Movies & TV Dune: Prophecy Dune: Prophecy Stacks the Deck in “Twice Born” We’ve got some proper political intrigue this week, and a few mysteries to unlock. By Emmet Asher-Perrin | Published on December 9, 2024 Credit: Attila Szvacsek/HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Attila Szvacsek/HBO So many awkward family meals this week. Recap Credit: Attila Szvacsek/HBO Jen wakes, and notices that all of her sisters are having terrible nightmares. She finds Emeline sleepwalking with a knife and stops the acolyte from killing herself. On Salusa Secundus, Valya offers to be Harrow’s Truthsayer to bring House Harkonnen better standing with a seat at the High Council. Uncle Evgeny warns Harrow against trusting Valya after she abandoned her family, knowing she’s only helping them to get something for herself. Ynez comes to breakfast at the palace and finds Hart at the family table. She questions her father about the rumors around a Pruwet’s death and realizes they’re true. Her parents tell her that she can no longer study with the Bene Gesserit as the family needs to maintain a united front, but Ynez insists that they will never be united while Hart remains at the Emperor’s side. On Wallach IX, Jen and Emeline tell Tula about her dream, and Emeline asks about Dorotea’s death. When they’re dismissed, Jen stays back to tell her that all the sisters but her had this nightmare, Emeline was simply the only one to sleepwalked. The High Council of the Landsraad begins. Hart talks to the Emperor as he burns Kasha’s Sisterhood book. He wants the Emperor to remove the Truthsayers from the Great Houses, to stamp out the rebellion that is clearly blossoming around him. The Emperor knows he is seen as a beneficiary to what his ancestors created rather than a great leader, but he refuses this advice, citing a need for stability. Keiran and Horace meet with a man to buy a very big bomb, planning to set it off when the Emperor speaks at the High Council. Mikaela thinks that Keiran is spooked about the mission, and advises him to better prepare. Valya records a message for Tula, but breaks it when she thinks to ask her sister to come to her aid. Theodosia informs Valya of the rebel plan they’ve seeded and guided, which Valya plans to frustrate at the High Council in order to get back into the Emperor’s good graces. The Truthsayers whisper to their Great House lords to sow discord and provoke a desire to investigate the Emperor in Pruwet’s death. They suggest the person to bring this accusation be a disgraced house with the least to lose. This leads to two members of the Landsraad inviting Harrow to the High Council to deliver this accusation. Harrow is nervous, but Valya convinces him of the plan’s merit. Tula brings all the sister who had the nightmare together to get them all to meditate and refocus on the dream and sketch out what they saw. All the dreams start in different places, but they begin to converge as the acolytes grow more terrified in their trances. Avila tries to get Tula to stop, but she refuses. The sisters wake finally and Emeline says that god is watching and judging them—the reckoning is here. The Empress talks to Hart to find out why he’s not seeking out the Emperor’s enemies and destroying them. Hart realizes that she is the one who leaked the rumor about Pruwet’s death; she wants to use this moment to help the Emperor shore up his power and encourages Hart to act as he sees fit to that end. Ynez runs into Keiran at the bar and they argue about what her father has done. She admits that she’s unhappy with Hart’s position and wants to do something about all of this, but she’d hurt her father. He encourages her to make the right choice, but balks at another tryst and leaves. Theodosia asks Valya about the portrait of Griffin, but she won’t talk about it. They discuss the real reason Theodosia was brought along; something to do with an ability of “last resort” that she was promised she’d never have to use again in the Sisterhood. Tula and Avila discuss the acolytes’ drawings from the dream trance, which all feature Shai-hulud and also a presence of deep fear that woke all of them. Avila thinks they should warn the acolytes of it, but Tula insists that fear feeds this thing, and is the last thing they should spread. Ynez approaches her brother to ask him to stand by her in calling out their father. He doesn’t believe himself strong enough, but Ynez tells him he’s strong and brave and that she needs his support as she had it when they were children. The High Council begins and the Emperor is introduces with the Empress and Hart by his sides. Constantine wishes his father luck and then flees, abandoning Ynez to act on her own. Harrow is called on to address the council, and he asks to file a grievance with regard to the death of Pruwet Richese and asks for a formal inquest. Ynez steps forward to accuse the royal house before he has the chance and Desmond Hart in particular. Suddenly, Horace is brought before the council; Hart dispatched men to find the conspirators against the Emperor and he insists that he was not wrong to execute the boy for his thinking machine, the very same kind that would have been used to kill them all today—he has their bomb.  With the Emperor’s leave, Hart burns many of the conspirators alive in that room, using his ability. (He doesn’t know of Keiran, so the Atreides makes it out unharmed.) He has rumbled Valya’s plan to expose the same cell, but Valya gets a sample of his blood to send to Tula so that they can find out where he came from. The Emperor comes to see Hart and finds that the man is covered in painful lacerations; using this power comes with a physical cost. The Emperor is moved and promises Hart that he can stay. Emeline knows that truth about Tula now and confronts her about the murder of Dorotea, Orry, and the Atreides, promising to expose her lies. Tula murders her, then wakes—it was a dream. She then notices that Lila’s chamber has been broken. She follows the caverns underground until she comes across Lila, who is awake and well. The two embrace. Valya confronts her uncle over his rudeness to her, and they begin to fight about the past. Valya keeps his medical rescue device from him so that Evgeny suffocates to death in front of her. Griffin appears and says that he understands now what it took for Valya to come back here, and that he will commit himself to this cause. Valya asks if she pushed too far, but he says that everyone makes their own choices. He begins to change and Valya thanks Theodosia—she’s a Face Dancer and took Griffin’s form. Commentary Credit: Attila Szvacsek/HBO I can see the merit to having a Face Dancer in this story, but… what a goofy way to reveal it. Particularly after making the suggestion that Theodosia is uncomfortable with the ability and joined the Sisterhood with the stipulation that she’d never have to use it again—now she’s just pretending to be Valya’s brother for Big Drama purposes? It’s also a strange way of indicating that Theodosia is now on Valya’s page when we don’t see her witnessing the conversation between Valya and Evgeny and get the chance to see how the context affected her. Like many emotional cues on this show, it springs out of nowhere and asks the audience to do the legwork of explaining how characters got where they are. It’s unfortunate because this is a great episode for the work Emily Watson is doing with Valya. We finally see some of the fatigue shine through for all these machinations, so much so that she nearly calls for Tula’s aid in her message before cutting herself short. Being outmaneuvered by Hart is a blow, but she maintains her calm and poise. And the fight with her uncle finally puts words to her resentments in a way that provides a much better understanding of her as a character. It’s a shame that we had to get over halfway through this microseries before finding it. Not sure how I feel about Evgeny’s murder, though; obviously I’m not expecting Valya to do good things to her family, or the Dune universe to back away from depictions of ableism and elder abuse, but there’s a lack of clarity around Evgeny’s disability/illness that makes the death puzzling as it’s rendered. Is the tank she withholds oxygen? (If so, why wouldn’t he have that on his person, built into his chair.) Is it medication? (Same question, really.) Spice? (It’s often used for longevity, so not impossible.) It made an otherwise riveting scene peter out awkwardly. Presumably, the whole section with the joint acolyte dreaming is designed to get the Bene Gesserit to develop their “Litany of Fear” that we know so well from the original book. Tula’s commentary about the importance of being able to combat this deep fear in the acolytes makes it very unlikely to be anything else. And it’s just… disappointing. Here, viewers, we’ll explain another thing you know about Dune. We did prequel good, go us! The overall ratcheting tension leading up to the Landsraad meeting is one of the more effective pieces of the episode, with all the good political intrigue you want from these sorts of stories. And the fact that the Empress is, yet again, the person defending the Emperor’s reign despite his distrust of her, while his daughter has finally decided to break from his side—that part is extremely clever. At every layer, this story does center on women and their choices, and the series is right not to make that framework entirely about the Bene Gesserit. It allows this series to avoid the pitfalls of the original Dune books, where nearly all women of any import had to be members of the Sisterhood. You can line them up and with the exception of Hart, the men are entirely useless in this episode: the Emperor refuses to make any difficult choices and is struggling with the inherent privilege of a position that he didn’t earn; Constatine is bolstered by his sister and still lets cowardice dictate his actions; Harrow can’t achieve any of his goals without precise direction from his aunt; Keiran follows his organization’s plan to the letter and fails utterly; Horace gets captured. It’s a mess all the way down, and one of the sharpest aspects of the episode. Of course, we now have Lila as another potential “twice born,” as predicted. But her role in this story is far from clear, as is Emeline’s. Tula’s dream could very well be a harbinger, but we can’t be sure how; just because she murders the acolyte in a dream doesn’t mean she’ll have to literally kill the woman. Perhaps she’ll only need to “kill” the ideas Emeline is dredging up. Truthsaying and Visions Credit: Attila Szvacsek/HBO Avila’s constant protests to how Tula is handling things are starting to get a little tiresome. I get that she’s looking after things on Valya’s behalf, but I don’t believe for one second that Mother Superior wouldn’t be into a joint dream trance sketch session. They should spend far more time discussing what “god” is in this context. Obviously, Herbert throws out bits and pieces everywhere in the books (the Orange Catholic Bible and all that), but having Emeline say that God is watching and judging them is another matter entirely, and pertains to the creation of the Sisterhood in terms of how their doctrine functions. We need to know if this is coming from Emeline’s belief system specifically, and if the Sisterhood uses faith in any capacity to control their acolytes. It’s a big subject! Allowing the audience to fill in the blanks there feels sloppy.  I cannot get over how weirdly romantic all the moments between Hart and Emperor are? Fine, I initially thought it was just me and my natural inclination to suggest all characters are gay, but this last scene, when Jarvicco sees Hart’s wounds, is not subtle. They should probably kiss. The penultimate episode next week. Will we get some answers?[end-mark] The post Dune: Prophecy Stacks the Deck in “Twice Born” appeared first on Reactor.

Remember when impassioned protesters stormed a Capitol building and disrupted the democratic process?No, not the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. I’m talking about the pro-union one that stormed the Wisconsin state Capitol on Feb. 21, 2011. More than a decade ago, hundreds of protesters charged into and occupied the state Capitol in Madison, fighting against the enactment of Act 10, Wisconsin’s sweeping and transformative labor reforms.  Nearly 14 years later, government unions and their activist network finally won a legal battle against Act 10. On Monday, a county judge ruled Act 10 unconstitutional, effectively reinstituting the law as it existed before 2011. To do so, the judge had to stiff-arm at least three prior court rulings on the same law involving the same legal principles from the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. It’s almost like the unions hand-selected the judge who decided this case. That’s not far off. In 2020, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers appointed Dane County Circuit Judge Jacob Frost, the judge who authored Monday’s decision. In 2018, Evers, a Democrat, defeated then-Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker—Act 10’s chief architect—with the generous support of government unions inside and outside of Wisconsin. Frost is on union leaders’ team: In 2011, the judge even signed a petition to recall Walker, one of many failed union-backed efforts to do away with him. Maybe there’s a problem with Dane County’s judicial-assignment system, or maybe unions got lucky when they drew Frost. Not only is the judge’s ruling out of step with state and federal courts addressing similar legal claims, but it is also a legal rarity: The unions won on an equal-protection argument that had nothing to do with protected classes, like race, gender, or religion. More broadly, Frost’s ruling blurs the lines between the legislative and judicial branches of government. In ruling that Act 10 violated unions’ due process rights, he concluded there was no “rational basis” for the Wisconsin Legislature to distinguish between government unions generally and unions representing first responders. This, of course, was all part of the plan. Government union officials have little hope of repealing Act 10 in the legislative branch of government. Act 10 has been a popular reform that has brought widespread prosperity to Wisconsin. According to the MacIver Institute, a Wisconsin-based think tank that promotes free markets and limited government, Act 10 has already saved taxpayers $31 billion and sparked a remarkable financial turnaround. Another study from the like-minded Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty found that eliminating Act 10 would cost school districts $1.6 billion annually. When Walker assumed office, he inherited a $3.6 billion deficit, primarily due to government employee pensions. Act 10 resolved this crisis without raising taxes. From a national perspective, Act 10 was transformative, but not radical. Whereas several states refuse to allow collective bargaining in government workplaces, Act 10 took a different approach. It limited the scope of government collective bargaining to wages. Act 10 also introduced accountability measures, like recertification elections, to ensure union leaders served the employees they purport to represent. Nearly a quarter of Wisconsin government employees still have union representation, whereas 36% of government workers nationally have union representation. As intended, unionized employees experienced increased levels of self-determination under Act 10. During the 10 years after Act 10, one-third of the state’s government unions failed to win reelection, but the rest secured enough support to keep their status as union representatives. Arguably, they’re doing so in a way more representative of their membership under Act 10. Instead of slogging through the muck of democracy and the legislative process, union officials went to the courts. More specifically, they filed a complaint in state court with the aim of reaching the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where the liberal justices outnumber the conservatives 4-3. To ensure it did not reach federal court, including the U.S. Supreme Court, where more responsible judges might preside, the unions carefully crafted their legal argument to raise only state constitutional arguments, effectively safeguarding their claim from federal review and irreconcilable 7th Circuit decisions. Republicans have appealed, putting a lot of attention on an upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election in April. With the help of their national affiliates, unions will surely spend millions to handpick their person for the bench—and they’ve got plenty in the bank. However this case unfolds, those running the state’s largest government unions unwittingly demonstrate why those unions can be bad for good government. Union leaders’ efforts to short-circuit democracy will be obvious to everyone, and it doesn’t put them in a good light. Wisconsin’s teachers unions may think they’re winning, but killing effective reforms with a record of success is a good way to lose the war. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post How Government Unions Won in Wisconsin by Stacking Judicial Deck appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Phil Robertson, father of five, outspoken Christ follower, and patriarch of Duck Commander, hasn’t been on the “Unashamed” podcast for a few weeks now due to illness. “Phil is not doing well,” says Jase. “According to the doctors, they're sure that he has some sort of blood disease that's causing all kinds of problems." "It’s accelerated, and it's causing problems with his entire body, and he has early stages of Alzheimer’s, so if you put those things together, he's just not doing well. He's really struggling,” he adds. “He keeps saying, 'I'm going to get back to the podcast,' but I'm like, well, Phil, you can barely walk around without crying out in pain, and I was like, you know, your memory is not what it once was,” says Jase. “He misses it,” says Al. “There will be some days he's a little better, you know, a little more with you; on other days, not so much.” “We're trying to do a lot of things to figure out how to make him more comfortable and maybe help with his memory,” including “doctor sessions,” but “what we're hearing is outside of some supernatural intervention, which I don't doubt … there’s no curing what he has,” says Jase candidly. Although Phil went duck hunting with his sons on opening day recently, he “did not fire his weapon, nor did he say much.” While he told Jase that he would call when he was ready to try hunting again, that day has not come. “If he's unable to go duck hunting, that pretty much tells you all you need to know,” says Jase. “If he were here, you know what he would say: Boys, the resurrection looms large as you get nearer and nearer the end,” says Al, noting that while Phil may not be on the set of the podcast, the “Phil chair is always there.” To hear more about Phil’s condition and how the brothers are working with doctors to "slow it down," watch the episode above. Want more from the Robertsons?To enjoy more on God, guns, ducks, and inspiring stories of faith and family, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

UPDATE, 2 p.m. ET: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters that Altoona police arrested Luigi Mangione, 26, on firearm charges and that he's believed to be “our person of interest,” the New York Times reported.Tisch added that Mangione was wearing clothes that matched the gunman's clothing, the Times added.Joseph Kenny, NYPD chief of detectives, said Mangione was in possession of a ghost gun and a silencer, the Times reported, adding Kenny also said he faces gun charges in Altoona for now and that authorities will work on getting him to New York.The photo police released of the suspect showing his face was the key to capturing Mangione, Kenny said, according to the Times. Kenney added that the gun can fire a 9mm bullet and may have been made with a 3-D printer, the Times noted.Kenny added that Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, has ties to San Francisco, lived in Honolulu until recently, and has no known criminal record in New York, the Times reported.UPDATE, 1:42 p.m. ET: A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that the male being questioned was in possession of writings that appeared to be critical of the health insurance industry.UPDATE, 1:30 p.m. ET: According to WNBC-TV, two senior law enforcement officials said a fake New Jersey ID found on the male being questioned displays the name "Marc Rosario." The station added that three sources familiar with the matter said the suspected gunman checked into a New York City hostel using a fake New Jersey ID displaying the name "Marc Rosario."Original story belowPolice on Monday were questioning a male in Pennsylvania in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week in Manhattan, two sources familiar with the matter told WNBC-TV.Sources told the station that customers at a McDonald's in Altoona thought the male looked suspicious and called police; arriving officers noticed a fake ID and took him in for questioning. Altoona is about two hours east of Pittsburgh. Sources added to WNBC that officers at the station discovered the male was in possession of a gun similar to the one used in Thompson's killing along with a silencer.Police told the station they believe the suspect acted alone and used a 9mm gun resembling guns farmers use to put down animals without a loud noise.The station said the male had a fake New Jersey ID, adding that the suspected gunman allegedly used a fake New Jersey ID when he checked into a Manhattan hostel in November.WNBC added that the male may have taken a bus to get out of New York, and sources told the station that investigators are looking into whether he recently exited a bus from Philadelphia.Sources also told the station that New York City Police detectives are headed to Pennsylvania to question the male and assist investigators.More from WNBC:The development comes as a private funeral is set to be held Monday for Thompson, the 50-year-old executive gunned down at point-blank range as he headed to a midtown hotel for an investors' conference last Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the plans.Five days after the shooting — by a man captured on surveillance cameras across Manhattan — the killer remains on the loose. The nation's largest police department is after him, along with the FBI, as the trail takes detectives to Atlanta. Despite obtaining a clear image of his face among other evidence, authorities have yet to identify him. Late Saturday, police released two additional photos of the suspected shooter that appeared to be from a camera mounted inside a taxi. The first shows him outside the vehicle, and the second shows him looking through the partition between the back seat and the front of the cab. In both, his face is partially obscured by a blue, medical-style mask.The new photos came after authorities recovered a gray bag possibly belonging to the suspect in Central Park. The bag was taken, unopened, for forensic processing before investigators were to review its contents. Sources later said the bag contained a jacket and Monopoly money, but no gun. DNA testing is ongoing.Police told the station surveillance video was used to retrace the gunman's movements, and it appears he left New York City by bus soon after the shooting. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said he was seen on video at an uptown bus station about 45 minutes after the fatal shooting, WNBC said. Police told the station they believe the suspect acted alone and used a 9mm gun resembling guns farmers use to put down animals without a loud noise.Bullet casings recovered at the scene of Thompson's killing outside a Manhattan Hilton — which the police called a "brazen" and "premeditated, preplanned targeted attack" — apparently were inscribed with words referring to health insurance claim denial tactics. NBC News reported that three live 9mm rounds and three discharged 9mm shell casings were found. Citing two law enforcement officials, the New York Times said police are investigating apparent messages on the casings, specifically words such as “delay” and “deny," which may point to ways health insurance companies attempt to avoid paying patient claims.The New York Post published a similar report, noting that sources said words such as “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were engraved on live rounds and shell casings. The Post added that the words are similar to the main title of a 2010 book, “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.” CBS News published a video report discussing the apparently engraved words.Kenny told WNBC that the shooter knew UnitedHealthcare group was holding a conference at the hotel and what route Thompson might take to get to the hotel — and that it suggests the shooter could be a disgruntled employee or client.According to the station, police said video indicates the gunman was in New York City for 10 days prior to the shooting, arriving at Manhattan’s main bus terminal on a Greyhound bus that originated in Atlanta. WNBC said it isn't clear if the gunman got on the bus in Atlanta or in another stop along the way to New York City.The station said that around 11 p.m. on the night he arrived in New York City, he took a taxi to the HI New York City Hostel — and that there he briefly pulled down a mask and smiled while speaking with an employee in the lobby, which gave investigators a look at his face.You can view a video report here about police questioning the male in Altoona.This story has been updated.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed the last time he was running for office to hinder federal efforts to deport illegal aliens and indicated that he would preserve the city's "sanctuary city status." Faced with the fallout of the ruinous Democratic policies he once supported, Adams appears increasingly open to meaningful correctives along the lines of those advocated by President-elect Donald Trump. Adams recently found another reason to criticize President Joe Biden and his administration. Following his federal indictment on bribery and fraud charges in September, the mayor has taken aim at the outbound Democratic administration over its politicization of the justice system. At a press conference last week, Adams read the following line from a New York Times article pertaining to Biden's blanket pardon of his felonious son: "President Biden and President-elect Donald J. Trump now agree on one thing: The Biden Justice Department has been politicized." Adams said, "I rest my case," then worked backward through his defense, reportedly emphasizing the perceived unfairness of his case. Days later, when speaking to the titular host of CBS News' "The Point with Marcia Kramer," Adams discussed the impact of the indictment on his family and the immense cost of fighting to clear his name. "It's been hard on the entire family. Marcia, I had to spend $2 million as a public servant in legal fees. Where does a public servant get that?" said Adams. "And now we're hearing others are saying that Biden should pardon people because it's been difficult on their families and difficult on them, and they will have to pay high legal fees. Well, what about me?" Although Adams' concerns with the federal justice system primarily appear to be self-serving, he noted, "What about those mothers who are placed on FBI watch lists because they were standing up for their children?" Citing whistleblower reports, U.S. House Judiciary Republicans claimed in May 2022 that the Department of Justice and the FBI "were using counterterrorism statutes and resources to target parents at school board meetings." The FBI's counterterrorism division and criminal division reportedly announced the creation of the threat tag "EDUOFFICIALS" and directed all FBI personnel to apply it to school board-related threats. FBI offices subsequently "opened investigations with the EDUOFFICIALS threat tag in almost every region of the country and relating to all types of educational settings." Blaze News previously reported that Garret O'Boyle, the indefinitely suspended FBI special agent who helped expose the apparent scheme, also highlighted other questionable activities executed by the FBI that signaled the bureau's politicization, including its alleged use of uncorroborated and ambiguous information and unreliable tips to push Jan. 6-related investigations; its use of patriotic symbols such as the Betsy Ross American flag and the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" flag to help define domestic terrorists; and its investigation of journalist James O'Keefe III and Project Veritas. 'These are bad people.' When Kramer asked Adams whether he believed the FBI was politicized, the mayor answered, "Yes I do. With all my heart. But not only do I believe it, the president stated it. Donald Trump stated it. And countless others. You should look at some of these stories, what happens to people that stand up because of what they believe in." Adams intimated once again that he ran afoul of the Biden administration by changing course on illegal immigration. The mayor said in September, "I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you that I would be a target, and a target I became," reported Politico. "I put people of New York before party and politics." Trump agreed that the Biden DOJ was punishing Adams for failing to fall in line, stating, "I watched about a year ago when he talked about how the illegal migrants are hurting our city, and the federal government should pay us, and we shouldn't have to take them. And I said: You know what? He'll be indicted within a year. And I was exactly right." "These are dirty players. These are bad people. They cheat," said Trump. "These are bad people, and we need an honest Justice Department, we need an honest FBI, and we need it fast." When announcing Adams' charges, FBI Assistant Director James Dennehy said, "Today's indictment serves as a sobering moment but also sends a powerful message to every elected official in this country: Public service is a profound responsibility, and it should be a noble calling. When that's perverted by greed and dishonesty, it robs us of our trust." Last week, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten highlighted the precipitous decline in trust among Americans in the FBI. Whereas in 2014, Gallup indicated 59% of Americans believed the FBI was doing an "excellent or good job," that number slid to 50% by 2022. This year, the number fell to 41%. "Look at where we are today, my goodness gracious, just 41% of Americans think the FBI is doing an excellent or good job. That is by far the lowest number this century," said Enten. Adams, who told Kramer, "Americans should not be treated unfairly in [the] criminal justice system," has been charged with one count of conspiracy to receive campaign contributions from foreign nationals and to commit wire fraud and bribery; one count of wire fraud; and two counts of soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While Atomic Heart may not go down in history as one of the greatest open-world shooters ever, it could certainly go down as one of the strangest. There’s a lot to appreciate and enjoy in Atomic Heart, and its eccentric storyline, alt-history setting, and out-there character design help set it apart from the crowd. It’s already doubled down on the weirdness with two DLC expansions, and now it's gearing up for a third. Enchantment Under the Sea is its name, and it sends you beneath the waves to a BioShock-style underwater world. Continue reading Atomic Heart unveils another eccentric DLC, this time with a BioShock twist MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best Atomic Heart weapons, Atomic Heart bosses, Atomic Heart review

Poor old Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League - despite having a few decent live service ingredients, it just couldn’t catch a break. Heck, even Concord stole its crown as the biggest videogame flop of 2024. Given how poorly Warner Bros. talked about the project in recent investor briefings, and the fact that no new content roadmaps for year two of the game have been revealed yet, the writing has been on the wall for a while, but Rocksteady has today confirmed the inevitable - Season 4 will be Suicide Squad KTJL’s last. Continue reading Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League confirms Season 4 will be its last MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League system requirements, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice review, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League builds

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