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House Oversight Chairman James Comer pressed the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) on Monday to cooperate with congressional oversight related to any possible funding of pro-Hamas propaganda and encampments on college campuses across the U.S. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter, a follow-up to a letter Comer sent May 29 in which […]

Movies & TV Doctor Who Doctor Who Finds Itself a Family in “Empire of Death” The series gets its very own “dusting” event… By Emmet Asher-Perrin | Published on June 24, 2024 Image: Disney+ Comment 1 Share New Share Image: Disney+ Mrs. Flood out there breaking the fourth wall like it’s made of eggshells… Recap Image: Disney+ The Doctor and Mel run from Susan Triad, who is now an agent of Sutekh (Gabriel Woolfe). All of Sutekh’s minions begin spreading the dust of death, which wipes out the entire population, Mel manages to get the Doctor to Ruby in the Time Window, and her memories allow the TARDIS within the Time Window to grow stronger so that they can board it. The console room is a very hodgepodge affair of the memory of all previous TARDISes packed into a pretty tight space. Sutekh shows up and tells the Doctor that he has been following him throughout the universe, latched onto the outside TARDIS, and planting his own agents (copies of Susan) that the Doctor couldn’t see due to perception filters. They are now destroying every place the Doctor has been to, taking up the majority of the universe. The Doctor, Ruby, and Mel escape in the remembered TARDIS. The Doctor uses “intelligent rope” (similar to the glove he made) to keep the ship stable and materializes in space, mourning the loss of the universe. An unknown amount of time passes and the Doctor arrives on a world that is only half-gone, meeting a woman (Sian Clifford) who can barely remember who she is, or the family she’s lost. The Doctor asks if she has any metal and she gives him the last bit in her possession—a spoon. He thanks her and promises to use it to save the universe. Back on the TARDIS, the Doctor uses the spoon to repair a screen from the Time Window. It only responds to Ruby’s questions and sends her bit of video, including footage of her mother’s blank visage, and interview from Roger ap Gwilliam. The Doctor remembers that Gwilliam made DNA testing compulsory, so they can go to the future and find out who Ruby’s mother is; apparently this mystery has been haunting Sutekh as well. As a being who has been able to see all of Time and Space, not being able to see Ruby’s mother is driving him mad. They land in 2046 and go looking through the DNA records right as Mel finally falls prey to Sutekh’s control, and she transports them all back to UNIT HQ with the answer to Ruby’s parentage. Sutekh demands the name of Ruby’s mother, and she makes to offer it, but smashes the screen with her identity at his feet and attaches the intelligent rope to his neck. The Doctor attaches the rope to the console and they drag Sutekh through the time vortex, forcing him to undo all that he’s done. Then the Doctor tells Sutekh that he must be life’s champion if Sutekh is the bringer of death, but the God has made him a monster because he must kill him now. He releases Sutekh into the time vortex, where the god disintegrates. Back at UNIT, the group brings up the file on Ruby’s mother, Faye McKeever—just an ordinary woman who had Ruby when she was fifteen years old. It turns out that Sutekh only believed that she must be the key to defeating him because of the mystery and attention Ruby placed on her; their belief that she was important is what made her so. The reason that she was pointing in the Doctor’s direction on the old tape wasn’t to make note of him, but the street sign: She gave Ruby her name. Ruby wants to go meet her mother, and the Doctor suggests that perhaps she shouldn’t because the woman never attempting to contact her. Ruby ignores him and introduces herself at a coffee shop, prompting a tearful reunion. Faye comes home to meet her family and they get in touch with the man who was her father as well. Ruby wants the Doctor to come meet everyone, but the Doctor knows that she needs this time to herself. He promises that she’s changed him and that he will see her again, leaving in the TARDIS. Mrs. Flood is one the roof of the building, telling us that Ruby got a happy ending, but the Doctor’s story will end in terror… Image: Disney+ Commentary Look, I know it’s convenient (and less gory) to vanish everyone in a puff of dust, but it hasn’t even been a decade since the Marvel Snapture, so it’s still abjectly hilarious to use it. The mechanics of the episode are pretty downright silly, which is a usual thing for these finales. Of course we could only see the Susans now that Sutekh’s power is reaching some sort of critical point. Of course Sutekh is completely defeated by his own hubris and could have easily avoided this issue if he’d only come into his power a little earlier or a little later. That’s how the universe looks after the Doctor, and we should count ourselves lucky, really. And it still results in a wonderfully neat ending that harbors very few loose ends. The ones that we’ve got will likely be ported to next season anyhow. The Doctor has to have his moment of agony over the idea of being a murderer, and Gatwa does a beautiful job acting that moment (as always), but it is a little goofy how the character gets caught up in the idea of murder only some of the time. Technically speaking, he murdered Sutekh the last time he defeated him (or thought he did, at any rate)… the only difference is that he thought Sutekh was going to die of old age within that time tunnel, cut off from the universe. That’s still ultimately a form of murder! Just really slow murder, one where Sutekh is pointedly all alone for the rest of his life, which seems crueler? I dunno, it just seems like a thing that Doctor could stand to examine a little more carefully in the future, if they’re gonna get all angsty about it. The reveal that Ruby’s mother is just a person, that they are responsible for giving her power, is a great theme that Davies in particular loves to highlight in Doctor Who. The Doctor himself always has a love for people, but it is fun to track the balance on that scale, and how often they counter by railing against their pettiness and stupidity. (Eleven and Twelve were not Doctors blessed with much patience for humans, which is saying something when you consider how grouchy Nine could also be.) But bringing the point out here, in this story, at a point where the Doctor has been connecting with his friend over the idea of needing family, of wanting to understand where he comes from, of longing for those reunions himself, is a gorgeous place to end the season. Of course he doesn’t want to stick around for the aftermath, but he says it outright—Ruby has taught him about family in a way that no one else could. And she’s coming back at some point in the next season, according to promotional materials, so he’s not going to leave her be forever, another comfort to take from that teary ending. The clue as to who Ruby’s mother is ultimately came from Carla in the last episode, and I still think it’s a such a powerful choice: She’s the one who notices a scared young woman in tears, and she’s the one who talks to her like a person across time and tells her what she needs to hear. Carla always knew that she was probably just some scared kid and never loses sight of that, no matter how magic or otherworldly the situation gets. Absolutely beautiful. And I love that the Doctor tries to stop Ruby from connecting with her mother when they find her. It’s… such a perfect mistake for him to make. One that he thinks is fair and pragmatic and kind, but is actually selfish and a bit jealous and centered around a decision that he should absolutely not insert himself into. It’s so in keeping with what we know about the Doctor throughout his entire history: trying to stop Amy from going to find Rory in the past; attempting to hide that they’ve (finally) landed at the airport from Tegan; sulkily dropping Sarah Jane off across the country from where she needed to be. The Doctor is terrible at letting people go—and that’s without taking into account that some small part of him must fear never getting this moment for himself. Never finding out where he comes from and whether or not there are people out there who love and miss him. Ruby doesn’t let him stop her and I have such respect for it. For knowing what she needs and deserves, and taking the chance that this encounter will go poorly. For being that brave despite her very best friend telling her not to be. That might say more about her character than the entire season has, when all is said and done. There are so many great little bits in this episode. The hodgepodge console room that I want to be real at some point in the future. The intelligent rope acting as a leash? The “cultural appropriation” comment to hang a very large lantern on the racism in the original serial. The suggestion that the Doctor might be coming around to the idea of seeing Susan again one day. But my absolute favorite? Mel cuddling the Seventh Doctor’s sweater vest and clutching at the sleeve of Six’s rainbow coat. Bonnie Langford is an absolute MVP all the way around of late, but these moments in particular really zero in on one of the most heartbreaking aspects of the show in a way that nothing else can: that the Doctor is always the Doctor, but when they regenerate, that piece of them is truly gone. It is an actual death, the way the Doctor always insists it to be. Mel isn’t napping with Seven’s sweater under her chin because Fifteen won’t let her snuggle up—she’s doing it because she misses him specifically. Those Doctors were hers, and she loved them, and they’re gone now. When Fifteen is gone (and Fourteen too), if she’s around to see it, that will also hurt. Being in the position to be a friend to this strange immortal being comes with all sorts of weird grief built-in. While it’s painful for the Doctor to feel unseen when they change, there’s another kind of sadness that happens on the other end. And all they had to do to communicate that was focus on Mel’s need to touch a few pieces of clothing. Image: Disney+ Time and Space and Sundry The one major mystery left over is Mrs. Flood, of course. I’m guessing that Cherry barely remembers anything the woman said (Kate claimed she only recalled flashes of the end), which accounts for her being so happy to see her when they both reconstitute, but it would have been much funnier if she’d shoved the woman out of bed. She’s dressed very Mary Poppins there at the end, which has echoes of the Master, of course—Missy loved the Poppins look. But Flood also has godly connotations as well as nihilistic ones. Après moi, le déluge, and all that. The Doctor riding on the back of Mel’s orange scooter. That is all. So Sutekh has just been clinging to the outside of the TARDIS all this time, which means that when Jack Harkness was doing the same thing, he was probably pretty displeased to share the space. Kate kvetching about the bullets dissolving to dust is a callback to her father, the Brigadier, who always complained that bullets never work on alien threats. Which is good for UNIT, honestly. Be more creative, y’all. Okay, but the idea of Ruby’s mom pointing to the road sign to indicate her name was a bad idea, though. Come on, you could’ve given us something more interesting than that. How would the monks even know she—you know what, I’m leaving it alone. It will only upset me if I think too hard about it. Moments like this in fiction are everything to me: Ruby gives her name for the coffee. The whole conversation with her mother is prompted by the guy calling out her name to hand her the drink. Which means that while this tearful reunion is taking place, that guy is still probably standing there like… do you want me to hold on to the cappuccino? I—you know what, you’re busy. All good. I’ll just… leave it here. And that’s the season! See you over the holidays, I suspect… [end-mark] The post <i>Doctor Who</i> Finds Itself a Family in “Empire of Death” appeared first on Reactor.

Walking onstage with a Bible in hand, Sen. Josh Hawley spoke of the need to bring God back to the forefront in the life of the country in remarks to a Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering Friday. The Missouri Republican also called out members of the Biden administration at the coalition’s Road to Majority Conference in Washington. “Give me the inheritance of your fathers,” Hawley read from 1 Kings 21:3 to conference attendees. Calling it “a passage for our time,” he declared, addressing those on the Left: “The Lord forbid we give you the inheritance of our fathers.” The Left wants to change America and tear down this country, Hawley said. “They are coming for our heritage.”  From the Biden administration sending a SWAT team to a pro-life Christian’s home to the arrest of five illegal immigrants “who had kidnapped a young girl from the state of Indiana,” Hawley described the country as being “in chaos.”    Citing the recent example of the indictment of a Texas surgeon who blew the whistle on “a Texas so-called children’s hospital [that] was performing illegal gender sterilization surgeries,” Hawley asserted the Left is trying to destroy the Justice Department as it has increasingly been prosecuting Americans in an unjust manner.    “If this is allowed to stand, the United States of America will not stand,” Hawley said.  Hawley had a warning for Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, who he said have used their power against Republicans. “Reserve all of your documents, because what has happened to [former President Donald Trump] is going to happen to you,” he said. The post The Left Is ‘Coming for’ Country’s Heritage, Hawley Warns appeared first on The Daily Signal.

California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly.How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?The symptoms of the state’s suicide are indisputable.Gov. Gavin Newsom enjoyed a recent $98 billion budget surplus—gifted from multibillion-dollar federal COVID-19 subsidies, the highest income and gas taxes in the nation, and among the country’s steepest sales and property taxes.Yet in a year, the Democrat turned it into a growing $45 billion budget deficit.At a time of an overregulated, overtaxed, and sputtering economy, Newsom spent lavishly on new entitlements, illegal immigrants, and untried and inefficient green projects.Newsom was endowed with two of the wettest years in recent California history. Yet he and radical environmentalists squandered the water bounty—as snowmelts and runoff long designated for agricultural irrigation were drained from aqueducts and reservoirs to flow out to sea.Newsom transferred millions of dollars designated by a voter referendum to build dams and aqueducts for water storage and instead blew up four historic dams on the Klamath River. For decades, these now-destroyed scenic lakes provided clean, green hydroelectric power, irrigation storage, flood control, and recreation.California hosts one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients. Over a fifth of the population lives below the poverty line. Nearly half the nation’s homeless sleep on the streets of its major cities.The state’s downtowns are dirty, dangerous, and increasingly abandoned by businesses—most recently Google—that cannot rely on a defunded and shackled police.Newsom’s California has spent billions on homeless relief and subsidizing millions of new illegal migrant arrivals across the state’s porous southern border.The result was predictably even more homeless and more illegal immigrants, all front-loaded onto the state’s already overtaxed and broken health care, housing, and welfare entitlements.Newsom raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $22 an hour. The result was wage inflation rippling out to all service areas, unaffordable food for the poor, and massive shutdowns and bankruptcies of fast-food outlets. Fully 27% of Californians were born outside the United States. It is a minority-majority state. Yet California long ago dropped unifying civic education, while the bankrupt state funds exploratory commissions to consider divisive racial reparations.California’s universities are hotbeds of ethnic, religious, and racial chauvinism and infighting. State officials, however, did little as its campuses were plagued for months by rampant and violent antisemitism.Almost nightly, the nation watches mass smash-and-grab attacks on California retail stores. Carjackers and thieves own the night. They are rarely caught, even more rarely arrested—and almost never convicted.Currently, Newsom is fighting in the courts to stop the people’s constitutional right to place on the ballot initiatives that would restore penalties for violent crime and theft.Gas prices are the highest in the continental United States (given green mandate formulas and the nation’s highest, and still rising, gasoline taxes) and are scheduled to go well over $6 a gallon.Yet California’s ossified roads and highways are among the nation’s most dangerous, as vast sums of transportation funding were siphoned off to the multibillion-dollar high-speed rail boondoggle.The state imports almost all the costly vitals of modern life, mostly because it prohibits using California’s own vast petroleum, natural gas, timber, and mineral resources.As California implodes, its embarrassed government turns to the irrelevant, if not ludicrous.It now outlaws natural gas stoves in new homes. It is adding new income-based surcharges for those who dutifully pay their power bills—to help subsidize the 2.5 million Californians who simply default on their energy bill with impunity.What happened to the once-beautiful California paradise?Millions of productive but frustrated, overtaxed, and underserved middle-class residents have fled in disgust to low-crime, low-tax, and well-served red states.In turn, millions of illegal migrants have swarmed the state, given its sanctuary-city policies, refusal to enforce the law, and generous entitlements.Meanwhile, a tiny coastal elite, empowered by $9 trillion in Silicon Valley market capitalization, fiddled while their state burned.California became a medieval society of plutocratic barons, subsidized peasants, and a shrinking and fleeing middle class. It is now home to a few rich estates, subsidized apartments, and unaffordable middle-class houses.California suffers from poorly ranked public schools, but brags about its prestigious private academies. Its highways are lethal, but it hosts the most private jets in the nation.The fantasies of a protected enclave of Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and the masters of the Silicon Valley universe have become the abject nightmares of everyone else.In sum, a privileged Bay Area elite inherited a California paradise and turned it into purgatory. The post How California’s Paradise Became Our Purgatory appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On a quiet evening, a pregnant dog was discovered alone and trembling on the side of a busy street. Her fear was evident, and the distress she felt was unmistakable. Abandonment is a cruel reality for many animals, but this dog’s story took a heartwarming turn thanks to a group of dedicated rescuers. Noticing her... The post Woman discovers pregnant dog dumped on street and can’t turn her back on her appeared first on Animal Channel.

On Sunday afternoon, a anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas mob went hunting for Jews near a Los Angeles, California synagogue and Jewish neighborhood, infringing on the right of Jews to live and worship in peace. Along with allowing the terrorist sympathizers to occupy both sides of the street, the scene descended into violence, as exhibited by videos from the scene. Given this mob wasn’t the same makeup of the white, tiki-torch totting losers who descended on Charlottesville in 2017, ABC, CBS omitted any mention of this during their Sunday night and Monday morning newscasts. NBC wasn’t much better with only 13 seconds on Monday’s Today (and Sunday’s NBC Nightly News having been preempted).     NBC foreign correspondent Matt Bradley tacked it onto the end of his report on the Israel vs. Hamas war. Predictably, he engaged in both-sidesism: And, Hoda, this violence in the Middle East may, once again, be finding its way to American streets. There were violent protests and clashes between pro-Palestinian protesters and pro-Israeli protesters in front of a synagogue in Los Angeles yesterday. Ah, yes, the Jews partially brought it on themselves...or something. Notice how the liberal media behave when it comes to attacks on Jews from mobs supporting Hamas versus, say, a kook white supremacist. Add in their hate for Israel, concern for what they perceive as increased Islamophobia, and Joe Biden’s reelection prospects and there’s a potent cocktail of bias. As for what actually happened, Free Beacon contributor Noah Pollak wrote on X he “was there today for an event at the shul” and blasted the LAPD for “let[ting] the Hamas supporters take over the sidewalk in front of the shul and block its entrance”. “In fact, LAPD had formed a cordon around the front of the shul to keep Jews out and Hamas supporters in. I tried to enter with my kids through the front door and was turned away not by Hamas supporters but by the LAPD. Anyone who wanted to attend had to use a secret back entrance,” he added. The Jerusalem Post had a full write-up on the chaos (click “expand”): An anti-Israel protest at a Los Angeles synagogue on Sunday devolved into brawls, the spraying of counter-protesters and journalists with bear mace, and vandalism of Jewish institutions, according to eyewitnesses and pro-Palestinian groups. The demonstrations at Adas Torah synagogue in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood were organized by Palestinian Youth Movement LA and Code Pink LA against an Israeli real estate event. Anti-Israel activist groups and Jewish community members accused one another of starting the violence, sharing videos on social media of the opposing side engaged in fisticuffs. Videos shared by Jewish community members showed Jews being beaten on the ground by members of an anti-Israel mob. (....) Journalist Daniel Greenfield, who was present at the rally, said on social media that there were multiple instances of Jewish community members being sprayed with bear mace and peppery spray with no police response. He noted that some protesters had prepared "for violence" by wearing ski goggles. (....) Journalist Cam Higby was hit by bear mace in the eyes, he said on X. He thanked local rabbis, off duty Emergency medical technicians, and community members who escorted him, aided him, and have him water despite not knowing who he was or what his beliefs were. "People who aren’t antisemitic don’t show up to a synagogue in a Jewish neighborhood with bear spray and other weapons to fight people," said Higby. Townhall’s Katie Pavlich wrote in her recap that “[a]fter the mob was broken up, they continued to terrorize the neighborhood” and called out the irony of this taking place on President Biden’s watch, “who says he ran for the White House after a mob descended on Charlottesville in 2017 with chants of ‘Jews will not replace us’”. Biden took nearly a full day to respond, which thus gives the liberal media wider leeway to cover now that they have marching orders. In a post on X (likely by his handlers), he claimed to be “appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles”, which were “dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic, and un-American.” The lack of initial action by the LAPD, Mayor Karen Bass (D), and California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) were met with sharp condemnations. Ryan Saavedra with our friends at the Daily Wire had more (click “expand”): The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom faced backlash on Sunday as mobs of pro-Hamas extremists attacked Jews outside of a synagogue in Los Angeles. The pro-Hamas extremists gathered in front of the Adas Torah synagogue on Sunday morning to block entrance into the buildings and to disrupt a planned peaceful rally of pro-Israel protesters. Despite the violence that was inflicted on the pro-Israel protesters, only one person was arrested for allegedly carrying a “spiked flag,” The Los Angeles Times reported. Rabbi Hertzel Illulian blasted local officials in the Democrat-run state for having a double standard about how Jews can be treated. “Doesn’t belong here,” he said. “I don’t think the Jewish would go in front of a mosque or the Christian people would go in front of a mosque to do such a thing, nobody would accept this, but here, when it comes to Jews and Israel everything is kosher, everything is okay. Instead of even folding this into their Israel vs. Hamas report, ABC’s Good Morning America had other ideas, such as two segments on Taylor Swift’s latest stops in Europe as part of her Eras Tour and a corporate-juiced, gimmicky segment touting a waterpark that’s little more than an massive obstacle course akin to the network’s one-time show, Wipeout. CBS Mornings also was busy with two segments on Swift’s Eras Tour making its way through Europe as well as a report about women flocking to North Carolina to kill their unborn children. Ironically, the network painted the state as a place of sanity with a 15-week limit, which was panned as extreme by the exact same show (and the rest of the networks) at the time of its passage.

A first-term Republican state representative in Michigan found himself in handcuffs early Thursday morning after an alleged encounter with an exotic dancer.Just before 3 a.m. on Thursday, state Rep. Neil Friske, a 62-year-old Republican representing Charlevoix and other areas of the northwest region of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, was arrested near his condo in Lansing after police received reports about shots fired.Gateway Pundit claimed that 'far-left Michigan reporters' ran with the most salacious version of events ... to spoil the re-election efforts of 'one of the most conservative pro-Trump members of the Michigan House.'Reports regarding the events that preceded the arrest are rather scattered, telling decidedly different version of events. The New York Post reported that police may have witnessed Friske firing shots as he chased a stripper down the street. The outlet then cited another source, which suggested he allegedly sexually assaulted the woman.MIRS.news did not mention an alleged sexual assault but likewise reported just hours after the arrest that an armed Friske chased after the woman following "a disagreement."The Detroit Free Press, citing Lansing Police Public Information Director Jordan Gulkis, added that Friske had been arrested "for a felony-level offense" and that the investigation remained ongoing.Around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Friske was released from custody, and subsequent reports suddenly became much more subdued. The AP reported at that time only that Friske had been arrested, that Lansing cops had requested that charges be filed against him, but that Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane had not yet done so."Our office will continue to work in coordination with law enforcement on this matter," Dewane said in a statement.The AP made no mention of a stripper or an alleged sexual assault.A Facebook post from Friske's re-election campaign claimed the arrest was "highly suspect" amid a contentious primary challenge from Parker Fairbairn. The campaign also noted that Friske, a proud supporter of gun rights, "is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right.""Clearly, Rep. Friske is over the target in this race."On Saturday, the campaign posted that "no charges" had yet been filed against Friske. "As an investigation continues, we are confident that he and his legal team will be able to show his innocence against any trumped up charges," the post continued."He is in good spirits despite everything he’s been through."The campaign also shared an article from the Gateway Pundit, which claimed that all the allegations against Friske are "completely and totally false." Instead, the stripper was at Friske's condo and refused to leave unless he paid her money, Gateway Pundit reported, citing "several sources" who supposedly spoke with Friske. When Friske did not give her any money, the woman became incensed, picked up a pair of scissors, and allegedly attempted to stab Friske. She also rummaged through his belongings and grabbed several items, including a laptop, a briefcase, and thousands of dollars in cash, Gateway Pundit claimed.Finally, the woman called police and falsely reported that Friske was shooting at her, even though no shots had been fired, Gateway Pundit added.Gateway Pundit claimed that "far-left Michigan reporters" ran with the most salacious version of events, relying solely on "anonymous sources who are most likely Friske’s political opponents in Lansing," to spoil the re-election efforts of "one of the most conservative pro-Trump members of the Michigan House of Representatives."Gateway Pundit claimed that prosecutors had sought warrants for felony sexual assault, felony assault, and felony weapons offense, though no judge had yet signed off on such warrants. Friske was released without bond, information that supports the theory that the "charges are politically-motivated," the outlet added.Blaze News left several messages with the Friske campaign, asking how the stripper may have gained access to Friske's residence and whether the two had a prior relationship. Friske, though a father and grandfather, is single. Our messages were not returned.The strip club where the woman allegedly works declined a request for comment from the New York Post.Friske's attorney, Ed Zeineh, insisted that evidence would eventually reveal his client's "actual innocence."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!