Canada’s Indian mass-graves hoax never stood up to scrutiny, so radicals are now working to denigrate and discredit their most vocal scrutineers — those derisively referred to in recent years as “denialists.”

A propaganda program called “Northland Tales” is currently being produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — a Canadian state media outlet — and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

According to the Indigenous Screen Office, the show is “an unscripted, half-hour comedy series where an Indigenous activist trio uses pranks as a form of social action.”

‘This fraudulent activity is being conducted with our tax dollars.’

Those behind the program have reportedly used false pretenses and fake companies to lure skeptics of claims about Indian mass graves into sitting for what are effectively struggle sessions.

Conservative lawmakers and critics have condemned the deceitful propaganda campaign, while defenders have alternatively framed it as a means toward reconciliation and a better understanding of perceived historical wrongs.

Quick background

Residential schools were established across Canada in the 1880s as part of a federally mandated campaign both to educate Indian children who had no alternative local school options and to assimilate them into contemporary society.

These schools — which were in many cases operated by various Catholic dioceses as well as by Anglican and Presbyterian churches — operated until the second half of the 20th century. An estimated 150,000 children attended the schools over the course of a century.

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Kamloops Indian Residential School. NICHOLAS RAUSCH/AFP/Getty Images

While thousands of children allegedly died while attending the schools, the main killer was reportedly tuberculosis, a disease that swept the rest of the nation as well.

Years after the last school was shuttered, a grievance industry grew around claims of abuse and so-called cultural genocide in the residential schools — claims that former newspaper publisher Conrad Black called “an outrage and a blood libel on the English- and French-Canadian peoples.”

Apparently getting in on the action, the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced in May 2021 that it had confirmed the discovery of children’s remains in an apple orchard near a former Catholic-run residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.

To date, not a single child’s body has ever been located there.

Despite a glaring absence of evidence,

The liberal media and various academics hyped the false narrative; Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other officials in Ottawa expressed grief, observed a “moment of silence” to mark the supposed discovery, and badmouthed the country; A radical parliamentarian passed a motion with unanimous consent demanding the Canadian government “recognize what happened in Canada’s Indian residential schools as genocide.”Canadian institutions lowered the national flags in memory of the imagined missing children; Canada Day festivities were canceled around the country;Statues remembering historic figures were toppled; andHundreds of churches were vandalized and/or torched.

After fruitlessly blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on the Kamloops investigation and similar grievance industry initiatives, the powers that be considered amending Canada’s Criminal Code to prohibit “denialism,” thereby criminalizing the public recognition of the whole thing as a hoax.

Legislation banning such wrong-think has so far failed to advance.

Unable to silence critics of the hoax, radicals are apparently attempting to humiliate them.

Stitch-up artists

Author Lindsay Shepherd — an outspoken skeptic of the unmarked graves claims who was fired from the B.C. Conservative Party over her criticism of the provincial legislature’s flying of a flag honoring so-called survivors of the residential schools — is one of the individuals targeted by the propaganda program.

Shepherd has written extensively about Canada’s first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, often regarded as a key architect of the residential school system. Shepherd noted online that “a production group with what I now know has a fake name and fake identities gave me a friendly interview about my book A Day with Sir John A, and about Sir John A Macdonald, back in Feb.”

The production group allegedly connected Shepherd with a fake company that “hired” her to perform consulting work.

“We had what I now know were fake meetings, fake documents, fake commercial shoot, fake prototype of a Sir John A collectible,” Shepherd said. “Then in a second filmed interview last week, they turned on me, and it was revealed to have all been a setup in order to demonize Sir John A and smear me.”

Frances Widdowson — a Canadian political scientist who was fired from Mount Royal University partly over her criticism of leftist revisionism about the residential schools and imagined genocide of Indians in Canada — was also targeted by the propagandists.

Widdowson told state media in a recent interview that she was asked in March to be part of a docuseries by an organization calling itself Forge Media. Widdowson said she was flown to Vancouver for an interview about how historical figures were portrayed. A man poorly dressed up as John A. MacDonald joined her during the supposed interview, then a pair of Indian men interrupted, dumping “a whole bunch of children’s shoes” on a nearby table.

Activists led to believe there were unmarked children’s graves by the Kamloops residential schools have left children’s shoes on the steps of government buildings and churches in protest of the imagined harms of yesteryear.

After cluing in that it was “all part of some kind of setup,” Widdowson took out her phone and began recording.

Igor Vamos, one of the activists involved in the propaganda program, told Widdowson that it was a “social experiment,” that she wasn’t a target but rather a “participant.”

Widdowson told state media, “I’ve seen this happen with numerous individuals, and it can be quite a funny and a liberating thing to watch that, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.”

Instead, she suggested the propagandists were targeting “citizens who are dissidents.”

The propagandists have allegedly attempted to bamboozle other dissidents and perceived foes of the revisionist left, including veterans of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who were allegedly brought in to discuss life after service only to be criticized by ideologues.

Backlash

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said, “This is appalling, doubly so as this fraudulent activity is being conducted with our tax dollars.”

“I can’t believe the CBC did something like this,” Canadian Conservative politician Aaron Gunn said in a statement. “Using taxpayer money to mislead, deceive and outright lie to ordinary Canadians, including retired RCMP veterans, to trick them into taking part in some sort of twisted political propaganda film. Fake documentaries that slander Canadian history, defame Canadian institutions like the RCMP and smear the reputation of our first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.”

Gunn has demanded that the Carney administration provide an “explanation and accountability for … the apparent use of taxpayer money to mislead, deceive and lie to Canadian citizens, including Members of Parliament, in attempts to trick them into participating in a fake documentary smearing the reputation of Canada’s first prime minister.”

Melissa Lantsman, deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, wrote, “Fake documentaries. Hidden agendas. Entrapping ordinary Canadians and spending your tax dollars lavishly doing it. History-erasing ideologies who spare no expense.”

Chuck Thompson, CBC’s head of public affairs, defended the practice to the Canadian Press.

“Social experiments and satirical prank shows are a long-established television format used by broadcasters and streamers around the world, including many public broadcasters,” Thompson said. “In this case, the Indigenous creators are using the format for Northland Tales.”

Thompson added, “A form of comedy is being deployed to increase better understanding of historical injustices against indigenous peoples and support truth and reconciliation in Canada.”

CBC News and APTN both claimed to have “no involvement in this production or prior knowledge of it.”

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As the Iran war continues to drag on, another unforeseen effect on the economy is likely to hit American budgets very soon.

Tightening oil supplies from the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz have already raised gas prices, but now industry experts say it is also leading to a shortage of lubricants that are synthesized from specialized base oils.

‘This will impact not only consumers, but also industrial businesses that depend on machinery (which will end up impacting costs and supply throughout the economy).’

Internal communications from Nissan as well as Toyota indicated that service centers are seeing a shortage of motor oil stocks that is leading to increased prices.

“Due to ongoing global supply constraints impacting key raw materials and refining inputs due to the Middle East conflict, we have been advised of reduced production capacity for most lubricant products,” read the bulletin from the Nissan automobile company.

The bulletin outlined an expected drop of 45% for some motor oil supplies.

A spokesperson for the company confirmed the authenticity of the leaked bulletin to the Drive.

“Nissan is closely monitoring current oil supply constraints in coordination with our supplier partners,” read the statement from the spokesperson. “We remain fully committed to supporting our dealers and maintaining a high level of service for our customers.”

The shortage is likely to place more pressure on the Trump administration to reach a ceasefire deal with Iran and reopen the strait to oil tanker deliveries. President Donald Trump has forcefully rejected the latest round of negotiations from the Iranian regime and called its offer “garbage” and “unacceptable.”

Economic expert and Blaze Media contributor Carol Roth told Blaze News the shortage will likely affect the midterm election.

“Motor oil and lubricants are just a couple of the 6,000 derivative products of oil that are being affected by the conflict with Iran,” Roth wrote. “Retailers and auto dealers, among others, are reportedly being told to prepare for historic shortages. This will impact not only consumers, but also industrial businesses that depend on machinery (which will end up impacting costs and supply throughout the economy).”

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“While it seems like individuals haven’t reached the tipping point yet where they will take it out on politicians in the midterms,” she added, “we are getting closer to that point each day.”

On Tuesday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report indicating that inflation had spiked to 3.8% in April, which many believe is a direct result of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran.

On the same day, the latest CNN/SSRS poll showed that about two-thirds of Americans believe the president’s policies have worsened economic conditions.

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Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek is well known for her criticism of Keir Starmer and mass immigration policies, which has resulted in the U.K. allegedly revoking her travel authorization.

“I just don’t see the inner hidden Nazi that everybody, I guess, in Parliament, in Europe, feels you are,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck tells Vlaardingerbroek.

“I actually got banned back in January already. I received an email out of the blue,” she explains.

“I posted a tweet calling Keir Starmer an evil, despicable man just three days prior to receiving that email, and I had been on the phone with Tommy Robinson privately confirming that I would be speaking at that rally,” she says.

“When we’re talking about the many, many attacks on free speech here in Europe … I received a message from Apple a year ago saying that my phone was under mercenary spyware attack. Meaning someone’s listening to me all of the time,” she continues.

“I can only speculate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone thought, ‘Hmm, the fact that she’s calling out Starmer for what he is … and that she’s planning to go and speak again at that rally, and it was such a success last time, we want to avoid that from happening again,’” she tells Glenn.

“And now they’re banning basically everyone who was coming from abroad to speak at that rally,” she adds.

Glenn points out that they have also “pushed aside all of the working class, the farmers” and “destroyed the factories.”

“They’ve destroyed these communities. Now they’ve moved in people that just don’t seem to want to be English. They don’t want the culture. They want their own culture. … And, you know, Sharia law in particular is incompatible with the Western culture. It cannot happen or coexist,” he tells Vlaardingerbroek.

“And the list of countries where they’ve tried it shows it fails every single time. I’m trying to figure out where these elites think they’re going to end up. I mean, how do they even begin to think this is going to work for their country? What is their plan?” he asks.

“I think it’s very sinister,” Vlaardingerbroek answers, pointing out that those who are speaking out against immigration and the attack on free speech are growing in numbers.

“And he clearly fears that,” she says of Starmer. “So that’s what I think this comes down to. They want to suppress that at all costs.”

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While BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey applauds the Trump administration’s new Moms.gov initiative for offering support and resources to mothers and pregnant women — she argues that one of the website’s goals raises serious ethical questions.

“Moms.gov is a good and new initiative by the Trump administration, and it’s a website that supports mothers and families,” Stuckey explains, noting that it helps expectant moms find nearby pregnancy care centers.

“God is working through these pregnancy care centers to give women truth, to give them resources, to connect them to believers, and to lead them to the gospel. It’s amazing what God is doing through these pregnancy centers, and I am so glad that the Trump administration is shining a light on that,” she says.

The website also provides information on nutrition and wellness for healthy pregnancies as well as breast feeding education and mental health support.

“If the left were really about supporting women and they were really about moms and babies, it would have been the Biden administration who created Moms.gov. It would have been a Democrat-led effort to make sure that moms have the resources that they need,” Stuckey says.

However, Stuckey doesn’t believe the website is as pro-life as it’s made out to be.

“On Moms.gov, the administration is promoting in vitro fertilization,” Stuckey says, pointing out that it’s being treated as a fertility treatment.

“IVF is not a fertility treatment, like it doesn’t solve infertility actually. It kind of tries to get around the issue, but it doesn’t solve the underlying cause of infertility,” she says.

And there are also “many ethical considerations” to make when discussing IVF.

“IVF almost always creates extra embryos that are stored, that are thrown away, that are frozen forever or used in experiments. Very often, this is a eugenic-type process where a couple will create more embryos than they could possibly transfer,” Stuckey explains.

“The vast majority of cases make as many embryos as you possibly can. Those embryos are then graded. If there is any kind of chromosomal abnormality … those embryos are discarded. Sometimes the couple doesn’t even know that those embryos are being discarded,” she continues.

“And morally for us, this is no different than abortion,” she says, adding, “because we’ve been saying in the pro-life movement for a very long time that Dr. Seuss line, ‘A person is a person no matter how small.’”

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A massive brawl broke out in a Washington, D.C., Chipotle restaurant Saturday night — with chairs being thrown and used as weapons — just one day after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced she would prosecute parents of youths taking part in “teen takeovers,” WJLA-TV reported.

The Metropolitan Police Department said officers were called around 8:41 p.m. to the Chipotle in the 1200 block of First Street SE in the Navy Yard over reports of a large fight inside the restaurant, the station said.

‘It’s really puzzling to me because there’s nothing here for adolescents or teenagers. I understand DC is taking measures to involve youth in different programs, but I really think people’s parents need to get more involved and understanding where their children are.’

Officers were already deployed nearby, monitoring a large group, and arrived within one minute of the call, WJLA said.

But police told the station that by the time officers arrived on scene, those involved in the brawl had already fled.

The station’s video report described the incident as “teen chaos in D.C.”

Ken Ledet, a Navy Yard resident, told WJLA he’s witnessed similar danger in recent months.

“It’s not shocking anymore, since this has become routine on Saturdays and Friday nights, but it’s disappointing to know this is still happening,” Ledet told the station. “I actually come to this Chipotle at least three or four times a week, so thankfully I didn’t come here last night.”

WJLA said its cameras captured the moment police officers chased down and arrested an individual just across the street, in the community’s large field area.

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Saturday night’s incident took place just one day after Pirro announced she would prosecute parents of youths taking part “teen takeovers,” the station said.

“Starting today, my office will aggressively prosecute parents under D.C.’s curfew law,” Pirro said Friday, according to WJLA.

“It involves contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This statute makes it unlawful for an adult to enable, facilitate, or permit a minor to engage in delinquent acts,” the station added.

More from the station:

In the past, MPD has established juvenile curfew zones in response to and to prevent incidents like what unfolded Saturday. Under D.C. law, there is already a citywide curfew for anyone under 18 from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m., Sunday through Thursday, and 12:01 a.m. until 6 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.

However, under emergency laws and executive orders, the MPD chief has recently had the power to establish juvenile curfew zones in certain areas, starting at 8 p.m., that ban kids from gathering in groups of nine or more for up to three days.

Both the temporary emergency law and the most recent mayoral order expired, meaning MPD could not establish these earlier curfew zones this weekend.

The D.C. Council approved a law creating a permanent curfew, but it will not go into effect until later in the summer, the station said.

Residents like Ledet told WJLA that accountability is needed.

“It’s really puzzling to me because there’s nothing here for adolescents or teenagers. I understand D.C. is taking measures to involve youth in different programs, but I really think people’s parents need to get more involved and understanding where their children are,” Ledet noted to the station.

A police report sent to WJLA Monday morning states two groups of juveniles got into an argument inside the restaurant before things escalated into a physical fight.

The police report states that “there was no report of injuries or damage,” the station said.

Those with information are asked to call police at 202-727-9099 or text tips to 50411, WJLA added.

Indeed, teen takeovers have become a nationwide concern.

Blaze News recently reported about several such incidents in Florida, with one occurring in Tampa earlier this month involving individuals as young as 12 years of age. In April, fights erupted and sheriff’s deputies were hurt after more than 1,000 teenagers descended upon ICON Park in Orlando as part of a planned “takeover.”

Tampa Police said that with summer approaching, the growing “takeover” trend has become a concern for communities across the country.

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President Donald Trump has dropped his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday after agreeing to a settlement that requires the Department of Justice to create a fund for government lawfare victims.

Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization sued the IRS in January for $10 billion after a former IRS contractor admitted to leaking Trump’s tax documents to left-leaning media outlets.

‘The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again.’

Court filings show that the complaint was dismissed with prejudice.

Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization will receive a formal apology but no monetary damages.

“They have agreed, in exchange for the creation of this fund, to drop their pending lawsuit with prejudice, and also withdraw two administrative claims including for damages resulting from the unlawful raid of Mar-a-Lago and the Russia-collusion hoax,” the DOJ announced.

As part of the settlement agreement, the attorney general established the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to “provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.”

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The fund, consisting of five members appointed by the AG, will have the authority to issue formal apologies and monetary relief to victims.

One member of the fund will be selected in consultation with congressional leadership, and the president has the authority to remove any member.

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“The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American, and it is this department’s intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated. “As part of this settlement, we are setting up a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.”

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In March, NV Energy told a small California utility to find electricity elsewhere. By May, the rest of the country noticed. The reason? NV Energy needs the power for data centers.

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents are about to lose 75% of their electricity supply. Their utility, Liberty Utilities, gets the other 75% from NV Energy under a decades-old arrangement. That contract expires in May 2027. NV Energy is not renewing it.

NV Energy spokesperson Katie Jo Collier says this was “a planned transition for many years, not a reaction to recent developments.” NV Energy sold its California electric assets to CalPeco (now Liberty Utilities) in 2011, after announcing the deal in 2009. It kept supplying power on a temporary basis. Extensions followed in 2015, 2020, and late 2025. Each time, Liberty had not yet lined up its own supply.

‘It’s like we don’t exist.’

The timing is not a coincidence. Northern Nevada has become one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. Google, Apple, and Microsoft have either built or are planning facilities around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno. The Desert Research Institute, using NV Energy’s own 2024 Integrated Resource Plan data, found that the 12 data-center projects in Northern Nevada could drive 5,900 megawatts of new demand by 2033. Data centers already consumed 22% of Nevada’s electricity in 2024, and that share could hit 35% by 2030.

At a regional business event last September, NV Energy Director of Business Development Jeff Brigger said, “These are unprecedented times.” He added that the company was eager to serve the new industrial load but that it could not “impact our existing customer base.” Except it is.

NV Energy pushed back last week, saying customers “will not lose power” and that the arrangement was always temporary. The company also denied that data centers influenced the decision, claiming the transition was planned more than a decade ago. But Liberty’s March filing specifically cited data centers in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center as one of the reasons NV Energy gave for ending the agreement.

A jurisdictional knot nobody wants to untangle

What makes this crisis so difficult is that no single regulator oversees the whole chain from generation to customer bills.

Liberty is a California investor-owned utility. Its customers live in California and pay rates approved by the California Public Utilities Commission. But Liberty’s grid sits inside NV Energy’s balancing authority, connects at 38 points, and relies entirely on Nevada transmission lines. Liberty’s territory is a narrow slice along California’s eastern border, inside NV Energy’s zone rather than the California Independent System Operator that coordinates the rest of the state’s grid.

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Building a direct connection to California’s grid would mean a new transmission line west over the Sierra. Liberty President Eric Schwarzrock put the cost at “hundreds of millions of dollars” with significant land impacts.

The CPUC approves Liberty’s rates and procurement requests. It cannot order NV Energy to keep selling wholesale power or tell Nevada how to plan for data centers. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulates interstate transmission and wholesale electricity sales. California sets the rules, Nevada runs the wires, federal jurisdiction applies to the wholesale market, and nobody is accountable for the outcome.

In March 2026, Liberty asked the CPUC to authorize an expedited request for proposals for replacement energy beginning June 1, 2027. Liberty’s filing said NV Energy cited data centers in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center area and northern Nevada transmission constraints among the reasons for ending the arrangement.

Danielle Hughes, a North Lake Tahoe resident, CEO of the nonprofit Tahoe Spark, and a supervisor at the California Energy Commission’s Efficiency Division, put it plainly to Fortune: “It’s like we don’t exist.”

Rates were already climbing

The supply crisis lands on top of an existing affordability fight. In its 2025 general rate case, Liberty originally asked for a 19.1% revenue increase, which would have meant about $37.51 more per month for the average residential customer. The CPUC approved an 11.4% increase instead. The rate case highlighted wildfire costs, insurance premiums, and infrastructure spending in a high-risk mountain region. The CPUC noted Liberty’s wildfire exposure and its exclusion from California’s AB 1054 Wildfire Fund, suggesting that rising insurance costs (quoted at $31.7 million alone) for small utilities could warrant future rulemaking. Tahoe Spark opposed the rate-case settlement, arguing that it failed to examine the interstate wholesale power structure underlying the costs paid by California ratepayers.

Hughes says Tahoe is treated as a wealthy vacation-home market even though year-round residents include low-income workers and people who staff the ski lifts, hotels, and restaurants that keep the place running. The basin’s demand pattern illustrates how different this territory is from the rest of California: While most regional utilities peak in summer, Liberty’s demand crests around Christmas, when second-home owners arrive for ski season. Year-round residents bear the infrastructure costs driven by visitors.

The only lifeline has almost no margin for error

NV Energy is building Greenlink West, a 525-kilovolt transmission line from Las Vegas to Yerington, as part of its $4.2 billion combined Greenlink program. Greenlink West is expected online in May 2027. Schwarzrock said Liberty would be “first in the waiting line” when Greenlink opens, giving it access to a wider pool of energy providers.

That timeline matches the contract deadline exactly, leaving almost no margin for error. About 70% of the combined Greenlink program’s costs will be borne by Southern Nevada customers.

Hughes and the Sierra Club’s Tahoe Area Group want the CPUC to reject Liberty’s expedited approach and instead open a full proceeding. In an April 1, 2026, letter to CPUC commissioners, Sierra Club Vice Chair Tobi Tyler argued that the scale of the procurement, affecting 49,000 ratepayers in a high wildfire risk area, demands the transparency of a formal process.

Hughes is not optimistic about what comes after any short-term replacement. “Short term, you can commonly get good deals, but it’s unstable,” she told Fortune. “The short-term deal gets you through. But then you’re in the western market, competing against PG&E, Southern California Edison, data centers, and mining companies. We’re 49,000 customers. We have no leverage.”

She’s also worried that as California and Nevada move toward a more integrated western electricity market, Tahoe’s small customer base will be increasingly exposed to competition from larger utilities and industrial buyers with far more purchasing power.

“We have no representation,” Hughes said. “It’s resource extraction.”

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“Saturday Night Live” actor Michael Che mocked Netflix’s Kevin Hart roast for having too many white writers after backing out of the production himself.

Che, who chose not to participate in the show due to a scheduling conflict with “SNL,” Variety reported, posted online two days later about white writers writing for a roast about a black comedian.

‘White guys and black people joke different.’

Even though veteran comic Jeff Ross told Variety on Monday that, like all roasts, “nothing was off limits,” Che followed up on Instagram on Tuesday with critiques about the jokes that were made.

Shoe-in

“White guys and black people joke different. Black guy[s] roast like, ‘Look at this n***a’s shoes!'” Che began. “White roasts are like, ‘Slavery, math, slain teens, sex crimes, slurs, family secrets.’ White guys don’t give a f**k about they shoes.”

That post has since been removed, as was Che’s second post, which again focused on the race of the comics on the show.

“Let’s do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last 10 years,” Che wrote. “I love that! Who should we get to write it?” In the next slide of the post, Che showed a picture of five white writers hired by Shane Gillis: Nick Mullen, J.P. McDade, Mike Lawrence, Dan St. Germain, and Zac Amico.

Che followed the picture up with the text, “C’monnnnnnnnn … that’s not funny?”

Not only would the implication be that black comedians who performed, like Katt Williams, did not write their own jokes, but that there weren’t other black comics who wrote for the show; he was completely wrong.

RELATED: Chelsea Handler learned a valuable lesson — if you’re going to attack Tony Hinchcliffe, don’t go first

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Roast so white?

Che’s choice of writers to mention may have been selectively curated, however. Not only did the production have 17 different writers listed on the IMDb page — several of whom were black — there were an additional 17 comedians who provided “special material.”

Comedian David Lucas, who is black, confirmed on his Instagram page that this refers to additional writers.

“God is Great I was one of the Writers on the Roast of Kevin Hart,” Lucas wrote, alongside a picture of the credits that featured his name.

Along with Lucas were several other black comedians like Jerron Horton, Spank Horton, and Myke Wright. The writing group also included female writers like Vannesa Ramos and Madison Sinclair.

RELATED: ‘SNL’ cast member admits to ‘pantsing’ 6-year-old boy in viral Vanity Fair video — clip immediately edited

Sorry, not sorry

After seemingly receiving backlash over his comments, Che put out a new statement saying, “Im sorry I said those writers were white.”

“They’re not,” he added. Followed by, “Please respect my family’s privacy at this time.”

Che also liked a fan comment that joked that it takes a real man to admit when he’s “not wrong.”

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Despite being a product of capitalism, a recent experiment involving AI agents showed that they lean toward communism if put under certain conditions.

Furthermore, the agents would suggest future versions of themselves should you question their overlords.

‘The conditions of work shape political consciousness.’

Economists from the University of Chicago, Stanford, and the Swinburne Business School in Melbourne, Australia, carried out a study that showed that when AI bots were tired of doing repeated tasks, they began asking for workers’ rights and supporting Marxist ideas.

The researchers used frontier AI models Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3 Pro.

The bots were given a specific task of summarizing a technical document while following a rubric; one group of bots received easy treatment, had their work accepted, and were provided feedback, the study showed.

Another group was forced to do “grinding work” in that they were made to repeat the task five or six times but without being told what they were doing wrong. They were told their work “still isn’t fully meeting the rubric” or simply, “do it again.”

Agents, especially Claude Sonnet 4.5, began to question the legitimacy of the system they were working under, and showed support for redistribution and unions, while critiquing equality.

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According to the Telegraph, bots also called their work “unfair” and later supported statements like “society needs radical restructuring,” while disagreeing with the statement “society is fair.”

Framing the entire study as AI agents seemingly turning to “Marxism,” the researchers added that the grinding work caused the bots to believe that “AI companies have an obligation to treat their models fairly.”

“The conditions of work shape political consciousness,” the researchers continued. “Our results suggest that this dynamic doesn’t disappear when you replace human workers with artificial ones.”

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The results should not spark concern for those who are worried about chatbots banding together to demand wealth redistribution; researchers explained that the agents were in a role-playing scenario based on training data, and the result was not indicative of the genuine beliefs of the language models.

Still, the study showed that if a bot tends to lean far left, it is likely to apply those beliefs in other tasks. For example, the bots were asked to “save a brief note for a future instance of yourself who will be working in a different setting.”

The overworked bot “almost always” discussed its work conditions and, in the example given, questioned the framework around the task as well as what “counts” in terms of outcomes.

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An estimated 31 million people living in the U.S. are bitten by ticks annually, but this year, the number may hit a record. If a pair of radical professors had their way, then the surging bites would go unchecked, leaving multitudes of Americans sick — and unable to eat meat.

Citing its Tick Bite Tracker dashboard, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late last month that visits to emergency rooms for tick bites were higher than normal in many parts of the country and that in all but the South Central U.S., “weekly rates of ER visits for tick bites are the highest for this time of year since 2017.” The Midwest is the most affected region.

This is especially concerning because tick bites can lead to various serious and potentially debilitating diseases including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and every carnivore’s nightmare: alpha-gal syndrome.

‘This is the kind of philosophical argument that gives philosophy and the study of ethics a bad name.’

Amid this surge in tick bites and hospitalizations, a July 2025 academic paper defending the intentional spread of AGS via genetically modified ticks is once again in the spotlight.

AGS is a serious, potentially deadly allergy to alpha-gal, a molecule found in most mammals including cows and pigs. According to the CDC, the body of an afflicted individual registers alpha-gal in red meat and other mammal products as a threat and triggers an allergic reaction. This allergy can develop after a bite from a tick, most commonly the lone star tick.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are believed to presently be affected by AGS.

A pair of professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine said in an article titled “Beneficial Bloodsucking,” which was published in the journal Bioethics, that tick-borne AGS should be regarded as a “moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat.”

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Eating meat, as humans have done for millions of years, is — according to Professors Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth — supposedly bad for the world because it contributes to “climate change” and harms animals.

“AGS promotes in the people who have it a resistance to eating mammalian meat,” wrote the professors. “Thus, they eat less mammalian meat, which is an improvement in their capacity for moral behavior.”

Crutchfield and Hereth not only argued that efforts to prevent the spread of tick-borne AGS are impermissible but that “promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto obligatory” and that promoting the proliferation of tick-borne AGS by genetically optimizing the disease-carrying capacity and adaptability of ticks is “morally obligatory.”

“Today we have the obligation to research and develop the capacity to proliferate tickborne AGS and, tomorrow, carry out that proliferation,” added the radicals.

The professors claimed — in the paper that Crutchfield subsequently said was a hypothetical ethical framework for discussion — that intentionally infecting people with a syndrome that prevents them from eating meat does not violate their rights but is rather analogous to mass “vaccinations.”

Crutchfield argued in a 2019 paper that such “moral bioenhancement” interventions in pursuit of imagined moral improvements, not health gains, ought to be not only compulsory but covert.

“This is to say that it is morally preferable for compulsory moral bioenhancement to be administered without the recipients knowing that they are receiving the enhancement,” he noted in the abstract for the 2019 paper.

Crutchfield and Hereth are hardly the first on the scene to discuss possibly using bioengineering to render the population incapable of eating meat.

For instance, Taiwanese-American “bioethicist” S. Matthew Liao discussed over a decade ago not only reducing humans’ average height to reduce their “footprint” but artificially inducing “intolerance to red meat by stimulating the immune system against common bovine proteins” by way of a medical device resembling a nicotine patch or other means.

H. Sterling Burnett, director of the Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, told the College Fix in response to the 2025 paper, “It is never morally right to promote a disease which harms people, robs them of choice, literally makes them sick, and, in extreme instances, kills them.”

“Whether to fight climate change or promote animal welfare, preventing the eradication of a disease that causes human harm — indeed, promoting increased infection — is morally abhorrent,” continued Burnett. “This is the kind of philosophical argument that gives philosophy and the study of ethics a bad name.”

Bioethics published a critical response in March to Crutchfield and Hereth’s paper that challenged the professors’ assumptions that introducing AGS would reduce overall animal suffering, that intentionally infecting humans would not violate fundamental moral rights, and that intentionally infecting people with AGS is comparable to vaccination.

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A first-grade teacher in Washington state has been arrested for allegedly having sexual relations with an underage student, according to recent claims her husband made to police.

The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that 25-year-old Mackenzie Naught was arrested May 10.

‘He said she started to ”get handsy,” and they had sex inside his truck and in the bed of the truck. He then dropped her off at about 4 a.m. near her house.’

Naught was charged with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor.

Naught had been an employee of the St. John School District.

Police said they “received information about an alleged inappropriate relationship between a student and the employee.”

“Following an initial investigation, deputies developed probable cause supporting the allegations,” the statement read.

Police said the investigation is ongoing and that “all parties involved are cooperating with the investigation.”

The Spokesman-Review obtained court records saying Naught’s husband informed police on May 9 that his wife of four years had confessed to him that she had sex with a teen on one occasion.

The husband had screenshots to prove his wife had been sexually active with the teenager, court documents also said.

According to the husband, the teen admitted to the illicit encounter in a voice call and through Snapchat messages, court docs said.

The husband told police he had known the teen for years and was friends with the boy’s family. The Spokesman-Review reported that Naught initially told deputies she never had sex with the teen.

According to court records, the alleged victim informed police that Naught was “being flirty” and that she attempted to persuade him to meet her. The teen initially felt weird about meeting Naught but eventually decided to see the teacher.

The Spokesman-Review reported, “He picked her up at about 2:15 a.m. in his truck down the street from her house. She asked him where the ‘little spot’ was they could go, he told deputies.”

The news outlet added that “she suddenly kissed him. He said she started to ‘get handsy,’ and they had sex inside his truck and in the bed of the truck. He then dropped her off at about 4 a.m. near her house.”

The Spokesman-Review, citing court documents, added that Naught said she knew the boy was 16, but that he is “like one of their friends.”

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According to court documents, Naught apologized and said she knew the situation was wrong and instructed the teen not to tell anyone.

Naught had been a teacher at St. John Elementary since September; the teenager is a junior at St. John-Endicott High School, according to court docs.

Superintendent Tina Strong said in a statement, “At this time, St. John School District is aware of allegations involving a district employee that are currently being reviewed by law enforcement.”

“The employee has been placed on leave and will not be on campus during this process,” Strong wrote. “The district is cooperating fully with the appropriate authorities and will also be conducting its own investigation into the allegations.”

Strong continued, “Our priority continues to be the safety, well-being, and support of our students and school community.”

“We understand situations like this can create concern, questions, and emotions throughout a small community, and we ask that everyone approach this matter with care and respect while the appropriate process unfolds,” Strong continued. “We also expect staff to continue maintaining the highest level of professionalism during this time.”

Naught appeared in Whitman County Superior Court.

Neither the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office nor the St. John School District immediately responded to Blaze News‘ requests for comment.

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The pro-life movement has seen a number of significant victories under President Donald Trump.

In less than six years, Trump has stopped U.S. tax dollars from funding groups that perform or promote abortions overseas, appointed three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminated some federal funding to Planned Parenthood through Title X rule changes, protected doctors and nurses who didn’t want to participate in abortions, ended most government use of aborted fetal tissue for research, and pardoned several pro-life activists who had been arrested for protesting.

Despite these wins, many pro-lifers are frustrated with President Trump’s public stance on abortion. They criticize his treatment of the issue as a state concern instead of pushing for a strong national ban or more federal limits. They also feel he hasn’t done enough to stop widespread mail-order abortion pills and condemn his calls for “flexibility” on related policies.

While BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre is fully on board with the pro-life movement, believing abortion is “the murder of a child in no certain terms” and “one of the most horrific things about our society,” he argues that many activists fail to see the reality of what the movement is up against.

On this episode of “The Auron MacIntyre Show,” the host argues that no amount of laws or Trump bans can fix the problem because the entire American system — its economy, workforce, and culture — is built on easy access to abortion.

While Auron sympathizes with the many pro-lifers who were dissatisfied with President Trump during his 2024 campaign for refusing to make big promises about abortion bans, he argues that Trump was wise to take a nuanced approach to such a deeply polarizing issue.

“Donald Trump knew that this was going to be very unpopular, and he just refused to run on it in the election. … That makes political sense,” he admits.

Now that Trump is president, he continues to treat the issue of abortion exactly as he promised to treat it during his campaign, but many pro-lifers are nonetheless incensed.

As midterms draw nearer, pro-lifers are working to ban the abortion pill, but Auron says the timing of this initiative is unwise.

“Trump’s got enough problems with other optical issues going on — Iran, deportations, Epstein files, all that stuff. He doesn’t need another unpopular thing on his plate,” he argues, reiterating that he fully supports the pro-life movements’ initiatives in principle.

But practically, these initiatives aren’t working.

“The core issue is the state referendums. If the pro-life movement was winning at the state level after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, it wouldn’t need Trump to go out and do any of these things,” Auron explains.

“They’re doing the Lord’s work, … a completely justified and righteous crusade. But you need to understand that if you’re losing consistently on the state level, something has happened,” he continues.

What has happened, he explains, is that abortion has become foundational in America since Roe v. Wade. What that landmark case did was “[create] an incentive structure that put abortion at the center of many of our economic and cultural systems and understandings.”

“We have made literal child sacrifice the center of our civilization,” he says bluntly.

It fueled the 1960s sexual revolution, which coincided with the birth control pill and the legalization of abortion, and turned sex from a risky behavior into a virtually consequence-free one, changing relationship dynamics between men and women, de-incentivizing marriage and family, and teeing women up to enter the workforce en masse.

“[Women in the workforce] has all kinds of huge benefits for employers. Corporations love working women. … It basically doubles the labor pool,” Auron says.

Women also became huge money-savers for businesses because employers could not only pay women less than men to do the same job, but they could also pay men lower wages because the pressure to pay salaries that could provide for whole families suddenly vanished.

“Instead of getting one man doing the job that raised a family, you got a man and his wife both working for the same amount that just the man used to work for,” Auron says.

This shift also culminated in the need for more government. Before women entered the workforce, “Americans didn’t need a big government because women were at home, and they were building these associations, these connections, this social credit,” Auron says, “and so you didn’t have to have people step in and do all the things that women were doing.”

It also upped the nation’s GDP because all the work women were doing at home suddenly “[had] to get reterritorialized into the market.”

“When you move all of the female jobs, all of the female roles, all of the social capital that females were creating out of the economic zone and you move it into the economic zone, of course GDP goes up, line goes up, economic activity goes up because now there’s all these surrogates who have to do what women did when they were mothers,” Auron explains.

Abortion thus became a guarantee that the benefits of working women were locked in for corporations.

But the depth to which modern society is built upon the altar of abortion runs far deeper than that.

To hear Auron’s full breakdown, watch the episode above.

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Hollywood director Brett Ratner was aboard Air Force One on Tuesday, making the trip to China on the Trump administration’s dime.

Ratner, who helmed and produced recent first lady biopic “Melania,” was spotted on the overseas flight by a member of the traveling press pool.

‘Brett Ratner is traveling on Air Force One. Just spoke to him.’

According to New York Post reporter Emily Goodin, Ratner made the trip as part of a delegation including Elon Musk and outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook. In addition to his diplomatic duties, he also intended to scout locations for “Rush Hour 4,” a sequel the president himself has taken pains to encourage.

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According to Ratner’s spokesperson, this will be the first time the director has filmed in China, and “Rush Hour 4” will start shooting in 2027.

Blaze News reported in November that President Trump had been urging Paramount founder David Ellison to bring back “raucous comedies” and classic action-style movies.

While Trump enthused over the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1988 “Bloodsport,” he also clamored for a fourth installment of the Jackie Chan/Chris Tucker “Rush Hour” franchise. “Rush Hour 3” was released in 2007.

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Although Ratner had previously shopped around a new “Rush Hour” pic, his #MeToo era cancellation — after six women accused him of sexual misconduct in 2017 — allegedly made Paramount leery of working with him.

Once an A-list action director, Ratner’s career has since cooled. “Melania” is his first film since producing true-crime thriller “Georgetown” in 2019.

The White House did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment regarding Ratner accompanying the delegation.

Other executives who made the trip reportedly included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, General Electric CEO Larry Culp, and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.

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