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Will socialism save Seattle? City advocates struggle to find solutions as homeless, drug addicts flood streets

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:00:16 -0400

SEATTLE — City advocates say they are struggling to find solutions as homelessness and open-air drug use spread across Seattle’s streets, amid growing concerns about the direction of socialist Mayor Katie Wilson’s new administration.

"You can just see the foil is like blowing down the sidewalks like autumn leaves," Andrea Suarez, founder and executive director of We Heart Seattle, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital in an interview.

"Very common to see property damage of our parks and shared spaces. You can see Narcan is used to reverse an overdose, so you'll see cartridges. But at least we're remodeling the bathroom to be gender-neutral. I'm not [kidding] you, that's where our priorities are."

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Suarez, who founded We Heart Seattle in the fall of 2020 to clean up her city and public spaces, and offer resources to people in need, says her city has been overtaken by homelessness and open-air drug use, and she said it isn’t getting any better.

"In this park alone, which is Dr. Jose Rizal Park, Lewis Park, and Sturgus Park, there's three connected parks here. In one afternoon, we picked up several hundred pieces of foil in the off-leash dog park, near the children's playgrounds, and the memorials, and the pagoda that's over here as well."

"You can just see every one of these foils was a pill. It could have been a potential overdose," Suarez said. "So pretty jarring when you think about this being in our parks, at our bus stops, you can see the straws. You can see there's needles as well. And oftentimes we'll find that the drugs are still rolled up in the foil, and they get dropped. And we've had several hundred cases of overdoses and poisoning of infants and dogs."

Suarez said that King County Behavioral Health in downtown Seattle now provides information on how to reverse an overdose in dogs.

"That's how bad it is," Suarez said. "It's how prevalent this is in our shared spaces."

She said area stores will sell a "bubble," also called an oil burner, pizzo, or pilo, a type of glass pipe used to smoke substances including fentanyl for $6, and that King County gives them out for free "in the name of harm reduction."

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King County also offers "harm-reduction vending machines," which give free naloxone, fentanyl test strips, as well as condoms, Plan B and "safer sex kits."

Suarez said that addicts will spend anywhere from $100 up to $300 a day on drugs, "if you have it."

"And if you don't, you might get a little sick, but if you can use more, you will," Suarez said. "And so, everything from retail theft, boosting, fencing, prostitution, men and women, huh? Yeah, men, and women. People don't hear that very often that men are preyed on, frankly, by perverts. And they will do anything to not get sick."

Local conservative radio host Ari Hoffman told ӣ��Ƶ Digital in an interview that he believes the city is making its problems worse.

"Seattle and Washington and King County have spent a ton of money on what I call Homeless, Inc., which is fueling this problem," Hoffman said. So, they don't actually get you into treatment. They say, ‘Here, let's give you foil, let us give you a pipe, let's give you a spoon, let's give you whatever drug paraphernalia you want and maybe a pair of socks and some condoms also on top of that.’"

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"And because they are constantly fueling the people who are running Homeless, Inc. and these nonprofit organizations are making an excess of six-figure salaries, these massive huge salaries, there's no incentive for it to end," Hoffman added.

According to Seattle.gov, in 2024, the city of Seattle spent $153.8 million on homelessness services through its Human Services Department.

Compounding the drug crisis is homelessness, which Suarez said has worsened under current policies.

"What I say in Seattle is we've actually removed rock bottom by services, by free housing for life, tiny houses, hotels, allowing tenting in parks," Suarez said.

According to local reporting, homelessness in Washington State is increasing.

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The Washington State Standard reported in August that the total number of individuals counted as homeless is a 4.4% increase from 2024 and a 25% increase overall from 2022. Additionally, the year-over-year increase was approximately consistent with the 4.07% rise from 2023 to 2024, but below the 14.8% jump between 2022 and 2023.

On her campaign website, Wilson said she wants to end "unsheltered homelessness."

"We can’t afford four more years of inaction, with empty tiny homes sitting in storage lots," Wilson said on her campaign website. "We can end unsheltered homelessness. We can reduce public disorder and misery by providing the care that people need, in dignified settings — not leaving people in the streets or moving them around endlessly. We know what works. What’s lacking is the political will to bring solutions to scale."

Local outlet KOMO News reported April 8 that Wilson spoke with members of the Shelter Expansion Community Action Team about opening 1,000 new shelter units and emergency housing this year.

The Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed two ordinances related to Wilson’s campaign promise to increase the number of shelters in the city. The council approved $5 million in funding and expanded Wilson's authority to scale up the number of "tiny homes" in existing city-run villages. The funding is tied to Wilson's larger $17.5 million plan to create 500 new tiny homes by June. She hopes to double that number by the end of 2026.

"We have to aspire to something higher than pushing an encampment around the corner so it’s a problem for a different block," Wilson said.

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According to Suarez, results may be far from ideal if housing does not come with conditions.

"The permanent supportive housing that we fund in Seattle, since there's no requirement to get clean, you're essentially housing somebody with a permanent drug addict's neighbor and likely their dealer," Suarez said.

"And you'll read in my Seattle Times article, how are you supposed to get better when the fox is guarding the hen house," she asked. "I mean, that's just like, ‘Oh, I just need them to get stabilized, and then they can think about moving on with their life and getting help and reaching self-sufficiency.’ Meanwhile, the entire house is using. So there's absolutely no free, clean and sober housing in Seattle. There's like, you can't find it."

In a new interview on "On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti," Wilson was asked about the services Seattle provides to fix the homelessness problem. She acknowledged there was a problem with the way they were dispensed.

"Seattle provides a lot of services, not enough, but I think part of the problem is not just the amount, but also the way that those services are provided. And for example, mobile treatment vans that are going around trying to provide drug treatment to like people living in encampments," she said.

"Then you lose track of that person, and they're still living unsheltered, nothing against mobile treatment vans, actually. They have a very important place in the ecosystem. But the point I'm trying to make is that we create this system of dead ends where you're starting to provide a service, but then you don't have all of the pieces that are needed to make that really successful."

In the same interview, Wilson discussed her "socialist" label, saying "we need a really fundamental restructuring of our society and our economy."

Seattle's Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is a low-barrier housing provider, meaning that they are made for individuals who are homeless who may not be accepted into traditional, high-barrier shelters.

In March, Suarez posted a video on X showing a resident of the Interbay Village Tiny Home Community in Seattle, which is part of LIHI, showing Suarez around the property, and an empty tiny home with a few chairs inside.

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In the video, the resident told Suarez that the space is used by others to take drugs, including fentanyl.

But Suarez said there is no clear plan for people who refuse to use housing options provided by the city.

"We're asking our leadership, what is your plan for people who will never take a tiny house, who will never even take an apartment because they don't even want to ever have to get ID," Suarez said. "These are people that want to be off the grid, do their drugs, be left alone, and they're doing it in plain sight on a sidewalk."

However, state Rep. Shaun Scott of Seattle, a member of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America, said he believes state-provided services and "compassion" are the answer.

"Understand that somebody who's struggling with either addiction or with houselessness or the overlap between the two, we need to have a compassionate response," Scott said.

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"And so I believe that we are successful to the extent that we go in that direction. And I'm not asking you to believe me on this question," he added. "I'm asking you to actually believe the Chamber of Commerce-funded study that indicated in 2018 that in order for the King County area to effectively address houselessness in our state and in our county, we would have to spend something like $400 million annually for about a decade. That is the business community's own response to how it is that we would make our state, make our county in King County, make the city of Seattle, one that's a lot more friendly to people who are experiencing houselessness. And I believe that that is true. I believe we need to go in the direction of fully funding those kinds of services, housing services, social services, we would see a dramatic reduction."

Scott also criticized encampment sweeps, suggesting that "criminalizing" homelessness has done little to reduce the number of encampments and the levels of open-air drug use in the city.

On Wednesday, an encampment at the Rotary Viewpoint Park in West Seattle was swept — a move that critics and advocates say contradicts Wilson's previously proposed strategies.

Leading up to her election, Wilson signaled that the city should prioritize long-term housing solutions instead of displacing the homeless.

"I think this is the opposite of an out of sight, out of mind approach, right? Like we're really doing this work intentionally so that we don't have to just sweep people into other neighborhoods," Wilson previously stated, regarding her approach to homelessness.

Hector, an addict to whom We Heart Seattle has offered treatment many times, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that he has been having a "hard time."

The number one drug people are using in the area is "Fetty," according to Hector. He cautioned young people to stay away from it.

"The younger people, don't waste their lives on drugs," Hector said. "It's a waste of time, waste of money, waste of life."

Tanya Woo, a former appointed City Council member whose family immigrated to Seattle in 1887, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital she is concerned for the future of her city.

"I grew up in this community, I'm a fifth-generation Seattleite, and I've seen a lot of changes in the last couple of years, recent changes that kind of have made me really sad about this neighborhood. It used to be a vibrant community where people from all over the state would come and go shopping and eat and visit," Woo said. "And now it's really empty, and it's tough because a lot of the people who come here are afraid, because we do have a negative public safety reputation in this area."

While some, like Scott, say compassion is the goal, Suarez said the approach is falling short.

"Anybody that is in recovery and has been clean and sober for at least a year or years will tell you, ‘You know, I had to go to jail and sweat it out. I had to be on parole. I had to [urinate] in a cup once a week. I had to show up somewhere to someone. My peer support specialist, my AA sponsor, my parole officer,’" Suarez said. "Without accountability, we are prolonging human suffering, and there's nothing compassionate about trapping a person in their cycle of addiction."

A spokesperson for public health in Seattle and King County told ӣ��Ƶ Digital in a statement, "King County has invested in a wide variety of actions to address opioid overdoses, including increasing access to treatment, providing medications, distributing overdose reversal drugs, and establishing places to go for care – you can read more in this blog post. We’ve seen promising results — over the past two years, fatal overdoses in King County have decreased 32%."

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The spokesperson added, "We’re not distributing flyers about how to reverse an overdose in a dog. If clients ask our staff for this information, we have a flyer from an outside organization that we offer. We don’t collect data on overdoses in dogs, but we don’t have any indication it’s an issue locally."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has reached out to Wilson for comment.

David Cross doesn’t 'give a f---’: The actor-comedian on his new special, social media and ‘terrifying’ AI

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:00:14 -0400

David Cross just released his ninth stand-up special, and as always, he's doing it his way. The comedian known for his offbeat 1990s sketch comedy series "Mr. Show" and his character Tobias Fünke in the sitcom "Arrested Development" sat down with ӣ��Ƶ Digital for a wide-ranging exclusive interview that ranged from the value of virality to what makes art AI-proof and even to crying about baseball.

"The End of the Beginning of the End" is now streaming on YouTube featuring a new hour of comedy complete with Cross' signature anecdotes deconstructing life's absurdities. With eight previous stand-up specials under his belt, he said his audience understands what type of show to expect from him by now.

"I know this sounds, you know, corny, but they're really smart," Cross said of his audience, "And they are mostly like-minded people. And they know what they're getting at this point," which he described as a balance between silly and political jokes, including some personal stories, offensive humor and topical bits.

His care for his audience extended to his wife, whose writing talents he praised, and to the rise of artificial intelligence, a subject that sparked his interest and concern.

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But when it came to his own career, the comic took a more laid-back tack. Cross said he doesn't tailor his work for algorithms or soften his material for mass appeal.

"At this point, I don't give a s---, man. I'm gonna do it and if you want to come down, show up. If not, whatever, it's fine. I'm doing my thing. The audience is happy. Come down if you want, I don't give a f---."

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Cross’ "thing" is threading the needle between the playful and the provocative, he said.

"I don't want to make it too heavily silly or too heavily political. I like to keep a really nice balance through the whole thing."

He told ӣ��Ƶ Digital he thinks of himself not as a "political comic," but rather as "a comic who does talk about politics a little bit."

Indeed, politics isn't the only touchy subject Cross will tear into onstage. Religion is no safer from his absurd probing. He recalled one shocking joke in particular that he predicted would get a strong reaction. The punchline involved traveling back in time to kill baby Jesus. To round it out, he called back to an early bit of his about eating people with disabilities.

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"I say that, that gets a reaction, and I know it's going to. And I relish that, I look forward to it," he said, because comedy can get people to consider things from a new perspective.

"I can continue the thought and get you to understand why, actually, that thing that you were offended at, that thing made you gasp ... maybe there's some logic to it."

When considering what jokes belong in an hour together, whether goofy or grounded, Cross said he considers "what flows" more than thematic cohesion.

"If there is kind of a thread or a theme, that's just something that presents itself. I never sit down and go, 'How can I talk about the inhumanity of man?' You know, it's not that kind of thing."

Ultimately, the audience's reaction is his main metric when it comes to cutting and refining jokes, he said.

The anti-viral comic

Cross' esteem for audience feedback doesn't carry over in quite the same way to a social media audience. He said he never considers the potential for a joke to become a "soundbite" or "clip online," and he's suffered for it.

"All the folks from my PR can tell you, pulling clips is very difficult from any of my specials," Cross chuckled, extending a hand toward his publicist.

Given his extended storytelling style, it would be "futile" for him to try to write for social media, he said. Pulling a short clip that includes the context needed to understand it is difficult, and even then, he would need to find one that's not too "saucy."

Cross acknowledged the growing popularity of comedians who get their start on social media, which some comics would brand a "shortcut." He said he's not a fan of that route, though he doesn't hold it against the up-and-comers. Nonetheless, something is lost by missing out on the experience of working with live audiences on the road, he maintained.

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Some comics rise above the glut of stand-up available today, and Cross said he's been introduced to some great new talents through Netflix and social media. But he finds most of them unremarkable.

"The vast majority are just boring to me. . . . There's nothing special about that special. And you can sort of get a sense that they don't have the innate or intuitive qualities that one would get by going out on the road and performing in different places with different people of all walks of life, you know, in a mall in suburban St. Louis or whatever."

For better or worse, these comics have audiences, and if they can get butts in seats, "Good for them," said Cross, joking about people who pay exorbitant ticket prices to see that super cute "guy who does the thing" from TikTok or Instagram.

People come to his shows to see the beard, he jested.

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But amid rapidly progressing artificial intelligence technology, that iconic beard could soon be stolen and used by AI to create a convincing fake video of Cross in any number of compromising situations, a prospect he called "f------ terrifying."

In an age where nearly every industry has to consider what jobs could be taken over by AI, Cross listed two forms of performance that he judged to be safe — at least for now.

"As far as AI, as we understand it now, I would imagine dance can't be replaced, and I would imagine stand-up comedy [is safe]. You can't replicate that experience without a replicant. Hmm, new Westworld idea," said Cross, pitching a new version of the film and TV series, "but it's all s----- standups."

"I think [standup comedy] is safe. But I say this with the caveat of: Who knows where the f--- this is going. It's clearly not going to be regulated. I mean, not with the current people in office that won't regulate anything."

Emerging technology is changing the playing field. Cross pointed to AI actor Tilly Norwood, a completely digital performer. "I had such a difficult time computing that this was not a real person," he said.

While he finds the breakneck pace of improvement scary, he said he's even more concerned for young people.

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"This is the beginning. We're in the very beginning of it, so that part is terrifying, especially if there's no regulation. And I think about my daughter's generation and like, what the f--- are they going to have to deal with?"

Cross didn’t pretend to have answers for where AI is headed. But on comedy, at least, his approach remains the same: Do the material he wants, trust the audience that gets it, and let someone else chase the algorithm.

Palantir CTO warns US has only 'eight days of weapons' in hypothetical battle against China

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:00:43 -0400

The U.S. is wrong about military deterrence, according to Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar. America relies on the threat of its large weapons stockpiles to discourage aggression, but Sankar says the real deterrent is production capacity — "the ability to generate the stockpile."

In an exclusive interview with ӣ��Ƶ Digital, Sankar argued that artificial intelligence could help the United States rebuild manufacturing strength, outproduce adversaries and restore its edge over global rivals like China, ideas he expands on in his new book, "Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III."

To Sankar, the conflict in Ukraine is proof that the U.S. "is getting the calculus of deterrence wrong."

"We thought it was the stockpile that would provide deterrence. And what Ukraine showed us, because we went through 10 years of production in 10 weeks of fighting, is that actually, it's the ability to generate the stockpile. It's the factory," he said.

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"And we have been producing so few weapons at such a small rate that actually, it's not effectively scary to anyone. We're both precious about using them and worried about rebuilding them."

He claimed that, if it came to an intense battle against China, the United States would have around eight days' worth of weapons on hand.

"That is not scaring the adversary," he said.

Sankar pointed to World War II as an example of this. Germany was able to build more sophisticated weapons than America, but in much smaller quantities, he said.

"In the present moment, the Chinese are the best at mass production. And now we look like the Germans."

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But if AI could be used "to give the American worker superpowers," he said, the imbalance could be corrected and America could retake the lead. He contended that China has made a grave error in its assessment that the U.S. is a nation in decline.

"The No. 1 thing that China is getting wrong is they're underestimating the American spirit. In our kind of Judeo-Christian tradition, we start by turning the other cheek over and over and over again. But at some point, we will snap."

Sankar said there are lessons to be learned from China's military posture, but the most important one is recognizing that innovation goes hand in hand with productivity.

"The central lie of globalization is that we can do the innovation and other folks are going to do the production. But if you do that for long enough, what you realize is that they work their way up the stack," he told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

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Put simply, Sankar argued that the people building any given technology day after day are the ones who will discover where there is room for increased efficiency and improvements. Offshoring manufacturing has deprived Americans of that stimulus, he said.

Sankar gave China credit for its long-term planning, claiming that it has been investing in closing the gap between its military and America's since the first Gulf War. He said China hasn't attempted to hide these investments, but due to the slow speed of progress, the U.S. hardly takes note.

AI, then, can give America the edge once more, because China could not have planned for it. Sankar advocated for reshoring industrial development, but not solely for the purpose of bringing rote manufacturing processes to American soil. He asserted that this is the key to strengthening America's national security and spirit of invention.

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"We're not going to re-industrialize symmetrically," Sankar said. "We're not just going to take the things they're doing as they're doing them and bring them here. No, we're going to do them in entirely different ways that help us close the business case on bringing all of these capabilities in production back home."

America’s ‘undeclared emergency’: Palantir exec talks Iran, deadly new US weapons and how to avoid World War 3

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:00:46 -0400

As tensions boil over with Iran, Palantir Technologies CTO Shyam Sankar argues that, for the time being, America's superior weapons are humiliating adversaries on the battlefield — but the U.S. remains dangerously unprepared for a protracted global conflict, putting the global balance of power in jeopardy.

Sankar made the case that America faces an "undeclared emergency," having nearly lost the industrial deterrence necessary to prevent World War III as global rivals grow more powerful and more brazen.

"We've just started to restore deterrence. We have the Maduro operation, [Operation] Midnight Hammer, current events in Iran, but we need to... be very clear-eyed about the moment — that these could be the kind of skirmishes that lead up to a larger conflict," Sankar said during an exclusive interview with ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"And we should be asking ourselves the question, 'What can we do right now to deter World War III?'"

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He advocated for empowering mold-breaking industry leaders to bypass Pentagon bureaucracy, and for sweeping investment in innovation and manufacturing to make the defense space competitive again. He explores these ideas as artificial intelligence radically transforms the battlefield in his new book, "Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III."

Sankar emphasized the importance of funding technological research and development, contending that tech is the lever that directly leads to increased efficacy on the ground.

"If you look at the history of technology, it's always been the thing that's given us orders of magnitude of efficiency, of capability. Even if you look at the present day conflict in Iran, the sort of planning that we were able to do with one person in two weeks is something that in Gulf War II actually took 50 people six months," he said.

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"So that sort of efficiency translates that into lethality. It translates into cost. If you're not willing to invest in the technology, though, you'll never be able to realize that."

But the way the government conceives of tech investment is misguided, he asserted, stating that the industry should reward results today rather than allowing big defense contractors to prioritize their own balance sheets over putting working weapons in the hands of soldiers as quickly as they can.

He pointed to recent events as evidence of a roiling global order, including the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the militarization of the Spratly Islands in 2015, and Iran's nuclear progress, Hamas' attack on Israel in 2023, and the chaos caused by the Houthis "holding world trade hostage in the Red Sea."

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"The conflict with Iran shows us that we need to continue to go faster," he said, lauding Operation Epic Fury and claiming America owes her soldiers the best technology possible.

"And I think what we see in the current conflict is that the high-low mix really does matter — that we really do own the high end of the fight. Our weapons are quite exquisite... we're also humiliating our adversaries' weapons. From Maduro on, you look at the complete failure of Chinese and Russian air defense systems... We're doing great."

Still, Sankar said there is much to learn from challenges present at "the low end" of the fight. America isn't in a perfect defensive posture and risks being beaten by inferior technology that is more quickly produced, he cautioned.

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"The difficulty we have countering the Shaheds, the lessons that we should be learning from Ukraine, from Iran, these are present. And we're going to need more heterodox thinking, more competing ideas, a bolus of investment to get after it."

"The good news is the department realizes this and these plans are well underway."

Mark Normand says late night is 'dying' — how the stand-up comic keeps up in a changing comedy scene

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:00:56 -0400

Stand-up comedian Mark Normand talks the way he performs: fast, loose and irreverent, with a punchline lurking around every corner.

With a baby at home and a new Netflix special on the way, Normand sat down with ӣ��Ƶ Digital to discuss writing comedy in an increasingly tribal culture, where jokes are often judged less by whether they land than by the politics of the person telling them — and where late-night TV has lost its edge to polished predictability.

The New Orleans-born comic's newest Netflix special, "None Too Pleased," which premieres March 17, is a rapid-fire, "joke-every-30-seconds" type of show, Normand said. In it, he pokes fun at the partisanship and lack of nuance he sees in public discourse.

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Normand said what bothers him about comedy today more than a particular political slant is the presence of any finger-wagging in the first place. The monologue-based, one-way communication of stand-up comedy makes the medium uniquely suited to be hijacked and turned into a lecture.

"Imagine if a musician just came up, put his guitar down and was like, 'Let me tell you about Iran and Israel.' And you're like, 'Well, what about the music?' [Stand-up comedy] is the only art form that's so subjective that you can kind of slip away from the comedy part because you're holding a microphone and have a stool with a beer on it," he said.

"Making horrible things funny is part of the job."

Normand said comedy has become "weirdly morality-based," and the craft that once rewarded nerve is now more frequently filtered through a lens of sensitivity.

"When I was a kid, you watched ‘Blazing Saddles’ or Eddie Murphy or whatever, and it was just like, the worst things are what you should lean in on."

However, he clarified that shock for its own sake is no closer to comedy. Normand insisted that the issue is not whether subjects are sensitive, but whether comics have done the work to transform them into jokes rather than slogans or cheap shots.

"I think some people do that horribly, and they just say a word without having a joke. I think as long as it's always a joke, you can talk about anything. Everything is on the table, and I think making horrible things funny is part of the job. So I say lean in, but it's gotta be funny. That's the key. It's got to be a laugh."

"And that's the art form," he said, "making it funny and getting away with it."

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Politics over punchlines

Too often, audiences are more focused on trying to discern a speaker's political position than on listening for the punchline, Normand said, arguing that people only want to listen to those on "their side."

This social media algorithm-fueled partisanship is "ruining everything" and preventing the exchange of ideas, he continued.

"People are seeing two completely different realities. So I can tell people are sitting in the audience like, 'What is he? What is he? Is he right? Is he left? What's going on here? I can't laugh because I don't know where he's at,' and I think that's horrible for comedy."

"When I was a teenager, they would go, 'Straight or gay?' But now it's, 'Right or left?' and I like to keep them both in the dark."

Stand-ups face an additional hurdle. By the nature of the craft, they have to work out their material in front of an audience, unlike other artists or athletes who can practice outside the arena. This means it might take a few rounds of workshopping before a joke really lands, which is especially perilous for one's reputation when fine-tuning a potentially offensive joke.

To reassure his audience that he's on their side, Normand issues a disclaimer between bits at the start of his special: "I should warn you guys, I will say some horrific s--- up here, but it's all jokes, just fun."

Pressure to pick a side

"We've kind of got this Pavlovian response now to certain topics, like race or gay or men, whatever it is," Normand told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, saying people can get triggered by the very mention of a subject before it's even clear where a joke is headed.

"So I wish people would just listen. And so I have to give this disclaimer, like, 'I'm gonna talk about these triggering things, but it's all above board. It's all silly. It's always humor.'"

Audiences want creators to choose a side, Normand said. He pointed out the absurd contradictions that hyper-partisanship can produce, like when different commenters accuse a comic of being "woke" and "alt-right" on the same video.

"I hate that everything's political ... and it used to not be. Political talk used to be boring and for nerds. You know, there's some guy like, 'Can you believe what's going on in Kosovo?' And you're like, 'Shut up, you dork. We're trying to have a drink.' But now it's front and center. It's such a big part of the culture."

"So I just want to be a comedian. You know, I don't wanna be a pundit, but I do feel like if you pick a side, your career goes better," Normand continued, asserting that what makes someone your favorite comedian should be their humor, not their politics.

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Late Night

When it comes to comedy, nowhere are the effects of tribalism more visible than on late-night television, which Normand argues has become flattened and rote.

"The late nights aren't what they used to be — no offense," he began. Normand has appeared over a dozen times on late-night shows like "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," "Conan," and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

He said the scene has left ideological diversity behind.

"We're done with that, which is so hypocritical. We have a Black guy, a White guy, and a Jew, and an Asian, and a lady, but they all think the same. So what's the point?"

It's not the content of the jokes that Normand finds irksome, but rather their predictability.

"I think what bothers me from a comedian standpoint is they're all telling the same joke ... It's like the same Trump jokes over and over. I don't care if you bash Trump, but ... be original."

Compared to comedy clubs, late night shows are more tense and less casual, which Normand surmised might be another reason for talk shows' decline.

"You got that tension of cameras on, and this is your shot. It's TV, baby! But at the clubs you can just go, 'Hey, look at this queef. What's up with that guy? What are you, gay? Alright, nice shirt, d-----. You know, it is more of a conversation."

He suggested people gravitate toward the perceived authenticity of looser formats like club comedy, crowd work and podcasts.

"So I think the late night, maybe another reason it's dying — no offense — is because people want that authentic experience ... I think now a crowd work clip, you know, just calling a guy fat does way more views than a Fallon clip, sadly — the world has flipped on that. One-eighty, completely."

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"We don't need your take. Be funny."

Normand co-hosts two comedy-focused podcasts with other comedians. He said his own podcasts are "just entertainment," as opposed to a soapbox.

"I don't want to be saving the world. I don't want to be an activist. I don't want to give tips on comedy, or a comedy lecture. It's just full of jokes, what's on the news, what is going on in the world, and just silliness and levity. Keep it light," he said.

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At the end of the day, ordinary people want comedy to be comedy, not the news, he argued — pointing to Twitter, where so-called comedians build timelines full of political takes without an attempt at humor.

"Everybody's got an opinion. Everybody's got a take. We don't need your take. Be funny."

The socialist crime blueprint begins. NYC leaders pull back the curtain on Mamdani’s vision for public safety

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:00:25 -0500

A large swath of New York City crimes plummeted three months into 2026, but police staffing shortages, subway scares and questions about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s larger plans for law enforcement have kept public safety front and center of the Big Apple’s political spotlight.

"I think that right now there's a wait-and-see attitude. Is Mayor Mamdani going to be supportive [of the police] or is it going to be like he's still campaigning for a socialist position? We don't know," James Mulvaney, an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has pointed to an early-year crime snapshot that looks, on paper, like a success: January and February combined saw 83 shooting incidents and 97 shooting victims, along with 32 murders, record lows for the first two months of the year, according to the department.

But transit crime jumped 18.5% in February, largely driven by felony assaults and grand larcenies.

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"You know, so many transit workers are being assaulted. Police officers have been bitten. We have a lot of homeless, emotionally disturbed individuals," Passengers United Founding President Charlton D'Souza said during a late-night tour of the New York City subway system.

D’Souza called for a more consistent NYPD presence underground, with a greater number of small police installations.

"The subways need constant security," he said, detailing recent violent crimes at stations and expressing concern at the quantity of homeless people, many of whom he says are migrants sleeping in the system.

"The public knows that if there’s an emergency… they can get police assistance in real time."

The NYPD, for its part, has acknowledged the February spike and says it responded by deploying "approximately 140 additional cops a day into the transit system."

The department’s breakdown of February’s transit crime paints a picture that aligns with recent rider complaints: Thefts of unattended items surged, thefts from sleeping passengers rose, and assaults drove a significant share of offenses.

Mulvaney stressed that despite some harrowing headlines, the city today is significantly safer than in decades past. Still, he noted how quickly a single high-profile crime incident can shift public mood, even if personal risk remains relatively low.

"It only takes one or two anecdotes for people to flip out," he said. "Look at that. Why was he or she let go?"

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D’Souza also flagged a constraint that has voices across the political spectrum sounding the alarm.

"NYPD is so short-staffed," he said. "They don’t have enough police to cover this."

Mulvaney said that NYPD shortages are, in part, the result of nearby counties offering better salaries and a calmer environment.

He also suggested that police attrition may accelerate if officers continue to sense an "erosion of respect" in a department already stretched thin. Rebuilding trust, he said, must start "from the top."

Heather Mac Donald, a Manhattan Institute fellow and author of The New York Times bestseller "The War on Cops," took it a step further and claimed that many of these staffing issues are the result of longstanding animosity towards police. Mac Donald believes that rhetoric painting cops as "racist" has led to crumbling morale.

Mamdani's predecessor, Eric Adams, proposed at the end of his term that the city hire 5,000 more police officers. However, upon entering office, Mamdani moved to cancel all orders signed by Adams following his Sept. 26, 2024, indictment on bribery and campaign finance offenses. This included the proposed NYPD personnel increase.

Additionally, the preliminary FY 2027 budget notes the importance of "significantly reducing current vacancies," which could include reductions in funding for the NYPD based on unfilled positions. Mamdani's budget proposes a $22 million decrease in the NYPD's $6.4 billion budget next year.

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Mac Donald said the city’s safety problems are a "completely voluntary choice by our government officials," and warned that the "number of police make a big, big difference in crime prevention." Her case is rooted in deterrence more than arrests.

"There’s a concept in the field known as ‘command presence,’" she said. "Merely by being there, police deter crime."

Mulvaney added that the recent footprint and strategy of the NYPD is producing results despite staffing constraints. He claimed that officers "understand that their visibility and their concentration on high crime areas is paying off."

Now, Mamdani’s administration is being judged against these two competing realities: a historic citywide reduction in crime and continued anxiety about subway safety and police officer attrition.

That split is the context for a broader question hanging over Mamdani’s first year: Can the new mayor preserve the city’s gains against crime while delivering on a campaign argument that public safety is bigger than arrests and enforcement?

Prior to his inauguration in January, Mamdani promised to keep pressure on serious, violent crimes while shifting parts of the city’s response to mental illness, homelessness and low-level disorder away from traditional policing.

In his public safety plan released amid the NYC mayor race, Mamdani said he would work to create a Department of Community Safety aimed at expanding mental health teams and other non-law enforcement personnel, such as social workers, who can respond to certain 911 calls.

Community transit advocates and criminal justice scholars who spoke with ӣ��Ƶ Digital remain divided over whether Mamdani’s approach to public safety will represent a gradual evolution of established policy, or a reimagining of modern policing based on the inclinations of his socialist base.

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Mac Donald suggested that a public safety plan that increases the use of social workers is like putting a "Band-Aid" over problems resulting from larger governmental inadequacies.

D’Souza warned that sending social workers alone to 911 calls could be a "recipe for disaster" and urged City Hall to create a plan that pairs non-law enforcement personnel with the NYPD to improve safety when responding to disorderly individuals.

"If that person has a knife, if they're armed, if they have a weapon, what are [social workers] going to do?" he said.

Mulvaney was also cautious but not dismissive of the idea.

"In terms of mental health issues, the problem is that cops are going to get to places first. It would be great to have a counselor with you, but how soon are they going to get there? Would it be helpful? Yeah. What do you do in the interim to protect the person who is having an issue and everybody else?" he told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"Generally, society has pushed the icky jobs that nobody else wants to deal with onto the police and given them no proper training or solutions. I mean what does a New York City cop do with a perhaps intoxicated person sleeping on a subway? So, I think that in many ways both the mayor and the police are coming from the same direction," Mulvaney added.

Mamdani’s decision to retain Commissioner Jessica Tisch is widely seen as a signal that, despite running as a Democratic socialist, the mayor might not intend to govern as a pure anti-police ideologue.

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Mac Donald described the move as a deliberate attempt to "reassure rightfully jittery New Yorkers," but claimed the decision would likely lead to complications down the road.

"Tisch believes in enforcing the law. Above all, she believes in enforcing essential, so-called broken windows or quality of life laws, things which Mamdani's base and the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America completely oppose. So, the big conflict or suspense in New York at the moment is who's going to blink first," Mac Donald said.

Mamdani's office and the NYPD did not return ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

NYC landlords fire back at ‘racist’ Mamdani aide's claim that ties homeownership to 'White supremacy'

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:45 -0500

New York City landlords are sharply criticizing remarks from a top housing official in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration who previously linked homeownership to white supremacy, calling the comments "racist" and dismissive of immigrant property owners.

Cea Weaver, a longtime housing activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was tapped by Mamdani to be his director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.

Speaking about housing policy and equity in a March 2021 DSA video, Weaver said, "For centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good, and we are going to … in transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity, will require that we think about it differently."

"Families, especially White families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have," she added.

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Weaver also faced backlash for a 2019 tweet where she wrote, "private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of White supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy."

Weaver’s statement drew the attention of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who told ӣ��Ƶ that the "Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is on high alert as to the radical agenda promised by Mayor Mamdani, much of which is at odds with our federal Constitutional and civil rights norms."

New York City small property owners who spoke with ӣ��Ƶ Digital say Weaver’s views are "insulting," and paint landlords with a broad and unfair brush.

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Jan Lee, a third-generation Chinatown property owner and board member of the Small Property Owners of New York (SPONY), said Weaver's comments ignore both history and the lived experiences of immigrant landlords.

"I think that the true socialist views toward housing and taking housing away from people like myself is the racist element in this," Lee said. "I think when you start to lump all of us together and say that we're all the bad thing that's keeping people out of housing, that's racist. We're right out of the gate in this administration, starting off with extreme hostility for property owners."

Lee emphasized his family’s deep roots in the city, noting that his family have been providers of housing in New York City since the early 1900s.

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He pushed back forcefully on the notion that property ownership equates to White supremacy, pointing to the history of immigrant communities striving and struggling to acquire a piece of the American dream.

"I think comments from a White woman individual who's now in this seat of government saying that home ownership is some form of White superiority hasn't lived the life of my family and many of the families who are small property owners of New York who are not White," Lee said. "Black owners were barred from owning property. There were laws made against Chinese about Japanese Americans in the United States for owning property, so to say that owning property is a form of White supremacy is completely, completely out of line."

"And it denies the history that many people of color have had to leave. It's very insulting when you have the privilege that she has to sit there and say these things in 2026 without understanding that when my family bought our properties, the Chinese Exclusion Act existed. We weren't even allowed to come into this country," he continued.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first major U.S. federal law to ban a specific ethnic group, Chinese laborers, from immigrating to the U.S. It suspended immigration for 10 years and denied citizenship to Chinese residents. It was not repealed until 1943.

Ann Korchak, board president of SPONY, echoed Lee’s concerns and called the rhetoric divisive.

"I think that language like that is insulting," Korchak said. "[Weaver] should come to a SPONY meeting, and she would be blown away by the diversity of our organization."

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"New York has a rich tradition of immigrants kind of reaching the American dream through property ownership," she said. "So many of our members and others who don't even know that we exist came to America because they didn't have rights in wherever they came from. Owning property is something that was unattainable to them from where they came," Korchak said.

"To say that it's racist to own property is an insult to every single immigrant who ever came here," she added.

In a January statement announcing Weaver’s appointment, Mamdani said, "You cannot hold landlords who violate the law to account unless you have a proven, principled and tireless fighter at the helm. That is why I am proud today to announce my friend Cea Weaver as the Director of the newly reinvigorated Mayor's office to protect tenants."

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Weaver said last year that she found her past comments about homeownership and White supremacy "regretful" but, according to the New York Post, stopped short of an apology.

"I think that some of those things are certainly not how I would say things today, and are regretful," she told NY1. "I do think my sort of decades of experience fighting for more affordable housing sort of stands on its own."

Lee argued that anti-landlord rhetoric from the Mamdani administration negatively impacts both housing providers and tenants, leaving renters at the mercy of large corporations.

"I think that working face-to-face with real property owners, understanding who they are, their value to the community, and what will keep them in the community is more important than starting off with someone who is vitriolic, who's very hateful toward property owners and actually sees property ownership through a very narrow myopic lens [and] can only hurt tenants and property owners themselves," she said.

He also alluded to broader consequences if small landlords are pushed out.

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"If you really care about the tenancy and the quality of life of tenants in New York City, particularly those people who are people of color, you should not want small property owners, particularly people who have been embedded in the community for a long time, to leave," Lee said.

As the Mamdani administration begins shaping its housing agenda, comments from landlords highlight an early and pointed divide between City Hall’s tenant-focused leadership and the city’s small property owners.

According to Korchak, small property owners feel unfairly targeted by rhetoric they believe oversimplifies a complex housing crisis and disregards the immigrant experience.

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She also noted that immigrant families in her organization see property ownership as the culmination of years of sacrifice.

"Either immigrants or children of immigrants, grandchildren of immigrants know the sacrifice that either they made themselves or their parents or grandparents made to buy a piece of property," she said. "To be just shot down and criticized for their desire to do that is grossly unfair."

Weaver and the mayor's office did not return ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

Is Mamdani’s socialist push for rent controls about to wreck the New York City housing market?

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:00:11 -0500

When Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor of New York City, he made one promise unmistakably clear: He would freeze the rent. Now that campaign tent pole is poised to collide with the complex economic factors exacerbating the Big Apple’s housing affordability crisis.

As his administration begins to take shape, that pledge, rooted in a democratic socialist vision of housing as a human right, is likely to be the first major political test for Mamdani. Supporters say it is an urgent lifeline for tenants battered by inflation and record rents. Critics warn it could destabilize the city’s fragile housing ecosystem, deepen building distress and accelerate an exodus of small property owners.

"I have people walking away. I have two people selling their buildings right now. I have more people selling the buildings and leaving for Texas and Florida," Humberto Lopes, founder of the Gotham Housing Alliance, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"People already came to me, and I have their buildings on the market already. Since January, my business in the real estate — I'm a licensed corporate broker — has doubled in the number of buildings we are selling."

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Lopes’ interview, among others, is part of ӣ��Ƶ Digital’s "The Rise of Socialism" series, which examines how socialist ideas and policies are increasingly shaping political debates and public policy in major cities across the United States.

Roughly 1 million apartments in New York City are rent-stabilized. A rent freeze would apply only to those units, holding annual increases at zero, down from 3%, for at least a year.

Tenant advocates argue the move is overdue. Median rents in Manhattan hover around $5,000 per month, a figure that Carlina Rivera, president and CEO of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH), concedes is "absurd" and increasingly unsustainable for working- and middle-class residents.

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Rivera supports voucher programs, such as CityFHEPS, which moved approximately 30,000 families from shelters into stable housing last year. About 135,000 New Yorkers rely on rental vouchers to remain in their homes. Even so, affordability pressures persist across boroughs.

Mamdani has framed the rent freeze as part of a broader affordability agenda that includes strengthening tenant protections, preventing homelessness and accelerating housing production on vacant city-owned lots. His administration has signaled support for cutting red tape in environmental review and permitting processes, changes developers say could reduce costs by tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per project.

But landlords and property owners argue the freeze targets only part of the market while ignoring underlying financial realities.

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"It’s impossible to freeze rents when expenses to operate housing continue to rise," Ann Korchak, board president of the Small Property Owners of New York (SPONY), said in an interview with ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "Revenue, which is rent in housing, needs to rise to cover rising expenses."

In interviews with housing providers, from nonprofit developers to small "mom-and-pop" landlords, a consistent theme has emerged: Operating costs are climbing rapidly.

Insurance premiums for residential properties have risen dramatically since 2019, in some cases more than doubling. Utility costs remain elevated. Property taxes, which often make up 40% to 50% of some small owners’ rent rolls, have increased steadily for years.

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Lopes says property taxes on some buildings are projected to rise between 15% and 40% this year. He revealed that one of his buildings' tax bills will jump from $68,000 to nearly $100,000 while allowable rent increases remain capped at a fraction of that yearly jump.

"Where do you think that money’s going to come from?" Lopes asked.

Landlord groups argue that freezing stabilized rents doesn’t eliminate costs, it redistributes them. In mixed buildings, they say, commercial tenants or market-rate renters may shoulder a greater burden. In others, maintenance and capital upgrades may be deferred.

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"If you freeze the rent-stabilized housing," Korchak said, "the commercial rents are going to have to continue to go up to make up for that shortfall, or the free-market tenants will have to pay higher rents."

Affordable housing developers express similar concerns. Rivera said operational stress in rent-stabilized buildings is no longer anecdotal.

"The data is out there as to how people are really struggling," Rivera said. "Operational costs are up in the double digits. And that would be hard for anybody to maintain."

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Rivera supports tenant protections and acknowledges affordability challenges but warns that layering on a rent freeze and higher property taxes could risk foreclosures or bankruptcies, a worst-case scenario she says would be "bad for the city, bad for business."

Mamdani and his allies frequently describe housing as a human right. Critics counter that, in New York’s current system, housing is also overwhelmingly a private enterprise.

"When people say housing is a human right," Korchak said, "the reality is most housing in New York is provided by private owners. We are supporting the city through the property tax collection attached to every rental building."

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Property taxes fund schools, police, fire departments and hospitals. If large swaths of housing were converted to social or nonprofit models, owners argue, the city would lose significant tax revenue unless replacement funding were found.

Jan Lee, a third-generation Chinatown property owner, fears what he sees as increasing hostility toward private ownership.

"If we keep pushing small property owners over this cliff, and we don’t give them the tools that they need to maintain their units, we’re just going to leave New York City," Lee said. "And tenants will be left with a 1-800 number to a corporate entity."

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Lee and others also reject rhetoric that characterizes landlords as exploitative, arguing that many are immigrants or children of immigrants who built intergenerational wealth through property ownership.

"I fear that a lot of the rhetoric that was out of the campaign trail to get votes is actually going to solidify and calcify into something that will reflect true socialism, true socialist views toward housing," he said.

"I think when you start to lump all of us together and say that we're all the bad thing that's keeping people out of housing, that's racist. I think that saying that [people's] history should be denied and that everything about home ownership is related to White superiority, [that's] racist. You know, this denies the history of how New York City was built. And I, for one, don't agree with it," Lee continued, referencing comments made by Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants.

Weaver and the mayor's office did not return ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

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Those deeply embedded in New York City’s housing hub argue the current system has failed tenants for decades. They point to a chronic lack of construction, restrictive zoning and the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act, which strengthened rent regulations. But critics say it also limited incentives to renovate vacant stabilized units.

Tenant groups contend that rent stabilization has kept millions housed and that, without intervention, market forces alone would push rents even higher.

Any conversation about socialism and housing in New York inevitably turns to NYCHA, the New York City Housing Authority, which houses nearly 400,000 residents. Long plagued by underfunding and deteriorating conditions, NYCHA stands as both a testament to large-scale public housing and a warning about chronic neglect.

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Rivera argues NYCHA should be treated like other essential infrastructure, akin to the MTA or public hospitals, with sustained investment and conversation rather than episodic crisis management.

"When you see the bad landlords in New York City and the conditions of some of these units, you certainly want to hold them accountable," she said. "When you look at NYCHA, who's the biggest landlord and arguably really responsible for some of the worst conditions, it's a really hard line to walk as to how do you hold an agency accountable in which the government is in charge of when there's also been decades of neglect."

Mamdani has signaled support for stronger public investment and faster housing production, including building on vacant city lots and streamlining bureaucratic processes. But even ambitious construction timelines would take years to materially increase supply.

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New York’s housing crisis was decades in the making. Vacancy rates hover near historic lows. Homelessness remains elevated. Insurance and construction costs are rising nationally. And political polarization has hardened.

A rent freeze may offer immediate relief to stabilized tenants. But its long-term impact will depend on whether it is accompanied by property tax relief, subsidy expansion, faster production or deeper structural changes.

For now, the city stands at a crossroads.

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To Mamdani’s supporters, this moment represents a long-overdue correction. To critics, it risks repeating the fiscal and housing distress of the 1970s, when disinvestment and abandonment scarred neighborhoods across the five boroughs.

The outcome may determine not only whether New York becomes more affordable, but also what kind of city it chooses to be: one driven primarily by market incentives, or one increasingly shaped by a socialist vision of housing as a public good.

This social justice warrior was all-in for BLM, then he 'accidentally red-pilled' himself

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:00:50 -0500

He sips Erewhon smoothies, invites viewers to "walk with me" through Los Angeles, and records videos dissecting politics and culture for millions online. Xaviaer DuRousseau is a conservative content creator and on-air personality for PragerU.

DuRousseau was not always a conservative firebrand. He was once a progressive. In fact, he used to march in support of Black Lives Matter.

The 29-year-old host of "Respectfully, Xaviaer" spoke with ӣ��Ƶ Digital in an exclusive interview about how he went from BLM marches to becoming one of the biggest conservative influencers.

"Even to this day, every time I hear about my BLM protesting days, I still cringe. It was the most ghetto mess I ever participated in," he said.

DuRousseau was born and raised in "the trenches" of Southside Chicago, in a progressive family, some that he said held "Marxist" views.

Then he went from the Southside to "the middle of nowhere" surrounded by cornfields in Illinois in a mostly White community, and was always told growing up that he was different, and needed to "view everything through the lens of race."

Once he went to college, DuRousseau became even more progressive and became "even more conscious of racial issues and social justice issues."

He became an activist, and joined Black Lives Matter protests.

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"I was posting a lot of racial things online talking about microaggressions and oppression and all these insane narratives long before the George Floyd Palooza even started."

In 2020, a dare changed his trajectory.

DuRousseau applied to the Netflix show "The Circle," a reality competition where isolated contestants communicate only through a social media platform, strategically rating and eliminating each other, sometimes while pretending to be someone else, and he was selected out of 25,000 people as a social justice activist.

To prepare for the show, DuRousseau was doing research and had a plan to go after conservative voices like Charlie Kirk and debunk PragerU videos; then he had a big awakening.

"I accidentally red-pilled myself," he said.

Through the experience, DuRousseau realized he aligned more with the right.

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"I ended up realizing that I was wrong about many of these social issues," he said. "I learned more about history than I'd ever seen before. And I realized that it was the first time I had ever researched without confirmation bias to the point where I finally backed out of filming the reality show in October of 2020. And a few months later, I decided I was going to start speaking about the new values and the new things that I had learned, and the rest was history."

Rather than a red-pill moment, DuRousseau said he served himself a prescription bottle filled with red pills.

"If I had to pick one thing that was like the straw that broke the camel's back, it was when I started looking into the funds of BLM."

During his time as a BLM activist, he found himself asking where the funds were going and even noticed Breonna Taylor's mother spoke out about the BLM funds.

"Every time I would ask those questions, people would tell me that, like, I had lost the plot or that I needed to mind my business and stay in my lane."

DuRousseau said by tracing the money, one can see the priorities of an organization.

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"I started seeing that BLM was taking their money through ActBlue and putting it toward these progressive activists and these progressive causes and to politicians. And these politicians were doing absolutely nothing in the Black community."

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether senior leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during the 2020 protests, two sources familiar with the probe told ӣ��Ƶ.

The Associated Press first reported that the Justice Department’s ongoing inquiry is focused on the foundation’s handling of donations collected in the wake of the George Floyd killing, when the group saw a surge of more than $90 million in contributions.

DuRousseau said, "It wasn't going toward police reform or anything of the sort. So when I realized how fraudulent that was, it was like this domino effect of me realizing, 'Oh, BLM, it's not just a scam of a movement, it's a scam as an organization and the left is 100% a part of it.'"

Now as a conservative content creator, DuRousseau wants people to think and not be afraid to think outside the box.

"My goal is simply to get people to critically think again because we are at this point where so many people are afraid to ask questions or afraid to be honest or afraid to have a thought that strays from the box that they were told that they had to think inside of."

DuRousseau shared that this resulted in family strains.

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"Many people of my own family wanted absolutely nothing to do with me," he said. "I didn't speak to my own father for a couple of years. My eldest brother – it's been five years – and he still thinks that I'm a Ku Klux Klan member, still trying to understand how being a White supremacist would benefit me. But, according to them, that's what they think."

He said over the years, some have come around.

"Over the years, I've had some family members start to realize I was right," he said. "And I've more friends, you know, over years that, from the past, have come forward. And even if they don't fully agree with me now, they at least apologize for how emotional they were in their response to everything that happened in 2020 and 2021 when I started speaking out."

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DuRousseau said about his popular "Walk With Me" videos: "Here's a guy with his $25 smoothie going on the most unhinged rant you've ever seen on his way to the gym."

He said the format is to get people's attention from other avenues.

"It's getting people that wouldn't necessarily pay attention to politics and what's going on in our world today to accidentally listen to real world issues."

The most prominent Black Lives Matter nonprofit has disbursed only around a third of its recent cash hauls to other charitable nonprofits.

The BLM Global Network Foundation, the movement's primary nonprofit, raised roughly $87 million in contributions between mid-2020 to mid-2022. However, a bulk of the cash came between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, during the movement's height and before the once-prominent organization saw a drastic collapse in donations.

Black Lives Matter did not immediately respond to ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

ӣ��Ƶ' Greg Wehner, David Spunt contributed to this report.

Free Buses, Real Costs. Inside Mamdani’s Socialist Dream to Shakeup Transit for New Yorkers

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:00:17 -0500

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made "fast and free buses" a defining promise of his administration, framing the proposal as both an affordability measure and a long-overdue fix for a bus system that advocates say has been neglected for decades. But his big swing seems poised to collide with the political realities of New York City.

Supporters argue fare-free buses would reduce conflict, improve safety, and offer immediate relief to riders who depend on buses the most. Skeptics, including on-air pundits and transit organizations, warn the idea risks creating a major funding gap for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unless the city commits to a durable revenue stream and a clear operational plan.

New York City bus riders already face some of the slowest service in the nation despite carrying millions of passengers each day.

"We’re the biggest ridership, and yet we’re subject to the slowest buses. It’s a fundamental unfairness. It’s an embarrassment," Danny Pearlstein, policy and communications director at the Riders Alliance, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital during a bus ride through the Bronx.

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That history helps explain why Mamdani’s proposal has resonated politically. Pearlstein said bus riders, many of whom are students, seniors, and caregivers, are pressed for time and money just like drivers or subway commuters. Yet buses have long been deprioritized on New York City streets.

"That is why this administration’s call for fast and free buses resonates," he added.

Pearlstein's interview, among others, is part of ӣ��Ƶ Digital’s "The Rise of Socialism" series, which examines how socialist ideas and policies are increasingly shaping political debates and public policy in major cities across the United States.

Advocates point first to safety and reduced conflict. Multiple interviewees claimed that fare disputes are a persistent source of tension between riders and bus operators.

"When you eliminate fare payments on the buses, the friction between passengers and the drivers goes away," said Brian Fritsch, associate director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC). "It does create a safer atmosphere for drivers. That has been a sore spot for a number of years."

Transit analyst Charles Komanoff, who modeled Mamdani’s free bus proposal, echoed that view, noting that altercations over fare payment have led to assaults on drivers in the past.

"Every year, there’s maybe a dozen cases in which a bus driver is assaulted," Komanoff said. "Presumably that would shrink or maybe disappear entirely if there was no expectation to pay the fare in the first place."

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Advocates also cite data from New York City’s most recent fare-free bus pilot, launched in late 2023 under a mandate from the state budget. The MTA selected one local route in each borough and suspended fares for nearly a year before restoring fare collection in September 2024.

According to the MTA’s evaluation, ridership increased on all five fare-free routes, with weekday ridership rising roughly 30 percent and weekend ridership climbing closer to 40 percent. However, the agency found that much of the increase came from existing riders taking more trips, rather than large numbers of new riders entering the system for the first time. The MTA estimated the nine-month pilot cost approximately $12 million in lost fare revenue and related expenses.

The fare-free pilot underscores the core argument in the free-transit debate: Eliminating fares can boost ridership, but it also creates a measurable budget hole and does not automatically translate into dramatic "new" demand. Furthermore, money has to come from taxpayers, Albany, or cuts elsewhere if the policy is expanded.

Pearlstein said the pilot nonetheless demonstrated that free buses are both safer and more popular, even if they are not a silver bullet.

Beyond safety, supporters argue fare-free buses would meaningfully improve affordability, especially for low-income New Yorkers who rely on buses for short, essential trips.

"Most of the cost of bus operations is already paid for by public subsidies, not by fares," Pearlstein said. "We’re collecting several hundred million dollars at the fare box, compared to several billion already invested. What we’re replacing is an order of magnitude smaller than what we already raise from other sources."

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Komanoff added that most new bus trips generated by free fares would not replace car travel but would instead allow people to make trips they currently forgo.

"We want people to have the basic right to the city," he said.

Supporters also say eliminating fares could modestly speed up buses by reducing boarding time and enabling all-door boarding.

In his own modeling, Komanoff estimated fare-free buses could improve speeds by roughly 7 to 12 percent. Not transformative, but meaningful for daily riders.

"That would be a material improvement in the lives of the two million New Yorkers a day who ride the buses," he said.

Still, even advocates acknowledge that speed and reliability matter more than price alone.

"Let’s be clear," Komanoff said. "Making the buses work better, having them be speedier, more reliable, more consistent, is probably more important than making them free. But I think we can do both."

The biggest obstacle to Mamdani’s plan is money.

"If there were to be a free bus program, there would need to be some additional revenue coming into the MTA," Fritsch said. "They obviously couldn’t just make cuts to make up that loss."

Bus fare revenue is currently used to back long-term MTA bonds, meaning eliminating fares would require restructuring existing financing, not just replacing annual operating dollars.

PCAC has identified more than 20 potential revenue sources that could theoretically fund fare-free buses, but Fritsch said the challenge is political will, as well as coordination between the city and the MTA.

"The mayor has initiatives, the MTA is a state agency," he said. "They need to meet somewhere in the middle."

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Komanoff argued that New York City taxpayers, rather than suburban commuters or the MTA itself, should shoulder the cost, estimating the annual price tag at roughly $800 million.

"That’s not chump change," he said. "But it’s not a game changer for the city’s finances either."

Mamdani, who identifies as a democratic socialist, has framed the funding question through that ideological lens, arguing that essential services should be broadly accessible and financed through higher taxes on corporations and top earners. His platform repeatedly emphasizes redistributive policies and expanding the public role in everyday costs of living, positioning fare-free buses as a public good rather than a market transaction.

Critics say that philosophy underestimates operational constraints.

Charlton D’Souza, the founding president of Passengers United and a southeast Queens native, worries fare-free buses could create unrealistic expectations for a system already struggling with staffing shortages, aging equipment, and uneven service.

"We don’t have enough bus drivers. Trips are not getting filled," D'Souza said. "If you make the buses free, people are going to expect a service."

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He also raised concerns about accountability and long-term budget stability, pointing to past service cuts during economic downturns.

"I lived through the 2008 budget cuts," D’Souza continued. "They cut bus routes; they cut subway lines. When elected officials talk, they don’t always understand the operational dynamics."

There is also skepticism about who could benefit from the free bus proposal. Some argue universal free fares would subsidize riders who can already afford to pay, while diverting resources from targeted programs.

"If somebody’s making $100,000 or $200,000, and they’re getting a free ride, how is that equitable?" D’Souza said, suggesting expansion of the city’s Fair Fares program instead.

Free bus service is also viewed by critics as emblematic of a broader ideological shift toward democratic socialism, in which services traditionally supported by user fees are instead treated as universal public goods. Eliminating fares severs the direct relationship between usage and payment, shifting the full cost of transit onto taxpayers and expanding the role of government in everyday economic life.

Supporters see that shift as a moral corrective to inequality, but skeptics argue it reflects a socialist governing philosophy that favors redistribution over market pricing and risks normalizing permanent public subsidies.

Despite the concerns, even cautious observers say Mamdani’s proposal has shifted the conversation.

"I liked his positivity, his can-do attitude," Komanoff said, recalling first encountering Mamdani years ago at a rally in favor of congestion pricing. "He didn’t seem stuck in the usual parameters of politics."

Whether that optimism translates into policy will depend on whether the administration can secure stable funding, address operational constraints, and persuade Albany to cooperate.

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For now, Mamdani’s free bus plan sits at the intersection of ambition and arithmetic, popular with riders, plausible to advocates, but still facing a long list of fiscal and logistical hurdles.

As Fritsch put it: "There’s no shortage of ideas. The question is where exactly the money comes from and who actually has the political courage to make it happen."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital's Nikos DeGruccio contributed to this report.

A former BLM activist goes all in on mass incarceration

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:00:10 -0500

A former Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist turned conservative content creator supports mass incarceration for violent criminals.

PragerU host and personality Xaviaer DuRousseau told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, "It's very easy to not go to jail. I've been Black for 29 years. I've never even been close to a courtroom in that capacity."

He went on to say that if you obey the law, you can stay out of trouble.

"Don't do a crime. Obey the law, and you'll be able to live a beautiful life," he said.

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DuRousseau, who is from Chicago, was a liberal activist who marched in Black Lives Matter protests. When he was preparing to go on "The Circle" on Netflix as a social justice activist, he wanted to create a series going after conservative speakers like Charlie Kirk and debunking PragerU videos.

But from his research, he "accidentally red-pilled himself" and pulled out of the show and shortly started to speak out about his conservative views.

Now, DuRousseau shares political and cultural commentary across his social media platforms @Xaviaer, and on his PragerU show "Respectfully, Xaviaer."

One topic he has spoken out about is mass incarceration.

"When it comes to mass incarceration, I do not mean just going and arresting random people on the streets. I mean going and mass incarcerating the criminals that are on the street," he said.

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DuRousseau told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that he wants to address the issues facing the Black community and tackle the stereotypes, arguing that keeping violent criminals behind bars helps more Black communities.

President Donald Trump's federalization of the D.C. police department and crackdown on Washington crime overwhelmingly benefited Black Americans, who are common victims of violent crimes, crime data found.

"You go 13 days without a homicide occurring, those homicides would have invariably been very heavily Black," John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital on Wednesday. "And so those lives, you have Blacks who didn't die, who otherwise would have died."

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DuRousseau pointed out the problem with repeat offenders on the streets.

"When you have the same repeat offenders, that because of progressive district attorneys are allowed right back on the streets, we end up seeing this pattern of the same issues happening over and over and over again," he said.

"If you've robbed people three times, why would I not expect you to rob someone a fourth time?"

On the topic of mass incarceration, the BLM official X account said in a 2021 post, "over-policing and mass incarceration don’t reduce crime or improve lives."

DuRousseau, in realizing his conservative stances, found himself "mortified" over questions about how funds were spent by BLM.

"I'm a firm believer, you trace the money, and you see the priorities. And I started seeing that BLM was taking their money through Act Blue and putting it towards progressive causes and to politicians," he said. "And these politicians were doing absolutely nothing in the Black community."

According to the Black Lives Matter website, "Black Lives Matter imagines a world where Black people across the diaspora thrive, experience joy, and are not defined by their struggles. In pursuing liberation, we envision a future fully divested from police, prisons, and all punishment paradigms and which invests in justice, joy, and culture."

DuRousseau said, by addressing repeat offenders, crime can be reduced.

"If we keep those people in jail or in prison and start actually utilizing law enforcement and the judicial system. We wouldn't see crime drop by at least 50%. So I am pro-mass incarceration of people that are out here committing crimes," he said.

According to Bureau of Justice Statistics and Just Facts, among those who have already entered the prison system, the five-year re-arrest rate for Black individuals is approximately 74% from data collected from 2023-2024 Recidivism Updates.

The re-arrest rate is high for prisoners across races, according to the report, with American Indians/Alaska natives at 79%, Whites at 70% and Hispanics at 67%.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has touted data showing major drops in homicides, crediting President Donald Trump’s promise to "restore law and order."

"A study from the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) shows that the murder rate across America's largest cities plummeted in 2025 to its lowest level since at least 1900," she said. "Let me repeat to put this in perspective, this marks the largest single-year drop in murders in recorded history."

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Something has shifted in the NFL, and it’s not about the game

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:00:55 -0500

According to Benjamin Watson, the era of keeping faith on the sidelines is over, replaced by a new cultural landscape where athletes lead with their convictions and are "freer" to speak out.

"There was an idea that there were certain things that were off-limits because they might be controversial, people might think differently," Watson told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "So I think that in general you're seeing young people speak more about convictions, passions than they ever were before, specifically as regards to faith."

Watson, a 16-year NFL veteran and Super Bowl champion, now serves as the editor-in-chief of Sports Spectrum and hosts the podcast "The Just Life with Benjamin Watson."

Watson, an outspoken Christian and a pro-life advocate, formerly served as vice president of strategic relationships at Human Coalition.

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"We are in partnership with Compassion International and Adoption is an Option. They're partnering with us during this week at the Super Bowl, and we're bringing awareness to the work of Compassion International as well as Adoption Is An Option, and we are grateful that these two organizations have seen fit to partner with us as we try to inspire fans of sport to become followers of Jesus," he shared on behalf of Sports Spectrum.

Watson believes players are growing more comfortable sharing their faith.

"We're seeing more and more players say it," he said. Watson believes this has started a "forest fire" among players and this encourages more players across the league to share their faith as well. "They've lit a fire in everybody else, and so people are comfortable doing it."

He added that a new generation of coaches also understands and embraces players speaking out about their faith on and off the field.

At Sports Spectrum, Watson said research showed that athletes are supported in speaking out about their passions.

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According to a study by communications firm Pinkston — which surveyed 1,540 adults on a wide range of issues among religious and non-religious adults in America who watch sports at least a few times a month — 74% support athletes using their platforms to promote nonprofit causes that matter to them.

Additionally, 78% of respondents said an athlete's personal character influences how they are perceived. Fifty-six percent expressed support for athletes sharing their faith.

Watson said NFL players have an ally in him when it comes to sharing their faith.

"I love when I hear guys talk about their faith boldly," he told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "I love hearing guys talk about their failures boldly. You know, these guys are 25, 26, 30-year-old players who are going along a process of maturation, not only physically and emotionally, but also spiritually."

Watson said "My Cause My Cleats" was started during his last five years in the NFL, where players were able to promote causes that are important to them — some faith-based.

He shared an example of this, "Hunter Henry, he's a tight end for the New England Patriots. And he painted his cleats with Compassion International organization that helps bring kids out of poverty."

Watson said this "humanizes players" and "highlights the fact that the men in the NFL continue to do good wherever they go."

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"It is imperative that we support sports ministries and utilize every avenue to spread the Gospel," Watson said, and emphasized that God can use sports as an avenue.

"There are generations literally of kids and adults and grandparents that will hear, may hear the Gospel only through the mouth of an athlete," he continued. "Because they're not going to go to church."

Although Watson acknowledges that God uses church to reach people, he said God can reach us all in many ways.

"God can use anything," he said. "He can use pastors in churches speaking on Sundays — yes, he does that all the time. My father's a pastor and I've learned tremendously from him. But he can also use athletes in a different way than perhaps somebody who is preaching. Everybody has a role. I mean, Scripture talks a lot about that. It doesn't matter who planted the seed, who watered it, God brings it to harvest."

Watson shared that his heroes in the NFL included men who spoke out about their faith, citing Aeneas Williams, Kurt Warner, Reggie White and Darrell Green.

Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown has also been outspoken about his faith. In 2020, when he was with the Tennessee Titans, he told The Tennessean, "I’m a Christian first, before anything... When I step out on the field, I want to say thank you for the blessing, for everything, because I don’t have to do this. I get to do this. So I always wear a cross."

Houston Texans quarterback CJ Stroud previously told ӣ��Ƶ Digital it was great to have a big community of Christian athletes in the NFL.

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"So, I think we have a really good community of a lot of believers in the league and really around the sports world," Watson told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "I think the more we can do with our platform, the better we can make this world and, hopefully, really help people if they want the help to find Christ and really understand that God loves you no matter what. That’s really the light I feel like we’re trying to shine."

Former athlete fears these Supreme Court cases might turn back the clock on women’s sports more than 50 years

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:00:52 -0500

The Supreme Court is reviewing cases involving transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports, and XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey is weighing in.

"We would be sent backwards more than 50 years before Title IX even existed," Sey told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, should the high court rule in favor of these transgender athletes. "It would mean any male that claims to be a female in any state could enter women's sport and spaces."

Sey said girls' sports advocates like herself are only asking for the "bare minimum."

"We're just asking for Title IX to be upheld and for women's equal opportunity to be upheld," she added.

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Supreme Court justices are hearing appeals from Idaho and West Virginia after lower courts struck down state laws affecting those students from the elementary to college level. One of the equal protection challenges comes from Lindsay Hecox, a 24-year-old senior at Boise State University who wanted to compete on both NCAA-level and club sports teams for women.

In West Virginia, now 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson seeks to play on girls' teams at her public middle and now high schools. She has identified as female since third grade and has been taking puberty-blocking medication. Although she is officially listed in court as B.P.J., her mother and ACLU lawyers have publicly identified her by Becky's full name.

Last year, Pepper-Jackson qualified for the West Virginia girls’ state track meet, finishing third in discus and eighth in shot put in the Class AAA division.

Pepper-Jackson is represented by the ACLU, the ACLU of West Virginia, Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP.

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Sey said about the case, "One of the arguments being made in the B.P.J. case is that this girl — that's a boy — just wants to have fun on her team with all the other girls. Well, you know what? It's insulting."

"All those other girls are working really hard, and B.P.J. is a boy and comes in and becomes one of the top-ranking shot putters in that age bracket without even trying, because he's a boy," she added.

Idaho and West Virginia are among nearly 30 states with laws preventing transgender students who identify as female from competing on girls' sports teams sponsored by public schools and colleges.

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of these transgender athletes, Sey told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, "It would mean any male that claims to be a female in any state could enter women's sport and spaces."

The justices will examine whether the landmark federal law Title IX — which forbids sex discrimination in education — applies to these inclusion cases.

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Idaho in 2020 became the first state to pass such restrictions under the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. West Virginia followed a year later with the Save Women’s Sports Act. In 2023, the justices temporarily blocked West Virginia from enforcing its ban while litigation continued.

Sey predicted the Supreme Court will ultimately rule in favor of the states that have enacted protections for girls’ sports.

"Basically, what the decision I think will be is that it's constitutional to uphold these laws protecting women's sports," she said. "It doesn't mean states have to do it. So states that prioritize gender identity over sex that allow boys to compete in girls' sports, they can continue doing it."

Sey said that regardless of the outcome, the fight will continue — and she hopes to see legislative action.

"We would still have a fight on our hands, even if we win these cases," she told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "We won't be done yet. We need to change the culture."

"I would like to see federal legislation that basically reifies and upholds Title IX," Sey said. "The intent of Title IX was always about protecting women's sex-based rights. In fact, it says it in the 37 words of the law. It was never intended to replace sex with gender identity, but that's what the activists argue now."

"I find it really insulting to all these other girls who are giving up social activities and training really hard to get better," she added. "And [B.P.J.] can just waltz in there and be one of the best without even trying and, oh, it's just for fun. That's not what it is."

Both sides in the legal dispute have accused the other of spreading false and misleading facts, terminology and narratives about enforcement of the state laws, and the stakes for both transgender and cisgender athletes.

The Supreme Court agreed in July to hear separate appeals from both states and is expected to issue final rulings by late June.

The ACLU, which is helping represent Pepper-Jackson and Hecox, told the court that many states, athletic organizations and governing bodies have successfully balanced inclusion and access to play without any problem.

"I play for my school for the same reason other kids on my track team do — to make friends, have fun, and challenge myself through practice and teamwork," Pepper-Jackson said in a statement provided by the ACLU. "And all I’ve ever wanted was the same opportunities as my peers. Instead, I’ve had my rights and my life debated by politicians who’ve never even met me but want to stop me from playing sports with my friends."

Hecox, now a senior at Boise State University, has asked the high court to dismiss her case, citing fears of further harassment as she prepares to graduate this spring. She says she will no longer compete in women’s sports in Idaho, but the justices will determine whether the case is moot after oral arguments.

The two high court cases are Little v. Hecox (24-38) from Idaho and West Virginia v. B.P.J. (24-83).

The attorney representing B.P.J. did not respond to ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

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Ex-OnlyFans creator advocates against ‘extraordinary ability’ visas for adult content stars entering US

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:00:42 -0500

From TikTok to OnlyFans, adult content creators are seeking O-1 visas to work in the United States — a move former OnlyFans star Nala Ray told ӣ��Ƶ Digital should not qualify as "extraordinary ability" under U.S. immigration law.

Ray, who was once one of the top creators on OnlyFans, left the website two years ago after turning to Christianity. She spoke with ӣ��Ƶ Digital about why she doesn't think OnlyFans creators should receive visas for their work.

"OnlyFans work and adult content is not real work and shouldn't be allowed, even to cross our borders to get even more infiltrated into our society," said Ray.

"I don’t see adult content as good work," Ray continued. However, she added that other kinds of online content creation are legitimate. "I do think that other people from other countries who do come to do real work on social media here, is a good thing. I don’t see why we should ever ban something like that because being on social media is hard work sometimes. It really can be, and great things have actually come of that."

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The visas are intended for an individual who possesses "extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements," according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

A U.S. employer, U.S. agent or foreign employer through a U.S. agent needs to file on the person's behalf, along with required evidence, the USCIS also says.

Ray made it clear that OnlyFans models should not qualify for these visas.

"I absolutely would advocate for a ban on that. I think it's unethical to think that OnlyFans work is actual work and doing anything for our country," she said to ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

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"A lot of OnlyFans creators do make a lot of money, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going toward the good of our country," Ray said.

Ray also spoke to the detriment of OnlyFans, as a former "0.01%" top creator on the platform.

"OnlyFans destroys relationships, it destroys friendships," said Ray. "People have changed so much in society, both men and women, because of the effects of OnlyFans and doing adult content."

She also shared that the cost of maintaining success on the platform is high. "I felt like I was always taking risks and not always good ones."

Ray added to ӣ��Ƶ Digital: "Once you start making a certain amount of money, like, I feel as though it could be kind of downward spiral from even things like your mental health, relationships that you're building, and you would do anything to maintain that kind of money."

"I do understand and know for a fact from being in the industry, a lot of men and women who are doing that kind of work are on drugs or drinking or, you know, some type of substance abuse, and that's dangerous."

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Ray explained that this issue goes beyond providing visas.

"If we were putting God first, none of this lust or pornography or adult film content would be what we want for our own households, what we want in our lives," she said.

Ray said faith and "serving the Lord" would result in a decline in adult industry content. "I do think that we would just see a massive revival if God was more centered in our relationships and in our day-to-day [lives]."

Pennsylvania-based immigration attorney Raymond Lahoud told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, "O-1B visas have been dominated by influencers and content creators."

He added, "We see applicants who appear on various platforms with millions of followers and earning millions of dollars."

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"If a potential non-immigrant who is the world's most famous OnlyFans star meets the O-1B requirements, who am I to judge? We're getting that visa," he added.

Ray disagreed with this statement.

"I think that's very shallow to think that just because somebody makes a lot of money that they can be welcomed into our country, but to not even recognize the fact that they're doing something very harmful to our day-to-day society. It's not bringing anything good. It's not growing anyone, it's not helping us as a society in any way."

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Ray concluded by calling OnlyFans a "societal harm."

"I do think it would be catastrophic if that was continually allowed into our country."

OnlyFans did not respond to ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

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How Trump officials’ narrative of a gun-carrying protester in Minneapolis kindled rage in corners of the right

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:38 -0500

After the Jan. 24 shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Second Amendment advocates have pushed back on statements from Trump officials.

One of those critics is Cam Edwards, a longtime Second Amendment advocate and editor at BearingArms.com.

Because this is an ongoing investigation, it is important to note that Edwards shared his thoughts with ӣ��Ƶ Digital on Tuesday, Jan. 27.

Edwards said he had a gun on him at places ranging from protests to traffic stops but made it clear that having a gun doesn't automatically mean a threat is present. This was in response to statements from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel about Pretti having a gun at the time he was shot.

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"This individual, who came with weapons and ammunition to stop a law enforcement operation of federal law enforcement officers committed an act of domestic terrorism," Noem said after the shooting. "That’s the facts.

"I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign."

"No one who wants to be peaceful shows up to a protest with a firearm that is loaded with two magazines," Patel said on "Sunday Mornings with Maria." "That is not a peaceful protest."

After this, Edwards said, "I think, looking back, there was a lot of generalizations being made in these statements when maybe there could have been more specific talking points about where you're carrying and what you're doing while you're carrying."

Second Amendment advocate and radio show host Dana Loesch also pushed back on comments made by Trump officials.

In a tweet responding to statements from Patel, Loesch said on X, "You admin people need to watch yourselves with this language. Let's make something CRYSTAL clear: It is absolutely 100% legal to attend a protest armed. I've done it frequently. The issue is INSERTING YOURSELF INTO A FEDERAL OP. Either get the language right or stop doing press."

The NRA also spoke out, saying on X, Jan. 27, "The NRA unequivocally believes that all law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms anywhere they have a legal right to be."

The National Association for Gun Rights also weighed in on X, writing, "The President is simply wrong. While we agree you can’t interfere with law enforcement, you absolutely have the right to carry the tools for self-defense while lawfully protesting. In fact, that’s precisely the kind of place where exercising that right matters most. Unfortunately, this isn’t just a misstatement by the President; it reflects a broader problem with the messaging of other highly ranked Administration officials."

Gun Owners of America posted on X, "Peaceful protests while armed isn’t radical—it’s American. The First and Second Amendments protect those rights, and they always have. GOA will hold any administration accountable."

In an article by The New York Times, Jordan Levine, who runs an online gun rights advocacy company called A Better Way 2A, said "what happened in Minneapolis shows that ICE will treat the mere presence of a legal firearm as justification for lethal force. Carrying a gun is not a crime, yet it was readily used as proof of dangerous intent once Alex Pretti was dead and unable to contest that narrative."

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A senior fellow for Advancing American Freedom, Amy Swearer said on X Jan. 24, "Under no circumstances should the mere act of lawfully carrying a concealed firearm in public increase the likelihood that law enforcement reasonably perceives you as a legitimate threat, without substantially more occurring."

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said on his official account on Jan. 25, "Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a constitutionally protected God-given right."

And Kyle Rittenhouse, shared on X on Jan. 26, "Carry everywhere. It is your right. #ShallNotBeInfringed."

Trey Gowdy said during his show "Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy" that Alex Pretti's gun was lawfully carried.

"And we certainly should not be labeling him a domestic terrorist who was going to execute cops. There is no evidence to support that," he said.

Following this, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in response to a question during a press hearing Monday, "The president supports the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens."

She added that Americans are not allowed to impede on law enforcement operations. When ӣ��Ƶ Digital reached out to the White House for comment, it reiterated this statement and shared this X post:

Edwards said it is important to choose words carefully.

"Those initial statements suggesting that it's dangerous to carry at a protest somebody might be carrying two magazines, that shows intent to cause violence," he said. "I think that's just flat out wrong."

Edwards urged throughout the interview that it is crucial to wait for the full investigation before arriving at conclusions.

"There tends to be this rush to judgment before a lot of facts are known," he said.

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However, Edwards said he heard reasonable arguments that officers felt their lives were at risk when Pretti was shot.

The officers' operation was targeting Jose Huerta-Chuma, an illegal immigrant with a criminal history including domestic assault for intentional conflict bodily harm, disorderly conduct and driving without a valid license.

Federal officials initially claimed Pretti approached agents with a 9 mm handgun and resisted disarmament.

Edwards admits it is possible that mistakes were made by both Border Patrol officers and Pretti but could have simply been a "lawful but awful" situation.

Edwards said the U.S. Constitution must always be defended.

"I think that the consistent position of Second Amendment organizations and Second Amendment advocates to take is to defend the right to keep and bear arms," he said.

Edwards emphasized that "We The People" goes for all, not just those he agrees with.

"I think that there's a traditional mistrust of big overarching government among the Second Amendment community. I think that's fair to say. And I don't think that administration officials did themselves any favors with some of the comments that we've seen over the weekend."

Although Second Amendment advocates have been critical of statements coming from the Trump administration, Edwards emphasized that the administration has been better at defending Second Amendment rights than previous administrations. He mentioned the Obama and Biden administrations have specifically been worse at the Second Amendment than the Trump administration.

"I don't think that these comments were helpful, but they also, so far, have not led to any policy changes."

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Edwards said this was a communications failure rather than a policy failure.

"I think it's something else entirely if we saw the president say, 'I want to see Congress pass a law that says you can only carry one magazine at a time. I want to see Congress pass a law saying that you don't have the right to carry out a protest.' And we simply haven't seen anything like that from the administration. So, at this point, I think what we're looking at is a communications failure, not necessarily a policy failure."

Edwards supports people's right to make their voices heard, but if they choose to protest, they should do so peacefully, and he emphasized the importance of being a responsible gun owner.

"If you're walking down the street carrying a concealed firearm, that's not evidence that you're about to commit a crime," said Edwards. "If you're breaking through the doors of a hotel where, you know, Border Patrol or ICE agents are inside, and you've got a gun that's visible to those officers, that's going to raise their level of concern.

"If you take that gun out of your holster, you point it at officers, then you've presented a direct threat to them. That's obviously something very different. So, you know, there is, I think, a sliding scale of what an officer is going to reasonably consider a threat."

Edwards stands by rights granted to all Americans in the U.S. Constitution.

"We don't give up our First Amendment rights during a police operation. We don't give up our Fourth Amendment rights. So, I don't think that our Second Amendment rights should be forfeited in those circumstances either."

A DHS spokesperson responded to ӣ��Ƶ Digital following Edwards' comments.

"Of course, Secretary Noem supports every American’s Second Amendment right. Americans have the right to show up to a protest with a gun, but you must follow the law, the spokesperson said.

"Our law enforcement officers were conducting an operation to arrest Jose Huerta-Chuma, whose criminal history includes domestic assault to intentionally inflict bodily harm, disorderly conduct and driving without a valid license. This individual chose to commit a federal crime while armed — obstructing law enforcement in the course of an active investigation — incredibly dangerous."

The FBI also responded to ӣ��Ƶ Digital:

"This FBI will always defend Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech as well as their Second Amendment right to bear arms — whether attending protests or otherwise. What we do not support is those who target, attack, or impede law enforcement lawfully executing their duties," said Ben Williamson, sssistant director of the FBI Office of Public Affairs.

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New video from Wednesday appears to show Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days before he was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

The man is seen shouting and spitting at federal agents before kicking the taillight of a federal SUV, causing it to break.

As he shouts "f--- you" repeatedly and flashes double middle fingers, agents exit the vehicle, approach him and take him to the ground.

Alex Pretti’s family confirmed to The Minnesota Star Tribune that the man in the video is Alex Pretti.

Border czar Tom Homan met with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Tuesday as the Trump administration shakes up its federal immigration crackdown following two fatal shootings and subsequent protests in the Twin Cities.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

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Kevin Smith details ‘Dogma’ rights battle with Weinstein as he gears up for sequel nearly 30 years later

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:00:08 -0500

"Dogma" director Kevin Smith is creating a sequel nearly 30 years after the original premiered after numerous attempts to recover the rights to the movie from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Miramax Films, a movie production and distribution company now known as Miramax, LLC, was originally founded in 1979 by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein with a focus on independent films.

It was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993. Smith's theological comedy "Dogma" was released by Miramax in 1999, but the Weinsteins later bought the rights themselves.

"Harvey Weinstein bought the movie, personally, himself, away from Miramax back in the day, because Miramax was owned by Disney, and Disney wanted this movie out of their lives," Smith told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "Harvey and his brother Bob had, in the past, bought movies away from their company and distributed them themselves."

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Smith cast doubt on whether Weinstein had ever actually paid for the movie, suggesting that Disney hadn't wanted to make "Dogma" in the first place and that backlash around the time of its release may have been enough to cause the company to allow Weinstein to "just take it" for free.

Regardless, Weinstein owned the movie personally, so Smith couldn't get to it. He detailed his many attempts to buy back the rights in the wide-ranging interview.

"I was like, 'Hey, this movie means nothing to you. You've made so many movies ... and this one's tied up in my childhood faith and my father and stuff, so can I buy the movie back? You're not doing anything with it,'" Smith said.

He said he first offered $250,000, then $500,000, which would have required him to shut down Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, his comic book store of nearly three decades in Red Bank, New Jersey. But it wasn't enough. Smith needed help.

"I was like, 'Who else has a vested interest in seeing 'Dogma' go forward?' So, I reached out to Ben [Affleck] and Matt [Damon]," who starred in the film.

He returned to Weinstein with an offer of $1 million.

"And we were still told 'no.' So, that was it. I couldn't get to it. Every time I wrote [to Weinstein] — absolute stonewall situation."

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When the rights became available, Smith said it had nothing to do with him.

"A small company bought it, like a hedge fund, and so they didn't even know that they were buying it. They just bought 10 movies from Harvey Weinstein, who was still going through some legal troubles the way I understand it and always needs money for court," Smith said. "So, he sold off a tranche of movies that he personally owned."

The company didn't sell "Dogma" back to Smith but did partner with him to tour the movie again and make it available for purchase at home after years of scarcity, a move Smith felt was worth it anyway.

"It just felt like, even though I ain't going to get rich off this — somebody else is, and that's the movie business — it's my chance to go play with it. It's my chance to hang out and enjoy a second bite of the apple," Smith said.

"So rarely does life afford you the ability to do the same thing twice. Two roads diverge in a yellow wood, right?"

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At this point in his career, Smith told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, he wasn't motivated by money.

"I do things just to see people's expression change or just to kill a couple months," he said. "I know the economy is collapsing and nobody has any money left, so maybe it's even easier to make that decision. But sometimes you just got to do stuff because it's fun."

Smith said taking 'Dogma' out for a second spin during its 25th anniversary Resurrection Tour had been quite rewarding.

"Taking 'Dogma' back out into the world for a whole new generation was fun. Turns out, that generation was exposed to it by the previous generation, which does my heart so good," Smith said.

He expressed surprise at the variation in ages among the Resurrection Tour's audience members. He said he expected that most attendees would have seen the movie when it released, and was pleased to find that parents had shared the movie with their children, even as he joked about whether it was age-appropriate for some spectators.

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He said his father used to take him to see "stuff that was well beyond my years, like R-rated movies," when he was young.

"It's nice to know that tradition continued in suburbia," Smith said with a smile.

Former gymnast says ‘sports are not about inclusion’ after ACLU releases trans ad featuring Megan Rapinoe

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:00:02 -0500

Jennifer Sey slammed The ACLU and Megan Rapinoe after the organization posted a video as a part of their latest campaign standing with transgender athletes.

She said the video made her "so angry." Sey is a USA National artistic gymnastics champion, and the founder of XX-XY Athletics, an activewear company that advocates for protecting women's sports and spaces.

For their "More Than A Game" campaign, the ACLU posted a video in support of transgender athletes. On its website, the group says it is standing with trans youth and their families and their rights to "be themselves."

"Supporting trans youth, isn't just about sports. It's about freedom," the video says. The video includes former Team USA women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe, former WNBA player Sue Bird, and WNBA player Brianna Turner.

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Talking to ӣ��Ƶ Digital, Sey did not hold back.

"Sports aren't about any of those things. Sports are about competition. Sports are not about inclusion. Not everybody makes the team."

"Sports are competing and striving to get better, and it's about self-reliance and picking yourself up when you fall down. They're not about freedom. There's rules in sports. Three strikes and you're out. There's rules across every single sport. So I don't know what these people are talking about and to make it about this idea that sports aren't about competition."

This comes as the Supreme Court is weighing new cases regarding protections for female athletes. The ACLU is standing with trans athletes.

Also seen on the campaign site, is Becky Pepper-Jackson. Jackson is a track and field athlete who was banned after West Virginia banned transgender athletes in girls' sports, a case currently being heard by the Supreme Court. In 2021, they sued the state to block its law that prohibits biological males from competing in girls' sports.

She has identified as female since third grade and has been taking puberty-blocking medication.

This past year, Pepper-Jackson qualified for the West Virginia girls high school state track meet, finishing third in the discus throw and eighth in the shot put in the Class AAA division.

Although she is officially listed in court papers as B.P.J., her mother and ACLU lawyers have publicly identified her by Becky's full name.

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Sey argued that allowing biological boys in girls' sports would make sports unfair for girls.

"Male advantage is greater than performance-enhancing drugs," she said to ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

Sey said Rapinoe would have wanted a fair playing field during her time in soccer.

"Megan Rapinoe has to be one of the most competitive women on the planet. She was on Olympic teams and World Cup teams. She's one of the most famous soccer players ever. She's full of it. It just makes me angry, and she's pulling up the ladder behind her. And I'm sure she would not have tolerated a single player taking performance-enhancing drugs because that provides an unfair advantage."

Sey explained why the ACLU missed what sports is all about in the ad campaign.

"They're twisting what competitive sports are about. If you want to be all about self-expression, then go enter a talent contest and sing. That's not what sports are all about. So I find the ad infuriating."

Sey emphasized that this position must be opposed.

"We have to push back on it. We have take the culture back.… It's not fair. They're asking these girls to erase themselves and to do it with a smile."

Sey is concerned this is another example of an effort to erase girls.

"They're asking them to accept their erasure and to allow boys to take their medals and their team opportunities and to do so politely. Well, we're not going to do it," she said.

Sey said being an athlete is not always fun and requires intense work and sacrifice.

"I trained as a gymnast for 15 years. I trained up to 10 hours a day. I trained on broken bones. I was up driving to practice in the dark. You give up a lot. I gave up basically any high school social experience, you know, proms and all of it. You do it because you love the sport, and you do it because you derive a real sense of pride, and you do it, because you're competitive."

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Sey said she did the work because she wanted to win, and she said Rapinoe also wanted to win.

Sey explained to ӣ��Ƶ Digital why she finds this "insulting."

"Get out there and be the best you can be and find the best in yourself. There's a real satisfaction that comes from that. And Megan Rapinoe knows that."

Sey concluded, "every girl deserves fair competition."

The high court cases are Little v. Hecox (24-38) from Idaho; and West Virginia v. B.P.J. (24-83). Decisions are expected by early summer.

The ACLU and Megan Rapinoe did not immediately respond to ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

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For young TPUSA faith event attendees, Minnesota church storming is a sacred line crossed

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:00:42 -0500

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Attendees at the Turning Point USA "Make Heaven Crowded" tour kickoff in Riverside, California, called the act of storming churches "disgusting."

This comes after anti-ICE agitators stormed a church in Minneapolis during a service on Sunday. Dozens of agitators burst into the Cities Church sanctuary roughly halfway through the service, attendees of the church told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

Attendees shared their reactions with ӣ��Ƶ Digital. Brooklyn said when this happens, the agitators should be thrown out immediately.

"I don't think that it's right to be protesting negativity in churches. When you're in church, you're supposed to be there to be closer to God and to be on your walk with faith. And I think protesting is super negative, and if you're going to protest, go do it somewhere else with the other negative people because that's just not a place to do it."

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Joey did not hold back and called it "downright disgusting."

"I think if you're here to say what you want to say or stand on the side of the road with a sign. Go ahead and do that."

However, Joey said he doesn't agree with bringing violence and agitation to a church.

"All we're trying to do is to share the gospel and to give that message to people," he said.

Kaitlyn said the church storming was upsetting to hear, "because it is a place of worship," and churches ought to be respected.

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Maddie said, although freedom of speech is important, it is important to have respect for one another.

"Respect for others no matter what their religion is or what they believe. I think that even as Christians, we're called to do that as well to respect other people's religion."

Tatum said protests should be done elsewhere: "It's very disturbing in the churches, just go somewhere else."

Bella Rocha said, "God is the center of all, and I think that that can be kind of the agreeing factor with everybody who has different opinions and different ways of living."

Federal authorities have arrested two anti-ICE agitators after a mob stormed a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday.

Bondi named Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen and William Kelly as the suspects.

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William Kelly, one of the anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators who disrupted a service at Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minn., on Sunday, has been arrested.

"A THIRD subject has now been arrested connected to targeting Cities Church in Minneapolis Sunday. William Kelly is now in custody," FBI Director Kash Patel declared in a Thursday post on X.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem noted in a post, "William Kelly is being charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, a federal crime, for his involvement in the St. Paul church riots."

"William Kelly is now in custody," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi noted in a Thursday post on X.

"Our nation was settled and founded by people fleeing religious persecution. Religious freedom is the bedrock of this country. We will protect our pastors. We will protect our churches. We will protect Americans of faith," she noted in the post.

Kelly had said days earlier in a video, "Come and get me Pam Bondi, you f-----' traitorous b----."

The Make Heaven Crowded tour has 28 listed events across the United States, eight of them with confirmed dates.

Speakers and influencers at the event included Christian influencer Bryce Crawford, pastors Greg Laurie and Lucas Miles and "Girls Gone Bible" podcast hosts Angela Halili and Arielle Reitsma.

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How feminism hijacked the conversation on masculinity

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:00:51 -0500

Is feminism hijacking the conversation about men and masculinity?

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Adam Lane Smith discussed the thorny subject in exclusive interviews with ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

Hawley wrote the book "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs" to his sons about "what it means to be a man" and more specifically, a Christian man. Smith is a self-described "attachment specialist" who was formerly a licensed family and marriage therapist and now specializes in helping people build secure and loving relationships as a speaker and author. Both Hawley and Smith discussed the effects of feminism on the conversation about masculinity.

Although feminism is defined as the belief in equality on behalf of women's rights and interests, critics in the 21st century accuse the feminist movement of being woke and anti-men.

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"I think modern feminism is built on the lie that no man is ever going to be reliable or ever wants to care about his family," Smith said. He argued that extremes on both sides, citing some "red pill" circles who are on the far-opposite side of feminism, are hijacking the conversation for both men and women. However, Smith believes masculinity matters and denies that there is such a thing as "toxic masculinity."

Hawley rejected the idea that masculinity itself is the issue.

"I don't know how many times I heard that masculinity is a social construct, we need to deconstruct it. No, we don't. We don't need to reconstruct it. We need to rebuild it," he said.

Smith believes feminism is at the root of the far-left ideology Marxism.

"What we need to do is go back and have the conversation we should have had 100 years ago, before feminism was intruding into our system under the guise of Marxism, and have the real conversation of how do we value the human dignity of every person, whether it's man, woman, child, anybody, and preserve their dignity in a system where there is trust, there is safety, and there is peace and prosperity for everybody involved. That's what a family system is supposed to be."

Smith cited fractures in the American family: "I believe women have been used as stepping stones to create a much worse ideology, which is the destruction of the family."

The narrative that Hawley and Smith are fighting against has been seen in the media over the last few years.

"The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake," read an article published by The Atlantic in 2020.

"We Can’t Have a Feminist Future Without Abolishing the Family," read the title of a Vice piece, also from 2020.

"Rethinking masculinity to build healthier outcomes," an American Psychological Association report said in 2025.

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Smith continued, "Modern feminism says that a family itself is an evil, destructive thing, so we have to destroy families, that we can't have roles within those families, that taking care of children is slavery, and it's beneath somebody, that motherhood is not the most sacred calling on the planet for pretty much every human being to aspire to or to facilitate. Feminism has completely degraded the concept of raising a human being and said anyone, anywhere can do it."

Smith added that modern feminism now suggests there is no distinction between a man and a woman.

In 2022, a Planned Parenthood doctor told a House hearing that men could get pregnant and have babies.

"Men can have pregnancies, especially trans men," said Dr. Bhavik Kumar, medical director for primary and trans care at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

Hawley, who went viral on Wednesday questioning a doctor at a Senate hearing about whether men can get pregnant, also credits "wokeism" for contributing to the negative conversations around masculinity.

"It's gone under different banners for many years, but the crux of it is they deny any real value to masculinity," he said.

Hawley said men need to utilize traits that were designed by God.

"We need men who are good men, who are strong men, and they want to use their strength. For what it was meant for, what God designed it for, to protect, to empower, to build, to defend," he said.

Hawley said men have been told that "they're responsible for every ill, real or imagined."

"I think that is a hugely destructive and totally false narrative, but it's one that I think has been, frankly, very, very harmful for an entire generation of men, who, on the one hand, want to be strong men, they want to be good men."

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Hawley said houses of worship can provide an example for the type of man that younger men should aspire to be.

"Churches, synagogues — these are home bases for men learning how to be men," he said.

Hawley also encouraged mentorship.

"I think it's time that we reclaimed the stories from our heritage as Americans, the stories from our founding documents and documents like the Bible, which are so foundational to our civilization, to show men that actually, you know what? Good, strong men are vital to the success of liberty, to the success of civilization, to the protection of families and children and the flourishing of women too, by the way. And that message needs to be heard again," Hawley said.

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Smith said the role for masculinity is to provide safety for others and to lay a strong foundation for future generations.

Hawley shared a similar view, saying, "I think the message we need to send to men is we need you. We really do. You are extremely important. You're important for our economy, you're important to the future of the country, you're important to your family, you're important to the community."

ӣ��Ƶ' Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi and Peter Kasperowicz contributed to this report.

What happened after the country’s 'most dangerous law' went into effect? Here are the numbers

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:00:13 -0500

More than two years after Illinois eliminated cash bail under the SAFE-T Act, statewide crime data shows no increase in violent crime, but law enforcement leaders in rural parts of the state say the reform has created new public safety and addiction-treatment challenges that statistics alone do not capture.

The Illinois SAFE-T (Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today) Act was passed in January 2021 and signed by Gov. JB Pritzker the following month. Its most controversial provision, the end of cash bail under the Pretrial Fairness Act, took effect Sept. 18, 2023, after the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law’s constitutionality.

Supporters argued the reform would prevent low-risk defendants from being jailed simply because they could not afford bail. Opponents warned it would lead to repeat offenses, failures to appear in court and harm to victims of crime.

In a previous interview, Mayor Keith Pekau of Orland Park, a Chicago suburb, told ӣ��Ƶ, "When I said that this is the most dangerous law I've ever seen, I believe that."

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A year later, statewide data largely undercuts those warnings, but some sheriffs say the law has worsened conditions for communities already struggling with addiction and limited treatment access.

Research from Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Criminal Justice shows that between September 2023 and September 2024, violent crime in Illinois declined by approximately 6%, while homicides fell by roughly 10%. Property crime rose by less than 1% statewide.

Failure-to-appear rates also remained stable at around 15%, consistent with pre-reform levels. Research found no statistically significant increase in re-offenses among defendants released under the new risk-based pretrial system.

Those findings align with Illinois State Police crime data showing that after a sharp pandemic-era spike in 2020, crime stabilized during the SAFE-T Act’s phased rollout in 2021 and 2022, followed by modest declines.

Cook County, which sharply curtailed the use of cash bail years before the statewide reform, saw slightly lower re-arrest rates and improved court appearance outcomes after 2023, according to Loyola University and Cook County court data.

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But in southern and rural Illinois, some law enforcement officials say the SAFE-T Act fails to address the realities of addiction-driven crime, particularly in areas with limited access to treatment.

"I don’t think the SAFE-T Act serves the public," Franklin County Sheriff Kyle Bacon, a 25-year law enforcement veteran whose county sits roughly 300 miles south of Chicago, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

Bacon said deputies routinely arrest people who are "high on methamphetamines or fentanyl" only to see them booked and released within minutes. He noted that under the new law, drug possession alone is no longer a detainable offense unless it involves additional charges, such as firearms or distribution crimes.

"We bring them into the jail, book them in, and immediately book them out, without even an hour of clean time," Bacon said. "They come in high; they leave high. And I ask myself often: how does that serve the public? How does that serve those people? It does not."

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Under the SAFE-T Act, judges may detain defendants before trial only if prosecutors show they pose a flight risk or a danger within the community. Addiction or intoxication alone does not necessarily qualify.

Bacon said that in counties like Franklin, the lack of detention options is compounded by what he described as a "treatment desert," where detox beds and rehabilitation services remain scarce.

"Many people in recovery tell the same story," he said. "They say, ‘I was arrested, I was in jail, I sobered up, and I knew it was time to make changes.’ We don’t even give them that opportunity anymore."

Supporters of the SAFE-T Act argue that jail should not function as a default detox center and that pretrial detention for addiction alone risks criminalizing poverty and illness. They also note that the law still allows judges to detain defendants charged with serious violent crimes.

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Still, Bacon said addiction-driven thefts and burglaries remain a persistent problem in his county, and he believes the inability to hold people long enough to stabilize or mandate treatment undermines both public safety and recovery.

"Some people say addiction is a victimless crime. I don’t believe that," Bacon said. "Our burglaries, our thefts, our property crimes, the vast majority are driven by addiction."

He added that law enforcement often bears the brunt of public frustration when defendants are quickly released.

"People say, ‘The police let them go,’" Bacon said. "We’re just as frustrated. We work within the law. But when someone is victimized, an arrest is made, and the defendant walks right back out the door, that doesn’t feel like justice to victims."

Police unions and prosecutors were among the strongest opponents of the SAFE-T Act and backed a lawsuit by roughly 60 counties seeking to block implementation. The Illinois Supreme Court rejected those arguments in July 2023, ruling that the constitution does not guarantee cash bail and that lawmakers have broad authority over pretrial policies.

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Gov. Pritzker has acknowledged that "tweaks" to the law could be considered, but no major legislative revisions have been enacted.

Meanwhile, misinformation surrounding the reform, including viral claims that Illinois "legalized crime," fueled backlash during the 2022 election cycle.

More than one year after Illinois ended cash bail, crime is down statewide and court appearance rates remain stable. But for sheriffs in rural, treatment-poor regions, the SAFE-T Act has exposed a gap between criminal justice reform and addiction policy, raising questions about whether pretrial reform alone can address the root causes of crime.

As Bacon put it, "I don’t think this law takes the same consideration for victims as it does potential defendants."

Pritzker's office did not return ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

'Christmas Lawyer' who went to war with HOA spends windfall on holiday cheer

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:00:39 -0500

The "Christmas Lawyer" was facing the possibility of owing a huge amount of money over a lawsuit that he previously won over a festive Christmas display that was also helping raise money for childhood cancer. The Supreme Court kicked the case to the appellate court. Then everything turned around.

Idaho lawyer Jeremy Morris spoke to ӣ��Ƶ Digital about his staged elaborate holiday displays in defiance of his former homeowners association that led to a protracted legal battle.

The case was overturned by the judge after he was previously awarded $75,000 in 2019. He then appealed to the 9th Circuit in 2020, before his saga got all the way to the Supreme Court. When the case reached SCOTUS, it was kicked back to the appellate court and the HOA reached a settlement, leaving Moore triumphant.

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"They (HOA) ended up paying us significantly more, ironically, than the jury awarded us many years ago. The jury previously awarded us $75,000 (in 2019), and I will tell you that we actually settled for significantly more than $75,000," Morris said.

Instead of going through another trial, there was a mediation because the HOA realized Morris would keep appealing. According to Morris, the HOA, which he calls "grinches," "undoubtedly paid over a million in attorney fees to overturn the $75,000 verdict" over the years, resulting in paying Morris more than the jury awarded him.

What is Morris doing with the money? Spreading even more Christmas cheer and not letting any grinches stop it.

"Well, I can tell you that I'm buying a lot of Christmas lights, and I'm enjoying it every time that I screw in a light bulb. I think of my HOA and their effort to shut down Christmas," he said.

This all began in 2014, when thousands of people showed up to his house to celebrate Christmas and raise money for kids with cancer. In 2014, he repaired an antique cotton candy machine he'd inherited from his grandfather and made it the centerpiece of his Christmas display. He created a Facebook event and was shocked when hundreds of families showed up to look at lights, sip hot chocolate and meet Santa Claus.

"Not long after that, unfortunately, our family found ourselves at the center of a national, actually international, controversy that went all the way up to the United States Supreme Court," he said.

In 2015, he decided that the celebration had to be even bigger. The family found what they called their "dream house" just outside the city of Hayden in Kootenai County and put in an offer on New Year's Eve.

Morris immediately called the president of the neighborhood homeowners association to give it a heads-up about his planned display for the following Christmas.

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"I reached out to the HOA and just said, 'Hey, look, we're going to do this thing. Maybe you have some ideas. I'm thinking maybe doing shuttles because there aren't sidewalks. What do you think?'" Morris said. "In a very cordial way."

In response to Morris' plans, one West Hayden Estates homeowners association board member drafted a letter that pondered whether neighborhood "atheists" might be offended by the display and worried about "riff-raff" that might be drawn to the neighborhood, noting that the Morris family previously lived near a Walmart.

Morris started decorating his house with around 700,000 lights months before Christmas. Then the HOA's lawyer demanded he remove them within 10 days. Morris refused.

And despite the threat of a lawsuit, the show went on, complete with a live nativity scene, carolers and even a camel. Hired shuttle buses dropped off thousands of revelers — with some families coming from Washington and Canada — over the course of the five-evening event, which raised funds for children's charities.

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Morris said his family received threats, including an in-person confrontation partially caught on camera in which a neighbor offered to "take care of him."

Morris said he never wanted to take legal action and offered to waive his rights to proceed with a lawsuit if the HOA agreed to leave his family alone. The HOA refused, he said, and the statute of limitations was almost up.

So in January 2017, two years after receiving the first letter from the HOA, he sued, alleging religious discrimination in violation of the Fair Housing Act.

The jury returned a unanimous decision in his favor and ordered the HOA to pay $75,000.

But the story didn't end there. In a twist, a federal judge reversed the jury's verdict and ordered Morris to pay the HOA's legal fees, to the tune of $111,000.

Judge B. Lynn Winmill concluded the case wasn't about religious discrimination, but rather the Morris family's violation of neighborhood rules. Morris failed to provide facts that there was a "legally sufficient basis upon which a reasonable jury" could conclude the HOA violated the Fair Housing Act, Winmill wrote.

Additionally, the judge's order permanently banned the family from hosting another Christmas program that violated the HOA rules.

His case went before the 9th Circuit in June 2020 and waited four years for a ruling.

A three-judge panel affirmed Winmill's overturning of the jury verdict, concluding that a reasonable jury should not have found the HOA letter from 2015 indicated a preference that a "non-religious individual" buy the Morris' home.

The 9th Circuit ruling allowed for a new trial, but Morris appealed to the Supreme Court instead.

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"The right to celebrate Christmas in accordance with our family’s faith traditions, to use our property to express that Christian faith tradition, and the right to have a unanimous jury verdict protected after 15 hours of deliberations — all are at the core of Constitutional protections and 250 years of American jurisprudence," he wrote.

Around 349,000 Idahoans live in neighborhoods governed by HOAs, just under 20% of the state's total population, according to 2021 data from the Foundation for Community Association Research.

Morris told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that his family still owns his home in Idaho but, "we were forced to quietly leave and go east due to death threats."

"After talking to my children and supporters from around the globe — and they have encouraged me to use some of the HOAs money to host an even bigger Christmas show, and in a neighborhood that embraces Christmas. I would never again try to spread Christmas cheer to hateful people. They don’t deserve my Christmas fun. But I’ll be doing it with their money. #winning," said Morris.

Additionally, Morris said, "The evil done by the federal judge has been undone and our family’s right to celebrate Christmas through this ministry has been vindicated. As this court order against us was only just lifted after 6 years, we focused on decorating with 14 Christmas trees and an indoor winter wonderland. But our children’s wait to see camels and choirs in our yard again is not long in coming!"

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Representatives for the West Hayden estates homeowners association did not return ӣ��Ƶ Digital's request for comment.

ӣ��Ƶ' Hannah Ray Lambert contributed to this report.

'Sex & the City' Republicans want into the conservative tent. Alex Clark has something to say about it

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:00:58 -0500

What does it mean to look or live like a conservative woman today? Alex Clark and Raquel Debono have distinctly different answers. ӣ��Ƶ Digital spoke with both women separately, about how the right can better connect with young female voters and how competing visions of modern conservative womanhood are shaping the movement. It is important to note that Debono and Clark are not directly responding to each other's claims in the interviews.

Debono is from Canada and has lived in America for 10 years. She's currently in the process of becoming an American citizen while living in New York City. She is the organizer of "Make America Hot Again" and hosts parties in the city to help like-minded people on the right meet.

Debono believes the GOP should be a "big tent."

"We should be enlarging our tent, not closing it in," Debono said. She argued that younger, career-focused women should feel welcome rather than judged.

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"We are going to lose the next election if we keep pushing young conservative women out of the tent," she added.

Clark, who hosts the health and wellness-focused "Culture Apothecary" podcast with Turning Point USA, takes the opposite view.

"I do not think we should be a big tent. Some others disagree with that. You know, we should just welcome anyone and everyone into the conservative space. And I think that if we want to preserve anything that is traditional in the least, or you know, the values of this country was founded on, then I don't think we can do that," she told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

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Debono shared that she likes to call herself a "'Sex and the City' conservative."

"We're well-dressed, we're cool, we like to go out, have a good time," Debono said. She argued that relatability and modern aesthetics can bring more young women into the fold.

Clark argued, "I think that when you just say, 'Hey, we're going to allow anyone to call themselves conservative, even if they don't represent a single iota of conservative values,' I think that harms us as a movement."

Debono expressed concern that women are being scared away from the Republican Party by pushing a "trad" agenda.

"By going so hard on this whole trad agenda, you are pushing away so many young women who would have been Republicans," she told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "And that's what scares me. And the thing is, if we lose women completely, we lose elections, and that's what really matters."

Clark argued the need to fight for "western values" and preserving the American family.

She argued that there is a difference between being a Republican and being a conservative.

"If they disagree on gay marriage, for example, or they disagree on IVF, and they still want to vote Republican on the ticket, sure, of course, anyone can vote Republican if they want," she said. "But what I'm fighting for is don't say that you're a conservative though, because Republican and conservative is a completely different thing."

Debono expressed that she does desire marriage and children, but believes it is important to wait for the right person and expressed concern with messaging on this issue from some in the conservative movement.

Debono said, "I think in the conservative movement, to some extent, you know, we're really being pushed towards marriage a lot of the times, but it's not necessarily the correct partner."

Clark said falling for the girl boss mentality has hurt women.

"In order to succeed as women, you could put off having a family for as long as you wanted," she said. "You'll always be able to get pregnant with IVF. By the way, that's a total lie. IVF is not a guarantee. So many women are hurt by that lie and heartbroken over the fact that they waited too long to have a family."

However, Clark added, "I'm not talking about people that are single, not by choice, because sometimes timelines are different than others, but I'm talking about purposefully choosing that in order to pursue a career and putting family on the back burner."

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Debono said, "The thing is, you also have to include those other women who, you know, want that. They really want that life eventually, but they just haven't found it yet. And instead of, you know, exiling them from the party, telling them to come on in, you are welcome here, and let's enlarge the tent."

Clark acknowledged the current fractures in the GOP.

"Should we be talking about the ethics in big fertility with IVF? You know, should that be a valid conversation? Is it OK to disagree with President Trump on that issue and call him out?" she asked.

"The thing is, everyone is allowed to think differently. Like the whole thing as Republicans is we're not supposed to judge people for their takes," Debono said.

Debono noted there are Republican women who support IVF and said it wasn't immoral to freeze eggs.

"Have you guys ever taken a biology class? Because it's not abortion, OK!" she said.

By saying who should or shouldn't identify as conservative, Debono said, "You guys are acting like liberals, and that is when we are scaring away Republicans."

Clark argued that the GOP shouldn't try to appeal to the middle in order to win over young women.

"Truth and time go hand-in-hand. We have given these middle ground progressive ideas 75 or so years to take heed, to be experimented with, and we've never been less happy, and the family in America has never been more broken."

Debono said, "Preaching like this milkmaid conservative lifestyle on a farm floating around, that looks great and all, but who's going to pay my rent? Because my bills are due. So if you would like to pay them, that's great. But 'til then I have to work hard for what I want."

Clark argued that it is important for conservatives to "hold the line," saying progressives aren't trying to steer to the center.

"We need to hold the line and not budge an inch," she said. "They do not budge an inch for us."

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'Epicenter of fraud': Minnesota's empty stomachs, fake autism therapy and a scandal that could top $2 billion

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:00:52 -0500

Minnesota officials and prosecutors are warning that the state is facing an unprecedented fraud crisis in its social service programs, with losses potentially reaching as high as $2 billion, according to those who have investigated the cases.

Republican state Sen. Michael Kreun said Minnesota has long been aware of the problem but failed to contain it.

"Minnesota has an epidemic of fraud, as the rest of the nation is learning," Kreun said. "We’ve known here in Minnesota for quite some time that we’ve had a massive fraud problem. And it’s turning out that probably Minnesota is the epicenter of fraud in the United States right now."

The warnings follow the massive Feeding Our Future case, one of the largest pandemic-related fraud prosecutions in U.S. history, and growing scrutiny of other state programs, including false claims related to the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS).

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Kreun pointed to the HSS program as a clear example of how fraud allegedly spiraled out of control.

The program, launched nearly four years ago, was initially expected to cost about $2.6 million annually. Instead, spending surged to more than $100 million last year and was on pace to exceed $120 million this year before the program was shuttered.

"We’re learning [it is] probably at least $300 million in fraud right now," Kreun said. "And the fraud was so pervasive that they basically had to shut that program down."

An in-person investigation by ӣ��Ƶ Digital found that many addresses listed on the HSS and Feeding Our Future claims were fabricated. Some led the team to empty parking lots, nonexistent office suites and legitimate businesses with no association to the fraud entities in question.

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Kreun warned that similar problems may exist in other social service programs, including autism-related services.

"The autism services program, for example, probably has that level of fraud, maybe even more," he said.

While investigating the scandal, federal agents discovered that one suspected scammer, Asha Farhan Hassan, defrauded the state’s autism-treatment program of roughly $14 million. Hassan allegedly billed Medicaid for fake therapy sessions, used untrained staff and paid parents $300 to $1,500 a month to keep their kids in the program. She sent hundreds of thousands of dollars abroad, including to purchase real estate in Kenya, prosecutors said.

The autism program’s budget jumped from $3 million in 2018 to nearly $400 million in 2023, according to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

At least 85 entities are under investigation.

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Former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who briefly worked on the Feeding Our Future case, said the scheme was notable not only for its size, but for how easy it was to carry out.

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"Honestly how easy this fraud was to do," Teirab said. "These fraudsters were just saying that they were spending all this money on feeding kids… and they were just making up these PDFs, putting false names into Excel sheets."

"I could do that in five minutes on a computer if I had absolutely no conscience," he added.

Teirab said oversight failures within the Minnesota Department of Education and other agencies played a significant role. He argued that officials had incentives to avoid scrutiny, citing political sensitivities surrounding Minnesota’s Somali community.

"There were huge incentives to just turn the other way," Teirab said. "There’s a sense of, ‘If we say something, are they going to call us racist?’ And that’s exactly what happened."

A widely circulated DHS whistleblower account alleged that staff who raised internal fraud concerns were ignored, reassigned or sidelined — which tracks with Teirab’s account.

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Townhall columnist Dustin Grage described alleged political pressures after the Minnesota Department of Education briefly halted payments to Feeding Our Future due to suspected fraud.

"Omar Fateh… as well as Jamal Osman, a city councilman in Minneapolis, they actually ended up lobbying to the governor and saying, ‘Hey, this is racist if you are to do this,’" Grage said.

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A lawsuit was filed against the state following the suspension of payments, though it was later dismissed. Payments resumed, and the guardrails were once again shaved down.

Grage also pointed to the governor’s authority to subpoena bank records tied to Feeding Our Future, a step he said was never taken.

"They have that tool in their disposal, and they refuse to use it for whatever reason," Grage said. "Maybe they knew about it. Maybe it’s just complete incompetence."

Aimee Bock, the founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, and Salim Said, a local restaurant owner, were found guilty of their roles in the scheme, with prosecutors stating that they splashed their cash on luxury homes and cars, as well as their lavish lifestyles.

They claimed to have served 91 million meals, for which they fraudulently received nearly $250 million in federal funds, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota.

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Teirab said Feeding Our Future was not the only organization implicated. Another nonprofit, Partners in Nutrition (also known as Partners in Quality Care), has also been publicly identified in ӣ��Ƶ Digital reporting.

When combining alleged fraud within Feeding Our Future, Partners in Quality Care, housing stabilization and other programs, the total losses exceed $1 billion. Teirab and former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson estimated the figure could surpass $2 billion.

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"So that is what we’re dealing with," Teirab said. "It’s a travesty that our hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being wasted away."

What Comes Next

The revelations have intensified calls for greater oversight, transparency and accountability across Minnesota’s social service programs. Lawmakers and prosecutors warn that without systemic reforms, similar fraud schemes could continue undetected.

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As investigations and audits move forward, Minnesota officials face growing pressure to explain how such extensive fraud occurred and how the state will prevent it from happening in the coming years.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital has reached out to Gov. Tim Walz’s office, Jamal Osman and Omar Fateh for comment.

ӣ��Ƶ' Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.

Minnesota residents slam Walz, state oversight after $250M Feeding Our Future fraud

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:00:10 -0500

Minneapolis residents speaking with ӣ��Ƶ Digital were largely critical of the state government's handling of the massive fraud crisis that's caused plunging confidence in Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and put a new spotlight on the state's Somali community.

The $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme involved alleged perpetrators, many of them Somalis, targeting a children's nutrition program that Minnesota oversaw during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Peter, a lifelong Minnesota resident, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that he felt governance in the state had gotten worse.

"No disrespect to the people who are running it. Well, a little bit, but I feel like they just don't care about the little people," he said. "They don't care about the government, don't care about the people that are below them. They don't care about the taxpayers. They only care about how they can get more money in their pockets."

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"I understand taxes are necessary, like to fix roads and to do other stuff to better the community," he added. "However, if my money is not going, you know, back into the community to help us out or anything like that, yeah, it pisses me off. It's not cool. And if anything, I want my money back."

Another resident, who didn't identify himself, said: "You have the worst accountants in the entire world, or you just don't care. And I'm kind of gathering we don't care."

Feeding Our Future, a Minnesota nonprofit, partnered with local businesses that enrolled as feeding sites, which were then reimbursed for invoices that said they'd fed thousands of children, according to The New York Times. However, in many of the cases, there were no meals for hungry children at all, and the money was used on personal and luxury items.

The man added that it should have seemed "obvious" that the nonprofit feeding program wasn't doing what was advertised.

"I mean, talk about feeding thousands of children out of a small place that doesn't seem like it would have the capability to feed this many kids, and yet here we are allegedly feeding this many kids," he told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "I clearly don't think it was looked at very in-depth, or at all, to be honest with you."

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With many of the charged suspects being Somali, the case has taken on an extra political lens. President Donald Trump called Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who is a Somali American, and her "friends" "garbage" in remarks at a Cabinet meeting earlier this month.

"What bothers me is that I learned that they get all the benefits from the government," Minneapolis resident Luis told ӣ��Ƶ Digital of the Somali community. "They don't even pay like full rent. They get a rent credit from the state. They get all types of credit. And a lot of them don't even like to work."

But another resident, Maya, said Trump was disparaging whole groups of non-White people.

"With Trump's administration, they have normalized this rhetoric that anybody who isn't White, honestly, is not meant to be in this country, even though we all know that this entire country's been built on the backs of immigrants and people coming here," she told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"We do have a huge Somali population, and they contribute to our economy and our society just as much as any one of our other neighbors, and I think that with them being targeted in the way that they are, that it's important that we show, that our government shows that they're standing with these people."

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Omar has touted Somalis as hard workers who were also victimized in the scheme.

"We also could have benefited from the program and the money that was stolen," she told CBS last week. "So it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that we're also, as Minnesotans, as taxpayers, really upset and angry about the fraud that has occurred."

Walz's leadership is particularly under the microscope as the scale of the fraud has become more apparent.

"I don't think it just happened in Minneapolis," the unidentified man told ӣ��Ƶ Digital, saying responsibility ultimately lay with Walz.

What had been a modest stream of taxpayer dollars to Feeding Our Future suddenly became a flood, surging 2,800% in a year, an abrupt spike now at the center of mounting scrutiny and oversight concerns.

Data from the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor sheds light on how the scheme went unchecked for so long, finding that the Minnesota Department of Education oversight was "inadequate" and that its failures "created opportunities for fraud," ӣ��Ƶ Digital reported on Monday.

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State records chart the rise in payments and reveal how the fraud ballooned in plain sight. According to data from the state audit, payments to Feeding Our Future began in 2019 at $1.4 million. That figure rose to $4.8 million the following year before topping out at $140.3 million in 2021, a staggering 2,818% increase.

Walz has defended his conduct but admitted any fraud on his watch is unacceptable. Last week at a press conference, he said there was work to be done to restore the state's reputation.

"Minnesotans deserve to know that their tax dollars are being put to good use, and they deserve to know that they can trust our public institutions," he said. "We have work cut out for us to rebuild that trust."

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Inside Alex Clark’s push to heal a ‘sick culture’ and why the right can’t stop listening

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:00:26 -0500

Alex Clark, a former radio host, now leads the health and wellness podcast "Culture Apothecary," powered by Turning Point USA.

Clark joined Turning Point USA in 2019 after pitching a show idea to share pop culture from a conservative perspective, "POPlitics!"

Clark told ӣ��Ƶ Digital in an exclusive interview that she was on pop radio for "nearly a decade" and was "openly conservative" before joining TPUSA.

"It was becoming harder and harder to be openly conservative in mainstream media once [Donald] Trump became president the first time around," said Clark.

By 2018, Clark said she was ready for something new but still wanted to reach young women.

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"Turning Point USA was already familiar with me as someone who was outspokenly conservative in broadcasting," Clark recalled. "They said, ‘Hey, we’d love to talk about how we could work together.’ I told them, ‘Great, I have a show idea for you,’ and that’s how ‘POPlitics!’ began."

In 2021, Clark started the "Spillover" podcast, to go beyond pop culture, which is described as the "big sister" to the POPlitics! show, according to the TPUSA website.

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In 2024, Clark rebranded and launched the "Culture Apothecary" podcast, focused on overall wellness. In a May interview with Vanity Fair, Clark said the focus on health and wellness is the "future" of the conservative movement and hopes to help cure a sick culture. She added that each episode she does focuses on how to help heal people physically, emotionally or spiritually. This is the issue she believed would resonate, especially among women.

Clark, who used to post about her love for chicken nuggets and Dr. Pepper, is now encouraging her audience to eat a clean diet avoiding "seed oils" and other artificial ingredients and get off birth control, and is skeptical of vaccines. In a Washington Post piece last year, it was mentioned that Clark found herself questioning many health mandates during the coronavirus pandemic.

Clark read Beth Macy’s book "Dopesick," which led her to question the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

She then began researching hormonal birth control that she had taken since she was a teenager and noticed the list of side effects included "a risk of blood clots, all these different diseases, I was shocked" — that bred a distrust of the pharmaceutical industry," she told the Washington Post.

Although hormonal birth control can increase the risk of blood clots among some, the occurrence is rare, according to the CDC.

Clark is an advocate for the MAHA movement, and she testified in 2024 during a Senate hearing on chronic illness. During her speech, she mentioned fertility issues facing millennial women as well as concerns about raising kids who are healthy both mentally and physically.

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During her speech where she questioned the number of vaccines advised for American children, she claimed, "Parents are being held hostage. They didn't sign up to co-parent with the government, we want a divorce." Following this statement, she received a standing ovation, including from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now heads the Department of Health and Human Services. Additionally, Clark mentioned in her speech concerns with rates of childhood cancer and diseases.

The Washington Post report from TPUSA's Young Women's Leadership Summit in June shared a statement made by Clark at the event, "Less Prozac, more protein!" she said. "Less burnout, more babies! Less feminism, more femininity!"

"This is Whole Foods meets the West Wing," she said. "It’s collagen, calluses and conviction. It’s castor oil, Christ and a well-stocked pantry." The right has "the girls who lift weights, eat clean, have their hormones balanced, have their lives together," Clark said. The left, meanwhile, has "TikTok activists with five shades of autism, panic attacks and a ring light."

"We’re not running from culture anymore," she continued during the event. "We’re running it."

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