Magellan is often credited as the first person to circumnavigate the globe, but he's got competition.

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Once again, leftists in the media are wondering how the country will go on if deportations of illegal immigrants take place and they lose what they see as their imported servant class. CNN Business Reporter Matt Egan incredibly warned viewers that if President-elect Donald Trump successfully deports illegal aliens, someone else will have to labor in the fields. During the Nov. 18 edition of Inside Politics with Dana Bash, Egan claimed that 41% of farm workers are “unauthorized” and 1.7 million people in the “food supply chain” are “undocumented.” Rather than show any concern for unemployed Americans, let alone the out-of-control humanitarian crisis, Egan chose to focus on whether deporting them would cause higher food prices. “One farmer in Michigan told me that mass deportations would be, quote, devastating to the AG economy because there just would not be enough people to pick the crops,” Egan said.  [Story Continues on MRC Free Speech America]

The public school district in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, said it mistakenly released the names of close to 100 elementary students whose families opted them out of a controversial sex-education program last year, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.The families of an additional 82 children also were notified that their names may have been released, Cherry Hill Public Schools Superintendent Kwame Morton said last week, the Inquirer added.'A lot of parents are upset. Somebody needs to be held accountable.'The paper said the elementary students' names were released in September 2023 after an Open Public Records Act request seeking information about how many parents were excluding their children from the state's controversial new standards on sex education, which include information about gender identity, puberty, and masturbation.The Inquirer said Morton acknowledged the mistake and noted that the names were removed last week from the OPRAmachine, which assists requesters with accessing public records and is where the 2023 request had been filed. Morton said the names were redacted in the district’s PDF files but showed up when the OPRAmachine converted the files to a different format, the paper reported. The district used an incorrect redaction procedure, which allowed the names to appear despite being blacked out, Charlie Kratovil, an OPRAmachine leader, added to the Inquirer. Once district lawyers were made aware of the issue, the paper said they sent a letter to the OPRAmachine to get the names removed. Morton told the Inquirer that the district has implemented new security measures, and employees were retrained on confidentiality rules.“In no way shape or form was the intention to release any names,” Morton told the paper last week. ”The important thing is not ever is it our intention to harm any child.”Harvey Vazquez — a parent and former school board candidate — submitted an online complaint last month asking the U.S. Department of Education to investigate whether the district violated the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, which protects students’ privacy and education records, the Inquirer said.More from the paper:Vazquez, whose 6-year-old son was on the opt-out list, brought up the issue last month at a school board meeting, where Morton says he was first made aware.Vazquez said the students whose names were made public without parental consent attended Russell Knight, Bret Harte, Richard Stockton, and Thomas Paine elementary schools. A parent notified the district about the release of the names in November 2023, but nothing was done, he said.Morton confirmed that no action was taken, but said he was not informed about the release at the time.“A lot of parents are upset,” Vazquez told the Inquirer. “Somebody needs to be held accountable.”More from the paper:The unauthorized disclosure came to light during a hotly contested race for three school board seats in Cherry Hill among Vazquez and nine others. Vazquez said he discovered the release after he began investigating the New Jersey Public Education Coalition, which labeled three other candidates in the race as “like-minded.” Vazquez narrowly lost.The coalition, which touts itself as a nonpartisan group of educators, parents, and other stakeholders, made the OPRA request as part of a statewide project surveying districts. The group wanted to dispute claims that a majority of New Jersey parents had opted out of the new sex-education standards, said its founder Michael Gottesman.The revised guidelines, which took effect in 2022, prompted an outcry from some parents. The state allowed districts to decide whether to amend their curricula to meet the expectations of what students should learn by the end of second, fifth, eighth, and 12th grade. Parents who believe the instruction conflicts with their moral or religious beliefs may have the student excused from that portion of the course.Gottesman told the Inquirer that an outside vendor analyzed the coalition’s survey results, and the coalition never saw the students’ names. He added to the paper that he hadn't learned that the names had been disclosed until recently.“As a coalition, we would never release that type of information,” Gottesman noted to the Inquirer.Bridget Palmer — one of the newly elected Cherry Hill school board members — told the paper, “There is no arguing that there was a huge mistake made. You can’t undo what has already been done, but we can take steps to make sure it never happens again.”Vazquez noted to the Inquirer that he wants the district to better explain how the lapse occurred and enact discipline against anyone who was responsible: “There needs to be a public apology. That’s the least they can do.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

More and more athletes are jumping on the presidential bandwagon and supporting Donald Trump with their dance moves. After Trump won the presidency for the second time, athletes from across the country paid tribute to him with his signature dance as a form of celebration. Now, nearly three weeks since the election victory, the Trump-themed dances show no sign of slowing down, and the trend is spreading across more sports. Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers showed off his moves after a touchdown against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. Although the Raiders fell short with a 34-19 loss, Bowers led all receivers in receptions and yards. Perhaps unlike before the election, the Raiders' communications team was not shy about showcasing Bowers' dancing touchdown celebration and posted a stand-alone clip of the 21-year-old on social media. In soccer, the U.S. Men's National Team appropriately represented the new president during a CONCACAF Nations League match against Jamaica. Team USA took home a 4-2 victory, and when star winger Christian Pulisic scored just 13 minutes in, he ran to the corner flag to dance in front the St. Louis crowd. "Made it look too easy," the team proudly wrote above the video clip on X. In another angle of the celebration, Juventus player and international star Weston McKennie can be seen joining in on the dance. Either talented athletes are doing the Trump dance or the dance itself is a good-luck charm, because LPGA golfer Charley Hull found herself in a race for the Annika tournament championship over the weekend. Hull pulled out the Trump dance during the final round and landed herself in a three-way tie for second place on the leaderboard, earning $229,909. These weren't the only athletes showing off the president's dance moves. UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones made a point of thanking Trump at UFC 309. Trump was in the audience at the Madison Square Garden event. Jones shared his rendition of the viral dance before handing the president his belt to hold after his victory. With college football players and even Wayne Gretzky coming out of the woodwork as Trump supporters, enthusiasm for the red, white, and blue is at an all-time in the sports world and shows no signs of stopping. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Jon Stewart slammed Democrats for their "cope" with the decisive 2024 election victory of President-elect Donald Trump. The liberal talk show host also skewered "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for making a “personal” visit to meet with Trump. During his Monday monologue on "The Daily Show," Stewart introduced a new segment he called "The Audacity of Cope," where he ridiculed Democrats for attempting to find minor wins after the embarrassing election loss by Vice President Kamala Harris.'Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs.'Stewart played a montage of Democrats and liberal talking heads previously comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin. The compilation also showed them warning that Trump is a "threat to Democracy" who would cause “irreversible” damage to the country if elected. However, Stewart later played a clip of "Morning Joe" co-hosts Scarborough and Brzezinski announcing that they met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week in an effort to reopen the lines of communication for the first time in seven years. As Blaze News reported this week, Brzezinski said the meeting was an effort to "restart communications" with Trump, of whom they have been extremely critical since he was elected in 2016."Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets," Scarborough stated. "We talked about that a good bit. And it's gonna come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues. And we told him so."“Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump,” Brzezinski said. “And for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, why wouldn’t we?”Stewart shot back, "Uh, because you said he was Hitler." Last November, Scarborough compared Trump to Hitler. Stewart also mocked Democrat politicians for attempting to "cope" with the brutal election loss by highlighting seemingly insignificant achievements. “I assume now that the Democrats have lost to the greatest threat we’ve ever faced as a nation that they will be forthright in acknowledging, one, the Democrats’ role in this catastrophic defeat and, two, the bleak hellscape we now face,” Stewart said. Stewart mocked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) for trying to sugarcoat the results of the election by saying that the Democrats managed to "flip three House seats and gain back almost all of those that we had lost in 2022."Stewart quipped, "Yeah, 'almost' is doing a lot of work in that sentence. 'Yeah, we almost gained back all that we lost.'" He accused Democrats of trying to "spin" a situation that is "clearly not good news." "The Daily Show" host announced, “It’s a new dynamic, it is a willful bright-siding, this s**t show that we celebrate in our new segment called 'The Audacity of Cope.'"Stewart teased progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) for attempting to find glimmers of hope by spotlighting that some of the new Democrats in the House are diverse, including "the first trans member of Congress" and "the youngest member ever elected to the House from New Jersey."Stewart joked, "Wait till you hear that this record-breaking young phenom from New Jersey is 38 years old! 38 years old! How far are we going with this? 'Oh, in Illinois, we elected a ginger!'"Stewart added, “Wow, this is going to be the most diverse group of congresspeople to ever get all their legislation blocked. So inspiring!”The Republicans hold at least 218 seats in the House — the number needed for a majority. Meanwhile, the Democrats hold 212 seats, and there are five seats still undecided. Stewart continued his scorching takedown of Democrats, “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs."Stewart then lampooned President Joe Biden for dealing with the election loss by visiting the Amazon rain forest and then seemingly wandering off into the jungle. Stewart described Trump’s Cabinet selections as "provocative and unorthodox," including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Fox News host Pete Hegseth. The liberal talk show host claimed that Republicans will push through the Cabinet picks with loopholes.“Democrats are positive that the vaunted constitutional rules of the Senate shall be the guardrail to this madness,” Stewart said of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. "That is our government in a nutshell: The rules say ‘We can stop it.’ The loophole says, 'F*** that!' So what are you left with? The last refuge of losers: the norms.”“Republicans exploit the loopholes," he noted. "Democrats complain about the norms over and over and over, and it has ghastly consequences.”Stewart advised Democrats, "You guys be the loophole guys that figure out how to get s**t done, because [Republicans] don’t give a f*** about your norms."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here.

A Canadian Football League referee is making headlines for all the wrong reasons after making a hilarious error to start off the championship game.At the 111th Grey Cup in Vancouver, Canada, veteran official Benoit Major took center stage in what is typically the referee's time to shine: the coin toss.Along with Coinbase Canada CEO Lucas Matheson, Major stood between the captains of the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers."All right, Lucas, get up here," the referee told Matheson. "Please do us the honors," he continued, handing the coin to the CEO.As the crypto boss flipped the coin, the referee attempted to grab his arm to stop him, realizing he forgot the most integral part of the coin toss. Major forgot to ask the Argonauts' team captains whether they were choosing heads or tails."Check, check check," Major said in a French-Canadian accent as the coin hit the ground."I have to ask ... 'what do you want?'" Major said, while picking up the coin.With the football players clearly unimpressed — as this is the most important game of their lives — the referee struck a quick pose in jest while laughing; the players did not find it funny."All right, Toronto," Major restarted, putting his arm on Toronto's DaVaris Daniels' shoulder out of embarrassment. "You're the visiting team; what's your choice?"After Daniels called "heads," the referee handed the coin back to the Coinbase CEO."Okay, Lucas, take two."As is a growing trend in sports, the CFL chose to lean into the silly moment and posted the coin toss in full on the league's X page.However, the league didn't exactly draw attention to it, writing, "The coin has been tossed, let's play some football!"The fun starts at about 1:30 in the video.'I'm a bit disfigured.'The Argonauts lost the real coin toss, but went on to win their 19th Grey Cup, 41-24.This also isn't the first bout of bad luck Major has had while refereeing an Argonauts game. In 2014, the Montreal native took a cleat to the face that resulted in his left eye being swollen shut."I'm a bit disfigured," Major said in 2014, according to Yahoo Sports. "I've got swelling and discoloration going on, so it's interesting, I guess."The Canadian added, "My girls say if it were Halloween, I wouldn't need any makeup."Looking back, one of the most iconic coin-toss botches came on Thanksgiving day in 1998, when the Pittsburgh Steelers' Jerome Bettis appeared to call "tails" during the toss to start overtime.NFL referee Phil Luckett said that Bettis started to say "heads" before switching his answer. After the Lions won the coin toss, they got the ball and kicked a game-winning field goal three minutes into OT.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Azerbaijan’s government has some troubling practices, and the world should pay attention. Whether you believe in a climate emergency or not — and especially if you do — the shenanigans at the ongoing COP29 climate conference in this authoritarian Caucasus nation should raise alarms. Recent U.N. climate conferences, including COP28 in the United Arab Emirates and COP29 in Azerbaijan, reveal a troubling trend: Global environmental activists seem unbothered by the severe wealth inequality their policies exacerbate. These activists actively collaborate with state oil tycoons to secure their own gains, often at the expense of ordinary people. Climate alarmism remains a luxury belief held predominantly by wealthy elites, not ordinary people. The authoritarian regimes of the UAE and Azerbaijan epitomize this disparity. In Azerbaijan, the average GDP per person is about 18 times higher than the median income. In contrast, this ratio in Western nations typically ranges between four and five. These glaring inequalities underscore the cozy relationship between government elites and global environmental activists. Climate activists and state oil moguls actively disregard free markets and consumer preferences. Environmentalists routinely condemn consumer choices they deem “wasteful” or “unsustainable” and push policies that force compliance rather than encourage voluntary participation. Likewise, state oil companies reject competition at home and collude internationally to manipulate oil production when it increases their profits. Both groups enrich themselves at others’ expense. Taxpayers, not attendees, fund COP29. National delegations draw from public budgets, while global NGOs like the United Nations and World Bank use funds from member nations to support the conference. Oil barons in the UAE and Azerbaijan exploit natural resources for personal gain. Officials use state power to secure private wealth while denying citizens their rights. These oil-rich nations exemplify extractive institutions, where elites monopolize resources and leave the public to bear the cost. The environmental agenda seeks to do the same — transferring hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers to narrowly owned wind, solar, and other green projects. Rather than serving customers and receiving voluntary payment, both environmentalists and government oil barons would rather extract resources from people by force. COP29 participants explicitly demand that wealthy nations’ taxpayers “pay up” through climate reparations. These funds will likely enrich corrupt officials instead of benefiting the poor and vulnerable who are supposed to receive them. Decades of foreign aid being diverted into government officials’ pockets provide ample reason to reject this policy. The irony of hosting the U.N. climate change conference in oil-producing countries runs deep. Participants create massive carbon footprints through air travel, food and goods consumption, and electricity use. Their activities rely on the very oil production they criticize, in countries they now place at the forefront of climate planning. Climate alarmism remains a luxury belief held predominantly by wealthy elites, not ordinary people. These elites can more easily handle the higher costs created by environmental restrictions, unlike the poor and middle class. Moreover, elites are more likely to profit from net-zero policies, which subsidize solar panels, electric vehicles, and billion-dollar carbon offset and green energy schemes. It’s time to end the self-serving theatrics of U.N. climate conferences pretending to save the planet. Expanding fossil fuel exploration and development in the United States offers a far better path. Cheap energy means greater freedom and prosperity for all.