Amazon founder Jeff Bezos challenged widespread concerns about AI eliminating jobs during a recent interview, arguing instead that the technology will generate unprecedented demand for human workers.
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Despite being suspended from the San Antonio Police Department for allegedly serving a homeless man a sandwich containing dog feces, former officer Matthew Luckhurst has been named police chief of Benavides, Texas. City officials praised his “exemplary” recent record and said a thorough background check justified the controversial hire.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) broached the subjects of God and damnation in his remarks on Friday to the 2026 Republican Party of Texas State Convention, characterizing Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico as a radical blasphemer in desperate need of prayer.
Preempting possible criticism by the media over his discussion of Jesus and "standing up for God," Patrick noted that "it's James Talarico who decided to bring the Bible into this election — and let me tell you, that's not a Bible I've ever read. I've never seen so much blasphemy from anyone running for office."
'That's the darkness.'
Democrat state Rep. James Talarico is a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who has, among other things,
Talarico has desperately attempted in recent weeks to adopt a less radical, less effeminate persona. In addition to posing with meat — after having previously clutched pearls over animal welfare and the impact of meat consumption on "climate change" — he recently walked back some of his more provocative theological claims.
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In a 2021 speech protesting legislation that prevents male athletes from playing on girls' K-12 school sports teams, Talarico stated, "God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between; God is nonbinary."
In an interview last month, Talarico called some of his previous religious statements "cringey comments" that were "meant to be deliberately provocative."
Lt. Gov. Patrick evidently isn't buying what Talarico is selling, stating on Friday, "Let me tell you what, I'm going to pray for that guy because when he loses the Senate race, if he campaigns against God as he's been doing, he's going to hell for sure. That's what we're up against. That's the darkness."
Talarico responded to Patrick on X, writing, "For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power."
Paxton recently stated that his Democratic opponent — whom he has referred to as "Tofu Talarico" and "Low-T Talarico" — "is a threat to our values, our way of life, and the future of Texas."
A pair of recent polls indicate that the race is unnervingly close. While Paxton was up 45%-43% in a recent Quantus Insights poll, the two candidates were dead even in a Siena University poll earlier this month.
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Chaos erupted on the streets of Manhattan as outraged Knicks fans were reportedly trapped inside subway stations by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and locked out of the NBA title parade after hours of waiting.
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On Thursday the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled against the prosecution of Ali Hemani for being a marijuana user in possession of a firearm.
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I remember telling our son that Donald Trump was going to win.
This was before the ride down the escalator 11 years ago this week — before the rallies, investigations, indictments, impeachments, and endless outrage that would dominate American political life for the next decade.
'The first guy through the wall — he always gets bloody.'
“Washington’s not prepared,” I told him. “Americans are so angry, so frustrated, and so convinced that nobody is listening to them that they are going to send Donald Trump to Washington.”
I was not predicting policy. I was describing a mood.
Americans had spent years listening to politicians from both parties promise action on border security, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, government waste, trade deficits, and manufacturing losses. Election followed election. Promise followed promise. The problems remained.
Recently, I rewatched “Moneyball,” and one line explained more about the last decade than most political commentary ever has: “The first guy through the wall — he always gets bloody.”
The context was baseball, but the observation was about human nature.
As Red Sox owner John Henry pointed out, Billy Beane’s real offense was not merely challenging a way of doing business. He was threatening the people whose livelihoods depended on perpetuating that system. When that happens, people rarely respond with calm reflection. More often, they panic. They say things, do things, and defend things that would have seemed irrational only a few years earlier.
Henry’s colorful diagnosis involved bat guano and mental illness, but his insight still holds.
Trump did not arrive with new information. He arrived with a willingness to say publicly what millions of Americans already believed privately. Like baseball, the stats were known to everyone. Politicians from both parties had talked about border security, warned about a nuclear Iran, criticized trade arrangements, lamented government waste, and acknowledged manufacturing losses. Some made those arguments more eloquently than Trump ever did.
The information was already there. The debate was never over whether the problems existed. It was over whether anyone intended to do anything about them.
What many Americans heard from Trump was not a new diagnosis. They heard a willingness to act on one.
If the ideas were not new, why the reaction?
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The answer lies more in incentives than policy. America’s founders would have understood this immediately. Influenced by Scripture, the Reformation, and centuries of political conflict, they assumed that people rarely become less self-interested when they acquire power. Their confidence rested not in the virtue of those who governed but in the restraints placed upon them.
Barack Obama called those restraints “negative liberties.” The founders understood something that remains true today: Institutions, like individuals, possess a powerful instinct toward self-preservation.
Washington excels at discussing problems. Politicians campaign on them. Consultants raise money around them. Advocacy groups organize around them. Media outlets build business models around them. The issues generate donations, airtime, influence, and careers.
At some point, many Americans began to suspect that Washington had grown more comfortable managing problems than solving them. Problems generated funding, influence, elections, power, and relevance. Solutions threatened budgets, bureaucracies, consulting contracts, media narratives, and political leverage.
A solved problem is often bad for the institutions built around managing it.
That suspicion did not begin with Trump. He simply walked into it. Then he broke the fourth wall.
Like theater, politics depends on a fourth wall separating the actors from the audience. Newspapers, television networks, political parties, and pundits interpreted events, while the public sat in the seats and a relatively small number of institutions controlled the stage.
Trump ignored the arrangement. He bypassed the traditional gatekeepers and spoke directly to the audience.
He did not create that distrust. He brought it to the center of the national conversation and turned the spotlight on institutions accustomed to holding it. Once enough people concluded those institutions were protecting themselves rather than serving the public, the structure became unstable.
Millions of Americans began looking at the stage differently. They noticed the lighting, the script, and the stagehands moving the props. More important, they began questioning whether the performance was as authentic as they had been led to believe.
The reaction was immediate and fierce — not because Trump threatened a policy preference, but because he threatened a system.
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Ironically, many Americans concluded that the people who claimed they could not secure the nation’s border found remarkable energy when it came to securing the institutional wall Trump smashed in Washington. It was a wall of authority, protected narratives, and unquestioned assumptions.
Whether he exposed corruption, incompetence, self-interest, or simply a system disconnected from the people it served is almost secondary. Once people have seen behind the curtain, they cannot be persuaded that they never looked.
That is why the fight continues. Trump remains on the stage, but millions of Americans have already seen what was behind the scenery.
The question is what happens after Trump.
Will Americans still challenge institutions that have grown more committed to preserving themselves than fulfilling their missions? Will leaders still treat public problems as responsibilities rather than campaign themes? Will citizens still maintain a healthy suspicion of concentrated power, regardless of which party controls it?
The first guy through the wall always gets bloody.
The question now is whether America intends to keep walking through the opening — or spend the next generation rebuilding the wall.
Federal officials said an illegal alien was the alleged "ringleader" of the terror plot against the UFC event at the White House.
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A home security and baby monitor provider is allegedly tied to the Chinese government.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said in a press release on Monday that the communist government has had its "hand on our cradles" for some time.
'These cameras watch our babies breathe.'
Hanaway announced a lawsuit against Lorex, a major retailer of WiFi cameras for indoor and outdoor security, including baby monitor cameras. The company even sells cameras attached to lightbulb fixtures as well.
In 2018, Lorex was acquired by Dahua Technology, the same year Dahua CEO Fu Liquan was reported to be the secretary of Dahua's Communist Party Committee. In 2019, Dahua was used by the Chinese government for its surveillance program.
Dahua eventually sold Lorex to Taiwanese company Skywatch for $72 million in 2022, but according to the Missouri AG, the connection to China still exists and Lorex misled retailers about its ongoing connections.
"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Missouri will not allow the CCP to put its hand on our cradles," Hanaway said in the press release. "Parents place these cameras over cribs and in bedrooms to protect their children, not to invite a foreign adversary into their homes."
Hanaway stated that Lorex has maintained its ties to Dahua as an ongoing supplier of components despite the then-Department of Defense previously designating Dahua as a national security threat.
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Families and retailers like Costco, Best Buy, and Amazon are being lied to.Hanaway also alleged that Lorex's firmware routes straight to Dahua, "further evidencing CCP involvement and control over device hardware and software."
In addition to selling products connected to China on its own website, Lorex cameras were sold through Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, Menards, Micro Center, Office Depot, and Staples all while the company "misrepresented and omitted fundamental facts" to consumers and retailers, the lawsuit claims.
"Lorex tells families its video cameras are 'private by design' while concealing ties to a Chinese military company," Hanaway added. "These cameras watch our babies breathe, capture our children's voices, and record families' most intimate moments. When companies won't tell the truth about their connection to hostile foreign governments, my office will step in to protect families."
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Missouri is suing under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, seeking restitution of up to $1,000 for each Missouri customer who bought a Lorex camera in the last five years, as well as $1.8 million in damages from the company.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in February against Lorex with similar accusations, in that the company is still tied to Dahua, uses its components, and failed to disclose this information to consumers.
Paxton said these points violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Lorex did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment and has not released public statements about the Missouri lawsuit.
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