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This pastor is leading the ‘Christian’ anti-ICE movement — with near-death threats?
Inflammatory rhetoric on the left is getting worse, and former Pastor John Pavlovitz’s recent Substack article titled, “A pastor’s warning: We’re not in a civil war, but a Christian nationalist holy war — and they must not win,” could not make that any clearer.
“Conservative white Evangelicals need to be stopped,” one excerpt Pavlovitz proudly posted begins, before he accuses conservative white evangelicals of being “unmatched in their fervor, ferocity, and organization” as “religious extremists.”
“If allowed to continue to hold their death grip on all three branches of Government, Conservative Christians will render this nation unrecognizable. LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, immigrants, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again,” he warned.
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is rightfully disturbed by Pavlovitz’s piece and points out the glaring flaws in his argument.
“Does democracy mean people who I like are elected? Like, I just want to be clear about that,” Stuckey comments on “Relatable.” “He says we have a ‘death grip’ on all three branches of government. Well, Donald Trump was elected by popular and electoral vote. So, what happened there? Why is it a ‘death grip’ just when the people that you didn’t vote for get elected? Do you believe in democracy or not?”
Pavlovitz went on: “Full-blown theocracy is the plan, and trust me when I tell you that we won’t recover from it if they are given greater power or prolonged influence. If we fail in opposing their Christo-fascist agenda both in the streets and at the polls, they will have a political power that will render every election null and void, and we will never have a voice again in our lifetimes.”
“This is the kind of stuff that inspires, very tragically, people like Renee Good and Alex Pretti to go out into the streets and to bust the taillights of ICE officers and try to run over another ICE officer, because people believe stuff like this without any citation or any source,” Stuckey comments.
Pavlovitz even goes on to accuse white evangelical Christians of being the “source of everything afflicting our nation,” which includes all of the “violence, chaos, dehumanization, and suffering.”
“I just want to remind you that evangelical Christians, Christians who pray every day, Christians who go to church every week, that statistically we give the most in charity, that we adopt the most children, that we offer the most volunteer service hours every year. This is the hallmark of Christianity,” Stuckey says.
But it gets even worse.
“America is not in a Civil War; we’re in White Christian Nationalists’ grim and loveless holy war. All people of faith, morality, and conscience need to stand together and push them back into the hell they came from,” Pavlovitz concludes.
“You cannot get any stronger language that seems to be a death threat without coming out and saying it,” Stuckey says. “Like, that is some pretty radical stuff that is getting almost 50,000 likes on Instagram.”
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ICE rounds up kidnapper and child predator: ‘Thugs have no place in our communities’
A kidnapper and a child predator were apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Monday, according to a press release obtained by Blaze News.
The Department of Homeland Security, which has been tracking and sharing the “worst of the worst” immigration enforcement arrests at wow.dhs.gov, reported that ICE has nabbed more “heinous criminals.”
‘Seventy percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the US.’
“While sanctuary politicians and Hollywood were vilifying our law enforcement, our officers we were arresting kidnappers, pedophiles, and drug traffickers,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
The DHS highlighted four of ICE’s arrests from Monday.
The department stated that federal immigration agents captured Armando Miguel Hernandez-Valdez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Hernandez-Valdez was previously convicted in St. George, Utah, for kidnapping, possession of a controlled substance, and escape.
Armando Miguel Hernandez-Valdez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE nabbed Carlos Martinez, a Salvadoran national with a prior conviction in Dallas County, Texas, for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old.
Carlos Martinez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Immigration officers captured Freddy Railandy Medina-Cruz, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was previously convicted for crimes in multiple states, including drug trafficking in Massachusetts, fraud in Michigan, and re-entry of a removed alien in Florida.
Freddy Railandy Medina-Cruz. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
The DHS also highlighted the arrest of Jianqiao Lu, a Chinese national who was convicted of criminal possession of an assault weapon in New York. According to a 2023 article from the Hudson Valley Post, Lu initially faced a 113-count felony indictment after police allegedly discovered over a dozen illegally owned firearms.
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Jianqiao Lu. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
“These thugs have no place in our communities. Seventy percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,” McLaughlin stated. “This statistic doesn’t even include foreign fugitives, terrorists, and gang members who lack a rap sheet in the U.S. With every arrest, we are making America safe again.”
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Ex-husband of Jill Biden charged in the murder of his second wife
77-year-old William Stevenson, the ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden, was taken into custody Monday and charged in the death of his second wife.
A grand jury indictment filed in Delaware said that Stevenson is facing a first-degree murder charge after 64-year-old Linda Stevenson was found dead on Dec. 28 in their home in New Castle County.
William Stevenson had previously said of Linda, ‘She’s the greatest thing in my life.’
William Stevenson was married to Jill Tracy Jacobs for five years beginning in 1970, until she met then-Sen. Joe Biden in March 1975. Stevenson says she had an affair with Biden and a civil divorce was granted to the couple two months later. She and Biden were married in 1977.
Stevenson then met and married his second wife, Linda, and was married to her for nearly four decades until her death.
Police said they were called to the home on a report of a domestic dispute and found Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the living room. They were unable to revive her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, which has not yet released a determination of cause of death.
William Stevenson failed to post a $500,000 bail and is being held at the Howard Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington.
Police said Stevenson’s arrest was the result of a “extensive weeks-long investigation” into his wife’s death.
Stevenson had been a supporter of former President Barack Obama but later became a fan of President Donald Trump. In 2023 he called Trump “a president that I love and respect” and accused the “Biden crime family” of unfairly targeting Trump.
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Stevenson also grew critical of Jill Biden as Joe Biden’s mental diminishment became more obvious.
“I just don’t understand why she is so adamant about defending him and keeping him in the race since it appears that he’s struggling,” he said. “It appears that he’s struggling with everybody these days.”
William Stevenson had previously said of Linda, “She’s the greatest thing in my life.”
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Video: All-out brawl erupts between adult male with MAGA hat and more than a dozen apparent HS students at ICE protest
Cellphone videos caught the moment when an all-out brawl erupted between an adult male with a MAGA hat and over a dozen apparent high school students at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest Monday afternoon in Texas.
The Buda Police Department said a Hays County Sheriff’s Office school resource officer at Moe and Gene Johnson High School in Buda indicated that students were conducting a “walkout” protest on RM967. Buda is about 20 minutes southwest of Austin.
‘Hey, you want another a**-beating, come on out!’
Law enforcement personnel responded to the area to provide safety and security for pedestrians and motorists, police said.
But police added that Buda officers were dispatched to the intersection of RM967 and FM1626 for a fight in progress just before 3 p.m.
Arriving officers were notified that a female juvenile on the sidewalk and an adult male in a vehicle were engaged in a verbal argument, police said, adding that the argument escalated into a physical altercation involving multiple people.
You can view a clip of the brawl in KXAN-TV’s video report about the altercation; it shows what appears to be at least a dozen apparent high school students punching and kicking the adult male, knocking him to the ground, and even putting him in a headlock until he’s able to get up and retreat to his vehicle. There is no audio.
Both primary parties involved were identified, the situation remains under investigation, and no arrests have been made at this time, police said.
A Hays Consolidated Independent School District spokesperson told KXAN-TV that the district is aware of the video of the fight but said police are handling the investigation since the incident happened off campus.
Image source: Buda (Texas) Police Department
Buda Police on Tuesday told Blaze News they expect to make an arrest or arrests but have no timeline for when that will happen. Blaze News asked police if the adult male involved in the fight is a teacher — due to numerous social media posts indicating he is — but police replied, “Not that we’re aware of.”
One crucial element police confirmed to Blaze News is that the adult male involved in the fight did indeed have a red MAGA hat on his person during the altercation.
There are a handful of videos of the fight apart from the clip included in KXAN’s video report — and they are linked in comments under the police department’s Facebook post about the brawl.
As police noted, the adult male was in a vehicle when he verbally argued with the juvenile female — and then things got physical. Indeed one clip recorded from a distance shows what appears to be the adult male on the street swinging at a female as they move from the street to the sidewalk and to the grass.
A second clip recorded very close to the fight shows what appears to be the adult male holding a MAGA hat while swinging at a female and pushing her backward as she fights back; she momentarily grabs the MAGA hat before she falls to the grass.
A third clip includes what the KXAN video shows — except with audio. Those fighting and watching the brawl are heard yelling, “What the f**k?” and “Get him!” and “F**k ICE! You’re a bitch!” and “F**kin’ kill yourself!”
Once the adult male is back in his vehicle — and his MAGA hat is back in his possession — one individual from the crowd is heard yelling at him, “Hey, you want another ass-beating, come on out!” The adult male eventually puts the MAGA hat on his head.
What isn’t clear is why the adult male got out of his vehicle in the first place.
When Blaze News asked police if the adult male indicated why he left his vehicle and physically fought the juvenile female, police replied that it’s still under investigation.
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My court fight over DEI at Arizona State isn’t culture-war noise
“Who will rid us of this meddlesome philosopher?”
Arizona State University hopes the Arizona Supreme Court will. I’m confident that my case against required diversity, equity, and inclusion training raises issues far larger than one professor or one ideological program. Fundamental questions about employee rights, public accountability, and the rule of law hang in the balance.
If I succeed in showing that ASU bears legal responsibility — and that employees can hold it accountable — the implications reach far beyond one HR program.
Why would the largest state university in the country defend mandatory DEI training in court? Why would it spend thousands — likely tens of thousands — defending its “inclusive communities” training, a program that teaches employees about the alleged moral and social failures of “whiteness” and “heteronormativity”?
The answer defies common sense. Yet ASU presses forward. In doing so, it has turned what many dismiss as a culture-war skirmish into an employment-rights case with statewide consequences.
Most people hear “DEI” and instantly map the political lines. This case deserves a different reaction. Required ideological training should make any employee — left, right, or indifferent — pay attention.
First, the training relies on racial essentialism. It instructs ASU employees to view themselves and others primarily through skin color, then assigns moral weight and collective guilt on that basis.
Second, it attacks traditional Christian moral teaching, especially marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Either flaw should have pushed administrators to retire the program long before I raised formal objections.
A third issue should unite every employee, regardless of where they stand on DEI: ASU treated this as an employment matter. The university did not admit error, revise the program, and move on. It hired Perkins Coie to defend racial essentialism. Yes, Perkins Coie — the firm widely associated with the Hillary Clinton-era Steele dossier controversy. ASU employs a full team of in-house attorneys. Why pay a nationally prominent and politically charged firm to defend a training program many already viewed as controversial — and, I argue, unlawful?
ASU’s posture gets stranger. The university has since taken down the required training, yet it continues paying lawyers to defend it in court. When this ends, Arizona lawmakers and taxpayers will want a number: How much did ASU spend on legal fees, and which administrators approved the contracts?
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ASU’s legal strategy aims at dismissal. The university claims I lack standing. Put plainly, ASU argues that an employee cannot hold his public employer accountable for violating state law. At that point, the dispute stops being about DEI and becomes about every employee in Arizona. If ASU wins at the Arizona Supreme Court, employees across the state lose a crucial tool for legal accountability.
Professors to my political left may sneer at my critique of DEI. They should still worry about the precedent.
Imagine a scenario pulled from their nightmares: A future administration takes over ASU and imposes mandatory ideological training from the opposite end of the political spectrum — required ICE-themed training, or MAGA-themed training. If that training violated Arizona law, those same professors would demand the right to sue. ASU’s argument would bar them. This case concerns enforceable employee rights, not just contemporary politics.
ASU’s first bid to dismiss the case failed. A lower court rejected the university’s argument. ASU appealed, and the appellate court sided with the university. That posture put the case on a path to the Arizona Supreme Court.
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Two facts matter here. The Arizona Senate and the state representative who authored the law I claim ASU violated have filed an amicus brief supporting my position. Their message is simple: A public employee has standing to hold a public employer accountable for breaking the law. The statute prohibits the kind of racial blame and collective guilt that ASU’s training promoted. The principle should not require explanation: Don’t assign moral fault to entire groups based on skin color.
So why does ASU defend this?
Because ASU does not view this fight as one training module that can be swapped out and forgotten. Race-based blame sits near the center of the contemporary left’s approach to education. If I succeed in showing that ASU bears legal responsibility — and that employees can hold it accountable — the implications reach far beyond one HR program. ASU’s initiatives aimed at combatting “whiteness” would come under scrutiny. Its embedded social justice goals face legal challenge and public examination. Students could follow with suits over race blame in a “decolonized curriculum.”
“Who will rid us of this meddlesome philosopher?” ASU really hopes the Arizona Supreme Court will.
Every employee in Arizona should watch what happens next. The outcome will determine whether public institutions answer to the law — or whether employees must comply silently, no matter what ideology administrators impose from above.
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