Men have always found reasons to avoid difficult fights — but today this has gotten worse, and it’s not exactly their fault.

The biggest problem with men these days, Todd Erzen of the “Steve Deace Show” explains, is that “they keep finding reasons not to fight in a culture where there are fights everywhere.”

“You’re not supposed to just randomly do it because it’s your style, your thing. You’re supposed to do it because the Lord identifies good and evil, and you are a servant of the good,” he continues.

“You must, as a man, vanquish evil,” he adds.

However, BlazeTV host Steve Deace points out that even in Genesis 3, “There’s not a whole bunch of guys preemptively looking to take on evil.”

“The opposite is often true. We wait until we’re cornered. We wait until we’ve suffered enough,” he explains.

“So that’s not new. That’s not unique,” he adds.

And even the founding fathers were not prepared to attack the “first time their God-given rights were violated.”

“They spent 10 years thinking about it, talking about it, negotiating it. Then when the redcoats start putting armed soldiers in their homes and calling it the ‘Quartering Act,’ they’re like, ‘You know, guys, we might be at a point of no return here,’” Deace says.

“I promise you, we’re not the first generation of men late to the party. That’s been every generation of men. Every single one,” he continues.

“We’re sinners,” he adds.

What is new, however, Deace explains, are the phones that never leave our hands.

“It’s these phones. We have never had at our instant disposal more opportunities to dissuade us from our priorities than the current technology of this world provides,” he says, adding, “Now that is what is new.”

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Remember when the gasoline engine was living on borrowed time?

Automakers were announcing ambitious electric-vehicle plans, governments were setting targets and deadlines, and consumers were repeatedly told that the future of the automobile had already been decided. The only real question seemed to be how quickly we would get there.

Gasoline vehicles weren't merely going to lose market share. At some brands, they were supposed to disappear.

Cadillac was among the most aggressive. The company said it planned to become an all-electric brand by the end of this decade. Its own website still declares that every new Cadillac model introduced in the United States by the end of the decade will be electric.

Something interesting happened on the way to that all-electric future: People kept buying gasoline-powered cars.

So many, in fact, that Cadillac is preparing a whole new generation of them.

Revving up

GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed this summer that Cadillac's next generation of internal-combustion vehicles will begin arriving in 2027. The lineup is expected to include a new CT5 sedan and new versions of the XT5 and XT6 crossovers. The XT6 is particularly interesting because Cadillac discontinued it after the 2025 model year. Now it's coming back with a gasoline engine.

The XT5 got a reprieve too. Cadillac had been expected to kill the gasoline-powered crossover but instead extended production of the current model and approved a new generation for the U.S. market. Cadillac said it was making "necessary adjustments" to its portfolio to meet customer demand.

There's that word again: demand.

Because while automakers have been adjusting their product plans, American EV sales have been sending a message of their own.

Money talks

Look at August. Despite a record increase in hybrid sales, Kia sold just 712 EV6s, down 60% from August 2025. Hyundai sold 28 Ioniq 6 sedans — yes, 28 — a 97% decline. Its much more popular Ioniq 5 fell 51%.

Ford's numbers were even more dramatic. Mustang Mach-E sales fell 72.5% to 1,989 vehicles. Ford sold only 148 F-150 Lightnings, down 95% from the same month last year.

Honda sold 1,788 Prologues, down about 81% from August 2025. Honda has already confirmed that Prologue production will end after the 2026 model year.

Subaru's Solterra dropped almost 87%, although that one comes with a major caveat: Subaru's newer Trailseeker and Uncharted EVs helped push the company's total EV sales up for the month, and limited Solterra inventory may have contributed to its collapse.

That's why I wouldn't judge the EV market by one model or even one month's sales. Some of these vehicles are being discontinued. Others are being replaced. And August 2025 is an unusually difficult comparison because buyers were rushing to take advantage of the federal EV tax credit before it disappeared.

Market correction

But zoom out and the picture is still striking. According to the National Automobile Dealers Association, battery-electric vehicles accounted for 10.1% of new-vehicle sales in August 2025. One year later, their share had fallen to 6.2%. Overall new-vehicle sales weren't collapsing either. August sales were actually up 1.5% from the previous year on a seasonally adjusted annualized basis.

So Americans didn't suddenly stop buying cars. They became less interested in buying EVs.

That doesn't mean the electric car is dead. Far from it. Cadillac currently offers five EVs, and manufacturers continue to spend billions developing electric vehicles. Some individual EVs are selling well, and Subaru's August numbers show exactly why you have to be careful about declaring an entire technology a failure because one nameplate plunges.

But that's very different from what consumers were being told just a few years ago.

The industry's transition to EVs was often presented as inevitable and, more importantly, imminent. Gasoline vehicles weren't merely going to lose market share. At some brands, they were supposed to disappear.

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Sales force

Cadillac is a wonderful example. It didn't merely say it wanted to sell more EVs. It said it planned to be all-electric by the end of the decade. Now the company is developing another generation of gasoline-powered Cadillacs that will arrive with only a few years left on that clock.

Why? Because car companies eventually have to sell cars.

Consumers don't buy corporate transition plans. They buy vehicles that fit their lives, budgets, and driving habits. For some people, that's an EV. For others, it's a hybrid. And plenty still want an ordinary gasoline-powered car or truck. Manufacturers are finally acknowledging that reality.

I don't have a problem with electric vehicles. Build good ones. Make them affordable. Improve the charging network. Give consumers enough range and enough choices, and let them decide whether an EV works for them.

What I object to is deciding the answer first and expecting the customer to fall in line afterward. The auto industry spent years telling us where the market was going. Now the market is talking back. And judging by the gasoline-powered Cadillacs headed our way, somebody in Detroit is finally listening.

When the United States military disables ad trackers on troop smartphones because Iranian agents might use them to inflict harm, you know a technology has outgrown its original sales pitch.

The same surveillance system tracking American soldiers is tracking ordinary Americans too. The difference is that the military has finally decided that it’s too dangerous to ignore.

Stopping the insanity requires cutting off the flow at its source.

An ad tracker is a small piece of software code placed inside apps, websites, and operating systems. Its official job is simple. It monitors what you click and what you buy. It tracks where you scroll so companies can serve you personalized ads for running shoes, air fryers, lawnmowers — or just about anything else you might buy. To make this work, your phone generates a unique string of numbers called a Mobile Advertising ID. Think of it as a digital name tag stuck to your lapel. Every time you check the weather or browse a dating app, your phone broadcasts this ID along with your location, network data, and browsing habits to hundreds of middleman companies in milliseconds.

This brings us to the absurd reality of the modern web. You are forking out hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of dollars for a handheld surveillance device that sells your habits to anyone with a corporate credit card.

Horror stories

The immediate danger for most people is financial exploitation. In 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services received tens of thousands of complaints from Americans who clicked social media ads offering $6,400 gift cards for groceries, only to find their actual health insurance plans canceled or swapped without their consent. Everyday shoppers thought they were signing up for relief money. Instead, aggressive lead-generation companies took their data and enrolled them in alternative plans to collect broker commissions. People showed up to pharmacies only to discover their life-saving insulin was no longer covered because an algorithm flagged them as easy targets for a predatory Facebook ad.

Medical privacy vanishes just as quickly. Consider the Meta Pixel, a piece of tracking code embedded directly into hospital websites and patient portals. Novant Health and Duly Health and Care both faced major legal actions after tracking pixels on their patient platforms routed sensitive personal health data directly to social media servers. Duly Health settled its lawsuit for $1.88 million after allegations that the code transmitted details about patient appointments, diagnoses, and treatments to advertising networks. If you look up an uncommon medical condition on a hospital portal, your phone's advertising ID instantly links that health status to your social profile, resulting in targeted ads for treatments popping up alongside photos of your nephew's birthday party.

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The system tracks physical locations just as efficiently as web traffic. Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions against data brokers like Gravy Analytics and Mobilewalla revealed a rather robust market for precise geographical data harvested directly from cell phones. Commercial tools like Babel Street's Locate X take these mobile advertising IDs and map them onto real-world coordinates. In one documented test, investigators used commercial advertising records to trace an individual device from a private residence in Alabama to a local hardware store, a church, and finally an abortion clinic in Florida. In modern-day America, you don’t need a warrant, a badge, or a court order to track someone across state lines. With an ad-tech subscription and a corporate login, you’re good to go.

How to take back your privacy

Every American with a smartphone should care. The reason is straightforward. By default, they’re enrolled in a passive location-tracking network. Apps like MyFitnessPal, Tinder, and run-of-the-mill mobile games collect spatial coordinates and transmit them into open ad auctions billions of times every day. That data is aggregated and packaged, then sold to third parties who build permanent location profiles on millions of citizens. Your phone tracks each visit to a counselor, a house of worship, a divorce lawyer, or a hospital, turning your daily routines and commutes into an open book for commercial entities.

Stopping the insanity requires cutting off the flow at its source.

On iPhone, open Settings, go to Privacy & Security, select Tracking, and toggle off Allow Apps to Request to Track. Then go to Apple Advertising at the bottom of the Privacy menu and disable Personalized Ads.

On Android, open Settings, select Privacy, tap Ads, and choose Delete advertising ID. Deleting this ID wipes your existing profile tag and forces apps to stop sharing your location with advertising brokers.

The steps are simple, but the principle is even simpler. If the Pentagon doesn’t trust strangers to know where its people are, you probably shouldn’t want strangers knowing where you are either.

Philip Anthony Mitchell — founder and lead pastor of Atlanta’s 2819 Church — catches flak for speaking out about the dangers of radical Islam, but he does it boldly anyway.

The ideology, he told BlazeTV host and Lakepointe Church pastor Josh Howerton on a recent episode of “Live Free,” is “incompatible” with both Christianity and Western fundamentals — and yet it continues to be embraced in American cities and legislatures in the name of “inclusion.”

But if the church doesn’t contend, our “children and grandchildren” will suffer greatly under the “antichrist monotheism” that is Islam, Mitchell warns.

To crystallize the gravity of that threat, he offered a harrowing analogy pulled from his days as a college student.

“When I was in college ... my roommates and I, we had pet snakes,” says Mitchell.

“This one first python we had ... she only ate rats ... and I remember we would toss the rat in the cage. That python, Josh, would sit in the corner of the cage in the darkness, and that rat would just run around the cage,” he recounts.

The python’s eerie stillness created a “false sense of security.”

“That rat would even run on top of the python and off the python thinking ... ‘I'm safe in here,”’ says Mitchell.

“That python would then stare at that rat, and at an opportune time, it would lunge at top speed, coil that rat up, and then squeeze the life out of that rat until it was dead and then swallow that rat hole.”

The rat’s fate, he says, is what’s in store for America — especially her Christian population — if it doesn’t start recognizing radical Islam as the deadly python it is.

“[Radical Islam] is like a python sitting in the corner. It's just sitting there while we are running around acting like we have a false sense of security — until the day comes when it lunges, and then it wraps its grips around all of our systems, all of our policies ... and then chokes the life out of Christianity, chokes the life out of Western fundamentals, chokes the life out of everything,” says Mitchell.

He acknowledges the polarizing nature of this warning, but the risks are too steep to stay silent.

“People are going to push back against this one moment right here, Josh, I just invite them to come back to this podcast five years from now, 10 years from now, if the Lord tarries, 20 years from now, and see did God not raise up true voices to warn America that this is coming to your own detriment,” he forewarns.

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Conservative blogger Erick Erickson published an essay last week on Substack, “The Midwestern Führerbunker Driving the Right Off a Cliff,” maligning the Claremont Institute, one of our donors, and a few of our fellows and alumni.

Claremont Institute senior fellow Steve Hayward published the first in a promised series (“Is Conservatism in Crisis?”) on his Political Questions Substack, criticizing the tone, rhetorical tactics, and substance of Erickson’s essay. As Hayward shows, Erickson relies on guilt-by-association smears and innuendo that let the juxtaposition do the arguing.

It’s clear that Erickson wants merely to cherry-pick the document to stoke outrage with his readers.

Many of his citations come from untrustworthy and hostile sources, like the Guardian, which has published numerous hit pieces against Claremont. Erickson’s essay is a mile-wide, inch-deep bit of motivated reasoning.

At the top of his essay, a headnote by Erickson explains that he “worked on this for weeks.” We could have cleared up a lot of Erickson’s errors during those weeks had he followed the standard journalistic practice of reaching out to any of the parties or organizations he named for comment. He did not.

By his own account, Erickson let AI find the sources for his claims: “I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims. When Claude thought I was making weak claims or arguments, it challenged me to improve and clarify my writing and claims to match information in provided linked [sic].” That may explain why so many of his sources come from hostile outlets.

As a result, some friends of Claremont who are not close students of the internecine social media wars on the right are confused. I write to offer some clarity. The short version: Claremont’s mission remains, as it was when we were founded in 1979, “to restore the principles of the American founding to their rightful, preeminent place in our national life.”

The core of that work remains what Harry Jaffa called “the scholarship of the politics of freedom.” Many of our critics mistake the application of that scholarship to present circumstances for abandoning our principles.

Answering every insinuation in Erickson’s essay would be tedious; correcting the most serious is not. Consider four of his claims: about a donor, about a fraternal organization, about an essay in the American Mind, and about Nick Fuentes.

Erickson’s first target is Charles Haywood, a retired industrialist and philanthropist who runs the Worthy House website, where he routinely reviews, in spirited fashion, books on all manner of topics. Readers of Haywood know that he has a dim view of the prospects for the medium-term survival of the current American regime. He has constructed his city in speech, what he hopes will be a successor regime, in his “Foundationalist Manifesto.”

Erickson regards Haywood’s "Manifesto" as too statist. He wants us to gasp with him at Haywood’s deprecation of democracy. What Haywood favors, however, would not have been foreign to thinkers and statesmen from the American founding up through the turn of the 20th century: a republicanism with aristocratic elements, like elections and representatives rather than direct popular involvement in decision-making.

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Erickson objects that Haywood assigns to the central government “unlimited means,” but fails to include the rest of the sentence, which reads in full, “In pursuit of its limited ends, it will have unlimited means.” Claremont has always thought that the political philosophy of the founding, properly understood, should guide our constitutional analysis and reform. Haywood’s assessment is not the same as Claremont’s position, and reasonable people can dispute it.

But it’s clear that Erickson wants merely to cherry-pick the document to stoke outrage with his readers.

This outrage is a setup to suggest that because Haywood donates low six figures annually to Claremont and has an honorific “advisory” title common in the think tank philanthropic world, Claremont’s mission is now being subverted in favor of Haywood’s foundationalism.

No donor sets our agenda, and Haywood has never tried. He supports institutions on the right for the work they’re doing, in line with their own missions, to recover constitutionalism and defend the American way of life.

Erickson’s second target is closer to home: me. He indicts my involvement in the founding of a Christian fraternal organization, the Society for American Civic Renewal, and in so doing makes a serious charge that demands correction. One of SACR’s founding documents, writes Erickson, “describes the members as ‘un-hyphenated Americans.’ ... The hyphen is there to screen for lineage, and it tells you the racial mindset of the organization.” This is false. The membership requirement for “unhyphenated Americans” is a reference to Theodore Roosevelt’s 1915 call for immigrants to assimilate and embrace American citizenship without qualification. SACR welcomes trinitarian Christian men of any race or ethnicity.

Fittingly, Roosevelt gave that speech to the Knights of Columbus, itself a Christian fraternal order. Few things are more American than Christian fraternal organizations, which have been around since our country’s founding.

The founding board of SACR in 2020 agreed with the theme of Yuval Levin’s book "A Time to Build." We thought a decentralized fraternal organization for values-aligned men would be a useful institution in an ideologically divided and institutionally corrupt America. It has been gratifying to see lodges founded in several states, centered on friendship, shared love of country, and the many benefits such networks provide for local collaboration and mutual aid.

Erickson’s charge against the American Mind is more serious still. He claims that “Claremont’s American Mind has published the argument that conservatives must now be willing to commit violence of their own.” The essay in question, Hillsdale College professor Kevin Slack’s 2023 article “The Constitution, Citizenship, and the New Right,” does no such thing. The passage Erickson appears to be describing reads:

Many conservatives have now become convinced that, unless they are willing to allow their churches to be desecrated, their sacred services canceled, their property and liberty taken away, and their children indoctrinated or chemically castrated, they must be willing to engage in violence of their own.

Slack ends with a warning, not a call to arms:

Finally, the use of actual violence, which underlies the enforcement of all laws, including the natural law, has quickly become part of our machinations. And while I sympathize with any defense of natural right, I also fear it. Our first civil war was between states, but this new terrible war would be city against country, neighbor against neighbor, in the aisles of grocery stores, restaurants, and churches. I would not choose to live in this world, but America is fast becoming no country for old men. I still hope that we can appeal to genuine nationalism, celebrating America’s principles and its remarkable achievements, rejecting a false patriotism and tribalism.

In other words, Slack is describing what many conservatives have come to believe, not arguing that they are right. Erickson turns a description into a prescription.

Erickson throws Nick Fuentes and his “groypers” into the mix for good measure in the final third of the piece. He is careful to state that he doesn’t think anyone named so far is “coordinating with Fuentes.” (Quite right! I suspect Fuentes would object to any coordination with Claremont, as he has said publicly that we are untrustworthy because our chairman is Jewish.) But Erickson’s presentation is meant to leave the reader with the impression that this constellation of projects, writings, tweets, and people represents different flanks of a movement to overthrow the American Constitution.

While Erickson’s essay was making the rounds, I was on my way to Mount Vernon with Claremont colleagues to celebrate Constitution Day and honor Charles Kesler with the Salvatori Prize in the American Founding.

The evening featured short speeches from our Washington fellow Matthew Peterson, praising George Washington’s magnanimity and prudence; from our Salvatori Research Fellow in the American Founding, Glenn Ellmers, on the meaning of the Declaration at 250 after a century of progressivism; and from me, on the significant scholarly, editorial, and teaching achievements across Kesler’s five decades (and counting) of work.

It was an evening celebrating the work of the Claremont Institute and its scholars, surrounded by the Claremont family of alumni, supporters, and friends. That work, not the caricature in Erickson’s essay, is what Claremont is about.

We look forward to a good-faith debate with serious and honest interlocutors — let iron sharpen iron. The stakes are nothing less than the fate of America and the West.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the American Mind.

A Missouri mother who said she accidentally placed her 1-month-old daughter in an oven instead of her crib, killing the infant, learned her fate earlier this week.

Mariah Thomas of Kansas City pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death, KMBC-TV reported.

'Mental illness does not erase accountability, but neither should our justice system ignore a serious, diagnosed mental health condition when determining an appropriate outcome.'

Kansas City police in February 2024 were called to a home near 41st Street and Forest Avenue after getting a report of a baby who wasn't breathing, the station said.

Emergency crews tried to save the infant, but she died at the scene, KMBC reported.

Court documents filed at the time indicated that Thomas, now 28, told family members she was putting her daughter down for a nap and accidentally put the baby in the oven instead of her crib, the station said.

Fox News reported that the infant was wearing a bodysuit over a diaper, and investigators said her clothing appeared to have melted onto the diaper. Police also recovered a baby blanket with significant burn marks from the living room, the news network said, citing a probable cause statement.

As part of Tuesday's plea agreement, a murder charge against Thomas was dropped, KMBC said.

The station added that the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office issued a statement Thursday that noted in part: "We advocated for a resolution recognizing the seriousness of what happened, holding Ms. Thomas accountable and addressing her documented severe mental health issues."

KMBC noted that the statement also said, "What has been underreported is our office advocated for Ms. Thomas to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, which would have resulted in her placement in a secure mental health treatment facility. Instead, she chose to plead guilty to 1st-degree endangerment of a child-death of a child and serve 13 years in prison."

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The statement also said, "Mental illness does not erase accountability, but neither should our justice system ignore a serious, diagnosed mental health condition when determining an appropriate outcome," the station reported.

A Jackson County judge sentenced Thomas to 13 years in prison, with credit for time she has already served, KMBC reported.

Thomas was to be transferred to the Missouri Department of Corrections to serve her sentence, the station added.

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It takes a lot to surprise me on TikTok. I go in expecting left-wing absurdity.

But recently I found a young woman in her 20s crying because she felt “overwhelmed” by the amount of content she would have to create for “Kinktober.” What’s that about?

Our country can’t get comfortable with sexually explicit content. It needs to be re-stigmatized, shamed, and kept from public life.

Kinktober is the sexually explicit offspring of Inktober, an online challenge that encourages artists and writers to create one themed work every day in October. Kinktober takes the same format and fills it with sexual prompts.

One 2026 prompt list circulating online includes bestiality, intoxication, age-gap sex, and a long list of fetishes too vile to publish here.

The strange part is not that adults have invented another sexual subculture. Humans hardly needed the internet for that. The strange part is how easily that subculture now spills onto mainstream platforms.

One woman posted a TikTok praising the Kinktober list as “great” and urging artists to get “freak nasty.” Another video showed a woman leaving college early to go “celebrate” Kinktober. Commenters chimed in enthusiastically.

Tumblr hosts sexual artwork and writing. Reddit users direct participants toward Archive of Our Own, the enormous fan-fiction site commonly known as AO3. Kinktober collections there contain thousands of works.

Kinktober is not the kind of thing that happens in a healthy society. It is the kind of thing that happens in a society that has glamorized sexual promiscuity and allowed the most aggressive, X-rated content to be available to anyone at the touch of a button.

Kinktober has emerged in a culture dominated by OnlyFans and PornHub. Oversexualization is nearly unavoidable. Stars like Sabrina Carpenter mimic sexually suggestive acts onstage. Bonnie Blue makes content about setting records for having sex with hundreds of men. Even Sydney Sweeney, who has largely been embraced by many on the right for standing up against Hollywood’s feminist agenda, has posed in highly sexual public ads.

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In this cultural climate, Kinktober doesn’t seem as perverted as it is.

The consequences extend beyond adults who deliberately seek this material. A 2026 Common Sense Media survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 found that 74% had seen online pornography. More than half of those who had seen it first encountered it by age 12, including 12% who first saw it at age 10 or younger.

Young people do not need to walk into an adult store or lie about their age to an embarrassed clerk. Sexual content reaches them through phones, social media feeds, websites, and links.

Written erotica also deserves more attention than it gets. One study of 456 readers of erotic fiction found that 94% of respondents were women. That does not mean women universally consume erotica, of course. It does show that pornography does not come only in the visual form most people associate with men.

Kinktober packages that kind of material as a creative exercise. Write something every day. Draw something every day. Share it. Tag it. Find a community around it.

The internet is exceptionally good at turning private interests into communities and communities into identities. It also strips away much of the social friction that once separated an obscure fetish from ordinary public life.

That friction served a purpose.

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Prior to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, it was unthinkable that a nearly endless library of sexual content could be available on platforms that rarely enforce age restrictions. Today, we are constantly being inundated with content that is increasingly grotesque.

Kinktober may currently be relegated to online spaces, but it probably won’t be for very long. The prompts it suggests, such as bestiality, age gap, and collars, are all slowly making their way into the mainstream.

Bestiality is slowly becoming destigmatized as furries are normalized, with furry conventions and gatherings growing in attendance each year. Age-gap relationships are being pushed by leftists who have tried to include pedophilia in the LGBT community under the guise of being “minor-attracted persons.” Even collars are being worn in public, along with chains and leatherware that is highly suggestive and inappropriate.

We need to realize that what happens online often makes its way into the real world. Internet trends are a primary source of American culture. Parents need to protect their children from websites like Tumblr, AO3, and TikTok, which promote challenges like Kinktober. Our country can’t get comfortable with sexually explicit content. It needs to be re-stigmatized, shamed, and kept from public life.

Georgia police say the search of a suspect's apartment unit led to the discovery of several blood-stained areas, a large bloody saw, and the strong odor of bleach.

The family of a 26-year-old mother said they contacted police Wednesday after she went missing and they tracked her phone at the Park Valley apartment complex on Valley Parkway in Smyrna.

The family said they knew it was Mosley because they saw the same tattoo she had on the torso.

Michelle Weaver told WSB-TV that her niece Tia Mosley was DoorDashing when she went missing. When police arrived, they knocked on a few doors and then left the scene, according to Weaver.

That's when the family noted that a strange young man was looking at them through his window at the complex.

Weaver said the family spoke to a man at the unit who told them he had not seen Mosley.

Then at about 8 p.m., they saw the man carrying a tub with a quilt on top of it. A Cobb County Magistrate Court warrant said the man appeared to realize that someone had seen him and ran back to his unit after dropping the bin.

"All we see is the boy throwing a bag, like, like maybe a laundry bag, and it had like a container in it," Weaver said.

Inside the bin was a dismembered torso of a woman.

Police later identified the man as 18-year-old Kingston Lammar Bradley.

They searched Bradley's unit and found the saw, bloody areas, a smell of bleach, and various cleaning supplies that included a mop, a bucket of water, and carpet cleaner.

Bradley was charged with concealing a death and is considered a person of interest in the murder investigation.

"We are continuing to do interviews to see if there are any other possible suspects that could be out there," said Lt. Meredith Holt of the Smyrna Police Department.

The family said they knew it was Mosley because they saw the same tattoo she had on the torso.

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One neighbor said they heard Bradley say, "What did I do? What did I do?" when police arrested him.

Another neighbor said they heard Bradley's father also say, "What did you do this time?"

The family criticized the police for not doing enough to find Mosley's remains when they reported her missing.

"Don't say y'all found her. Her family found her. Y'all didn't do nothing. Y'all left us," Weaver said. "You guys left us to do it ourselves."

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In this digital age we live in, there’s never been more ways to connect with people thanks to the internet — and yet loneliness and social isolation are so extreme, they were declared an epidemic by the last surgeon general.

The cost of extreme loneliness and isolation is steeper than most realize. In his advisory, Vivek Murthy warned: “Loneliness and social isolation increase the risk for premature death by 26% and 29% respectively. More broadly, lacking social connection can increase the risk for premature death as much as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. In addition, poor or insufficient social connection is associated with increased risk of disease, including a 29% increased risk of heart disease and a 32% increased risk of stroke. Furthermore, it is associated with increased risk for anxiety, depression, and dementia.”

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is deeply concerned for Americans impacted by loneliness.

“Loneliness is not a mood. It's a medical condition — and it has now a body count in America,” he says, noting that the issue is more prevalent among men.

“In 1995, 55% of American men said they had at least six close friends. Today, that number is 27. ... The men with no close friends at all — none, zero — went from 3% to 15[%],” he says.

These dismal statistics, he notes, ironically do not mirror what most people’s social media accounts say.

“You might have 900 friends, 1,400 friends on your phone. ...You're in touch with more human beings before breakfast than your great-grandfather met in his lifetime, so how is it we are starving at this buffet?” he asks.

Research, Glenn explains, has repeatedly pointed to 150 as the number of relationships a community can truly sustain; once a group grows past that, the bonds start to thin.

Today most people are glued to devices that connect them to well beyond 150 people, but few, if any, of those bonds satisfy our deep need for two-way connection.

These devices “[fill] the slots without paying the freight,” says Glenn. “There's a name for this. It's called parasocial relationships — it's a one-way bond in which you accumulate real knowledge, real affection for somebody, but that person on the other end has no idea that you exist.”

Glenn acknowledges that many of his own audience members are engaged in parasocial relationships with him.

“You might have listened to me for 25 years, but you don't really know me. You know my kids' names. You know what I sound like. ... You've been in the car with me more hours than you've been in a room probably with your own brother, but I don't know you. I'd love to, but I can't,” he says.

“What you feel isn't fake — and that's what makes it work. And that's also what makes it dangerous because it satisfies the hunger without feeding you,” he continues.

To those who think influencers, podcasters, and digital communities can fill their social cup, Glenn offers a stark warning: “I'm not a friend. Neither is the podcaster. Neither is the streamer or the ball player whose name is on your back.”

Close friendship requires time — over 200 hours, according to a 2019 University of Kansas study.

Over time, however, people began spending less and less time face-to-face, and almost without noticing, loneliness and isolation crept in and began eating away at communities and people’s social and emotional health.

“Those 200 hours used to accumulate by accident on a porch, at a shop, after church, in a bowling league, in the driveway, but the accidents have stopped — and nobody replaced them,” Glenn laments. “That's why we're lonely.”

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We’ve reached peak “View,” and we still have three months to go in the year.

Even a Rosie O’Donnell reunion couldn’t top the insanity on a single “View” episode this week. Wednesday’s installment had co-host Sara Haines wishing that Lindsay Clancy’s husband had honored the whole “in sickness and in health” line from their wedding vows.

He won’t be the first person daffy enough to write checks for Gaza dwellers. The terror group that runs Gaza is notorious for taking the money and running, Woody Allen style.

That’s a real thing.

The same episode saw co-host Sunny Hostin bragging that she had been a holdout juror in the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz, the “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.” Rakowitz — who murdered and dismembered his roommate — was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Hostin now says she recognized that Rakowitz was psychotic and persuaded the other jurors “one by one” to come around to her view. Yes, she’s proud of that legacy. The only problem is that contemporaneous reporting — including Hostin’s own comments at the time — makes her heroic 35-year-old recollection considerably messier.

“The View” capped off the episode with co-host Joy Behar bemoaning that we won’t have a woman president anytime soon.

That’s a 10 out of 10 even on the Russian judge’s scorecard of perfect “View” episodes. No notes ...

Box-office 'bomb' for Hezbollah

The man who gave us “What Is a Woman?” and “Am I Racist?” is back with another must-see documentary. Director Justin Folk took a break from frequent collaborator Matt Walsh to shoot “Paging Hezbollah,” the kind of documentary no Hollywood studio would touch.

Folk’s film breaks down the “Trojan Horse”-like campaign to give bomb-laden tech to Hezbollah leaders, one of the most devious strategies ever assembled.

Standing by for Javier Bardem and Macklemore to boycott the film in 3 ... 2 ...

'Saw' turns it up to 11

Just as with horror villains, no horror franchise is ever dead-dead.

Even that recent horrific “Exorcist” reboot didn’t stop the franchise from rebooting itself anew. Now it’s “Saw’s” turn.

To be fair, the first “Saw” film from 2004 was ingenious and creepy, but subsequent editions defined the “torture porn” era. No thanks.

Nostalgia still reigns supreme, so a new “Saw” film is in the offing. The only upside? Horror veterans James Wan (“The Conjuring,” “Insidious”) and original “Saw” scribe Leigh Whannell are back to produce the 11th film in the saga.

Sick of Jigsaw and his gruesome game nights? A better alternative might be a couple of well-made “Saw” spoofs that imagine sharing an office and an apartment with the series' sinister "star" Billy the Puppet.

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Macklemore's Palestine-apalooza

Does he even care where the money will go?

Far-left rapper Macklemore is making the most of his career revival. He previously made a stink by lecturing fans as the opening act for apolitical superstar Ed Sheeran. Now riding that publicity wave, he’s going on his own tour.

The catch? All ticket sales will go to the Palestinians. Oh, really.

He won’t be the first person daffy enough to write checks for Gaza dwellers. The terror group that runs Gaza is notorious for taking the money and running, Woody Allen style. Even if he means well, celebrities have a lousy track record of making sure donating funds go where they should.

Just ask the folks behind Fire Aid.

“It’s 2026. Being apolitical during a genocide doesn’t work anymore,” he said in a statement tied to a tour that will start in Dublin, Ireland. That country is notorious of late for its unbridled anti-Semitism.

We’ll leave it at that.

Perhaps he’ll spend his down time reading what the word “genocide” actually means ...

Cruise fears box-office burial

The Last Movie Star could be in trouble.

Tom Cruise’s October 2 release, “Digger,” had all the Oscar buzz heading into the fall ... until people actually saw it. The “first reactions” pieces tied to the satire were all over the map, with plenty of people calling it a dud.

Remember, “first reaction” stories almost always skew positive, sometimes cartoonishly so. So this is a bad sign. Now the film’s box-office hopes are similarly shrinking.

Cruise clearly hopes this outlandish role — he plays an oil tycoon blamed for causing an eco-disaster — would snag him that long-coveted Oscar.

If the word of mouth gets any worse, he may have to settle for a Razzie.

A group of cattle industry organizations said that federal immigration operations could interfere with the beef supply and push prices even higher.

The joint statement from cattle industry groups in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas said they were closely monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in their states.

'These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving.'

"Our organizations respect the responsibility of federal agencies to enforce the law. At the same time, cattle producers, feedyards, dairies, livestock markets, processors, and other rural businesses depend on a stable workforce to care for animals, protect food safety, and keep the supply chains operating," read the joint statement.

"Sudden workforce disruptions can create immediate animal-welfare, operational, and economic consequences that extend well beyond an individual business," they added. "These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving."

The groups said the disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers.

"These disruptions come at a time of enhanced focus and pressure on the cattle and beef supply chain," they continued. "They are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain. Frustratingly, the harm these actions cause to cattle producers last for days and weeks after such operations conclude."

The statement called on federal authorities to respect due process and conduct enforcement operations in a lawful and orderly manner.

Beef prices are already historically high after cattle production in the U.S. dropped over the past few years. The price of a pound of beef has risen about 37.8% from 2013 through 2026.

The groups claimed that immigration operations had already resulted in millions of dollars in lost revenue and added cost for the cattle industry.

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— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 26, 2026

President Donald Trump said to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on his radio program in August that he would seek to deregulate meat processing rules in order to increase the beef supply.

"I know firsthand how rigged the system is against independent American farmers," said Beck about the interview with Trump. "Four massive corporations control almost the entire meat processing industry. If President Trump can cut these regulations, it would be a HUGE WIN."

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When Mikie Sherrill picked Dale Caldwell to be her running mate on the gubernatorial ticket in New Jersey, she called the Methodist pastor a "voice for the voiceless."

Only a year later, Sherill called for Caldwell to resign from his office after an independent report documented numerous allegations of sexual and ethical impropriety against him.

'There has been a culture in Trenton, probably since the birth of our nation, to sweep this under the rug. ... Allegations would never be taken seriously, action would never be taken, and victims would just have to either quit their job or move on.'

The investigation into Caldwell began after an anonymous tip warning about his behavior with women. That investigation turned up "credible evidence" that he made an inappropriate comment to a female staffer and had sought a promotion for a state employee he was dating.

Sherrill announced Caldwell's resignation at a media briefing Friday.

"His decision will allow us to move forward with important work serving the people of our state," the governor added.

Caldwell had earned praise as the first black president of Centenary University in addition to being a pastor of the United Methodist Church.

He is accused in the report of saying to a staffer after being rejected by her friend, "You young women are looking for young sperm."

The report said he denied that allegation but that the investigators did not find the denial credible.

Caldwell denied the report's allegations and said he wasn't given the chance to provide his own witnesses or properly address the claims.

"This unnecessarily protracted and one-sided process lacked the requisite due process that should be afforded every citizen of this state," said his attorneys in a statement.

Sherrill did not have the authority to remove Caldwell herself, but his resignation prevents impeachment proceedings by the state legislature.

"There has been a culture in Trenton, probably since the birth of our nation, to sweep this under the rug," said Sherrill about the allegations. "You can speak to numerous people who’ve worked in the statehouse for decades who felt this day would never come, that allegations would never be taken seriously, action would never be taken, and victims would just have to either quit their job or move on."

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A group that described itself as black "faith, civic, and community leaders" approved of Caldwell's resignation in a statement Friday.

"I will move swiftly and thoughtfully in choosing a new lieutenant governor who will represent my administration and the people of New Jersey with honor and integrity," Sherill added Friday.

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The Trump administration has fired back a scathing response to a Democrat congresswoman who called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished.

Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois said the bill she announced Wednesday would dismantle the Department of Homeland Security, abolish ICE, and reroute their funding to a new department pushing community-based justice policies.

'Our 270,000 DHS patriots are keeping Americans SAFE — unlike this open borders politician who refuses to prioritize Americans over illegal aliens.'

The DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin replied in a statement to Blaze News.

"Radical leftists are calling to defund the police and abolish DHS. It’s NEVER going to happen," said the secretary. "Our 270,000 DHS patriots are keeping Americans SAFE — unlike this open borders politician who refuses to prioritize Americans over illegal aliens."

A spokesperson for the DHS also responded to Ramirez with a list of the worst illegal alien criminals ICE has deported from the U.S.

"Representative Ramirez should be thanking our law enforcement for removing these dangerous criminals from her district — NOT vilifying law enforcement," the spokesperson said.

Ramirez replied in a lengthy statement to Blaze News via email.

"Every day, Americans wake up with a new reason to dismantle DHS, reimagine safety, and build something that honors our shared humanity," the Democrat said.

"The people have the power to reshape the government: instead of the weapon DHS has proven to be, we need a department built on the best parts of who we are and can be, and the best examples of how we can take care of each other in hard times," she added.

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"My Reimagining Safety Act PROTECTS [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency], [the Transportation Security Administration], the Coast Guard, and Customs functions, expands [the Federal Emergency Management Agency], and delivers funding back to our communities," Ramirez continued. "Markwayne and DHS will keep spreading cheap lies and fearmongering in a desperate attempt to save face because dismantling DHS and building something new is part of how we hold them accountable, stop corruption, and end their lawlessness."

Ramirez had previously said the new criminal justice department would be "human- and community-centered" rather than be centered on "surveillance" and "terrorizing people."

She had also earned the scorn of many when she said she was a "proud Guatemalan" first and an American second.

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On Wednesday, the White House released an anti-communism TV ad titled “America Will Never Be a Communist Country.” It started airing on Fox News and Newsmax the same night Xi Jinping touched down in the United States for a summit.

Glenn Beck believes the contents and the timing of the ad are no coincidence.

He points out that the ad’s montage of images feature “[Trump] with the people” and “in the Oval Office,” followed by several clips of jets and bombers.

“[Trump] is showing the people love me; I am everywhere; I am doing everything; I have a huge apparatus and a huge support in the country. Oh, and one more thing. I have the toughest effing military in the world,” says Glenn.

He believes Trump “is sending Xi a message”: “We love you. You're a great friend. But we will never be communist.”

“That commercial is, I think, more for the Chinese than it is for you,” he says, noting that the message was likely also targeted at New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Trump, Glenn explains, is deliberately flexing American military muscle. Just as he fills the Oval Office with gold as “a projection of power for the Europeans,” he is showing Xi Jinping that “America is not weak, that Trump is not weak.”

China's perception, he claims, is that Americans are weak complainers.

“They hear us as a bunch of whiny people. ... We have told the entire world, every enemy of ours, we have no stomach for war. ... You hit us with gas, we're done,” says Glenn.

“Notice that Xi stayed out of the conflict with Iran for a while — until when? Until we started whining about gas. He saw that, and he went, ‘Ah, they're going to back out because the American people won't put up with it.’ That’s when he got involved.”

When Xi arrived in the U.S. this week, Trump’s “number one job,” Glenn speculates, was to sit him down and show that neither America nor Trump is weak — regardless of what the polls say.

He conjectures that Trump was indirectly telling Xi, “I don't care if I have a 4% approval rating. I don't care what you've heard about our military. I got so much stuff packed in mountains that nobody even knows about, and I'll use all of it.”

“He has to convince Xi to back out,” says Glenn, explaining that China “is doing more to hurt our gas prices than anybody else because China is now supplying things for the Iranian people.”

What everyone is missing about Trump’s anti-communism ad, he argues, is that it’s directly tied to lowering gas prices.

“So when you see [this ad], know one thing,” says Glenn. “That's the president working for you at the gas pump. That is the president saying, ‘I hear the American people. I know what's going on. The number one guy who is making that price go up is President Xi.’”

Trump is trying to cut off Iran’s “lifeline,” he explains. Even though it’s China sitting in the Oval Office, Iran is getting a clear indirect message: “You're not phoning any friends anymore. You're isolated. You're alone. I'm going to collapse you. And if I can't collapse you, I'll kill every single one of you one by one. You are not going to survive.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the video above.

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A physical altercation over the weekend in Rhode Island ended with one college football player dead, another player with stabbing injuries, and an illegal alien getting arrested on murder charges.

Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze of Nigeria allegedly stabbed the two men during an altercation in a parking lot near the Mezzo Lounge in Providence at about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Eze was arrested by UMass Dartmouth police and charged with murder. He is also a student at the university.

Eze was given deferred action from deportation twice — once under the Biden administration and once under the second Trump administration, a source familiar with the matter told Blaze News.

18-year-old Marvins Antoine was stabbed in the chest and died later at a hospital, while 19-year-old Kensley Macean was stabbed in the head and neck but survived.

Both were UMass Dartmouth football players.

Eze was arrested by UMass Dartmouth police and charged with murder. He is also a student at the university.

The man entered into the U.S. legally in 2015 but is now considered a "criminal illegal alien from Nigeria," according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson.

ICE Boston placed an immigration detainer request on him after his arrest.

"Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.," the spokesperson said in a statement. "ICE is working diligently to remove these violent, dangerous offenders from our communities."

Eze was approved for deferred action on deportation by the Biden administration in Sept. 2022, according to the source, and then again under the Trump administration in Oct. 2025. Deferred action allows the migrant to stay in the U.S. but does not bestow a legal status.

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He also applied for a work permit in 2023, but that request was rejected.

The UMass Dartmouth football team had just played that evening when the two players were stabbed.

Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said that police utilized Flock cameras to track and identify Eze.

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The U.S. Supreme Court says in a split decision Friday that the Trump administration can follow through with a new way of cross-checking voter eligibility.

All of the liberal justices dissented against the ruling that temporarily allows states to check voters’ citizenship status while the case continues.

'We will be doing everything in our power to protect Americans’ voting and privacy rights by ensuring that the district court decision stands.'

States can use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system organized by the Department of Homeland Security and check voter eligibility.

Opponents of the SAVE program claim that lawful voters will be wrongly declared ineligible to vote.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made the argument in a scathing dissent that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

"The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters," she wrote.

"The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take," Jackson added.

The Supreme Court order stayed a federal judge ruling from June that blocked the expanded SAVE system, determining doing so violated Americans' privacy rights.

The DHS General Counsel James Percival reacted to the ruling on social media.

"Yes, you read that right. We had to file an emergency petition in the Supreme Court just so we could use government data to help states stop noncitizens from illegally voting," he wrote.

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The plaintiffs in the case, which included the League of Women Voters, said the effort was not over and that they would continue to challenge the SAVE system.

"This case is not over," the group said in a statement. "The D.C. district court ruled that the expanded SAVE program violated multiple laws. We will be doing everything in our power to protect Americans’ voting and privacy rights by ensuring that the district court decision stands."

Jackson also warned that the states could use the SAVE system to "cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens."

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Multiple NFL players were fined this week for what the league called a celebration made "in poor taste."

Unfortunately for the NFL, the moments that transpired afterward made it incredibly easy to mock the league's front office as hypocritical.

'An offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste.'

The players in question included San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, who, after catching a pass for a touchdown in the third quarter against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, performed a celebration that made it look like he was chugging a beverage.

The NFL took issue with that, fining him $14,926 and telling the player his "imitation of chugging a beer constituted an offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste."

As ESPN reporter Adam Schefter reported, not only did Juszczyk immediately appeal the fine, the fullback's nickname is "Juice," meaning it is arguable that he could have been imitating drinking a glass of juice.

To make matters worse, fans and reporters alike immediately pointed out the number of prominent beer ads and sponsorships associated with the NFL, including Bud Light under its Anheuser-Busch partnership that runs through 2027.

While some online critics artificially placed a Bud Light ad right after Juszczyk's touchdown, it's not far from what actually happened.

According to the Athletic's 49ers reporter Matt Barrows, not only did a Michelob Ultra beer commercial air in the ad block right after Juszczyk scored, so did a FanDuel gambling ad that featured beer drinking. Michelob is under Anheuser-Busch while FanDuel is also an NFL sponsor.

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Indianapolis Colts guard Matt Goncalves was also fined $8,847 for a similar "offensive demonstration" that was labeled "chugging a beer."

Backlash from journalists and athletes alike was swift but focused on "Juice" in particular.

Former NFL player and three-time defensive player of the year J.J. Watt asked the most obvious question: "Could it not be 'reasonably construed' that he is drinking ... stay with me here ... Juice?"

George Kittle, 49ers tight end, posted a picture of his teammate holding a can of Bud Light and joked, "He can't be stopped!! This is before practice! Are you kidding me?"

Sportscaster Linda Cohn called the NFL's punishment "HEAD SHAKING HYPOCRISY," while Fox analyst Jason McIntyre asked, "The NFL can have beer as a sponsor, but a fullback can't do a celebration pretending to chug a beer?"

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According to reporter Schefter, in addition to his appeal, Juszczyk also texted that he has done the celebration before without being fined, adding, "And I don’t even drink beer!"

Juszczyk also took to wife Kristin's TikTok account to partake in a video of him squeezing oranges into a glass with the caption, "$14,926 glass of juice."

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BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales has quickly become the queen of busting H-1B fraud in the state of Texas. Her on-the-ground reporting and investigative work have produced big results: Governor Greg Abbott (R) froze new H-1B hiring at state agencies and universities, Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) issued civil investigative demands to nearly 30 North Texas companies, and the Labor Department’s inspector general joined her on the ground in Dallas targeting ghost offices tied to hundreds of visa petitions.

And now Congress is getting involved.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara is joined by Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) to discuss a bill she says will implement substantial fines against H-1B fraudsters and companies that fire Americans to hire cheaper foreign labor.

H-1B fraud has essentially become its own “industry,” says Van Duyne.

“It's basically human trafficking, where they're bringing people in, charging them, and then having them just kind of hang out while they are collecting dollars based on their work,” she explains.

“But once they're in the country, then they're getting student visas, they're coming back, and then eventually, if they're not getting paid, they're ending up on some kind of NGO list, where they are indirectly benefiting from taxpayer dollars.”

Sara brings up the original intention of the H-1B visa: “a temporary non-immigrant visa” that allows someone to “work here” and then “go home.”

It was designed “to help U.S. businesses be able to be globally competitive by bringing the best of the best. This was supposed to be workers that they could not find in the U.S. that had these really ultra special talents,” Van Duyne adds, noting that some American businesses take advantage of the loophole by “firing American workers” and replacing them with foreign workers who they pay “substantially less in wages.”

Reform is a top priority for Van Duyne and other Texas Republicans in the House.

“One of the bills that we're going to be introducing next week is actually increasing the fines, because right now it's a slap on the wrist,” she says, explaining how the current penalties are so small that after the payouts these operations pull in, getting caught is still “well worth it.”

“So we’re looking at increasing the fines to $100,000, and if you are laying off American workers, you're going to be further investigated if you are applying for these H-1B visas — and that we're looking at doubling that, so $250,000 for that,” Van Duyne continues.

Sara loves this proposition. “Hit him in the pocketbook. Make it hurt, because they have no problem doing that to the American worker that they're undercutting and displacing,” she says. “Wow. I really hope that you guys get that across the finish line.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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The Democrat mayor of St. Paul — who once proclaimed that she is "illegal in this country" — has been hit with a lawsuit by her own police chief over shocking sexual harassment accusations, according to new court documents. The police chief said the mayor has "embarked on a campaign" of retaliation.

On Wednesday, St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry filed the lawsuit against Mayor Kaohly Her over alleged "inappropriate" encounters, sexual harassment, and retaliation, NBC News reported.

'Why is Tim’s bigger?'

Mayor Her, 53, created "a hostile and demeaning environment" for the chief's staff by sending a meme about "good weinering," according to the 73-page lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court.

NBC News reported, "'Wienering' is an internet slang term for sexual intercourse and is frequently misspelled as 'weinering.'"

The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Her made "unwanted and nonconsensual physical contact" with Henry by "placing her hand on his upper thigh beneath a conference-room table — not once, but twice — during a [St. Paul Police Department] budget meeting."

According to the complaint, Assistant Chief Paul Ford witnessed the contact.

According to the court filing, Her stood with Henry and Deputy Chief Tim Flynn during a police academy graduation on Feb. 19, 2026, and asked the police chief: "Why is Tim’s bigger?" The lawsuit asserts that Her made a "facial expression that suggested to Henry the comment was meant to be a sexual innuendo regarding the size of his penis," the New York Post reported.

Henry, who has led the St. Paul Police Department since 2022, asked the mayor what she was referring to, and she allegedly pointed toward the ribbon bar on his uniform, according to the court filing.

The court filing states that at least five police officers witnessed Her making loud grunting and moaning noises while exercising at the St. Paul police department gym. The lawsuit claims these workout sounds were intentionally exaggerated to sound sexual.

The left-wing mayor allegedly approached officers working out and called them "beefy," according to the lawsuit.

On multiple occasions in January 2026, Her allegedly photoshopped the faces of Henry and other police department members onto a variety of bodies, including boy band members, UFC fighters, and "bodybuilders with prominent bulges in the crotch area of their compression shorts," the court document states.

The suit, which names Her and the city as defendants, says the mayor printed the photoshopped images, placed them in gold frames, and displayed them throughout the police department. Some of the altered images were displayed in areas accessible to both sworn officers and civilians, showing pictures of police leadership "being mocked and sexualized" in public view, the complaint alleges.

The complaint claims that after two officers saw one of the doctored images, "they both remarked that their wives would be offended if they saw it," and Chief Henry's longtime partner described the images as "offensive and utterly inappropriate."

Her allegedly pasted her own headshot over official staff command portraits, department awards, and SWAT retirement plaques within the police department hallways, the lawsuit states.

The court filing states that Her scolded Henry for failing to find the photoshopped pictures amusing, telling the police chief he lacked "a sense of humor."

In December, Her and Henry met with St. Paul Port Authority President Todd Hurley at a cigar lounge to discuss possibly relocating the police station to downtown to help spur local business growth.

The Minnesota Star Tribune, citing the lawsuit, reported, "Her allegedly told Henry at that meeting that if she didn’t get her way, she would just tell people that Hurley 'grabbed her ass.'"

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Blaze News previously reported that Henry filed a formal complaint with the city attorney on April 1, claiming that the mayor sent "inappropriate, and indeed, unlawful text messages" to city staffers.

An investigation of the accusations was launched just six months into her term.

The lawsuit alleges that Her's administration then "embarked on a campaign" of retaliation.

"But instead of accountability, the retaliation began. Rather than confront Mayor Her’s misconduct, her administration, and those acting at her direction, embarked on a campaign to retaliate against and discredit Chief Henry," the lawsuit states.

The suit accuses St. Paul officials of violating the Minnesota Whistleblower Act when they "engaged in a series of retaliatory acts."

Minnesota Public Radio reported, "Henry says Her retaliated after he filed a human resources complaint by excluding him from personnel decisions, publicly criticizing his complaint, and giving raises to other members of the police command staff but not to him."

The complaint claims Her hired a private public relations firm to discredit Henry after the investigation began.

"[Henry] knew that accusing the Mayor of St. Paul of sexual harassment could jeopardize his career," the suit reads. "He reported it anyway. He did so because he recognized the seriousness of the misconduct, the vulnerability of those subjected to it, and the likelihood that the conduct would continue if no one spoke up."

The investigation into Her wrapped up less than a week before the lawsuit was filed, and a two-page summary of the outside investigation was released last Friday.

The misconduct investigation said Her "engaged in offensive and inappropriate behavior" in violation of St. Paul's workplace conduct policy, but that she did not sexually harass or retaliate against anyone.

Matt Wagenius, a spokesman for the mayor, said in a statement that the independent investigation "did not substantiate claims of sexual harassment or retaliation against any city employee."

Wagenius stated that the mayor "will continue to lead Saint Paul and follow the recommendations of the report."

"Beyond that, the City of Saint Paul doesn’t comment on active litigation," the statement concluded.

Chris Madel, Henry's attorney, told the Minnesota Star Tribune, "Axel Henry is an honorable man and a dedicated public servant. He didn’t come forward for attention or advantage — he came forward because what happened was wrong and needed to be reported."

Madel continued, "We look forward to proving our allegations in a court of law, where all evidence, not some sanitized summary written by the City about itself, can finally be heard."

Henry’s lawsuit requests that the city release the full report on its investigation into Mayor Her.

The suit also demands a jury trial to determine damages for "lost wages and benefits, emotional distress, humiliation, and harm to reputation."

Her's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

As Blaze News previously reported, Her shockingly admitted that she and her parents are in the United States illegally.

Her, who was born in Laos, defiantly claimed on the state House floor in June 2025: "And so, I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country."

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) railed against the "mental illness" of "transgenderism" and "furries" for nearly 20 minutes on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, but you'd never know it by reading the news headlines.

Instead, leftist media focused on one line from Tuberville's speech. Tuberville, now running for governor of Alabama, claimed that an unnamed furry group "touts ... many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers" among its members.

'There is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry.'

"Lord, help us. It's terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can't make this up," he added.

A Rolling Stone headline about the speech read, "GOP Senator Ahead of Midterms: Furry Airline Pilots Are 'Terrifying,'" while the headline from AL.com quoted a response from Tuberville's Democratic opponent: "Doug Jones: Tuberville’s furry pilot Senate floor speech is 'the strangest I have ever heard.'"

Strange though it may be, Tuberville was not wrong.

The Air Line Furries Association claims on its website that "many members of the furry community work[] in all aspects of aviation, including pilots, FAs, mechanics, ATC, CSAs, schedulers, dispatch, IT, and more."

Mallory Jaspers, the communications director for Tuberville's gubernatorial campaign, seemed to confirm that ALFA is the group Tuberville had in mind, noting in an email to Blaze News, "The Airline Furries Association International, while not affiliated with any airline and not an official union, is an online hub for people who work in the airline industry and are furries."

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Furries have seemingly infiltrated almost every industry and hobby group. The annual Furry Migration convention, held two weeks ago in Minneapolis, offered breakout sessions for K-pop music, live streamers, songwriting, and of course, aviation.

Shawn McHenry, a "Minnesota Furs Staff & Convention Conchair" who refers to himself as "Rico Raccoon" in his email signature, told Blaze News that he personally knows "that there's all sorts of other aviation professionals in the space," such as "mechanics, flight instructors, pilots, flight attendants, grounds crew, crew schedulers."

The number of aviation personnel who participate in furry culture while off the clock is difficult to estimate. McHenry guessed that about 30 people attended the aviation breakout session at the convention, but that number would have included aviation professionals as well as people with just an interest in aviation.

The ALFA group also appears to have little online reach and almost no activity. Though it promises "stories" and "news," it includes no stories and three news "articles" full of gibberish Latin. The last website update and the group's most recent X post both came in 2022.

Blaze News reached out to major pilot, flight attendant, and ATC unions to see whether their members had ever faced furry-related complaints or disciplinary issues, but did not receive any responses.

Of note, a clip of frequency chatter involving pilots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport went viral back in April because the pilots were making animal sounds.

On the audio, the two pilots trade "meows" before a third male interjects: "You guys, uh, need to be professional pilots." The reprimand does not seem to have any effect, as the one pilot unleashes a string of "meows," while the other barks like a dog.

The FAA told NBC News at the time that it had opened an investigation into the incident. Blaze News followed up with the agency to see whether the pilots had ever been disciplined and whether the incident had been linked to furries, but the agency did not respond.

Tuberville seemed to connect the pilot-meowing to furries, tweeting on Thursday:

I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week. But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry. Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.

The tweet has since received a community note.

McHenry, a senior software engineer, does not see furry pilots as a problem.

"The furry pilots I know keep their personal interests separate from their work. They’re skilled professionals doing their jobs," he said.

"Treating the furry fandom itself as a safety issue unfairly casts suspicion on qualified professionals without evidence. They deserve to be judged by how they do their jobs, just like anyone else."

Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, told Blaze News:

Putting individuals who identify as transgender and as furries, who are already in a vulnerable mental state, in a high-stress situation is not good for them, and it is not good for the people they are serving. ... The priority should be to treat the underlying cause of the gender confusion, not enabling the fantasy. These people are suffering. We need to stop enabling them and start giving them the help they need so they can live their best life.

A correlation between transgenderism, furries, and violence has become a growing concern in recent years, especially following the murder of Charlie Kirk, allegedly by Tyler Robinson. When Robinson was arrested, his male romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, reportedly identified as transgender and professed to be transitioning to female.

Shortly after Kirk was assassinated, Blaze News compiled a list of four other incidents with furry perpetrators involving violence or the sexual abuse of minors. We also included a series of studies and news reports revealing that the furry culture is almost always grounded in deviant sex and sexual identity.

If Robinson is convicted, prosecutors intend to pursue the death penalty. He is scheduled to appear in court again on October 23.

Editor's note: This article has been edited after publication to include a statement from Terry Schilling.

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