A new House bill will grant amnesty to illegal aliens — if they’ve picked enough fruit.

H.R. 9535, the “Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act,” was introduced at the end of last month by Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture. It has roughly 50 bipartisan co-sponsors and does two things under one name.

‘The sad fact is that American citizens just don’t want to do this type of work.’

On paper, the bill rewrites existing qualifications for the H-2A program, the legal channel for foreign farm workers. These changes include opening the program to year-round operations and streamlining the application process within the bureaucracy.

The proposal also drops the “seasonal” requirement, replacing it with an apparently indefinite number of contracts under 350 days. Thompson calls the 350-day cap a worker perk, a built-in “two-week vacation.”

But buried in the same bill is a waiver that seems to effectively grant amnesty to immigrants illegally present in the U.S. as of May 31, 2026, who can show they worked farm labor 5.75 hours a day, 180 days a year, for two years.

In a mid-July AgriTalk interview, Thompson said, “This is not a pathway to citizenship. This is really a solution to address a tremendous problem in terms of illegal workers that are here in our country.” His fix: They “stay in agriculture” and “after three years,” go home and reapply for H-2A status.

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“The sad fact is that American citizens just don’t want to do this type of work. It pays well, but it’s hard work,” Thompson said.

His evidence: In 2025, producers advertised roughly 400,000 positions and drew 182 domestic applicants, drawing from an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis of H-2A data from the Department of Labor.

Proof of eligibility is an employer-written letter, on request. No pay stubs, tax records, or independent verification are specified in the bill. The record also can’t be used to prosecute the employer for the underlying unauthorized hiring, and the employer is shielded from liability for producing it unless it’s later proven fraudulent, with no audit process specified.

The same self-attestation model powered the 1986 “Special Agricultural Worker” amnesty, which required just 90 days of farm work. An estimated 400,000 workers were eligible; it drew nearly 1.3 million applications, with 750,000 of the 1.1 million eventually legalized workers likely never having done the qualifying work.

New York Times reporter Roberto Suro called it “one of the most extensive immigration frauds ever perpetrated against the United States Government” in a 1989 investigation.

Once someone qualifies under the proposed H-2A reforms, employers would be required to provide Department of Labor-inspected housing with wage deductions capped by a HUD-linked formula. The only built-in oversight would review housing, but not fraud.

The bill now sits in the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will decide its fate.

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Surveillance video captures the moment a man apparently sparked a large fire in front of a federal building in New York City on Monday.

The man attempted to flee on foot but was captured and arrested, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The department described him as a protester opposed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Photographs from the location also showed a cart with a sign reading, ‘ICE OFF OUR STREETS.’

A federal employee and a civilian were injured during the fracas, but the injuries were described as minor.

“This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza in New York. The individual is in custody,” wrote FBI Director Kash Patel on social media Monday. “FBI [Joint Terrorism Task Force] is investigating the incident.”

The man set off fireworks, spilled what appeared to be gasoline in front of the building, and lit it on fire, according to the DHS.

“An FPS Protective Security Officer swiftly tackled and detained the agitator, sustaining minor injuries during the incident,” said the DHS statement. “Officers quickly recovered the individual’s bag, which contained what appeared to be two pellet guns and a manifesto. EMS, FBI, and the NYPD are on the scene.”

Two law enforcement sources told Fox News that the suspect was identified as Andrew Arrabaca and that he possessed “anti-ICE stuff” during the attack.

Video of the smoke billowing up from the federal building and the police response was widely circulated on social media.

Getty photographs from the location also showed a cart with a sign reading, “ICE OFF OUR STREETS.”

RELATED: Democratic mayor installs ‘anti-ICE’ signs all over L.A. — Trump admin issues MOCKING response

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) released a statement condemning the attack.

“What occurred outside 26 Federal Plaza this morning was deeply disturbing,” he said on social media. “I’m relieved no one was seriously injured and that a suspect is in custody. My team is in touch with the NYPD, and we will support the federal investigation. Our administration will continue to ensure that every New Yorker is safe in their city — and hold accountable any who threaten that.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) also issued a statement.

“Acts of terror and violence have no place in our city and will never be tolerated. The individual responsible for this must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Jeffries said in part.

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One candidate has emerged as the apparent victor in Maine’s scramble to replace former Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner — but unfortunately, his politics don’t appear to be any less radical than those of his predecessor.

Platner officially withdrew from the contentious Senate race on July 10 after a former girlfriend accused the self-described oyster farmer of sexual assault, causing his financial and political backing to quickly dissipate.

‘It’s become very clear to me that abortion is health care, and I believe in health care for everyone.’

Maine counties held nomination meetings over the weekend to select delegates for the Democratic Party’s upcoming convention, where former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson pulled through as the frontrunner to replace Platner, winning more than three-quarters of the total delegates’ votes.

Jackson, who spent two decades in the state legislature, has cultivated a reputation as a staunch progressive in Maine politics. His Senate campaign website highlights policies including Medicare for all, tax increases on billionaires, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, codifying a federal right to abortion, and cutting U.S. funding for Israel’s “genocide” — positions that closely resemble the platform on which Platner won the primary.

Despite voting against a 2009 bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Jackson has since changed his views on the issue, calling his vote “something I regretted from the start.” In 2024, Jackson’s voting record received a 100% from Equality Maine, a gay rights advocacy group.

Jackson also opposed abortion rights earlier in his career, earning a perfect score from the Maine Right to Life Committee in 2010. Yet by 2023, he had co-sponsored a bill allowing late-term abortions under certain circumstances.

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Troy Jackson stands with supporters during a July 14 demonstration outside a federal immigration office in Scarborough, Maine, following the fatal shooting of a man by ICE agents. Ryan Murphy/Getty Images

“It’s become very clear to me that abortion is health care, and I believe in health care for everyone,” Jackson told the New York Times.

Jackson’s background, including his experience as a logger and purportedly as a union organizer, has also made him appealing to the progressive left.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) threw his support behind Jackson even before Platner officially dropped out.

“[Troy Jackson] is someone who has spent his life standing up for these progressive values,” Khanna wrote. “The movement is about standing for Medicare for All, opposing foreign wars, and getting money out of politics.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) organization, Our Revolution, followed suit, praising Jackson’s “commitment to workers, lower prices, and affordable housing,” which “best reflects the platform that won the primary.”

Earlier this year, Jackson unsuccessfully ran for governor of Maine, finishing third in the Democratic primary’s ranked-choice voting. Despite his defeat, he managed to secure the endorsement of the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization behind a plethora of other far-left candidates around the country — many of whom have been successful in their bids for elected office.

“Maine DSA proudly endorses Troy Jackson for governor!” the organization posted, adding, “The Maine working class will wield its collective power, and Maine DSA will have a seat at the table.”

Jackson also frequently appeared alongside Platner on the campaign trail during their respective primary campaigns. The two shared a stage at a “Fighting Oligarchy” event with Sanders over Memorial Day weekend, signaling the close political alignment between the candidates even before Jackson emerged as Platner’s likely successor.

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Troy Jackson, Bernie Sanders, and Graham Platner during a Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, Maine, on May 25.. Sophie Park/Bloomberg/Getty Images

In the aftermath of the sexual assault allegation, Jackson called on Platner to drop out of the race, doubting his ability to defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

“He’s just not going to win, and he’s going to leave us with another six years of income tax cuts for billionaires and no health insurance,” Jackson said.

Jackson’s nomination is expected to be finalized at the July 25 convention, where he will face Collins in a race that could help determine control of the Senate.

“In November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it,” Jackson wrote in a post on Sunday evening.

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There’s no doubt that Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” took one of the foundational works of Western civilization and transformed it — but BlazeTV host John Doyle believes it was for the worse.

“Feeling very vindicated dude,” Doyle says, adding that he’s “never been a Chris Nolan fan.”

“Honestly, part of me almost wants to cope and say that Christopher Nolan is actually our guy. He’s going behind enemy lines. He’s a secret patriot. He’s actively trying to ruin any possibility of further adaptations with this kind of stuff,” he says.

But unfortunately, Doyle doesn’t think that’s possible, as it’s “one of the most in-your-face, on-the-nose subversions that has ever been made by Hollywood.”

The most obvious, Doyle says, is that they cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and Ellen Page, who now goes by “Elliot,” as a soldier.

“He made ancient Greece into this kind of rainbow nation,” he says, “where you’ve got white Greeks, black Greeks, Asian Greeks, you know, even Greeks on Homer-ian H-1B visas from the Greek city state of Kolkata looking you, the audience member, directly in the eye and saying we are Greeks from Ithaca, right?”

“It basically means nothing. It’s literally just driven by visual spectacle for third-world masses with practically every actual integral plot point being completely obliterated,” he continues.

“And in so far as there even is a message, they removed all male sexuality from it. They feminized it. Gave it a once over with therapy-speak SSRI nonsense. And yeah, they made it about overcoming trauma and about how war is freaking bad,” he adds.

Doyle calls it the “complete inversion” and “antithesis” to the original “Odyssey.”

“It was supposed to be, you know, an epic poem meant to be spoken before a crowd using their imagination to paint the story for them, right? Paint the picture in their mind carried by the weight of the verses given and what it was imparted in meaning,” he explains.

“The adaptation, like modern garbage that tries to be carried entirely by the visual spectacle. It erases every thematic point in and every moral of the original. It just inserts the most boilerplate libtardism imaginable. War bad, therapy good, men bad, women good, ancient morality bad, progressivism good, freaking trauma,” he says, adding, “It’s really, it’s not even worth the watch.”

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For years, John Fetterman was viewed by many conservatives, including Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, as a “Marxist” whose politics were too far left to be taken seriously.

But as the Democratic Party grows increasingly negative toward our ally Israel, the Pennsylvania senator is shockingly emerging as one of its most outspoken dissenters — warning that he would leave the party if its anti-Israel stance became official.

Glenn is shocked, calling Fetterman “one of the most honest people in the Senate.”

“I can’t believe I’m saying that,” he says, adding that he “may be the best Democrat out there now.”

“I think he’s one of the most interesting men in America,” he continues. “Yesterday, he warned the Democratic Party that he will leave the party officially if it turns its back on Israel. And that comes because yesterday 100 House Democrats voted against sending more aid to Israel.”

“He said, ‘If our party ever becomes — and just makes it official — the anti-Israel party, that’s when I would have to leave because,’ listen to this, ‘that has become moral clarity for me,’” he adds.

Fetterman also said his “long-term concern” with the Democratic Party has been wondering if it is going “to back away and turn their back on Israel.”

“You look at the kinds of individuals that are winning our recent primaries. It’s becoming more anti-Israel and hostile to pro-Israel people,” he quotes.

“This is John Fetterman,” Glenn says, shocked. “Do you remember what we all said about John Fetterman when he was being elected?”

“And I don’t mean about, you know, the brain damage. I mean about, I had always heard he was a Marxist,” he adds.

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A former top aide to Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and convicted scammer was arrested after allegedly refusing to submit for a chemical test for driving under the influence.

Abdi Nur Salah pleaded guilty in Jan. 2025 to stealing funds from a government program intended to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic.

The officer said he smelled a burnt chemical odor and found white powdery residue and straws in the vehicle.

Salah had also worked as a senior policy aide to Mayor Frey.

Records at the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office indicate Salah was arrested on July 11 on suspicion of DWI as well as refusing the test. He was received into custody around 7:35 a.m.

Salah was released Tuesday on a $6,000 bond, jail records show.

As part of his previous plea related to the massive Feeding Our Future scam, Salah agreed to forfeit $343,418.98 from his credit union account, as well as two real estate properties.

Prosecutors accused Salah of using his political influence to “lobby politicians to pressure the Minnesota Department of Education not to shut down Feeding our Future and sites under its sponsorship so that he and other co-conspirators could continue to carry out their fraudulent scheme.”

Frey fired Salah after the allegations were made public. Frey’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

RELATED: Top scammer of ‘Feeding Our Future’ fraud in Minnesota NAILED with painful sentence

Dozens of people have been convicted in the massive fraud scheme in Minnesota, many of which came from the Somali community.

Republicans have also accused Minnesota Democratic politicians of obstructing efforts to investigate and end the fraud. The allegations led to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) abandoning his re-election campaign. He has denied the allegations.

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Apple and Google were on the receiving end of multiple letters telling them to stop allowing abusive apps to be available on their platforms.

The City of San Francisco said it had been contacting the tech giants for almost a year to get them to stop, but they have continued to provide access to the apps while raking in profits.

‘Apple and Google have a responsibility to be proactive and vigilant to prevent sexual abuse.’

San Francisco accused both companies of “processing payments for illegal purchases” that allow users to digitally alter pictures using AI to unclothe whomever is in the photograph.

Commonly referred to as “nudify” apps, the city reportedly ordered dozens of the programs to be removed, as Apple and Google have continued to make money off them.

“Apple and Google are profiting off apps that exploit women and girls by generating nonconsensual intimate deepfakes,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu told TechCrunch. “While the companies cut ties with some problematic apps, Apple and Google have a responsibility to be proactive and vigilant to prevent sexual abuse.”

Dozens of states have codified protections after Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sponsored the TAKE IT DOWN Act in early 2025, which passed with a vote of 409-2 in the House and unanimously in the Senate.

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The law made it a federal crime to knowingly publish, or threaten to publish, nonconsensual intimate imagery using a computer service, no matter if it is real or fake. Penalties include up to two years in prison for adult victims and three years if the victim is a minor.

According to Stack Cybersecurity, 30 states have enacted these protections, while 46 states have their own laws targeting AI-generated media.

An Apple spokesman told TechCrunch that such apps were forbidden from the App Store and that the company has immediately removed three of those suggested by San Francisco.

“[We] are in the process of terminating their developer accounts from our program. We are in contact with four others that need to address policy violations or risk being removed as well,” the spokesman said.

RELATED: Smartphone and laptop prices are rising. Here’s why they won’t stop.

At the same time, Google said that all five apps referenced by the California city were suspended from Google Play.

“When violations are reported to us, we investigate and take swift action, which in the case of these apps has included suspending hundreds of violating apps and restricting related search terms like ‘nudify’ on our store.”

Meta began cracking down on such imagery in 2025, when deepfake “nudify” ads started popping up on its social media platform.

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A little-known Florida congressional candidate has posted a bizarre campaign video that went from firing off basic political talking points into something far darker — that Donald Trump is the “Antichrist” and “must be killed.”

In the campaign video, retired Marine William Upham explained that he decided to run for office to fix the “broken political system, to restore bipartisanship, return power to the working class, and to end our system of Washington insiders, extremism, and excuses from our current members of Congress.”

“I’ve reached a turning point in my campaign. Why? I’ve come to the realization that our country is broken. We are led by a president who’s the enemy of God. And President Trump will never bring us together like God intended,” he said.

Upham went on to explain that the video was a “message to all of God’s children” in America.

“We must defend ourselves against all enemies. We are at war with evil. This is a war between God and the Antichrist. There is no doubt in my mind that the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump is the Antichrist,” he said, adding, “He is a false messiah, and he is your enemy, and he must be killed.”

Upham went on to explain that the reason he believes Trump is the Antichrist is because “President Trump posted an AI-generated image of him in the likeness of Jesus Christ” and that he “also criticized the pope.”

“If you’ve criticized the pope, I guess you’re an Antichrist,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments, shocked.

“So there are tens of millions of Antichrists running around this planet because a lot of people have criticized the pope,” he adds.

The Marine was promptly visited by the Secret Service and arrested for his threat.

“He didn’t necessarily say he would kill, but he said he must be killed, which is bad enough,” Gray comments, adding, “You can’t do it.”

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