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After losing her medical license following a series of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines – amongst other bizarre comments – during testimony to state lawmakers, Ohio physician Sherri Tenpenny has reportedly had her license reinstated.Cast your mind back to June 2021. Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines were no longer limited to the internet – they’d made their way into state legislature hearings over bills to ban vaccine mandates.In one such hearing, anti-vaccine activist Dr Sherri Tenpenny – who had previously been dubbed one of the "Disinformation Dozen" by the Center for Countering Digital Hate – testified to the Ohio House Health Committee and proceeded to make a number of unsupported claims about some pretty wild supposed side effects."I'm sure you've seen the pictures all over the Internet of people who have had these shots and now they're magnetized," said Tenpenny during her testimony. "You can put a key on their forehead—it sticks. They can put spoons and forks all over them and they can stick because now we think there is a metal piece to that."That claim is false – vaccines cannot make you magnetic. They don’t even contain the ingredients that could generate an electromagnetic field. Apologies if you were hoping to become the next Magneto.Tenpenny also alleged that COVID vaccines created an “interface” with 5G cell towers – after all, if you’re going to make some wild claims, you might as well add a sprinkle of one of the most classic conspiracy theories in the book.In addition to her statements about the vaccines, the physician made comments about “some major metropolitan areas liquifying dead bodies and pouring them into the water supply.”Not only did the testimony go viral, but the state medical board also received 350 complaints. Tenpenny failed to cooperate with the resulting investigation and as a result, her medical license was suspended, alongside receiving a $3,000 fine.“Dr. Tenpenny, neither you nor any doctor licensed by this board is above the law, and you must comply with the investigation,” said board member Dr. Jonathan Feibel at the time, Cleveland.com reports. “You have not done so, and therefore, until you do, your license will be suspended.”However, that suspension has now been lifted, as can be seen in official records of professional licensure and as reported by Tenpenny herself, saying she was “thrilled to share” the news. A spokesperson for the medical board told the Statehouse News Bureau that Tenpenny had paid her fine and cooperated with investigations, and the board consequently voted to reinstate her license.Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 haven’t just been limited to vaccines. In the 4 years since it was declared a pandemic, all sorts of bizarre claims have been floated, from those alleging Bill Gates was to blame to suggestions that drinking cow urine could prevent infection. 

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My most recent Glenn TV special, “The Reckoning,” exposed the dark world of “gender-affirming care.” You would be shocked and horrified by what is being done to society’s most vulnerable — our children — and those with special needs, all in the name of this corrupt transgender ideology.Where did this movement come from? It seems to have exploded over the past decade. People identifying as transgender make up about 0.5% of the U.S. population, yet an army of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations is pushing the cause. Millions of dollars are spent to lobby politicians and influence legislation.If anyone has wondered how the “T” made its way into the “LGBQ” acronym, this is why.This article from the Atlantic in 2016 asked a question that no media outlet in the country today would feel even remotely safe to ask: “Is the ‘Trans Lobby’ Disproportionately Strong?” The Atlantic dared ask this question long before there was a trans woman at the HHS. Who was pushing this lobby, why was it such a big ticket item? Again, this group makes up only 0.5% of the adult population here. I recognize that there are some people who have gender dysphoria, but why does it get so much attention? Why so much lobbying, legislation, and money?LGBT Funders tracks funding for “trans issues,” and you’ll never guess who some of the biggest backers are: the Open Society Foundations and the Tides Foundation, both of which are funded by George Soros.Do you think that Soros has a soft spot for a medical condition that is represented by a small fraction of society? Or is it that this topic has exploded into one of the most divisive issues in the country?Soros isn’t alone in sending big-time dollars to fund heavily divisive issues. China is also involved. Two billionaires who are close to the Chinese Communist Party are pouring tens of millions of dollars into trans issues. They’re doing it here in the United States but curiously not back home in China.Up until about a decade ago, most of us knew next to nothing about gender dysphoria. Bathroom laws seemed dangerous, but the issue really became a dividing one when the lobby centered on one area: children.A recent New York Times story reported that the number of kids identifying as transgender has nearly doubled over the past few years. The rate in adults has stayed relatively the same, but it is exploding among kids. According to the Times:Experts said that young people increasingly have the language and social acceptance to explore their gender identities. ... But the numbers ... also raise questions about the role of peer influence or the political climate of the community. There is a whole lot of money and power insuring that this issue pushes “peer influence” on our kids. We see stories practically every day exposing another teacher pushing “gender identity” on children without parental consent.If the media had any credibility at all, it'd call this for what it is: an influence operation. If the words “influence operation” sound a bit much, take a look at this document from 2019 titled, “Only Adults? Good Practices in Legal Gender Recognition for Youth.”This document reads like an intelligence operation to remove consent from parents. Do you know who released it? The document comes from a network of activist groups under an umbrella organization called the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex, Youth and Student Organization. It has some big-name partners, like the Reuters Foundation — as in Reuters news — and Dentons, which is the world’s largest law firm by number of lawyers and reportedly the sixth largest by revenue.The document was produced to be a “powerful tool for activists and NGOs working to advance the rights of trans youth.” If you want to push an agenda and to end parental consent and rights, this is the guidebook to get it done. This is how an army of activists, NGOs, the media, and even politicians took a small medical condition and centered it on children.It goes in depth on how to successfully run an influence operation. It targeted young politicians. It instructed the opening salvos of the movement to “de-medicalize the campaign” by focusing on “gender recognition” and stay away from what would later entail medical treatments.It instructed the army of NGOs to get out ahead of government legislation by bombarding it with progressive legislation before the government had time to develop its own. It advised framing — which is closer to outright manipulation — to center the issue as a human rights concern. It warned that pushing trans issues, specifically on children, would be hard to sell to the public.But these leaders had a plan: They suggested tying these campaigns to already popular campaigns, like marriage equality. If anyone has wondered how the “T” made its way into the “LGBQ” acronym, this is why.Finally, they advised avoiding excessive media coverage when possible — to keep it on the “down low” because the public may not like it. Confusing kids was meant to be done in the shadows. It was meant to be a quick and silent rollout targeting the government and media. It was piggybacked on top of marriage equality. Now, the most vulnerable in our society are paying the price.Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.

What a time to be the parent of a high school junior or senior. (Or, in my case, both).College-application season used to be one of nervous anticipation, glossy brochures stuffed in the mailbox, and visits to leafy campuses where cute coeds lounged on lush green lawns.The easiest way to vet a school is to see how often it uses the word “diversity” or “inclusion” on its website. The more it uses these words, the lower your chance of getting in if your child falls on the paler side of the skin spectrum.Now, it’s like visiting a war zone with tear gas in the air, brick buildings covered in graffiti instead of ivy, and overweight nonbinary theybies shrieking incoherently into megaphones.What is a sane parent to do? Looks like it's University of Illinois!Getty Images/Warner Bros.When I applied to college, I had virtually zero parental involvement. I mailed away for the paper applications myself, typed them up myself (on an actual typewriter), wrote my own essays (no one helped me or proofread them for me), and mailed them off.I got into a bunch of places and ended up going to the best school I got into — yes, an Ivy League university. At the time, the school’s acceptance rate was something like 30%, and I was a legacy, and I had good grades and a high SAT score (well, very high verbal, not quite as high math).Today, my alma mater has something like a 3% acceptance rate and is a festering hive of gender orcs, Hamas kids, Jew haters, Trump haters, white haters, communists, and nonbinary furries. The beautiful Gothic stone buildings are hidden by tents and signage year-round. Instead of watching the leaves change colors, you can just watch the signage lining the main campus walk change from BLM in fall, to Hamas in winter, to Pride in springtime. Notorious white supremacist Ben Franklin surveys the formerly great, now totally ruined university he founded.Photo by MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty ImagesYou know summer’s almost here when the pink-and-blue banners are unfurled from every lamppost and flagpole! The sights and sounds on campus include the persistent drumming and chants by braindead zombie hordes screaming for “rights” they claim they don’t have — despite winning the lottery and getting a free ride to a top-ten university — and police sirens.I would never have allowed my son to apply, let alone attend, one of these hellish places. I knew he had no shot anyway. A blessing!So, should you give up on college and sign your smart kid up for plumber school?No! Do not despair! You CAN launch a child successfully without dealing with the woke madrassas or with stacks of rejections thanks to their unfortunate pale skin or irreversibly straight male gender.I spent last year learning how to apply to college in the woke era, and I am here to share what I learned. I hope this guide is helpful to you! I'm rooting for you!Getty Images/Martin MillsA lot of places have been publishing “alternative” lists of colleges. The “new Ivies” they call them. Do not be fooled! These lists include just as many DEI-poisoned hellholes filled with the Hamas junior league as the real Ivies.Forbes posted an article titled: “The New Ivies: As Employers Sour On The Super-Elite, These 20 Colleges Shine.” But only two of the schools on the list made my list. The other 18 (Northwestern, University of Virginia, UT Austin, for example), have either hosted destructive Hamas summer camps or been otherwise infected with the woke mind virus and do not appear on my list. You may disagree!My list includes schools that multiple people have recommended to me, most with firsthand experience. My list also includes some of the schools from the Cardinal Newman Society guide, a carefully vetted list of 23 “real” Catholic schools.Note: I have not yet visited most of the places on my list, so I cannot guarantee that these schools are all 100% pristine, but I’m confident that all of these will let your child avoid the worst excesses of the culture. Tell me if I’m wrong about any of them!I also included some schools that made my own college list because they are either big enough to accommodate normal kids or geographically blessed in a place that is mostly right-wing and Christian and therefore much less likely to tolerate rainbow terrorism. My current high school junior wants to major in engineering, so some schools with good engineering programs also made this list.What to look for in a schoolThe easiest way to vet a school is to see how often it uses the word “diversity” or “inclusion” on its website. The more it uses these words, the lower your chance of getting in if your child falls on the paler side of the skin spectrum.For example, our local state system, the University of California, rejected my star student this spring, as did USC. In fact, no white kid I know got into a single UC school this year! A few did get waitlisted at UC Merced, the bottom feeder of the UCs.Ten or 15 years ago, all of these kids would have waltzed into their pick of the UCs. That era is over for good. Step two is to find out if a school forces students to share a dorm room with a trans student who is the opposite gender. The UC schools force you to dorm with the opposite sex, for example, based on whatever gender a person identifies as.Can you imagine forcing your daughter to sleep in a tiny dorm room with a full-grown man? I guess liberal parents think this is totally fine. Maybe they give their daughters ear plugs so she won’t have to listen to her roommate dilating his front hole three times a day.There is another way!Without further ado, here is my list of high quality, excellent, and mostly or totally unwoke colleges:'Real' Catholic collegesFor when you absolutely, positively want grandchildren one day Getty Images/Jeff GreenbergAve Maria University (Ave Maria, Florida)I know a wonderful man who met his wife here and married young. I’ve heard great things about it, and its location can’t be beat.Benedictine College (Atchison, Kansas)An adorable Catholic college about an hour west of Kansas City, Missouri. It has football, a pretty campus, and people tell me their kids love it. To me, the only downside is the acceptance rate, which is like 99%. But maybe that’s because it's small and self-selects for people who really want to go here. Go Ravens!Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, California, plus a second campus in Massachusetts)This is the “trad” Catholic college of California. A lovely campus tucked away in the hills near Ojai, TAC (as grads call it) produces graduates who are fiercely loyal alumni and who tend to send their children and grandchildren here. I went to a wedding at the gorgeous chapel here last year, and it was as trad as it gets. Full Latin mass in all its glory. A “great books” school, so not the right fit for hard-science people, but a lot of grads go on to the law, academia, business — and parenthood. If you want your child engaged by graduation, TAC is a goldmine.Christendom College (Front Royal, Virginia)TAC’s country cousin. By all accounts, a fun and engaging place to be. Wonderful president.Franciscan University of Steubenville (Steubenville, Ohio)TAC’s upper-Midwestern cousin. My friends have sent their children here, and all report that it is a wonderful place with kids who are deeply and energetically Catholic.University of Mary (Bismarck, North Dakota — !)Colder than a steer’s tuchus in January. There are tunnels students use to get from place to place when it’s negative 40 degrees outside. Students I know who attend love this school and have no regrets. It boasts a wonderful nursing program and an enthusiastic student body. If you can brave the tundra, you can have a lovely four years here.Wyoming Catholic College (Lander, Wyoming)I know people who left California to live in Lander to be close to this school. This is a school for kids who love the great American outdoors. All students get an “outdoor” education along with book learnin' and get to enjoy all sorts of adventures in nature. Some major bonding opportunities in a gorgeous, fairly remote, setting.University of Saint Thomas (Houston, Texas)TAC on the Gulf. An excellent “great books” school for future writers, philosophers, and academics. Comes highly recommended for smart kids.University of Dallas (Dallas, Texas)My son visited this school and loved it. I’ve met over a dozen parents and alumni who rave about UD. It offers a complete college curriculum with a wide variety of majors. If you want to take part in a lively Catholic campus in a big city, UD is a great bet. Warning: It’s pricey, but it gives generous merit scholarships to good students.Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.)What Notre Dame isn’t. A big, full-service Catholic university in the heart of D.C. It features the National Shrine, which is a splendid church. Students I’ve known who went here loved it.(Not included: Notre Dame University and Boston College, since their Catholic identities have been watered down into mush.)Other amazing colleges Getty Images/Chris duMondHillsdale College (Hillsdale, Michigan)Hillsdale is on its way to becoming the elite school of “the right.” The students I know who are there or attended are smart and accomplished people. It’s officially a "nondenominational" Christian school, but I’ve heard that the number of Catholic students is skyrocketing. There are a lot of campus conversions — and engagements. It doesn’t just teach you to be a political pundit, either — it has a variety of majors, including fine arts, pre-med, and the sciences. Be warned: It doesn’t accept any federal funding, so your FAFSA money and scholarships are no good here, but that also means it can safely ignore federal rules on transgender people in girls' locker rooms. It has a very competitive 20% admissions rate that I predict will be shrinking fast. Get in while you still can!Texas A&M (College Station, Texas)This one has it all: amazing college football, hordes of cute college kids, majors in everything under the sun, and according to friends and alumni, a huge and robust Catholic community. It’s a big school in a small town and probably a great place to spend four years. For out-of-staters, it’s pricey, like all excellent state schools, but it might be worth it to avoid the smoking wreckage of other formerly great football schools like U of Michigan (super woke) and USC (which just cancelled graduation to bend the knee to the Hamas kids).Purdue University (Purdue, Indiana)On my radar because of its excellent engineering department, pretty campus, and still-pretty-normal student body. I did see some Purdue BLM protests during the wild days of the Floydpocalypse, but I’m guessing that stuff is probably easy to avoid here, especially if you’re hanging out with the science nerds. We plan to apply next year!University of Tennessee (Knoxville)My Tennessee friends and family report that this school is where a lot of locals go and love. Knoxville is more conservative than Nashville, so maybe you’re safe here. And, of course, it’s where Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds has taught for many years and has spoken highly of. Might just give it a shot! Bonus: The engineering department is called “Tickle.”University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)Roll Tide! I still don’t know what that means, but maybe if I sent a kid here they would tell me! My friend, the Fox News host Trace Gallagher, sends both his California daughters here, and he told me they absolutely love it. Football, lots of majors, and a culture that seems immune to the rainbow orcs. ‘Bama rush seems slightly intense, but the campus is big enough that I think you’d have fun without joining the Greeks.Honorable mentionThe following schools were all recommended to me on X or by friends and family, and some are now on our list for next year. I have not done a deep dive on them yet, so I will update this post when I learn more. But I am told they deliver a high-quality education without Hama**holes or trann**s in your face. A lot of these are in the South, for obvious reasons. Is the former confederacy the last best hope for American civilization? Maybe the South is the last bastion of Americanness, where wokeness will finally be sent to its grave. One can dream! Clemson UniversityGetty Images/Maddie MeyerClemson UniversityAuburn UniversityUniversity of South Carolina (the “other” USC)University of Florida, GainesvilleUniversity of Utah (the Mormons run a tight ship!)Rose Hulman (just engineering)BaylorNorth Carolina State (great engineering department)Colorado School of MinesVirginia TechGeorgia Tech (VERY hard, maybe too hard, to get into)Boise StateDid I miss your favorite school? Do you beg to differ with my choices? Please leave a reply in the comments, and let me know!Thanks for reading, and good luck next fall. We are all going to need it.

Today, it is possible to watch more than half of the movies ever made with the touch of a button. The 2002 documentary "Cinemania" takes us back to a time when being a dedicated cineaste required significantly more effort. None of the five New Yorkers profiled here are married or work (four are on disability and one is independently wealthy), which means they can spend their days in one small repertory theater after another, meticulously cross-referencing screening times and public transit routes to cram in as many films as possible. These movies aren't always easy to appreciate.This obsessive moviegoing seems like a kind of mental hoarding; indeed, each of the subjects has a cluttered home to match. Roberta, the sole female of the bunch, lives in an apartment crammed with memorabilia of dubious value, including promotional plastic cups, and was banned from one theater for accosting an employee who ripped her ticket stub. And yet they're all charmingly knowledgeable and intelligent. “A commitment to cinema means one must have a technically deviant lifestyle,” says 30-something trust-funder Jack in a particularly self-aware moment. Their company is fascinating for 80 minutes or so. Longer than that, and you might start pondering your own compulsive enthusiasms. MGMThe characters of the 1952 masterpiece "Singin' in the Rain" have an especially urgent "commitment to cinema" — it's how they put food on the table. The movie may look so ancient to us, it's easy to forget it was itself a period piece. Set in 1927, it stars Gene Kelly as a silent film star struggling to make the transition to "talkies."The midcentury studio musical is one of the pinnacles of American moviemaking. The first thing a viewer weaned on CGI spectacle will notice is the sheer physical talent on display: Vaudeville veterans like Kelly and Judy Garland did not require camera trickery or audio enhancement to wow audiences with their singing and dancing. Elaborate and beautifully executed set pieces become all the more impressive when you consider that they had to be pulled off entirely with practical effects.These movies aren't always easy to appreciate; their rigid conventions and stylized emotion can seem corny and shallow to the uninitiated. And yet, they convey depths of feeling to rival any of the "grittier" films that supplanted them by the end of the ‘60s. "Singin' in the Rain," for example, is at once a sophisticated romantic comedy, a sharp showbiz satire, and a crowd-pleasing display of song and dance. Nuanced meditation on the relationship between mass entertainment and art. It also provides a dazzling showcase for the charms of Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor, which in itself is worth the price of admission.

Reducing sentences for our already under-incarcerated criminal population is a great goal of George Soros. Yet for the past 15 years, this dystopian objective has been supported by the Kochs and other libertarian front groups that convinced Republicans — and, eventually, Donald Trump — to join the jailbreak bandwagon. Now, despite the ubiquitous recognition that we have a violent crime problem because of weak deterrent power against criminals, particularly juveniles, the Koch-funded groups continue to wield influence among Republicans to further weaken the criminal deterrent rather than strengthening it. There is a reason we enjoyed a drop in crime under tougher drug laws, and there is a reason we are seeing a resurgence in crime now. These same organizations are dead silent when it comes to the January 6 trials, which should be their Super Bowl — the one example where their “over-criminalization” and “over-incarceration” talking points are on point. Watch any Republican campaign ad, and you will see universal condemnation of the “Biden crime wave,” with the portrayal of violent, decaying blue cities. You’d think this would indicate Republicans have finally learned their lesson and come to regret joining Soros and the left to release criminals en masse in red states and pass the federal First Step Act. Yet when it comes to actual legislation, not only are Republicans failing to push for tougher sentencing, but they continue, at the behest of Koch-funded groups such as Right on Crime, to push lighter sentencing for drug traffickers, gangbangers, repeat felons, parole violators, and violent juvenile criminals. Just last month, Republican-aligned advocacy groups allied with Mark Zuckerberg-funded Fwd.us to hollow out Mississippi Senate Bill 2174, which originally proposed mandatory minimums for car theft, despite originally passing the Senate with every Republican and three-quarters of Democrats. The bill was gutted before heading to the governor for his signature. SB 2175, which would have established mandatory minimums for possession of stolen property, died in conference committee. Instead, the legislature wound up passing yet another bill expanding parole, which was championed by Right on Crime. For some reason, despite the supposed awareness of the crime wave, every legislative effort from Republicans and their think tanks seems to be aimed at coddling the criminal, not victims of crime. And no, none of these bills targets the overzealous prosecution of political opponents. Given the ubiquitous nature of juvenile crime, and carjackings in particular, it’s shocking how we still can’t get tougher sentencing even in red states. And in the GOP-controlled House, where lawmakers are constantly blaming Joe Biden for crime and drugs, the Judiciary Committee has failed to pass a single tough-on-crime bill — beefing up sentencing, limiting supervised release, or getting tough on drug traffickers and gun felons that the Justice Department refuses to prosecute. Instead, GOP members have sponsored and marked up bills that seem to focus on the well-being of criminals. Armstrong’s bill highlights why we have so many repeat violent offenders who barely serve time in prison despite robust rap sheets. Last November, the House Judiciary Committee considered a bill by Representative Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) to make it more difficult to impose longer sentences for career criminals. Armstrong aspires to be the next governor of North Dakota. Without much thought, the committee members unanimously passed H.R. 5430, which would prohibit judges from considering “acquitted conduct” when sentencing someone for later convictions. Acquitted conduct is defined either as a charge for which the defendant was found not guilty or any conduct underlying any charge that was dismissed after a motion for acquittal. Armstrong’s bill highlights why we have so many repeat violent offenders who barely serve time in prison despite robust rap sheets. We are not discussing first-time offenders here. These are people who have just been convicted of a crime. It is prudent for a judge to consider the totality of circumstances. Often, it’s clear that these criminals have committed many other crimes but got off on technicalities. You can’t convict someone for that, but if the facts are proven by a preponderance of evidence (but not beyond a reasonable doubt) that a defendant was involved in other crimes, it makes sense for the judge to lean toward the higher end of sentencing guidelines. Keep in mind, these are people in the federal system who generally have long rap sheets. Isn’t it ironic that these same organizations and politicians who hate mandatory minimums because they supposedly hamper a judge’s ability to look at the totality of circumstances to rule more leniently are suddenly offended by the discretion of a judge to sentence more strictly? None of this is about reform but about one-sided leniency to take an already shrinking prison population (down 28% over the past decade while crime increases) and diminish it as quickly as possible. None of these people are pushing legislation to rein in abusive January 6 prosecutions. By definition, a bill like H.R. 5430 is aimed at habitual degenerates who are constantly in court, not for first-time misdemeanor offenders like the January 6 defendants. H.R. 5430 passed 23-0, but some prominent anti-jailbreakers, such as Chip Roy (R-Texas), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Ben Cline (R-Va.), and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) were not present. While it’s unclear how they would have voted, it’s interesting that the bill was timed for consideration when the other side of the debate would not be aired. It’s also peculiar that Republicans unanimously decry the drug crisis, but they have declined to pass a single bill toughening sentencing on even the most hardened traffickers of the most dangerous drugs, like fentanyl. Instead, they have proposed several bills promoting even more leniency for drug peddlers. Armstrong, a criminal defense attorney by trade, has also introduced H.R. 1062, which would eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Under current law, the criminal penalty for possessing 18 grams of crack cocaine is the same as possessing one gram of powdered cocaine, meaning the bill would give possessing equal amounts of either drug the same penalties. It is now roundly condemned by mindless race-panderers in both parties.The bottom line is crack cocaine traffickers are more than twice as likely as powdered cocaine traffickers to involve weapons in their crimes. Crack cocaine traffickers are also the most likely to be rearrested — nearly 60% are rearrested within a few years of release, often for violent offenses. There is a reason we enjoyed a drop in crime under tougher drug laws (which affect many other crimes), and there is a reason we are seeing a resurgence in crime now. Armstrong and other members of the Judiciary Committee have introduced other bills perpetuating the myth that people are in federal prison for low-level drug offenses, even after we’ve already released anyone who could possibly fit that description. Yet bizarrely, Republicans have yet to introduce a bill to toughen any area of criminal law. Evidently, the crime wave has not gotten bad enough. I shudder to think what needs to happen before Republican special interests realize where “criminal justice reform” is coming from and where it is headed. It’s just a shame that January 6 defendants and all those targeted for political beliefs don’t seem to benefit from these “reforms” for “low level, first-time” offenders. No, that sentiment is reserved for Black Lives Matter rioters in the streets.

Take the Valheim style of forest exploration and home building and mix it with that atmospheric Slavic folklore of games like The Witcher 3, and you get promising new indie sandbox game Reka. The upcoming adventure sees you apprenticed to legendary witch of the woods Baba Jaga, and building your own house atop a pair of walking chicken legs. If you’ve been as eager as I have to see more, a free Steam demo has arrived to slake your thirst. Continue reading Atmospheric sandbox game shows off Valheim style building in free demo MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best sandbox games, Best fantasy games, Best indie games

More than 25 years since the release of Half-Life, and I feel like I know the Black Mesa lab better than my own hometown. The anomalous materials sector, the blast pit, that horrendous underground railway - between Gordon Freeman, G-Man, and myself we could comfortably sit down and hand draw the entire facility. It begs a question: during the resonance cascade, where would be the best place to hide out and try to survive? A huge hit on Steam, one new survival game lets you test your subsistence skills in a parody of gaming’s most famous scientific facility, and it’s just gotten even better thanks to a vital new update. Continue reading The amazing new Half-Life inspired survival game just got even better MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best co-op games, Best PC FPS games, Best classic PC games