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20 years in the making, the Gordie Howe International Bridge is set to open in early 2026, providing the first new link between the US and Canada in many years. The impressive bridge with its graceful bending approaches is reminiscent of the signature ambidexterity of its namesake Howe, often considered the most complete hockey player […] The post Gorgeous Bridge for Walking and Biking Between US and Canada Set to Open in 2026 – Allows Drivers, Too appeared first on Good News Network.

Excerpts Young Adult Read an Excerpt From Queen of Faces by Petra Lord A desperate girl at a cutthroat magical academy faces a choice between life and death: become an assassin or watch her decaying body slowly die. By Petra Lord | Published on January 8, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Queen of Faces, a young adult fantasy by Petra Lord, out from Henry Holt & Co. on February 3. Anabelle Gage is trapped in a male body, and it’s rotting from the inside out. But Ana can’t afford to escape it, even as the wealthiest in Caimor buy and discard expensive designer bodies without a thought. When she fails to gain admittance to the prestigious Paragon Academy—and access to the healthy new forms the school provides its students—her final hope implodes. Now without options, Ana must use her illusion magic to try to steal a healthy chassis—before her own kills her.But Ana is caught by none other than the headmaster of Paragon Academy, who poses a brutal ultimatum: face execution for her crime or become a mercenary at his command. Revolt brews in Caimor’s smog-choked underworld, and the wealthy and powerful will stop at nothing to take down the rebels and the infamous dark witch at their helm, the Black Wraith.With no choice but to accept, Ana will steal, fight, and kill her way to salvation. But her survival depends on a dangerous band of renegades: an impulsive assassin, a brooding bombmaker, and an alluring exile who might just spell her ruin. As Ana is drawn into a tangled web of secrets, the line between villain and hero shatters—and Ana must decide which side is worth dying for.  “When you applied to Paragon. All”—he checked my letter—“three times. Were you striving to be an Exemplar?” I closed my eyes. “For a moment,” I mumbled, “yes.” “Splendid.” Carriwitch leaned forward. “In that case, I’d like to extend an offer to you.” “O-offer?” “I’ll be quick,” said Carriwitch. “Lose too much blood, and your brain will start to break. And if your brain breaks, well… your Pith does, too. Even swapping won’t heal it. You start to forget things. Lose a limb here and there.” He glanced at his pocket watch. “Have you ever heard of the Grey Coats?” I nodded. “They’re assistants at Paragon. They clean toilets and”—I coughed up blood—“deliver mail.” Their drab uniforms gave them their nickname. “An uncouth description, but not inaccurate. Every year, we select the best Paragon applicants who didn’t make the cut and allow them to take some non-magical classes. In exchange, they are assigned to a top-ranked fourth-year or a professor. They take notes for that individual, assist them in studying, and, yes, clean. At the end of the year, they can usually get admitted to any Humdrum university in the country. Or, on occasion, they can be promoted to Paragon student.” Grey Coats were dirt compared to real students, unpaid apprentices who emptied trash or scrubbed toilets at the most prestigious school in the world. They didn’t get a free body, didn’t sleep in the castle, and weren’t taught a scrap of magic. But if they did their job well, that grey jacket could turn into a blue one. They could become a real student. And full admission was what I’d wanted all along. It meant a free combat chassis. Meant living. “I can make you a Grey Coat this term,” said Carriwitch. “Give you a real shot at becoming a student. Call it a perk of what I’m offering. I’ll tell my colleagues you died on this bridge, and that I couldn’t find your original body.” “Don’t belong,” I mumbled. “N-not genius material.” Carriwitch looked again at my letter and shrugged. “Fifty-three years ago, the Eldritch Guard named me chief mage of their entire body. Care to guess why?” “Because you’re good with magic? With science?” Headmaster Carriwitch shook his head. “Not quite. That helped, of course, but why did they put me in charge? What did they see in me?” “I—” I coughed. “I don’t know.” Buy the Book Queen of Faces Petra Lord Buy Book Queen of Faces Petra Lord Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget “Tonight, when you fought my students, I stayed back to watch. I guessed your Whisper Codex stopped working at twenty yards, when you ran away and Nell and Samuel started looking at you again. Then, when I could, I dealt you a fatal blow.” Carriwitch pointed at me. “Tactics. Creativity. A tranquil focus in a sea of blood. I possess all of these qualities. And so do you. Ninety-eight in strategy, ninety-seven in psychology. All of which led you to trounce two of my best, with next to no training. You showed marvelous talent for knife-work tonight, young lady. And you showed it on your first day on the job.” “Job?” Carriwitch floated a pitch-black envelope out of his pocket and set it down next to me. “I’d like you to work for me. To help protect our country as a witch of the coin.” I understood in an instant. He wanted me to become an illegal mercenary. A hired mage, like Clementine, who would kill whomever he wanted, and take the blame if things went wrong. If I made enough money, I could buy a new, healthy chassis. And, as a Grey Coat, I could become a real student and get a free body. If I took Carriwitch’s offer, both paths would be open. But they would come at a price. The pool of blood grew beneath me. The black letter floated on the surface, like a leaf on a river. “You want me to kill people.” Carriwitch stared at me. “Tell me what you know,” he said, “about Khaiovhe.” I flinched. A bitter wind howled across the bridge, and the night sky seemed to blacken. “A dark witch.” I swallowed. “The worst dark witch in history. She graduated from Paragon and joined the Eldritch Guard during the war against Shenten.” My mother’s homeland. Back when magic had been secret from the Humdrums. The headmaster nodded. “And then?” “She—” Pain twisted through my belly. “She went mad fighting the Shenti. The radio said—” My voice lowered to a whisper. “The radio said bamboo forests burned like matchsticks, that the sky turned red for a month. That mountains covered in snow turned black and dead as charcoal.” My mother had immigrated to Caimor years before, but many of her friends back home had not escaped the inferno. And in the witch’s slaughter, she’d exposed the hidden world of magic to the Humdrums. A brutal first impression. “The Guard sent Tybalt Ebbridge after her,” I said. Her old professor at Paragon, leading dozens of mages. I choked. “She sent their ashes back in a flour sack.” Carriwitch’s face darkened. “And after?” A familiar chill racked my body, and I shook away the memories darkening my mind. “She flew back to Caimor, far across the oceans. And she blew up a dam. Almost drowned a whole village in the south. And she took her own life in the process.” “Yes.” Carriwitch twirled his beard. “She blew herself up. That’s the story we told, isn’t it?” He cleared his throat. “I’m terribly sorry, but we lied.” My chest jolted. “What?” “The Black Wraith is very much alive. When she killed Professor Ebbridge and blew up that dam, the explosion did not kill her. In the aftermath, she vanished.” I stared at him. “You lied?” “The public was in quite the tizzy, learning that witches and wizards were living among them, wiping their memories and living in secret castles. Paragon was enduring its own sort of panic. If they’d all learned Khaiovhe was still out there, well.” He shrugged. “Chaos. Besides, the Shenti were continuing to invade. We still had a war to win.” “Why did she do it?” I said. “Why that dam? Why that village?” I swallowed. “Why make herself vanish?” “An excellent question,” said Carriwitch. “One that our brightest intellects have failed to answer.” Blood soaked my clothes, trickling into the puddle at my feet. “And what does a living nightmare have to do with me?” “You, dear Ana,” he said, “are going to hunt her for me.” Excerpted from Queen of Faces, copyright © 2025 by Petra Lord. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>Queen of Faces</i> by Petra Lord appeared first on Reactor.

The Middle Eastern nation of Qatar is the largest foreign funder of American colleges and universities, according to new data from the Department of Education. Qatar has gifted or entered into contracts with U.S. universities that total nearly $6.6 billion over several decades, according to the data released by the Department of Education at the end of 2025. The law requires American colleges and universities to report foreign gifts and contracts valued annually at $250,000 or more. Over 190 countries have entered into contracts with, or sent financial gifts to, 527 U.S. institutes of higher education, but Qatar outpaces them all. Jason Bedrick, a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, argues Qatar’s financial investment in U.S. universities is part of the country’s “soft power strategy.”The aim is “to buy influence among America’s future elite, as well as to promote anti-American and anti-Jewish ideologies on college campuses, including stirring up the pro-Hamas encampments,” Bedrick said, calling for “more federal action to combat the influence of foreign adversaries in our universities.” Qatar has invested the most in Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Texas A&M University. Cornell University has received nearly $2.3 billion in funding from Qatar in the form of gifts and contracts. “There is a legitimate concern that foreign funding, including from Qatar, has influenced U.S. universities, particularly as to academics related to the Middle East,” William Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law School, tells The Daily Signal. “What is needed everywhere, including at Cornell, is full transparency and a clear explanation as to how the funds are used and whether there are any written or unwritten conditions that might influence campus academics and culture,” Jacobson said. The university uses the funding to “operate a medical school in Qatar that has graduated nearly 600 students from 50 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and other regions around the globe,” a Cornell University spokesperson told The Daily Signal. “Budgeted funding for the medical school in Qatar has averaged approximately $156 million per year from 2012 to 2025, totaling $2.2 billion,” the spokesperson explained. “Virtually all funding remains in Qatar for Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar school operations.” Cornell is “proud to be the first U.S.-based university to offer our MD degree overseas to educate and train doctors and scientists in patient care, biomedical research, and improving quality of life,” the spokesperson said. Qatar has funded Carnegie Mellon University with $1 billion in the form of gifts and contracts, and Texas A&M University with over $992 million. Neither Carnegie Mellon University nor Texas A&M University responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Universities that receive funding from Qatar experience “an impact on fomenting antisemitic discourse,” according to a study from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. When universities take money from Qatar, “we assume that it comes with the strings attached,” Benjamin Baird, director of Middle East Forum Action, tells The Daily Signal. He added that the Trump administration is taking “some positive steps” to create more transparency around the foreign funding to U.S. universities. He credited the administration with launching a reporting portal “that makes it easier for private groups and even government groups to monitor where all of these foreign donations are going and what countries they’re coming from.” After Qatar, the largest foreign funders of U.S. colleges and universities are Germany at $4.4 billion, England at $4.3 billion, China at $4.1 billion, and Canada at $4 billion. Screenshot China has provided New York University with over $363 million in funding in the form of gifts and contracts, Harvard University with over $321 million, and Stanford University has received just over $183 million. With reporting measures being enforced, the “Trump administration has prioritized protecting U.S. students and research from foreign exploitation,” according to Madison Marino Doan, a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. New efforts to enforce transparency are an “essential step given the significant influence foreign governments and entities can exert on American universities when such relationships go untracked,” Marino Doan said. The post Qatar Sent Billions to Top US Universities, According to Ed Department   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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After spending a lot of time in 2025 using inciting rhetoric to turn up the temperature and radicalize their audience against President Trump and his administration, The View’s rhetoric grew even more dangerous on Thursday as they took advantage on the ICE-involved shooting in Minnesota to ratchet up tensions. The leftist extremists of the ABC News program openly claimed we were living in “fascist America” where the Trump “dictatorship” can and would kill their audience members on a whim. “So, my question for the panel: are we in the middle of fascist America?” proclaimed deranged co-host Joy Behar. After reading a list of events from the week, including falsely claiming “[Secretary of War] Pete Hegseth started an illegal war for oil in Venezuela” and the shooting, Behar did some View math suggested it “adds up, to me, like a dictatorship in the making. That we are now in it.” Behar, who’s a multimillionaire, then attacked ICE agents for presumably being poor. “And these ICE agent, by the way, they get a $50,000 bonus when they sign up. They're highly motivated people who probably don't have much going on,” she sneered.   Inciting violence. Joy Behar claims we're now living in "fascist America" and wants Americans to "wake up" and realize there's a dictatorship. She claims the events of this week "adds up to me like a dictatorship in the making. That we are now in it. We are in it now." She… pic.twitter.com/KRW2bVqOBM — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 8, 2026   Ignoring the fact that the woman who killed was there to obstruct ICE’s lawful duties and tried to use her car as a weapon against an agent, ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg whined that people thought the show was a “waste [of] air” and claimed that anyone in their audience could and would be killed by ICE: That young lady could have been anybody in this audience. It doesn't matter what -- forget color. Forget everything. It could have been anybody and if they can do this to her, they can do it to you too.   Inciting violence. The View claims the Trump administration can and will kill their audience. Whoopi whines that most people think The View is a "waste of air," then claims the woman killed "could have been anybody in this audience." "If they can do this to her, they can do it to… pic.twitter.com/hQXRm3BO1r — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 8, 2026   The third instance of inciting rhetoric from the show came from pretend independent Sara Haines who warned protesters that they were in danger of being slaughtered in the streets by law enforcement: And Whoopi, when you say you are reassured because people are hearing it; people are hitting the street and we’re watching the temperature rise even further. So, I would say it's also really important to be careful. Although we have the right to protest, the right to stand up, you might be against people that aren't trained properly. So, be careful because it's not worth the win if you lose a life.   Inciting violence. Sara Haines warns protesters they may be killed by law enforcement at gatherings. "Although we have the right to protest, the right to stand up, you might be against people that aren't trained properly so be careful because it's not worth the win if you lose a… pic.twitter.com/0pzi63FjEE — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 8, 2026   Haines also spoke out of her rear, suggesting –without evidence – that the agent didn’t have the proper training. It had since come out that the agent had 10 years of experience. But that fact likely wouldn’t matter to Haines since she asserted that the recruitment campaign by the Department of Homeland Security was attracting “the wrong type of people to come and be undertrained to do this job,” because they were fans of videogames. Co-host Sunny Hostin also had her own braindead takes. She insisted that if you saw what happened as anything other than an “unlawful killing” as she did, it was “propaganda” and “Orwellian.” “You must believe what your eyes see,” she demanded – you listen to what she was telling you.   Sunny Hostin asserts that calling the Minnesota shooting anything other than an "unlawful killing" is "propaganda" and "Orwellian." "You must believe what your eyes see," she demanded. pic.twitter.com/IK6EiSdyB6 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 8, 2026   Unironically, Behar demanded those who disagreed with them to “stop gaslighting us,” as Hostin claimed viewers that ICE was using vehicles as an excuse to “target” and shoot at people: Just one last thing. In the last four months alone, ICE officers have fired on at least nine people in five state and D.C., and in all of those individuals targeted in those shootings were in vehicles and they have claimed seven defense. No one has been charged. So, when you are out there peacefully protesting, which is your right under the Constitution, even if you're in a vehicle, please, please be careful because this is what's happening in this country right now. “Know that anything can happen now,” Goldberg gravely warned.   Behar had the nerve to demand "stop gas lighting us" as Hostin warned people that ICE was using vehicles as an excuse to shoot at people. Whoopi also warns that "anything can happen." pic.twitter.com/kch4c6CSWD — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 8, 2026   If you thought the token “Republican” on the panel offered any pushback, Alyssa Farah Griffin was as useless as ever as she claimed the agent took the law into this own hands. “In America the punishment for evading law enforcement in a vehicle or on foot is not death. It simply is not. That's not how our system works,” she bloviated. As NewsBusters noted in our roundup of The View’s worst moments of inciting rhetoric in 2025, their technique at the time was: erroneously claim that Trump was a dictator, the country had no future, and that people didn’t have access to the ability to effect change via the ballot box, thus leaving impressionable extremists only one option: violence. In 2026, they’ve added the threat of death into their toxic cocktail. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View January 8, 2026 11:04:13 a.m. Eastern (…) SARA HAINES: She [Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem] said this law enforcement agent was following training. It is basic law enforcement training to not step in front of a vehicle that can move, because it creates an opportunity for that vehicle to become a death threat and therefore unnecessary shootings like this. So, although we don't know who this agent is or many details about him, we do know there was an increased goal last year to double the amount of ICE agents. And to hit that number, what they did was they removed all age requirements and cut the training program to less than half of what it had been, while also recruiting people using visuals. I think we have a couple here. That are warlike images like with Uncle Sam and also references to Halo which is a single shooter war game that talks about “destroy the flood” which is kind of presuming that all of these immigrants are parasitic alien enemies. So, it is also recruiting, potentially the wrong type of people to come and be undertrained to do this job. (…) 11:05:32 a.m. Eastern ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: In America the punishment for evading law enforcement in a vehicle or on foot is not death. It simply is not. That's not how our system works. (…) JOY BEHAR: So, my question for the panel: are we in the middle of fascist America? Because in this - WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I told you that yesterday. BEHAR: Just this last week I'm just going to give you a summary of what we've been through. One work. Pete Hegseth started an illegal war for oil in Venezuela, Stephen Miller threatened a military takeover of Greenland, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slashed childhood vaccine recommendations, and ICE shot and killed a United States citizen in Minneapolis. That sort of adds up, to me, like a dictatorship in the making. That we are now in it. GOLDBERG: Yes! BEHAR: We are in it now and American people, I think, have to wake up to this a little bit more than we are. We try very hard to give you what we know. But people have to start reading and watching and paying attention a little bit more than we have. Because we can lose it, you know. And these ICE agent, by the way, they get a $50,000 bonus when they sign up. They're highly motivated people who probably don't have much going on. (…) 11:08:29 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: When I looked at the video from several different angles, which is what lawyers are trained to do, I saw an unlawful killing. I think that's very clear. And I think we need to be at the point in this country that we call a thing a thing and stop listening to propaganda and being Orwellian in terms of not believing what your eyes are seeing. You must believe what your eyes see. Right? GOLDBERG: People are taking to the -- this is what -- HOSTIN: They are believing now. GOLDBERG: This is what is really gives me great hope. People are starting to recognize from whatever -- wherever they voted from that something is terribly wrong. And it makes me - BEHAR: Feel better? GOLDBERG: -- feel like I can take a breath. Because for a long time-  it felt like people just thought we were, you know, just talking to waste air, but people are seeing things because everyone is affected by this. That young lady could have been anybody in this audience. HOSTIN: Well, that's -- GOLDBERG: It doesn't matter what -- forget color. Forget everything. It could have been anybody and if they can do this to her, they can do it to you too. (…) 11:11:00 a.m. Eastern HAINES: And Whoopi, when you say you are reassured because people are hearing it; people are hitting the street and we’re watching the temperature rise even further. So, I would say it's also really important to be careful. Although we have the right to protest, the right to stand up, you might be against people that aren't trained properly. So, be careful because it's not worth the win if you lose a life. (…) 11:11:34 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: And stop gaslighting us! We can see that happened! Cut the crap! HOSTIN: Just one last thing. In the last four months alone, ICE officers have fired on at least nine people in five state and D.C., and in all of those individuals targeted in those shootings were in vehicles and they have claimed seven defense. No one has been charged. So, when you are out there peacefully protesting, which is your right under the Constitution, even if you're in a vehicle, please, please be careful because this is what's happening in this country right now. GOLDBERG: Its what we tell you all the time. Follow -- know that anything can happen now. And be smart about what you're doing. We'll be right back.

A gambling website is taking a stance on whether or not the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro constitutes an American invasion of the country.Maduro was arrested by U.S. forces at his home in Caracas, Venezuela. The socialist leader has since claimed that he is innocent.'Then what the f*** would be an invasion?'The contention comes from Polymarket, a website bent on letting the user gamble on nearly anything, after posting the bet, "Will the U.S. invade Venezuela by ..." with certain date ranges listed.As reported by multiple outlets, Polymarket has decided it is not willing to provide payouts to those who said (with their wallets) that the capture of Maduro was indeed an invasion.This caused outrage on website, with commentators leaving remarks such as "Everyone is calling it invasion.""Then what the f*** would be an invasion?" another user said, according to MarketWatch.One commentator cited the death toll from the event, which was allegedly 80, and said, "So it’s not an invasion because they did it quickly and not many people died?"RELATED: GAMBLE: In huge new deals, ESPN and Google cave to the online betting economy Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images With the existing deadlines for the bet currently set at the U.S. invading Venezuela by January 31, March 31, or December 31, Polymarket has added "additional context" to its rules section for the page, defining what would constitute an invasion in the company's eyes."This market refers to U.S. military operations intended to establish control," it reads. "President Trump's statement that they will 'run' Venezuela while referencing ongoing talks with the Venezuelan government does not alone qualify the snatch-and-extract mission to capture Maduro as an invasion."It further added, "This market will resolve to 'Yes' if the United States commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Venezuela between November 3, 2025, and January 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to 'No'." Rumors have swirled around an account created on December 26, reported to be anonymous by the Financial Times, which allegedly bet more than $32,000 that Maduro would be removed by the end of January. This would have garnered the trader a $400,000 profit.RELATED: Trump DOJ ends battle with Polymarket after Biden's FBI raided CEO following 2024 election Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images There are still other outstanding bets surrounding Maduro, including whether or not bodycam footage of his capture will be released by Jan 31, with around $60,000 already wagered.Also, almost $200,000 has been bet on whether or not the capture was staged.Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) recently proposed legislation to prohibit insiders "from engaging in covered transactions involving prediction market contracts," per the Financial Times.For his own part, the first American pope, Leo XIV, recently called out gambling as a problem and a "scourge" that can tear families apart.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A far-left Nebraska state senator is defending her actions after she removed portraits hung in the Nebraska State Capitol as part of America's 250th anniversary celebration.On Wednesday, state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D) of Omaha took down multiple pictures and portraits from the Founders Museum, a traveling patriotic art display from PragerU meant to commemorate the heroes of the American Revolution.'Celebrating America during our 250th year should be a moment of unity and patriotism, not divisiveness and destructive partisanship.'Surveillance video shared on X by Republican Gov. Jim Pillen shows Cavanaugh removing the pictures while others pass by. A still-frame shared by Pillen further shows Cavanaugh beaming with glee as she carries the pictures away."Celebrating America during our 250th year should be a moment of unity and patriotism, not divisiveness and destructive partisanship. I am disappointed in this shameful and selfish bad example," Pillen said in the X post.Cavanaugh told the Nebraska Examiner that she believed the exhibit violated Capitol regulations. "We are not allowed to adhere anything to walls in the hallway of the Capitol," she explained."I have always been a stickler for the rules ... so I removed the prohibited objects."RELATED: Trump announces 'Patriot Games' high school athletic competition for 250th anniversary of founding The Founders Museum portrait shared by Gov. Pillen, though Cavanaugh denies taking this particular portrait down.Cavanaugh claimed she attempted to remove the images without damaging them and alerted the Nebraska State Patrol that she had stored the pictures in her office.The affected images were later recovered and restored to the Capitol walls.While leafleting is prohibited in the Capitol and on its grounds, some art can be displayed with approval. Speaker John Arch told the Examiner that the Nebraska Capitol Commission had authorized the Founders Museum exhibit.In response to Cavanaugh's stunt, PragerU asked on X: "Why would an elected official take a tribute to American history off the wall of the capitol?"Cavanaugh, described by the Examiner as "a Democrat in the officially nonpartisan Legislature," made national news in 2023 when she filibustered the Let Them Grow Act, which banned the genital mutilation of kids, by chanting a mantra about the importance of "trans people.""Trans people belong here! We need trans people! We love trans people," she repeated, slowly at first before building into a shrieking crescendo, during which she flailed about, wagging her finger and pounding the podium.Despite Cavanaugh's theatrics, Let Them Grow passed and was later signed into law by Gov. Pillen.RELATED: Left-wing lawmaker loses it, spews furious, pro-trans chant amid legislative session: 'Trans people belong here! We need trans people! We love trans people!' Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!