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News Pluribus Pluribus Episode 6’s Surprise Cameo Star Had No Idea What Their Shocking Scene Was About Drink HDP, it’s good for you By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 5, 2025 Credit: Apple TV Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Apple TV Warning! This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of Pluribus, “HDP.” If you’re caught up with Apple TV’s Pluribus, you know that Carol (Rhea Seehorn) has been on a journey. That journey became literal this week when she drove to Las Vegas to talk with Diabaté (Samba Schutte) about her discovery that the hive collective have been slurrying up human body parts for nutrients. Diabaté, however, already knew this. While he found it unfortunate, he accepted it as a necessity. Carol was less convinced, which the hive anticipated, so they put together a video featuring John Cena explaining why they’ve turned to becoming cannibals. Credit: Apple TV The John Cena cameo was equal parts informative and entertaining, and Gilligan has explained how it came to be. “He’s cool,” he told Men’s Health. “And he said yes, thank goodness. We just thought, ‘Who is, simultaneously, the most random person to explain the eating of human flesh to Carol Sturka and the most interesting?’” For his part, Cena was very much on board, even though he wasn’t quite sure what he was talking about. Gilligan also recounted that when Cena left, he said, “I can’t wait to find out what the hell it was I just said.” Cena and Seehorn also never met. They shot Cena’s video in Tampa, while Seehorn’s scene of watching the tape took place in Las Vegas. “I didn’t see [Cena] until the first time I saw that videotape [when] we were filming me watching it,” Seehorn told TVLine. “That was really fun. Not that I’d be surprised, but it’s just we don’t think of him as somebody that delivers news coverage about eating people. And yet there he was doing a great job at it.” The Cena cameo was fun, and something I was waiting for on the show—the opportunity to see someone famous in our world as part of the hive. Pluribus nailed that scenario with Cena, making it one of the many, many things that make this show well worth a watch. New episodes of Pluribus premiere on Apple TV on Fridays. [end-mark] The post <i>Pluribus</i> Episode 6’s Surprise Cameo Star Had No Idea What Their Shocking Scene Was About appeared first on Reactor.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, has introduced a bill that would outlaw dual citizenship in the United States. Moreno, who was born in Colombia, legally immigrated with his family at age 5, and became a naturalized citizen at 18, recently introduced The Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025, which would require those who are citizens of the United States and a foreign country to choose a single citizenship rather than remain dual citizens. The bill would make it so that “an individual may not be a citizen or national of the United States while simultaneously possessing any foreign citizenship.” Currently, Americans are permitted to hold foreign citizenship, but a press release from Moreno’s office upon the introduction of the bill claimed that dual citizenship “could create conflicts of interest.” “One of the greatest honors of my life was when I became an American citizen at 18, the first opportunity I could do so,” Moreno told Fox News Digital. “It was an honor to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and only to the United States of America. Being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege — and if you want to be an American — it’s all or nothing. It’s time to end dual citizenship for good.” The bill’s text claims dual citizenship could lead to “divided loyalties,” and that “it is in the national interest of the United States to ensure that United States citizenship is held exclusively.” Moreno’s Exclusive Citizenship Act also outlines the process by which Americans would renounce their dual citizenship. If the bill is signed into law, those who possess dual citizenship would have one year to submit to the Secretary of State their written renunciation of their foreign citizenship or to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security of their United States citizenship. If a citizen of the United States voluntarily becomes a citizen of a foreign country, the bill notes such a person “shall be deemed to have relinquished United States citizenship.“ Since becoming a senator in January, Moreno has intensely focused on immigration. The Ohio senator appeared on Wednesday’s edition of “The Ingraham Angle” to discuss legal and illegal immigration. “You have to make certain that there’s some conditions to come here,” Moreno explained. This includes “learning the language,” which, the senator said, “unites us.” “You have to understand that you coming here is a privilege and it’s an honor. You don’t have a right to come to America. It’s an honor and a privilege,” Moreno emphasized. Moreno also spoke about his own family’s migration to the United States when he was a child. Moreno said his father reminded him and his siblings that America “welcomed us,” even when they were subject to intense searches upon traveling back and forth between Colombia. “The Democrats have systematically tried to destroy what it means to be an American. I find that insulting as an immigrant,” he added. As someone who came to America the right way, there must be conditions to the system. American citizenship is an honor and a privilege. Those coming here legally have to assimilate to our culture. pic.twitter.com/Kvtfz8zGPr— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) December 4, 2025 During his second administration, President Donald Trump, who also endorsed Moreno in his Senate run, continues to remain focused on immigration. Earlier this week, the Trump administration announced a pause on immigration from 19 countries. This decision followed the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who entered under the Biden Administration. Afghanistan is one of the 19 countries on the Trump administrations list. The president has also made citizenship a major issue. At the start of his second term, Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move which Moreno supports. The order was quickly challenged, and the U.S. Supreme Court asked to get involved. While the justices recently declined to hear the case, the courts could still intervene on Trump, Moreno, and Republicans’ efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration and citizenship system. The post Ohio Republican Releases Plan to End Dual Citizenship appeared first on The Daily Signal.

As part of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which was signed on July 4, Medicaid funding previously funneled into Planned Parenthood and its affiliates was put on hold for one year. This measure, aimed at redirecting taxpayer dollars away from organizations that carry out elective abortions, was hailed by pro-life advocates as a step in the right direction in safeguarding unborn lives. Unsurprisingly, abortion activists were not keen on the legislation. In fact, on Tuesday, a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama issued a ruling that barred the Trump administration from enforcing the defunding in 22 Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sided with blue states to keep the taxpayer dollars flowing to Planned Parenthood. She claimed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed “to provide clear notice as required by the Spending Clause of the United States Constitution” to the Democrat-led states concerning the funding cuts. Notably, Talwani had taken similar action in July aimed at this provision already—a decision that was ultimately overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. As the Daily Wire noted, “Talwani has a history of leftist activism and has volunteered for and donated to prominent Democrat politicians, including Obama and Senator Elizabeth Warren.” Talwani also has significant financial ties to other Democrats. For example, she’s donated $1,725 in total to the party and its politicians, which involves $1,000 of it going to former Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., $350 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and $100 to Obama—plus an additional $275 given to the Democratic National Committee. And beyond this case, Talwani has repeatedly clashed with the Trump administration, issuing injunctions on immigration policies and other executive actions she perceived as overreach. Pro-life leaders wasted no time condemning Talwani’s most recent ruling. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser, for example, explained that “Democrats and their radical activist judges are desperately seeking to thwart the will of the people and bail out the Big Abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is federal law passed by Congress and signed by the president.” She added, “This fight is not over. The pro-life movement will work tirelessly to ensure the Democrats do not prevail and taxpayers are never forced to pay a dime to prop up Big Abortion businesses.” The Trump administration echoed this frustration. A HHS spokesperson told Newsweek that the department was “disappointed in the court’s decision. We remain committed to protecting the integrity of Medicaid programs to ensure full compliance with the law and conditions set by Congress.” There’s a seven-day stay on Talwani’s order that allows the Justice Department time to appeal. This unsettled matter is unfurling amid a tumultuous time for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business. Since the defunding provision cleared legal hurdles and went into effect in September, more than 20 clinics have shuttered nationwide, from Houston’s massive Prevention Park facility (once the Western Hemisphere’s largest abortion center) to smaller outposts in Ohio, California, Indiana, and Vermont. Planned Parenthood has labeled the law “unconstitutional and dangerous.” Meanwhile, pro-lifers frame the closures as a triumph for the unborn. And yet, they also caution that the one-year limit leaves the door open for funds to rush right back in if further legislative action does not take place to extend the defunding. “The pro-life movement has made great strides in the effort to defund abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood and protect American taxpayer dollars from being used to kill unborn children,” Family Research Council’s Joy Stockbauer told The Washington Stand. “That being said,” she added, “the incremental step of defunding abortion businesses for only one year must be extended to permanence. I am optimistic that the pro-life champions in Congress and the Trump administration will be able to make this goal a reality—but pro-life Americans must continue to make clear that taxpayer funding of abortion is unacceptable, and we will not go back.” The battle, however, extends far beyond brick-and-mortar clinics. With chemical abortions—facilitated by mail-order drugs like mifepristone, which have surged post-Dobbs and pose grave risks to women and the unborn—pro-lifers are warning that even widespread closures of physical locations wouldn’t eliminate the threat. As Stockbauer put it, “The pieces necessary to protect mothers and babies from abortion drugs are all there—we just need the leaders of our government to step up and put the puzzle together.” She outlined concrete pathways forward: “Enforcing the federal Comstock Act, which prohibits the mailing of abortion drugs, and completing an FDA safety reevaluation of the abortion pill, ideally removing it from the market entirely, are just two examples of the many avenues available to protect mothers and babies from abortion drugs.” Originally published by The Washington Stand The post Judge Blocks Planned Parenthood Defunding…Again appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Sarah Varney, special health care correspondent for the PBS News Hour, has been providing pro-abortion reporting ever since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, focusing predominantly on lost opportunities to abort nationwide. In Monday’s program she once again went after the pro-life movement under the online headline “Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement.” Geoff Bennett: Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state's attorney general from investigating whether they misled women into believing the centers offered abortions. The case highlights an effort to crack down on these so-called crisis pregnancy centers. For our series The Next Frontier, special correspondent Sarah Varney reports, these organizations are a growing part of the anti-abortion movement in a post-Roe America. “So-called pregnancy centers”? Varney found a sympathetic young victim of one such center. Hana Miller, Minnesota Native: And I was terrified. I mean, like, no 18-year-old wants to find themselves in that position. Sarah Varney: Four years ago, Hana Miller, then a freshman at Brandeis University outside of Boston, became pregnant. After searching for abortion care on the Internet, the Minnesota native called one of the first clinics to pop up….But partway through the appointment, Hana realized she had come to the wrong place. Instead of an abortion clinic, Hana was sitting in a crisis pregnancy center. Known as CPCs, these mostly faith-based nonprofits offer resources to pregnant women to steer them away from abortion. But reproductive rights advocates in the medical community have criticized CPCs for using deceptive and at times unsafe practices.   Are abortion mills “safe” for every human who enters them? Varney: These centers are part of a larger strategy, says Carrie Baker, in the next frontier of the anti-abortion movement. Carrie Baker, Smith College: When people think of the anti-abortion movement, they think of the push to try to make abortion illegal. And they haven't focused as much on the ground game, which is what CPCs are. Varney spoke of the narrowing chances to abort a baby as a tragedy, even though the crisis pregnancy centers she describes don’t sound very awful. Varney: As of last year, there were more than 2,600 crisis pregnancy centers and only 765 abortion clinics in communities across the U.S. Many of these centers, which typically provide free diapers, pregnancy tests and anti-abortion counseling, offer health care services and medical advice without a license. Carrie Baker: As these clinics get more and more things like ultrasounds and appear more and more medical and encourage people to rely on what they're saying, they're more of a danger. I wouldn't call them medical providers. I would call them political organizations who are often not revealing their political agenda, at least initially. Not revealing an agenda? None of Varney's experts are identified as liberal, leftist, radical, feminist, or progressive. There was only "reproductive rights advocates." Not "abortion advocates." There were ten uses of "anti-abortion" in the story by reporters and experts. No "pro-abortion." Baker's so radical a feminist that she co-chairs the Ms. magazine "Committee of Scholars." Varney made no pushback against the professor's paranoia. Varney: Baker points to cases where patients were misdiagnosed, delaying needed medical care, or were misled about the safety of abortion…. The irony of the phrase “safety of abortion” apparently didn’t raise an eyebrow during News Hour production meetings. At least Varney spoke with a pro-life person. Brian Westbrook, Executive Director and Founder, Coalition Life: We stand here today because Planned Parenthood and their allies want to destroy life and not protect it. …. Varney: Brian Westbrook is executive director of Coalition Life. The anti-abortion group runs a crisis pregnancy center in the St. Louis suburbs. They send out protesters for so-called sidewalk counseling to abortion clinics in and out of the state. Yes, another “so-called” descriptor, casting doubt on the sincerity of the pro-lifers.  The story didn’t even mention the word “baby,” but Varney did bring up the dubious phrase “abortion care” twice. Two weeks ago, Varney glamorized an "underground network" of abortion pill distributors in pro-life states on the News Hour, and in 2023 provided some free publicity (on then-publicly funded television) for abortion pill-makers. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 12/1/25 7:35:28 p.m. (ET) Geoff Bennett: Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state's attorney general from investigating whether they misled women into believing the centers offered abortions. The case highlights an effort to crack down on these so-called crisis pregnancy centers. For our series The Next Frontier, special correspondent Sarah Varney reports, these organizations are a growing part of the anti-abortion movement in a post-Roe America. Hana Miller, Minnesota Native: And I was terrified. I mean, like, no 18-year-old wants to find themselves in that position. Sarah Varney: Four years ago, Hana Miller, then a freshman at Brandeis University outside of Boston, became pregnant. After searching for abortion care on the Internet, the Minnesota native called one of the first clinics to pop up. Hana Miller:They were really trying to, like, beat around the bush, really trying to just get me there. Sarah Varney: What happens when you went inside? Hana Miller: It looked exactly like any doctor's office, down to a woman in scrubs. Woman: Hello. Sarah Varney: But partway through the appointment, Hana realized she had come to the wrong place. Instead of an abortion clinic, Hana was sitting in a crisis pregnancy center. Known as CPCs, these mostly faith-based nonprofits offer resources to pregnant women to steer them away from abortion. But reproductive rights advocates in the medical community have criticized CPCs for using deceptive and at times unsafe practices. Hana Miller: They told me that I was eight weeks pregnant at a time when I was six weeks pregnant. Sarah Varney: Did anything she said change your mind? Hana Miller: No. It made me kind of more resolved in my decision. But it changed fundamentally the way that I felt about it. It felt like something I needed to be ashamed of. Sarah Varney: These centers are part of a larger strategy, says Carrie Baker, in the next frontier of the anti-abortion movement. Carrie Baker, Smith College: When people think of the anti-abortion movement, they think of the push to try to make abortion illegal. And they haven't focused as much on the ground game, which is what CPCs are. Sarah Varney: Baker teaches gender, law and public policy at Smith College. She says after many abortion clinics were forced to close post-Roe, the conservative Christian movement has prioritized replacing them. Man: Don't murder an innocent child. Sarah Varney: As of last year, there were more than 2,600 crisis pregnancy centers and only 765 abortion clinics in communities across the U.S. Many of these centers, which typically provide free diapers, pregnancy tests and anti-abortion counseling, offer health care services and medical advice without a license. Carrie Baker: As these clinics get more and more things like ultrasounds and appear more and more medical and encourage people to rely on what they're saying, they're more of a danger. I wouldn't call them medical providers. I would call them political organizations who are often not revealing their political agenda, at least initially. Sarah Varney: Baker points to cases where patients were misdiagnosed, delaying needed medical care, or were misled about the safety of abortion. And because nearly all of the centers are not licensed medical clinics, and, because of that, not subject to federal health care privacy laws, critics worry about what they are doing with patient information. Carrie Baker: There's a fair amount of evidence that anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers are collecting information about people, and they're creating a mass database of young pregnant women or people that may not yet be pregnant, but might become pregnant. My concern about CPCs is that they are actually surveilling women for criminal prosecution. Sarah Varney: This year, the crisis pregnancy center industry is expected to bring in more than $2.5 billion. From 2017 to 2023, nearly $430 million in federal dollars were awarded to more than 650 CPCs across the country through teen pregnancy prevention, welfare, and other federal programs. And though a majority of funding for CPCs is from churches and private donors, an increasing amount is coming from state taxpayer dollars. Brian Westbrook, Executive Director and Founder, Coalition Life: We stand here today because Planned Parenthood and their allies want to destroy life and not protect it. Sarah Varney: At the center of the abortion fight today, Missouri is home to more than 90 CPCs. Brian Westbrook: We want them to be the best darn mom they possibly can be, and that's where we come in. Sarah Varney: Brian Westbrook is executive director of Coalition Life. The anti-abortion group runs a crisis pregnancy center in the St. Louis suburbs. They send out protesters for so-called sidewalk counseling to abortion clinics in and out of the state. Brian Westbrook: We never believed that any mother wakes up in the morning saying, yes, I really want an abortion. I don't think anyone ever wakes up thinking they're excited to do that. And so what we want to do is we want to coach them. Then they can kind of pause, think about it, make a logical decision of, yes, maybe I shouldn't go through with this abortion. Sarah Varney: Westbrook says they served around 1,100 women last year and on average helped four to five people per day. Brian Westbrook: Our goal is to create a family unit that the child would be in a good spot to go into, to be born into. Sarah Varney: The center offers pregnancy and STI testing, ultrasounds and pregnancy coaching. Westbrook says that work is made possible because of private donors. In Missouri, residents receive a 70 percent tax credit when they donate to groups like Coalition Life. Last year, the state approved $11 million in these tax credits. That's on top of the state's long-running Alternatives to Abortion program, which received more than $8 million in 2024. Brian Westbrook: It certainly does help. It helps our donors for sure. They become a little bit more generous. But I try to stay away from government funding as much as we possibly can. For some pregnancy centers, that's fantastic for them. For us, we want to be able to operate as independently as humanly possible. And we know that a lot of government funding comes with a lot of strings. Sarah Varney: Missouri is not alone. From 2021 to 2024, anti-abortion centers in at least 21 states received funding through grants, state programs, budget allocations or tax credits. Carrie Baker says, even in states where abortion is legal, crisis pregnancy centers are hard to hold accountable. Carrie Baker: Just like a church can say whatever it wants on a Sunday morning, they're like, we're like a church. We can say whatever we want. We don't charge for our services, so we can't be regulated. We don't have to reveal any information. Sarah Varney: But that may be changing in Massachusetts. Last year, a CPC in Worcester settled a lawsuit that alleged a nurse failed to diagnose an ectopic pregnancy. That's when a fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus, a condition that is dangerous if left untreated. The woman survived, but needed emergency surgery for massive internal bleeding. Narrator: Whether you need pregnancy care or abortion care, avoid anti-abortion centers. Sarah Varney: That summer, Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, launched a $1 million education campaign to discourage residents from going to CPCs. State Sen. Becca Rausch (D-MA): In order to get at anti-abortion centers, at this very real problem and threat to the health and safety of a lot of people, we have to do it in a way that does not run afoul of the First Amendment. That's hard to do. Sarah Varney: Democratic State Senator Becca Rausch authored a bill requiring a licensed health care professional to supervise any ultrasound related to a pregnancy. It was signed into law last year. State Sen. Becca Rausch: Because of search engines and algorithms and money, a lot of times, the first places that pop up are these anti-abortion centers. But if they can't provide any ultrasound services because it's illegal in Massachusetts for them to do so because they lack a license and the appropriate training to do so safely and accurately, then that doesn't happen at the get-go. Sarah Varney: But some groups are pushing back. Your Options Medical, which runs centers in Eastern Massachusetts, is suing the state, saying its education campaign violates the group's free speech and equal protection rights. Hana Miller: This experience, for all intents and purposes, it did not have the effect that they wanted it to in so many ways. Sarah Varney: Weeks after her CPC appointment, Hana was able to get abortion care at a licensed clinic near Boston. She says the ordeal inspired her to study reproductive health and policy. Hana Miller: Class of 2025, we made it. Sarah Varney: This may, she graduated with a degree in public health. Hana Miller: I felt incredible shame, incredible guilt. I was so embarrassed. And I felt stupid. Like, how could I not have seen this sooner? And I have thought about this for a long time, and I have kind of come out saying, you should not feel that. They should feel that. Sarah Varney: Hana hopes talking about her experience will help others avoid the same pain in the future. For "PBS News Hour," I'm Sarah Varney in Massachusetts.

On Thursday, radio host Derek Hunter of Washington, D.C.'s powerhouse news/talk station WMAL broadcasted live from the Media Research Center studios and welcomed MRC President David Bozell to drop an exclusive bombshell poll that should terrify every conservative in America. The question was simple: What was the political ideology of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of gunning down Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk? According to a November 25 McLaughlin & Associates national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted for the Media Research Center, less than a quarter of respondents correctly described Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, as left-wing.  Just 24% of likely voters correctly identified the suspect as left-wing. A staggering 22% of likely voters wrongly believed Robinson was right-wing. But the real gut-punch came from college-aged respondents – the very demographic Charlie Kirk spent his career trying to reach: 33% thought the shooter was a right-winger. A pathetic 4% got it right and pegged him as left-wing. Bozell didn’t mince words, pointing the finger squarely at late-night propagandists and Big Tech gatekeepers. “I’d still put this largely at the feet of folks like Jimmy Kimmel,” Bozell told Hunter. He also called out the “big-time aggregators that enjoy relative anonymity” – Google, Apple News, and Yahoo – for funneling hundreds of millions of eyeballs to far-left outlets disguised as neutral. Case in point: Newsweek, which famously sold for one dollar, now ranks as America’s 16th-most-trafficked news site with 68 million monthly visitors – almost entirely because it’s algorithmically embedded in Google News, Apple News, and Yahoo. And what did those outlets do in the critical hours and days after the assassination? They played dumb. As Bozell put it, CNN, The New York Times, and their ilk spent the aftermath shrugging: “We just don’t know enough about Tyler Robinson yet… let’s wait for the courts.”  The result? A plurality of young Americans now believe a left-wing extremist who targeted Charlie Kirk was actually a “right-wing” killer – the exact opposite of reality. Listen to full interview here.