President Donald Trump showered the United States men’s hockey team with praise Sunday for its historic victory at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

The men’s hockey team took home the gold for the first time in 46 years after Jack Hughes scored the winning goal over Canada in overtime. It was the first American gold-medal effort in men’s Olympic hockey since the “Miracle on Ice” squad improbably won it all in 1980. Trump himself hosted that iconic team at the White House in December.

‘I’m so proud to be American.’

“Congratulations to our great U.S.A. Ice Hockey team,” Trump said in a Truth Social Post. “THEY WON THE GOLD. WOW!”

“LOTS OF WINNING!!!” Trump added.

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A teary-eyed Hughes patriotically praised the United States moments after the historic win, saying how proud he is to be an American.

“This is all about our country right now,” Hughes said. “I love the U.S.A. I love my teammates. It’s unbelievable.”

He added that “the U.S.A. hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we had so much support from ex-players. I’m so proud to be American today.”

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“Unreal game by our team,” Hughes also noted. “Just a ballsy, gutsy win. That’s American hockey right there. That’s a great Canadian team, but we’re U.S.A. We’re so proud to be Americans. Tonight was all for the country.”

Hughes’ brother Quinn scored an overtime goal to beat Sweden 2-1 Wednesday, which advanced the U.S. men’s hockey team to the semifinals. Quinn Hughes remarked after the contest, “I love the U.S., and it’s the greatest country in the world. So [I’m] happy to represent it here with these guys.”

Adding to the theatrics, the U.S. women’s hockey team also won Olympic gold, also beating Canada in the finals — and also in overtime — by a 2-1 score Thursday.

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President Trump will deliver the first State of the Union of his second term on Tuesday, an address that lands near the 250th anniversary of a nation built on freedom and enterprise. He will likely highlight ending foreign conflicts, restoring border security, reasserting American strength, and advancing his legislative agenda. He will point to economic gains — growth returning, inflation easing, energy prices falling, tax relief delivered, and markets responding. He will argue that the Trump economy is putting Americans back in charge of their own prosperity.

But one success story may not make the headlines: Under pro-investment, pro-competition policies, America’s wireless market has delivered lower prices, better service, and more choice — without mandates, price controls, or government-run networks.

Wireless shows free markets still work when Washington lets them.

Since Trump took office, wireless prices are down 4%. The White House even lists it as Win No. 132 in “365 Wins in 365 Days.” Backed by Bureau of Labor Statistics data, wireless plans and smartphones cost less in real dollars today than they did decades ago — while delivering hundreds of times faster speeds and vastly more data.

Twenty years ago, wireless networks mostly carried voice calls. Today they power work, school, health care, navigation, banking, entertainment, and small business. A wireless subscription also takes a declining share of the household budget.

That didn’t happen by accident. Competition, private investment, and smart policy drove it.

Better service, more choice, lower cost

Plans now deliver more data, faster speeds, and wider coverage than most people imagined 20 years ago. What once required a wired connection at home now works almost anywhere.

Fixed wireless access has helped drive that shift — home internet delivered over wireless networks. Nearly 15 million households now use wireless service instead of a fixed line, giving families a new, often cheaper alternative.

Americans also benefit from real choice. Most people are covered by three or more national wireless networks, each offering multiple brands, including lower-cost and prepaid options for families, seniors, students, and budget-conscious users. Dozens of smaller carriers and resellers add even more price competition. Companies need to earn customers’ business.

Wireless saves families real money

Wireless doesn’t just connect people — it cuts costs.

Parents save time and fuel by working remotely. Seniors can use telehealth instead of driving long distances. Students can learn from anywhere. Small businesses can reach customers without expensive storefronts or phone systems.

No other essential service — housing, health care, food, or energy — has improved this much while becoming more affordable. Wireless quietly delivers more value every year.

America leads because America invests

None of this works without investment. U.S. wireless companies invest about $30 billion a year to build and upgrade networks. Per person, that’s nearly double what Europe invests.

As a result, the United States leads the world in wireless performance, coverage, and innovation. That leadership didn’t come from government-run networks or price controls. It came from letting companies compete, invest, and take risks.

President Trump’s first-term spectrum auction raised a record $90 billion and helped fuel today’s 5G networks. Now FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is moving quickly toward another auction to free up more airwaves — the raw material wireless networks need to grow.

The spectrum bottleneck is real

Wireless runs on spectrum, and America is running tight.

Large blocks of valuable spectrum remain locked up by federal agencies, even when lightly used. Other countries — China, South Korea, and Japan — have moved faster to free spectrum for commercial use.

More spectrum means better service, more competition, and lower costs. Without it, growth slows and prices rise. That makes unlocking spectrum a national priority.

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The hidden fee on your phone bill

Another problem stays mostly invisible to consumers.

The Universal Service Fund is meant to support rural connectivity and essential communications. But instead of being funded broadly, it gets tacked onto phone bills, often as a separate line item. Seniors and working families pay about $9 a month without ever voting on it.

Meanwhile, the biggest users of America’s networks — massive internet platforms — pay little or nothing into the system. They generate enormous traffic, earn billions, and rely on wireless infrastructure built by others.

President Trump has argued that Big Tech should pay its own way when it comes to energy-hungry AI data centers. The same principle should apply here. If you benefit from the network, you should help pay for it.

The bottom line

Wireless shows free markets still work when Washington lets them. Competition pushed prices down. Private investment built world-leading networks. Smart spectrum policy unlocked innovation.

Now policymakers face a choice: Protect what’s working, or burden it with bureaucracy and political favoritism. Free up more spectrum. Preserve real competition. End Big Tech’s free ride on infrastructure funded by American consumers.

If President Trump wants a model of American strength and market-driven success in his State of the Union, he doesn’t have to look far. It’s already in the hands of nearly every American holding a cell phone.

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After 35 years, it appears that Disney Gay Days — the annual LGBTQ+ event where participants, their families, friends, and allies visit the Walt Disney World parks and wear red shirts for visibility — are on their last legs.

The group that organizes the event recently announced that shifting hotel agreements and the loss of key sponsors forced it to cancel the 2026 celebration. Although organizers are encouraging gay fans to visit the parks on the usual dates and wear themed attire, the coordinated celebration appears to be on its way to history’s ash heap.

Some people, particularly in Christian outlets, are claiming that boycotts are behind the sponsorship losses that led to the 2026 pause of the organized Gay Days events at Disney, but BlazeTV Auron MacIntyre disagrees.

“Evangelical Christians tried to cancel Gay Days with an on-again-off-again boycott for decades. What finally wounded the LGBTQ leviathan wasn’t conservative activism. It was cultural apathy,” he says.

“I remember the first wave of evangelical pushback as Disney began signaling support for homosexual lifestyles in the 1990s,” says Auron.

But it was a “strangely inconsistent boycott,” he says.

“One year, the Southern Baptist Convention urged members to avoid Disney. The next year, churches were showing up to the Night of Joy, Disney’s Christian music festival.”

As a result of this “sloppy, intermittent resistance,” Disney “leaned in harder” to its pro-homosexuality agenda, moving “from park celebrations and employee benefits” to “progressive messaging” in its cinematography.

“’The Little Mermaid’ became black, gay couples were kissing in ‘Star Wars,’ and diverse girlbosses dominated Marvel. As acceptance of gay marriage shifted from taboo to required corporate orthodoxy, Disney replaced entertainment with propaganda,” says Auron.

Thus the fading of Gay Days had nothing to do with either Christian resistance or a rolling back of support from Disney.

Auron says that “apathy” is why Gay Days “suddenly [fell] apart.”

“Apathy doesn’t mean that Americans suddenly disapproved of Disney’s agenda sadly. It just means that normal people stopped granting it the honor of a fight,” he explains.

“Many families quit watching new releases, not as part of a coordinated boycott, but because the product became preachy, weird, and dull. Others kept their subscriptions but tuned out of the messaging and rolled their eyes. Either way, the ritualized drama lost its electricity.”

“Corporate sponsors,” says Auron, “follow attention, and attention follows the next outrage.”

“A movement built on being shocking can’t survive once it becomes background noise.”

So what’s the lesson here?

Citing Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” Auron says, rulers must “leave opponents alone or crush them entirely. A complacent enemy might grumble, but they avoid taking risks; a crushed enemy can’t retaliate. The most dangerous enemy is one that has suffered a minor bloodying. He gains the motivation to fight and keeps the means to harm.”

“Conservatives gave the LGBTQ movement exactly that minor bloodying — outrage finger-wagging, but never any real consequences,” he explains.

The “LGBTQ leviathan” responsible for Disney Gay Days, he argues, “didn’t lose because the right defeated it; it lost because it exhausted its own cultural energy.”

“The lesson here is pretty simple,” says Auron. “If the right fights, it must pick battles carefully and commit fully to winning them. … If you fight, you must crush the enemy’s capacity to operate; otherwise, you invigorate his cause while draining your own. Clumsy half measures feed your foe, and you end up hoping he defeats himself.”

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Researchers of all stripes continue to pore through the third tranche of DOJ Epstein files. While fact and fiction will continue to be sorted out, so far we’ve got wholesale sex trafficking, political blackmail, global market manipulation, rape, child rape, treason, and espionage suspicions hitting the public-opinion dial somewhere between certain and strongly presumed.

All that’s left in much doubt for the public seems to involve questions of murder, cannibalism, and genuine devil worship. Incredible times in which we live.

As would be unsurprising for someone at or near the nerve center of the biggest and most villainous plots around world domination, Epstein’s doings indicate an undeniable and critically important pattern of tech-related funding, scheming, conspiracy, and crime. Sorting out good apples from bad in this sensitive and super-powerful area will surely require nerves of steel — perhaps a steel stomach as well.

Many are counter-conspiracy tactics adopted during and after Barack Obama’s second term.

Epstein was visiting Santa Fe Institute, dining with Big Tech CEOS. He was into biotech, Bitcoin, security software, eugenics, embryology. The files suggest he was funding scientific studies related to his personal interests. Surfacing too is a pattern around electronic and pharmaceutical means of mind control.

Nightmare machines

There is no shortage of speculation about what may have gone down on the island and at Zorro Ranch. But the ad hoc online community tracking the DOJ drop and searching for patterns has yet to make any definitive, verifiable links between these mind control technologies and Epstein’s own operations.

The latest tranche of Epstein files does contain extensive documents that highlight, in part, government knowledge of mind-control technologies. One example making the rounds on X concerns DOJ file number EFTA00262811. The post states, “Buried in the Epstein document dump is a massive file detailing ‘directed energy and mind control technology’ used on people without consent.”

These materials are addressed beginning on page 10 of the file, which runs to hundreds of pages. The document, seemingly from a local branch of the federal government in Australia, contains a series of papers describing exchanges, sales material, and technical information related to EMF technologies. These papers make associations with government use on unsuspecting victims in a variety of countries.

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Don’t get carried away

However, an analytical concern arises around the daily emergence of dark fact and darker implication: In our conditions of politically sanctioned cognitive and psychological warfare, institutional corruption, and spiritual combat, what can we make of the disparity between the various sources that compose the millions of files in the Epstein files disclosure?

We know it’s bad. We would do well to bring every aspect to light. We do well also not to conflate overwhelming evidence with certainty. Nor confuse confidential and anonymous tips with those more immediately conclusive pieces of evidence such as financial records.

Among the contents of this third installment of Epstein files, we have call records from confidential informants and snail-mail tips ostensibly but not always obviously related to Epstein’s machinations. These types of materials are found alongside strategically redacted government and corporate correspondence. There are photos, videos, emails from movie stars, CEOs, royalty, top scientists. It’s truly enormous in scale.

However, X, where most of this controversy is being hashed out, is also being flooded with very fake “Epstein” emails, video clips, and photos. Some users deploy the fake artifacts to spin the narrative farther into darkness. Others are probably grabbing clickbait cash. Some portion of the traffic should likely be classified as narrative control, spin, counter-intelligence, obfuscation, narrative well-poisoning. Many are counter-conspiracy tactics adopted during and after Barack Obama’s second term.

As one might expect, former White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs chief and Harvard law scholar Cass Sunstein appears to be prevalent in the Epstein files too. Top Obama lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler is on record with Epstein setting meets between Cass and Jeffrey. Are these emails more real than anonymous tips? Quite a tangled web, indeed. Sunstein’s famous paper suggesting institutional-level “nudging” to secure centralized control of the proverbial narrative was called “Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas.”

You’ve been gamed

The X post questioning the placement of documents detailing devices and practices of EMF-based mind control tech does the narrative of work of associating this epochal Epstein-files reveal with the very technologies we use on a day-to-day basis. The provenance, importance, or utility of the document within the context of the Epstein-verse isn’t at all clear. Nonetheless, it can’t be written off.

At this point, should we be even be surprised? Not really. Consider first what we know about the engineering circa 2008 that went into phone-based social media tech. Studies on blue light, gamification, attention capture, and the revelations of the Vegas casino phenomena were all brought to bear on the telephonic device in your pocket or hand right now.

What we have is more than enough for a sane society to throw many hundreds of tech executives and scientists under investigation immediately. Of course, we find ourselves in both political, judicial, and financial deadlock at the moment, with a new war poised to steal the spotlight. So what, if anything, will actually be done about the Epstein-centered corruption?

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There’s a strange new infantilizing phenomenon taking over social media, and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is disturbed to say the least.

“There are these conferences where these women who treat their dolls as toddlers feed them, change their diaper, take them out,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

“It’s true,” she continues, explaining that they put them “in strollers, and they take videos of them going on vacation with them.”

“There is this whole influencer who shows her day-in-the-life where she’s turning on the lights, and she’s like waking up her children, and they’re dolls. It’s very, very, very sad. Very sad. Like, we need better hobbies. We need better ways to spend our time,” she continues.

However, that’s not even the worst of it.

“Now we also have adults using dolls to be progressive activists. And there’s a lot of crossover here between Disney adults, adult doll people, and these left-wing activists. And I think that the through line is actually what we call ‘misplaced mothering,’” Stuckey explains.

Misplaced mothering, Stuckey says, is “when your motherhood instinct is not channeled in the right healthy direction toward a child, whether it’s your child or a child that you’re volunteering to take care of, it manifests itself in really ugly and bitter and weird ways.”

One Instagram user who goes by “backintimeag” has been posing her American Girl dolls in the world, taking photos, and posting them with political messages.

“Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the f**k out of Minnesota,” one American Girl doll photo says.

“Kirsten is churning butter. OK? She doesn’t care about ICE. I guarantee you, Kirsten and her parents would have supported deporting illegal immigrants,” Stuckey says.

The user posted another photo of the American Girl doll Josephine, who is supposed to be from Mexico, with the text, “ICE needs to get the f**k out of my country.”

“ICE is not in your country,” Stuckey says.

Another influencer who goes by “AGTV4LIFE” on Instagram posted a video of American Girl dolls all dressed up, complete with signs, to protest Trump and “fascism.”

“She’s got one in a wheelchair that says, ‘Resist fascism’ … she’s creating these little protest signs. They’re at a No Kings protest. You’ve got way too much time on your hands. OK, we need a job, girly. We need a hobby. We need to go to church,” Stuckey comments.

“We also have doll ICE agents. Oh my goodness. It’s too much. … We’re laughing, but think about what has to be going on spiritually for a person to spend their time doing this,” she says.

“So there’s something simultaneously happening here. On the one hand, you’ve got the infantilizing of adults who use dolls and do a bunch of kids’ stuff … I’m not saying going to Disney as an adult is always bad, but the obsession is weird,” she continues.

“There’s this infantilization of adults going on. This extended adolescence that I think arrests the development that you need to actually be a productive and well-developed healthy mentally person,” she adds.

However, something even more insidious is going on than just the infantilization of adults.

“At the same time, there’s an adultification of children stuff. We see that here,” Stuckey says.

“It’s the conflation and the confusion of adolescence and childhood and adulthood that is making this very disturbing combination. OK? And I’m not really sure exactly what the answer is except, I mean, definitely find God,” she adds.

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The United States Secret Service fatally shot a man outside of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort early Sunday morning.

The USSS shot and killed the man, who was in his early 20s, after he unlawfully entered the secure perimeter at the president’s Florida resort around 1:30 a.m., according to the Secret Service.

The man, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was seen carrying what appeared to a shotgun and a fuel can by the north gate of the property, the Secret Service said.

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The Secret Service said its agents and a deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office confronted the man, and shots were fired by law enforcement; neither the agents nor the deputy were injured.

Notably, Trump was not at his resort in West Palm Beach at the time of the incident; he’s in Washington, D.C.

This is breaking news; updates may be added.

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