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NYC retiree sentenced to PRISON for acting in self-defense
Journalist Savanah Hernandez is shedding light on one abhorrent story out of New York City — where a man who used his weapon to protect himself was sent to prison for four years.
“I just attended the sentencing for Charles Foehner, a 67-year-old retiree who was just sentenced to four years in prison after defending himself from a 15-time career criminal here in New York City,” Hernandez reported.
“Now, if you’re not familiar with the story of Charles, basically, back in 2023, a 15-time career criminal with a history of mental illness ended up threatening him and lunging at him. Charles, who had a handgun in his pocket, which he had, by the way, because of his fears of rising crime throughout the city, ended up pulling out his weapon, telling this man to stop,” she continued.
“He did not heed the warning. He continued to lunge at Charles. Charles opened fire and ended up killing him,” she said.
While even the DA of Queens, Melinda Katz, did not bring homicide or manslaughter charges because she agreed that it was clearly self-defense, she did go after Charles for criminal possession of a weapon.
The cops then searched his home and found what they called an “arsenal of unlicensed weapons.”
“Charles’ attorney stated that Charles has been shooting guns since he was a kid. Charles has no criminal history, and he has been around guns his entire life. However, because he was in New York and these were unlicensed, the DA decided to bring forward these charges,” Hernandez reported.
“It’s incredible that this is happening in the United States of America. So he ended up — this 67-year-old retiree ended up losing his home because of the legal fees and him being cut off from his Social Security benefits while he’s in prison. You can’t get that when you’re in prison,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
“It’s really incredible that there is such a thing as unlicensed firearms in this country. It’s like, says who? That is completely unconstitutional, because I have a Second Amendment right to protect myself however I see fit,” she says.
“This man would not be alive if it weren’t for the weapon that he carried. And the fact that doing that — protecting his own life — now causes him to be in prison because then they can go and raid your home and say, ‘Oh, actually, you have an arsenal here. You’re not allowed to do that,’ is so very chilling,” she adds.
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Doctor refuses to acknowledge basic biological reality: ‘Can men get pregnant?’
During a Senate hearing titled Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Dr. Nisha Verma — where he attempted to “establish a biological reality.”
Verma, a medical doctor, was incapable of doing so.
“I wasn’t sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked Verma.
“I hesitated there because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so that’s where I paused, I think,” she answered.
“Well the goal is the truth. So can men get pregnant?” Hawley pressed further.
“Again the reason I paused there is I’m not really sure what the goal of the question —” she continued, before Hawley interjected, “The goal is just to establish a biological reality.”
The pair went back and forth, with the leftist doctor claiming he was just being “polarizing.”
“I’m not trying to be polarizing. I think it is extraordinary that we are here in a hearing about science and about women, and for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men. We are here about the safety of women, and the science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases,” Hawley responded.
“There’s a difference between biological men and biological women. I just don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with this on this basic issue. I thought we were past all of this,” he continued.
“I think it’s extraordinary that you would sit here and advance a political agenda that has been thoroughly discredited and rejected by the American people in this forum. And I’m glad we had this exchange because it is exceptionally clarifying,” he said, adding, “It is also in many ways quite depressing.”
While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is grateful for Hawley’s common sense, she’s also horrified that a doctor is still refusing to acknowledge such basic biological reality.
“This woman is going into medical school, and she is teaching young people that ‘I am a person of science, and I represent all of the complex realities of my patients, and I don’t want to answer your very simple question,’” Gonzales comments.
“These are the people in charge of your health care. These are the people in charge of setting policies,” she says, adding, “These people are still delusional.”
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How Islam is conquering America through FOOD
Muslim immigrants don’t shy away from letting Americans know what their intentions are with our country — and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has the video evidence to prove it.
In a man-on-the-street-style clip Gonzales shares from the account Muckracker on X, a young man stops to talk to a group of Muslims in Ohio who happen to be Somali.
“America will become a Muslim state,” one man yells.
“Our goal is to make America Islam,” he yells again.
“That’s not a conspiracy theory. … No, they’re actually saying it very loudly and proudly,” Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
“They’re, like, right there, right in front of your face, saying all of the quiet parts out loud. But there are a lot more seemingly benign ways that they are infiltrating America to just sort of create this society that’s perfect for them, like, something you wouldn’t expect: our food,” she continues.
And host of the “Hearts of Oak” podcast and former campaign manager for the U.K. Independence Party Peter McIlvenna has been sounding the alarm about this seemingly innocent Trojan horse.
“The Halal food market is a huge thing, I think it’s something like $2.2 trillion globally and going to hit $4.5 trillion within about eight years, 2033, growing at nearly 10% a year. And here in Texas, the big hot spots for halal food are Houston and Dallas, growing around 22% a year,” McIlvenna tells Gonzales.
“And it kind of goes unnoticed, and I call it economic jihad, because it is using the levers of power to [insert] Islam in all areas of society,” he says. “And Islam is very smart as an ideology.”
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Sara Gonzales rips new autistic Barbie doll: ‘We need to end DEI in toys’
Mattel released a Barbie doll this past week that has sparked an important discussion about what representation looks like in doll form — and why a pretty girl wearing headphones and a cute outfit might not be representative of a severe autism diagnosis, or why we shouldn’t be celebrating something we can try to understand and prevent.
“President Trump ended DEI in the government, and I was really, really, glad about that, but it appears there was more work to be done. We need to end the DEI in toys,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
In Mattel’s press release on the new Barbie doll, it writes, “The autistic Barbie doll features elbow and wrist articulation, enabling stimming, hand flapping, and other hand gestures that some members of the autistic community use to process sensory information or express excitement.”
It also writes that her eyes are “shifted slightly to the side, which reflects how some members of the autistic community may avoid direct eye contact.”
“I’m not making fun of people with autism. I actually think it’s terrible. And I’ve done a lot to try to help get us to the place where we can figure out what is causing autism, but we are at this weird place where the left is like, ‘Actually it’s great if people are autistic. Actually I love that my family member’s autistic. I hope we get more autistic people,’” Gonzales comments.
“I want to solve what’s happening to people. I want to solve why so many people are being diagnosed with autism, why so many people can’t make direct eye contact, why so many people need noise-canceling headphones,” she continues.
“It’s absurd. It’s absolutely absurd,” she adds.
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Another ICE shooting in Minnesota — and it’s the left fanning the flames
There was another ICE shooting in Minnesota, but while leftist politicians and media try to spin it to incriminate ICE, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales points out that they’re the ones fanning the flames.
“Things are not cooling down, cooling off in Minneapolis, in Minnesota. It’s actually just intensifying because there was another person shot by ICE in Minneapolis, and you’re getting the exact same reaction from the left that you would expect,” Gonzales comments.
According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, “Federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis of an illegal alien from Venezuela who was released into the country by Joe Biden in 2022.”
When the subject attempted to flee the scene, he crashed into a parked car — and then fled on foot. When the ICE officer caught up to him, the subject not only began to resist and assault the officer, but two more subjects came out of a nearby apartment and began attacking the officer with a snow shovel and a broom handle.
While the officer was being attacked, the original subject got loose and began hitting the officer with the shovel or broom handle. As the officer was beginning to fear for his life, he fired a defensive shot to defend himself and hit the immigrant in the leg.
“He was being attacked by three people, only fired one shot. That’s way more restraint than I would show. Way more restraint than I would show. … At this point, you have so many people going after ICE. You have so many people who mean to cause them harm. To me, it would be justifiable self-defense,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
And while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) is now claiming that he’s never encouraged anything other than peace in his city, Gonzales has the receipts.
“Let’s be very clear,” Frey began in a recent press conference. “I’ve seen conduct from ICE that is disgusting and is intolerable. We don’t use the word ‘invasion’ lightly. What we are seeing is thousands, plural, thousands of federal agents coming into our city.”
“They are not here to cause safety in this city. What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. And I have a message for ICE. To ICE, get the f**k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” Frey continued.
“That’s very peaceful,” Gonzales comments. “That’s very, very peaceful rhetoric coming from Jacob Frey. … He’s not the one trying to generate attention or controversy or fan the flames. That’s not him. In fact, he and all of the elected officials in Minnesota have done nothing but try to promote peace.”
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Why your aunt hates ICE: A spiritual analysis of liberal women
Are American women experiencing a deeper spiritual crisis beneath today’s political chaos?
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes so, arguing that the most extreme strains of progressive activism are not driven by the majority of women — who largely identify as conservative or moderate — but by a smaller, highly intense subset channeling their natural nurturing instincts into politics.
And the liberal media’s new darling — the perceived victim of the recent ICE shooting in Minneapolis, Renee Nicole Good — is an example of the stereotypical woman who could be identified as having had a spiritual crisis.
“She’s kind of the stereotype of this liberal, white woman. Is this characterization of older, white women as unstable social justice activists accurate? I would argue yes and no. So if we look at the political demographics of the white woman in America, 36% of white women identify as conservative,” she says.
“Most white women don’t actually identify as liberal: 33% is moderate, 28% as liberal. That is still a large percentage, but that is a lower percentage of progressives in our demographic than any other demographic of women in America. So white women are actually the most conservative female demographic in America,” she continues.
However, as Stuckey points out, the women who identify as liberal are “extremely intense.”
“I think it has to do with this idea of misplaced mothering. And this is not just for white women. This is just for women in general,” she explains.
Misplaced mothering is when women — who have a natural biological instinct to nurture children — instead put that instinct into pets, plants, politics, or their profession.
“This kind of disordered channeling of the nurturing, beautifying, cultivating, mothering instinct creates a kind of inner discord and disorder that lends itself to bitterness and can lend itself to instability and lends itself to outsized passion when it comes to social justice projects and social justice causes,” Stuckey explains.
“The illegal alien becomes your child, or the gangbanger becomes your child, or this man who thinks that he’s caught in the wrong body and just wants to go into the girls’ locker room becomes your child. These causes become your children, the perceived victim in these causes become your children,” she continues.
“And this is all triggered by what I call toxic empathy,” she says, pointing out that the more empathetic a person is, the more likely they are to be radicalized.
“The more highly empathetic someone is, actually, the meaner they can be to those that they don’t perceive as the victim. If you perceive this one person as the oppressed … you’re putting all your feelings in how they feel. Everyone that you see as oppressing that victim becomes your enemy, and you become absolutely ruthless to them,” she explains.
This is why so many highly empathetic women are going to bat for Renee Nicole Good, when if you scroll through their social media history, they’re dancing on the grave of Charlie Kirk.
“She feels like she is like a mother and protector of all of these supposedly marginalized groups,” Stuckey says, “Everyone that she sees as the oppressor becomes the enemy, and she is cruel towards them, and she will fight them tooth and nail.”
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Will Supreme Court SAVE women’s sports from liberal activists?
West Virginia has banned young men like Becky Pepper-Jackson — a transgender 15-year-old — from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.
While the law has been blocked by lower courts, conservatives and fathers — like BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere — are hoping that the outcome will be different at the conservative-dominated Supreme Court.
“The 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson is the sole transgender student athlete in the entire state of West Virginia, according to her attorneys and her bid to continue playing competitive sports is in the hands of the Supreme Court,” Stu reads from a Washington Post article on “Stu Does America.”
Jackson’s lawyers argued that the ban discriminates against him for being transgender, which they believe violates his constitutional equal protection rights.
However, the state argued that the ban is necessary in order to preserve fairness in women’s sports, which means that Becky Pepper-Jackson — who the state also argued has an unfair physical advantage like all biological males — is no exception.
“This is something that literally everyone knows. And when I say literally everyone knows it, I mean not just you and me. … Everyone, including far-left lunatics, understand this. They all know it. They all know it in their hearts, in their minds. They all know it,” Stu says.
“What they admit publicly, what they argue publicly, is something totally different many times. But they all know what the truth is here. Every single one of them. This is not, like, some mysterious information we’ve stumbled upon. I didn’t dig through a government report and find some little notation at the end that indicates, ‘Wow, we discovered new information,’” he continues.
“That’s not what’s going on here. This is just blatantly obvious things that everyone understands,” he adds.
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Christian nationalists argue ‘less than ideal’ interracial relationships are wrong
When interracial marriage became a hot topic on the tip of Christian nationalists’ tongues this week, the controversial pastor Joel Webbon chimed in — sparking even more debate.
“Interracial marriage, while biblically permissible, generally/ordinarily goes against God’s normative design for humanity, nations, and cultures,” Webbon said in a post on X.
Dale Partridge, another minister, responded to Webbon’s post, writing: “As a Christian man happily married to a Mexican/Spanish/American woman, I actually agree with Joel Webbon. Interracial marriage is not the ‘ideal.’ Now, like Joel, I do not believe it is sinful, and if providence positions two Christians from different ethnic backgrounds to unite in marriage, it can be a glorious thing (which it has been for us).”
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Partridge went on to caveat that interracial marriage “does create a variety of additional hurdles in marriage and family life.”
BlazeTV contributor Virgil Walker doesn’t quite align with their beliefs, but he also doesn’t feel the need to disparage them for it.
“There’s a branch, there’s a segment of the Christian nationalist movement that I’ve warned about years ago, that I wrote about, regarding this ethnocentrism that would take shape and take place. And there’s nothing wrong with ethnic centrality, with thinking about your ethnicity,” Walker tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”
“The problem is when we start pushing these morality ideas, these moral issues, these moral ideas, into the context of ethnicity to say, ‘Hey, marriage outside of this is not ideal and here’s why.’ You’re adding to what God has already stated about who we are, about how we’re to function, and even about who we’re to marry,” Walker explains.
“What these men are doing are they’re signaling where they stand, and I’m not mad at that. I’m not angry at that at all. I think it’s actually a good thing for them to signal where they stand for those who operate and agree with them to align themselves with that kind of thinking,” he continues.
“I do think it is incumbent upon us, as ministers of the gospel, as Christians, as thought leaders, to be clear about what the Bible actually says and not allow anyone to say what God has not said,” he adds.
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She abandoned her anti-trans activism the moment it became inconvenient
Once upon a time, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair went “hard in the paint” writing a children’s book speaking out against the transitioning of children, titled “Elephants Are Not Birds.”
“It’s a children’s book to explain that you can’t be something that you’re not. An elephant cannot be a bird. A boy cannot be a girl. This was like the entire reason she was one of the … activists who was trying to make sure that we stopped transing children and that we stopped trying to convince women to chop off health body parts, or boys to stop their puberty and the obvious sterilization that comes from that,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
St. Clair is also the mother of one of Elon Musk’s 14 children, and the two are having a very public fight over the child — which has been made worse by her now apologizing to the trans community.
“So now, Ashley St. Clair, in true, typical, feminist fashion, all of a sudden she has a totally different view on trans,” Gonzales explains.
In a post on X, St. Clair responded to criticism from an anonymous account that wrote, “you’ve previously engaged in blatant transphobia, how do you feel about trans people in the wake of noticing how the far right truly is?”
“I feel immense guilt for my role. And even more guilt that things I have said in the past may have caused my son’s sister more pain. Idrk how to make amends for many of these things but I have been trying incredibly hard privately to learn + advocate for those within the trans community that I’ve hurt,” St. Clair responded.
“What she’s referring to right there is Elon Musk’s trans child. He has a child who is a male whose mother is allowing him to live as a female. So now she’s referring to the trans person as a sister when it’s a boy,” Gonzales comments.
“Now all of a sudden she’s, like, weaponizing children’s lives and mental illness against her ex,” she adds.
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Zohran Mamdani is now openly pitching communism — and mocking ‘rugged individualism’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in ceremony went as one might expect, with the young politician praising the “warmth of collectivism” while dissing the “frigidity of rugged individualism.”
And BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere couldn’t be less surprised.
“You might think, well, you know, he won the election. Sure, he was a firebrand when he was out there on the campaign tour, but what’s he really going to be like as a mayor?” Stu asks on “Stu Does America.”
“He tried to make that very, very clear in his opening speech, where he talked about ‘the warmth of collectivism,’” he adds, before playing a clip from Mamdani’s telling speech.
“We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it,” Mamdani boomed.
“Because no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where you come from, the words that most define us are the two we all share: New Yorkers,” he added.
“It is unbelievable that anyone is falling for this after what has happened in our history. The ‘frigidity of rugged individualism,’ the thing that built America, he’s describing it as frigid and cold and awful, an awful experience,” Stu comments.
“And then the warmth, the warm blanket of collectivism. It’s not even hiding it. It’s not even the collectivism, the warmth of working together. He’s not even using an euphemism. He’s just coming out and saying it. He’s just saying, ‘Hey, let me just pitch this to you: Marxism,’” he continues.
“Now, of course, the warmth of collectivism is very, very known. Well known. They wrote a great book about it. It’s a little long. It’s called ‘The Black Book of Communism,’” he adds.
Stu points out that the book is a great one to have in your personal library, as it’s an “endless telling of all the horrors of the world of communism and what it has done to us over the past hundred years.”
“We’re talking about, you know, millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of people dead,” he says. “Like we’re talking nine figures of people killed by this philosophy that the people of New York were just like, ‘You know, let’s try that here.’”
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