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The left-wing media have all but refused to touch the latest major case of left-wing political violence: the attempted bombing of the Red Mass service traditionally attended by several Supreme Court Justices. On October 5, D.C. police apprehended 41-year-old Louis Geri, who was camped in a tent on the steps of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle when. Geri reportedly was targeting the traditional Red Mass service held at the beginning of each Supreme Court term. He was arrested with over two hundred explosive devices, as well as a nine-page manifesto which “revealed his significant animosity towards the Catholic Church, members of the Jewish faith, Members of SCOTUS and ICE/ICE facilities,” according to police.  MRC analysts found that from October 5 through October 9, not one of the left-wing TV news networks gave last Sunday’s foiled Red Mass bombing even a full minute of coverage. NBC was the only broadcast network that even mentioned the incident on one of its flagship morning or evening news programs. It wasn’t until October 8, four days after the foiled plot, that NBC Nightly News finally aired a 57-second report about it. CNN was the only other network that even mentioned the story. On October 5, CNN Newsroom host Pamela Brown narrated a hasty 19-second news brief about the incident during the 8:00 p.m. ET hour, before permanently dropping the topic. While ABC and CBS never reported on the attack themselves, October 6 D.C. area viewers of Good Morning America and CBS Mornings did hear it mentioned during the allotted local news portions of those broadcasts. This suggests that both networks were aware of the story, but that they actively chose not to cover it.  This utter abdication of duty by supposed journalists — their refusal to cover a foiled terror plot targeting several members of the Supreme Court — is both intentional and political. The corporate left-wing media never acknowledge left-wing political radicalism unless they absolutely have to.  A NewsBusters study spanning the first six months of the Trump administration found that the news media mentioned the “far right” fourteen times more often than the “far left.” In June when anti-ICE radicals tore through Los Angeles, CNN and MSNBC insisted the riots were “mostly peaceful” a whopping 211 times in just five days. in May, the news media refused to admit that the radically pro-Palestine Washington, D.C. Jewish Museum shooter was left-wing.  In April, broadcast networks completely ignored the antifa-linked firebombing of the GOP headquarters building in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  In March, they ignored Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) allegedly assaulting a reporter. And just this past week, ABC, CBS, and PBS completely ignored the notorious text messages revealing Democrat Jay Jones’s explicit support for political violence against Republicans. Jones is currently running a tight race for Attorney General in Virginia, and evidently these networks have decided that helping him win his election is more worthwhile than telling their viewers the truth.

On Thursday, ABC News’s The View had their most bitterly anti-Trump guest of season 29 (so far) in so-called “comedian” Hasan Minhaj. Minhaj, who was heir-apparent to The Daily Show before getting sunk by his own lies about experiencing islamophobia, lashed out at President Trump’s $100,000 “tariff” for H1B visas by suggesting Trump’s voters were all “C-average students” who needed help to get ahead in the job market. It was obvious that Minhaj’s ire was percolating as he shifted their conversation about his latest movie Tron: Ares to his political animus against Trump: MINHAJ: Joy, I’m telling you, we’re having a moment and I'm feeling myself. I don’t know if you heard about this but there is a tariff not only on consumer goods but there is a tariff on human intelligence. Donald Trump just recently asked for a $100,000 tariff on every H1B immigrant that comes over. Now, obviously my dad came over as an H1B immigrant. ANA NAVARRO: Is that true? MINHAJ: Yeah, one of our favorite African Americans Elon Musk came over with an H1B Visa. And a lot of people in America they think this is bigoted, they think it’s xenophobic, they think it’s un-American. I don't know, I'm flattered. Minhaj initially delivered a quip comparing Indians like himself to a BMW. “I mean, $100,000, that's a standard off the lot India. That's not even fully loaded. Cloth interior. Right? I mean, we start at the price of a 7 Series and, you know,” he said.     But the comedy quickly drained as his nastiness took over, lashing out at Trump voters (over 50 percent of electorate). “For the people that support Donald Trump, in these dumb C-average students, how do you feel? Oh really, you need a 30-minute head start on the test? I'll start with my hand tied behind my back?” he sneered. As the studio audience shared murmuring laughter, the loudest of the cast (and the room) was faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin, who couldn’t contain herself. There was an obvious nervousness as he tried to continue only to have moderator Whoopi Goldberg interject to end the interview and go to a commercial: MINHAJ: Here's 100,000 head start, Chris. Try to beat me. I think this is great. You know? GOLDBERG: And you know what, we think you're great. FARAH GRIFFIN: I guess. GOLDBERG: And sadly I have to say thanks to Hasan Minhaj. MINHAJ: Thank you. For what it’s worth, Minhaj did accidentally embarrass co-host Joy Behar, in that he exposed that Behar seemed to think that India was its own continent separate from the rest of Asia: MINHAJ: Now, will this show do that? No. But what we're meaning to answer on this show is, “who is better?” JOY BEHAR: That's right. MINHAJ: Indians or Asian? Now, let's kick this off. Joy, who are you picking? Who do you like more? BEHAR: Indians or Asians? MINHAJ: Indians or Asians. There can only be one. This is America. BEHAR: Well, you mean there's two continents you're talking about. Throw this onto the pile of Behar’s embarrassing misconceptions. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View October 9, 2025 11:39:24 a.m. Eastern (…) HASAN MINHAJ: We are living through divided times, and the nation needs to come together. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah. MINHAJ: Now, will this show do that? No. But what we're meaning to answer on this show is, “who is better?” JOY BEHAR: That's right. MINHAJ: Indians or Asian? Now, let's kick this off. Joy, who are you picking? Who do you like more? BEHAR: Indians or Asians? MINHAJ: Indians or Asians. There can only be one. This is America. BEHAR: Well, you mean there's two continents you're talking about. MINHAJ: Well, I’m just talking about – there’s 48 countries in the continent. BEHAR: I can't judge -- but I can judge an entire continent. That's too much. MINHAJ: This is no fun. SARA HAINES: The right answer since he was sitting there was Indians. BEHAR: I won't go there because I don't want the entire Asia on my back. MINHAJ: Joy, I’m telling you, we’re having a moment and I'm feeling myself. I don’t know if you heard about this but there is a tariff not only on consumer goods but there is a tariff on human intelligence. Donald Trump just recently asked for a $100,000 tariff on every H1B immigrant that comes over. Now, obviously my dad came over as an H1B immigrant. ANA NAVARRO: Is that true? MINHAJ: Yeah, one of our favorite African Americans Elon Musk came over with an H1B Visa. And a lot of people in America they think this is bigoted, they think it’s xenophobic, they think it’s un-American. I don't know, I'm flattered. BEHAR: You’re flattered by it? MINHAJ: Your boy’s feeling himself. I mean, $100,000, that's a standard off the lot India. That's not even fully loaded. Cloth interior. Right? I mean, we start at the price of a 7 Series and, you know, for the people that support Donald Trump, in these dumb C-average students, how do you feel? Oh really, you need a 30-minute head start on the test? I'll start with my hand tied behind my back? Here's 100,000 head start, Chris. Try to beat me. I think this is great. You know? GOLDBERG: And you know what, we think you're great. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I guess. GOLDBERG: And sadly I have to say thanks to Hasan Minhaj. MINHAJ: Thank you. (…)

Charlie Calkins waited. He waited for the stars to align. He waited for the right woman to appear, for the perfect partner to materialize. None of it happened. So he improvised. He became a father anyway.This is America in 2025: a country where men bypass marriage as if it were a tollbooth. Where fatherhood is recast as a consumer choice. Where children risk becoming accessories to adult ambition.The real question facing modern masculinity isn’t how to become fathers without wives. It’s how to become men worthy of wives in the first place.The Atlantic tells Calkins' story in its recent celebration of this trend, dressing it up as progress, as evolution, even as a solution to masculinity’s supposed crisis.But it isn’t progress. If anything, it’s the very opposite.Motherless by designThese aren’t men widowed by tragedy or abandoned by partners. They're men who have deliberately chosen to design motherless homes. Not by accident, but by intent. Not through misfortune, but through willful selfishness. Here are men so allergic to commitment that they would rather hire wombs than marry. So determined to avoid the risk of family life that they would orphan their own children from birth.And the science isn’t debatable here. Single-parent homes breed absolute chaos, the sorts of problems that ripple through every part of society. They fuel crime, academic failure, and emotional wreckage on a scale too obvious to ignore.Boys without fathers are far more likely to end up in gangs, in prison, or dead in their 20s. Girls without fathers often become teenage mothers, repeating the cycle before they have a chance to escape it.The absence of mothers brings its own devastation. Boys without them wrestle with wild anger. Without her steady hand, they lose their way. Lacking her love, they grow restless, reckless, and resentful. Girls without mothers face higher risks of depression, self-destruction, and fractured identity, deprived of the model that teaches them how to become women.Broken homes, broken bodiesThe wreckage is measured in blood and sometimes bullets. The Minnesota trans-identifying shooter’s parents were divorced, just like the parents of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook killer. Many other mass shooters share the same broken background. Wounded families breed wounded children, and some grow up to wound others.Contrary to what the Atlantic claims, these “single dads by choice” aren’t fixing masculinity’s crisis. They are the crisis. Real masculine leadership builds institutions. It doesn’t turn family into a transaction. Marriage isn’t optional prep work. It’s boot camp for parenthood. It’s the daily grind of sacrifice and commitment, the training ground where men learn to put someone else first. Those skills don’t arrive with a birth certificate.Formation by fireA man who skips marriage skips character formation. He chooses the drive-through version of family — fast, convenient, and ultimately empty. Can’t find the right woman? Rent one. Struggle with relationships? Delete the requirement. Find commitment too complicated? Engineer around it entirely.But family isn’t supposed to be engineered. It’s forged in fire, through conflict, through reconciliation, through the daily miracle of two people choosing each other again and again. Children need to see it. They need both perspectives. They need the security of parents bound by more than biology.These “single dads by choice” are emotional adolescents. They’ve found a loophole in human nature, a way to get what they want without ever growing up. And it won’t be these dads who pay the price. It will be their children.RELATED: Homosexual who fundraised to get baby through surrogacy exposed as pedophile Image composite: Rainbow photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images; Photo of Brandon Mitchell from Pennsylvania Sex Offender Registry.Picture that child 20 years from now: sitting in a therapist’s office, wrestling with abandonment issues he can’t name. Struggling to understand why his father’s desire for parenthood mattered more than his own need for a mother. “But Dad wanted me so much,” he'll say. “He went to such lengths.” Yes, he did. Every length except the one that mattered: learning to love a woman, to commit to building something together, to create a real family instead of a designer arrangement.The real question facing modern masculinity isn’t how to become fathers without wives. It’s how to become men worthy of wives in the first place. How to shoulder the work of partnership, build something bigger than yourself, and pass on stability to the next generation.Single fatherhood by choice doesn’t answer this challenge. It surrenders to it. And it feeds a cultural shift that Americans should recognize as dangerous.Structure of responsibility For centuries, the basis of a healthy society was marriage between a man and a woman. That union produced not only children but continuity, a structure of responsibility that connected men to the work of family and women to the security of partnership.The breakdown of that bedrock was gradual — first through the normalization of divorce, then the redefinition of marriage itself, first into a cultural abstraction, then into same-sex unions, then into same-sex adoption. At every turn, the essential was downgraded to optional and the optional was elevated to a right. Marriage no longer stood as the pillar of family life but as a lifestyle choice, easy to embrace or evade. And the cost is clear. Children without two committed parents pass that damage on, multiplying it across generations.The question is not whether single parents can be heroic — many are. The question is what happens when a society normalizes broken homes and calls it progress. When the exception becomes the expectation, everyone suffers.

Dr. Oz is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator for President Trump, and he’s joining Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “Glenn TV” to debunk the left’s lies surrounding the current government shutdown.“It is really reprehensible, what the Democrats are doing,” Oz tells Glenn. “This has been a process, this continuing resolution process, whether you like it or not, that’s gone on for a long time.”“One of the things we addressed, I think, quite successfully, is the fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid. In fact, some of the points you make like money going towards illegal immigrants — again, it’s not that you’re paying for it in California; it’s that folks are being taxed in Mississippi and Texas and Florida, and that money is being shipped to California,” Oz explains.“We stopped that. We’re not going to reverse that. And we’re certainly not going to reverse it for seven weeks of continuation so we can actually have more negotiations,” he says, noting that Medicaid and Medicare are only getting hurt by shutting down the government.“These programs, we struggle to keep open when you have a shutdown of this nature. This is high-stakes poker, and it’s unfair, and frankly, the Democrats don’t have many chips anyway,” he adds.Glenn notes that some Democrats are now asking whether or not illegal immigrants will be helped in the emergency room — even in life-or-death situations where the patient may have a gunshot wound.But Oz says that question distorts the truth, explaining that there’s a law that will protect illegal immigrants.“You will get the care you need, especially if it’s lifesaving care. You’re in trouble if you don’t provide that care. So this is not about that at all. This is about giving benefits to illegal immigrants,” Oz explains.“Again, I’ll pick on California because it’s such an obvious case. … If you’re on Medicaid in California and you’re an illegal immigrant, you are getting free dental care. It’s just not fair to the American people,” he says.“It’s not like the citizens of California are paying for that. We’re footing most of the bill at the federal government, which we tax every one of the other 49 states and then we pay California to make up for the fact that they’ve decided to fund illegal immigrant health care,” he adds.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

First lady Melania Trump has joined forces with an unexpected foreign leader to lead a crucial humanitarian effort in a war-torn region. During a press conference Friday, Mrs. Trump announced her partnership with Russian President Vladimir Putin to reunite Ukrainian children with their families. So far, eight children who were displaced by the war were reunited with their families in just the last day or so, she indicated. The first lady also confirmed that she remains in communication with Putin to continue the effort.'I hope peace will come soon. It can begin with our children.'"A child's soul knows no borders, no flags," Trump said. "We must foster a future for our children which is rich with potential, security, and complete with free will," she added. "A world where dreams will be realized rather than faded by war." RELATED: Trump teases shutdown consequences for Democrats: 'A little taste of their own medicine' Photo by Contributor/Getty ImagesDuring her address, the first lady recounted the initial letter she wrote to Putin in August 2024, raising concerns about the children who were separated from their families due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. "Since then, President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication regarding the welfare of these children," Trump said. Over the last three months, both Ukraine and Russia have participated in several "back-channel meetings" that Trump says have all been "in good faith." "Each child has lived in turmoil because of the war in Ukraine," she said, speaking about the eight children who were reunited this week. "Three were separated from their parents and displaced to the Russian Federation because of frontline fighting. The other five were separated from family members across borders because of the conflict." RELATED: Drones shut down airports in NATO countries as suspicion falls on Russia Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMrs. Trump also said that Russia has agreed to work alongside officials to return children who have turned 18 since their displacement. "Again, this remains an ongoing effort," Trump said. "Plans are already under way to reunify more children in the immediate future. I hope peace will come soon. It can begin with our children." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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