Actor James Van Der Beek announced that he’s selling off memorabilia from some of his best-known entertainment projects to help pay for his medical bills. The 48-year-old father of six was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer last year. Van Der Beek said in a statement to People that he’s teaming up with Propstore to offer pieces from his collection during the company’s Winter Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction running December 5-7. Items up for grabs include props from the popular teen drama “Dawson’s Creek,” such as the necklace Dawson (Van Der Beek) gave Joey (Katie Holmes) for prom, which the outlet noted is estimated to go for as much as $52,800. The outfit Van Der Beek wore in the pilot episode is expected to nab close to $4,000. There will also be items from the popular teen sports drama “Varsity Blues” (1999), such as the cleats and West Canaan Coyotes hat that Van Der Beek wore while portraying Jonathan “Mox” Moxon. “I’ve been storing these treasures for years, waiting for the right time to do something with them, and with all of the recent unexpected twists and turns life has presented recently, it’s clear that the time is now,” Van Der Beek told People. He added, “While I have some nostalgia tugging at me as I part with these items, it feels good to be able to offer them through Propstore’s auction to share with those who have supported my work over the years.” The outlet noted that 100% of the proceeds would go toward helping fund the actor’s cancer treatments. In September, Van Der Beek was forced to drop out of a “Dawson’s Creek” reunion event at the last minute due to a stomach illness.  “I have been looking forward to this night for months and months ever since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together,” the “Dawson’s Creek” alum said in the recorded message at the time, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “I can’t believe I’m not there. I can’t believe I don’t get to see my castmates, my beautiful cast, in person.” “And just I want to stand on that stage and thank every single person in the theater for being here tonight,” Van Der Beek continued. “From the cast to the crew to everybody who’s doing anything and has been so generous, and especially every single last one of you – you are the best fans in the world.”

Bill O’Reilly claimed on Wednesday that there was one major piece missing from the virtual tidal wave of media coverage attempting to tie President Donald Trump to the late disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. O’Reilly raised the question during a recent NewsNation appearance, asking why no one was listening to the testimony provided under oath by late victim Virginia Giuffre and convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell — both of whom claimed that Trump was not a key player in Epstein’s activities. But he also wondered why no one was even talking to Epstein’s former attorney, Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz. WATCH: ?NEW: @BillOReilly *HAMMERS* media over Epstein email coverage? “You have Virginia Giuffre sitting under oath: ‘Trump didn’t do anything.’ And you have Maxwell.” “But here’s the most important person you have, not under oath: Dershowitz. Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer and… pic.twitter.com/tIon0gw0zH — Jason Cohen ?? (@JasonJournoDC) November 13, 2025 “You have Virginia Giuffre sitting under oath: ‘Trump didn’t do anything.’ And you have Maxwell,” O’Reilly explained. “But here’s the most important person you have, not under oath: Dershowitz. Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer and lawyer-client confidentiality ends with death,” O’Reilly pointed out. “Dershowitz went on television today, said, ‘I have all of the Epstein stuff and there isn’t anything. And I asked Epstein directly while I was representing him whether Donald Trump was involved in any kind of untoward activity.’ And Epstein said no.” “So now you have the three principal players in this case all saying the same thing. Yet the press is so irresponsible, so corrupt, so hateful, they will not even mention that. It’s death by innuendo — that is what they are aiming for,” O’Reilly concluded. Most recently, media outlets have been having a field day with the release of documents that claimed Trump knew about Epstein’s girls. As The Daily Wire previously reported, Epstein made the claims in a 2019 email to anti-Trump journalist Michael Wolff — just over six months before the convicted pedophile was found dead in a New York City jail cell. His death was ruled a suicide. “[T]rump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” the email to Wolff states. “[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine [sic] to stop.” Epstein’s email appears to be addressing Trump’s move to force him out of his club at Mar-a-Lago. Trump, who was a friend of Epstein’s in the 1990s and early 2000s, reportedly kicked Epstein out of his club in 2007, just months before the wealthy financier pled guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting a prostitute under 18 years old.

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was encouraged by anti-Trump author Michael Wolff to sink then-Republican nominee Donald Trump’s presidential campaign less than two weeks before the 2016 election, according to emails made public on Wednesday. Emails included in a 20,000-page document dump by Congress show that Wolff acted more like an adviser than a journalist during many of his discussions with Epstein, with their email conversations often focusing on Trump. In one email sent in October 2016 under the subject line “Now could be the time,” Wolff told Epstein that he had an “opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him.” Wolff sent Epstein the message shortly after Trump’s vulgar “Access Hollywood” tapes were revealed, embroiling his campaign in scandal. In October 2016, so-called journalist Michael Wolff was conspiring with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to “finish” Trump. A few months later, Wolff was granted several months of all-access privileges in the Trump White House. Make it make sense. pic.twitter.com/5CYtXAtvZo — Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) November 12, 2025 In January 2016, Wolff emailed Epstein, telling him that he could be “Trump’s bullet,” The New York Post reported. That email was sent in response to Epstein telling Wolff that more reporters had begun approaching him as Trump’s campaign gained traction. Later that month, Wolff wrote to Epstein, “NYT called me about you and Trump. Also, Hillary campaign digging deeply. Again, you should consider preempting.” Trump and Epstein were friends in the 1990s and early 2000s, but the president has not been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein’s sex crimes. In one email released on Wednesday, Epstein told Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls” and that Trump asked Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, “to stop.” That email was included in a small dump from House Democrats on Wednesday morning, which the White House said was “selectively leaked” and designed “to create a fake narrative to smear” Trump. House Republicans later released 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate. In yet another email between the two men in December 2015, Wolff and Epstein appeared to be strategizing on political tactics surrounding Trump. “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards,” Wolff wrote to Epstein on December 15, 2015, the same day that CNN hosted a Republican presidential primary debate. “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Epstein replied. “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency,” Wolff wrote of what he thought Trump’s strategy should be. “You can hang him in a way that generates positive benefits for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.” After Trump won the 2016 election over Democrat Hillary Clinton, Wolff boasted in an email to Epstein that he was “doing this Trump book for a pile of money and with so far quite a bit of co-operation from them.” Wolff added, “[Trump] called me the other day and spent 45 minutes on the phone ranting and raving about the media–alarming.” Wolff then asked Epstein to connect him to people who could help him with an “off-the-record perspective on White House procedures,” according to the Post. Wolff gained access to Trump’s White House during the president’s first term, and his book, “Fire and Fury,” sold millions of copies in 2018 by offering an inside view of the first Trump administration. The book also bashed the president as “an absentee father” and “notorious womanizer,” and Trump called Wolff’s work “trash” and “full of lies.” Critics have pointed out numerous holes in Wolff’s reporting throughout the years, including in “Fire and Fury.” Wolff was also blasted recently for his reporting on Epstein and Trump when he wrote a piece for The Daily Beast linking first lady Melania Trump to Epstein, alleging that she was “very involved” in the scandal. The Daily Beast removed Wolff’s article from its site, writing in an editor’s note, “Upon reflection, we have determined that the article did not meet our standards and has therefore been removed from our platforms.” Wolff has written columns for various media outlets, including USA Today, Vanity Fair, and The Hollywood Reporter.

It was another totally normal Sunday in Portland — if your idea of normal involves spandex-clad lefty activists grapevining in front of a federal detention center. Roughly two dozen self-described freedom fighters gathered outside the ICE facility in the city’s South Waterfront earlier this week for what they called “Sweatin’ Out the Fascists.” Their chosen form of resistance? Aerobics. Yes, the neon-leotard, Jane-Fonda-in-1983 kind. The group, organized by a local gym called Fulcrum Fitness, claimed they were standing up for democracy and due process. Apparently, nothing says “down with authoritarianism” like synchronized lunges to Depeche Mode. Participants sported animal-print tights, leg warmers, and righteous indignation, all while doing their best to out-woo each other in time to new-wave beats from the 1980s. One instructor yelled, “It’s time to sweat out the fascists!” into a microphone — a sentence that surely made future historians put down their pens in despair. In a city where past protests have involved tear gas and federal agents, this one had a different energy: part political statement, part flash-mob nostalgia trip, part very public cardio session. The organizers framed it as a “playful, creative” approach to dissent, as some demonstrators have been using absurd visuals to mock the Trump administration’s assessment that a Portland ICE facility was “under siege from attack by Antifa” as exaggerated. Others might call it performance art for people who still own a VHS copy of Flashdance. Halfway through the spectacle, ICE officers appeared on the roof with pepper-ball guns at the ready — a surreal juxtaposition of federal muscle and fluorescent spandex. Nearby campers got a few rounds of pepper balls for their trouble, while the aerobics crowd kept “vibing,” to use one participant’s word, apparently believing fascism could be burned off like extra calories. Anti-ICE protesters do the “anti-ICE dance” in Portland. pic.twitter.com/85pqLQyTEM — Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) November 13, 2025   The protest’s vibe of cheery absurdity fits into a local trend: previous anti-ICE events at the same facility have featured inflatable frogs, Latin dance classes, and crochet circles. It’s less Les Misérables and more Portlandia: The Resistance Edition. One participant declared the goal was to show Portland isn’t “a war-torn city on fire” but a “fun-loving city” — because nothing says civic stability like mock-jogging in front of federal law enforcement. Another insisted that synchronized movement and community spirit were ways to “defy the fascist government.” In the end, the protesters declared victory, having successfully demonstrated that revolution can, in fact, come in Day-Glo spandex and high-impact step routines. Whether ICE felt the burn remains unclear, but one thing’s certain: Portland has officially turned resistance into a workout plan.

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo warned on Wednesday that some of the intra-party dynamics he’d seen among Democrats — both during and immediately following the government shutdown — had led him to believe he was witnessing the end of the Democratic Party. Cuomo delivered the assessment — along with some of the evidence he’d weighed to get there — in a short monologue, saying that he believed the far Left was quickly taking over the reins of power and the moderates would soon be forced out entirely. WATCH: ?NEW: Chris Cuomo: “I think the Democratic Party, as we know it, is about to end.”@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/GmnuVnrAwk — Jason Cohen ?? (@JasonJournoDC) November 13, 2025 “I’m not impressed by the history of this being the longest government shutdown, it’s a regrettable history,” he began. “I think this is a historic moment for another reason: I think the Democratic Party, as we know it, is about to end. I think that this is the birth of the new Left.” Cuomo went on to point out the comments that came from House members on the far Left as it became clear that enough Senate Democrats would vote with Republicans to end the shutdown, and suggested that when they were willing to call out members of their own party as “traitors,” the eventual split was inevitable. “I think the reason that you see so many high-profile Democrats, especially in the House, accusing the Democratic senators for ending the shutdown of basically being traitors,” he continued. “Did you hear AOC? She was literally accusing them of a conspiracy, and she said, ‘in exchange for nothing.’ It’s really interesting to me. It makes so little sense on the merits that I have to believe it’s a ploy.” Cuomo pointed out that it would essentially be a losing argument to claim they should have kept the shutdown going despite the increasing number of Americans suffering from its impact. “That’s not an easy thing to want more of,” he added. “So was there some deal on the table that we don’t know about?” If not, he argued, “What this really is, is a line in the sand for them. That we’re not with them anymore.” Cuomo went on to argue that “capitulation” from the party in the majority — in this case, the Republicans — “has never happened” when it was the minority party keeping the government shut down and making demands. “I get why you would want to believe that something could happen,” he added, tying in the Democratic socialists as he explained that the only logical conclusion was a fairly simple one: “They want to divide the party. They want maybe to blow up the party, get new leaders, and a new direction.”

When a government agency charged with supporting its bravest instead offers them a final exit, you have to ask: has compassion crossed a dangerous line? System Built to Protect Now Under Scrutiny for Harm Veterans Affairs Canada, the agency responsible for caring for those who served, has found itself at the center of a storm few anticipated. Kelsi Sheren, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, delivered testimony before the House of Commons veterans affairs committee that shook the national conscience: she knows of more than 20 service members offered medical assistance in dying by VAC employees. For a nation that once heralded the legalization of euthanasia as a humane advance, these revelations have exposed cracks in the system, especially for those seeking help for injuries and trauma sustained in service. Christine Gauthier’s case, where a retired corporal was offered euthanasia instead of a stairlift, ignited the first wave of public outrage. Her story was not isolated. David Baltzer, seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder, reported being given the same option. These incidents, once thought to be aberrations, now appear as symptoms of a larger pattern. The offers, sometimes made unprompted, have led to wide-ranging investigations and apologies from VAC, but veterans and advocates remain unconvinced that the problem is isolated or resolved. Imagine serving your country in uniform, going to Veterans Affairs for help, and being told that you should die instead. This isn't some fictional dystopia. This has happened in over 20 cases here in Canada since euthanasia/MAID was legalized, and more veterans are afraid to… pic.twitter.com/8W80j2iy9V — Garnett Genuis (@GarnettGenuis) November 3, 2025 Legal Evolution: From Safeguards to Systemic Loopholes Canada legalized euthanasia for terminally ill adults in 2016, with the promise of strict safeguards. Legislators insisted eligibility would be limited to those whose deaths were “reasonably foreseeable.” In 2021, amendments broadened eligibility, and the law is scheduled to expand again to include mental disorders in 2023. This evolution opened doors for what some experts now see as normalization: assisted death offered as a solution not just for physical suffering, but for psychological pain—particularly affecting vulnerable populations like military veterans. Veterans Affairs Canada has publicly declared that MAID is not a service they provide, and employees are not mandated to recommend it. Yet, the apologies issued and internal investigations underway suggest a disconnect between policy and practice. Parliamentary scrutiny has intensified, but VAC has yet to disclose the full scope of the issue. The lack of transparency leaves veterans questioning whether seeking help will again bring them face-to-face with the option of a state-sanctioned exit. Ethics at the Crossroads: Compassion or Convenience? Legal and medical experts warn that once euthanasia is normalized, its scope tends only to expand. Critics argue that government agencies may be crossing a line, steering those in need toward death rather than life-affirming support. Trudo Lemmens, University of Toronto law professor, cautions that the “normalization and expansion” of euthanasia breaks down societal safeguards. Veterans’ advocates decry the offers as not only unethical but potentially dangerous, risking psychological harm and eroding trust between veterans and those charged with their care. The controversy has triggered a chilling effect. Some veterans now hesitate to seek help, fearing they will be guided toward euthanasia rather than treatment. The debate has entered the mainstream, with calls for stricter oversight and reforms to MAID policy. Parliament continues its investigation, but the damage to trust and mental health may linger far longer than any legislative fix. Oh, sorry, I was talking about the 60,000 Canadians that have euthanized since 2016 under Canada’s medical assistance in dying program. The ostrich slaughter is a totally separate representation of the totalitarian state that Canada has become. https://t.co/HSUhovoLsQ pic.twitter.com/fWIyGhClBS — Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) November 11, 2025 Impact Ripples: Trust, Reform, and the Global Lens In the short term, VAC’s reputation has been shaken, with affected veterans and their families left questioning the agency’s commitment to their welfare. The psychological toll is real, as those once considered heroes face the specter of being offered death over support. As public and political scrutiny grows, Canada’s euthanasia regime faces international examination. Other nations weighing similar legislation are now looking to Canada as a case study in unintended consequences, and healthcare providers brace for increased ethical and procedural oversight. Long-term implications loom. The demand for mental health services may surge if trust is restored, but current trends suggest veterans could be driven away from seeking help. Calls for policy reform grow louder, with advocates demanding safeguards for those at risk of being inappropriately guided toward MAID. The debate has shifted from abstract ethics to urgent questions about the very nature of care, compassion, and institutional responsibility. Sources: Right to Life UK Global News Wikipedia: Euthanasia in Canada The Epoch Times Canada.ca: MAID Overview NRLC News Task & Purpose

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