Like many other progressives, Bill Gates supports digital identification as a means of cracking down on internet “misinformation.” Peter Gietl, the managing editor for Blaze News' Return and Frontier Magazine, joins Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel to go over what digital IDs would look like for the everyday American. “We don’t have to imagine” anything, says Gietl. “We see it every single day right now in China. They have a version of digital ID in order to do anything online, and I mean everything — all banking, commerce, job is all tied to a single online ID that the government gives you, and if they decide that you're saying the wrong things or they want to turn off that digital ID, you have no recourse,” he explains. “Isn't it already the case that we sort of have digital IDs here?” asks Blaze Media’s editor in chief Matthew Peterson. “It's not official ... but we all can be traced, tracked, and presumably punished if some powerful entity wanted to.” - YouTube youtu.be “Yes, that absolutely exists,” says Gietl. “The credit card companies ... have been building this digital ID structure kind of in the background.” However, what Gates wants is a singular ID that would streamline that process and make it possible for the government to wield ultimate authority over American citizens’ online activity. Jill mentions that the first real attempt to push digital identity came about during COVID. Thankfully, it didn’t pass. Gietl reminds the panel that Bill Gates was one of the people who heavily pushed for digital IDs during the pandemic. Further, Gates is also behind testing digital ideas in Africa. “They're rolling this out in Africa as a digital ID pass, and unfortunately, a lot of the really scary stuff they kind of test in Africa because they know that the media doesn't really report on these things. And it's a great way to see how it operates in a society,” says Gietl, noting that “Gates was behind that with MasterCard.” If such extreme control measures are rolled out in the United States, Peterson wonders how people will react. “Will people just accept this?” he asks. To hear Gietl’s response, watch the clip above. Want more from 'Blaze News Tonight'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A young black man died in a rural area of Vance County, North Carolina, but the media has apparently used details of his death to advance a racial narrative.Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Vance County deputies were notified about a body located near Vanco Mill Road just outside Henderson, North Carolina, a city of 15,000 residents about 45 miles north of Raleigh.'The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope.'Though the deceased man had no ID on him, investigators later learned that his name was Javion Magee, a 21-year-old truck driver from the Chicago area. He was found sitting with his back against a "medium-sized" tree and a rope around his neck. The other end of the rope was affixed to the tree.The detail about the rope sparked many sensational headlines. "Black man found dead with rope around his neck, NC sheriff says," read the headline from WCNC. "Black man found dead against tree with rope around his neck in NC: 'Not a lynching,' sheriff says," said another from ABC11. The News & Observer went even further and referenced lynching in its headline, even as the outlet noted Magee's death may in fact be a suicide: "As suspicions swell that Black man was lynched in NC, warrant outlines evidence of suicide."Unfortunately, the evidence released so far does suggest Magee may have taken his own life. Sheriff Curtis Brame told ABC11 that Magee had driven a truckload to a Walmart distribution center hours before his death and then apparently gone to a Walmart store to purchase several items, including the rope later found draped around his neck."There's been information put out there that there's a lynching in Vance County," Brame said. "There is not a lynching in Vance County. The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County."Brame, who is black, further insisted that Magee's body did not appear to be "disfigured in any form or fashion" when it was found. He told ABC11 that other evidence, such as surveillance footage from Walmart, had not yet been released as the investigation into Magee's death continues.While Brame stopped short of stating that Magee's death was a suicide, he said that foul play was not suspected.A preliminary autopsy report released on Friday was similarly inconclusive about suicide. However, the medical examiner did not find any obvious signs of defensive wounds or other scarring, only signs of hemorrhaging around the soft area of Magee's neck, Brame told ABC11.A toxicology report remains pending. Blaze News left a message for Sheriff Brame seeking more information, but that message was not returned.Candice Matthews, described by the TRiiBE as "a civil rights activist and state chair for the Texas Democratic Black Caucus" who claims to represent Magee's family, called on federal law enforcement to investigate the incident as a "hate crime.""We demand the Department of Justice to come in and investigate this. We demand the FBI to come in and investigate this as a hate crime," she said."In my opinion, it's a hate crime because this young man had no indication of suicidal ideation," she said, according to WCNC.Matthews also claimed that even though no official cause of death has been determined, the Vance County Sheriff's Office told Magee's mother and stepfather that he died by suicide."A lot of this stuff does not pass the smell test, and that's a problem," Matthews continued. "The entire family is completely mortified and they are hurt, they are. They have a lot of questions, and they just want to know what happened to their loved one."Other locals likewise suspect racism may have played a role in Magee's death. "I mean, honestly, I think we have to acknowledge that, No. 1, we do live in the South, and there's a deep history of racism and racist acts. And so people are obviously concerned about that," Khalil Gay of Henderson told ABC11.An X user account named britteney Black rose kapri, who apparently wrote a book entitled "Black Queer Hoe," similarly indicated that Magee had been "lynched." "A Black man was lynched in North Carolina this week. A Black man was lynched in North Carolina this week," kapri wrote on Wednesday.As of Monday afternoon, kapri's post has over 99,000 likes and 3.7 million impressions.Brame expressed his condolences to the family but insisted that everyone needs to exercise patience and wait for the facts to come out. "Stay out of the rumor mills," he advised.KLLM Transport Services, the company which employed Magee at the time of his death, issued a statement about Magee's passing. "We’d like to express our deepest condolences to the family. Javion was a good employee, and we’re all saddened by the loss. We’re cooperating with authorities in this investigation," said Booth Veazey, director of safety at KLLM Transport Services.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A fed-up Florida sheriff recently warned parents that his department will start to "perp-walk" children and release their mug shots over bogus school shooting threats. Days later, the department followed through on its warning.During a press conference last week, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood told the community that his department has been inundated with hoax school shooting threats, noting that his office has already spent $21,000 investigating the reports.'We're going to publicly shame them and their parents.'He started the presser by stating, "This is absolutely out of control, and it ends now." Chitwood noted that over a one-day period, at least 54 tips were reported to Fortify Florida, an application that allows residents to report suspicious activity. According to Chitwood, many of the reported tips are phony."That means investigators in the school district have been running around the clock to investigate these tips, which are all turning out to be false," he explained.So far in 2024, the department has arrested seven people "for written threats to kill," Chitwood said, noting that one student was arrested for attempting to bring a loaded firearm to a school game. He also stated that 11 weapons had been brought onto school property."Since parents, you don't want to raise your kids, I'm going to start raising them," Chitwood declared.He explained that moving forward, when a child is arrested for making school threats, the department will release their mug shot and conduct a "perp-walk.""Every time we make an arrest, your kid's photo is gonna be put out there. And, if I could do it, I'm going to perp-walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid's up to," Chitwood said. "If I can any way find out that a parent knew what was going on and wasn't doing anything, your ass is getting perp-walked with them."Chitwood stated that the department would put up a poster with photographs of every child who has been arrested and which school they attend. "From there on out, we're going to publicly shame them and their parents," he remarked. "So, parents, do your job. Don't let Sheriff Chitwood raise your kids."He called the situation "absolutely ridiculous." "Go talk to the families who have lost a loved one in a school shooting. These little knuckleheads think it's funny. Go talk to those parents and see how funny this is," Chitwood said. "It's not. We're going to come and get you. We're going to put you out for public embarrassment. And I know a set of parents right now that they're looking at $11,000 each because somebody's paying this bill."Days later, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office delivered on its promise, releasing a mug shot and a video of deputies perp-walking an 11-year-old boy into custody for allegedly threatening a school shooting. According to the department, the boy "had a written list of names and targets." He told law enforcement that "it was all a joke."Chitwood posted on X, "As promised. We just arrested a Creekside Middle School student who made threats to commit a school shooting at Creekside or Silver Sands Middle School."The post included a video and a photograph of items confiscated from the boy's house, which included "airsoft guns, fake ammunition, knives, swords and other weapons he was showing off to other students on video."The child has been charged with a felony. "I can and will release the names and photos of juveniles who are committing these felonies, threatening our students, disrupting our schools and consuming law enforcement resources," Chitwood remarked.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Indiana Fever assigned Caitlin Clark a group of babysitters: her teammates. They’re tasked with preventing the petulant and entitled WNBA star from bickering with referees.It isn’t working. Ponytail Pete Maravich, the biggest star in American sports, is transforming into Cryin’ Caitlin Clark, an unlikable, flopping whiner who plays with a victim mentality. Sunday afternoon, in front of another sold-out crowd in Indianapolis, Clark scored a season-high 35 points and moved past Seimone Augustus for the most points scored in a season for WNBA rookies. The Fever won the game 110-109, securing their 20th victory of the season and locking up the sixth seed in the playoffs. Perhaps more importantly, Clark finished the game without picking up her seventh technical foul, which would have resulted in a suspension for the regular-season finale against the Washington Mystics on Thursday. But Clark’s babysitters failed. Her star power stopped the refs from teeing her up Sunday. Clark spent the entire game flailing her arms, flopping to the ground at the slightest contact, and fussing at game officials. She put the referees in an impossible position.Caitlin Clark is Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd: Only the behavior of their 'oppressors' is relevant. “I didn’t think they were gonna give me a technical at any point tonight,” Clark told reporters following the game. “I would’ve been really sad for people in Washington, D.C. I didn’t want to do that. I tried my best.“My teammates do a really good job. They think it’s funny. And then Aliyah [Boston] is the one that ends up with a technical. That’s the best part about it all. She’s the one babysitting me, and then somehow she ends up with the technical. And she didn’t really do anything. She was just standing there. So that’s what’s really funny.”I get the humor among teammates. I do.But I find it impossible to laugh.I’ve watched every Caitlin Clark game this WNBA season. I bought the WNBA League Pass. I recently purchased two Caitlin Clark jerseys. For the last 18 months or so, Clark has been my favorite athlete.But she’s worn me out. The whining, the complaining, the flopping, the victimhood, the tongue-wagging, the hyper-focus on engaging with fans and arguing with the referees. I can’t take it. She plays an exciting, stat-stuffing, low-IQ brand of basketball. If Taylor Swift and LeBron James had a baby, he or she would play basketball like Caitlin Clark. Clark is who basketball fans pretended Mike Krzyzewski‘s white Duke basketball players were. You could see signs of it when Clark was in college. Her worst moment was when the Iowa Hawkeyes lost to Ohio State, and Buckeyes fans stormed the court, and Clark ran into a student and flopped to the ground as if she’d been shot. Clark initiated the contact and feigned injury. Six months ago, during March Madness, cameras caught Clark’s dad yelling at her from the stands to shut up and quit arguing with the refs. I assumed over time that Clark’s on-court behavior would improve. I thought she’d become less bratty. Instead, things have gotten much worse. She whines and complains every game about everything. It’s one of the main reasons she shattered the WNBA record for turnovers. She has 220. No player before this season had ever recorded more than 137. In a 40-minute WNBA game, Clark has a chance to equal James Harden’s NBA record of averaging 5.7 turnovers per game. NBA games last 48 minutes. Clark is averaging 5.6 turnovers. She’s sloppy with the basketball because she wastes too much energy and focus on monitoring the referees. She’s trying to control things she cannot control.Clark’s worshippers blame her teammates for her high turnover rate. It isn’t true. There are occasional examples of Clark’s teammates mishandling good passes. But the truth is Clark frequently gets her dribble picked and throws into double coverage like Jameis Winston. She also picks up offensive fouls for pushing off with her left hand. Her lack of emotional control, high turnovers, victim attitude, poor shot selection, and lazy defense are why I expect the Fever to exit the playoffs in the first round. Clark seems to have no idea that her self-inflicted shortcomings are problematic. Her misguided worshippers shield her from criticism. Every shortcoming is someone else’s fault. Her worshippers mirror their leader. Clark blames the refs for everything. Her worshippers blame racism. In their minds, Clark has the right to be spoiled and entitled because the black girls in the WNBA have been mean and unfair to their hero. It’s the same mindset of the Black Lives Matter crowd. “Black people are victims, so you should overlook them acting spoiled and entitled. Don’t you know they’ve been mistreated?”Caitlin Clark is Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd: Only the behavior of their “oppressors” is relevant. Clark’s worshippers, particularly some of the white ones, are blinded to her obvious faults because they’re so enthralled and entertained by watching her outperform a league dominated by angry black leftists. No different from black leftists, many of Clark’s supporters are trapped in racial idolatry. They’ve abandoned their alleged core values to participate in the race war. Clark’s on-court behavior, especially the constant victimhood and hot-dogging, violate my values the same way LeBron James does. I don’t like James. I’ve grown to dislike Clark. She is an amazing talent. With the right adjustments, she could lead the Fever to the WNBA Finals this year. I hope she corrects her course before the start of the playoffs. I’m not optimistic. Fame is the most debilitating drug known to man. It locks you in the loudest echo chamber and prevents you from hearing voices of dissent. People think I hate Caitlin Clark. I don’t. I hate what she has become.

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