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A mother and daughter from Kentucky have a simple message for artificial intelligence companies: Go away.Ida Huddleston and her daughter Delsia Bare say their land has fed the United States for generations, and that isn’t going to change.’I’ll stay and hold and feed a nation.’The quiet family are making headlines over their farmland, which they say has been in their family since the 1860s, after anonymous bidders have made plays to scoop up their property to erect a sprawling data center.According to Bare, the potential buyers “will not reveal who they are,” telling local Lexington, Kentucky, outlet WLEX that the anonymity of the offer is a huge red flag to her.The family have been offered $60,000 per acre for Huddleston’s 71 acres and $48,000 per acre for Bare’s 463-acre portion. This puts the total offer at roughly $26 million. WKRC says this is approximately 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area.Huddleston said she has rejected multiple offers and that she’s not budging.”What they’ve proposed and have carried on with us is not a business deal; it’s mind harassment,” the 82-year-old told WLEX. “I said I don’t want your money; I don’t need your money. But I do feel sorry for everybody around us that they’re going to be affected by it.”RELATED: Sam Altman tells BlackRock he wants AI on a meter ‘like electricity or water’ The economic development director for surrounding Maysville-Mason County previously told WLEX that the potential data center would create 400 full-time positions and over 1,500 construction jobs.”As far as jobs would go, they would become, if not our largest employer, definitely top three,” director Tyler McHugh said.However, Huddleston disputed the number of potential permanent jobs, saying, “My guess is you won’t have over 50, and they won’t even be there at this building when it’s said and done.”The narrative surrounding the family’s lineage has remained very consistent throughout news reports, as have Bare’s reasons for refusing to sell.”I’ll stay and hold and feed a nation,” she told WKRC. She added that for generations her family has “paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it, even raised wheat through the Depression and kept the breadlines up in the United States of America.”RELATED: Data centers are a hidden tax on your burger Data center in Louisville, Kentucky. Tom Uhlman/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesMuch of the sentiment was the same for Huddleston, who said she recognizes a sinister pattern.”They call us old, stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not. We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don’t have any water. And poison: We know we’ve had it.”Her message to those who claim it will bring jobs: “I say they’re a liar and the truth ain’t in them. … It’s a scam!”WLEX had previously reported on a different family who turned down offers of nearly $8 million for their land. In December, Andy Grosser and his father, Timothy, said they were also approached about selling their cattle farm to make way for a data center.”We do not want to sell,” Grosser said. “The farm is my dad’s, and it means everything to him.”As for Bare, she compared her love for her land to Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind:””As long as I’m on this land — as long as it’s feeding me, as long as it’s taking care of me — there’s nothing that can destroy me if I’ve got this land.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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On Friday night, CNN held a town hall on the war in Iran featuring State of the Union co-host Dana Bash in lieu of The Source with Kaitlan Collins and, while CNN and ratings do not necessary go together, it was a particular embarrassment with a paltry 596,000 total viewers, well behind Discovery’s Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan, HGTV’s House Hunters and My Lottery Dream Home, a special episode of TruTV’s Impractical Jokers on TBS, and Reelz’s On Patrol: Live.

Nielsen Media Research numbers also showed that, in the coveted 25-43 demo, CNN pulled in only 105,000 viewers, which was well behind all of these programs (albeit by small margins).

CNN also live coverage of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on fellow Warner Bros. Discovery channels TBS, TNT, and TruTV, but it’s these other programs that showcase how much the liberal elite network’s reach has shrunk.

A reincarnated version of A&E’s Live PD (which was cancelled by the woke mob in 2020), Reelz’s On Patrol: Live is only available in half the number of homes CNN has at its disposal (40 million vs. 80 million), but it was still able to tie CNN in the demo but edge past them in total viewers at 603,000.

For HGTV shows, My Lottery Dream Home aired directly opposite the CNN town hall at 9:00 p.m Eastern, but trounced CNN with 953,000 total viewers and 136,000 viewers. House Hunters didn’t air until 10:30 p.m. Eastern, but still pulled 618,000 total sets of eyeballs and 136,000 in the demo.

As for Gold Rush: Mine Rescue, that aired in full against CNN’s hour-long town hall and came away with a huge win at 904,000 total viewers and a smaller victory among viewers aged 25-54 (127,000).

Remarkably, the Impractical Jokers special had a huge lead-in as it aired on TBS following the last Friday night March Madness game, but it nonetheless began at 12:54 a.m. Eastern and still roundly defeated CNN from nearly four hours prior as it pulled down 776,000 total viewers and a whopping 456,000 viewers in the 25-54 group.

Again, CNN’s town hall gimmick has become a go-to for the liberal network and one could at least say they have the format down, but perhaps don’t try to put something together on a Friday night opposite sports and hit reality shows.

If CNN keeps this up with poor programming choices, they’ll end up with cartoonishly bad numbers like their gone-but-not-forgotten shows we’d love to mock here at NewsBusters, Democracy in Peril, New Day, and Reliable Sources (such as here, here, and here).

For weeks, students at hundreds of schools across the country have walked out of class to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. At Rincon High School in Arizona, leaders of the Latino Student Union organized a walkout to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policies.The next week, some of those same students demanded the removal of a Turning Point USA club from the Tucson Unified campus. Members of the Latino Student Union petitioned the school board to bar the conservative club from meeting on school property, claiming its presence made them feel “unsafe” and accusing it of a “track history of presenting hate and presenting fear.”As American life grows more polarized, young people face mounting pressure to treat opposing speech not as something to answer, but as something to silence.Arizona was not a one-off.Last fall, students at Royal Oak High School in Michigan walked out over the formation of a Turning Point chapter. One protest organizer complained that the club “spreads conservative views … and those aren’t things that we promote in our school.”That statement tells you plenty. Students increasingly invoke the language of safety and inclusion not to protect their own right to speak, but to suppress the speech of others.Royal Oak Schools says the district aims to provide “an inclusive, diverse, safe, and student-first environment” in which students will be “embraced, accepted, challenged, and prepared.” Yet schools cannot claim to challenge and prepare students while teaching them that disagreement itself amounts to harm.These incidents may still be relatively few, but they point to a broader problem: the spread of speech intolerance from college campuses into K-12 education.A report released in September by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found alarming attitudes on college campuses. Among roughly 70,000 students surveyed, 34% said violence to stop someone from speaking can be acceptable, while 72% supported shouting down speakers in rare cases.College pathologies do not stay on college campuses for long.Through social media, ethnic-studies curricula, school speech codes, and the influence older students exert on younger ones, the campus habit of treating dissent as danger has moved into elementary and secondary education.The results have already turned ugly.RELATED: How liberals let America’s colleges collapse into illiberalism Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAfter a walkout at Hayes High School in Ohio in February, one senior said the protest “went as peaceful as it could have gone with the amount of anger that we have.” In reality, an altercation between several protesters and one dissenter ended with three students charged with disorderly conduct. The confrontation appears to have begun when walkout participants repeatedly blew whistles in the student’s face.In Kansas, student counterprotesters from Olathe Northwest High School were attacked while demonstrating across the street from an anti-ICE protest. Their offense? They merely supported the administration and current immigration enforcement.Thankfully, these incidents remain uncommon. But the trend should concern parents, teachers, and communities. As American life grows more polarized, young people face mounting pressure to treat opposing speech not as something to answer, but as something to silence.Whatever one thinks of school walkouts, defenders of these protests usually justify them as exercises in civic engagement and First Amendment expression. Fine. But civic engagement does not mean demanding a microphone for yourself and a muzzle for everyone else.Students need to learn that free speech cuts both ways. They have every right to voice their convictions. They also have a responsibility to defend the rights of people whose views they dislike, distrust, or even find offensive.If they do not learn that lesson now, student activism will become less about persuasion than coercion. And young Americans will be trained not to practice liberty, but to imitate the tyranny they claim to oppose.

Hollywood star Vince Vaughn lamented the politicization of late-night comedy through the years, saying the major network shows all fused into a singular narrative that felt less like comedy and more like a lecture.
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Anyone who told themselves that Ukraine’s defeat was only a matter of time allowed the wish to father the thought.

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban terrorist government is struggling with an influx of returning Afghan refugees fleeing the ongoing war in Iran and detentions in critical agricultural and raw material shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, reports this week indicate.
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A New Mexico jury has ruled that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta must pay $375 million in civil damages after finding the social media giant violated state law by failing to protect children from predators on its platforms.
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Left-wing television host Jimmy Kimmel attacked President Donald Trump over his response to the death Robert Mueller, a former FBI director and Special Counsel for an infamous and drawn-out hoax targeting Trump.
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Republicans are facing yet another brutal electoral loss after Democrat Emily Gregory sailed through her special election in a deep-red district. Gregory was elected to represent the 87th district in the Florida House Tuesday night, securing 51.2% of the vote while her Republican opponent, Jon Maples, won just 48.8% of the vote. This district, which includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, was previously held by Republican Mike Caruso.Republicans have not flipped a single Democrat-held seat since Trump was elected. Caruso, who vacated his seat in August to become Palm Beach County clerk of the circuit court and comptroller, won the seat by 19 points in 2024. Similarly, Trump won the district by 11 points in the 2024 presidential election. Gregory’s victory is hardly an outlier. Since Trump was elected in November 2024, Democrats have managed to flip dozens of seats in key elections and have come uncomfortably close to defeating other Republicans in deep-red districts. RELATED: Republican defends congressional airline perks as cost-savings for Americans Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesIn 2025 alone, Democrats flipped 25 state Senate and House seats previously held by Republicans out of the 119 seats that were up for grabs through special or regular elections. Democrats flipped 13 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates alone and another five seats in the New Jersey General Assembly, even breaking a supermajority in Mississippi. Democrats flipped another nine seats, including local elections in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, New Hampshire, and Arkansas.With Gregory’s victory Tuesday night, Democrats have successfully flipped 29 seats previously held by Republicans. RELATED: Jesse Jackson Jr.’s political comeback fails miserably after he served prison time Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesIn contrast, Republicans have not flipped a single Democrat-held seat since Trump was elected in November 2024, offering a bleak forecast for the GOP going into the 2026 midterms. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!