'That congressman is flat-out blind'

'Really frightening'

President Donald Trump celebrated the historic peace agreement he brokered between Israel and Hamas, at the seventh Cabinet meeting of his second term on Thursday. But Vice President JD Vance said that even as the world celebrates the successful deal, America is suffering because of the Democrats’ federal government shutdown. “There are Americans that are going to suffer because Chuck Schumer refuses to do his job,” Vance said of the Senate Democratic leader from New York, “so, while we’re all celebrating this incredible success that we’ve had on the world stage, the country could be doing so much better if Chuck Schumer did his job and opened the government.” On Israel-Hamas Deal The president touted the Israel-Hamas deal, which he initially announced Wednesday night. Trump said he expects hostages still held by Hamas to be released Monday or Tuesday. He said he was “going to try to make a trip” to Egypt to attend an official peace-deal signing. He believes wealthy Arab countries will be “stepping up” to fund the rebuilding of Gaza after the war. “What [those countries] make will do wonders for Gaza,” he said. “There’s tremendous spirit like I haven’t seen.” “One day, perhaps, the entire story will be told about the events of yesterday, but suffice it to say, it’s not an exaggeration that none of it would’ve been possible without the president of the United States being involved,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said of the deal. Vance credited Trump for having “chartered a different course with a different team” to reach the ceasefire. “He vested a lot of authority in Steve Witkoff in particular, and that’s why we’re here,” Vance said of the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East. “It’s because you did something different, and I think it’s important to recognize that.” While the Middle East appears to be entering a new era of prosperity, Trump highlighted the various American programs that are suffering due to the Democrats’ refusing to vote to pass a clean budgetary continuing resolution to fund and reopen the federal government. On Shutdown Trump said congressional Democrats rejected a clean continuing resolution because they don’t want to have a good economy. He said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both D-N.Y., are holding the country “hostage.” “I think Schumer’s going to retire because he can’t beat anybody, his polls are so bad,” Trump said. The president said that if the shutdown continues, “We’re only going to cut Democrat programs” to “give them a little taste of their own medicine.” Trump slammed Schumer’s statement that Democrats are gaining ground during each day of the shutdown. He said it’s actually getting “worse for them” and that Democrats are divided. “Chuck Schumer proclaimed this morning that ‘every day gets better’ for them,” Trump said. “This is a confession that he’s acting not to serve the people, but to serve the partisan interests of his party.” Vance said he agreed that Schumer is not winning the shutdown. “It’s not good for him politically as much as he might think that it is,” he said. “It’s causing real consequences for the American people.” “A few moderate Democrats, to their credit, have voted with us to open the government,” Vance continued. “We just need five more Democrats to come to their senses and let the people’s government serve the American people. I hope that they’ll do that. The post Trump Celebrates Middle East Peace Deal While Sounding Alarm on Shutdown appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. AltStore, the independent app marketplace for iOS devices, is preparing for international expansion, a team buildout, and a major shift into the decentralized social web. Following a $6 million investment led by Pace Capital, the company is set to grow its operations and extend its presence beyond the European Union. The platform launched in the EU after the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act, which required Apple to allow third-party app stores. Since April 2024, iOS and iPadOS users in the region have been able to install marketplaces like AltStore via web browsers such as Safari. The regulatory change opened the door for AltStore’s growth, positioning it as an early player in the EU’s evolving mobile app landscape. The new capital will allow AltStore, currently based in New York, to hire additional staff and prepare for entry into other regions including Australia, Brazil, Japan, and the United Kingdom. These countries are still finalizing or awaiting the enforcement of competition laws that would enable support for third-party app stores. As it expands geographically, AltStore is also entering the fediverse by launching its own Mastodon server using the ActivityPub protocol. This move connects the platform to a decentralized network of social apps, allowing users to follow accounts that share updates about apps available through AltStore. The system works through a JSON file that pushes app update information to the fediverse. Users can follow these app accounts, see updates in their timelines, and interact with them through replies or likes. Integration with other decentralized networks is also being developed with the help of nonprofit tooling from A New Social. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post AltStore PAL Plans Expansion to Japan, Brazil, Australia by 2025, UK in 2026 appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. More information about the extent of the Discord customer support breach has come to light. Roughly 70,000 Discord users had images of their government-issued IDs exposed after attackers infiltrated a third-party customer support system used by the company. The breach, which the hackers claim affected millions more, has led to ransom demands that Discord says it will not pay. The breach shows the growing danger of mandatory online ID verification. As governments push platforms to collect government-issued IDs for age checks and compliance, sensitive data ends up stored across multiple systems, often including third-party vendors users never interact with directly. The attackers, who say they stole over 1.6 terabytes of data, allege that they accessed Discord’s Zendesk-based support platform for 58 hours starting on September 20, 2025. They claim their entry point wasn’t a software vulnerability but the compromised account of a support agent working for an outsourced vendor. From there, they say they were able to extract personal information tied to around 5.5 million unique users. Discord strongly disputes both the scope of the breach and the way it’s being portrayed. The company maintains that the incident was limited to a third-party service provider and did not impact its own systems directly. The hackers argue that Discord is withholding the true extent of the exposure. They claim to have exfiltrated 1.5 terabytes of ticket attachments and over 100 gigabytes of ticket transcripts, with roughly 8.4 million support tickets pulled from the platform. They also suggest that around 580,000 users had records that included some form of payment information. Though the hackers say they cannot confirm the exact number of government IDs stolen, they pointed to over 520,000 age-verification tickets as evidence that the total exceeds the company’s reported figure. Questions remain about Discord’s handling of identity documents, including why government IDs were retained after age verification was completed. The company has not offered further clarification beyond its original statement. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Discord Support Breach Exposes Over 70,000 Government IDs appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Trump Says Hostages Released by Tuesday, The Nobel Peace Prize Gets Announced Tomorrow

When you gaze at politics through the left tinted lenses of New York magazine, you might conjure up some mighty bizarre observations. Such was the case Tuesday in an Ed Kilgore story entitled: "Republicans See an Upset in Violent Texts From Virginia Democrat." Kilgore's conclusion in his final paragraph about the "violent texts" from Virginia Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones was to slam Republicans for "cynical manipulation." Nevermind the texts were authentic. New York magazine has determined the reaction to them is the issue: I’m sure there’s back-channel talk about Jones “doing the right thing” and relieving his colleagues of his problems, along with pushback against the cynical manipulation of the “crisis” by Republicans. The final sentence buttressed the idea of MAGA's "cynical manipulation" of this scandal: Perhaps Jones and his party can tough it all out, but MAGA folk will incessantly use his example to buttress their absurd argument that the main source of violent political talk is left of center and will perhaps even pull off an electoral shocker in a time and place in which the Boss and his agenda aren’t very popular. "Absurd argument?" Perhaps Kilgore missed the news cycles of the past few years in which Republicans in general and Trump and his supporters in particular constantly being labeled as Nazis or fascists. Butler, anyone? Utah Valley University? Heck, even Family Research Council way back yonder? Earlier in the piece, Kilgore hyped the idea of "cynical manipulation" of this scandal by the GOP: This was years ago, and Jones hasn’t displayed any offline violent tendencies, but as you can imagine, Republicans see a huge opportunity: not just to potentially defeat Jones (who was favored to win before all this controversy) but to divide and defeat the entire Democratic statewide ticket, as Axios explains... Kilgore also couldn't resist a snarky slam for the same reason at President Trump and Vice-President Vance: "Unsurprisingly, those great advocates for civility in political discourse, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, have jumped into the fray[.]" Finally, the same shot at "conservative media" writ large and much the same vein we saw at USA Today: Conservative media is all over this story, and Jones’s abject apologies for the texts have cut no ice in those circles. He’s not the real target anyway; it’s Spanberger, and as Axios put it, “pushing Jones off the ticket could fracture Democrats’ chances in a pivotal statewide race seen as a bellwether for next year.” To be clear, in Virginia statewide candidates run independently, so there’s not really a “ticket” the gubernatorial nominee can control. For another, Jones is the sole Black statewide Democratic nominee, in a state where Democrats rely heavily on robust Black turnout. Gee! What's wrong with conservative media? Didn't Jones offer "abject apologies" (without withdrawing from the race) after he was exposed? Shouldn't that be acceptable to them? Well, perhaps IF you live in the New York magazine liberal bubble.

Jackie Hill Perry is a Christian author whom BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey has admired and agreed with on many issues, but whose stance on racial justice became abundantly clear in 2020 and led to her blocking Stuckey on social media.Now, in a recent episode on her “With the Perrys” podcast, Perry explained that she doesn’t believe Charlie Kirk is a martyr — and Stuckey couldn’t disagree more.“They misunderstand. ‘Why don’t you think he’s a martyr?’ And it’s like, because I heard what he said. And so, it’s not that I don’t appreciate his stances on abortion, on sexuality, on marriage, but it’s also, I hear other things alongside that that don’t give martyr,” Perry said.“I want to get to the bigger point here, which is really important, and that is about martyrdom. Was Charlie a martyr? She says that other things that he said ‘didn’t give martyr.’ And I take issue with how that is phrased because that’s such a flippant way to be talking about the assassination of a brother in Christ,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey comments.“What does the Bible say that a martyr is?” she asks. “When we look at the etymology of martyrdom and that word, what does it actually mean? Is a martyr someone who only says things we agree with? Is a martyr someone who never says things that are offensive? Is a martyr someone that has to be perfect and totally sinless? Is that how we define martyr?”“Because it seems to me from that conversation that that is how they are defining it. Charlie Kirk said things that they don’t agree with,” she adds.However, the biblical definition of a martyr is much different from the one Perry was basing her rejection of Kirk on.“A martyr is one who bears testimony to faith, one who willingly suffers death rather than surrender his or her religious faith, especially their Christian beliefs,” Stuckey reads.“When we look into the Greek term ‘martys’ — so when we look at the etymology, the study of this word, ‘martys’ literally means witness. So a witness to the truth. And what does witness mean? It means someone who attests to a fact, to an event, from personal knowledge. So one who so testifies. Now what does testify mean? To affirm the truth of,” she continues.“What is not the definition of a martyr is someone who always agrees with us. Someone who never offends us. Someone who is sinless. Only Jesus was sinless. Someone whose words meet our definition of gentle or loving or kind. It is also not someone who never talked about politics or who voted a certain way,” Stuckey explains.“That’s not how we define martyrdom,” she adds.Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Over a week into the Democrat-induced government shutdown, President Donald Trump revealed just how far the administration is willing to go. During a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Trump said Democrats will get "a little taste of their own medicine." The government has officially entered its ninth day of the shutdown, and neither Democrats nor Republicans seem to have budged. As a result, Trump is turning up the pressure. 'They wanted to do this.'"Despite all of the damage that it's caused, the shutdown, it's been, you know, pretty damaging, I mean, not yet because it's early, but it gets a little bit worse as it goes along," Trump said. As a result, Trump said his administration will "be making cuts that will be permanent." RELATED: Pam Bondi tears into Democratic senator: 'I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump' Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images"We're only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you," Trump said. "We'll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs. ... They wanted to do this, so we'll give them a little taste of their own medicine," Trump added.Democrats have voted several times to keep the government closed since the October 1 funding deadline. The Republican-led funding bill is a clean continuing resolution with no partisan anomalies. The only change in the GOP's bill is a bipartisan increase in security funding for lawmakers following Charlie Kirk's assassination. In contrast, the Democrat-led funding bill boasts a $1.5 trillion price tag and aims to reverse most if not all legislative accomplishments achieved through Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. RELATED: Trump praises Blaze News reporting during Antifa roundtable at White House — and slaps down MSNBC, CNN Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images"Chuck Schumer proclaimed this morning that every day gets better for them," Trump said. "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.""This is a confession that he's acting, not to serve the people, but to serve the partisan interests of his party," Trump added. "And I don't think he's serving them well because ... they just lost an election in a landslide." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The NFL, Apple Music, and Roc Nation announced late last month that Benito Ocasio, the cross-dressing Puerto Rican rapper known as Bad Bunny, will headline the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, California.While Ocasio, a supporter of Kamala Harris' failed presidential campaign, recently suggested on "Saturday Night Live" that "people all around the world who love my music are also happy" about the decision, a great many Americans appear deeply displeased with the league's choice of entertainer.Ocasio has, after all, admittedly avoided touring in the U.S. because of the Trump administration's faithful enforcement of federal immigration law; cursed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents; and repeatedly dressed up in drag, in at least one case wearing fake breasts. Ocasio has also raised eyebrows with his suggestion that Americans — whose official language is English — will have to learn Spanish to understand his Super Bowl performance.'One by one, conservatives will take back every great American institution.'Fortunately, there will be an alternative for normal Americans. Turning Point USA announced on Thursday that it will be running a rival halftime show "celebrating faith, family & freedom."While the conservative organization has yet to announce performers and key event details, the name of the Super Bowl halftime alternative contains a major hint: "The All American Halftime Show." — (@) The corresponding website for the TPUSA event asks visitors to indicate which genres of music they'd prefer to see featured, including Americana, classic rock, country, pop, worship, or "anything in English."Blaze News has reached out to a TPUSA spokesman for additional insights into the event.RELATED: Bad Bunny gets the ball, football fans get the finger Photo by Ray Tamarra/GC ImagesThe news was well received by American conservatives and other patriots.BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre said in response to the announcement, "It's time.""The NFL chose Bad Bunny. Turning Point chose America. That’s how we win the culture war — by building something better," wrote Crystal Kate, senior adviser to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.The New York Young Republican Club noted, "We're beginning to see the formation of a parallel culture in America, a revitalization of the true American Spirit, free from corporate wokeism and donor/advertising pressures. One by one, conservatives will take back every great American institution."President Donald Trump suggested that Ocasio, the headliner for the official alternative to the TPUSA halftime show, is "absolutely ridiculous."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!