Jessica Biel talked about why she and husband Justin Timberlake decided to move their family out of Los Angeles and New York, and said it was to give their kids some “sense of normalcy.” During her appearance on Kelly Ripa’s podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera,” the 42-year-old actress said living in the spotlight on both the west and east coast was too much and not the life she and her 43-year-old singer husband wanted for their two sons. Biel and Timberlake — who have been raising their young sons on the property in Big Sky, Montana they bought in 2015 — said that “You get hammered in the East Coast, you kinda get hammered on the West Coast.” “That’s why we don’t really live there anymore,” Biel said. “It’s just trying to create some normalcy for these kids. We wanna share our family with our loved ones and friends.” Jessica Biel reveals why she and Justin Timberlake keep their family AWAY from New York and Los Angeles https://t.co/mVMFqjK3hu pic.twitter.com/BBKbzNYhCP — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 23, 2024 “I don’t wanna expose them in a way until they have an ability to make that decision for themself,” Biel continued. And when it comes to social media, the “7th Heaven” star said both she and her husband choose not to really share photos of the kids on social media, saying she knows that the “social media world” will one day be a “very big part of their life and their reality.” “I just don’t want it to be on my account,” the actress explained. “So we try to engage in a way that feels authentic but also just not blasting them all over the place.” “And no disrespect to anybody who feels comfortable doing that,” she added. “That’s just our family choice. Maybe it’s a mistake, maybe it’s not.” In 2022, the superstar couple sold their penthouse in New York City for $29 million, E! News noted. In 2021, they put their Los Angeles mansion up for sale for $35 million, before taking down the listing, the outlet noted. Biel and Timberlake aren’t the only celebrities that have opted out of raising kids in Hollywood. Most recently, Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling reportedly decided to leave Hollywood and raise their kids elsewhere because they preferred not to have their daughters growing up around “celebrity” children. A source close to the “Barbie” star and the “Hitch” star said that they have moved “a bit further north” outside of Tinseltown for the benefit of their girls Esmerelda, 9, and Amanda, 7, People magazine noted. “For them, the most important job is their girls,” the source told the outlet. “Everything else comes second. And their girls are thriving. They left L.A. to live a bit further north, away from Hollywood. They didn’t want the girls to grow up around other celebrity kids.” Related: “Hollywood Is Not America.” Why So Many Celebrities Are Leaving Los Angeles

A man who “illegally” entered the United States through the southern border warned in an interview that Americans should be “worried” about how wide open the border is under President Joe Biden. The Turkish man told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that he had to pay a Mexican drug cartel $10,000 to smuggle him into the U.S. “In fact, American people is right, completely true,” the man said. “Who comes into this country? They don’t know.” “Okay, I’m good, but how if they’re not good?” he asked as he motioned to other migrants who were with him. “How if they’re killers, psychopath, else? No guarantee of that. Like, no security, no security check, no background check.” He said that he was worried about who was crossing the border because there are many people who “are not normal.” Melugin posted the clip on X and wrote: “A Turkish man who crossed into Jacumba, CA illegally w/ a group of other Turkish men told me he paid $10k to a cartel, & expressed shock at how easy it was to cross the U.S. border with no resistance, telling me Americans should be ‘worried’ about security & who is crossing.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP NEW: A Turkish man who crossed into Jacumba, CA illegally w/ a group of other Turkish men told me he paid $10k to a cartel, & expressed shock at how easy it was to cross the U.S. border with no resistance, telling me Americans should be “worried” about security & who is crossing. pic.twitter.com/Qb1a9BiDuV — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 23, 2024

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas’ spokesperson has confirmed that the employee who doxxed Harrison Butker has “separated” from city employment. The spokesperson said in a statement that “the employee has been separated from the City workforce for violation of City policy by posting outside the scope of authorized City communications,” KMBC News Channel 9 ABC reported. “The City will have no further comment on the post or individual employees related to it,” the statement added. The City of Kansas City tweeted and then deleted a dig at Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker on May 15. That employee has now been fired. https://t.co/vHSaoHlkYf — KCTV5 News (@KCTV5) May 23, 2024 The news comes following a post on X on its official city-run account that referenced where Butker lives amid attacks from the Left over his commencement speech to the graduates at Benedictine College — when he praised his wife for being a “homemaker,” called out President Joe Biden’s support for abortion, and criticized LGBT “Pride month.” “Just a reminder that Harrison Butker lives in … ” the city of Kansas City posted on its official social media account, listing where he lived. The city then quickly deleted that post and put out another apologizing for the “previous tweet,” misspelling the word “apologize,” as previously reported. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The Mayor also responded and wrote in a post on X, “A message appeared earlier this evening from a City public account.” “The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account,” Lucas added. “The City has correctly apologized for the error, will review account access, and ensure nothing like it is shared in the future from public channels.” During Butker’s speech at the Catholic college, the placekicker said his wife would agree that her life “truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.” “How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world,” Butker said. “But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.” “It cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker,” he added. His comments drew backlash online, with critics branding him as misogynistic and more. A Change.org petition calling for the three-time Super Bowl champion to be kicked off the Chiefs team for his “discriminatory” remarks has amassed more than 220,000 signatures. Related: Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid And QB Patrick Mahomes Defend Teammate Harrison Butker

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Appealing to heaven is “provocative,” says The New York Times. The Times reported Wednesday that—gasp—Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an “Appeal to Heaven” flag last year at his vacation home in New Jersey. “Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home,” reads the Times’ headline. The story comes on the heels of a media-concocted “scandal” revealing that Alito flew an upside-down flag outside his house for a few days in early 2021.  We are led to believe that the first incident means that Alito is a violent, insurrectionist supporter of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot or something. Alito said that the upside-down flag stemmed from a dispute between his wife and neighbors over yard signs.  An upside-down flag is a traditional sign of national or personal distress. I can think of countless reasons to use that symbol in 2021. And ultimately, what does it matter? If, say, Justice Sonya Sotomayor had flown one of those “In this house, we believe…” signs, do you think it ever would have been a story touted as problematic by the left-wing press? Of course not. From the Times on Alito’s second allegedly damning flag revelation: This time, it was the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms. After reading that, the only thing that makes me disappointed is that I don’t have an “Appeal to Heaven” flag of my own. The tenor of the Times’ piece and the reaction from the Left are both deeply cynical and revealing of how our institutional pseudo-elites think. A little history lesson: The “Appeal to Heaven” flag is a classic flag of the American Revolution. One of George Washington’s aides designed it in 1775 to be used on ships serving the united colonies. The “Appeal to Heaven” moniker is a reference to the right of revolution.  Our Founding Fathers, in their wonderfully Anglo-American fashion, were orderly revolutionaries.  The foundation of a just legal and political order starts with a grounding in higher law, in the rights endowed by our creator, as Abraham Lincoln noted a generation later. The argument from Washington and the Founding Fathers was that the British crown and Parliament had violated the God-given rights of the American colonists through  oppressive laws foisted on them without representation. This is History 101 stuff, I know. But among many of those who’ve matriculated from our country’s most elite institutions in recent decades, the concept of “God-given rights” seems like a wild idea concocted by troglodyte Christian nationalists or whatever bogeyman exists in their mind. Frankly, if you have an issue with appealing to heaven, maybe the problem is with you, not the person holding the flag. One way or another, this story is being used by some highly cynical Leftist activists, political operatives, and media outlets to undermine the Supreme Court. For a while, they were all working hard to portray Justice Clarence Thomas as a crook because he has wealthy friends and a politically active conservative wife. Thomas hasn’t budged and he’s received a great deal of support, so they’ve mostly moved on to other targets, for now. Hence the deluge of “Alito is an insurrectionist” stories. This is pure power politics from the Left.  Leftist activists have used the Supreme Court for generations to get their way. Now that they’ve lost control of the institution with Trump’s three appointees, they seek its immediate recapture or destruction.That’s their modus operandi. The Alito flag story is meant to rile up the Democrat base and force Alito to recuse himself on Supreme Court decisions related to Trump. The press never had an issue with obviously liberal justices such as the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg holding openly partisan positions and criticizing Republicans. That was just #Resistance. Also, pay no attention to President Joe Biden’s flagrant violations of the Constitution and insults to the Supreme Court. “When the Supreme Court told me I couldn’t, I found two other ways to do it,” Biden said of his illegal student loan bailout Sunday during a commencement address at Morehead College. That gets a collective media shrug. But a Supreme Court justice flying a historic flag referencing the Founding, religion, and the ideas at the cornerstone of our national existence? Scandal! Democrat media allies have been only too happy to do their part in weaving a narrative that Biden and his White House advisers undoubtedly want to tell. At its root, the story is that simple. However, the nature of the story does say something more significant about the state of the elite modern Left, for which the Times is the paper of record. First off, the Left seems not to know much about history or the basic premise of our nation. Certainly mockable, but what’s worse than ignorance is that the little leftists do know about our past they seem to deeply dislike. Traditional symbols of American patriotism are now almost uniformly portrayed as scandalous or at least suspect unless used for distinctly left-wing causes. The mainstream Left makes little attempt to appeal to our country’s history, unlike even a decade ago when the Left at least tried to appropriate history for its own purpose. Don’t forget that New York Times went to war against the AMERICAN FLAG long before they went after the Appeal to Heaven flag. pic.twitter.com/jpUFPEYogN— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 23, 2024 And appeals to religion, particularly Christianity? Forget about it. Combining symbols of patriotism with an appeal to religion is a recipe to send the modern liberal into complete hysterics. As I wrote in my book “The War on History,” the Left launched a full-scale assault on the country’s past in order to fundamentally transform America and the West. Indeed, our history has been rewritten to make 1619 rather than 1776 the nation’s “true” founding year. After 2020, the institutional Left fully bought into that rewrite. Americans who didn’t make this leap—whether protesters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6 or an originalist Supreme Court justice or just a regular person who wants to act in patriotic solidarity with his neighbors—are all equally on the “wrong side of history.”  They are all religious bigots, opposed to the Constitution as the Left has redefined it, and insurrectionists under the new regime. Kind of amazing for a Supreme Court Justice to fly an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, whose spirit is hostile to the constitutional order and the rule of law that the Supreme Court is to uphold.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 22, 2024 Our most powerful institutions have decided that being an American is un-American. Forget the dopey narratives peddled by The New York Times. Be like George Washington and appeal to heaven. The post Latest Alito Flag ‘Scandal’ Shows How the Left Thinks Being an American Is Un-American appeared first on The Daily Signal.