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After Nicki Minaj began voicing her conservative views and working with Turning Point USA, other celebrities have made it clear they’re no longer impressed with the rapper — and definitely not with TPUSA.“They are still attacking Nicki Minaj over connecting with TPUSA, over promoting Donald Trump,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock explains to his panel on “Fearless,” before playing a clip of Shannon Sharpe and Joe Budden’s criticism of Minaj and the late Charlie Kirk’s brainchild.“Nicki goes on stage with Charlie Kirk’s widow,” Sharpe said to Budden on his “Club Shay Shay” podcast.“I didn’t love it,” Budden replied.“That is the role that I believe Turning Point to play in the rewriting of history or revisionist history when they visit these schools and have all this money just basically being pumped into a certain belief system,” Budden said.“I won’t take us there and speak to what I believe that belief system to be. But it’s a mess. It’s deeper than political views. I’m not political at all. ... That’s not my bag,” he continued.“There’s a tone that I don’t think is hidden, and they’re hiding these white nationalist views behind Christianity,” he added.“‘White nationalist views behind Christianity.’ That is certainly a complaint we’ve heard from other people, perhaps a bit more informed than Joe Budden. But, and I’ve got to be honest, I have mixed emotions as it relates to Nicki Minaj in terms of her music isn’t my kind of music,” Whitlock comments.“It’s a kind of music that I now fully and enthusiastically reject and, you know, frame in the most demonic ways possible. But I’m like anybody else. I kind of halfway like her pivoting and at least being, you know, not captured by the Democrat Party,” he continues.Unlike Sharpe and Budden, BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle supports and respects Minaj thinking for herself.“All of us get on social media and tweet our thoughts or say what we feel or where we stand. I think that she has the same right to do that. And what I’m seeing from the left, really the ones that compare ICE to the slave patrol or Republicans to the KKK, I’m actually seeing that they don’t care about black people at all. Although they try to put it with race, it’s really just, they want undying loyalty and allegiance to the Democrat Party,” Michelle tells Whitlock.“She took some pictures with President Trump, and she is his biggest fan. She said she’s on that side. I haven’t really seen her take a very, I would say, Christian stand or, you know, ‘this is my new life’ type of stand,” she continues.“It’s just been more very surface. ... I don’t have a problem with her learning or trying to figure it out publicly. I think we all do that if you are part of social media, and that’s just what it is. I really support her right to do exactly what she’s doing,” she adds.Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

New York City's first Muslim mayor cited verses from the Quran before saying he is strengthening sanctuary city laws to protect illegal aliens.Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) made the comments during an interfaith prayer meeting on Friday morning. The order will prohibit Immigration and Customs Enforcement from entering city property without a judicial warrant.'If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources.'"I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration," said Mamdani. "The story of the Hijrah reminds us that prophet Muhammad ... was a stranger too who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina."The order will also create a new task force to focus on immigration and ICE, increase protections on private data, and institute a review on agency policies to ensure they follow the mayor's directives. He went on to site several other Quran verses."'As for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we shall surely bless them with a good home in this world,'" he quoted. "Or as the prophet Muhammed ... said, 'Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers.'"Here the audience applauded his quote."If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources," Mamdani continued. "Let us create a new expectation of city hall, where power is wielded to love, to embrace, and to protect. We will stand with the stranger today, tomorrow, and all the days that are still to come."Video of Mamdani quoting the Quran was posted to social media.RELATED: Mamdani housing official decries 'white middle-class homeowners' for stalling 'renter justice' In January, Mamdani said that the city would expand free day-care opportunities to the city's residents and specifically included illegal aliens. He also signaled that he would continue the city's sanctuary policies. "We are also proud to be a sanctuary city," Mamdani said at the time. "What a sanctuary city means is that we have policies in place, policies have existed for years in the city, that deny ICE agents access into schools, hospitals, city properties, or even the properties of city contractors unless those ICE agents can present a judicial warrant signed by a judge."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Department of Homeland Security slammed Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) for issuing an executive order ending state and local law enforcement cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.On Wednesday, Spanberger signed a directive requiring local authorities to terminate all existing 287(g) agreements with ICE, claiming that these arrangements "placed Virginia law enforcement officers under federal control and supervision to conduct civil immigration enforcement."'Governor Abigail Spanberger continues to release pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and murderers onto Virginia's streets.'The agreements allow ICE to delegate to local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency's supervision.Over 30 law enforcement agencies in Virginia have agreements with ICE, according to the agency's website. "Governor Spanberger said her administration has been closely reviewing agreements state law enforcement agencies were required to sign in 2025. These agreements forced Virginia law enforcement agencies to hand over their men and women to be supervised by ICE," Spanberger's office wrote.DHS fired back at Spanberger in a statement to Blaze News, claiming that the governor's policy would "make Virginia less safe."RELATED: 'Fake Moderate’ Democratic governor demands local police cut ties with ICE Abigail Spanberger. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images"When politicians bar local law enforcement from working with DHS, our law enforcement officers have to have a more visible presence so that we can find and apprehend the criminals let out of jails and back into communities. Seven of the top 10 safest cities in the United States cooperate with ICE. Instead of working with us, Governor Spanberger is choosing to RELEASE violent criminals from her jails directly back into our communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more victims," a DHS spokesperson stated."While Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger continues to release pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and murderers onto Virginia's streets, our brave law enforcement will continue to risk their lives to arrest these heinous criminals," the DHS continued.The department listed several illegal aliens that ICE had recently arrested in Virginia, stating, "These are the criminals Governor Spanberger is protecting in Virginia."RELATED: Virginia Democrats just hit their first setback — and it could make a difference in the midterm elections Delvan Lopez Garcia (top left), Joel Reyes-Aguilar (top middle), Mesfin Hussin (top right), Somcith Sysountone (botton left), Marvin Dejesus Salinas Rodas (bottom middle), Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez (bottom right). Image source: Department of Homeland Security.The individuals included Delvan Lopez Garcia, a Guatemalan national with prior convictions for sex assault and enticement of a minor for prostitution; Joel Reyes-Aguilar, a Honduran national previously convicted of sex assault-sodomy of a girl with strongarm and molestation of a minor; Mesfin Hussin, an Ethiopian national with a homicide conviction; Somcith Sysountone, a Thai national with convictions for sex assault-carnal abuse and other offenses; Marvin Dejesus Salinas Rodas, a Salvadoran national with convictions for assault and homicide-negligent manslaughter with a vehicle; and Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez, a Honduran national and MS-13 gang member who confessed to five murders. Spanberger's office did not respond to a request for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

None of this is worthy of a state with one of the finest political traditions in America.

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