When BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales stumbled upon a flyer for a Muslim water park event in Grand Prairie, Texas, she was disturbed to find that it was “Muslims only” and immediately reported on it.

The city promptly shut it down.

After Gonzales interviewed the organizer of the event, who was shocked to find that Gonzales was critical of her Muslim-only event at a publicly funded park, the organizer’s husband sent Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Gonzales a message.

“Now he is trying to fight all of this with some videos of his own,” Gonzales says, “very interesting videos, very poorly done.”

“The governor of Texas is attacking my family, and I’m sick of it. Two days ago, Greg Abbott forced the city of Grand Prairie to cancel our Eid event at Epic Waters. For the past two years, my wife and I rented out the entire park so Muslim families could celebrate Eid in a modest environment,” the man said.

“Then Islamaphobes got ahold of a private flyer and twisted it into something it was never meant to be. We never banned other religions and even changed the wording to ‘modest dress only’ to make that crystal clear,” he continued.

“But Greg Abbott, he don’t care about facts. He fueled the flames of hatred, empowered these hate-filled politicians, and turned my family into a political target. Now we’re receiving death threats and harassments because of it,” he said. “But hear me clearly. I’m not going to back down.”

He also warned that he would be taking “hate-filled politicians down.”

“It was the city who decided … they weren’t going to actually agree with your religious discrimination that you quite literally did,” Gonzales says.

However, he didn’t just go after Abbott. He also went after Gonzales herself.

“My life is in danger. And I think I just figured out why,” he said.

“I found the woman who claims to be the person who wrote the story — the super Islamophobe herself,” he said, sharing a photo of Gonzales.

“My wife’s information gets spread online on purpose by her to her hateful followers. People start targeting my family. Death threats start coming in. So I DM her directly. The DM she showed in her video, but it’s not the whole DM. Sara, you left out a really important part,” he continued.

He went on to ask viewers to “comment DM” on his video if they want to see the “full DM.”

“Somebody asked me, ‘How you going to take down Governor Abbott?’ It starts with these bigoted, hateful, racist, Islamophobe podcasters who the government is employing to sow seeds of division between Americans and spew hate. We take them down first,” he continued.

“It starts with her,” he added.

“If the government’s paying me for this,” Gonzales laughs, “the check got lost in the mail.”

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A North Carolina gay couple was arrested after police got a tip about possible child sex abuse material possession, according to the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators said numerous tips from the Internet Crimes Against Children database in March led them to believe the two men were in possession of child sexual abuse material.

The arrest warrants indicate there are at least two victims from September.

Police performed a search warrant at the Linda Baucom Lane home of the couple identified as 39-year-old Joshua Lee Gilliam and 39-year-old Ronald Wayne Lynch Jr. and seized numerous digital devices.

Both Gilliam and Lynch were charged with first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor based on what was found on those devices.

Lynch faces an additional charge of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, while Gilliam faces additional charges of first-degree statutory sexual offense and indecent liberties with a minor.

The arrest warrants indicate there are at least two victims from September.

The couple first appeared at the Harnett County District Court on Thursday. Gilliam was given no bond, while Lynch was given a $360,000 secured bond.

The sheriff’s office said the investigation was ongoing and the two may face additional charges.

Online sleuths immediately found social media accounts that appeared to belong to Gilliam. An Instagram profile said the gay couple had custody of five children, all young boys, although a report from the North Carolina Beat said they have four sons together.

It is not known whether their boys are also victims.

One post on the account from March 7, 2021, reads, “Anyone wanna trade pictures with us message us.”

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WTVD-TV reported that Gilliam worked as a a phlebotomist at Cape Fear Primary Care in Erwin.

“The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office continues to work closely with the NCSBI and partner agencies to investigate crimes involving the exploitation of children and to ensure the safety and protection of victims and citizens of Harnett County.”

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We can use game theory to answer the question of university decline, but we will have to look outside game theory for the answer if we want to turn things around.

Universities once claimed to form character, cultivate wisdom, and preserve civilization. Now many of them offer courses on “witchcraft and social change through gossip,” “decolonizing mathematics,” and the moral importance of “disrupting systems of power with drag shows.”

Ideologues understand something conservatives often forget: Institutions belong to those willing to fight for them.

Parents spend six figures so their children can be taught that truth is oppression and that literacy itself may be colonial violence.

How did this happen?

Part of the answer is laziness. These are lazy ideologies that appeal to people’s base instincts. But laziness alone is too shallow an explanation. The deeper answer is game theory.

Game theory, broadly speaking, studies how rational individuals behave when incentives reward certain actions and punish others. It explains why perfectly intelligent people often cooperate in systems they privately know are absurd.

Once you understand it, modern university decline becomes almost embarrassingly predictable.

The first thing game theory explains is why nonsense replaces good ideas.

Economists long ago noticed something called Gresham’s law: Bad money drives out good money. If counterfeit and genuine coins circulate together at the same legal value, people hoard the good coins and spend the bad ones. Over time, the bad currency dominates public life.

The same principle applies to ideas.

A university that rewards ideological conformity more than truth-seeking will slowly replace good scholars with ideological activists. At first, the institution still coasts on inherited prestige. The physics department still has Nobel Prize winners. The literature department still quotes Shakespeare. The philosophy department still invokes Augustine between land acknowledgments.

However, as advancement continues to depend less on intellectual excellence and more on ideological signaling, ambitious people adapt accordingly.

If a professor discovers that publishing another tedious article on “systems of oppression in medieval gardening practices” produces grants, praise, administrative favor, and social protection, then more such articles will appear.

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Soon, entire academic ecosystems emerge around rewarding jargon and punishing dissent. Aristophanes understood this over 2,000 years ago.

In “The Frogs,” he lamented not merely political decline but cultural degeneration itself. Bad money replaces good money, yes — but bad poetry also replaces good poetry, bad music replaces good music, and inferior men replace superior ones.

Civilizations slump downward because institutions stop rewarding excellence and begin rewarding flattery, manipulation, and fashionable absurdity.

Game theory also explains why woke ideologues are especially attracted to teaching.

Teaching offers something extraordinarily valuable to ideological activists: asymmetric authority over the young.

A professor stands before 18-year-olds who often know almost nothing about history, philosophy, economics, or theology. The professor controls grades, social approval, and often the moral atmosphere of the classroom itself.

For someone driven by ideological fervor, such an atmosphere is the perfect missionary environment. This fact is why universities increasingly attract people who view education less as the pursuit of truth and more as political activism.

Much of contemporary academic ideology has a peculiar economic structure. It frequently operates by cultivating envy and moral resentment. Students are taught to interpret society primarily through oppressor-oppressed frameworks. Achievement becomes privilege, and personal failure becomes systemic victimhood.

Ideologies that pander to hate and envy replace those that call for discipline and character formation.

It is always easier to blame “systems” than confront one’s own moral failings like hate, envy, and gossip. It is easier to denounce civilization than to build and defend one.

The most important aspect of this issue that game theory explains is why conservative professors so often remain silent while their institutions go downhill.

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Imagine a professor who privately believes the university is descending into ideological madness. He sees mandatory DEI trainings becoming political indoctrination. He sees departments openly rewarding activism over scholarship. He sees students being manipulated by emotional propaganda dressed up as education.

Should he speak? Game theory says probably not.

Why? Because the incentives are brutal.

If he speaks while others remain silent, he risks social isolation, administrative retaliation, poor evaluations, stalled promotions, public smears, and endless bureaucratic harassment. Meanwhile, if he remains quiet, he keeps his salary, his colleagues, his research time, and his peace.

From the standpoint of narrow self-interest, silence is rational. This silence, however, is what allows institutional collapse to accelerate.

Every individual dissenter waits for someone else to take the risk first. Meanwhile, the activists never hesitate. Ideologues understand something conservatives often forget: Institutions belong to those willing to fight for them.

The result resembles a kind of academic prisoner’s dilemma. If many professors resisted together, the ideological takeover could be slowed or reversed. But if each calculates personal risk individually, almost all remain silent. Thus the activists dominate despite often representing only a loud minority.

Game theory can describe this dynamic perfectly, but we must look elsewhere in order to solve it.

Eventually, civilization depends upon something game theory cannot fully quantify: courage.

There are moments when virtue matters more than personal advantage. Moments when a man says, “Even if no one stands with me, I will still stand.”

We increasingly reduce all human behavior to self-interest, incentives, careerism, or evolutionary advantage. But civilizations are not preserved merely by incentive structures. They are preserved by people willing to sacrifice for what is true, good, and beautiful.

A society survives only if enough people believe some things are worth defending, even at personal cost.

And if universities are ever to recover from their descent into fashionable nonsense, it will not happen because game theory suddenly changes. It will happen because enough people decide goodness, truth, and beauty matter more than safety.

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A lesbian Florida couple allege in a lawsuit that Key West authorities are violating their constitutional right to paint rainbow colors on their picket fence.

Nicole Sohn and her wife, Linda Bagely-Sohn, have filed a lawsuit after the city’s Historic Architectural Review Commission fined them $250 a day for their LGBTQ fence.

‘If the city is only enforcing the law against some people because of the message they’re expressing, that’s viewpoint discrimination.’

The couple said they decided to paint the pickets as a way of protesting state officials ordering that rainbow crosswalks be painted over to avoid politicization of public spaces. They live in the historic Old Town section of the city.

“It was so upsetting for so many of us, and I woke up one morning and was like, ‘I’m going to paint some pickets on our front gate,'” Sohn said.

“We posted on Facebook as a joke, like, ‘Anyone else want the rainbow fairy to come visit?'” she added. “And we were inundated, and my wife and I ran around that weekend painting a bunch of fences and gates, and it just took off.”

That’s when the commission notified them that the fences were in violation of local regulations, after they received several complaints. The couple said they tried to go through the approval process and obtain a permit for the fences but were denied.

They were told in March to paint the illicit fences an approved color or face the daily fine.

ACLU of Florida attorney Nick Warren accuses the city of violating the lesbians’ constitutional rights.

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“If you walk around Old Town Key West, you’ll see lots of colorful displays and different colored paints on fences and houses,” Warren says. “Many of them violate the same rules that the city is citing — but if the city is only enforcing the law against some people because of the message they’re expressing, that’s viewpoint discrimination.”

Their attorney said the city has three weeks to respond to the lawsuit, and city officials did not comment about the litigation.

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A mother discovered that her seventh-grade child had been given a bookmark in support of the LGBTQ agenda, and her email to her county supervisor has led to a bitter debate.

The mother claimed that a woman gave a presentation during English classes and passed out the politically charged bookmarks, according to the email sent to Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld.

‘These items stray into inappropriate and unwelcome advocacy.’

She said her 13-year-old daughter was given a bookmark and called it “abhorrent” that the Fresno County Public Library had used “tax dollars to target children, suggesting reading materials with sexual/homosexual and transgender content.”

A screenshot of the email was published by KMPH-TV.

The mother went on to point out that library employees had access to children’s private information, and she posited that LGBTQ activists might misuse that information.

“In theory someone could use that data as a grooming list of vulnerable children — confused, unsupervised, ‘not supported at home,'” she added.

Bredefeld brought the issue before the other supervisors, and they voted 3-2 to restrict public libraries from recognizing Pride Month or erecting any display to support the LGBTQ agenda.

“The library now, rather than serve all members of the community in an unbiased fashion, has chosen to become advocates and promote a political agenda that many don’t support,” Bredefeld said.

Predictably, activists are outraged that public spaces won’t be used to push their LGBTQ agenda.

“When an LGBTQ youth walks into a Fresno County library and sees a Pride display, it’s not about politics. It’s a lifeline,” said Diana Feliz Oliva, the founder and CEO of Casita Feliz. “It tells them you are seen.”

Clovis mayor pro tem Diane Pearce disagreed and supported the decision.

“These items stray into inappropriate and unwelcome advocacy,” she said.

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The KMPH report said the libraries would still be allowed to display whatever books they wanted.

And despite Bredefeld airing concerns about the questionable content of some books, the county supervisors had no plans to take those books off the shelves.

Bredefeld brought out a sign reading, “No indoctrination of our children,” before the voting took place.

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