WNBA star Caitlin Clark acknowledged her supposed “white” privilege and said the WNBA was “built” by black women during a recent interview with TIME Magazine. Clark, who has been disparaged by players in the WNBA based on her skin color, was named TIME’s Athlete of the Year. “I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege,” Clark told TIME. “A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been black players. This league has kind of been built on them.” Clark went on to say that corporations need to invest in black players. “The more we can appreciate that, highlight that, talk about that and then continue to have brands and companies invest in those players that have made this league incredible, I think it’s very important,” she said. “I have to continue to try to change that,” Clark added. “The more we can elevate black women, that’s going to be a beautiful thing.” REPORT: After being named TIME’s “Athlete of the Year,” Caitlin Clark apologizes for her white privilege and says that the WNBA is “built” on black players. “I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege.” “A lot of those players in the… pic.twitter.com/pd2sgmUcfQ — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 10, 2024 As highlighted by Fox News, Clark has been the subject of racially charged commentary within the league. For example, WNBA player A’ja Wilson said earlier this year that Clark was popular mainly because of her skin color. Another player, DiJonai Carrington, went after Clark for not discussing racism more. Notably, Carrington poked Clark in the eye during a game, though Clark said she thought it was unintentional. Additionally, in a highly controversial move, Clark was not chosen to be on the women’s Olympic basketball team. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Clark’s comments on race prompted some backlash online, including from journalist Megyn Kelly, who criticized her for her act of “self-flagellation.” “Look at this,” Kelly wrote. “She’s on the knee all but apologizing for being white and getting attention. The self-flagellation. The ‘oh, please pay attention to the black players who are REALLY the ones you want to celebrate.’ Condescending. Fake. Transparent. Sad.” Look at this. She’s on the knee all but apologizing for being white and getting attention. The self-flagellation. The “oh pls pay attention to the black players who are REALY the ones you want to celebrate.” Condescending. Fake. Transparent. Sad. https://t.co/cTzk0CTLPn — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) December 10, 2024 “Caitlin Clark had to issue this WNBA Land Acknowledgement in order to be allowed in polite company,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro mocked. “But let’s be real: the WNBA wasn’t built on black women. It was built on NBA men who subsidized that useless league for decades,” he added. Caitlin Clark had to issue this WNBA Land Acknowledgement in order to be allowed in polite company. But let’s be real: the WNBA wasn’t built on black women. It was built on NBA men who subsidized that useless league for decades. pic.twitter.com/FlNEWs1clY — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 11, 2024 Related: Race-Baiting WNBA Players Are Sabotaging Their Own League Out Of Spite

Lawmakers will highlight how President Joe Biden’s Justice Department targeted pro-life activists in a pre-Christmas hearing, The Daily Wire has learned. The Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government of the Committee on the Judiciary will host a hearing on December 18 titled “Revisiting the Implications of the FACE Act: Part 2.” It follows a May 2023 hearing investigating the implications of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which prohibits Americans from interfering with access to “reproductive health services,” including pregnancy centers. The Daily Wire is first reporting the hearing, which will feature witnesses including Paul Vaughn, a pro-life father of 11 arrested at his home in October 2022 by armed authorities. Vaughn had participated in a peaceful protest of an abortion clinic in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, for which the Biden Justice Department charged him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations.” Other witnesses include Erin Hawley, senior counsel and vice president at Alliance Defending Freedom; Steve Crampton, who represents pro-life activists in prison as senior counsel for the Thomas More Society; and an undeclared Democrat witness. The hearing will examine the Biden Justice Department’s “unequal application” of the FACE Act. It is particularly consequential given that President-elect Donald Trump has promised to investigate whether the Biden administration “unjustly” persecuted pro-life activists, and to “get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.” There are currently 10 pro-life activists incarcerated in federal prisons on FACE Act charges, led by the Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Kristen Clarke. Most of those currently imprisoned were involved in a Washington, D.C., incident which they describe as a “rescue,” an event where they tried to stop abortions from taking place at Washington Surgi-Clinic, where a notorious abortionist named Cesare Santangelo operates. According to the Justice Department, the pro-life activists used “their bodies, furniture, chains and ropes” to block the entrance of the abortion clinic. These are the pro-life activists who have been imprisoned by the Biden Justice Department: Lauren Handy Lauren Handy, 29, is serving a 57-month sentence in FCI Tallahassee, a prison in Florida where Jeffrey Epstein’s cohort Ghislaine Maxwell is also housed. Handy’s projected release date is August 2027. Her charges stemmed from her participation in a “rescue” in 2020 in Washington, D.C. Herb Geraghty Herb Geraghty, 26, is serving a 27-month sentence in FDC Philadelphia, a prison in Pennsylvania, for participating in the same D.C. rescue as Handy. Heather Idoni Heather Idoni, 62, is serving a 24-month sentence at the Sanilac County Sheriff’s jail, but is also awaiting sentencing in a separate Michigan case and in a Tennessee case, all brought by the Biden Justice Department. Jean Marshall Jean Marshall, 74, is serving a 24-month sentence in FCI Danbury, a Connecticut prison where Steven Bannon was formerly imprisoned by the Biden Justice Department for the same 2020 Washington, D.C. incident. Her projected release date is March 2025. Joan Bell Joan Bell, 75,  is serving a 27-month sentence in FDC Philadelphia, also for her participation in the D.C. rescue. Her projected release date is June 2025. Jonathan Darnel Jonathan Darnel, 42, is serving a 34-month sentence in FCI Thomson, an Illinois prison, with a projected release date of February 2026. Darnel was also imprisoned over the 2020 rescue in Washington, D.C. William Goodman William Goodman, 53, is serving a 27-month sentence in FCI Danbury, with a projected release date of July 2025, also as a consequence of the 2020 D.C. rescue. John Hinshaw John Hinshaw, 68, is imprisoned in FMC Devens in Massachusetts, where he will be until his projected release date of February 2025. He also was part of the 2020 rescue. Calvin Zastrow Calvin Zastrow, 63, is serving six months in FCI Thomson, with a projected release date of February 2025, and then 3 years of supervised release. He also was part of the 2020 rescue. Bevelyn Williams Bevelyn Williams, 33, is serving 41 months in FCI Aliceville, a prison in Alabama, with a projected release date of September 2027. Other Pro-Lifers Punished by DOJ Meanwhile, Paulette Harlow, Coleman Boyd, Chester Gallagher, Paul Place, James Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, Dennis Green, and Paul Vaughn are serving home detention sentences. Eva Edl, a World War II-era death camp survivor, is waiting for sentencing in her case, as are Justin Phillps and Joel Curry. Three pro-lifers have been released from their sentences: Jay Smith, Steven LeFamine, and Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, a Catholic priest.

A majority of New Yorkers now support President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to conduct mass deportations of illegal migrants, a new poll shows. Across the state, 54% of residents say New York should support Trump’s deportation policy, and only 35% said the state should oppose it, the Siena College poll found. Nearly half of Latinos, 47%, support the plan, as do most white and black residents: 56% of white people and 51% of black people. Even more eye-popping, a significant chunk of self-described liberals, nearly 30%, said they support the deportations. The majority of people who live in the city, suburbs, and upstate areas are also supportive, the poll showed. By political affiliation, 38% of Democrats and 87% of Republicans support the deportations. A majority of independents, 54%, also support the plan. Along gender lines, men were more likely to be on board at 61%, but almost half of women, 49%, were also in favor of the deportations. Only 31% of men opposed them, compared to 38% of women. The poll surveyed 834 registered voters between December 2 through 5. The margin of error is about four points. The second Trump administration has plans for a massive deportation operation to remove criminal illegal migrants and potentially others as well. In New York, criminal migrants have been arrested for committing horrific crimes, including raping women and children and beating up NYPD officers. New York City has already spent about $6.1 billion on the migrant crisis, according to city data, and is projected to spend up to $12 billion through September of next year. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The city has scrambled to house and feed the hundreds of thousands of new migrants, opening hundreds of emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has been clear that the crisis is an unsustainable emergency. “This issue will destroy New York City,” Adams said last year. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month. … Every community in this city is going to be impacted.” Adams threatened to dramatically slash the city’s budget, freezing police hiring, cutting school funding, and closing libraries on Sundays, but many of those cuts were reversed as the city received more state funding and started forcing migrants out of free housing after a certain period. Across the country, there are now nearly 7.8 million illegal migrants, federal data shows. Of those, a total of 662,586, just around 8.6%, have been convicted of crimes or have charges pending, according to ICE data through July 21. President-elect Trump’s appointed “border czar,” Tom Homan, claimed the number is much higher — he said there are “over 1.5 million convicted criminal aliens in this country with orders for removal who we’ll be looking for.”

Mystery drones flying over New Jersey are coming from a “mothership” off the East Coast of the United States sent by Iran, a U.S. congressman asserted on Wednesday, citing “qualified sources.” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) made the stunning claim during an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, a day after a senior FBI official testified to Congress that the bureau was clueless about the sightings. BREAKING REPORT – DRONES OVER NEW JERSEY ARE FROM IRAN: Congressman Jeff Van Drew claims Iran has stationed a "mothership" off the U.S. East Coast, reportedly launching drones now flying over New Jersey. pic.twitter.com/ayV8tYioXA — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 11, 2024 “Here’s the real deal,” Van Drew said before noting that he sits on the Aviation Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and he’s “gotten to know people.” He said: “From very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources, I’m going to tell you the real deal: Iran launched a mothership, probably about a month ago, that contains these drones.” The “mothership” is located off the East Coast and has been launching the drones, Van Drew said, again citing his “high sources” and noting that he did not “say this lightly.” Van Drew said there was a “probability” that the drones were coming from “our own government,” but he contended that is not the case “because they would have let us know.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The congressman also said the drones could have come from a “really glorified hobbyist or hobbyists that were doing something unbelievable,” but he stated they “don’t have the technology.” Van Drew said Iran “made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and technology.” He added that he cannot reveal his sources “because they are speaking to me in confidentiality.” Drones have been spotted mainly over New Jersey but also in New York. The sightings have been reported near military sites, a power plant, and President-elect Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster. Van Drew, a former Democrat who joined the Republican Party in 2019 while opposing the Ukraine-focused impeachment effort against Trump, said the drones “should be shot down.” During the Tuesday hearing, an FBI official said the bureau was flummoxed by the sightings. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said a sheriff told him an officer saw 50 drones “come in off the ocean.” Smith also spoke about a commanding officer in the Coast Guard claiming a 47-foot motor lifeboat “was followed by between 12 and 30 of these drones as they went through the water.” NJ Rep. Chris Smith to Military: Please Shoot Down One Of These Drones And Find Out What It Is Read more – https://t.co/SLKjvH569s "I know you have the capability to identify and bring down drones. Why can’t you deploy them, at least to the ocean, bring one of these down, and… https://t.co/wtEmn34f5u pic.twitter.com/lDRBzQ41qt — RCP Video (@rcpvideo) December 10, 2024 The congressman said he asked about the rules of engagement, noting the officer would engage “if you’re fighting against a narco-trafficker or something,” and the officer said, “We don’t know, we don’t have any.” Smith then recalled a “very good conversation” with the commanding officer at a joint base in his district, Col. Anthony Smith of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and the 87th Air Base Wing. “I said, ‘I know you have the capability … to identify and bring down drones. Why can’t you deploy them, at least to the ocean, bring one of these down, and find out who’s doing it? They have the capability.'” Smith continued: “He said, ‘We don’t have the authority, only within the parameters of our base.’ Well, there’s a national interest here. Our jets fly over the ocean all the time for training …” The congressman said he wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “asking that the capability that may be sitting in a closet somewhere — I know they use it all the time — but, you know, bring it out.” Smith emphasized that he was not saying that the military needs to “share it” with the sheriffs,” but added, “It’d be nice.” He went on to say: “Just do it yourself in the interests of the American public.”

There is a reason why it’s so popular for weddings to include a guest book. They are the perfect way for guests to share heartfelt words. Plus, it’s fun to see the names of everyone who showed up to support you on your big day! Over the years, however, the tradition of the guest book has expanded beyond a simple book. There are lots of fun twists to put on this tradition, but Tara Henderson was happy to keep hers simple. So, when this bride finally got her guest book in the mail, to say that she was surprised would be an understatement. Why? Well, turns out she didn’t get her guest book after all. See what she got instead in the video below! @tarahenderson6 I wish I could’ve seen my face when I first saw the cover #2024wedding #2024bride ♬ original sound – Tara Henderson Rather than getting her guest book, or anyone else’s guest book, Tara got something else entirely. Somewhere in the world, someone put in an order for a book they called Shoulder Meat. The title alone sounds terrifying, but the images inside are anything but. Each page features someone with a literal, small piece of meat on their shoulder. There is absolutely no explanation for this book. And at the time of writing this article, the creator(s) of Shoulder Meat have yet to come forward and give an explanation. Though, goodness knows we are all dying for one. Perhaps we will one day… This Bride Thought Her Wedding Guest Book Had Been Delivered to Her Home… But She Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong “Desperately need that person to see this and tell their story,” someone says in the comment section of Tara’s video, with another adding, “This would immediately be my most prized possession.” “My guest book collects dust,” a third person admits. “THIS will create conversation. Keep it as the guest book.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Bride Gets What She Thinks Is Her Guest Book — “Nothing Could Have Prepared Me For What I Was About To Open” appeared first on InspireMore.

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A post shared on Facebook claims the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps purportedly executed Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Deanne Criswell. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a Dec. 9 article published on the satire site, “Real Raw News.” A spokesperson for Navy JAG denied the claim’s validity […]