It is considered impolite to say, “We told you so.” However, after the debate Thursday between Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and his Democrat challenger, Jay Jones, the temptation to is daunting. Last week, in the wake of the “October Surprise” release of Jones’ text messages from 2022 where he fantasized about shooting then-Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert and about Gilbert’s two children dying in his wife’s arms, we published a look into the substantial punitive power that a Virginia attorney general has—power that Jones could wield if he were elected. >>> Sign up for our Virginia email newsletter The Competitive Enterprise Institute detailed some of that power several years ago in a report titled “Law Enforcement for Rent.” As one example, the report detailed efforts by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to place lawyers in various state attorneys general offices in the U.S. who his nonprofit would pay and whose mission it was to target persons and businesses that gave money to climate researchers who were debunking “green energy” propaganda. Imagine someone with the attitude of Jones—who defended his texts at the time by telling the state delegate he sent them to: “Name a time when people make actual change on public policy without feeling personal pain”—at the helm of an attorney general’s office with the vast ability to punish businesses and citizens by launching probes and announcing them to the press. Just ask New York Attorney General Letitia James how that works. During Thursday’s televised debate, after Jones reiterated how sorry he was about the whole texting scandal (though he didn’t specifically say he was sorry about thinking such a thing), he later went on to make our case for us. He said to the audience, “I will see Jason Miyares and Donald Trump in court as your next attorney general.” Then he said, “We have to hold the president accountable, go after Donald Trump and the bad actions of this administration.” Instead of “We told you so,” how about, “We rest our case.” The post Jay Jones Hints at Just What Kind of Attorney General He Might Be appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov warned that global censorship efforts could spell the end of the free internet as we know it unless countries actively squelch government creep. In an X post Durov stressed the urgency of fighting for online free speech, which he described as slipping away. “Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers,” he wrote. “What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.” Durov  continued, “Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures.” He singled out countries such as Australia, the EU and the UK that are working to implement age restrictions, private message monitoring and digital IDs He also called out Germany, the UK and France for resorting to persecuting, imprisoning and criminally investigating citizens and tech leaders who dare to speak out against censorship.  [The story continues on MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org]

During Wednesday’s NBC Today airing, correspondent Morgan Radford shared the heart-warming story of a company that offers a service anyone would want: choosing which babies get to live. The “future of fertility,” eerily reminiscent of eugenics practices first employed over 100 years ago, was sugar-coated under morning program joviality with only a single short-and-sweet counter-argument brought to bear. The pre-taped story began with a family’s daughter who suffers from a rare genetic disorder as a set-up for the desire to screen fetal infants: CROWNOVER: We did all of the tests available. RADFORD: And nothing showed up? CROWNOVER: Correct. Very sad. No one would argue with that. But NBC was playing a dirty trick: lulling its audience not into apathy, but into emotional agreement with the supposed solution that was about to be presented. Radford then introduced Noor Siddiqui, the founder and CEO of Orchid Health, a company that offers an embryonic screening service: “So, what Orchid is able to do is actually read that entire genome to scan for many, many thousands more anomalies or genetic conditions that could affect a future baby.” Wait a minute. An embryo was the initial form of a human’s development in the womb. Those weren’t “future babies” — they already existed. It’s like the STEM cell controversy never happened. The NBC reporter gave the twisted innovator a platform to defend the technology under the guise of pushback: RADFORD: I mean, the idea of being able to decide which child, which embryo you put in your body, I mean, this is a generally new concept. What about people who say you're playing God? SIDDIQUI: I don't think that's — what I'd say is, you know, do we think we're playing God when, you know, we put a seatbelts or a car seat in the car? Or when we go get chemotherapy when someone is diagnosed with cancer, right? All of civilization is using the latest and greatest science and medicine to improve people's lives. Uh huh. The practice wasn’t improving anyone’s lives. It’s unnatural selection, deeming who was fit to live.     A brief clip from an interview with bioethicist Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz was played to fulfill NBC’s journalistic duty of presenting an opposing perspective on the issue: “I would say most people in the bioethics community have concerns about different aspects of this […] concerns about whether these technologies could lead to or promote eugenics thinking and practices.” The entire segment was about five minutes and 20 seconds long. Of that, only 26 seconds was allotted to a figure with an opposing position, roughly eight percent of the entire story. NBC practically hid the opposition by sandwiching it between a libertarian retort by Siddiqui: “I think that it's wrong to stigmatize this type of screening, especially when, you know, these people are — you know, they’re coming because they specifically want to minimize the chance that their child is gonna be affected by these diseases.” No one in their right mind would want their child to suffer from any sort of mutation or disease. Was picking and choosing who gets to live suddenly morally acceptable? To relieve the audience from any sour taste in the mouth, the pre-taped piece left on a hopeful note by returning to the Crownover family: RADFORD: And the embryo that you're carrying, your child, has already been genetically screened? CROWNOVER: Yes. RADFORD: How do you feel knowing that? CROWNOVER: It's actually a huge relief. I think especially where we are in the process, I think that we have a lot of hope, that we're on the right path. It would have been inappropriate to Radford to ask, but it’s a question everyone was thinking. Would the Crownovers have kept the baby had the screening come back with unfortunate results? All under the cover of light-hearted normalcy. Next up in real-life dystopia, customize your child like The Sims with CRISPR! The transcript is below. Click "expand" read: NBC’s Today October 15, 2025 8:33:41 a.m. EST (…) CRAIG MELVIN: Turning now to a medical advancement that some are calling the future of fertility. SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Yeah, it's a new type of genetic testing that allows people going through IVF to do a detailed screening on their embryos before implanting them. And NBC's Morgan Radford is here with the story. Hi, Morgan. Good morning. MORGAN RADFORD: Hey there, guys. Good morning. This is a really interesting question because this genetic screening can test for everything, from the future risk of heart disease to even psychological conditions. So it's raising this important question: if you could know more about your baby's future health, would you want to know that information? One company is not making parents wait to find out. [Cuts to video] JOY BETH CROWNOVER: Hey. RADFORD: For Joy Beth and Adam Crownover, their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Mia, is the center of their universe. CROWNOVER: We did all of the tests available. RADFORD: And nothing showed up? CROWNOVER: Correct. RADFORD: Standard testing during their natural pregnancy missed a rare genetic disease called lissencephaly, a brain malformation that can lead to severe and even life threatening symptoms. ADAM CROWNOVER: And she started to have seizures at eight months. And then all of her overnight hospitalizations. [Transition] And I would say the first year of life, those were four really tough months. RADFORD: So to expand their family, they decided to try a different approach: in vitro fertilization, using an embryo screened by a new kind of test offered by a company called Orchid Health. Orchid says they can sequence the entire genome, finding things other tests miss, like conditions that don't typically present until adulthood, including heart disease, schizophrenia, even the risk of adult onset cancers, and obesity. ORCHID EMPLOYEE: Available patients can decide for which embryo to be transferred. RADFORD: We saw the process at work at a fertility clinic in Charlotte. RADFORD: So, is this the actual embryo? ORCHID EMPLOYEE: Yes, that's an embryo. And right now she's going to take a few cells from the embryo to send for genetic testing. NOOR SIDDIQUI: So our first baby was actually — RADFORD: Orchid Health CEO, Noor Siddiqui, says the company has already screened thousands of embryos since they launched the technology in 2023. RADFORD: You guys said that you sequenced more than 99 percent of an embryo's genome, while other existing tests read less than 1 percent. That's a big claim. SIDDIQUI: Yeah, exactly. The testing that's available today on embryos really just looks at something called chromosomes. [Transition] So, what Orchid is able to do is actually read that entire genome to scan for many, many thousands more anomalies or genetic conditions that could affect a future baby. RADFORD: I mean, the idea of being able to decide which child, which embryo you put in your body, I mean, this is a generally new concept. What about people who say you're playing God? SIDDIQUI: I don't think that's — what I'd say is, you know, do we think we're playing God when, you know, we put a seatbelts or a car seat in the car? Or when we go get chemotherapy when someone is diagnosed with cancer, right? All of civilization is using the latest and greatest science and medicine to improve people's lives. RADFORD: The price? $2,500 per embryo, a cost the company says isn't currently covered by insurance. It's a process that's been met with controversy. GABRIEL LÁZARO-MUÑOZ: I would say most people in the bioethics community have concerns about different aspects of this, from ensuring that the patients and the individuals that are pursuing IVF, that they are aware of the limitations of these technologies. [Transition] Another aspect of this, concerns about whether these technologies could lead to or promote eugenics thinking and practices. SIDDIQUI: I think that it's wrong to stigmatize this type of screening, especially when, you know, these people are — you know, they’re coming because they specifically want to minimize the chance that their child is gonna be affected by these diseases. So I think it's each family's own personal decision about do they want to seek out this information and what they want to go do with that information. CROWNOVER: I know you’re sleepy. RADFORD: Information the Crownover family has already used to make their decision. RADFORD: Where are you in the process now? CROWNOVER: I think in the IVF community, the way that they say it is that after transfer you're pregnant until proven otherwise. RADFORD: You're pregnant now? CROWNOVER: I am pregnant right now. RADFORD: Congratulations. So is this your first transfer with Orchid? CROWNOVER: Yeah. RADFORD: And the embryo that you're carrying, your child, has already been genetically screened? CROWNOVER: Yes. RADFORD: How do you feel knowing that? CROWNOVER: It's actually a huge relief. I think especially where we are in the process, I think that we have a lot of hope, that we're on the right path. RADFORD: A path to a bigger family — CROWNOVER: You have a little brother on the way. RADFORD: — and a healthy future. [Cuts back to live] RADFORD: So, interestingly, Orchid is not the only company that's doing this kind of testing. There's actually a company called Genomic Prediction that started in New Jersey in 2017, and it tests for a lot of the same diseases using different technology. And there are even companies testing adults so that they can know the risks of passing on genetic conditions even before having children. And one thing I thought was so interesting is that they did a poll last year, and two-thirds of Americans think that genetic testing on embryos is good if you're checking for disease — MELVIN: Yes. RADFORD: — but one-third said, eyyy, you know, not so much if you're doing it for, you know, cosmetic things. CARSON DALY: Slippery slope. [Crosstalk] DALY: Eye color and sex. RADFORD: Yeah, right? It does get a little interesting there. DALY: Incredible technology, though. Amazing. MELVIN: Morgan, thank you. GUTHRIE: Thank you, Morgan.

President Donald Trump's administration is ramping up the pressure on Democrats who refuse to reopen the government over two weeks into the shutdown. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced Friday that he will be pausing over $11 billion of project funding across several blue cities. This pause will halt funds for "lower-priority" projects overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore. 'We're only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you.'This pause comes more than two weeks into the Democrat-induced government shutdown after nearly a dozen failed votes on the Senate floor. "The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers' ability to manage billions of dollars in projects," Vought wrote in a post on X. "The Corps will be immediately pausing over $11 billion in lower-priority projects & considering them for cancellation, including projects in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore. More information to come from the Army Corps of Engineers."RELATED: White House deploys nuclear option amid Democrat-induced shutdown stalemate Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThis pressure is the latest of several actions taken by the Trump administration since the government shut down on October 1. Ahead of the shutdown, Vought notified agencies to begin drafting reduction-in-force notices that later resulted in over 4,200 layoffs across various prominent agencies. A Clinton-appointed judge in California has since halted those RIFs.Vought also previously paused billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure and environmental projects in other blue cities like Chicago and New York City. At the same time, the Trump administration is working to minimize shutdown pains for the military, working through Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth to ensure that service members received their October 15 paycheck. RELATED: White House dares Democrats with nuclear response to looming shutdown Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImageTrump previously warned Democrats that his administration would take these actions if they did not join Republicans to reopen the government. Assuming all 53 Republicans vote in favor of the funding resolution, at least seven Democrats need to join the GOP to reopen the government. "We're only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting last week."Chuck Schumer proclaimed this morning that every day gets better for them," Trump added. "No, every day it's actually getting worse for them, and they're having a rebellion in the Democrat Party because they want to stop."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

CHICAGO, Ill. — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview has been the site of many rowdy and sometimes violent protests as Operation Midway Blitz is well under way. With rioters consistently attempting to block the building's driveway and road to disrupt operations, the federal government installed a temporary security fence to keep crowds at a distance.That changed this week after a judge ruled the fence must come down after a lawsuit was brought by the city, saying the installment prevented emergency services from reaching other buildings behind the fence. The fence was effective in preventing agitators from blocking the driveway and forced the crowds to switch locations to gather. Border Patrol and ICE agents still had to repeatedly clear the roads to allow federal vehicles to reach the facility.'What's happening is not just regular business there. It was rioting.'Perhaps in an attempt to prevent the National Guard from being deployed, the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff's Office have sent manpower to assist federal agents in keeping the roads clear. While the extra manpower has been put to use with the disruptive anti-ICE crowds, ICE says the removal of the fence means agents cannot use yet another tool in their toolbox to keep themselves, detainees, and the facility safe."Anyone should be able to come up to a federal building when they have some business there, but what's happening is not just regular business there. It was rioting," Sam Olsen, field office director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in Chicago, told Blaze News.RELATED: Border Patrol squashes anti-ICE blockade outside ICE facility in Illinois Julio Rosas/Blaze News "That fence did give us some additional protection," Olsen noted, adding that it was good to see local and state law enforcement on the ground after weeks of no support.Concrete barriers now line the roads around the facility to keep crowds on the sidewalk, though sometimes those barriers do not deter people from jumping over them.The security fence also gave ICE agents breathing room as they wait to see whether the National Guard can be deployed. While soldiers from Texas were sent to protect the building in Broadview and were seen patrolling behind the fence, their deployment has been halted in a similar fashion to the deployment in Portland, Oregon.Olsen said the recent deadly shooting at the ICE facility in Dallas, which killed two detainees and injured a third, is fresh in agents' minds as they work to secure the building near Chicago. Despite the over 1000% increase in attacks on federal agents, both Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) continue to blame the violence on Homeland Security personnel instead of anti-ICE crowds attacking agents conducting operations.Friday morning saw more chaotic protests in Broadview down the street from the ICE building, with ISP troopers arresting multiple people who refused to leave the road when ordered. Some also expressed concern about the lack of fencing ahead of the No Kings protests slated to take place in Chicago as well as all over the country.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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