Movies & TV Gen V Gen V Brings It All Together and Teases Final Season of The Boys in Season 2 Wrap-Up It’s an exciting season finale… apart from the endless tie-ins to that other supes series. By Ben Francisco | Published on October 27, 2025 Image: Jasper Savage/Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Jasper Savage/Prime Video [Spoilers for season two finale, “Trojan”] The episode begins in 1967 at the burning “Odessa Project” laboratory, continuing the flashback that opened the season. Dr. Godolkin (Ethan Slater) desperately injects himself with compound V, hoping he might attain powers to extricate himself from the flames. He screams as the fire starts to burn him alive. Cut to the present, to “Doug,” the ordinary human that Godolkin (a.k.a. Dean Cipher) has been using as a puppet ever since his own body was burned to the point of incapacitation. “I’m so sorry about the carpet,” Doug says after vomiting, in a meek tone that is jarringly different from the casual cruelty that Cipher has been giving all season. Still recovering from the battle of the prior episode, our heroes learn that Doug was one of several puppets Godolkin had manipulated with his mind-control abilities—and that his plan all along was to manipulate Marie (Jaz Sinclair) into healing his scorched body. Meanwhile, Godolkin is savoring the full use of his own body and all its sensory pleasures: drinking wine, touching high-threadcount sheets, urinating for himself, and enjoying his love affair with Sister Sage (Susan Heyward), the super-genius mastermind behind Homelander’s effective takeover of the U.S.—and Godolkin’s own recovery. Sister Sage is surprised when Godolkin says he has more work to do at the university named for him, and it’s clear there are some hitches coming for both their romantic relationship and their partnership in evil scheming. Doug gets a ride from Polarity to the doctor, telling him that his son had died heroically, sacrificing himself for his friends. Their touching moment is interrupted by an attack by Noir, who kills Doug and captures Polarity. Back at the dorm, Emma, Cate, and Marie regroup. Emma reminds them that they’ve become a chosen family, and Marie restores Cate’s telepathy using her increasingly powerful blood-control ability.   On a social media video, Godolkin announces his “resurrection,” his super-abled identity, and open enrollment in his advanced seminar to anyone seeking a spot in the top student rankings. Marie responds with her own video warning students the “seminar” is a life-threatening trap. Even so, many of the university’s less discerning students show up for the seminar. Godolkin takes control of multiple young supes at once—pitting them in combat against each other in a violent bloodbath.  On the way to stop Godolkin, Marie and Jordan have a quick romantic check-in. Jordan forgives Marie but says they can’t be together—but hopes they can stay friends. Before they have a chance to process, the other heroes catch up to them. They have a plan to stop Godolkin.  Godolkin brags to Sister Sage that his powers are growing—he’s never been able to control so many people at once. His hope is to hone his own power to the point where he can control even the most powerful heroes, like Marie and Homelander. Sister Sage reminds him that he’s straying from “phase two” of their plan. When they fail to find common ground, Godolkin summons a dozen semi-conscious bloody bodies to life for a choreographed dance routine. Sister Sage leaves and goes to free Polarity—one of the few supes able to block Godolkin’s mind-control abilities. Marie arrives at the seminar combat room to confront Godolkin, who weaponizes several of her super-powered classmates against her. The odds seem to overwhelm Marie, until Black Hole (a secondary frat bro character) reveals that he is the episode’s eponymous Trojan horse: his super-powered rectum is hiding the rest of our heroes. After they’ve emerged, they use their various powers to take Godolkin by surprise, and Harper uses her mimicry powers to take control of Godolkin and all the other students.  But then Godolkin gets back control of his own body and finally manages to take control of Marie. Through Marie, he creates a whirlwind of blood that sweeps across the room, fulfilling her sister Annabel’s precognitive visions. He presses all the heroes to the ground like helpless bags of blood. Speaking in unison through both his own mouth and Marie’s, he proclaims that they’re all mediocre supes and traitors to their own kind. Godolkin seems poised for total victory—until Polarity arrives and disrupts his powers. Back to herself, Marie uses her ability to pop the blood vessels of his head in one gory explosion. “That was for Andre,” she says. “Thanks for the level up, asshole.” Recognizing that the Vought corporate oligarchs will come after them again soon, our crew of young heroes takes to the road. But before they make it far, Starlighter literally swoops in to officially enlist them in the resistance. Image: Jasper Savage/Prime Video This season’s big reveal that Godolkin and Cipher are one and the same was expected by many fans, but it still worked well for me thanks to its strong execution and a few details that went beyond the expected. It’s interesting that Godolkin didn’t already have powers before the fire, and the scene of him desperately injecting himself with V as the flames consume him is powerfully unsettling. Hamish Linklater completes his season-stealing performance with his deft transition from casually evil mastermind Dean Cipher to hapless VCR-repairman Doug. After seven episodes of callousness, it’s chilling to see the same person suddenly sympathetic and helpless. Linklater’s portrayal of Doug’s suffering is poignant, and you really do feel like this character is recovering from two decades of trauma, having to watch helpless from inside his own mind as Godolkin used his body to torture and kill people. I loved Linklater’s interpretation of Cipher so much that I was almost sad to see him revert to Doug, but Ethan Slater skillfully picks up the villain baton. Slater demonstrates impressive range portraying Godolkin, a total departure from his previous roles. He looks so different here compared to Boq in Wicked that my partner didn’t believe the two parts were played by the same person until I submitted internet evidence. The final confrontation with Godolkin is an excellent and satisfying climax to the season. In an ensemble show like this, it’s fun when multiple characters get to play a part in taking down the big bad—even secondary ones. Harper’s use of her mimicry power in particular was nicely done. The Trojan horse gambit using Black Hole’s anus felt a little silly, but certainly brought home the point that even the oddest of powers can be valuable when deployed strategically. The motley group of young heroes taking down Godolkin is an apt counterpoint to his eugenicist philosophy of supe supremacy. Jaz Sinclair has given a strong performance as Marie throughout the season and shines in the finale in particular. When Godolkin possesses Marie, it’s genuinely terrifying for a few moments, largely thanks to Sinclair’s skillful depiction.  With the focus on the final confrontation between Godolkin and Marie, there’s little time for closure of this season’s other subplots. Emma easily grows to giant size in the big battle—without having to eat anything—giving the sense that she has a stronger handle on both her powers and self-esteem. She also has a brief but sweet farewell with Polarity, closing out the unexpectedly fun pairing between the two of them this season.  The arc that suffered the most from the rushed pace was Marie’s sister Annabeth. At the end, she joins our heroes to run off with the resistance, and she overcomes her anger at Marie over the death of their parents. But it’s an abrupt shift after years of not speaking to her sister, and that evolution could have been more impactful if we’d gotten the chance to see more of it on screen. I also craved more than just a few minutes of screentime for Marie and Jordan’s romance, though I can understand that the showrunners didn’t want to shoehorn too much of it in when the heroes had to fight for their lives. We also get a couple of more grace notes of honoring Andre’s legacy, which ended up being a central theme for the entire season much more than I’d expected. Image: Prime Video The weakest moments in the finale and throughout the season were some of the tie-ins with The Boys. Starlighter’s appearance as deus ex machina in both the opening and closing of the season felt like an afterthought, more at the service of commercial interests than the story.  I also had trouble believing that Sister Sage, literally the smartest person in the world, would fail to predict that Godolkin was never going to stay neatly within the lines of their scheme. That said, she adapts quickly with an alternate plan to neutralize him, and Susan Heyward’s performance is so impeccable that it easily papers over any questions. While the plugs for The Boys sometimes felt forced, they did succeed in getting me excited for that show’s forthcoming final season. My ears pricked up when Sister Sage mentioned “phase two”—who can resist a multi-phase diabolical plot? It’s also fun that we’ll get to see more of Marie and her friends as members of the resistance in Gen V’s parent show—though they’ll undoubtedly be tertiary at best as things build to a big showdown between Homelander and Butcher. I also was hoping for some more exploration of the theme of rising fascism in this finale—though I suspect we’ll get much more of that in the final season of The Boys as well.[end-mark] The post <i>Gen V</i> Brings It All Together and Teases Final Season of <i>The Boys</i> in Season 2 Wrap-Up appeared first on Reactor.

If Tiger Woods offered you free golf lessons, what would you say?If Martha Stewart volunteered to cook your family Thanksgiving dinner, what would you say?If Taylor Swift offered you tips on how to wreck an ex-lover in song, what would you say?“Heck, yes!” I presume. (Though in Taylor’s case I’d ask if she’d throw in some Chiefs tickets in the bargain.) However, for some reason, when the guy who rebuilt the New York skyline, rescued the historic Old Post Office Building in D.C., and crafted some of the most beautiful resorts in the world, offers to build them a ballroom at no charge, Democrats and the media spit at the ground and scream at the heavens. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is calling for a wrecking ball before the thing is even built. It’s inexplicable. I had occasion earlier this year to experience one of Trump’s ballrooms at Mar-a-Lago. Trust me. If the man wants to gift the American people a ballroom, just say ‘Thank you!’ and move on with your lives. Or in Swalwell’s case, say, “Actually, the ballroom would be a great place to bring a hot Chinese spy on a date.”But that’s not happening. The apoplexy over the demolition involved the East Wing as part of the building of the White House ballroom bounces between hysterically funny and harrowing. Hysterical because anybody who’s done any remodeling knows the first stage is, by definition, messy. It’s HGTV 101. So why the fuss? Hysterical because we know these very same people would be cheering if the space aliens from “Independence Day” obliterated the White House … if they knew Trump was trapped inside. Harrowing because, without exaggeration, they’re more upset about the taking down of the East Wing than they are the gunning down of Charlie Kirk. These people are so myopically focused on their hatred of Trump and all things MAGA they don’t even consider the obvious: whatever just got torn down will be rebuilt even better for presidents and first ladies to come. Breathe, people. The East Wing will be back. I mean, do you think Trump’s going to leave it half finished … like Barack Obama’s trainwreck of a presidential library? Leave the White House a shambles, like Joe Biden’s presidency? Rejoice that the East Wing will be coming back better and more beautiful. Stop acting as if Trump took away your binky. Even a press secretary for former first lady Jill Biden, Michael LaRosa, is saying the ballroom is needed and as sad and nostalgic he is to see his old office gone, the demo of the East Wing was “probably needed.” What’s in a Name? The media and Democrats are also in a tizzy over the possibility Trump is going to name the ballroom after himself. Trump says he has no interest in doing that. Though, thanks to the Streisand effect and all the attention being given to Trump over the ballroom, the critics themselves may be assuring that, whatever the given name, it’ll be known as the Trump Ballroom. Which, as Mark Hemingway pointed out on X, and The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman echoed, perhaps is the real issue. They can’t stand the idea of Trump leaving a physical legacy at the White House. Or a legacy at all. But let’s leave the Sour Sallys, the Construction Karens, aside. What should the ballroom be called? Some, like Jack Posobiec, want to see the ballroom named after Kirk. Trump, in response to Hillary Clinton’s criticism of the demo, suggested he’ll name it the “Monica Lewinsky ballroom,” demonstrating he’s as good a troll as he is a builder. Meanwhile, I suspect Hillary’s just worried construction workers will find all the bodies. However, mention of the former first lady does raise an idea for a possible name for the ballroom. Why not honor the first first lady who lived at the White House, the woman who famously arranged the rescue of countless paintings and documents as British soldiers stormed the city to burn the place down during the War of 1812? The Abigail Ballroom, in honor of Abigail Adams. Nice ring to it. Sounds classy. Bringing Dance Back to D.C. Trump likes to dance. Name another president who inspired a dance craze. In fact, when Trump got off the plane in Malaysia to kick off his Asian trip, the president busted out some moves with a native dance troupe. TRUMP DANCE — MALAYSIA EDITION! ??? pic.twitter.com/HLyCVaCndh— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 26, 2025 Yes, it’s clear. Trump is Kevin Bacon and Democrats are the narrow-minded folk who don’t want dancing returning to the sleepy town of D.C. You Want to Talk History? ABC News, which seems particularly obsessed with this ballroom story, says according to satellite imagery, the demo has also removed two historic magnolia trees and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. (If only ABC News had expended this much investigative sweat into the 2020 election fraud, or the Russia hoax, or Hunter’s laptop.) Putting aside the fact that whatever has been temporarily lost will be put back better than ever, we really must consider the history that is set to be made.We must close our eyes and imagine: It’s Summer 2028. The Olympics are about to start here in the good ol’ USA. In advance of the Opening Ceremony, Trump invites all the world leaders with teams participating to come to the White House for a celebratory gala and to help officially christen the White House Ballroom. Trump, who those who’ve experienced it know, is a most gracious host. Scanning the room after raising a toast, he can see some of the fruit of his second term. Look, the Israeli and Saudi leaders are sharing a table. Over there, India and Pakistan are breaking bread together. Cambodia and Thailand. The Armenians and the Azerbaijanis. Who knows? Perhaps by then Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskky are trading something more than hateful stares and drone strikes.This is an evening for the ages.And on ABC News they’re complaining about Trump’s choice of curtains. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump’s Ballroom: Just Say ‘Thank You’ and Move On With Your Lives appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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It looks like CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Becky Quick is fed up with the Democrats’ hypocritical nonsense over the ongoing government shutdown. Quick skewered House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) during the October 24 edition of Squawk Box. Quick scolded him over Obamacare subsidies: “What you’re asking the Republicans to do right now when they control the White House, the Senate and the House is effectively what the Democrats could not do when they controlled all three heads of government themselves,”  The CNBC personality continued, with Jeffries just staring stone-faced: “The three-year set up for the expiration of these credits was intentionally put in. It was put in when you controlled the White House, the House and the Senate. You couldn’t get it passed for longer.”   Quick then wrapped up: “This is a setup kind of your own creation that you all couldn’t extend beyond that. Now you want the Republicans to do something you didn’t do when you were in power?” Game. Set. Match.   Jeffries stumbled over himself to try to save face: “Uh, it’s not a setup beyond what we could do.” What does that even mean? The House Minority leader proceeded to deflect from the question entirely and just prop up his political side’s illusory healthcare policy bona fides: “We extended the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits in 2022, uh, for three years. The program is working. It’s providing healthcare to tens of millions of people in an affordable way and it should be continued.”  If it's "working," why does it need massive subsidies to prevent prices from exploding? Jeffries will surely be in for a rude awakening when he finds out that the The Washington Post editorial board just admitted recently that Obamacare “was never actually affordable” to begin with. The architects of former President Barack Obama’s 2010 “signature achievement,” wrote The Post, “assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.” Talking about getting caught with your pants down, eh Hakeem?

Watching ABC News’s The View throughout October, one couldn’t help but think that their pearl clutching hyperventilation about President Trump supposedly trying to steal the midterms with the National Guard and the ballroom being evidence that he planned on holding onto power, were meant to incite another assassination attempt. On Monday’s show, they claimed that Trump was in fact a “dictator,” that he was planning on running again in 2028, and he was going to steal the election. “Well, [Trump] told us he was going to be a dictator on day one and, damn, if he isn't a dictator,” proclaimed ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg. Despite playing a soundbite of Trump denying that he was going to seek a third term because the people wouldn’t support him, Goldberg warned he was going to do it anyway and wanted to know if their audience was “going to let it happen”: TRUMP: I think the people wouldn't like that, it's too cute. It’s not – It wouldn't be right. [Cuts back to live] GOLDBERG: So, just so we're clear, you have nothing to say about any of this [pointing to the audience]. Just understand that. Okay? Republicans have pretty much given him free rein up until now. Are they going to let this happen? Are y'all going to let it happen [looking to the audience]?   BREAKING: ABC News claims President Trump is in fact a "dictator." "Well, [Trump] told us he was going to be a dictator on day one and, damn, if he isn't a dictator." pic.twitter.com/t1BvYTmxLM — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 27, 2025   Faux conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin admitted that peddling such claims made her feel “crazy” and like a “conspiracy theorist,” but went on to defend their disinformation anyway: “I asked Justice Sotomayor when she was here and people were like ‘oh, that's so wild.’ But here’s the thing, this is a person who’s been right before saying it, the President himself isn't ruling it out.” Obviously, Farah Griffin’s claim that “the President himself isn't ruling it out” was a boldfaced lie since they played a soundbite of him saying, “I think the people wouldn't like that, it's too cute. It’s not – It wouldn't be right.”   Alyssa Farah Griffin admits she feels like a "crazy" "conspiracy theorist" when they claim Trump is a dictator and doesn't plan on leaving office, but does so anyway. Despite playing a video of Trump saying running again "wouldn't be right," Alyssa falsely claims he "isn't ruling… pic.twitter.com/CwjQ53X55c — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 27, 2025   Despite that clip, she tried to map out how he would do it anyway (Click “expand”): Now, what I would say is this, there's two ways to do it but I think he's going to go for the third way which isn’t technically the way you would do it. You would either need a super majority in Congress to pass a change to the Constitution or you would need two-thirds of states calling for a constitutional convention to consider making this change. I sort of think that he's going to try to challenge it through the courts on the grounds that it wouldn't be consecutive terms. And so, to kind of parse the language within the Constitution to say that he actually could do this. And with the makeups of the courts where a lot of judges are in power because Trump put them there, it's possible that they perhaps could rule in his favor. So, I say don't rule out what he is saying. “He's done thing that people never thought he would never do,” decried Sunny Hostin, going on to take the incendiary position that Trump was planning on never leaving the White House: I actually have come to the conclusion that he is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing it's going to take a long time to build that. He is hooking up the White House because he doesn't plan on leaving it. I don’t think he plans on leaving.   The View-anon strikes again. Sunny Hostin uses inciting rhetoric to claim Trump wants to be dictator for life and all the evidence is there: "I have come to the conclusion that he is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing it's going to… pic.twitter.com/RaeGlJdlbg — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 27, 2025   Farah Griffin chimed again in to point out that in her scenarios Trump would still need to get elected and that the people had a chance to oppose him at the ballot box. But Hostin countered with an insane theory that Trump was just going to have the National Guard steal it for him: HOSTIN: What if he militarizes everything? FARAH GRIFFIN: I’m not going there today. HOSTIN: What if he militarizes everything? He has sent in the National Guard. And what if does that? GOLDBERG: He is not -- he's going to do what he's going to do. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: He's going to try everything he can do and he doesn't care what we think. He's going to do this. “If he wants to do it and there's no opposition, he's going to do it. There needs to be opposition,” Goldberg demanded.   ABC News and Disney, via The View, once against falsely claims the National Guard will be used to steal the election and something needs to be done about Trump: FARAH GRIFFIN: [If Trump ran again] there would still, I believe, be an election in this country. HOSTIN: What if he… pic.twitter.com/nWWRrt7sl3 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 27, 2025   So, if they were going to argue with certainty that “dictator” Trump was not going to leave office and that voting wasn’t going to get rid of him, what option was The View leaving for their liberal extremists out there with delusions of grandeur of saving the country? This ABC News segment came during a disturbing rise across the country in inciting rhetoric and messages of death against Trump and conservatives, including at leftist events such as the so-called “No Kings” protests. That’s not to mention it followed the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who The View mourned and exploited to demand the rhetoric be turned down. They later demanded people stop blaming liberals for the murder. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View October 27, 2025 11:01:40 a.m. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, you-know-who told us he was going to be a dictator on day one and, damn, if he isn't a dictator. He got back into office and his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, just added more fuel to the fire. (…) 11:02:42 a.m. Eastern PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think the people wouldn't like that, it's too cute. It’s not – It wouldn't be right. [Cuts back to live] GOLDBERG: So, just so we're clear, you have nothing to say about any of this [pointing to the audience]. Just understand that. Okay? Republicans have pretty much given him free rein up until now. Are they going to let this happen? Are y'all going to let it happen? AUDIENCE: No! GOLDBERG: Just asking. (…) 11:02:28 a.m. Eastern ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And I feel crazy because I feel like a conspiracy theorist talking about this. I asked Justice Sotomayor when she was here and people were like ‘oh, that's so wild.’ But here’s the thing, this is a person who’s been right before saying it, the President himself isn't ruling it out. Now, what I would say is this, there's two ways to do it but I think he's going to go for the third way which isn’t technically the way you would do it. You would either need a super majority in Congress to pass a change to the Constitution or you would need two-thirds of states calling for a constitutional convention to consider making this change. I sort of think that he's going to try to challenge it through the courts on the grounds that it wouldn't be consecutive terms. And so, to kind of parse the language within the Constitution to say that he actually could do this. And with the makeups of the courts where a lot of judges are in power because Trump put them there, it's possible that they perhaps could rule in his favor. So, I say don't rule out what he is saying. I also know Donald Trump well enough to believe this is not a guy who is going to be a lame duck after the midterms. He is not going to be like, oh, let all the center of gravity shift to J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio while he fades into the distance. So, It's something to keep an eye on. I find it concerning. (…) 11:05:29 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: So I think, you know, many people who say there's no way he would do it, well, those are the same people who said ‘the Supreme Court is never going to get rid of Roe v. Wade.’ Those are the people that said things like, ‘he's never going to have these masked men disappearing people all over the country.’ These are the same people who said, ‘Oh my goodness, are you kidding he's never going to get rid of the Rose Garden, he's never going to get rid of the East Wing.’ He's done thing that people never thought he would never do. I actually have come to the conclusion that he is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing it's going to take a long time to build that. He is hooking up the White House because he doesn't plan on leaving it. I don’t think he plans on leaving. GOLDBERG: I told y'all that years ago, that he had no – He was not going anywhere. He said it. He said, ‘I want to be president for life.’ I heard him say it, I watched his lips move, and I thought he means this. (…) 11:09:26 a.m. Eastern FARAH GRIFFIN: All three of the scenarios I laid out would still require him to stand for election. And so, there would still be the power that the voters would have. So say, if the Supreme Court ruled and he was able to be the Republican nominee for a third time, there would still, I believe, be an election in this country. GOLDBERG: This is why I love y'all. HOSTIN: What if he militarizes everything? FARAH GRIFFIN: I’m not going there today. HOSTIN: What if he militarizes everything? He has sent in the National Guard. And what if does that? GOLDBERG: He is not -- he's going to do what he's going to do. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: He's going to try everything he can do and he doesn't care what we think. He's going to do this. He's going to write something and say -- and he will say there's a – ‘I found a loophole and so I can do this.’ Not consecutive, consecutive, doesn't really matter. If he wants to do it and there's no opposition, he's going to do it. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: There needs to be opposition. (…)

Mass shootings at and near a pair of historically black colleges and universities over their homecoming weekends Friday and Saturday left one dead and at least 11 wounded, authorities said.The violence was an eerie repeat of tragedies that took place last fall at two HBCUs — also during their homecoming festivities — and some observers are concerned about a possible trend.'This is becoming an every-year occurrence at a lot of schools.'1 dead, 6 wounded at Lincoln UniversityAt Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania — about an hour and 15 minutes west of Philadelphia — one person was killed and at least six people were wounded after a shooting Saturday evening, WHP-TV reported.Officials identified one suspect as 21-year-old Zecqueous Morgan-Thompson, the station said, adding that court documents indicated he was charged with carrying a firearm without a license and was being held in Chester County Prison on $25,000 bail.Officials said they believe the suspects did not attend homecoming with the intent to commit a mass shooting, WHP reported.RELATED: Black men don’t want to go to historically black colleges and universities? Here's why A 25-year-old male from Wilmington, Delaware, was identified as the deceased victim, the station said, adding that he reportedly was shot in the head. The six wounded victims are expected to survive and are in the same age range — between 20 and 25 years old, WHP said.Lincoln University's president in a Sunday statement said classes are canceled Monday in order to have a day of "healing and reflection," the station said.More from WHP:Authorities have not released the names of any victims. The DA said they were in the process of speaking with victims to learn more about what happened during the shooting. Lincoln University's police chief said the shots were fired in the parking lot of the International Cultural Center on campus. He said at the time there was a tailgate ceremony taking place following the college's homecoming football game. He said tents and other tables were set up throughout the lot.5 wounded near Howard UniversityFive people were shot near Howard University — a historically black college and university in Washington, D.C. — on Friday night during its homecoming weekend, WRC-TV reported.D.C. police said the victims — four adults and a teenager — were taken to hospitals and were expected to survive after the shooting at Georgia Avenue and Howard Place, the station said.Witnesses told WRC that dozens of people ran down Georgia Avenue from the shooting scene to a McDonald's after shots were fired.RELATED: President Biden warns Howard University graduates: 'The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy' According to a statement from Howard University, a fight or confrontation between two suspects occurred before shots were fired, WRC reported, adding that police said none of the shooting victims are Howard students.The university added in a Saturday statement that nobody from Howard was involved in the shooting, the station reported.WRC said the university's Homecoming Kick-Off Alumni & Friends Welcome Reception and the Greek Step Show were being held Friday night.'Something's going on'The Root, in its report about the pair of shootings, quoted a TikTok user as remarking, “First Howard, now Lincoln, something’s going on."The outlet added, "Among the jokes and quippy TikToks is something darker ... Black Americans are feeling unsafe."The Root said another TikTok user recalled shootings last year at HBCUs and wondered if this represents a trend. Another user said, “This is becoming an every-year occurrence at a lot of schools, smh," according to the outlet.Last fall, two shootings occurred at two HBCUs — also during their homecoming weekends.A dozen people were shot — one of them fatally — at Tuskegee University in Alabama last November. The deceased individual, an 18-year-old, reportedly died at the scene. One man reportedly was charged with possession of a machine gun in connection with the shooting. A month prior, five people were shot — one fatally — in a crowded area near a campus concert at Albany State University in Georgia.Following the 2024 HBCU shootings, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter penned an op-ed stating that there is a "growing and disturbing trend of gun violence that is threatening to change the nature of Black colleges' most sacred institution — homecoming."The AJC reporter, Ernie Suggs, added:In 2022, four people, including three students, were wounded near Clark Atlanta University after a drive-by shooting during a homecoming celebration.In 2023, five people, including four students, were shot at Morgan State University. It was the third consecutive year that homecoming festivities at the Baltimore school were marred by gunfire.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Under President Donald Trump and Secretary Brooke Rollins, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is not messing around. The department recently updated its website to include a text banner excoriating Senate Democrats for refusing to end the government shutdown, which will trigger a cutoff of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Nov. 1. 'They can continue to hold out for health care for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government.'The USDA website gets right to the point: "Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program. ... Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01." SNAP runs through USDA and is funded through the Farm Bill, which is renewed every five years. The bill was last renewed in 2018, expiring in 2023. Congress has voted to extend it twice, with the last extension lasting through September 2025. USDA managed to use leftover funds to keep SNAP funded through October, but now those funds are running out.RELATED: Tylenol fights autism claims, slams proposed FDA warning label as 'unsupported' by science Photo by Bloomberg / Getty ImagesUSDA did not mince words in placing the blame for the SNAP cutoff: "We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for health care for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition."Senate Democrats have been holding out in hopes of extending Affordable Care Act benefits past the end of 2025 and reducing cuts made by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The SNAP program costs the federal government around $10.5 billion per month. About 42 million people in the United States receive SNAP benefits. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Graham Platner, the Maine-based oyster farmer running as a Democrat to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins, has lost a great deal more in recent days than his sizeable lead over Gov. Janet Mills in the polls.Just days after former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald resigned as political director of Platner's campaign, the Democratic candidate's longtime friend Kevin Brown indicated he too was jumping ship, leaving the role of campaign manager open.'Graham deserves someone who is 100% in on his race.'Earlier this month, numerous damning posts previously made by Platner on Reddit came to light — including posts where he apparently identified as a communist, branded rural white Americans as racists, suggested service members worried about being raped should buy "Kevlar underwear," joked about homosexuals, promoted political violence, and smeared all police officers as "bastards."McDonald promptly resigned as the political director of Platner's campaign over the posts, noting, "These statements were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind in a candidate for the United States Senate."Shortly after Platner apologized for his past remarks on Reddit, footage went viral revealing that he had an apparent "totenkopf" tattoo on his chest — a skull image popularized by Adolf Hitler's SS elite guard and adopted as the symbol of the SS-Totenkopfverbande, the branch that guarded the concentration camps.While Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and — according to a recent poll — the majority of young Democrats recently indicated that they will stick with Platner despite his incendiary posts and apparent Nazi tattoo, Brown, a Democratic operative who worked on Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's failed presidential campaign, has revealed he is jumping ship.Brown indicated that the move, first reported by Axios, was the result of new familial demands on his time.RELATED: The Democrats’ convenient case of political amnesia Photo by Sophie Park/Getty ImagesBrown said in a statement obtained by WGME-TV, "Graham is a dear friend. I started this campaign Tuesday but found out Friday we have a baby on the way.""Graham deserves someone who is 100% in on his race, and we want to lean into this new experience as a family, so it was best we step back sooner than later so Graham can get the manager he deserves," Brown added.Brown's departure comes just after the Platner campaign reportedly began sending nondisclosure agreements to staffers.McDonald told Politico that the campaign offered her $15,000 to sign an NDA, but the campaign suggested this amount was a severance payment.A spokesperson for the campaign indicated that the consulting firm Spruce Street was recently hired to "take over campaign compliance to institute standard practices that had yet to be put into place. Some of those standards had to be instituted retroactively, but as a matter of course we do not require anyone previously involved in the campaign to do so," apparently referring to signing an NDA.Blaze News has reached out to Platner's campaign for comment.A SoCal Strategies Maine poll of 500 likely Democratic primary voters conducted October 21-25 found that Mills, who officially jumped into the race on Oct. 14, holds a 5-point lead over Platner, 41%-36%.Prior to the news of Platner's alleged Nazi tattoo — which the Mainer recently had inked over with supposed Celtic imagery — a University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll indicated that among those who plan to vote in the 2026 state Democratic primary, 58% of respondents said they would support him, and only 24% said they would support Mills. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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