Excerpts Fantasy Read an Excerpt From Sophie Jordan’s A Fire in the Sky Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying. But human lust for power is immortal. By Sophie Jordan | Published on September 24, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from brand new epic romantasy A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan—available now from Avon. Note from the publisher: Slight spoiler hints ahead! Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous… especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it’s her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard… though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship.When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.The wedding night begins with unexpected passion—and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride…but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors—secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone. Magic is not dead… it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it. Fell Tamsyn had been gone for a while. Too Long. I didn’t like her being out of my sight. I told myself it was about being in control, about safety, about knowing where everyone was at all times: my warriors and now… Tamsyn. She was no warrior. Obviously, she should be monitored for her own protection. Of course, it was more than that. More than I was willing to admit to myself. The feeling was different and unfamiliar, like the fit of a new sword, the grip strange in my hand. When I returned from watering the horses, Mari pointed in the direction Tamsyn had gone, and I set off, following her meandering tracks, easy enough to find in ground still moist from the recent rain. I shook my head as they went deeper and deeper into the dense forest. She should not have strayed this far. My frustration with her was tempered by my own sense of responsibility for not keeping a more vigilant eye on her. I crouched low, assessing, touching the freshly broken ground as another set of tracks joined hers. They belonged to a man. Blood rushed to my head. I unsheathed my sword as I stood and wildly glanced around. Heart pounding, I increased my pace, jogging lightly on booted feet, stealthily, circling and following tracks that suddenly became wild and abundant on the forest floor. Were they… running? I resisted the urge to call out for her. I didn’t know who else was out here with her, but I didn’t need to alert them that I was on their trail. That goal fled at her first scream. Squawking birds bolted from their branches. I started in one direction, my ears straining, detecting distant cries. The sounds of struggle. Thuds. Grunts. Flesh striking flesh. Bitter saliva coated my tongue, flooding my mouth. I paused, swinging around, sword poised, roaring her name. She did not respond. Instead, there was a man’s bellow, followed by an eruption of light from the trees to my right. An explosion. I lunged that way, smelling smoke as my sword cut through moss and foliage until I pulled up at the sight of a charred and smoldering body motionless on the ground. I gagged at the overwhelming stench of scorched flesh. I was accustomed to the trappings of battle in all its forms. I knew the odor, but it did not make it any less offensive. I surged forward, examining the body. My chest deflated with a breath of relief. Not her. Not Tamsyn. The words reverberated through me in a comforting mantra. I peered intently at the smoking corpse. The bulk of the damage was to the face and upper body. Hair and skin were gone, revealing only widespread patches of white and blackened tissue, but it was a man. My gaze trailed down the rest of the body. His legs and boots were still identifiable. Recognizable. I knew those boots. My gaze went to his sword beside him. I knew the sword as well. Arkin. My chest sank. What was he doing out here? Dead? Had he followed her? What happened to him? And where was Tamsyn? Had the bandits followed us and decided to claim her anyway? Or was this the work of something else? I circled sharply, muscles taut and ready to spring as I searched for her, for an attacker who had done this… My heart seized in my chest when I spotted scraps of Tamsyn’s clothing littering the ground. The familiar fabric of her riding skirt. The blue shredded bits of her cloak. “Tamsyn!” I roared, acrid panic eating its way up my throat. Buy the Book A Fire in the Sky Sophie Jordan Buy Book A Fire in the Sky Sophie Jordan Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget A branch creaked and groaned. Leaves rustled, several falling, raining over me. My gaze shot up, searching the tree, colliding with a pair of eyes. I went cold beneath their searing regard. Dark vertical pupils flickered and shifted, snakelike, following my movements warily as I withdrew my bow and pulled an arrow from my quiver. The beast moved, and the branch splintered under its weight. It emerged from the tree, the color of flame, and dropped, all twenty feet of it catching itself on the air, its great shuddering wings unfurling with a snap around its lithe form, creating a gust of current that lifted the hair off my shoulders. Dragon. The word filled my mind. Exploded into harsh reality as I stared up at the terrible beauty of it. My focus sharpened on its talon-like fingers, at the shreds of Tamsyn’s cloak tangled there, and my stomach rebelled. Bile rose in my throat, and it was all I could do to stop from being sick. Its face shimmered like firelight as it watched me with an intensity I took for hunger. I braced myself for a torrent of flame. The firestorm did not come. Shaking with rage, I nocked my arrow and aimed, ready to let loose on this monster, this merciless killer. It had incinerated Arkin and taken Tamsyn, leaving only remnants of her clothing. Those golden eyes blinked once, and then it vanished, soaring off into the sky. My arrow fired after the creature, missing—not that it would have done much good. My arrow was simply an arrow. Long had been the day since we’d needed scale-tipped arrows. It was gone. Chest heaving, legs braced apart, I watched it, a bright point in the sky, until it faded from sight. Fury and shock and a whole host of emotions seethed over my crawling skin. The dragon was back. Or rather, it had never left. First my parents. Then Arkin. And now Tamsyn. My wife. It felt as though a limb had been severed from my body. The distress I felt over that… over losing her, was knee buckling. Astonishing in its fierceness. I’d only just found the girl, only begun to contemplate that she might be someone I wanted to keep… that she might not be the princess I set out to obtain for myself, but she was more, better than anything I had imagined… the hand in the dark that I could reach for. Staring where the dragon had once filled the sky, I vowed vengeance. I would find it. Hunt it to the ends of the earth. Nowhere would it be at peace. Nowhere would it be safe from me. I would kill it dead. Excerpted from A Fire in the Sky, copyright © 2024 by Sophie Jordan. The post Read an Excerpt From Sophie Jordan’s <i>A Fire in the Sky</i> appeared first on Reactor.

A federal judge ruled that the Indiana Department of Corrections must pay for an incarcerated baby murderer to turn his penis into an imitation-vagina, on the pretext that the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the one prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment, requires it. In 2001, 19-year-old Jonathan C. Richardson strangled his 11-month-old stepdaughter while her mother, Linda Thomas, was at work. He showed no remorse for the crime, later telling a prison official, “I killed the little [expletive, expletive].” He was convicted and sentenced to 55 years in prison. “On the day he murdered my child, I personally observed plaintiff with a fresh bleeding tattoo of my child’s name on his arm,” recalled Thomas, who obtained a divorce soon afterward. For nearly two decades, Richardson was housed as a male in a male prison without raising a fuss. Meanwhile, the culture outside was changing rapidly. In 2018, Richardson heard about “gender identity” from another male inmate, who went by the name of “Pearl” and showed him pamphlets from California state prisons. California has housed dozens of trans-identifying males in female prisons. Not surprisingly, California’s prison pregnancy rate has skyrocketed. Richardson began to self-identify as transgender in 2020 and obtained cross-sex hormones. He uses the name “Autumn Cordellioné,” and that false name appears in the lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the Indiana Department of Corrections. Richardson testified that he chose the name “Autumn” after an ex-girlfriend from high school. Presumably, she would find his appropriation of her name offensive. Indiana Trans RulingDownload In 2022, he lodged a sexual harassment complaint, claiming that his cellmate had raped him in 2005, and that he had stabbed his cellmate in retaliation. In a later deposition for his federal lawsuit, Richardson revealed a pattern of having sex with men that dated back to before his incarceration. During his brief marriage to Thomas, the mother of the child he murdered, Richardson worked as a janitor in a pornographic bookstore and would engage in lewd acts with male customers while pretending to be a girl. “I felt I was only a woman when a man used me,” he claimed. He also said he stole female clothing to wear so that he “could for a second realize the girl inside.” Some of Richardson’s statements may be self-motivated. On Jan. 4, Richardson requested a reduction of his sentence, though he’s not eligible for release until 2027, claiming that the “circumstances that resulted in the crime are no longer present,” due to his transgender identity. Under the current policies of the Indiana Department of Corrections, Richardson was allowed to transition both chemically and socially, but the department refused to sponsor gender transition surgeries, under a law the Indiana legislature enacted last year (IC 11-10-3-3.5). With the help of the Indiana ACLU, Richardson sued to obtain gender transition surgeries. Richardson demanded a list of “Surgeries to Reach My Ideal Self,” which was presented as evidence in court and included “a ‘vagina,’ breast implants, a brow lift, a brow reduction, a tummy tuck, gluteal implants [Brazilian butt lift], a uterus transplant, hair removal, and wigs.” He later amended his demands to two surgeries: an orchiectomy (surgery to remove the testicles) and penile inversion. On Sept. 17, federal Judge Richard L. Young of the Southern District of Indiana ruled in favor of Richardson, handing down a “preliminary” injunction, which he would renew every 90 days until Indiana carried out the surgery. This verdict seems offensive to the taxpayers of Indiana. Young’s astonishing rationale was that refusing to provide a prisoner with genital gender transition surgeries counted as “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. He breezily dismissed the state’s argument that these surgeries permanently sterilize the subject by appealing to informed consent procedures. But the state’s argument is a good one: What is truly “cruel and unusual” is allowing mentally troubled inmates to permanently mutilate their bodies based upon their current feelings. Even more astonishing is that Judge Young could cite precedent for this travesty of justice. “In 2011, the 7th Circuit upheld a district court’s injunction of a Wisconsin statute that banned both hormone therapy and surgery for inmates suffering from gender dysphoria,” he wrote. This was a shockingly early decision, predating the Supreme Court’s overturn of the Definition of Marriage Act (Windsor, 2012) and nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage (Obergefell, 2015). Most current transgender lawsuits argue for a redefinition of “sex” under the Equal Protection Clause, which was first proposed by the Obama administration in 2016. The 7th Circuit was pushing a transgender policy agenda years before there was any national transgender movement. In all likelihood, the Indiana Office of the Attorney General lost this case from the moment it was assigned to Judge Young. An appointee of President Bill Clinton who is now on senior status (meaning he has a reduced caseload and does not fill one of the court’s slots), Young actively advanced the LGBT agenda during his time on the federal bench. In 2014, he struck down Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage—a year before the Supreme Court’s lawless Obergefell ruling. Judge Young’s Sept. 17 ruling continued his streak of judicial activism when he substituted his own judgments about grammar, biology, and reality for those of the state of Indiana. Consider only the following sentence, taken from the ruling, “She was born with anatomy traditionally associated with males.” Such a statement reveals ideological priors that the state never had a chance to overcome. Last week, Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., introduced a bill to prevent the federal government from pursuing the 7th Circuit’s jurisprudence down the slippery slope of providing gender transition surgeries for inmates. Specifically, his bill would “prohibit taxpayer funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. (The bill assumes a situation—required by federal law, but not currently enforced in practice—where illegal immigrants remain in federal custody long enough to schedule surgeries.) “It shouldn’t be needed, just like we shouldn’t have to have a bill that says that only women play in women’s sports,” Steube declared on “Washington Watch” Thursday. “You would think that no way that America is spending taxpayer dollars to do gender transition surgeries for trans inmates and illegal immigrants in our country, but this is something that Kamala Harris supports. And our tax dollars are picking up the tab.” During her 2019 presidential campaign, Harris responded to an ACLU candidate questionnaire and answered “yes” to the following question: “As president, will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care—including those in prison and immigration detention—will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care?” Harris’ answer: I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained. Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment. While Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign articulated relatively few concrete policy positions, Harris did say in her first media interview as the Democratic nominee, “I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is: My values have not changed.” That provides small comfort to women like Thomas and other victims and survivors of violent, incarcerated felons. Thomas pleaded with the court not to allow her ex-husband to proceed with his name-change, gender transition procedures, and appeal for early release. “I live in fear for myself and my children of the day [Richardson] is released from prison, which largely increases at the thought that [his] identity may be concealed upon release.” If the ACLU holds Harris to her 2019 candidate pledge, this policy could go nationwide, applying to illegal immigrants, too. “These are people who are in the country illegally. They’re in custody and they’re demanding these surgeries and medical treatment that are unnecessary and costly.” This situation, presumably, would be offensive to most Americans. Originally published by The Washington Stand We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Federal Judge Orders Indiana to Provide Transgender Surgeries to Violent Inmate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was a no-show at a congressional hearing Tuesday morning, triggering House Republicans to move toward holding the nation’s top diplomat in contempt of Congress. Blinken originally was subpoenaed Sept. 3 by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, for a hearing on the committee’s investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s poorly executed withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.  The secretary of state was expected to rebuff the Foreign Affairs Committee’s demand to appear despite persistent threats from McCaul that the panel would hold him in contempt. To show it was serious about holding Blinken accountable, the committee released a draft contempt resolution report Monday, and will now look to carry out its threat. In anticipation of McCaul’s move, Blinken penned a letter to the chairman dated Sunday and attempting to justify his absence from Tuesday’s hearing.  Blinken, an appointee of President Joe Biden, wrote that he was “profoundly disappointed you have once again chosen to send me a subpoena and threaten contempt, rather than engage with me and the [State] Department in a meaningful way to resolve this matter through the constitutionally mandated accommodation process.” The secretary of state also said in the letter that before the committee issued its Sept. 3 subpoena, he spoke with McCaul over the phone and informed the chairman that he would be in Egypt on Sept. 19, the day the committee originally planned to have Blinken testify.  “On Sept. 18, you issued a ‘superseding’ subpoena for me to appear on Sept. 24, accompanied by a letter in which you claimed you had just become aware of my travel to the Middle East, despite the fact I had personally informed you,” Blinken wrote.  The secretary of state added that in their phone conversation Sept. 3, he said he would be unavailable because of meetings at the U.N. General Assembly. Blinken’s letter, however, did not stop the Foreign Affairs Committee from moving toward holding Biden’s secretary of state in contempt. In a 29-page contempt report, McCaul noted that the committee already had made “an accommodation to the secretary’s travel schedule” and “compell[ed] his appearance on a date the secretary stated he would be in the United States.” “Despite repeated warnings and accommodations, Secretary Blinken refused to appear to provide his testimony before the committee,” the report says. McCaul seems to remember his Sept. 3 phone conversation with Blinken differently. When asked to testify before the House committee, the report asserts, “Secretary Blinken refused.”  This would have been Blinken’s first time addressing the committee since it released the findings of its investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. “When asked by Chairman McCaul to dedicate a few hours for public testimony, Secretary Blinken asserted [he] was unavailable every single day in September,” the report says of the Blinken-McCaul phone call. It adds: Secretary Blinken apparently planned to attend events associated with the United Nations General Assembly in New York the week of Sept. 23 to 27 and was unwilling to travel back to D.C. during any of those days for a hearing. The United States has a designated United Nations ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who would also be in attendance. When Blinken didn’t appear Tuesday, McCaul adjourned the hearing on the Afghanistan exit and announced that he intended “to proceed with a markup to begin the formal process of holding the secretary in contempt of Congress.” Rather than taking questions from the American lawmakers, Blinken posted a video of himself on the way to the U.N. gathering where the secretary was to hobnob with the global elite. On my way to watch @POTUS deliver remarks at the UN General Assembly in New York. When the president took office, he was determined to restore, rebuild and rejuvenate our alliances and partnerships. This week at UNGA, we are reminded of how he's done just that. pic.twitter.com/evew8b1RJ4— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) September 24, 2024 The House now heads toward a vote to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress, which if prosecuted and resulting in a conviction may result in $100,000 in fines or one month to a year behind bars.  Prosecuting Blinken’s failure to appear before American representatives is the responsibility of Biden’s Justice Department, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Although the House voted in June to hold Garland himself in contempt of Congress, his Justice Department simply declined to prosecute. The post Blinken Ignores Congress, Hobnobs With Elite at UN appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. US Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have joined those currently publicly pressuring companies behind social media platforms and encrypted messages – they have identified 11 of the most widely used ones – to make sure they “combat election disinformation.” Specifically, four Democrats (the letter was also signed by Jeanne Shaheen and Elizabeth Warren) want to know what these companies’ censorship plans are: the senators phrase it as the need to discover what measures will be taken to “de-amplify” (and that includes removal) content and accounts seen as spreading the said type of disinformation. We obtained a copy of the letter for you here. How will the tech companies know this is happening on their platforms? They will, the senators write if that content or accounts violate their policies. (That is, those same vague and restrictive policies that have been used and abused over the years.) As far as Wyden and Merkley and others are concerned, it doesn’t matter if this content they consider to be election disinformation is AI-generated or not. On the encrypted chat apps front, they want the companies operating them to “explain whether they have a reporting system for their users to flag unwanted election disinformation and what enforcement measures are in place.” To cover all this the way the senators see fit, the companies and their platforms – Meta, Google (YouTube), TikTok, X, Reddit, Snapchat, Amazon (Twitch), Discord, Signal, Telegram, and Apple (Messages) – are urged to “increase resources” needed to fight what the US lawmakers describe in terms presented as a national-level crisis. They warn that disinformation that is allegedly now more present than ever could suppress voter participation, but also “sow doubt in US democracy and incite political violence.” The many times repeated references are made in the senators’ letter about alleged foreign disinformation campaigns during the 2020 and 2022 elections in the US, and a note is made that this “disinformation” would at that time remain online longer if it was in Spanish. Essentially, what Wyden and Merkley now want from the tech giants – but also companies like Signal, that bill themselves as the ultimate privacy-friendly choice – is a report, to keep them on the straight and narrow, at least the way that is perceived by four Democrat senators at the height of a presidential campaign. “Share information about the size and capacity of their 2024 US elections safety resourcing – including personnel and technologies – broken down by language,” is the opening demand aimed at social platforms. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Democrat Senators Urge Platforms To Share Plans for Addressing “Disinformation” (Even Inside Encrypted Apps) appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Big Tech platforms X and Telegram are the latest targets of anti-free speech campaigns by governments consumed with making George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 a reality.  After owner Elon Musk and X executives declared for weeks that X would not agree to censor Brazilian dissident accounts or pay fines, the company has reportedly agreed to these measures to avoid a ban from Brazil’s radical Supreme Court. Telegram is likewise reportedly being coerced to share user data by the French government. The New York Times reported Saturday that X’s lawyers affirmed X agreed to censor accounts considered objectionable by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. X will also pay the fines De Moraes requested and appoint a new legal representative in Brazil, the outlet stated. The Times added that the Brazilian Supreme Court affirmed X’s new decision in a new court filing. In Europe, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was recently arrested in France, allegedly for not censoring content deemed “illegal” under European Union laws on the encrypted app. Barron’s magazine reported Sept. 23 that Durov had since affirmed Telegram had removed “problematic content” and updated its terms of service and privacy policy. The update reportedly clarifies that Telegram will share details, including phone numbers and IP addresses, from violative users with government authorities if supposedly “valid legal requests” are made. “‘We won't let bad actors jeopardize the integrity of our platform for almost a billion users,’” Durov reportedly stated.  In effect, both X and Telegram appear to be victims of government censorship crackdowns. Musk had previously argued that the new demands from De Moraes actually violated Brazil’s laws and thus could not be complied with. “We do follow the laws in the countries within which we operate. The problem in Brazil is that we were ordered to break the law by ‘the law’ with a gag order that we couldn’t tell anyone about it,” Musk posted Sept. 1. Musk also posted in August, “The decision to close the ? office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre’s (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there was no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed.” X Global Government Affairs agreed, “The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that.” [Emphasis added.] Now, however, both Durov’s Telegram and Musk’s X are planning to comply with Brazil and France’s demands, in yet another totalitarian blow to online free speech. Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View are supposed to be all about promoting and sticking up for their fellow women, but their support has proven largely to fall along party lines. Much was the case on Tuesday’s episode as they helped far-left Vanderbilt University professor and prolific race-baiter Michael Eric Dyson defend sending Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC) unsolicited, flirty text messages, and suggest she was a racist in the process. On the show to promote his new far-left book, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin played a soundbite of a confrontation on CNN between Dyson and Mace where the former suggested that latter was a racist for mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris’s name. Farah Griffin then decried Mace for going public with unsolicited and flirty messages Dyson sent Mace talking about her looks. “So, because we live in the crazy year of 2024, she then later accused you of sending her flirty texts which she entered into the congressional record. Can you clear this up for us, professor?” she teed up her guest to defend himself with no criticism or push back. “Let's look at a little background. I'm a preacher so I know sin. My own and others. Right? Nobody’s perfect,” Dyson proclaimed with an unearned righteousness. “I saw Whoopi yesterday talk about the fact in regard to Janet Jackson, people make mistakes and we have to acknowledge that.” Dyson proceeded to argue that the messages he sent about her looks were totally fine because they’re “peers” and there was no “power imbalance”: Number two as a professor, I've seen things evolve over space and time. What you could say 20 years ago can't say today, not because you're suddenly wrong but the temper of the times has changed. So, if you acknowledge a woman's beauty, then there’s a power imbalance, there is a problem there. But peer-to-peer, a different story. Still cautious, but different.     “Then thirdly, let’s look at the politics. We're living in a toxic culture where there’s a cancel culture gotcha. We’re not trying to elevate, we’re trying to eviscerate,” he whined. In a nasty and condescending tone, he said: “So, when it comes to Nancy Mace, you see, I tried to be nice the woman. I said you're a wonderful woman, I lied.” Later adding: “I wasn't flirting with you. I was trying to be flattering to you.” Despite the fact that Dyson’s comments on CNN alluded to the insult that she was a racist, Farah Griffin claimed he didn’t suggest such a thing, and he proceeded to compare her to a dog: DYSON: I then said – but – but I tried to be nice to her. And then even when I pointed out to her what the repetition of the misnaming of Kamala Harris would do, she got defensive, ‘oh, you're calling me a racist.’ No! FARAH GRIFFIN: And you never did. I was watching. DYSON: I never did. I think Shakespeare said ‘the lady doth too much’ or in the hood, we say, ‘a hit dog will holler. None of The View ladies shared how they would feel getting such messages. Unironically, he followed up by once again suggesting Mace was a racist, this time getting agreement from moderator Whoopi Goldberg: DYSON: So, the point is, that – that this woman has now depended upon – like her inspiration Donald Trump – a racist trope, the black brute seeks the innocent white woman – WHOPPI GOLDBERG: That’s right! That’s right! DYSON: -- and now I'm seeking lasciviously to approach her. I didn't call her names and acknowledged her humanity.   Sunny Hostin, who's a the descendant of particularly brutal and staunch slaveowners, tees up Dyson to call for preparations, which Hostin has previously proclaimed she's entitled to. pic.twitter.com/tBGBbK1lIZ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 24, 2024   Goldberg is a hypocrite on this issue of pronouncing names correctly and it being a matter of respecting someone’s humanity. She refuses to say former President Trump’s name and spits on the floor when she slips up. She’s even attacked his grandchild and demanded he not be humanized. Further in the interview, staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin – who’s the descendant of slave owners, yet claims she’s entitled to reparations – teed up Dyson to call for reparations (Click “expand”): HOSTIN: Do things seen, in your view, particularly unfinished at this moment. DYSON: That’s a great point. Yes, yes, they do, because we fought time and again after reconstruction, after 12 years of progress, the white backlash was vicious. HOSTIN: Yeah. DYSON: And the only people at that time who got reparations were white slave owners who complained that they were now without their black help. HOSTIN: Property. As further evidence of how degenerate the purported “Christian minister” was, here’s how he described the debate between Harris and Trump: “I ain't seen no Haitians eating no dogs and cats, but I saw a black woman eating a white ass on television!” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View September 24, 2024 11:39:52 a.m. Eastern (…) [Video from CNN] MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: That's the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of black people. REP. NANCY MACE (R-SC): So, now you're calling me a racist? DYSON: I didn’t say that. MACE: That’s BS. That’s complete BS. [Transition] MACE: Kamala Harris – [Entire CNN panel jumps down her throat for mispronouncing “Kamala”] [Crosstalk] [Cuts back to live] ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: So, because we live in the crazy year of 2024, she then later accused you of sending her flirty texts which she entered into the congressional record. Can you clear this up for us, professor? DYSON: Absolutely. Well, first of all, it’s great to be here with you wonderful women. The thing is, is that – Let's look at a little background. I'm a preacher so I know sin. My own and others. Right? Nobody’s perfect. I saw Whoopi yesterday talk about the fact in regard to Janet Jackson, people make mistakes and we have to acknowledge that. Number two as a professor, I've seen things evolve over space and time. What you could say 20 years ago can't say today, not because you're suddenly wrong but the temper of the times has changed. So, if you acknowledge a woman's beauty, then there’s a power imbalance, there is a problem there. But peer-to-peer, a different story. Still cautious, but different. Then thirdly, let’s look at the politics. We're living in a toxic culture where there’s a cancel culture gotcha. We’re not trying to elevate, we’re trying to eviscerate. So, when it comes to Nancy Mace, you see, I tried to be nice the woman. [Laughter] I said you're a wonderful woman, I lied. [Laughter] I then said – but – but I tried to be nice to her. And then even when I pointed out to her what the repetition of the misnaming of Kamala Harris would do, she got defensive, ‘oh, you're calling me a racist.’ No! FARAH GRIFFIN: And you never did. I was watching. DYSON: I never did. I think Shakespeare said ‘the lady doth too much’ or in the hood, we say, ‘a hit dog will holler. [Laughter] So, the point is, that – that this woman has now depended upon – like her inspiration Donald Trump – a racist trope, the black brute seeks the innocent white woman – WHOPPI GOLDBERG: That’s right! That’s right! DYSON: -- and now I'm seeking lasciviously to approach her. I didn't call her names and acknowledged her humanity. (…) 11:45:27 a.m. Eastern DYSON: I think that he [GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson (NC)] needs to debate Kamala Harris. I ain't seen no Haitians eating no dogs and cats, but I saw a black woman eating a white ass on television! (…) 11:50:34 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: Do things seen, in your view, particularly unfinished at this moment. DYSON: That’s a great point. Yes, yes, they do, because we fought time and again after reconstruction, after 12 years of progress, the white backlash was vicious. HOSTIN: Yeah. DYSON: And the only people at that time who got reparations were white slave owners who complained that they were now without their black help. HOSTIN: Property. DYSON: So now, you know, they denied us the right to vote. And not just black people. We talk -- In this book, we talk about women, we talk about Latinas, we talk about Asian brothers and sisters. We talk across the board. Which is why, again, when I said white Christians I meant white evangelical Christians, I’m not talking about all – I'm a Christian minister myself. So, I ain't hatin’. And this is why I try to extend a compliment to Nancy Mace. I wasn't flirting with you. I was trying to be flattering to you. (…)

A homeless male wearing a blonde wig, makeup, and pearls is accused of attempting to kidnap an 11-year-old boy outside of his Ohio home. According to the Alliance Police Department, 39-year-old Joshua Freyermuth was arrested Sunday for attempting to kidnap the boy that same day. 'He kicked his heels off — my son said he had white high heels on — and then he took off running down the street.' Freyermuth allegedly approached the child while he was outside his home in Alliance — roughly 30 miles southeast of Akron. Freyermuth — who also goes by the name Vicky, according to the Daily Mail — was accused of attempting to lure the boy away from his property. The police report stated that Freyermuth told the child, “I need to talk to you.” WOIO-TV reported that the child refused, and Freyermuth attempted to grab the boy on South Webb Avenue. The alleged victim said he was able to get away because the family's dog attacked the suspect. "When he grabbed my son's arm, my dog attacked him, and then he stumbled back off the stairs," the child's father, Zachery Thurmond, told WOIO. "He kicked his heels off — my son said he had white high heels on — and then he took off running down the street." The father said he chased after the male. Alliance police said they had enough evidence to make an arrest. Police also noted that there has been quite a reaction on social media. An Alliance police spokesperson said Freyermuth's arrest is "probably just as well for his safety" because of the number of people "who have decided they want to take this into their own hands." However, Freyermuth has denied the allegations.Still wearing his blonde wig during his arraignment Monday in Alliance Municipal Court on attempted kidnapping charges, Freyermuth told the judge, “I wasn’t even there. I didn’t try to kidnap anybody.” The suspect said he has an alibi and that he was at a friend's house when the alleged attempted child abduction was said to have occurred. Freyermuth's bond was set at $100,000, and he has been ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim. Freyermuth also was arrested Friday on drug possession charges after police said they found methamphetamine in his car. Police said they pulled Freyermuth over after they received reports of a suspect driving around trying to speak to children, according to the New York Post. Freyermuth's mugshot for that arrest shows him wearing a different wig, and he was released on bond for that charge. Image source: Stark County (Ohio) Jail Police are still investigating the alleged incident.Like Blaze News? Circumvent the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!