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In addition to being The View’s in-house legal expert (as a former federal prosecutor), co-host Sunny Hostin was the show’s most vocal social justice warrior and proponent of toxic woke ideology. As such, Hostin was prone to making profoundly racist comments that either attacked white people, promoted black people above others, and much more. And just like the year prior, Hostin put her toxic heart out there for all to see in 2025. From praising black women as the superior demographic in America to scoffing at a white woman being set on fire to flip flopping on Pope Leo XIV after she learned of his black ancestry, Hostin proved herself to be someone who only viewed America and the rest of the world through a racist prism of hatred. Below are the eight of Hostin’s most racist moments of 2025. And she has the nerve to whine about those who call her out, and despite the fact she had slave owner ancestors.   Hostin Insists Black Women Are a Superior Demographic, 'Voted to Save' America Hostin routinely bloviated about how her “lived experience” as an “Afro-Latina” gave her the unique perspective to see and speak about how racist America purportedly was. It was that self-righteousness that led to her praising herself for being a black woman, the superior demographic. According to her, black women were superior because they simply voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris: HOSTIN: And when black people win and get rights like civil right, everybody does better and that's something that the Democrats can take a page out of the book for. But, you know, I'm starting to think as I've said before, I'm one of the 92 percent of black women that voted for Kamala Harris and so I'm sort of in a resting place right now because I voted to save the country and the country didn't vote with me. The majority of the country.     Sunny Hostin: America 'Still Is Sickened' With Racism and Slavery Hostin had previously shared that it was her father who taught her to hate America and look at the world through a prism of chronic racial grievance. And every once in a while, she’d go on racially charged rants about how terrible America purportedly was. Like she did in November: Because of my lived experience as an afro-Latina, I'm able to look at this world with a different prism and I'm able to tell this country and tell this audience and tell my fellow co-hosts some uncomfortable truths. This is a country based on racism and slavery and founded in it. There is systemic racism. And misogyny It was a rant so potent that it spilled over into their Behind the Table podcast, where she claimed America was “still sickened with” racism and slavery.   Sunny Hostin Scoffs at Woman Burned to Death By Illegal Immigrant Hostin’s heartlessness was on full display in January during a dust up with co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin over the arson death of white Debrina Kawam by a Hispanic illegal immigrant. She openly decried the attention the case was getting because it put a spotlight on the problem of criminal illegals in America. While defending illegal immigration, Hostin had the nerve to attack America for how it supposedly “lacks empathy” when she didn’t show any for Kawam: HOSTIN: Can I say something? You know, we keep on talking about criminals and immigrants being criminals, and I just want people understand what the facts are and the stats are; is that undocumented immigrants are much less likely to have committed crimes than American citizens. American citizens commit more crimes than one who is undocumented. I also want to make the point that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal because he or she is undocumented. That is a civil offense. (...) I think this country is a country that lacks empathy unless you have lived it, unless you have a lived experience, and that is very unfortunate.     The View’s Racists Decry White South Africans, Defend Their Racism With President Trump giving special protected status to white South Africans who were fleeing persecution, Hostin found a group of immigrants she refused to defend. Hostin parroted denials of persecution and land appropriation from South Africa’s president and decried Trump not giving similar special status to Haitians: HOSTIN: And I think something we're not talking about is – enough about is what Donald Trump did on Monday is the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation. So the South African president has been actively, you know, denying at and denying that persecution. (...) The fact that Haitians that are truly refugees, they have been denied protective status! (...) HOSTIN: And yet, we are welcoming white South Afrikaners.     The View Celebrates Black History Month By Promoting Discredited 1619 Project Leave it to Hostin to continue to push a project that had long been debunked and called out as revisionist history wish casting, even by black historians: HOSTIN: Today, we honor investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones who continues to redefine our national conversations on race. Born in Waterloo, Iowa her award-winning career covering race, class, education, and equity all started with a letter to the editor of her local paper at just 11 years old. Joins Jones [sic] The New York Times in 2015 and publish her groundbreaking investigative piece four years later, The 1619 Project. The collection of essays and art backdated the founding of the United States from 1776 to 1619, the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia. Although it was met with backlash, the project went on to become a best-selling book, a Hulu docu-series and podcast, and inspired her children's book Born on the Water.   Sunny Hostin Suddenly Likes New Pope After Learning Black Ancestry After initially bristling at the election of Pope Leo XIV because of his support for traditional marriage, Hostin - a purported “devout Catholic” - announced that she changed her mind about the pope. Hostin didn’t hide the fact that she changed her mind because she learned that Leo had “Haitian and black roots”: There’s one other thing that's very interesting to me because President Trump, as you remember, called Haiti a certain type of country. As it turns out, our new American pope has Haitian and black roots! So, we actually have a black pope! Apparently – It's a chef's kiss for me. (....) So, I’m loving it. I’m really enjoying it.     Sunny Hostin Fears Her 'All-White Neighborhood' Will Call Cops on Son Hostin was insufferable on TV, but imagine what it would be like to be her neighbor! In October, the multi-millionaire TV host announced that she had recently moved to a new, “all white neighborhood” and was already making embarrassing scenes. According to her, she was so terrified that her white neighbors would call the police on his son that she dragged him down to the police station and scolded them to leave him alone: As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth. (…) And so, for me, what was interesting was; I have had to be in the position where I've gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics, running around the neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood, and I have brought him to the police and said he belongs to me, this is my son. Do not harass him, do not stop him.   Sunny Hostin apparently thinks all her white neighbors are racists. She says she fears them calling the police on on her son if they see him training for the Junior Olympics: "As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence...I… pic.twitter.com/3Q1sfc1c5c — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 22, 2025   Sunny Hostin Whines About Being Called a ‘Race Baiter’ While Bashing Whites Given everything we’ve just gone over, it was all the more ridiculous that Hostin would dare whine about people calling her out as a race baiter. It was somehow even more so that she was whining about it while also bashing white people: It's been about white mediocre men that are given opportunities. It's about legacy admissions. It's – You don't, you know, have to be excellent. You have to be average if you're white; if you are black, you must – your average must be excellent in order to compete. (...) And, you know, certainly we get punished for talking about our lived experience, you know, I'm called a race baiter and all of this stuff.     If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....

Our friend Ann McIlhinney sent a note to supporters on Thursday about the "mainstream media" campaigning for cancellations at the Trump-Kennedy Center at year's end. The networks and newspapers were thrilled when jazz acts The Cookers and Chuck Redd canceled at the last minute over the addition of the president's name. Ann and her husband Phelim McAleer have made a number of documentary films and stage plays that ruffle leftist feathers, including a book and movie on the infamous Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who went to prison for grotesquely killing babies outside the womb and for the death of a woman from an anesthetic overdose.  Their stage plays are drawn from real-life testimony, and the latest is about the Hamas mass murder of October 7. Would this have played at the Kennedy Center under Biden? Let's guess it wouldn't. Ann wrote: The mainstream media is currently trying to cancel our performance of the OCTOBER 7 play at the Kennedy Center. We have just received two very similar "friendly" emails from CNN and the Washington Post. They were inquiring whether we are still moving forward with our production of the OCTOBER 7 play at the Kennedy Center.  So-called artists have already pulled out of planned performances at the DC venue because they hate Trump and the truth. Now the mainstream media are trying to whip up a mob and force others to withdraw. Can you believe they want to cancel a play about the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust? Trump-Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell took after the leftist media campaign. MRC President David Bozell chimed in on X:  Grenell is referring to a play about the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. CNN and the Washington Post are circling. Intimidation is the point. Good for the Trump-Kennedy Center for standing firm. The play stays. https://t.co/EHHs9P5jZV — David Bozell ?? (@DavidBozell) December 31, 2025 Ann shared the message they sent back to inquiries to "bullies" at CNN and the Post, which said:  The OCTOBER 7 play will absolutely be on stage on January 28th. Good riddance to these taxpayer-funded cosplaying rebels. They seem to think producing art is about them feeling comfortable and cozy. Artists should always go where they feel uncomfortable, even unwanted — if they want to change the world, that's where they should be, instead of speaking into their taxpayer-funded echo chamber. These performative walkouts are for their friends and funders — they don't care about the wider audience or creating new audiences. And they wonder why so many theaters are struggling? Even their friends are bored with the woke, cliched, and hectoring art they are producing. "Doug Varone and Dancers," the New York dance company, said their walkout was "morally exhilarating." That's very telling. They create to make themselves feel better, not the audience. We create to bring the truth to the audience. Good to see them leave the stage. It leaves more stage time for the rest of us who want to produce genuine art.  We are already thinking about future events at the Kennedy Center. She told supporters: "This is the way the mainstream media intimidate and bully. The artists fear being called out and canceled. This is how the left and the mainstream media destroy careers and lives." Plays like October 7 are the kind of productions that should pass muster in a democracy, but our media and cultural elites want to have only half a conversation, even on the worst terrorist events. 

Hot on the heels of the U.S. government's announcement of the Tech Force combing for 1,000 new recruits, 25 times that number of Americans have sent in their resumes to the cross-agency technology team.The Tech Force, announced mid-month, urged the country's best and brightest to head to its website to apply for short-term federal employment. Over the ensuing week, that number has risen to at least 25,000, according to Scott Kupor, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.'Tech Force will tackle the most complex and large-scale civic and defense challenges of our era.'With a two-year government contract worth as much as $200,000, recruits will be part of an "elite group" of tech specialists hired to "accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) implementation" and solve critical tech challenges.The unprecedented new group will primarily recruit those early in their careers, the Tech Force website explained, who specialize in engineering, AI, cybersecurity, data analytics, or project management in tech. Those brought on board can expect to implement AI programs and applications, modernize data, and provide digital service delivery at federal agencies."Backed by the White House, Tech Force will tackle the most complex and large-scale civic and defense challenges of our era," the outfit promised. "From administering critical financial infrastructure at the Treasury Department to advancing cutting-edge programs at the Department of Defense, and everything in between." RELATED: BEWARE: With these new web browsers, everything on your computer can be stolen with one click — (@) Hires can look forward to working with agency leadership and "leading technology companies" to train and engage with senior management from partnered companies. The government openly states that once Tech Forcers are finished with their training program, they will seek employment at the partnering private-sector companies in order to demonstrate "the value of combining civil service with technical expertise."Along with the competitive high salaries, the government program says it provides benefits like health insurance, retirement plans, and "performance-based awards."The duties and scope of the Tech Force varied to a great degree, with the official website providing a lengthy list of federal agencies that participants can expect to be placed within. These included the Departments of War, Treasury, State, Labor, Commerce, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Housing & Urban Development, Transportation, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs.Other agencies like the Small Business Administration, IRS, and Office of Personnel Management were also noted.RELATED: NO HANDS: New Japanese firm trains robots without human input Photo by Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images Readers on X had mixed reactions to open recruitment, with several hoping the program would only be open to Americans and others sarcastically saying that it probably should not be filled "with Indians."The application form goes through the USA Jobs website.The official account for the Young Republicans of Texas said the program could be an effective way to prove that there are "plenty of qualified Americans" in the tech field. At the same time, others worried about a dystopian future that could arise from combining advanced technology and the Treasury Department.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Minnesota appears to be a mecca for fraudsters, particularly from the crime-ridden African nation of Somalia.Private citizens and the Trump administration have taken steps in recent weeks to neutralize and expose the worst cases of graft in Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's back yard — including the fraud committed by members of the Somali community in relation to coronavirus relief funding and the student aid fraud plaguing the Gopher State's publicly funded schools.YouTuber Nick Shirley, 23, has played an outsized role in this anti-fraud campaign. His Christmas week videos alleging massive fraud in taxpayer-subsidized, Somali-run day care facilities prompted the Department of Health and Human Services to announce that it was derailing the gravy train.'Any dollar stolen by fraudsters is stolen from those children.'"We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota," HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill said in a statement on Tuesday. In a corresponding video, O'Neill noted that "intrepid journalists have made shocking and credible allegations of extensive fraud in Minnesota's child care programs. We believe the state of Minnesota has allowed scammers and fake day cares to siphon millions of taxpayer dollars over the past decade."Alex Adams, assistant secretary of the HHS' Administration for Children and Families, indicated that his office provides Minnesota with $185 million in childcare funds annually. "That money should be helping 19,000 American children, including toddlers and infants," said Adams. "Any dollar stolen by fraudsters is stolen from those children."RELATED: Patel: Convicted Somali fraudsters face loss of citizenship as DHS probes Minnesota Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesShirley visited a number of ostensible childcare facilities in Minnesota that each receive millions of dollars in government backing only to find them apparently devoid of children.In one instance, Shirley visited Mako Childcare — whose owner is listed as Ayan Salah — and the Mini Childcare Center, which are housed in the same facility and appear to be one and the same. According to Shirley's documentary, the two outfits are together licensed for 120 children and rake in roughly $3 million each year.Shirley highlighted how the windows at the location were all blacked out, there was no outside play area, and there was no evidence of any children on or around the site. Despite signage indicating that the facility is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m., the door was locked and no one responded to the doorbell. After visiting a number of other locations with covered windows and not a single child in sight — while allegedly being tailed by Somali malcontents — Shirley paid a visit to the Quality Learing [sic] Center.As Shirley knocked on the blacked-out door of the potentially fraudulent day care with the misspelled name, a woman warned those inside, "Don't open up!"According to the documentary, the apparently childless, playground-free Quality Learing Center is licensed for 99 children and has received around $4 million over the past two years.Vice President JD Vance said in response to Shirley's reporting, "This dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners of the 2024 [Pulitzer] prizes."'This jaw-dropping reporting is an indictment of both the national news media and feckless, dangerous office holders in Minnesota.'In response to Shirley's videos, O'Neill indicated that all Administration for Children and Families payments moving forward will "require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state."O'Neill noted further that he and Alex Adams have identified the individuals referenced in Shirley's report and have demanded Gov. Walz undertake a "comprehensive audit of these centers," pulling information on attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.In addition to pausing funding to Minnesota, requiring more in the way of information from applicants nationwide, and demanding an investigation, O'Neill noted that the HHS has launched a fraud-reporting hotline and email address. — (@) Vance said of the actions taken by the HHS, "Turning off payments and forcing verification before taxpayer money flows out the door is one of the most important steps we can take to end the fraud in Minnesota. But there will be many more to come."Gov. Walz suggested the HHS' firm response to credible allegations of widespread childcare fraud on his watch was somehow a nefarious plot on the part of President Donald Trump."This is Trump's long game," said the failed Democratic vice presidential candidate whose trouble telling the truth dogged him on the campaign trail last year. "We've spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It's a serious issue — but this has been his plan all along. He's politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans."Walz was thoroughly mocked and criticized online over his desperate attempt to shift blame onto Trump.Zerohedge, for instance, quipped, "Brilliant execution by Trump's sleeper Somali cell."Minnesota state Rep. Harry Niska (R) wrote, "Take some accountability. Your failure is no one’s fault but your own. Minnesota deserves better than this embarrassment."Shirley's documentary not only prompted action by the HHS but by others in the federal government."This jaw-dropping reporting is an indictment of both the national news media and feckless, dangerous office holders in Minnesota like Tim Walz, who have allowed these massive fraud schemes to occur for years. NO MORE," tweeted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Johnson added that the House Oversight Committee "has expanded its investigation into these schemes. Republicans have demanded data from Gov. Walz, AG [Keith] Ellison, the Treasury Department, and the Justice Department, and have requested interviews with several key officials in Minnesota who have allowed, or participated in this fraud."Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem indicated that Homeland Security Investigations was also looking into the matter, sharing a video of HSI officers visiting day care operations. — (@) Director Kash Patel said that the FBI was aware of the reports in the Gopher State and that "fraud that steals from taxpayers and robs vulnerable children will remain a top FBI priority in Minnesota and nationwide."Patel noted further that the fraud confirmed in the state to date "is just the tip of a very large iceberg," adding that many of those responsible "are also being referred to immigrations officials for possible further denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible."Like Blaze News? 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