With the House having passed its final batch of appropriations bills, it is now up to the Senate to pass the spending package or risk sending the federal government into a partial shutdown. Despite the pressure to keep the government open, however, a significant number of Senate Democrats and Republicans have complaints about the spending bills. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., one of the eight Democrats who voted to reopen the government after the longest-ever shutdown in November, signaled his opposition to the spending package as a whole. “If the Senate were to vote on these appropriations bills individually, I would support some of them,” Kaine wrote. “But the House is bundling six bills into a single package a week before a budget deadline and skipping town to try and jam senators into a single up or down vote.” Tim Kaine will oppose the funding package next week due in part to the DHS funding bill & concerns about ICE.Notable because Kaine was one of the eight Senate Dems who voted with R’s to reopen the gov’t back in November pic.twitter.com/tkon3fUshT— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) January 23, 2026 Kaine refers to the House Republicans’ use of procedural mechanisms to send the Senate four funding bills passed on Thursday combined with two passed the week before. On Thursday, the House passed its last remaining appropriations bills to fund the government. The bills came out of conference, meaning they were the product of bipartisan negotiation between appropriators in the House and Senate. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., had applauded what he saw as a return to a “committee-led, member-driven approach” to funding where spending bills were approved by various House committees before coming the floor for a vote. This arrangement, however, will force Senate Democrats to vote for a larger package funding both items they oppose, such as deportations, and items they support, such as foreign aid projects. Top Senate Democrat appropriator Patty Murray of Washington has already granted the homeland security funding bill her blessing, so Republicans may not need Kaine’s vote to pass it. Senate Fiscal Hawks There are already signs of dissatisfaction among the Senate’s fiscal hawks. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who voted against the November funding extension that reopened the government, has excoriated the earmarks in the package coming to the Senate. “Just read the minibus Congress plans to pass this year. An unbelievable over $5 billion is going toward refugee welfare programs,” Paul wrote Tuesday on X after House Republicans unveiled their funding package. “I am going to fight like hell to get this removed. In the meantime, call your Senators and tell them to vote NO, and to put an end to the refugee rip-off,” he added. Paul has specifically criticized the renewal of funding both for refugee benefits and the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization some Republicans have criticized for promoting left-wing causes abroad. Earmark Backlash Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., filed an amendment to strike funding for earmarks in the package that passed the House Thursday, but his measure failed when 76 House Republicans joined with 215 House Democrats to vote against it. What happened in Congress yesterday should alarm the nation. Lawmakers voted to fund egregious projects over American priorities.Point blank. https://t.co/iOiu5UZB1J— Rep. Ralph Norman (@RepRalphNorman) January 23, 2026 Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has expressed his displeasure with these earmarks coming to the Senate. “Why are we giving $1 MILLION to the Met for new elevators or $375K to Jacob’s Pillow Festival?! How does that benefit you? I’m fighting to hold Washington accountable for how they spend YOUR MONEY, by stopping earmarks, so we can get our country back on track,” Scott wrote Thursday on X.  Every dime the federal government spends should be used to benefit YOU because it’s YOUR TAX DOLLARS! It’s why I’m mindblown to see upcoming spending bills with massive earmarks. Why are we giving $1 MILLION to the Met for new elevators or $375K to Jacob’s Pillow Festival?! How…— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) January 23, 2026 The bill funding the Department of Education includes a $375,000 earmark for “Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival,” an annual educational arts program in Western Massachusetts. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, both D-Mass., requested the earmark. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has also criticized the House’s slate of bills, writing Thursday on X, “With Republicans passing spending bills like these, who needs Democrats?” The Senate is in recess until Jan. 26, just days before the Jan. 30 deadline to fund the government and avert a partial government shutdown. The post Could the Senate Trigger Another Shutdown in a Week? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Social media companies helped federal law enforcement identify two men this week who allegedly made online threats to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  On Thursday, the Justice Department announced that the social media company X helped identify a 21-year-old Justin Mesael Novoa, who allegedly posted online, “can’t wait to shoot these … p***y ice agents and r******d maga maggots.” MAGA is a reference to “make America great again,” a slogan promoted by President Donald Trump. Novoa reportedly told federal agents, “So Elon does give you access to that [X],” a reference to X owner Elon Musk. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that Google helped identify a 30-year-old Oklahoma Taylor Ryan Prigmore who posted a YouTube video where he said he would kill “as many [agents] as possible.” “As attacks on law enforcement rise around the country, this Department of Justice will continue to identify and prosecute violent threats against the brave men and women who keep us safe,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a public statement regarding the Oklahoma case. “Hiding behind a screen will not protect you from severe legal consequences.” FBI Director Kash Patel also commented on the Oklahoma case.  “If you threaten to harm law enforcement officers, the FBI and our partners will find you and hold you accountable,” Patel said in a statement. “There will be no free passes for threats against the hard-working men and women who wear the badge and protect our communities.” Both men are presumed innocent.  Threatening to kill a federal officer is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Making threatening interstate communications carries a potential penalty of up to five years in prison. According to the Justice Department, on Jan. 17, Google representatives notified the FBI about several threats made by a YouTube user, Prigmore, of McCloud, Oklahoma.  The federal complaint says Prigmore allegedly left eight comments last week alone expressing his desire to kill federal agents and others. He also allegedly threatened to kill any law enforcement officers who came to his home. The threatening posts began in May 2025, according to the Justice Department. U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester for the Western District of Oklahoma will lead the prosecution. Prigmore is reportedly being represented by the federal public defender’s office for the Western District of Oklahoma.  Jeffrey Byers, the federal public defender for the Western District of Oklahoma, did not have a comment on the case at this time, a staffer in the office told The Daily Signal on Friday.  U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Dominick S. Gerace’s office announced charges against Novoa for allegedly making threatening interstate communications, including threats to assault or murder a federal law enforcement officer. According to charging documents, personnel from X notified Homeland Security Investigations in December 2025 about threats to ICE employees on the social media platform X.  Federal agents searched Novoa’s home in December 2025 and seized multiple firearms, according to the Justice Department. When agents entered his home, Novoa reportedly said, “Alright, you got me. That was me,” and “So Elon does give you access to that.” The federal public defender’s office for the Southern District of Ohio did not immediately respond to phone and email inquiries about this story.  The Daily Signal contacted both Google and X for this story. Neither responded by publication time. The post ‘Hiding Behind a Screen Won’t Protect You’: Big Tech Helped Identify ICE Threat Suspects appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The New York Times ran an odd front-page story on Wednesday about a f80’s-era NYC figure that came to symbolize crime and race issues: A profile of Bernie Goetz, “The Subway Vigilante We’re Still Talking About,” by business reporter David Segal, based on two upcoming books about the infamous shooting case: Five Bullets by Elliot Williams and Fear and Fury by Heather Ann Thompson. Segal interviewed both authors. Williams is particularly left-wing, as is Segal’s sympathetic take on the would-be-muggers, er, innocent “victims.” Both authors strive to draw nuanced portraits of the shooting victims, who struggled with both physical and psychic wounds. (Two of them, Barry Allen and James Ramseur, have died, the latter possibly by suicide.) Both authors delve into Goetz’s life, too, and he emerges as a flinty eccentric, a man incensed by nearly everything about New York City…. …. Goetz’s path to notoriety began with a spasm of violence that lasted less than 20 seconds, and both books unspool it in harrowing slow motion. Cabey, Allen, Ramseur and their friend Troy Canty were traveling from the Bronx to a video arcade in Lower Manhattan. Canty either asked for or demanded $5 from Goetz. Feeling threatened and cornered, Goetz, who was 37 at the time, shot and wounded all four of the teens. Goetz spent eight months in jail for carrying an unlicensed firearm. Note the woke capitalization of "black" throughout, and the unseemly source the Times approached for an opinion. More than a few Black leaders denounced the verdict at the time, and still describe it as a disgrace. “I felt it was a blatant miscarriage of justice,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton. “I did not ever say that the young men were choir boys. But do you have the right to execute people based on who they are? That was the fundamental question, as far as I was concerned, and it put all of us in danger.” Not “choir boys” indeed. As the Times reported, back in 1985, but not in 2026: Each of the four teen-agers shot on a subway train last month by Bernhard Hugo Goetz had been arrested or convicted at least once and each was facing a trial or a hearing on criminal charges at the time of the incident. And race-baiting provocateur Sharpton is the last person on earth to be lecturing about putting people in danger, given his literally inflammatory history. Appearing under the pathetic subhead “Erasing the victims,” this section was a perfect encapsulation of the elitist media mindset: Thompson chose not to try to contact Goetz. Instead, she took an archival researcher’s approach to convey the obstacles facing young Black men in the South Bronx of the mid-80s. This includes relations with the police, who told the press that several of the young men were carrying sharpened screwdrivers, a notion repeated by the tabloids as well as by The New York Times. It made the teens sound like predators. Actually, the screwdrivers were unaltered and were being carried to steal quarters at a video game arcade, the teens later said. The tools were also concealed, as the trial made clear, which means Goetz could not have regarded them as a threat. So the screwdrivers weren’t for stabbing, merely for stealing? Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. Segal concluded with thoughts from left-wing author Thompson smearing recent subway hero Daniel Penny. ….To her, the 2024 acquittal of Daniel Penny, a white former Marine who fatally choked Jordan Neely, a mentally ill Black man, on the New York City subway, suggests not much has changed. Neely was a loud, threatening disruptor with a long criminal record who posed a potentially deadly threat to other passengers, but you didn't get that information from the Times.

In the two days following the anti-ICE church riot in Minneapolis, the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News) have all but ignored left-wing agitators disrupting Americans exercising their constitutional right to freely worship their God. Google News, MSN and Yahoo News suppressed coverage of the anti-ICE radicals who were joined by former CNN anchor Don Lemon. Apple News was the only one of the Big Four News Apps to run any morning headlines about the riot. Out of the top 40 stories on Apple News from Jan. 19- Jan. 20, 2026, there were a scant two stories about the church agitators, both published on Jan. 20.  ​​​​​​​ As Americans increasingly get their news from the Big Four News Apps, their biased coverage distorts people’s understanding of the turmoil unfolding in places like Minneapolis. In the two days following the riot, three of the four news apps refused to run a single headline about the church riot in their top 20 morning headlines. The three apps had a combined 120 opportunities to acknowledge the radical storming of a church during its weekly worship service. Instead, the three digital gatekeepers actively worked to shield extremist agitators from any coverage. In the two days following the riot, Google News ran four headlines about a train crash in Spain that killed at least 39 people, and no less than 12 headlines related to  Trump’s statements about Greenland. MSN and Yahoo News focused heavily on sports, entertainment and weather stories, running a total of five headlines about Greenland and none about Spain. Apple News alone displayed two stories on the Minnesota church agitators, but even when it did cover the story, it pushed leftist outlet The Washington Post with a headline that  squarely blamed President Donald Trump for the aggressive disruption of a Sunday morning church service with the headline, “Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church is latest flash point over Trump’s crackdown.” Apple News also ran a headline from British outlet the BBC which acknowledged that the riot may have violated the law but simultaneously downplayed the severity of the incident. “US officials probing Minnesota ICE protest that disrupted church service,” the headline read.  The Big Four News Apps all continuously fail to provide ideologically diverse news options that readers can depend on to stay informed of the most important issues of the day. Despite this failure, news aggregators, or platforms that gather articles from multiple media sources into a single place, are a growing source for people to get their news. According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.  Methodology: During the time period Jan. 19-20 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories featured on Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News each day at 8:30 AM ET. Using AllSides media bias ratings, which classify outlets as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right,” researchers assessed the ideological slant presented by the Big Four News Apps and analyzed the results.  Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

No, the midterms will not turn on the issue of “affordability.” If affordability truly were decisive, Republicans would easily retain the House and the Senate. Consider the economic backdrop. Gas prices are at a five-year low, with gas stations in several states selling a gallon of regular for under $2. Several times since Trump’s reelection, the stock market indexes have recorded all-time highs. GDP growth hit 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025. Wage growth is exceeding inflation, but as always, some benefit more than others. Inflation itself is under 3% and trending lower. Egg prices have fallen dramatically. Mortgage rates have declined to the lowest level in three years. Trillions of dollars in foreign investment commitments have been announced. The effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill -- no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, tax relief for seniors on Social Security and immediate expensing of business equipment purchases -- have barely begun to register. All of this suggests, despite the headlines of despair, that the economy is poised to take off. If voters were focused primarily on affordability, these conditions would be politically devastating for Democrats. But that’s not what this election is about. The midterms will turn on one question only: Is Trump hatred -- among Democrats, Hollywood, much of the media and academia -- so deeply rooted that President Donald Trump gets credit for nothing? Look at the record. He closed the southern border in a matter of weeks without new congressional legislation. That’s an incredible accomplishment. More on this later. Trump negotiated the release of Israeli hostages and the return of their remains from Gaza. That’s a big deal. He pressured European allies to shoulder more of the financial burden for Ukraine’s war against Russia. Another big deal. He significantly degraded Iran’s nuclear capacity. He took decisive action against Venezuela’s Maduro regime -- something Democrats once loudly demanded. He expanded school-choice options that disproportionately benefit Black and brown students trapped in failing K-12 urban schools. He forced NATO allies to increase defense spending after years of freeloading. He applied sustained pressure on Iran’s regime at a moment when internal instability has never been higher since the beginning of the “Islamic Republic” in 1979. He pressured universities to better protect Jewish students and to end illegal race-based DEI policies. And all of this in less than a full year. On immigration enforcement, Trump has deported roughly 1.5 million illegal aliens -- many with violent criminal records. Deportations under Trump in both terms remain below the 3.5 million deportations carried out under former President Barack Obama.      There have been cases in which U.S. citizens were mistakenly detained or arrested by ICE, sometimes for minutes, hours or a few days. According to ProPublica, the number is “more than 170.” Out of roughly 1.5 million deportations under Trump, that comes to 0.0113%, or just over one hundredth of 1%. Considering that former President Joe Biden let in an estimated 10 million to 15 million aliens, the mass deportation initiated under Trump is required to undo just some of Biden’s intentional policy. Mistakes during deportation by ICE are inevitable -- but in the context of reversing years of mass illegal entry, they are statistically rare. If sanctuary cities and states truly wanted to reduce such errors, they would allow ICE to operate inside jails and prisons rather than forcing arrests to occur in public spaces. As to Iran, I’m old enough to remember when the political left claimed to care about the oppression and subjugation of women -- and rooted openly for their possible liberation. All of this brings us back to the real issue. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. It is deep. And it has metastasized, not just nationally but globally. Roughly half the country views Trump with the Jimmy Kimmel mindset. Can anyone seriously imagine Kimmel ever saying, “You know, on this issue, Trump deserves some credit,” or “On that issue, maybe I was wrong”? Of course not. And that’s the point. The midterms won’t hinge on prices at the pump or at the grocery store. They will hinge on whether millions of voters can acknowledge reality -- or whether their animus toward Trump is so absolute that no achievement, no success and no improvement in people’s lives really matter. That, not “affordability,” is the question before the country. Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on X @larryelder.

On Friday’s episode of ABC’s The View, fill-in moderator Joy Behar admitted that she needed therapy to deal with her Trump Derangement Syndrome. And during the Tuesday episode of The View’s Behind the Table podcast, Behar proved just how severe her TDS actually was. According to her, ICE was just like the Nazi Gestapo rounding people up for extermination. She also claimed that America was “at war” with NATO and President Trump wanted to launch a war against Minnesota. The first step in trying to fix one’s self was to admit you had a problem. Behar admitted that she was getting her therapy idea from former first Lady Michelle Obama. “She talks about how she and Barack have been in therapy all these years because they're dealing with the empty nest. I'm dealing with the next few years of Trump. I need therapy,” she quipped.   Joy Behar admits she needs therapy for her TDS: "I'm dealing with the next few years of trump. I need therapy." pic.twitter.com/WAaVnwU1on — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   And boy, did she need it. Behar kicked off their podcast with delusions of grandeur, proclaiming that she wanted her legacy to be taking part in getting Trump out of office; seemingly suggesting she played a critical role in the 2020 election results: BEHAR: I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about. TETA: Well, you did once. [Laughter] BEHAR: I did. I wanna do it a second time. This time he's much more dangerous than he was before.   On The View's Behind the Table podcast earlier this week, Joy Behar proclaimed: "I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about." pic.twitter.com/GY7Dyl3abf — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   Behar would go on to claim that Trump was “10 times worse than Nixon was. At this point.” Throughout her podcast appearance, host Brian Teta (the executive producer for The View) egged her on to get more and more unhinged. “We've seen people dragged from their cars, places of work, and over the weekend, a citizen was taken from his home wearing just his underwear, a citizen. Where, where does your mind go when you see this? I think I know the answer,” he teed her up. Behar openly equated ICE with the Gestapo; backing up her claim by suggesting they matched the depictions of them in the movies, she’d seen. “I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of their homes and beating them up on the streets to not make the similarity very clear to me,” she sneered.   Inciting violence against ICE, Behar blatantly equates ICE arrests and deportations to Nazis "Gestapo" rounding up Jews for extermination. She claims the "similarity" is "very clear." Adding: "I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of… pic.twitter.com/cZuyxyUCN0 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   She would go on to praise how the far-left residents of Minnesota were “trying their best to rebel against [ICE],” but lamenting, “they can't seem to do much.” The evidence that Behar was dealing with a serious mental problem continued to mount when she claimed “we're at war” with NATO, before pivoting to claiming Trump “wants to go to war with a NATO member, an ally.” The aged comedian flaunted her infamous ignorance of history as she claimed NATO was the military alliance the United States fought alongside during “World War II [and] the Vietnam War.” NewsBusters previously reported in February 2024, that Behar was under the false impression that NATO was the military alliance that fought Hitler and the Nazis. Apparently, no one in her orbit cared to give her the correct information in nearly two years. Behar’s delusion that Trump wanted to go to war with NATO carried over to assertions that he wanted to launch a war against Minnesota. “He wants to go to war with them and war with a United States state, Minnesota. What is wrong with him?!” she decried. It was unclear if Behar meant Trump wanted to drop bombs on Minnesota; as would likely happen in the fictional war with NATO she noted in the same breathe.   Behar claims "we're at war" with NATO. Claims NATO was the military alliance the U.S. fought with in "World War II, the Vietnam War." She also claims Trump wants to drop bombs on Minnesota: "He wants to go to war with them [NATO] and war with a United States state, Minnesota." pic.twitter.com/uDIz4Awcdb — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2026   The misconceptions from Behar didn’t stop at history lessons, but also civics class. She called on viewers to call their representatives and senators, and demand they invoke the 25th Amendment: “And I want people to start putting the pressure on the Congress … the only power that the American people have before Election Day, is to get on the phones and leave messages and say, ‘listen, either invoke the 25th Amendment because he's not making sense.’” You were the one not making sense, Joy. Congress had nothing to do with the 25th Amendment. Only a president or their cabinet could invoke it. Behar’s TDS seems to need in-patient treatment. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s Behind the Table January 20, 2026 00:00 BRIAN TETA: It's always the question people ask. What do you want to be remembered as? What do you, what do you want your legacy to be? JOY BEHAR: I want my legacy to be that I helped get Trump out of office. That's what I really care about. TETA: Well, you did once. [Laughter] BEHAR: I did. I wanna do it a second time. This time he's much more dangerous than he was before. TETAL All right, well, let, let's talk about President Trump because, uh, first of all, welcome to Behind the Table, Joy. BEHAR: Thank you. [Title sequence] TETA: All right. On the show today, we talked about President Trump's desire to take complete and total control of Greenland. It's like we're talking about a fictional supervillain at this point. BEHAR: Yeah. TETA: You said that he can't get any worse and it's no longer enough to protest and vote. You have to call your senators and congressmen. This is something you feel very strongly about. Tell me, tell me what your thoughts are on. BEHAR: Well, it seems as though the bulwark at the moment needs to be removed, which is that the Republican Congress is still protecting him and their jobs. And they seem to not understand that he's destroying the United States of America. They don't seem to see that. Every day he does something else to, to destroy what has been built up over a few centuries now. And I want people to start putting the pressure on the Congress, not on him, because he's a foregone conclusion that he is not well, in my opinion. I don't think he's well at all. He not making sense. He's acting - I know what I said today he had a narcissistic injury. Did you hear me say that today? TETA: I don’t know if I did. BEHAR: It's a psychological term that you are – your ego is so wounded, that you will lash out because of that. ‘I'm so angry that I'm not getting the award that I'm gonna invade a country.’ What is that? Come on. TETA: Well, this is what people always say that he, this whole, his whole first run for office was based on being embarrassed by Obama at the Correspondences Dinner. BEHAR: That is also another narcissistic injury. It's like most people who don't have this problem would laugh it off, would laugh it off. He can't laugh any kind of an attack, any kind of a joke about him. He can't stand it. TETA: So the question – BEHAR: That's why the comedians make him so nuts. TETA: So, you're thinking is that, as an act of personal survival to keep their jobs, Congress might change their mind – BEHAR: Yes. Yes. TETA: - and that's what they have to feel. BEHAR: Exactly. And the only power that the American people have before Election Day, is to get on the phones and leave messages and say, ‘listen, either invoke the 25th Amendment because he's not making sense.’ TETA: That’s never going to happen. BEHAR: All right, all right. Then find a way to impeach and convict because he obviously has been committing crimes. He's making a lot of money in the presidency. TETA: I don’t think that’s gonna happen either. I don't think they're gonna impeach him a third time. I, I mean - BEHAR: This is just like Nixon was. They went to Nixon and they said, ‘listen, you're being impeached. They're all voting against you,’ and Nixon resigned. That's exactly what needs to happen. And this guy's 10 times worse than Nixon was. At this point. TETA: Well, the other big thing we're talking about - and man, the news is dark - we're continuing to see ICE raids in Minnesota with protests happening all over the state. We've seen people dragged from their cars, places of work, and over the weekend, a citizen was taken from his home wearing just his underwear, a citizen. Where, where does your mind go when you see this? I think I know the answer. BEHAR: Well, you know, Joe Rogan has now used the G-word, Gestapo - TETA: Gestapo. BEHAR: - and that's exactly, I mean, I've watched too many World War II movies and watched jackboots pulling Jews out of their homes and beating them up on the streets to not make the similarity very clear to me. (…) 09:26 BEHAR: Although, Minnesota, they're trying their best to rebel against it, but they can't seem to do much. I mean, we're at war! He said he wants to go to war with a NATO member, an ally for - these are allies where World War II, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War. He wants to go to war with them and war with a United States state, Minnesota. What is wrong with him?! (…) ABC’s The View January 22, 2026 11:16:09 a.m. Eastern JOY BEHAR: She [former First Lady Michelle Obama] talks about how she and Barack have been in therapy all these years because they're dealing with the empty nest. I'm dealing with the next few years of Trump. I need therapy. (…)

While video game player demographics are split almost down the middle — 53% male and 47% female — the gap is vastly wider when it comes to esports. Men dominate the category, taking up 95% of the available spots in game tournaments, while women only account for 5%. So what happens when a skilled male player gets paired with a less experienced group of girl gamers with a $12,000 grand prize on the line? Naturally, they kick him off the team in the name of misogyny.What happened?On January 18, 2026, streamer Kingsman265 went live on his channel as he met up with several other players in preparation for a Marvel Rivals tournament with a prize pool of $40,000, with $12,000 going to the winning team to be split among four players. As a rank 1 player himself, Kingsman265 had his eyes set on the prize money, which he planned to use to pay his college tuition, and he actually had a solid shot at winning it. However, during a practice match before the tournament, he quickly realized that his teammates were more interested in feminist politics than in winning.Proof that he knew what he was doing, his warnings were positioned as insults.The rest of the team was composed of three female players named Cece, Zazzastack, and Luciyasa. Kingsman265 quickly suggested a change to the team’s character lineup, recommending that they run a triple support setup to give their team the best shot at victory. The pushback was immediate, as the female players rejected his warnings, opting to play with characters they were familiar with instead of using a loadout that was more effective, especially in a tournament setting.Things went downhill from there. Tensions rose at several points throughout the video, with Cece telling him to shut up after he pleaded his case for a triple support setup, even after he explained that they would lose without it. Another teammate told him to “shut the f**k up” after they lost a practice match, a moment that vindicated Kingsman265, as it displayed the team’s vulnerabilities in real time. Then Cece ended with “this is f**king getting annoying” as Kingsman265 continued to urge the team to change their strategy, to no avail.The team went their separate ways to play ranked games apart for the night. Shortly after, Kingsman265 learned that he was kicked out of the tournament entirely by the organizer, BasimZB, for his allegedly “toxic” behavior. Basim later admitted that he made the wrong decision based on “misinformation” from Cece and her team.Kingsman265 was ultimately relegated to the sidelines for the Marvel Rivals tournament, leaving him behind to watch his team get knocked out in the first round, proving that his instincts around their character lineup were correct.The falloutAs the male gamer in this situation, Kingsman265 was made to look like the bad guy. He was unceremoniously kicked out of the tournament due to his “toxicity” in ganging up on three girl gamers as he tried to spur them to victory. Instead of recognition that his skills, knowledge, and ranking were proof that he knew what he was doing, his warnings were positioned as insults.RELATED: 25 years later, the gaming console that caused so much chaos is still No. 1 Photo By Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty ImagesIt wasn’t until Kingsman265 posted his video of the practice match, along with a conversation between Cece and himself dubbed the Cece Files, that the truth came to light. Not only did Cece and her team want Kingsman265 to be banned from the tournament, but they conspired to remove him, claiming that “there are plenty of people in line who are just as good. Kingsman, like everybody else, is replaceable.”The aftermath was swift, with the internet quickly turning on the female team in favor of Kingsman265. Despite telling anyone who saw the video not to harass Cece and company, the message exchange between them shows that the internet has no tolerance for liars. She begged Kingsman265 to take down the video — or, at the very least, cut out the incriminating parts that made her and the team look guilty — but he refused, noting that it was a legitimate video. Cece lost several sponsorship deals and partnerships for her behavior.All’s well that ends wellThe whole debacle cost Kingsman265 his shot at a $3,000 grand prize to help pay off his college debt, but what came next was even sweeter. Once he was exonerated of any wrongdoing, Kingsman265 saw a huge boost to his channel, netting 139,000 followers on Twitch (and counting), 10,000 paying subscribers, and instant acceptance into the Twitch Partner Program, which will allow him to earn money for streaming online. As an added bonus, he received more than $3,000 in donations from supporters, surpassing the amount he would have earned from winning the Marvel Rivals tournament, and Marvel Rivals developer NetEase even sent him credits to buy skins for his character.The good guy won in the end, leaving the all-girls team with a major loss in the tournament, loss in internet clout, and loss in their streaming careers. All of it could have been avoided if they had not made Kingsman265 out to be the toxic misogynist that he wasn’t, but if that had happened, his own gaming career wouldn’t be rocketing through the stratosphere at this very moment.What happens online lives forever — the lies that are told and the truth that comes through in 4K — and the consequences are unavoidable. This is why it is always important to keep your receipts when tension erupts on the internet. You never know when you’ll have to defend yourself against cheats and liars who think they control the narrative.

When BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales decided to knock on the door of a home that she believes to be committing H-1B fraud, she wasn’t sure what she was going to find. And what she stumbled upon was strange, to say the least.“The Indian scammers, news alert, they didn’t like it so much,” Gonzales jokes.In a video of the confrontation, Gonzales is standing on the doorstep asking where the H-1B workers who are working for the company — whose address happens to be a residential home — are, while an Indian man, who appears to be the homeowner, steps outside and threatens to call the cops.This company is called Qubitz Tech Systems LLC, which has 13 H-1B visas approved.“Somebody is knocking on my door and then they are like threatening me,” the man said into his phone after dialing 911.“I’m not threatening you, sir,” Gonzales responded.And Gonzales is confident that this is just the tip of the iceberg with how much fraud there is going on in America.This also isn’t the only company that appears to be committing H-1B fraud. 3BEES Technologies is another Texas company Gonzales looked into, which had 27 H-1B visas approved between 2022 and 2025.When Gonzales went to the address listed for this particular company, she found an empty, under-construction office space with no signs of life.“We exposed how many people, as it turns out, are creating phony companies, shell companies, so that they can import thousands upon thousands of workers into our country and then come here and suck up all of our resources,” Gonzales says.“This problem doesn’t exist in a vacuum,” Gonzales says. “There are probably an insane amount of companies who are pulling this off. They’re going completely undetected by the government. Which, my question to the government is, where is USCIS on this matter?”“If little old me can just go on the government website and pull these addresses and match them up and see if it looks legit, why isn’t the government doing that?” she asks.“Look around you, look around your communities,” she says, adding, “tell me that this isn’t a much larger issue that’s happening intentionally by using loopholes and gaps in our visa system.”Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.