A Massachusetts teenager used ChatGPT for “ideas” and “fantasies” about “killing his family” — and now the 17-year-old is charged with murdering his mother and brother, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said.

Arjun Aravind of Acton has been charged with two counts of murder, two counts of assault and battery on a household or family member, two counts of assault and battery, use of a vehicle without authority, and theft of a motor vehicle in connection with the deaths of his 14-year-old brother, Siddharth Aravind, and his 45-year-old mother, Sudha Venkatesan, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Acton Police Chief Douglas Sturniolo.

‘At this time, based on the evidence that was found at the scene, it was apparent that blunt force trauma was used in some fashion on both individuals.’

Acton Police received a call shortly after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday from the suspect’s father, who had been unable to reach his family members and said a tutor who was expected at the family home on Martha Lane was unable to make contact with the residents upon arrival, officials said.

The father last had contact with his wife early Tuesday morning before he left for work, officials said, and his son, Siddharth, was last seen around noon.

Upon entering the home, police found two victims dead, officials said, adding that Siddharth was found on the first floor, and Sudha was found in the finished basement.

Police determined that Arjun was not in the home and that he allegedly fled using his mother’s vehicle, a 2014 Green Honda Accord, officials said.

Investigators attempted to locate Arjun but were not immediately successful and notified law enforcement and members of the public to be on the lookout., officials said.

Early Wednesday morning, police in Wayland found the suspect vehicle with Arjun inside, officials said. Wayland is about 20 minutes south of Acton.

Police took Arjun into custody without incident, officials said.

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“The subsequent investigation indicates that Arjun had recently been demonstrating concerning behavior including using the internet and ChatGPT to make searches including for theoretical ideas or fantasies regarding killing his family,” the district attorney’s office added.

The suspect also asked ChatGPT to help create “Gothic novel-kind of stories” and characters, DA Marian Ryan told Boston.com.

Officials said it is alleged that Arjun fatally assaulted his mother and brother inside their home Tuesday before fleeing the scene.

Both victims were “suffering from obvious trauma” but “the exact cause and manner is still pending from the chief medical examiner,” officials said, adding that “what weapon or weapons were used is still actively under investigation.”

Arjun Aravind was wearing handcuffs Thursday morning at his arraignment in Concord District Court when a not-guilty plea to murder and other charges was entered on his behalf, WBZ-TV reported, adding that he is being held without bail.

The station, citing court documents, said Aravind’s father recently became worried about his son’s behavior and internet activity and had started hiding the knives in the house.

“At this time, based on the evidence that was found at the scene, it was apparent that blunt force trauma was used in some fashion on both individuals,” Prosecutor Susan Wiseman said Thursday, according to WBZ, adding that it was a “physical and violent struggle.”

The station reported that Wiseman also indicated that when police found Arjun at 3:40 a.m. in his mother’s car, “a number of items were found in that car that correspond to the murder scene.”

WBZ added that after the arraignment, Arjun’s defense attorney Debra DeWitt told reporters that when her client “left the house he did not realize they were dead, so he is, in my words, in somewhat of a shock situation.”

“The father just wants help for his son,” DeWitt said, according to the station, adding that Arjun has not spoken with his father since the murders.

The suspect is due back in court for a probable cause hearing on Sept. 11, WBZ reported.

Editor’s note: This article has been corrected after publication to note that Wayland is 20 minutes, not 20 miles, south of Acton.

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Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, a lesbian who claims to be Catholic, signed legislation this week liberalizing abortion while surrounded by progressive women celebrating the right to murder their healthy babies up till birth. To conservatives who rightly regard late-term abortion as the killing of a viable child, the scene was grotesque.

It also illustrated a political asymmetry conservatives rarely discuss.

A civilization where men and women are constantly at odds with each other is doomed.

Endless ink has been spilled and countless podcasts recorded about the radicalization of young men on the right. Almost nobody in conservative media wants to address the equally serious radicalization of young women toward the progressive left.

There has been plenty of controversy in conservative circles about young men embracing nihilistic or extremist politics online. Rod Dreher, among others, has warned about young conservative men drifting toward figures such as Nick Fuentes and adopting a politics of resentment and despair.

That’s fine as far as it goes, but it does not answer the larger question. Even if Dreher is right about one cohort of men, it does not follow that young men are uniquely radicalized, or even that they represent the larger political problem. Conservatives should be capable of noticing more than one trend at a time. And the trend among women is impossible to ignore.

Kamala Harris received 53% of the female vote in 2024, while Joe Biden received 54% in 2020. Women are substantially more supportive than men of legal abortion. They are also more likely to regard changing one’s gender as morally acceptable and more likely to say society has not done enough to accommodate transgender people.

The same divide appears on immigration. Women are more likely to support amnesty, oppose ICE deportations, and favor extending legal protections to illegal immigrants.

The divide extends beyond electoral politics. Young women are less likely than young men to say they want children and less likely to prioritize family over professional goals. They are also less likely to express a positive view of capitalism.

None of this means women are a political monolith. Marriage changes voting behavior dramatically. Married women are far more likely to vote Republican and hold traditional views on family and gender.

Race also plays a part.

Ripping on liberal white women is practically a conservative pastime, partly because “white” makes them culturally safe targets. But the voting data complicate the caricature. A majority of white women voted for Trump in 2024, while much smaller shares of Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, and black women did so.

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White women are hardly a uniformly conservative bloc. But they are not the most progressive female constituency either.

Despite the mountain of evidence that females are far more left wing, there will be no books about the dangerous trend of radicalization among young women. There will be plenty of cable-news segments about how social media is poisoning young men. There will be endless concern about podcasts, gaming culture, online masculinity, and the political temptations facing disaffected boys.

Much less energy will be spent asking what TikTok, universities, activist institutions, and elite media have done to the minds of young women.

The reason is simple: Young men are a safe target.

Anyone can denounce them with little institutional risk. A broad criticism of female political behavior, by contrast, can quickly become a career problem. That taboo exists on the right almost as surely as it does on a college campus.

It must be said that this is not an exercise in blanket condemnation of women. The conservative movement is filled with passionate, caring, godly mothers, wives, daughters, and single women who genuinely support the fight for the future of the United States.

A civilization where men and women are constantly at odds with each other is doomed. Breaking men and women out of loving families and turning them into political blocs to be catered to is disastrous for the health of the nation.

South Korea provides a warning about where gender war can lead. Its political divide between young men and women has grown exceptionally wide, with the sexes increasingly supporting very different parties and organizing around competing political identities.

South Korea also has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. That does not prove the political gender divide caused the fertility collapse; housing costs, work culture, marriage patterns, and other factors have played a role. But a society in which men and women increasingly regard one another as political adversaries will have a harder time persuading them to marry, form families, and raise children together.

North Korea, despite being totalitarian and impoverished, has a higher fertility rate than the South. No sane person would therefore prefer living under a communist mad man. The comparison simply shows that prosperity alone cannot guarantee family formation. A wealthy society can still undermine itself if men and women cease to see one another as partners in a common project.

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The basic building block of society is not the individual but the family. In a democracy, when you separate men and women into different constituencies, you fundamentally undermine family formation and create a dangerous antagonism between the sexes.

This is not a call for further politicization. It is a call to recognize the dynamics already playing out in the conservative sphere.

Young men are easy targets, and they should be corrected when they embrace nihilism or extremism. But young women have also shifted sharply left with virtually no comparable attention from the conservative commentariat.

The asymmetry is especially strange because conservatives insist that adults are moral agents responsible for their choices. That principle cannot suddenly disappear when the subject is young women. If progressive politics encourages destructive beliefs about abortion, sex, marriage, family, borders, or economics, conservatives should be willing to say so plainly rather than treating female voters as a protected class.

If conservatives want to be honest about the cultural problems facing the country, they cannot provide moral correction and guidance only to their sons. Their daughters need it too.

We must end the gender wars and encourage unity and family formation in the United States. But doing that will require conservatives to tell some women a phrase they very rarely hear: No.

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The original trio of “Matrix” movies are considered some of the greatest of all time, but one of the creators is having trouble with Hollywood accepting his latest idea.

Andy Wachowski, who now goes by Lilly Wachowski, explained that he has been shopping around what he considers to be a great script, but Tinseltown isn’t biting.

‘It’s not the thing that I had imagined it was going to be.’

Gender bender

Wachowski and his brother Larry — who is also transgender and now goes by Lana — were once revered by movie fans for their intense and philosophical plots. Over the years, however, Wachowski has become intrenched in progressive dogma, and the fourth “Matrix” movie that came 18 years after the last barely moved the needle.

During a recent podcast interview, Wachowski revealed that his latest project, “The Hunted,” is having trouble getting off the ground in terms of financing, despite having a very modest projected budget of $10 million.

“People like it, but they really don’t want to make it,” Wachowski told KCRW’s “The Business,” per Variety.

The director then revealed what the obvious reason was: “because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast.”

Wachowski has remained so confident in his script that he hosted a live reading last week to showcase its worthiness. Described by Deadline as a biting political thriller similar to his “V for Vendetta,” “The Hunted” is set in a dystopian America where “trans people are brutalized and erased to the margins of society.”

Deadline further wrote that it focuses on two “trans women” who search for the perpetrator of a heinous crime who ends up being in the highest offices of government.

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L-R: Andy ‘Lilly’ Wachowski and Larry ‘Lana’ Wachowski, 2013. JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images

Rage dump

Wachowski has tapped gay activist/actress Natasha Lyonne as producer and explained that the reading is part of the process of getting more eyeballs on the project.

“I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people,” he continued. “This is a script that was extremely important for me to write.”

Wachowski then described the project as a “response to what is happening in the world for trans people,” revealing it has been a “hugely cathartic receptacle to dump all of my anger and rage and frustration into.”

The project, co-written with his romantic partner, Mickey Ray Mahoney, is likely what Wachowski was referring to when he said his “trans rage” has been fueling his work.

This was coupled with a mantra of: “I’m just going to go out and I’m going to grab that trans joy with all of my friends,” Wachowski said.

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L-R: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, 1999. Bob Riha Jr./WireImage/Getty Images

Margin call

Adding to his thought process, Wachowski remarked, “It’s not the thing that I had imagined it was going to be, but the end result is the same.”

The recent podcast also included discussion of the filmmaker’s juggling of productions during a gender transition and his nonprofit studio called Anarchists United, which is designed to “showcase marginalized talent.”

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In a recent interview on ABC, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was asked about the positions democratic socialists like herself took years ago — and BlazeTV host John Doyle didn’t love her answer.

“Woke 1 was crazy,” she laughed.

AOC went on to point out that while the policy discussions around the beginning of the pandemic were “fruitful,” the “rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”

“Of course, the rhetoric meaning the messaging, the communication style,” Doyle says, “not the policies, not the intentions, just the rhetoric, because they understand that maybe it was a little off-putting to normal Americans and so they want to scale that back.”

“And people, because they’re illiterate, hear that and think that means, ‘Oh, we’re going to stop calling for this kind of stuff,’” he says, pointing out that this was “staged” as AOC has her eye on a much larger office.

“Ocasio-Cortez is widely viewed to be a possible contender in the 2028 presidential primaries for the Democrats. You’ve had DSA-aligned candidates winning primaries left and right,” he explains.

“So the leading face of this progressive left coalition, AOC, is now going to choose to treat peak woke as a kind of closed chapter,” he adds.

But Woke 2 is well underway.

“It’s just going to speak a little bit more softly, but the big stick is very much still present. So what we’re trying to do now is not alienate the public. We’re not trying to shock the public into submission. We’re going to win power first and then implement the same priorities, but we’re going to just put a nice packaging on it,” Doyle says.

“So you know, AOC laughing at ‘Woke 1’ is essentially a PR strategy,” he continues, explaining that this rejection of ‘Woke 1’ is an attempt to give “permission to keep voting for the insanity.”

That insanity still includes defunding the police, feminism, diversity, equity, and inclusion, the mutilation of children, and gender identity madness.

“It’s trying to be less obvious, less obnoxious, but still it is going to advance the same long-term project it has been advancing since the 1960s,” he adds.

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Just weeks after Democrats swapped Graham Platner for Troy Jackson as their U.S. Senate nominee in Maine, a newly unearthed 1988 police report has raised questions about violence in Jackson’s past.

Obtained exclusively by Bangor Daily News in collaboration with the Maine Monitor, the report states that Jackson was involved in an assault at a home in Fort Kent, Maine, in the early morning of March 12, 1988.

‘I have never been violent with my partner Lana, or any other woman.’

Lana Pelletier, Jackson’s girlfriend of roughly 40 years, told the responding officer at the time that Jackson “pushed her around” and that she planned to seek “cease harassment papers,” the report said, according to BDN. If such papers were ever filed, there is no record of them.

The report refers to Pelletier as Jackson’s ex-girlfriend, BDN reported.

Jackson also kicked the door in after being asked to leave, then grabbed a man’s throat and punched him, the report said, according to BDN. The blow allegedly broke the man’s glasses and cut his face.

Jackson paid a $50 fine to resolve a subsequent misdemeanor charge and does not dispute the fight with the man.

Jackson and Pelletier both deny that he was violent toward her.

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“Nearly forty years ago, when I was 19 years old, I got into a fight with another man. I took responsibility for it then, and I take responsibility for it now,” Jackson said in a statement. “But let me be clear: I have never been violent with my partner Lana, or any other woman. This happened nearly four decades ago, and I assure Mainers this incident in no way reflects the man I am today or the life I’ve led in the years since.”

“I do not remember making the statements attributed to me and they are not accurate. This is the first time I have seen this report from 40 years ago,” Pelletier said in a statement. “Troy and I have built a life and family together and I know the person he has been through the decades since, both as a caring partner and father.”

Jackson and Pelletier, who are apparently second cousins, according to the Maine Wire, have two sons together but do not appear to be legally married.

“I understand Maine voters want to learn about Troy as he seeks to represent them, but personal attacks on my family are unacceptable,” Pelletier said. “In the 40 years since he made a mistake as a 19-year-old kid, Troy has grown to be a passionate advocate for Mainers and dedicated his life to making things better for our state while Susan Collins has been in Washington enriching herself at our expense.”

Jackson secured the Democratic nomination in late July after a rapid process to replace Platner, whose campaign collapsed following a litany of scandals that included allegations of violence and ended with a former girlfriend accusing him of sexually assaulting her in 2021. Platner denied the allegation.

Democrats harshly condemned Platner following the allegations.

“The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing — violence, abuse, and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable,” Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said regarding Platner in a July press release.

“The assault allegations against Graham Platner are disqualifying and he should be replaced as the nominee,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in an X post at the time.

“As Democrats, we have an obligation to run candidates whose moral character matches the values we stand for. Maine deserves a nominee who can defeat Susan Collins and serve with honor and dignity … [we are] redirecting resources away from the Maine Senate race in light of the latest allegations,” Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC spokesperson Lauren French said in a July X post.

The Maine Democratic Party did not respond to a request for comment.

Jackson and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will clash head-to-head at the ballot box in November.

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