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Sen. Mike Lee provided an update on the SAVE America Act and announced progress toward implementing a hybrid “talking filibuster” strategy in the Senate.
Republican Senator Mike Lee says there has been major progress in the push to pass the SAVE America Act after mounting pressure on Senate leadership to move the legislation forward.
In an update to supporters, Lee, the lead sponsor of the SAVE America Act, said recent discussions with Thune and his staff have led to meaningful progress on how the bill could be debated and brought to a vote.
As The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly exposed, Thune, the same weak-kneed establishment hack who mocked grassroots conservatives as “paid influencers,” refused to nuke the filibuster, and spent weeks making excuses why he couldn’t deliver for President Trump, has been forced to bend.
Lee confirmed the breakthrough in a new video clip: a HYBRID form of the talking filibuster is now set to be implemented.
That means Democrats will be FORCED to take the floor and defend their radical anti-voter-ID agenda. possibly for HOURS or even DAYS, against a bill that 85% of the American people support.
Here’s the full statement from Sen. Mike Lee:
Sen. Mike Lee: “Okay, important update on the Save America Act and the effort to get it passed. Look, I am guardedly optimistic. We’ve turned kind of a corner over the last few days.
There’s been some uncertainty about exactly what procedure we will and will not be using. In the end, we’ve been working closely with Leader Thune and his staff, and they’ve been great to work with.
What we’re coming up with is something that I think is best described as a hybrid version of the talking filibuster. But look, let’s not get mired down in nomenclature. What matters far more than what we call it is what we do with it.
We’re going to bring it to the floor. We’re going to debate it for an extended period of time before filing cloture. And in my view—at least, I don’t want to speak for anyone else—this bill needs to remain on the Senate floor before we file cloture for as long as it takes to get it done.
Now, the fact that Leader Thune and his office have been willing to work with us on this, and that they appear open to a variation of that, is a good thing.
So let’s keep up the momentum. Let’s encourage them to continue to do this. Let’s put the bill on the floor. Let’s make those who want to filibuster speak, and keep it on there as long as possible.”
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Important Status Update Regarding the SAVE America Act
We’re making serious progress @LeaderJohnThune and his team have been working closely with us pic.twitter.com/2Nzt1HaZLO
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 13, 2026

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Podcaster Joe Rogan doesn’t have fond memories of his life in Los Angeles, saying on his show, Friday, he has no nostalgia for the left-wing and superficial people he met there.Rogan spoke with actor and musician Luke Grimes about the whirlwind trajectory of his career, including UFC and acting. “So once it happened, I mean, it was just such a huge part of my life. I was like, ‘I’m not going to not do this just because it’s bad for my acting career.’ I’m like, ‘If my acting career goes away, I don’t, you know, whatever. I’m only doing this for money anyway.’ So I was like, ‘I’ll just figure it out,'” Rogan said with a laugh.”You were the only person in LA with that mentality, by the way,” Grimes replied. “That really served you well.”DENNIS QUAID SLAMS EXTREME LEFT SHIFT IN HOLLYWOOD: ‘WHAT USED TO BE, YOU CAN’T BE ANYMORE'”I was fully ready to get out of there. I was like, ‘I got to get the f— out of this place,’” Rogan said. “I hated it. I hated being around actors. I hated being around producers and casting agents. I was like, ‘These people are so fake.’”He added, “I was used to being around fighters and comedians and pool players — like the rawest, funniest outcasts of society. Those were my people. I was used to cracking jokes with friends and everybody, like, busting on each other and everybody had a great sense of humor, just silly weirdos.”But in the entertainment industry, however, he said, “All of a sudden I’m around these people that all had these predetermined things that they thought they should say, so they would say them, you know, and everybody had like- it was all groupthink. It was like, ‘Oh, this is f—ing horrible.’”Rogan is one of many celebrities who have some liberal positions, but have spoken out against the far-left dogmatism in places like Hollywood.As an actor, Grimes said L.A. has been good to him, but nonetheless he picked up on the idea that “Everybody was trying to become the same person, but they don’t know who that person is.” He joked that it felt as if he had not gotten the memo to do so. Rogan quipped, “Nobody got that memo. They were all playing it by ear, you know, and it was all dependent upon what the producers and the casting agents wanted you to be.”HOLLYWOOD ACTOR TELLS ROGAN THAT PARTICIPATION TROPHY CULTURE HAS BECOME A CRISIS IN AMERICA”Whenever you got a place where everybody has the same politics, that’s not a good sign,” Rogan said. “… Something’s gone wrong, and everybody has these progressive left-wing politics regardless of whether or not any of their positions make sense. They all just sort of spit it out.”Grimes noted that people who leave their families and hometowns for the dream of making it big in the entertainment industry become deeply invested in success at all costs, to the point they can be entirely reshaped to fit in. “Oh for sure, it ruins comics,” Rogan agreed, who had been a stand-up comedian himself. “Because when comics start doing well, one of the first as soon as they start getting on television, the first thing they start doing is tempering their material. They tone it down a little bit, take the edge off, don’t say anything that can get you in trouble.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE

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An alumni group is questioning the academic value of a course on offer at the taxpayer-subsidized University of Virginia — a course taught by a non-straight poet who apparently encourages students to consult animals about their supposed oppression.The Jefferson Council, an alumni group “committed to leading the University of Virginia back to Thomas Jefferson’s legacy of freedom and excellence,” noted Wednesday on X, “A course titled ‘Ecofeminist Poetry & Poetics’ being taught this spring at the University of Virginia has students ‘listen’ to plants and animals to better understand how ‘settler colonialism’ and slavery ‘thrive off of the intrinsic interconnectedness between species.'”‘Birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen will accompany us through the semester.'”This is a real taxpayer-funded class,” the group continued. “Is this what higher education has become?”The description for the graduate course on the UVA English department’s website — which contains quotes from identitarian feminist and LGBT activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs — states:This interdisciplinary course will interweave brief readings from ecofeminist theory, ecopoetics, and black and indigenous environmental theories with books of contemporary ecofeminist poetry. This curriculum will encourage each of us to see what happens when we “rethink and re-feel,” writes Gumbs, our own “relations, possibilities, and practices” in conversation with the more-than-human world.The course syllabus notes that “birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen will accompany us through the semester as we too attempt to listen across species,” reported the College Fix.University records show that associate professor Brian Teare, a “queer”-identifying climate alarmist who specializes in environmental humanities and “queer theory,” has taught versions of the ecofeminist course for several years.RELATED: Why do state schools bankroll people who despise the state? Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty ImagesJohn Gardner, president of the Jefferson Council, told the College Fix, “It is surprising to the extent that such an inane and clearly agenda-based politicized course could find its way into the curricula of any respectable institute of higher learning.””It is not surprising to the extent that over the past decade or more the increasingly left-wing politicized faculties of most universities have turned their curricula into woke fantasylands,” added Gardner.’It is more suitable to be a course taught in Orwell’s “1984.”‘Teare and the university did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.Gardner referred to three other radical courses at the university that warrant concern: “Women and Gender in the Deaf World”; “Gender, Body Image, and Social Activism”; and “Queer Judaism,” which poses the question, “What if we approached Judaism as a queer religion?””There are many others with the common theme that they are mostly narrowly focused on allegedly marginalized ‘identity groups’ based on race, gender, or ethnicity and are often intended to promote a predetermined agenda,” said Gardner.The alumni group’s president noted that Thomas Jefferson founded the university because “he felt it was important to have an educated and informed citizenry to sustain a successful republic.”Gardner suggested that courses like Teare’s “are not meant to follow truth, but to advance a political/social agenda. It is more suitable to be a course taught in Orwell’s ‘1984’ than at Mr. Jefferson’s university.”In 2025, UVA received over $338 million dollars in funding from the state.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

It’s amazing how important sound is to horror. Abrupt noises are responsible for at least 90% of all movie scares. Look it up — actually, don’t. There’s no study to back that up, but it’s true. Just believe me.Watch any horror film on mute — you probably won’t jump in your seat once. Revisit the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” The sight of Norman Bates’ silhouette with the knife certainly doesn’t bring any comfort, but it’s Bernard Herrmann’s iconic score — the shrieking violins — that has truly frightened movie lovers for generations.Not many horror films specifically lean into the artistry of sound as a storytelling tool, which puts A24’s “Undertone” in a unique class.Evy (Nina Kiri) is the co-host of “The Undertone Podcast” which probes listener-submitted paranormal material with a skeptical head on her shoulders as her co-host Justin (Adam DiMarco) is a believer. They record the podcast at three o’clock in the morning since Justin’s based in London while Evy tends to her dying mother “Mama” (Michèle Duquet), who just went into in-home hospice care. It’s important to note that Evy and her mother are the only characters seen on-screen throughout the entire film — you only get to hear from Justin by phone.’HOPPERS’ REVIEW: JON HAMM, MERYL STREEP ELEVATE PIXAR’S RUN-OF-THE-MILL BEAVER ADVENTUREFor their latest episode, Justin previews to Evy that they received an email from an anonymous listener that had a strange cryptic message and ten audio files. They are recordings of Mike and Jessa (Jeff Yung and Keana Lyn Bastidas), a couple expecting their first child.The first recordings seem fairly innocuous — Mike wanted to prove to Jessa that she talks in her sleep. However, the further Evy and Justin delve into the recordings, the more disturbing things get as they examine what Jessa’s muttering. They eventually figure out that the couple is being haunted by the mythical Abyzou, a female demon known to be envious of mothers and curses her victims with miscarriages and the death of their children.And similar to watching the cursed videotape in “The Ring,” Abyzou’s spirit begins to haunt Evy and her mother.’HOW TO MAKE A KILLING’ REVIEW: GLEN POWELL EYES THE FAMILY FORTUNE IN A24’S COMEDIC NOIRKiri, best known for her stint on the TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” does a lot of heavy lifting as virtually being the only active character we get to see (her bedridden mother is unconscious) and the entire film takes place in the confines of her mother’s house. She’s basically a one-woman show. DiMarco, the up-and-comer featured in the Italy season of “The White Lotus” and more recently Prime Video’s raunchy comedy series “Overcompensating,” manages to give a heartfelt performance as Evy’s support system with just his voice.The real star, though, is the sound design.‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ REVIEW: MARGOT ROBBIE, JACOB ELORDI STAR IN STEAMY ADAPTATION OF ILL-FATED ROMANCEThe attention to detail to every sound that’s heard — from the creepy audio recordings to what Evy hears in the house – is nothing short of outstanding. So kudos to the entire sound department. Justin’s character says it best when signing off each podcast with “Don’t be afraid of the dark, be afraid of the silence.” That said, eerie camerawork from cinematographer Graham Beasley is also a strong supporting performer of its own.Writer/director Ian Tuason, making his feature debut, was able to effectively craft a compelling film with self-imposed narrative limitations. Only time will tell if it’s beginner’s luck, but Tuason cemented himself as a filmmaker to keep an eye on going forward.A24, once an arthouse film distributor that’s become more and more mainstream, frequently takes bold risks, especially with horror films: “The Witch,” “Hereditary,” “Midsommar,” “Talk to Me,” the list goes on. What’s tragic is that “Undertone” likely isn’t on many people’s radar since it doesn’t have A-listers and a massive budget like the recent box office hit “Scream 7,” even though “Undertone” provides genuine scares. ‘GOAT’ REVIEW: MOVE OVER ‘ZOOTOPIA,’ THERE’S A NEW KING OF THE JUNGLE”Undertone” is an unsettling slowburn that allows the pure craft of filmmaking to take center stage. This is a movie you want to not only see but to hear, so if you’re able to see it at a theater with Dolby Atmos like I did, I’d highly recommend. Horror fans 

A Los Angeles mother said her jarring symptoms were dismissed by doctors for years, chalked up to a side effect of childbirth — but they turned out to be signals of colorectal cancer.Marisa Peters, 44, a mother of three and former Broadway vocalist, first noticed bleeding when going to the bathroom after having her first son.”Symptoms intensified to where blood was filling the toilet … then I had increased urgency to go to the bathroom,” she shared with Fox News Digital. “The size, shape and texture of my stool also changed.”GLP-1 WEIGHT-LOSS MEDICATIONS LINKED TO IMPROVED CANCER SURVIVAL IN CERTAIN PATIENTSAs these symptoms progressed, Peters voiced her concerns to her primary care physician and other doctors.Since Peters was only in her early 30s at the time, she wasn’t seen as the “typical” colorectal cancer (CRC) patient, as most cases occur in older adults. In recent years, however, statistics show the disease has been rising in younger individuals.”They didn’t realize the face of colorectal cancer had changed,” Peters said. “It now looked like someone much younger.””We’re seeing a rise in people, younger and younger, unfortunately, with late-stage diagnosis, which leads to pretty abysmal mortality rates,” she added, noting the power of earlier detection and intervention through colonoscopy.JAMES VAN DER BEEK’S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS ALARMING COLON CANCER RISE IN YOUNGER ADULTSInstead of considering cancer, Peters’ doctors told her that “our bodies change when we have babies” and that her concerns were “ultimately dismissed.”Meanwhile, her symptoms were “checking every single box” for CRC, including severe anemia, although she was unaware at the time.Over the next five years, Peters had two more children while battling on-again, off-again symptoms. During the last year, she noted there was “always blood” in her bowel movements, motivating her to seek answers from a gastroenterologist.”I will never forget [the doctor’s] face,” she said. “She was stunned and shocked by what I shared.”SPIKE IN DEADLY CANCER BEFORE 50 LINKED TO COMMON CONVENIENCE FOODSThe doctor ran blood and stool-based tests, which came back positive for CRC, prompting an urgent colonoscopy to confirm the cancer.In June 2021, Peters was officially diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer after a 5-centimeter tumor was found at the top of her rectum.Peters had a complete response to the next 11 months of chemotherapy and radiation, as her tumor shrunk by half. She then underwent rectal reconstruction and was fitted with a temporary ileostomy bag, which diverted waste away from the area for four months so it could heal.After six more rounds of chemo, Peters had an ileostomy reversal, where her body was “essentially put back together.”At the time of Peters’ diagnosis, she was still nursing her 16-month-old baby and continued to take care of all three kids while undergoing treatment, with support from her husband.CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES”Thankfully, I have a tremendous mental health team, and they have helped me redefine my life, really communicate with my husband, with my children — not only throughout the journey, but also through the reformation of what family and motherhood looks like,” she told Fox News Digital. Although Peters’ cancer was already “too far gone” for a colonoscopy to have made a difference in her diagnosis, she highly encourages the “gold standard” screening for anyone who has concerns or is at high risk.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTERAfter her diagnosis, Peters said her sister went in for a colonoscopy, during which her doctors found and removed some pre-cancerous polyps, although she never had any symptoms. Peters later discovered that her parents both had pre-cancerous polyps removed.”Knowing your family’s health history is tremendously important,” she said.Peters founded BE SEEN, a colorectal cancer nonprofit advocating for earlier intervention and screening, to help others find their voice and get ahead of the disease. BE SEEN offers resources and community programs.”Colorectal cancer is an entirely preventable disease, even though it’s on the rise in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s for reasons we don’t know,” she said.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ”I want people to be seen for their symptoms … I want them to be seen for their story. And I want them to be seen, ultimately, for their screenings, because we know they save lives.””I lost so much time, and I’m still deeply questioning why I am here to talk about it when so many other people get a late-stage diagnosis and don’t have the complete response that I had,” Peters added. “We’re losing people far too soon, and it’s just not okay. This is not something we should be settling for.”Colorectal cancer (CRC) is now the leading cause of cancer death in adults under 50 and the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S.Adults 65 and younger comprise nearly half (45%) of all new cases — a significant increase from 27% in 1995, according to a report from the American Cancer Society.Official health agencies recommend that CRC screenings start at age 45 and continue through age 75 for adults at “average risk.”Anyone with concerning symptoms or questions about risk should consult a doctor for guidance.Fox News’ Melissa Rudy contributed reporting.

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California election officials are investigating a disturbing allegation that petition circulators in San Francisco were paying individuals to sign ballot petitions using fake names.
According to state officials, the investigation began after a video surfaced online earlier this week showing what appears to be a sidewalk operation offering cash in exchange for signatures on ballot petitions, News4Jax reported.
The footage, posted Monday on X, shows a sign reading “Sign petition for $5” with a line of people waiting along a San Francisco sidewalk.
At a nearby folding table, a woman appears to be instructing individuals on what name and address to use while filling out the petitions.
When the person recording the video asked what the petitions were for, the woman simply responded: “Just sign it.”
The video quickly went viral and caught the attention of California election authorities.
In a statement Friday, the California Secretary of State’s office confirmed it is actively investigating the matter.

“We are aware of, and investigating, the matter,” the office said.

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CA ELECTION PROBE: A video filmed in San Francisco appears to show petition signature collectors offering $5 for signatures and telling people to sign for proposed ballot initiatives with OTHER VOTERS’ names.
The California Secretary of State’s office says it has opened an… pic.twitter.com/SPklj2zy9m
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 11, 2026

WBAL reported:
At least one of the petitions seen in the video was for a tech-backed ballot measure to fight a proposed tax on billionaires . It’s funded by Building a Better California, a committee started by wealthy business leaders including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who gave $20 million.
The signature collectors were not directly working for the campaign, said Molly Weedn, a spokesperson for the effort. The campaign was cooperating with authorities to reject the petitions collected with falsified information, she said.
“Under no circumstance do we tolerate this type of activity,” Weedn said in a statement. “Our campaign took immediate action and campaign attorneys reported to authorities.”
She said the campaign notified elections officials as soon as the video surfaced.
Another ballot petition funded by Building a Better California for a measure to prohibit new tax on retirement savings also appeared in the video. Spokesperson Nathan Click said the campaign “does not tolerate fraudulent activity in any signature-gathering process.”
“As soon as we became aware of the activities in question, we demanded that our signature-gathering firm identify the petition circulator, reject any and all petitions submitted by this circulator,” Click said in a statement.
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Had the Clippers not righted the ship this season, they could have sent the OKC Thunder into lottery night with more than a 40% chance of landing a top-four pick.