Amber Ruffin is the perfect political comic for our age. That’s not a compliment.The former late-night host (does anyone remember her Peacock show?) is now the new voice of the resistance alongside Colbert and co.Lucas wasn’t shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost. Ruffin gained attention after she was hired and later fired from being the comic host of last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association D.C. gala. The not-so-august body realized Ruffin’s hard-left shtick wouldn’t mesh with its laughable attempt to play the “we don’t choose sides, y’all” card.Ruffin has never been THAT funny.Now, she’s riding that cancellation wave to accidentally remind us the WHCA got it right the second time. She’s too unhinged even for late-night TV (but not “The View”).First, she promoted the “very fine people” hoax to smite President Donald Trump, as if everyone with a functioning brain didn’t know it’s been repeatedly debunked, even by the liberal Snopes.Now, she’s warning us on, where else, “The View” that President Trump will keep “disappearing” people who cross him. She also suggested Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will start abducting autistic children.Even “The View” producers must have blinked hard on that twofer. Here’s betting the show’s legal team brewed a few extra pots of joe that day ...'Sith' happens“Star Wars” fans once hated franchise creator George Lucas so much they made a movie about it. The 2010 documentary “The People vs. George Lucas” let fans take Lucas to the nerd woodshed. They roasted the filmmaker for replacing the original film trilogy with an “updated” version that messed with core parts of the saga.Google “Han shot first” to get the gist of the debate. The trio of underwhelming prequels Lucas delivered added fuel to the fire.Now? Well, after a decade of Disney-produced “Star Wars” content, some, if not all, is forgiven. The 20th anniversary rerelease of “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (written and directed by Lucas) made a shocking $25 million last weekend. That’s more than many new films earn in their opening frames.Why? “Sith” was better than we remember, for starters. Plus, “woke” wasn’t even a thing back in 2005. Lucas wasn’t shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost. That’s all. Now, that’s more than enough.Maybe, the one sequel we need is “The People vs. George Lucas 2: The Apology” ...Off-keyNeil Young can’t stop embarrassing himself.It’s bad enough that the former free speech warrior tried to get Joe Rogan canceled for sharing the “wrong” pandemic views on his Spotify platform. It got worse when Young ripped his music off the platform in protest and, later, quietly put it back in.Now, Young is barking at Elon Musk’s EV company Tesla via song, and both the lyrics and the message couldn’t be more muddled.“Come on Ford, come on GM / Come on Chrysler, let’s roll again ... China’s way ahead, they’re making clean cars,” Young sang at a recent concert. Guess he hasn’t heard about China’s affinity for not-so-clean coal plants.Need more lyrics?“If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom / Get whatever you want, taste your freedom.”Oh, and the song calls Telsa owners “fascists.”We’ve lost David Crosby, sadly, but can’t the surviving members of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young stage an intervention?Whoopi's whoopsieAnother day, another unhinged conspiracy on “The View.”This time, Whoopi Goldberg got the ball rolling by suggesting President Donald Trump fixed the 2024 presidential election. Quick! Get Robert Mueller on line one! The walls are closing in!I want to remind people that [Trump] took credit for Biden’s economy — BOOMING economy, claiming investors knew he was going to win. I think he should stop saying that because you’re going to make somebody investigate how investigators would know you were going to win. I'm just putting that out there. You know.Hey, she’s just asking questions. And since it’s “The View,” the questions remain nuclear-grade dumb.

Socialist Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was interrupted at a rally by a pro-Palestinian protester who accused her of being a "war criminal." Despite being a far-left figure, Ocasio-Cortez was accused of supporting the military campaign of Israel in the Gaza Strip by an activist identified as Jennifer Kings at an event Friday in Queens, New York. 'Do you notice how Gaza isn't even on the agenda???? Shame on these fascists.' Kings stood up at the town hall event as Ocasio-Cortez was speaking and yelled, "I am a health care worker, and I want to know what you're doing about the genocide in Gaza!" The protester called AOC a "war criminal" as she was led out of the event and repeated, "Shame on you! I used to support you!" Members of the audience booed her and tried to drown out her shouting. After the woman was removed, Ocasio-Cortez addressed the interruption. "I more than welcome people who disagree or are super pissed off at me for any issue to come, but we have some ground rules here," the congresswoman said. "Please wait for the Q&A because we don't want to deprive all of our neighbors of the ability to have information and hear them respond to it." Video of the interruption was widely circulated on social media. Kings criticized the forum on a story on Instagram, where she has more than 53,000 followers. "Do you notice how Gaza isn't even on the agenda???? Shame on these fascists," she wrote. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the military campaign on Saturday. "Israel is waging a just war with just means against Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization, that murdered 1200 innocent people on October 7 and still holds 59 innocent people hostage," he wrote on social media. Ocasio-Cortez's term ends in Jan. 2027, and the firebrand socialist is considered by some to be a top candidate for the Democratic presidential ticket in 2028. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blasted the Defense Department after an Army Black Hawk helicopter took a "scenic route" around Washington, D.C., which caused near misses with two commercial jetliners attempting to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.Around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, an Army Black Hawk helicopter allegedly had close calls with two commercial airliners. 'Our helicopter restrictions around DCA are crystal clear.'The Federal Aviation Administration said in an incident report, "Air traffic control instructed Delta Air Lines Flight 1671 and Republic Airways Flight 5825 to perform go-arounds at the Reagan Washington National Airport due to a Priority Air Transport helicopter inbound to the Pentagon Army Heliport."The Army Black Hawk helicopter "took a scenic route around the Pentagon versus proceeding directly from the west to the heliport," according to an email obtained by Politico from Chris Senn, Federal Aviation Administration assistant administrator for government and industry affairs.Both commercial airplanes were reportedly on their final approach. The Black Hawk helicopter came within 200 feet of the Republic plane and within 400 feet of the Delta plane, according to Senn's email.Senn said air traffic controllers temporarily couldn’t pinpoint the Black Hawk’s tracking position in real time on their radar screens.Senn noted that the helicopter’s radar track "inadvertently floated and jumped to a different location on the controller feed after being unresponsive for a couple of seconds."At the time of the incidents, the control tower had one supervisor, four certified professional controllers, and one certified professional trainee receiving on-the-job training, according to Senn. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation into the events. Delta said it was cooperating in the investigation. Delta said there were five flight crew and 97 passengers aboard its commercial airliner."Nothing is more important at Delta than the safety of our customers and people. We'll cooperate with the FAA as they investigate," Delta said on Friday.The U.S. Army said of the incident, "While conducting flight operations into the Pentagon, in accordance with published FAA flight routes and DCA Air Traffic Control, a UH-60 Blackhawk was directed by Pentagon Air Traffic Control to conduct a 'go-around,' overflying the Pentagon helipad, in accordance with approved flight procedures. As a result, DCA Air Traffic Control issued a 'go-around' to two civilian fixed-wing aircraft to ensure the appropriate deconfliction of airspace."The incidents were classified as a "loss of separation," which is when aircraft violate the minimum vertical and/or horizontal distance required to safely avoid a mid-air collision in a controlled airspace.The Pentagon did not immediately provide a comment when asked by Reuters. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy declared the actions by the chopper's pilot were "unacceptable." "Our helicopter restrictions around DCA are crystal clear," Duffy proclaimed on the X social media platform. Duffy continued, "I’ll be talking to the Department of Defense to ask why the hell our rules were disregarded.""Safety must ALWAYS come first. We just lost 67 souls! No more helicopter rides for VIPs or unnecessary training in a congested DCA airspace full of civilians," Duffy added. "Take a taxi or Uber — besides, most VIPs have black car service."Lawmakers from both political parties expressed concern over the incidents. Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stated, "The Army is once again putting the traveling public at risk. ... It’s time for the FAA to act swiftly and assert control over the national airspace so the Army stops running air taxis for military officials near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport." Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said, "The Army and FAA need to reevaluate their operations and return to Capitol Hill to explain what needs to be done to make certain the DCA airspace is safe. We already had a tragedy that should not have happened."Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) added, "It is outrageous that only three months after an Army Black Hawk helicopter tragically collided with a passenger jet, the same Army brigade again flew a helicopter too close to passenger jets on final approach at Reagan National Airport."Moran and Cantwell are referring to the air travel disaster that occurred in January when an American Airlines plane collided with an Army VH-60M Black Hawk. The air travel accident killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. The helicopter and plane collided while the chopper was conducting a training exercise. As Blaze News reported last month, Captain Rebecca Lobach — the helicopter's pilot — failed to heed her instructor's orders moments before flying into the commercial airliner. The mid-air collision caused the FAA to impose permanent restrictions on nonessential helicopter operations around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. In March, a Delta Air Lines plane nearly crashed into an Air Force jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere's investigation unearthed several eyebrow-raising developments in how airports are using outdated technology, DEI practices that exclude the most qualified would-be air traffic controllers, and severely understaffed air traffic control towers. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up!

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit delivered the Trump administration a "huge victory" on Saturday, blocking the order of a lesser court that required the reinstatement of over 1,000 Voice of America employees. Kari Lake, senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which supervises Voice of America, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and a handful of other state-funded outfits including Radio Free Europe, called the ruling a "BIG WIN in our legal cases at USAGM & Voice of America. Huge victory for President Trump and Article II." "Turns out the District Court judge will not be able to manage the agency as he seemed to want to," added Lake. The appeals court's 2-1 ruling, which saw Trump-appointed Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao pitted against dissenting Obama-appointed Judge Cornelia Pillard, held that "the government is likely to succeed on the merits because the district court likely lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to enjoin USAGM's personnel actions and to compel the agency to restore RFA's and MBN's FY 2025 grants." President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 14 aimed at reducing various "unnecessary" elements of the federal bureaucracy "to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law." Among the entities targeted was the USAGM. 'Ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.' In a corresponding fact sheet, the White House shared links to articles criticizing the quality and neutrality of the state media outfit's output, as well as a link to a write-up of the American Accountability Foundation's 2022 lawsuit alleging that VOA had "been infiltrated by anti-American, pro-Islamic state interests." Blaze News previously reported that pursuant to the president's executive order, approximately 1,300 VOA journalists and other employees were placed on administrative leave, and funding was suspended to VOA's sister networks. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled against the administration on April 22, noting that its stated efforts to "ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda" were "arbitrary and capricious" and "likely in direct violation of numerous federal laws," including the VOA's congressionally established charter in the International Broadcasting Act. Lamberth ordered the administration to "take all necessary steps to return USAGM employees and contractors to their status" prior to Trump's March 14 EO; to restore VOA programming; and to restore fiscal year 2025 grants to Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. He also demanded that the administration provide him with monthly status reports "apprising the Court of the status of the defendants' compliance with this Order." 'The injunction threatens its prerogative to "speak with one voice" on behalf of the United States in foreign affairs.' The appeals court said in its Saturday ruling that Lamberth "likely lacked jurisdiction over the USAGM's personnel decisions" as federal employees may not use the Administrative Procedure Act to challenge agency employee actions. "Congress has instead established comprehensive statutory schemes for adjudicating employment disputes with the federal government," noted the court. While the dissenting Obama judge on the appeals court expressed doubt that Congress' chosen administrative methods could properly process agency-wide claims for over 1,000 employees, the majority noted that "administrative agencies are not powerless to issue broad-reaching relief in large-scale personnel matters." The court said that Lamberth similarly lacked jurisdiction to restore Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks' grants for fiscal year 2025. "If a claim against the United States is contractual 'at its essence,' district courts have no power to resolve it," wrote the majority. That authority belongs to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The appeals court also recognized that Lamberth's order requiring the restoration of all employees and contractors is a harmful "intrusion" that implicates the Trump administration's foreign-affairs authority since USAGM is responsible for presenting the views of the government and supporting U.S. foreign policy. "By depriving the Executive Branch of control over the individuals involved in its international broadcasting, the injunction threatens its prerogative to 'speak with one voice' on behalf of the United States in foreign affairs," said the court. Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent at the Federalist, noted that this "conclusion should have wide-spread ramifications" because many of the legal challenges brought against the Trump administration "are about employment decisions which CONGRESS said are NOT for district courts to decide." The appeals court's decision landed a day after the Department of Justice notified lawyers representing VOA workers that they could return to work this week. In a letter obtained by The Hill sent to VOA staffers' lawyers, the DOJ wrote, "USAGM currently expects staff to begin to return to the office next week, as security, building space, and equipment issues require a phased return." Like Blaze News? 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After decades of treating Christianity as a punch line, Democrats suddenly became staunch defenders of traditionalism over the weekend — all thanks to President Donald Trump. Late Friday, the White House's official X account reposted an AI-generated image of Trump wearing papal vestments. The image was posted after Trump joked that he would "like to be pope," a comment made one week before the Catholic Church's cardinals convene the conclave to select Pope Francis' successor. — (@) The AI image went not just viral but mega viral. By Monday morning, it had been viewed more than 100 million times on X alone. Reaction to the image fell into four general buckets: Catholics expressed outrage and offense at the image, suggesting that Trump or the White House was mocking their tradition, which could not come at a worse time as the church mourns Francis' death and prepares to select a new pope. Catholics and non-Catholic Christians thought the image was a joke and funny, not something to be upset about.Critics of President Trump expressed outrage — as they do over anything Trump does. Democrats, whose public policy subverts much of Christianity's values, pearl-clutched. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is a prime example of No. 4."This is deeply offensive to me and to my fellow Catholics around the world as we continue to mourn our beloved Pope Francis," Hochul responded.That response, too, went viral, not because Hochul is perceived to be a coherent defender of Christianity and the Catholic faith but precisely the opposite: While she now wants to posture online to win brownie points with her progressive base, she has repeatedly mocked many of Christianity's most important values.Hochul, for example, supports radical abortion measures and has taken steps to reduce abortion regulations — even just weeks ago. Hochul has tried to force Catholics to violate their conscience, condemning them as "right-wing extremists," Hochul opposes traditional marriage, supports trans-ing children, and weaponized Jesus to force people to get the COVID-19 shot.But suddenly a meme is a moral crisis?The truth is: Democrats treat Christianity — traditional, conservative, orthodox Christianity — as something to be mocked, condemned, and sidelined. That's why Hochul's sudden outrage doesn't land; it's not reverence but opportunism. If a member of the LGBTQ community posted a picture of a drag queen in papal vestments, would Hochul be similarly outraged? She'd probably call it brave.This is yet another example of a Democrat using Christianity to score political points. If Hochul truly respected Christianity and the Catholic tradition, her policies and values would reflect it.In the end, it's clear Trump wasn't mocking the church. But he did manage to expose just how performative (and hypocritical) the left's outrage is — and for that, we can be thankful.

Even though Democrats lost the last election thanks to their progressive policies that alienated a huge portion of the country, that doesn’t mean they’re rethinking their radicalism. A perfect example is the state of Washington, which just made a series of terrifying moves that caused Glenn Beck to say, “If you're living in Washington state, may I just say get the hell out now!” For example, under current Washington law, the governor has the power to declare a state of emergency without initial legislative approval. During such emergencies, the governor has broad authority to limit or prohibit various activities and may suspend enforcement of certain rules and legal obligations affecting both public and private sectors. Senate Bill 5434 was introduced in response to concerns about former Democratic Governor Jay Inslee’s extensive use of emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. SB 5434 sought to impose limits on those powers, but the bill ultimately failed to pass. “Remember, this is the state that was talking about building little internment camps for people who wouldn't get vaccinated last time,” says Glenn. “If you think that they won't do that, you're out of your mind.” Another scary move the state has made is the passing of House Bill 2077, also called the “Tesla tax,” that adds a 2% tax on zero-emission vehicle credits sold by automakers and a 10% tax on credits saved for later. Tesla, the main seller of these credits, is most impacted by the tax because it exceeds the 25,000-credit threshold. The bill is aimed at addressing the state’s mounting budget deficit. Glenn slams this new tax on Tesla’s EV credits as a symptom of the state’s overspending. “All of these states that have been spending money like crazy — California, Washington state — I'm not bailing you out,” says Glenn. “I will march to secede if this government is going to bail out the states that have been spending money out of control while our states have been responsible.” “The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and because you are committing suicide doesn't mean my state has to commit suicide,” he adds. Glenn’s last example of why the state of Washington is a sinking ship is House Bill 1131, which gives illegal aliens with convictions priority for pardons over citizens. “HB 1131 allows convicted noncitizens facing deportation to skip the front of the clemency line ahead of U.S. citizens,” co-host Stu Burguiere reads from the bill. “Sell your house, and get out of that state!” Glenn pleads. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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