responsible for most of the cases of diseases like dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya. The program seeks to target this particular species in the hopes of drastically reducing the population of disease-carrying mosquitoes.

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The technique is simple: Scientists will infect male mosquitoes, which cannot bite, with a naturally occurring bacteria called Wolbachia. The infection makes it impossible for the male mosquitoes to breed with wild female mosquitoes, though they will still seek them out and attempt to mate. The female will still lay eggs, but they will not hatch.

Scientists believe that this will cause a generational decline in this species of mosquito, thus reducing the risk of disease spreading to humans.

Google also says that this is more effective than spraying pesticides because the male mosquitoes can find them “in places that pesticides could never reach.” They are also building technology and monitoring systems to more efficiently target the invasive populations.

Google’s plan, however, has been met with significant pushback from the public during its approval process with the Environmental Protection Agency, particularly this week.

Google filed an experimental use permit application dated from December 2025 for permission to use the Wolbachia bacteria in male mosquitoes. This particular application seeks a trial period of two years in Florida and California. Google would release 16 million sterile mosquitoes infected with the bacteria into each state in year one, and 16 million more mosquitoes in each state in year two.

This particular application targets the species Culex quinquefasciatus, as opposed to Aedes aegypti, the species identified on the Debug website. It is important to note that Aedes aegypti is targeted in Debug’s international projects, while the domestic work in America targets different species.

The EPA published a notice in early May after deeming the application to have “regional and national significance.” The deadline for submitting a public comment is Friday. Readers can submit a comment to the EPA here.

The public has taken notice as hundreds of comments have flooded in the days and weeks leading up to the deadline. The comments have been overwhelmingly negative, with some begging to stop Google from moving forward.

“We do not consent to this experiment. Do not release the modified mosquitoes in our State,” one anonymous commenter said.

“I am vehemently opposed to any tech corporation releasing any mosquitoes in Florida or California, this is not to be taken lightly. This is not without serious possible consequences, and should not be done by [a] huge corporation, without consent and prior knowledge of the populations most affected. This is Frankenscience!!” another commenter said.

“I believe allowing corporations to recklessly tamper with my local Florida ecosystem (lifelong Floridian) is dangerous and frankly unconstitutional. This decision has not been put forth to the residents of Florida and California, and will be done against our wills. I urge the EPA to reject this proposal and create regulations banning corporations from doing similar actions in the future. Thank you,” a third commenter wrote.

As of this writing, this federal register filing received 377 comments. A similar application from Google targeting a different species with the same bacteria and whose public comment period closed on May 20 received only six comments.

This second application seeks approval for use in California, Florida, and New Jersey as well.

Debug announced last month that it expanded its research and development operation to Singapore in the first international expansion of the program’s capabilities.

Both federal register applications are awaiting EPA approval.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested several violent criminal illegal aliens on Thursday, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News.

The DHS highlighted five recent arrests and commended the efforts of ICE officers despite ongoing criticism from sanctuary politicians.

‘If you see an ICE officer, thank them for their service.’

“Yesterday, they arrested rapists, violent assailants, and drug traffickers,” stated DHS acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.

“Despite their best efforts to keep our communities safe, sanctuary politicians continue spreading falsehoods about the men and women of ICE law enforcement and ICE facilities around the country,” Bis continued. “If you see an ICE officer, thank them for their service.”

Federal immigration agents arrested Esteban Morales-Cruz, an illegal alien from Mexico. He was previously convicted of lewd acts with a child under 14 years old in Santa Ana, California.

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Esteban Morales-Cruz. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Gabriel Olivares, an illegal alien from Argentina, was also nabbed by ICE agents. His rap sheet includes a prior conviction for sodomy in Goshen, New York.

Gabriel Olivares. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

ICE captured a Guatemalan national, Wilson Avila-Perez. The criminal illegal alien was convicted of assault, domestic violence, and forgery — possession of a forged instrument in Phoenix, Arizona.

Wilson Avila-Perez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Immigration agents arrested Juan Carlos Herrera-Salazar, an illegal alien from Mexico who was convicted of selling heroin and cocaine in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Juan Carlos Herrera-Salazar. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

DHS also noted ICE’s arrest of David Livingston Attoh. The illegal alien from Ghana was convicted of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud in Baltimore, Maryland. Attoh was sentenced to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to participating in a bank fraud conspiracy, according to a press release from the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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David Livingston Attoh. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

“Our ICE law enforcement officers truly are the best of the best. They put their lives on the line every day to arrest the worst of the worst,” Bis said.

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A historic battle is taking place in Southwest Colombia involving two native tribes that date back hundreds of years.

The conflict has caught eyes around the world for its use of “traditional” weapons among the groups, which included people hurling stones before escalating to more deadly means.

‘Differences should not be resolved through confrontations.’

While there is no consensus on the pre-Hispanic history of the Misak, the tribe of around 21,000 is in a dispute with the Nasa peoples, who also existed before Spanish arrivals and now are believed to have a population of around 240,000.

According to Colombian magazine Revista Sur, members of the Guambía Indigenous Reservation (Misak) and the Pitayó Reservation (Nasa) went to battle for several days over the ownership of an 800-hectare area in Silvia, Colombia, about 10 hours south of Medellin.

The Misaks reportedly believe the land should be theirs by ancestral right and have accused the Nasa of illegally occupying the land for three months.

Videos of the tribal warfare have surfaced online, with one pointing out the use of “traditional weapons” garnering millions of views.

Outlet El Pais also noted that the conflict escalated from what originally consisted of people “using stones and sticks.”

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Soon, the clashes escalated to machetes, firearms, and even explosive devices, according to El Tiempo. Motorcycles and homes were also torched, with Colombian military eventually sent to calm the dispute.

However, AA has since reported six people are dead and more than 100 have been injured in the clash. The region has reportedly been plagued with illegal drug production and past territorial disputes, which have sometimes included forcible detainments of individuals by opposing groups.

Despite what the Misak have claimed, the National Land Authority has sided with the Nasa people, saying in March that the Authority knew there would be tension over the decision.

“There are no ‘defeated towns’ or ‘winning towns,'” the ANT reportedly said. “There are valid colonial titles, formalized reservations, and an institutional duty of the ANT to find solutions that respect agrarian regulations.”

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Although the ANT included in its ruling that any Misak who lived in the area could not be displaced or “dispossessed,” 500 of the tribe members have been in the Colombian capital of Bogota since mid-May to complain about the government decision.

The Misak people are reportedly seeking guarantees about land they consider to be in their possession.

The Ombudsman’s Office reportedly called for calm and said that “differences should not be resolved through confrontations.”

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Spencer Pratt has been portrayed by the left-wing media as a one-time reality star villain with no experience, but BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler did a little digging into the Los Angeles mayoral candidate’s past — and there’s much more to him then his critics are letting on.

“What is Spencer Pratt’s experience?” Wheeler asks. “Well, most people say none. He just kind of has a good idea of what he might do. He has some connections. Or they might say a reality TV star, a villain on television.”

However, Wheeler explains that his experience is actually “a track record of being majorly successful based on his own ingenuity and hustling.”

“Spencer Pratt graduated from USC with a degree in political science, so politics is not totally foreign to this man. He, yes, he starred on a reality TV show, ‘The Hills,’ but he also created and executive produced another reality TV show called ‘The Princes of Malibu’ on Fox,” she explains.

This, Wheeler says, proves he is a “successful businessman.”

“That’s not just nepotism. You have to get ratings with your show, which means it has to be clever. It has to be good. You have to be able to pitch it and show why viewers are going to like it,” she explains, pointing out that this is only a “fraction of his experience.”

“After his reality TV days, he became a community advocate and a citizen journalist. He filled a void in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades after his home and his parents’ home and his neighbors’ homes all burned down,” she says.

“He documented the reality of what was happening, what it was like, what had happened to him in the Pacific Palisades in the aftermath of the fires. This is when the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, was dancing in Ghana,” she adds.

Wheeler explains that Pratt’s ability to “identify a void” and “being a citizen journalist at a time when politicians in the mainstream media were gaslighting the entire country about what happened in the Pacific Palisades Fire” is necessary to be a politician who actually creates change.

“On top of serving that need, which is a form of entrepreneurship, he then took his wife, whom, by the way, he’s been married to for a long time … took his wife’s 15-year-old music … and he brought it back to life,” she explains.

“I’m talking last year and the year before. And he made this 15-year-old album an international hit. It reached number one on iTunes and number two on Billboard Dance. It was charting in Europe, in the U.K.,” she says.

“This is Spencer Pratt’s experience,” she continues, adding, “He took things that weren’t, and he created them. He took things that were broken, and he exposed them. He took things that were dead and brought them back to life.”

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