Why would anyone cheer for a woman accused of killing her own children?

That’s the question on BlazeTV hosts Sara Gonzales’ and Dave Landau’s minds as women across the country raise money for, post supportive TikToks of, and send letters to alleged child murderer Lindsay Clancy.

“Who cheers for an [alleged] child killer?” Dave asks.

“Like her lawyer said that she has gotten enough letters to support three bankers’ boxes,” he continues. “So it’s basically like ‘Miracle on 34th Street,’ letters to a woman who [allegedly] murdered her children.”

“This is fan mail,” Gonzales agrees. “This is not like a sternly worded letter to the manager telling her how terrible of a person she is.”

And Dave wants to know why.

“Some [women] are like, ‘Well, it’s hormonal, you don’t understand how hard it is.’ And you know, you’re a woman, what is this supposed to mean?” Dave asks.

“What it means is that we now have a culture that hates motherhood,” Gonzales answers. “These women, they have been struck by the feminist bug, and they just hate motherhood because there really is no defense to this.”

And it’s not just the letters to Clancy that bother Dave and Gonzales.

“We are living in this sort of TikTok generation of people getting their advice on how to be mentally sound through a dopamine hit-app run by China,” Dave says.

“Seems like a bad idea,” Gonzales says. “Seems like a really bad idea … I just think that TikTok has made especially white liberal women, I just think it’s made them just worse people. It’s brain rot.”

“They get one there. They, you know, like think that it’s cool now to hate motherhood. So now you’ve got all of these TikTokers that are going on and throwing ice in bathtubs to control their rage that they have at their children so that they won’t get in a screaming match with their toddlers. I kid you not,” Gonzales says, referencing a recent trend of women who have been filming themselves trying not to freak out at their kids by throwing ice cubes.

“And I’m just like, what is happening to us?” she asks.

“The only reason why you would get into a screaming match with your toddler is because you were at the same mental level with your toddler,” Dave says.

But this issue doesn’t begin with the Lindsay Clancy case or even postpartum.

“When you say that it’s OK to kill innocent babies in the womb, and then you say it’s OK to kill innocent babies in the womb up until the point of birth,” Gonzales says, “can you really be surprised that you find yourself in a place in society where now women are like, ‘OK, but not just up to birth. What about the first couple years?’”

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out the foreign policy and economic worldview of the Trump administration in a speech in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

Rubio and others in the Trump administration were introducing the Foundry School, a national program to train Americans in manufacturing and design.

‘The nation-state still does matter, nationalism is real, national borders still matter, and … countries are going to always in act in their best interest.’

Rubio asserted that the policies of the Trump administration were just the first steps in undoing the errors of American economic policies of the last 35 years or so.

“Let me put it to you this way. I think we made a terrible mistake in this country many years ago, under people that were in charge at the time, especially at the end of the Cold War, and that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered,” said Rubio.

“That it didn’t matter any longer where things were made. They were to be made in the most efficient place at the lowest possible cost. That meant more profits for the company, lower costs for the consumers, and that was the way the world would work,” he added.

“There was this fantasy, really, that the whole world would become … free-enterprise democracies and that everyone would look like us. That ran into reality,” Rubio said, “the reality that that is not how human events have ever worked, that the nation-state still does matter, nationalism is still real, national borders still matter, and that countries are going to always act in their best interest.”

He said it would take multiple administrations to undo the errors of those policies.

“The result of it is that it de-industrialized America. We lost our ability and our capacity to make things. And not just big things. Not just the kinds of big machinery and things that we normally identify with industry,” Rubio continued.

“But even some of the most basic components that are necessary, that underpin economic life, especially in the 21st century,” he added, “and we woke up to the reality, just a few years ago, that we are, suddenly, as a nation, dangerously dependent, dangerously dependent on other nations for all sorts of things that we need … for our national security and our very survival as a prosperous nation-state.”

He concluded, “And so now, we are involved in this endeavor across the board to try to reverse those mistakes.”

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Economic expert and Blaze News contributor Carol Roth responded in comments to Blaze News.

“The dollar being the global reserve currency was always about trade-offs. The U.S. received cheap government financing, cheap consumer financing, and cheap access to goods, which raised our standard of living. As Secretary of State Rubio noted, the flip side is that it hollowed out a large part of our manufacturing base, which was devastating for communities across the U.S. Ultimately, though, we transformed our economy to service-dominant and became the largest, most powerful country on the planet,” she said.

“Rubio is also correct in noting that our movement away from manufacturing has created economic and national security issues by being over-reliant on other countries for important goods and components, which we should be prioritizing making within the U.S.,” Roth continued. “However, there are many goods that we will likely never make again in the U.S., based on issues related to labor, laws, costs, and infrastructure. We should be focused on bringing back manufacturing specifically in areas like defense, pharmaceuticals, and other industries and sectors where dependence on other countries is particularly risky.”

Rubio is considered a possible Republican presidential contender in 2028, but Vice President JD Vance is widely seen as the current front-runner.

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A Trump administration lawsuit against the city of Rochester, New York, for its sanctuary city policies hit a brick wall in the form of an Obama-appointed federal judge.

The lawsuit originated from an incident in March 2025 when local Rochester police assisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the arrest of a Guatemalan man during a traffic stop.

‘They simply recognize the different functions of each governmental body. … They do not dictate how the federal government must act and therefore do not violate the intergovernmental immunity doctrine.’

City leaders criticized the police and said their actions violated their sanctuary city policies. The officers were taken off the street to receive additional training.

The Department of Justice sued the city, the mayor, and the city council president and accused them of violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

Judge Frank Geraci of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York rejected the argument from the federal government.

“Rochester’s Sanctuary City laws and policies are not a prohibition on or interference with the federal government’s role in enforcing immigration policy,” he wrote in the ruling dated Tuesday. “Instead, they simply recognize the different functions of each governmental body.”

He argued that the sanctuary city laws “only dictate” that the police officers cannot participate in immigration enforcement.

“As such, they do not dictate how the federal government must act and therefore do not violate the intergovernmental immunity doctrine,” Geraci added.

White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis responded to the ruling in a statement to Blaze News.

“These sanctuary policies make Americans less safe,” she said.

“Extreme Democrats’ sanctuary policies result in criminal illegal aliens being directly released from jail back into American communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more innocent American victims,” she added.

Bis cited the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in 2024 by an illegal alien who had been previously released over a “lack of detention space.”

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans, a Democrat, responded in a statement about the ruling.

“Once again, grandstanding of the Trump administration has been found to be without any legal legitimacy,” Evans wrote. “The City of Rochester remains committed to guaranteeing public safety for all, not being coerced into doing the federal government’s work of immigration enforcement.”

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Seven out of the 10 safest cities in the U.S. cooperate with ICE, according to Homeland Security.

The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the Justice Dept. is unable to refile the complaint against Rochester.

Geraci was appointed to the court by former President Barack Obama in 2012.

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It all started on a patch of waterfront property in New York, right next to the East River.

The latest wave of perceived liberal activism made its way to Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis’ ears through the sage wisdom of a traveling entertainer: They were tearing apart a park.

‘The park should be defended!’

Instead of a sign-wielding mask-wearer debating the merits of universal basic income and banning landlords, the news came from comedian Ari Shaffir. Typically, Shaffir is telling tales about getting an exorcism in South America or doing stand-up comedy in China, but this time he was looking to stop the destruction of a beloved New York City landmark.

Shaffir told Rogan and Gillis about Manhattan’s East River Park, land that had been torn apart by floods from Hurricane Sandy. In response, New York City officials planned to raze the park, add eight feet of dirt, and rebuild the park anew on top, all in the name of flood prevention.

Activists agreed with Shaffir and said removing access to the 57 acres next to the water was unfair to locals.

Gillis did not agree.

“You’re not defending parks!” he said, badgering Shaffir. “F**k that park!”

“The park should be defended!” Rogan chimed in.

From that moment, “Protect Our Parks” was born: an impromptu news panel with no preparation and no censorship, addressing actual issues.

Averaging between 2 million and 5 million views per episode on YouTube alone, the series of podcasts has not only become one of Rogan’s most popular iterations, but it has become a battle of political perspectives.

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Across 17 episodes and counting, Gillis brings his Bud Light-American viewpoint, backed by historical knowledge. This is often at odds with Rogan’s “question everything” mantra, while Shaffir offers real-world traveler’s experience.

The fourth member of the group, Mark Normand, is admittedly usually on substances and just looking to add punch lines. He’s not lacking in intellect; he just picks his punches.

The resulting conversations within the group often turn out to be newsmakers because of the sheer number of viewers each comedian represents. Normand has a quarter-million podcast subscribers on YouTube alone and another 2 million+ social media followers. Shaffir has well over a million combined, too. Add those to Gillis’ and Rogan’s reach, and each episode is dwarfing network news.

Most recently, discussed topics ranged from immigration and trans athletes to Ulysses S. Grant and the Civil War. The opinions are unpredictable.

When Rogan talks about how the WNBA “can’t define what a woman is,” or when Gillis declares America needs “somebody who’s willing to abuse their executive power,” progressive minds will not be surprised.

But when Shaffir says the U.K. “hate[s] immigrants so hard,” viewers understand this isn’t an echo chamber.

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In fact, the show is far closer to a real discussion than anything cable news could hope to accomplish. No filters or network notes means Gillis can counter anti-American hearsay from Rogan while Normand criticizes Israel to Shaffir, even if viewers label the show as “compromised.”

Critics have further attempted to demonize the podcasts for having hypocritical moments, or “effortlessly” forgiving “racism” by even having these discussions.

But others have seen the forest through the trees; friends don’t let each other get away with everything. One video, seen 250,000 times, compiled Gillis’ opposition to Rogan’s political views. This is not exactly partisan programming.

Progressives should get on board with protecting our parks. If they want to chant, ad nauseum, “Show me what democracy looks like!” (and they do), perhaps they will get their answer by watching.

As for East River Park; the city agreed to reconstruct the area in parts to allow access to different sections at different times. However, the project that started in 2021 is still unfinished to this day.

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Before the 2024 election, conservative America was united under President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” banner. But that unity didn’t last.

Less than two years later, the base is deeply divided over many issues, especially Israel/Iran, the Epstein files, and whether MAGA still means the promises supporters voted for — or just blind loyalty to Trump.

“How did a once unified coalition with a stated goal of making America great again come to a place where some of the most powerful voices in the movement are now leaving? Who has caused the MAGA divide?”

Those are the questions debate host Brandon Straka asked eight of the right’s most provocative voices to go head to head over on last night’s #WalkAway MAGA vs. America First debate.

BlazeTV’s John Doyle was one of those voices. With him on the MAGA team was conservative debate host Andrew Wilson, MAGA attorney and commentator Will Chamberlain, and CEO of “Louder with Crowder” Gerald Morgan Jr.

Their America First opponents were Infowars founder Alex Jones, former Trump counterterrorism official Joe Kent, pastor and Christian nationalist podcaster Joel Webbon, and College Republicans political director Kai Schwemmer.

Despite being on opposite sides of the debate, Doyle and Jones agree that hidden psychological operations are manipulating public opinion and distracting regular Americans from the truth — but their alignment ends when it comes to identifying the biggest threat.

Doyle sees the psyop issue primarily through the lens of Israel’s influence and the risk of young Americans being dragged into foreign wars.

“Israel is losing the PR war, which Trump himself acknowledges,” he argued.

“There has been an effort in the last three or four years with people like Andrew Tate, his brother, Sneako, to make the online right wing, which informs, frankly, the actions of the federal government, something that is at least not hostile to Islam, maybe even sympathetic,” he explained.

“We’ve seen this with the Muslim-Christian alliance; we’ve seen this with them giving us permission to laugh at Hitler jokes again. Focusing too much on mass deportations is some kind of psyop to distract you from being drafted to go die in the sand for Israel,” Doyle continued. “This is what young people are tuning into when they are on Instagram and Facebook.”

While Jones agreed that major political events are controlled by secret, billionaire-funded operations rather than organic movements, he argued that focusing solely on Israel is a narrow trap that leads people to miss larger threats — like the multi-million dollar tech-funded campaigns working behind the scenes to crush anti-establishment candidates.

“Bill Gates spent over $200 million through a couple different dark money groups … just to try to block [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s] nomination — and it wasn’t to Congress,” Jones countered. “It was stories of fake doctors, and they had these online petitions that they themselves were using bots to put fake names on to then deliver to Congress.”

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A clip has gone viral of a Zohran Mamdani supporter claiming that organized workers could simply take over grocery stores if owners pulled out of New York City — and Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes his comments reveal something far more serious than economic ignorance.

The young man began by talking about the “grocery store capitalists” and their “powerful lobby.”

“One of the grocery store bosses … he said that he was going to pull out of New York City if Zohran won, right?” he said.

“We would say, ‘Sure, pull out, and we will take over your grocery stores,’ right? And we will use them for cheaper groceries, and we will take over the entire food industry because that’s something that can be done if the working class is organized,” he added.

“So when he says, ‘I’m going to leave,’ it doesn’t mean he’s going to leave all of the products on the shelf and just throw the keys on the ground and go, ‘Somebody can take it.’ He’s going to sell it to somebody. You don’t just walk away from a major investment,” Glenn says through laughter.

“If you believe that is even a possibility, why would you even be talking about that? Because Mamdani has just said that capital flight doesn’t exist. So why are you even talking about taking over somebody’s grocery store? I mean, it just doesn’t exist. But it certainly does exist,” he continues, “but not in the way you just thought.”

What he’s actually saying, Glenn explains, is that he wants to “seize people’s property.”

“He’s not expecting him to hand the keys over. He’s saying, ‘We’ll seize your grocery store, and we’ll run it if the people are organized.’ That’s a pretty big ‘if,’” he says.

“That’s what I took from this, is him saying, ‘We’re going to seize the means of production in any way we can,’” Jason Buttrill adds.

And while it sounded ridiculous coming out of the Mamdani supporter’s mouth, Jason doesn’t think anyone should write it off.

“It’s way past time to start really understanding what they’re trying to do,” Jason says, adding, “and stop assuming some of these people are idiots.”

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A former mayor of a small California city has received the maximum sentence after “grooming” a foreign exchange student who had been living with him.

On Wednesday, Robert Bassett, 58, pled no contest to three felonies: unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, oral copulation of a person under 18, and sexual penetration of a person under 18, court records show.

‘Bassett violated the trust she placed in him while she was in the United States, thousands of miles from her family.’

The victim in this case has been identified as a female “underage foreign exchange student” who lived in his home in 2023, when he was mayor of Biggs, California, according to a press release from the Butte County district attorney’s office. Biggs is a city of 2,000 residents about 65 miles north of Sacramento.

“Bassett groomed the victim for several months before engaging in illegal acts with her,” the press release said.

Bassett was arrested back in July after Gridley police spent months investigating allegations that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with the girl, who was 17 when she lived with him in 2023, the DA’s office said.

Police reached out to the girl in her home country, which has not been identified, and she reported having “several sexual encounters” with Bassett during her stay in his home, per the press release.

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During the hearing Wednesday, the prosecutor read a statement from the victim, “detailing the ongoing pain and suffering she still experiences, knowing that Bassett violated the trust she placed in him while she was in the United States, thousands of miles from her family.”

While the probation department recommended a lesser sentence, Butte County Superior Court Judge Michael Deems gave Bassett the maximum of four years and four months and ordered him to register as a sex offender for 10 years after he is released, “citing the victim’s vulnerability, the grooming pattern, and the violation of a position of trust as aggravating factors,” the DA’s office said.

The attorney listed for Bassett did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Bassett joined the Briggs City Council in 2018 and served as mayor from 2022 through 2024. He was renominated for a second term as mayor but did not receive the necessary votes to continue in that role.

He remained on the city council but resigned in 2025 amid allegations of extortion. An independent investigation later determined that the allegations couldn’t be proven, according to Action News Now.

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Once upon a time, displaying the bloodied head of a U.S. president could get you canceled. And it did.

This was before cancel culture was a thing, a time when Americans had a shared sense of decency and found obviously heinous acts … heinous.

Earlier this year, ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ Weekend Update teased a Trump assassination joke that roiled the crowd.

No need for context or explanations. The culture at large acknowledged certain unwritten rules of behavior that should be followed. Now, those rules are fading if not gone entirely. And we can track that descent, seen across the political landscape, from a pop culture prism.

Head case

Comic Kathy Griffin thought she was being clever by holding a pretend President Donald Trump head up high, ISIS-style, for a 2017 photo shoot she shared on social media.

The reaction was swift, furious, and uncompromising. Griffin had gone too far.

Few, if any, ran to her defense. She apologized and watched her D-list career shrink to the size of a thumb drive. Those were simpler times, when doing the right thing meant putting political tribalism aside when needed.

Love Trump? Loathe Trump? It wasn’t important. This was beyond the pale.

Something similar happened in 2015 involving another GOP leader. Word leaked that Will Ferrell was mulling a big-screen “comedy” about a dementia-addled President Reagan doddering around the Oval Office. The reaction was swift and furious and not just from the former president’s grown children.

Ferrell backpedaled, claiming he had never officially signed onto the project.

Even Madonna, who forged her brand from outrageous behavior, did a hasty retreat in 2017 when she shared her dream about blowing up the White House (with a certain leader inside, presumably) during a Women’s March event.

The pop superstar apologized for a good reason. Her thoughts were unbecoming of a celebrity of her stature.

That was then.

The cruel kids

Today, political culture is infinitely worse. Cold. Cruel. Violent, even.

Political pundits like Hasan Piker can cheer on the deaths of landlords, say America deserved 9/11, and praise Hamas over Israel after the Oct. 7 atrocities. Not only is he not shunned by polite society, but Democratic politicians scramble to appear beside him.

Major publications fawn all over him too. Big-city mayors can cozy up to terrorists and voters look the other way.

Ghoulish. It’s not happening in a vacuum. Pop cultural institutions are similarly ghoulish, celebrating violence while their audiences clap like seals.

Last year, DNC spokesman Jimmy Kimmel found something deeply funny about Tesla dealerships coming under vandalism attacks. The company’s owner, Elon Musk, had sided with President Trump during the 2024 election cycle and helped trim government fat from the workforce.

For that, he must be punished.

“People have been vandalizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles. Please, don’t vandalize, don’t ever vandalize Tesla vehicles.”

The host said it with a sarcastic glint.

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Cheering chaos

Later that year, Kimmel leaned into some seriously Fake News, alleging that Charlie Kirk’s killer was part of MAGA Nation. The only credible suspect at the time was a young man who loathed Kirk’s politics, a far cry from a typical Trump supporter.

Kimmel and his writers knew that. We all did. The hosts said it, anyway, earning a week’s suspension from his ABC bully pulpit and becoming a free speech martyr to the press and the left (but we repeat ourselves).

Earlier this year, “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update teased a Trump assassination joke that roiled the crowd. Faux co-anchor Michael Che noted that the president had recently taken in a Broadway-style show.

“I think that’s cool that the president is going to the theater. I mean — what’s the worst that could happen?” The show’s hard-left audience cheered.

Late-night shows were occasionally caught by surprise at how vicious their audiences had become. They learned it from watching them, of course.

Baying for blood

Consider when Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” fame told his audience about Luigi Mangione’s arrest on charges he murdered a health care CEO by shooting him from behind.

The crowd booed in response, as if they wanted the killer to remain free (to kill other CEOs, perhaps?).

“Look, I’m sorry, guys,” a stunned Stewart said in response, like Dr. Frankenstein looking in horror at his creation.

Kimmel found it hilarious that some of his young, female staffers were Luigi fangirls in not-so-obvious disguise. He should have been ashamed of the revelation and kept it quiet.

Not Kimmel.

Just days ago, multiple late-night hosts mocked President Trump for hiding in a catering truck after the Secret Service learned of a possible threat on his life.

These threats are increasingly common in Trump’s second term. One would-be assassin came within inches of murdering the commander in chief at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally two years ago.

For late-night clowns, the latest assassination threat was merely a chance to torment Trump, not acknowledge the dangerous world we live in. Even the low-rated Jimmy Fallon, who isn’t as cruel as his competitors, mocked the moment.

Hollywood collectively warned us about Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He would be cruel, they cried, unlike any prior president.

And, yes, President Trump has thrown some pretty sharp elbows over nearly six years in office. Hollywood, sadly, has proven to be far worse, echoing a societal race to the bottom.

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