News The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep Jaskier and Geralt Bond Over Overcooked Meat in The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep Clip A very mature Witcher throws food at his companion By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 17, 2024 Credit: Netflix Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Netflix Netflix is bringing us another animated feature set in The Witcher universe. Today, we got a taste of what we’ll get from that film, which is called The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. The clip is part of the streamer’s “Geeked Week,” and starts out with Doug Cockle—who voices Geralt in the video games and also in Sirens of the Deep—introducing the feature, where he teases that Geralt will not only be battling men and monsters, but also merpeople. That’s right, merpeople! The clip sadly doesn’t show us any of those merpeople, but it does give us Geralt (Cockle) talking to his buddy Jaskier (voiced by Joey Batey, who also plays the character in the live-action series). The two are eating the cooked flesh of some animal Geralt undoubtedly killed and talking about how the Witcher doesn’t let anyone get close to him. Jaskier, being Jaskier, calls him a softie, which compels Geralt to throw food at him. It’s adorable. Sirens of the Deep is based on the short story by Andrzej Sapkowski called “A Little Sacrifice” and takes place sometime during the first season of the live-action show. Here’s a synopsis of the upcoming feature: Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, is hired to investigate a series of attacks in a seaside village and finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict between humans and merpeople. He must count on friends—old and new—to solve the mystery before the hostilities between the two kingdoms escalate into all-out war. In addition to Cockle and Batey, Anya Chalotra is also voicing her live-action character Yennefer. Christina Wren joins the cast as Essi Daven. Mike Ostrowski and Rae Benjamin penned the adaptation. The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep premieres on Netflix on February 11, 2025. Check out the clip below. [end-mark] The post Jaskier and Geralt Bond Over Overcooked Meat in <i>The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep</i> Clip appeared first on Reactor.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday condemned the media for not sufficiently covering the peril she believes former President Donald Trump poses to the planet while calling on Americans to be “outraged by what he represents.” Clinton’s remarks follow federal and local officials confirming Sunday the arrest of 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh for allegedly attempting to assassinate the former president the same day, with Trump blaming Democrats’ “rhetoric” for the attempt during a Monday interview. The former Democratic presidential nominee, on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” did not tamp down her rhetoric against Trump, repeatedly characterizing the former president as “dangerous” in the span of a few minutes. “Sadly, the press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should. They careen from one outrage to the next. What was outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front pages, even though it threatens the physical safety of so many people, particularly, as you point out, immigrants that he and [Sen. JD] Vance have decided to demonize,” Clinton said. “And I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is. The late great journalist Harry Evans one time said that journalists should really try to achieve objectivity, and by that, he said, I mean they should cover the object. Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump. His demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world. And stick with it.” “I believe Donald Trump has disqualified himself over and over and over again to be a presidential candidate, let alone a president … Part of what Trump is counting on is for people to get desensitized … Well, Americans need to understand that they have to take Trump both seriously and literally,” she added. “He has said what he wants to do. He and his allies with Project 2025, his desire to be a dictator at least on Day One. All of that is in the public record. And I believe that more Americans have to be willing to endure what, frankly, is discomforting and to some extent kind of painful, to take him at his word and to be outraged by what he represents.” Trump asserted on Truth Social in July that he has no knowledge of Project 2025 and no involvement in it. The former president also condemned some of the document’s contents. One of Routh’s social media posts mirrored Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden’s repeated claim that “democracy is on the ballot,” according to reports. CNN’s Dana Bash on Monday claimed that Routh’s anti-Trump social media posts have “nothing to do with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.” “The hopeful side of this is that I do think more and more Americans are rejecting the kind of chaos that he represents. We can’t go back. That’s what the Harris campaign says all the time,” Clinton said. “We’re not going back to … what he failed to do to protect American lives during COVID, we’re not going back to the romance with dictators that puts innocent lives at risk and America’s security in danger. We can’t go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world.” Clinton said in April that she believes Trump is “modeling himself” after dictators like Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Putin does what [Trump] would like to do,” she said. “Kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists into exile, rule without any check or balance. That’s what Trump really wants.” Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Even After 2 Assassination Attempts, Hillary Clinton Pushes Media to Demonize Trump More appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Time is running out for lawmakers on Capitol Hill to address a number of pressing issues before the session ends and they leave Washington until after the Nov. 5 election. The government will run out of funding come Sept. 30 without a continuing resolution; House Republicans are putting a full-court press on the Harris-Walz ticket through a number of committee probes; legislators are attempting to get to the bottom of not just one but two attempts on former President Donald Trump’s life. That sense of urgency is apparently lost on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, sources tell The Daily Signal. Rather than addressing House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to attach the SAVE Act to a six-month continuing resolution or the second assassination attempt on Trump in just over two months, McConnell devoted the Senate GOP’s Tuesday luncheon to discussing the merits of raising taxes to increase Pentagon funding. McConnell brought in experts from the Commission on the National Defense Strategy to discuss the commission’s recent report. In the executive summary of the report, the commission claims that “increased security spending should be accompanied by additional taxes and reforms to entitlement spending.” Furthermore, the United States should be prepared to “lead NATO planning… to deter and, if necessary, defeat Russian aggression.” One GOP senator asked his colleagues why the Senate GOP conference was mulling proposals to increase taxes when the current Republican nominee has made reducing taxes a core part of his campaign. The same senator also noted that these taxes would fork over more taxpayer dollars to the Pentagon when the public’s confidence in its leadership is at an all-time low, one source familiar with the luncheon’s proceedings told The Daily Signal. The presenters, according to the source, responded that spending cuts elsewhere could make up the difference, but did not specify where those cuts might come from. The source also suggested McConnell apparently lifted talking points straight from the report. McConnell told the Senate GOP conference that defense spending as a percentage of GDP was much higher during previous wars. “Defense spending in the Cold War relied on top marginal income tax rates above 70 percent and corporate tax rates averaging 50 percent,” the report’s executive summary claims. “Using the Cold War as a benchmark for spending should be accompanied by acknowledging the other fundamental changes that could supplement America’s efforts to deter threats and prepare for the future.”Today, the top marginal income tax rate is 37% and the corporate tax rate is 21% because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which McConnell pushed for and Trump signed into law. The post EXCLUSIVE: McConnell Focuses on Raising Taxes, Not Trump Assassination Attempt, at Senate Luncheon appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A European Union commissioner obsessed with crushing free speech online has suddenly resigned. Commissioner Thierry Breton announced in a letter he posted on X Monday that he was immediately resigning after alleged personal struggles with EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. This comes after Breton tried to force X owner Elon Musk to censor his interview of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. And just last week, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) called Breton to account for his anti-free speech actions. Breton first indicated his decision to resign when he posted an image of a blank canvas with the caption, “Breaking news: My official portrait for the next European Commission term.” He then claimed in his letter that French President Emmanuel Macron nominated him “for a second mandate in the [EU] College of Commissioners,” but accused Von der Leyen of requesting his exclusion. “In the very final stretch of negotiations on the composition of the future College, you asked France to withdraw my name — for personal reasons that in no instance you have discussed directly with me," Breton claimed. He whined that, in spite of allegedly “advancing the common European good,” now “In light of these latest developments – further testimony to questionable governance – I have to conclude that I can no longer exercise my duties in the College. I am therefore resigning from my position as European Commissioner, effective immediately.” Breton’s resignation is hardly tragic news to free speech advocates. In August, ahead of Musk’s interview with Trump, Breton issued a letter obliquely referring to the interview and ominously warning of potentially major legal action if “any negative effect” from the interview were to be deemed “illegal” by the EU.  “My services and I will be extremely vigilant to any evidence that points to breaches of the DSA and will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from serious harm,” Breton pontificated at the time, referring to the EU censorship law the Digital Services Act (DSA). That was not the only example of Breton’s censorship obsession. Last October, he threatened Meta, X and TikTok that they must increase censorship of free speech or face “penalties.” Breton’s resignation also comes just after U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, who previously criticized Breton’s threats over the Trump interview, slammed Breton in a September letter published by the Brussels Signal. Jordan called out Breton for claiming the Digital Services Act “does not regulate content,” noting that “the DSA defines ‘disinformation’ as a type of ‘content’” that it regulates.  As for Breton himself, Jordan wrote that he “failed to alleviate our concerns that you may attempt to censor or suppress lawful speech in the United States using the European Union’s Digital Services Act.” He added that the “assertion that you would ’never interfere in the American democratic process’ is contradicted by your actions,” in pressuring X.  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.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" Monday, encouraging fellow travelers to continue with the anti-Trump rhetoric that set the stage for two assassination attempts and recommending the prosecution of American citizens over so-called undesirable speech. After Maddow concern-mongered without interruption for over a minute, Clinton suggested that the mainstream media's failure to "cover Trump the way that they should" has "threatened the physical safety of so many people." Clinton was not referring to President Donald Trump, who was targeted for assassination the previous day, but rather the illegal aliens he has criticized. 'I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative.' Clinton intimated that dissenting views are the problem — that the press should adopt a single narrative moving forward. "I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is," said Clinton, a proponent of the Russian collusion hoax and an advocate for punishing standout journalists who faithfully fulfilled their duty. It's unclear how much more conformity it would take to satisfy Clinton. After all, the mainstream media has consistently attacked Trump and portrayed him in a negative light over the past eight years. Blaze News previously reported that Pew Research showed 20% of stories in the press about Obama in his first 60 days in office were negative and 42% were positive. In Biden's first 60 days, 19% of the stories were negative; 27% were positive. In Trump's first 60 days, 62% of the stories about his presidency were negative and only 5% were positive. A Harvard University study found that 80% of the press coverage of Trump during his first 100 days was negative. The Media Research Center revealed last month that on CBS, NBC, and ABC, Kamala Harris was painted in a favorable light in 84% of the networks' coverage, whereas Trump was depicted negatively in 89% of their coverage, reported the New York Sun. The coverage has not only been consistently negative but hyperbolic. The mainstream media has dutifully worked in concert with Democrats to characterize Trump as a would-be dictator or a reincarnation of Hitler. Having apparently not learned anything from the actions of Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh — or perhaps just enough — Clinton stressed that Americans should be "outraged by what [Trump] represents," adding that he is a "very dangerous man." After recycling Democrats' well-worn Project 2025 falsehood and joining Maddow in once again resurrecting fears about Russian election interference, Clinton suggested that Americans engaged in what she believes constitutes foreign-sponsored "propaganda" should be "civilly or even in some cases criminally charged." 'Something makes me feel like she might be talking about some friends of mine.' According to Clinton, clamping down on the constitutionally protected speech of Americans accused of advancing Russian talking points would "be a better deterrence because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States." Responding to Clinton's comments, Blaze Media co-founder and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck said Tuesday, "Something makes me feel like she might be talking about some friends of mine. I don't know. But that seems like dangerous talk and a slippery slope." Clinton alluded to the suggestion by some Republicans in Congress that their colleagues had parroted Russian propaganda on the House floor. She appears to be referring to Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner's assertion to CNN earlier this year that "there are members of Congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which of course it is not." Turner, who was reportedly advancing an accusation made earlier by Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), added, "To the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is." Americans who would dare exercise their constitutional rights to suggest that NATO expansionism was a motivating factor behind Russia's invasion would apparently be ripe for prosecution if Clinton got her way. Clinton has been pushing for a clampdown on speech she finds undesirable for a while. In 2021, Clinton told the Guardian, "The technology platforms are so much more powerful than any organ of the so-called mainstream press, and I do think that there has to be not just an American reckoning but a global reckoning with the disinformation, with the monopolistic power and control, with the lack of accountability that the platforms currently enjoy." "In particular Facebook, which has the worst track record for enabling mistruths, misinformation, extremism, conspiracy, for goodness' sake, even genocide in Myanmar against the Rohingya," continued Clinton. "So governments are going to have to decide right now that the platforms have to be held to some kind of standard, and it's tricky." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) revealed on Monday that more than 100 suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were identified within the massive group that stormed the southern border in El Paso, Texas, in March.During a press conference in Houston, Abbott announced, in response to TDA’s expanded presence within the United States, a “comprehensive, statewide operation that will aggressively target the dangerous” group. 'Texas is aggressively going after these foreign terrorist organizations.'As part of the mission, the governor designated the gang a terrorist organization. The Texas Department of Public Safety has been instructed to elevate TDA to a Tier 1 gang. The agency will also create a TDA Strike Team dedicated to rooting out the criminal organization. TDA members caught illegally smuggling people into the state could face a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence. “The recent entry and expansion of the vicious Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, is a dangerous and deadly problem facing our state and nation,” Abbott remarked. “Our goal is to defend Texas from the growing threat of the gang. We will not let them use Texas as a base of operations to terrorize our citizens. They have a target on their back, and we are going after them. Texas is the wrong state for them to try to do business in,” he said.Earlier this year, law enforcement agents at the El Paso border were bombarded by a large group of unruly illegal aliens who attempted to push past them on their way into the U.S. Footage of the incident, captured by the New York Post, showed the group of primarily adult men tearing down the concertina wire near Gate 36, which is not a designated port of entry.As a result of the incident, 211 individuals received riot participation charges. However, El Paso County Judge Ruben Morales dismissed the charges in May, Blaze News previously reported. The suspects were released and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody to face federal illegal entry charges.An ICE spokesperson previously revealed to the Post that many of the suspects were released into the interior of the country, others were deported, and some remained in custody. On Monday, Abbott revealed that suspected TDA members were believed to be a part of the incident.He stated, “Earlier this year, more than 100 suspected TdA members were arrested after the riots at the El Paso border, when immigrants assaulted the Texas National Guard.”“Texas is aggressively going after these foreign terrorist organizations of TdA,” Abbott added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Novel COVID-19 vaccines advertised as "safe and effective" left multitudes of Americans injured or worse during the pandemic. Some of those individuals still physically capable went online to express their concerns, share their life-changing experiences, and engage with others medically compromised by government mandates and experimental science. However, in many cases, they found themselves unable to do so. Their posts were suppressed. Their accounts were deleted or quarantined. Their speech was altogether stifled. Several vaccine-injured Americans are seeking to hold the Biden-Harris administration and its apparent coconspirators to account for this insult to injury. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amended complaint Friday in the case Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, et al. on behalf of five individuals who suffered vaccine-related injuries, along with a sixth plaintiff who lost his son to a vaccine-related death. The suit names as defendants various elements of the Democratic administration, including President Joe Biden, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, along with alumni of the effectively defunct Stanford Internet Observatory's Virality Project. According to the NCLA, the Biden White House, the Surgeon General's Office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other elements of the Biden-Harris administration worked to "coerce, induce, and collude with social media platforms to censor, suppress, and label as 'misinformation' speech expressed by those who have suffered vaccine-related injuries." The amended complaint further details how this apparent censorship scheme has continued since the lawsuit was first filed in May of last year. 'The federal government has launched a war against purported mis-, dis-, and malinformation, which it claims must be suppressed despite the First Amendment.' "It is not the government's role to curate, filter, or suppress disfavored speech before it reaches the eyes and ears of American citizens. Yet that is precisely what is going on here," says the complaint. "This case challenges the government's mass-censorship program and the shocking role that it has played (and continues to play) in ensuring that disfavored viewpoints deemed a threat to its agenda are suppressed." On its face, the case appears to share much in common with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Kennedy v. Biden, which was green-lit last month by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana, as well as the related case Murthy v. Biden. Like the other two, this case points out the pressure the Biden-Harris administration exerted on social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter to censor speech that did not violate any of the platforms' existing policies. Like Kennedy, it also cites on multiple occasions the discovery produced in Murthy. In a 6-3 June ruling, the Supreme Court said that the plaintiffs in Murthy lacked standing. Kennedy and the plaintiffs in this case appear far better positioned to succeed. Among the many instances of censorship raised in the suit was the elimination of a private Facebook support group called "A Wee Sprinkle of Hope," which comprised thousands of vaccine-injured members. In that instance, plaintiff Brianne Dressen — who is also suing AstraZeneca for allegedly leaving her with a debilitating injury — posted an infographic listing various post-COVID vaccine side effects, which are now widely known. She also linked to a press conference explaining the extent and nature of her injuries. Dressen soon learned that her support page had been disabled for violating the platform's "Community Standards on misinformation that could cause physical harm," according to the complaint. When she and other former members of "A Wee Sprinkle of Hope" started a new support group on Facebook, the platform again began policing, flagging, and "fact-checking" their posts despite using code and keyword substitutes. Ernest Ramirez, another defendant, apparently set up a GoFundMe page to fundraise for a trip to Washington, D.C., where he intended to discuss his son's vaccine-related death. The complaint indicates Ramirez had his account terminated for supposedly violating the terms of service for "Prohibited Conduct." Although denying a grieving father the means to provide further meaning to his boy's death was bad enough, perhaps even more unsettling was what Facebook allegedly did on the birthday of Ramirez's son. Ramirez posted an image of himself beside his son's casket with the caption, "My goodbyes to my Baby Boy." According to the complaint, Facebook flagged the post with the label "partly false information." On the other hand, Twitter reportedly deleted the photo and told Ramirez to "make sure you're sharing reliable information." The complaint is replete with similarly damning tales of censorship and explains precisely how the federal government put its thumbs on the scales. Perhaps the most provocative assertion in the amended complaint is the following: The federal government has launched a war against purported mis-, dis-, and malinformation, which it claims must be suppressed despite the First Amendment in order to protect American citizens from supposedly harmful or dangerous ideas. Indeed, Defendants admit to suppressing truthful speech, including stories of vaccine side effects that it has expressly acknowledged to be true, but which the government nevertheless targets for censorship because such speech 'could fuel vaccine hesitancy.' The plaintiffs seek an injunction against further state-orchestrated censorship, claiming that their First Amendment rights were violated and that the government defendants, with the exception of Biden, exceeded the authority delegated to them by Congress. Casey Norman, litigation counsel with the NCLA, said, "If there is any case that exemplifies why the First Amendment exists — as well as the abominable and Orwellian consequences that take place when the government evades its restraint — it is this one." "The plaintiffs in this case posed a threat to the Biden Administration, because their personal experiences conflicted with the government’s heavy-handed approach to Covid-19 vaccination, which was predicated on the false claim that vaccine injuries were virtually nonexistent," said Jenin Younes, also litigation counsel with the NCLA. This appears to be one among several signals that a possible reckoning is imminent where COVID authoritarians and reckless drug manufacturers are concerned. In June, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) announced that the Sunflower State was suing Pfizer for "misleading claims it made related to the COVID vaccine." The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, responsible for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 viral-vector vaccine, is presently fighting a class-action lawsuit brought by apparent victims and deceased victims' families. After years of denying its vaccine could cause blot clots, AstraZeneca admitted in a February court document that "it is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause [thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome]. The causal mechanism is not known." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Viral gymnast and NCAA champion Olivia Dunne explained the importance of female athletes expanding their brands and marketing opportunities while they are still in college.Dunne, who charges a reported $125,000 per social media post to promote a product, has a name, image, and likeness valuation of about $4 million. Her branding power places her as the second-highest NIL-earning athlete in the country, according to website On3.Dunne's recent sponsorships include monetization platform Passes and a sportswear deal with Nautica. With over 13 million social media followers, she has masterfully monetized her likeness despite being in gymnastics, a sport not typically synonymous with a high income.Opting to attend Louisiana State University for a fifth year, Dunne revealed in a recent interview why staying enrolled as a collegiate athlete is so important to her brand."It's very important to capitalize on your NIL while you're in college if you're a female, because there's not a lot of professional leagues after college for most women's sports," Dunne confessed. "I think that's important, creating a substantial brand that will last post-college," she told the New York Post.Dunne posed for Sports Illustrated in 2023 and has since expressed that her relationship with the brand was one she hoped to monetize after college. This acknowledges that the true marketing value of female NCAA athletes is achieved by reaching beyond their sports and breaking through culturally on social media.Female athletes are seeing the benefit of stretching their NCAA careers as long as possible in order to garner popularity and gather sponsorships, as opposed to turning pro.This is made apparent by NCAA athletes like the Cavinder twins, who have returned to the University of Miami for a fifth year of basketball. The twin sisters are not trailblazers in their sport nor national champions like Dunne, but they have tapped into the influencer space so successfully that they've secured deals with brands like Under Armour.The three-year deal, along with their social media presence, will allow the Cavinders to carry their branding power with them after they leave college athletics.'I feel like social media really can be glamorized, and it can make your life look really glamorous.'The reality is that college female athletes are exposed to greater fanfare in the NCAA through national TV deals, tournaments, and the sheer energy of college campuses.For sports like gymnastics and basketball, the typical endgame would be to become an Olympian or go to the WNBA. However, these offer incredibly limited levels of exposure save for exceptional cases like Olympian Simone Biles or WNBA star Caitlin Clark."Girls don’t know where to start," Dunne said of college women finding NIL deals. She started a fund, the Livvy Fund, at LSU to help female athletes with exactly that.Getting started is sometimes "half the battle," the gymnast continued. "So I definitely want to do something [in NIL] overall, after I'm done at LSU. And hopefully expand beyond LSU and help educate people and just help girls out. ... I've always loved sports. So definitely something in the sports realm."In a recent documentary, Dunne spoke about how social media can shape an athlete's image with her audience."I feel like social media really can be glamorized, and it can make your life look really glamorous when it’s not like that at all times. ... [Viewers] want that inside look on how we balance athletics, school, and now NIL."What this truly means is that female athletes need to fully expand their online presence while choosing a school that offers the most exposure and gives them a chance to grow their audience.Former NCAA swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler told Blaze News how apparent this new change has been for college athletes. "[NIL deals] have changed how students look at prospective programs," Wheeler said. "The way students are picking their schools and how programs are recruiting. ... It's about going to the school that is going to give athletes the best deal."'There definitely were times where my love for the sport lowered.'Dunne went on to explain that it has become incredibly difficult for her to balance athletics with her rising fame. However, she seemingly realized that gymnastics is the backbone of her brand, resulting in her return to the NCAA for another year."There definitely were times where my love for the sport lowered," she said. "I mean, my sophomore and junior year was quite hard to balance. And with school and athletics, it was just a hard balance and there was nobody I could follow in their footsteps because nobody’s ever done it before. So I kind of just had to carve my own path and find out what works for me."Dunne said she found the love for her sport again, and that was truly the main reason she decided to return to LSU.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida claimed that someone tried to trick her into divulging information damaging to her campaign and then assailed her with sexist and anti-Semitic messages. A Fox News Digital report said the effort could be linked to a liberal group that targeted Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, also of Florida, and may have targeted other Republicans. 'Violence in politics is never acceptable and should never be condoned.' Luna referenced the apparent operation after posting on X that she was being harassed after her political opponent allegedly encouraged people to send packages to her personal address. She then revealed to Fox that someone had texted her in July and falsely claimed to be the chief of staff for Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The person appeared to fish for opposition research from Luna before descending into insults. "You are really clever APL. But you're going to lose. At least you still got your fake t**s," read one apparent text. "Fake smile. Fake life. Fake Jewish person," another apparent text read. "If you were a real Jew, you wouldn't be texting on the Sabbath."Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado said her staff also received similar messages from someone claiming to be Abbott's chief of staff in July, and they tried to arrange a meeting with the representative. "The people involved with this shady organization have a regular pattern of behaving in a mentally deranged manner and have the potential to cause harm, if given the opportunity," said Boebert to Fox. "These sad, obsessed stalkers should be placed on a law enforcement watchlist."Luna believes the operation is organized by a liberal PAC group because it released texts obtained by an interaction with Gaetz. “I am, unfortunately, one of the top targeted members of Congress for violence. I have had threats made, things sent to my office, etc. Violence in politics is never acceptable and should never be condoned. Female members also happen to be the most targeted for violence and harassment," she wrote on X. Fox News Digital said the PAC did not respond to a request for a comment, and no one responded to messages left at the number in the operation against Luna. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!