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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday that his office has issued an investigative subpoena to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to investigate whether the organization accepted contributions from “foreign sources of concern,” including entities in Cuba and China.”Our laws prohibit accepting contributions from foreign sources of concern,” Uthmeier said in a video statement. “We will not allow foreign adversaries to influence Florida through the backdoor of non-private fundraising.”The subpoena demands documents related to recent DSA delegations to China and Cuba, where organization members met with Cuban government officials, to determine if the DSA violated Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, according to Uthmeier.DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA ACTIVISTS SIGNED PLEDGE TO SUPPORT, DEFEND ‘CHINESE SOCIALISM’Uthmeier did not detail specific criminal allegations or name individuals accused of violating state law.The DSA has repeatedly praised the Cuban regime and routinely advocates for lifting American sanctions and ending the U.S. embargo against Havana.RNC WARNS DEMOCRATS FACE ‘POLITICAL SUICIDE’ AFTER DSA PRAISES FIDEL CASTRO, DEMANDS RUBIO’S PROSECUTIONThe organization has sent multiple delegations to Cuba in recent years. During a 2023 trip, DSA members met privately with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and sought to establish formal communication channels with government ministries, according to a State Department report released in July.The legal action comes shortly after several DSA-backed candidates won races across federal, state, and local levels in last week’s elections.Fox News Digital reached out to the DSA for comment.

Iran’s top security official, who reportedly received a letter from Vice President JD Vance about resuming peace talks, warned in a resurfaced interview that wartime negotiations with Tehran could drag on for decades, and during which both sides should “be prepared to fight.”Mohsen Rezaei, a former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), now serves as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and acts as a key aide to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. He also helped shape Tehran’s military strategy during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War.That eight-year conflict ended after Iran’s then-supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, accepted a U.N.-brokered cease-fire that he famously likened to drinking from a “poisoned chalice.”JD VANCE RETURNS TO WASHINGTON AFTER 16 HOURS OF IRAN PEACE TALKS COLLAPSE IN PAKISTAN”Ceasefire means an unfinished war,” Rezaei had said of the war in a 2006 interview with the Iranian publication Baztab. An English translation of the interview is preserved by George Washington University’s National Security Archive.Asked whether both sides would remain in their positions and begin talks, Rezaei replied: “Yes. Negotiations can take 30 to 40 years and during that time Iran and Iraq should be prepared to fight.”Two decades after suggesting negotiations could drag on for years, Washington has reportedly been seeking talks with Rezaei, a key power player in Iran’s current military leadership.Vance sent him a letter proposing renewed peace talks between the United States and Iran in October, the Wall Street Journal reported.Iran said it had received a letter from Vance but had not responded, according to Iranian state media. The semi-official Tasnim News Agency said Iran was awaiting U.S. compliance with its conditions, warning that “any position that contradicts this framework is unacceptable.”TRUMP SAYS IRAN DEAL ‘LARGELY NEGOTIATED’ AS 84-DAY WAR NEARS POSSIBLE ENDIn June, President Donald Trump had posted a warning on Truth Social that Iran had taken too long to come to terms and would “pay the price,” while on Monday, he also said that Iran wanted a deal but warned that another U.S. strike could be about five times as large as the previous. “We could knock it out fast, or we could knock it out over a short, not a long period of time,” Trump said during a C-SPAN interview on “Washington Journal Primetime.””I can tell you that Iran would like to make a deal, and we’ll find out whether that’ll happen,” Trump said of the current timeframe.Rezaei however, has continued to maintain a defiant stance toward Washington, writing on X on Nov. 9: “The war on Iran has already wrecked the US government,” he wrote before adding that “Washington flails like a desperate gambler.””FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks.”Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER. Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out,” he said.Following the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections, Rezaei also claimed Iran had defeated Washington militarily and politically.He warned of a “devastating response” to another attack and declared it was time for Washington to “SURRENDER.”RUBIO DEFENDS TRUMP’S IRAN WAR AS NOT ‘NECESSARILY POPULAR, BUT NECESSARY’Rezaei also rejected reports of ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations or any planned meeting in Qatar, accusing Washington of spreading false claims to ease economic pressure and lower oil prices. He reiterated that Tehran would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its seven conditions were met.Rezaei has spent more than four decades in Iran’s defense establishment. He commanded the IRGC from 1981 to 1997, overseeing operations during the Iran-Iraq War.In the 2006 Baztab interview, Rezaei also detailed how Iranian leaders distinguished their public rhetoric from military strategy.Although Khomeini and other Iranian officials called for “fighting till Saddam is toppled” and “until the nuisance is eradicated,” Rezaei said Tehran’s actual strategy was “fighting up to a victory.”At the time, Iran’s battlefield gains, he suggested, were meant to strengthen Tehran’s negotiating position rather than achieve total conquest.IRAN VOWS ‘ASTONISHING’ STRIKES AND LIFTS MISSILE-RANGE LIMIT AS US TARGETS LAND ROUTES”The world did not pay attention to the slogans,” Rezaei said in the interview, adding that foreign governments and intelligence agencies focused on Iranian leaders’ actions and diplomatic positions.Rezaei also said Iran had struggled to turn battlefield gains into diplomatic victories because it lacked international alliances and influence at the United Nations.Rezaei has since faced U.S. sanctions and international scrutiny. The Trump administration first sanctioned him Jan. 10, 2020, under an executive order targeting senior Iranian officials appointed by the supreme leader.Rezaei had also been accused of involvement in the July 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.Interpol approved an Argentine request for a Red Notice against Rezaei in 2007 in connection with the bombing.

The ACLU of Washington announced a lawsuit to stop the state’s newly approved restrictions on transgender athletes in girls’ school sports, moving the fight from the ballot box to the courts a week after voters backed Initiative 638.The organization said it is acting on behalf of a coalition of Washington parents and educators. Its announcement named Legal Voice, TransFamilies and the Washington Education Association as groups involved in the challenge.”We’re filing a lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of Washington parents and educators to stop the implementation of Initiative 638, a discriminatory law that bans transgender girls from participating in girls’ school sports,” the ACLU of Washington said in a statement.JACKSON THOMPSON: WASHINGTON STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CALLS GIRLS’ SPORTS INITIATIVE UNCONSTITUTIONALThe lawsuit was filed Monday in King County Superior Court, according to the Washington State Standard. Plaintiffs include TransFamilies, the Washington Education Association and parents of transgender and nontransgender students who participate in girls’ sports. Pacifica Law Group is representing them alongside the ACLU and Legal Voice.The challenge argues the initiative violates state constitutional privacy protections and antidiscrimination law, the outlet reported.Washington voters approved the measure in the Nov. 3 election. Unofficial returns compiled by Ballotpedia showed approximately 56% support as of Monday night.The measure would bar students it defines as biologically male from competing with or against female students in designated girls’ interscholastic athletic competitions. Students seeking to participate in those competitions would have to submit a statement from a health care provider verifying their biological sex based on reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup or naturally produced testosterone levels.Supporters, led by Brian Heywood’s conservative political organization Let’s Go Washington, argue the restrictions protect fairness and athletic opportunities for girls.”To every female athlete who wondered whether her voice mattered: tonight, Washington heard you,” Heywood said in an election statement reported by the Washington State Standard.PRO-TRANS ACTIVISTS HOLD RALLY AGAINST WASHINGTON STATE BALLOT INITIATIVE TO PROTECT GIRLS SPORTSThe ACLU said the initiative would reverse nearly two decades of allowing transgender students to participate on teams consistent with their gender identity.”Discrimination has no place in our state or in our schools. For nearly two decades, Washington law has allowed transgender students to participate in sports and on teams consistent with their gender identity — a successful approach that has been a model for other states,” the organization said.”Initiative 638 seeks to deny transgender girls equal opportunities simply because of who they are. It is discrimination, and it threatens all girls who play sports at school.”The medical verification requirement has become a central point of contention. Opponents say it could subject girls to intrusive examinations and discourage participation. Supporters dispute that additional examinations would be necessary, arguing existing medical records and routine sports physicals can establish eligibility.Heywood told KNKX and KUOW that doctors should consult patient records to verify biological sex, although that specific procedure is not spelled out in the initiative.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!The legal fight comes as schools prepare for the measure’s scheduled Dec. 3 effective date.The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has said its executive board can revise its handbook to comply with changes in state law. Its statement indicated state championship events would proceed under current law until that law changes, according to reporting published by The Spokesman-Review.Separately, the Seattle School Board voted Monday to authorize Superintendent Ben Shuldiner and district legal counsel to pursue legal action over the initiative.Board members raised concerns about student privacy and equal protection, arguing courts should resolve potential conflicts between the initiative and other legal obligations, according to Seattle’s Child.The ACLU-backed lawsuit seeks to prevent the restrictions from taking effect Dec. 3, according to the Washington State Standard.

Far-left protestors in Ireland threw projectiles and tried to attack Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Joe and Jill Biden made a surprise visit to Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday to support Hunter Biden as he received an award.
Hunter Biden accepted the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution for Public Discourse from the College Historical Society at Trinity College Dublin.
Biden also met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin for a private visit,” according to the Irish Times.
“A Government spokesman said the meeting covered “a lot of things close to president Biden’s heart” including the Northern Ireland peace process and the work of reconciliation,” The Irish Times reported.
After meeting with Taoiseach Martin, Biden attended an event at Trinity College Dublin where Hunter Biden received “The Hist.”
Far-left protestors gathered outside of Trinity College and accused Biden of genocide for what’s happening in Gaza.
The protestors threw projectiles and tried to attack Joe Biden as he exited the college.
“Blood! Blood! Blood on your hands!” the protestors shouted as Biden was whisked to his vehicle.
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Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness,The Constitution supplies legitimate ways to change those rules via the constitutional amendment process and nearly every item on the Democrat agenda is designed to bypass it.Every generation of Americans is told that some emergency justifies setting the Constitution aside just this once. Today’s “emergency” comes with a slogan: saving democracy. Strip away the branding, and the Democrat Party’s structural agenda looks like something entirely different – and reminiscent of the old Bolsheviki power play 100 years ago but recast for gaining control of U.S. institutions. Two new states, a packed Supreme Court, the end of the filibuster, an end run around the Electoral College, federal control of elections, and a government apparatus for policing “disinformation” are not a plan to save democracy. Taken together, they are a plan to make a future Democrat Party majority permanent. That was the Bolsheviki goal, too.Let’s examine their plan in detail.THE DESIGN THEY WANT TO DISMANTLEThe Framers did not trust majorities, and they did not trust themselves. James Madison put it plainly in Federalist No. 51: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” The Senate’s equal representation (the “Great Compromise”), the Electoral College, life tenure for judges, and the states’ control of their own elections were all built to slow down any faction that captured a temporary majority. The Constitution also supplies legitimate ways to change those rules via the constitutional amendment process and Article V, both of which require broad agreement across the states. Nearly every item on the Democrat agenda is designed to bypass it.FOUR NEW SENATORS BY SIMPLE STATUTEThe Framers deliberately placed the national capital in a federal district outside any state so that no state could hold the federal government hostage. Democrats propose to undo that choice with an ordinary bill. The House passed DC statehood 216-208 on a straight party-line vote in 2021. The new state would be one of the most lopsidedly Democratic jurisdictions in the nation, guaranteeing two Senate seats for one party in perpetuity. The bill does not even resolve its own constitutional defect. The Twenty-Third Amendment would still award three electoral votes to the leftover federal enclave, which legal scholars warn could leave a handful of residents controlling them.Puerto Rico is the second half of the gambit. Its 2024 plebiscite was non-binding and boycotted by much of the opposition, and statehood’s 58.61 percent vote came on a ballot that did not even offer the current status as an option. Democrats are pressing ahead anyway because they are betting on the seats. States, unlike ordinary legislation, cannot simply be stripped of their statehood. That is precisely the attraction. That, and two more Democrat senators in perpetuity.PACKING THE COURTFranklin Roosevelt tried to enlarge the Supreme Court in 1937, and his own party’s Senate rejected it. That rejection held for nearly ninety years as a bipartisan norm. Today’s extremist Democrats talk openly of a thirteen-member Court, and even President Biden’s own commission could report nothing more than “profound disagreement” on the idea.Court expansion has exactly one purpose: changing future decisions on issues the current court dislikes. Hugo Chavez understood this when he enlarged Venezuela’s supreme court in 2004 and filled the new seats with loyalists.A court packed to deliver results is no longer a check on power; it is an instrument of it.KILLING THE FILIBUSTERThe filibuster is the minority’s last line of defense in the Senate, and the Democrats defended it vigorously whenever they were in the minority. In January 2022, 48 Senate Democrats voted to break it so they could federalize election law, and every Republican voted to keep it. Compare that with Republican restraint: when President Trump publicly demanded in 2025 that Senate Republicans abolish the filibuster, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) refused.One party treats the rules as guardrails. The other treats them as obstacles.ABOLISHING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE THROUGH THE BACK DOORThe National Popular Vote Interstate Compact now holds 222 electoral votes and needs only 48 more so that participating states would collectively control a majority of the Electoral College (270 of 538), guaranteeing that the national popular-vote winner also wins the presidency. It does not amend the Constitution; it simply arranges for states to hand their electors to whoever wins the national tally, even when their own voters choose someone else. For South Dakota and every other small state, the Electoral College is the reason presidential candidates must care about anyone outside a dozen metropolitan areas. The compact would erase that without a single vote of the people under Article V or a constitutional amendment.ELECTIONS WITHOUT VERIFICATIONIt is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, yet Democrats fight every effort to verify citizenship. The SAVE Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register, passed the House in April 2025 with just four Democrat votes and has been blocked in the Senate by the Democrats. Furthermore, 143 House Democrats voted to preserve a DC law letting noncitizens, including illegal aliens and foreign diplomats, vote in local elections.California shows where this leads. In 2016, Democrats legalized unlimited third-party ballot collection, allowing anyone, including paid political operatives, to gather and deliver other people’s ballots. In 2018, Republican leads in several California House races evaporated in the weeks after Election Day as harvested ballots arrived. Meanwhile, Oregon admitted in 2024 that its motor-voter system had registered more than 1,200 potential noncitizens.Democrats insist the numbers are tiny. Perhaps they are, but that seems unlikely. A party truly confident of that would welcome proof of citizenship instead of filibustering all attempts to require it. In a system with unlimited ballot handling and no citizenship check, nobody can be fully certain who cast the ballots that turned states like California and Colorado deep blue after decades of purple (and even red) voting.California’s conduct this month tells the rest of the story. The Justice Department says it has identified at least 20,000 likely noncitizens on California’s rolls who were mailed ballots for the midterm elections, and a federal prosecutor says each name was individually reviewed by a federal employee. The Justice Department has already charged 28 noncitizens in the state with federal election crimes. Rather than verify those names before counting, Democrat-controlled California and Los Angeles County fought the Justice Department’s request simply to set the ballots aside. If the list is as flawed as state officials claim, verification will prove it. Holding 20,000 ballots until it does would cost nothing but time.California chose to count first and ask questions later. It is easy to discern why.In Texas during this year’s midterm elections, The New York Times reported that James Talarico received more votes for U.S. senator (5,445,121 votes as of the latest available count) than Kamala Harris did during the 2024 presidential election (4,835,250 votes). Historically, this would be a remarkable anomaly, since presidential elections almost always generate substantially higher turnout than midterm elections, making it unusual for a U.S. Senate candidate to receive more votes in a midterm than a major-party presidential nominee received in the state’s preceding presidential election. This is strangely reminiscent of Joe Biden’s elusive “81 million votes” in 2020.POLICING SPEECHIn April 2022, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security unveiled a Disinformation Governance Board. Shades of George Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth”! Public outrage forced a pause within weeks, and the board was formally terminated that August.The impulse behind it did not die – nor is it likely to anytime soon. A federal trial court found that Biden administration officials had likely coerced or significantly encouraged social media platforms to suppress disfavored posts; the Supreme Court sidestepped the question on standing grounds, over a sharp dissent from Justice Alito. Hillary Clinton told MSNBC in 2024 that Americans spreading what she called propaganda should perhaps be civilly or even criminally charged. Barack Obama told a Stanford audience in 2022 that regulation of online platforms “has to be part of the answer.”When the party’s elder statesmen talk this way, believe them.WEAPONIZING ENFORCEMENTThe same instinct showed up in law enforcement. In October 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI to address threats against school boards after parents across the country had protested mask mandates and race-based curricula, and he refused to rescind the memo even after the school boards group that requested it apologized. In 2023, the FBI’s Richmond field office produced a memo treating “radical-traditionalist” Catholics as a potential extremist threat; it was withdrawn only after it leaked, and a later congressional investigation found similar language in at least 13 other FBI documents.A government that treats dissenting parents and devout Catholics as security concerns has shown what it would do with even fewer constraints.THE PATTERN: WIN ONCE, NEVER LOSE AGAINTake each proposal on its own, and Democrats can offer a high-minded rationale for support. Put them together, and the design is unmistakable. New states expand the (Democrat) Senate majority. An abolished filibuster lets the majority legislate at will. A packed Court blesses whatever it passes. Federalized election rules reshape the electorate, and speech policing silences the critics who might object. Each piece protects the others.This is the oldest playbook of one-party regimes, from the old Bolsheviki to the Venezuelan communists in Caracas: win power once through the ballot box, then rewrite the rules so that you never have to give it back. Whatever individual Democrats sincerely believe, the agenda itself is built so that the party enacting it would never again face a fair fight for control of the national government.That is not saving democracy, as they endlessly preach. It is ending the competitive republic the Constitution created.THE ACCELERANT: A COLOR REVOLUTION IN WAITINGStructural change through Congress takes years. A crisis is faster, and Democrat-adjacent groups and Democrat-aligned activists have spent this year planning for one. The evidence comes from hundreds of recorded calls and thousands of documents that the coordinating platform Renew to Thrive left in a publicly accessible archive, which the researcher Jennica Pounds (@DataRepublican) obtained and has been releasing as “The Democracy Files.” Pete Marocco, the Trump appointee who oversaw USAID’s shutdown, has publicly vouched for their authenticity.The architects are veterans of USAID’s democracy office, the shop that helped engineer the color revolutions in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. After DOGE closed the agency, they regrouped as the Democracy Renewal Group, keeping the office’s initials, and launched Renew American Democracy around four B’s: block, bridge, belong, and build. Build is the Point Co-founder Danielle Reiff spoke of leveraging a breakdown into a “refounding moment,” called a midterm legitimacy crisis a possible “window of opportunity,” and sketched a path from declared red lines to a constitutional convention outside Article V.The blocking is handed to the United Democracy Alliance, a coalition with no website or roster that the recordings link to the Democrat-adjacent organizations No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, and 50501. Organizers credit it to Harvard’s Erica Chenoweth, whose “3.5 percent rule” holds that mobilizing that share of a population can topple a government.National Security Leaders for America, comprising some 1,600 retired officers, intelligence officials, and diplomats and led by retired Rear Admiral Michael Smith, runs its Insurrection Act working group and situation room, tracking the alliance’s red lines. One participant wrote in a call chat that the network was beginning to consult federal workers on blocking inside agencies during emergencies.If a red line is crossed, Paul Zeitz said, governors “become the kind of lead anchor for political power.” An options memo for governors, reportedly shown to California and Illinois, contemplates states withholding resources from federal officials and governors convening a new continental congress of their own.The participants insist their work is nonpartisan, and one said the governors’ memo is not a plan for secession. Yet the elected officials they court are Democrats, beginning with Governors Safeguarding Democracy, the forum Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Colorado Governor Jared Polis launched in 2024. Better-funded groups such as PolicyLink speak the same language of a “new founding.”The model is one USAID exported abroad: media, lawyers, election monitors, trained activists, and data shops built up in quiet times, then activated together the moment a crisis is declared. Reiff herself warned against moving before conditions ripen.That is not restraint. It is timing, all for the purpose of helping achieve the Democrats’ endgame of one-party rule. Either an appropriate “spark” or a simple decision to execute could trigger this catastrophe for the American Republic.CONCLUDING THOUGHTSThere is a constitutional answer for the Democrats’ plan. Constitutional conservatives do not need to match the Democrats with a plan of their own. We need only insist on the rules the Framers wrote. If DC deserves statehood, if the Electoral College should go, if justices should serve fixed terms, then Democrats are free to make that case via constitutional amendments or Article V and persuade three-quarters of the states to agree. They know they cannot, and that is exactly why they are trying to go around it. The rest of us, in South Dakota and across the country, should refuse to let them.We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of ZeroHedge.
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Rising country singer CJ Beach has died. He was 22.The Florida singer died in the early morning hours on Saturday in a car accident. His death was confirmed by his father, Charles Beach, on Facebook. Details of the fatal accident were reported by the Tallahassee Democrat.A 22-year-old died after his car ran off the road and hit several trees, the Florida Highway Patrol told the outlet. The crash occurred around 1:15 a.m. on Nov. 7 and no other vehicles were involved.HOLLYWOOD STARS WHO DIED IN 2026Authorities said the man had not been wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Florida Highway Patrol would not confirm the man’s identity when reached by Fox News Digital.CJ’s dad shared the news of his son’s passing in an emotional Facebook post, where he made an important request.”I appreciate all of the outpouring feelings and thoughts about my son CJ,” Charlie wrote. “Seeing all the post with pictures and videos kills me, but I know he was loved by many and will be missed.”GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE”So I ask this, flood the county commissioners [with] calls and text to install warning lights and many signs on both sides of that curve on Rehwinkle,” he said. “CJ’s wreck was in the same spot as the last wreck there. The bushes hadn’t even grown back. That is what I ask for in memory of my son CJ. Please help me out.”CJ was known for his blend of country and Southern rock along with his performances with the band CJ & The Deadmen.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSAlthough CJ had not yet achieved mainstream commercial success, his notable musical recordings and performances included his original song “Cigarettes,” covers of “House of the Rising Sun” and “Ain’t Got a Dollar,” and announced original songs “Blackbird” and “Up Above.”PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCOREHis last Instagram post on Nov. 3 featured him performing “Cigarettes,” just days before his death.CJ’s performed hours before the fatal crash on Nov. 6 at The Salty Donkey in Panacea, Florida.

James Cook carried the load for the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football. The running back toted the rock 31 times for 107 yards and a touchdown during the 23-6 road win over the Minnesota Vikings.Cook’s performance was largely overlooked on social media by another load he was suspected of carrying. A stain showed up during the game in an unfortunate location for him and the internet ran wild with speculation about what caused it.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!A natural conclusion was drawn that he had crapped his pants. The search for when the spot appeared was conducted and at least one “analyst” concluded that it showed up in Cook’s pants after this tackle.DUDE Wipes got involved and announced that the Bills running back was going to need them, but don’t let the internet or a company who is considered an expert on the matter fool you.According to James Cook, he didn’t crap his pants in primetime. He never offered up an explanation for the odd stain, but he did issue a denial.VIKINGS’ CARSON WENTZ WAS HISTORICALLY AWFUL IN LOSS TO BILLS, POSTING A STAT LINE DIFFICULT TO COMPREHENDHis statement, surrounded by several laughing emojis, reads, “this is wild I didn’t s— on myself.”Cook’s denial did little to sway the opinion of folks on social media. While one person did offer up a possible reason by asking if it’s “Viking Horn field paint,” most aren’t buying it.PATRIOTS RECEIVER’S GIRLFRIEND CELEBRATES HIS GAME-WINNING TOUCHDOWN BY PEEING HER PANTSThey know if it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Some even had his back by putting a positive spin on the pants-crapping allegations. One suggested that he unloaded “all over the #1 D in the league.”Another of his supporters, if you want to call them that, wrote, “It’s ok jimbo, we have all done it. It’s a good strategy, maybe that’s why Minnesota didn’t want to tackle you.”At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Crap or not in James Cook’s pants, the Bills won, are 7-1 and are on top of the AFC right now. That’s all that matters.

Medical experts are warning of a dangerous new social media trend known as “heightmaxxing,” amid reports that teenagers are taking black-market cancer medications in an effort to grow taller.Adolescents, primarily teenage boys, are reportedly turning to erdafitinib — often referred to online as “ERDA” or “Erta” — a targeted prescription drug approved to treat advanced bladder cancer.Teenagers are reportedly experimenting with the prescription medication after encountering online discussions suggesting it could increase height.DOCTORS WARN OF ‘LOOKSMAXXING’ DANGERS AFTER INFLUENCER’S LIVESTREAM EMERGENCY”It’s extremely concerning that teenagers are experimenting with powerful cancer medications in an attempt to grow taller,” Dr. Stephanie Widmer, a New York City-based emergency medicine physician and Fox News medical contributor, told Fox News Digital.”These drugs were developed to treat serious medical conditions, not to enhance physical appearance, and taking them without a legitimate medical indication or physician supervision can have devastating consequences.”The drug maker, Johnson & Johnson, pushed back against the practice in a statement to Rolling Stone, emphasizing that the medication has never been approved to stimulate height growth and that its safety and effectiveness have not been established for any pediatric or adolescent use.Medical research has documented unexpected growth spurts in children receiving erdafitinib for brain tumors. A 2024 study published in Hormone Research in Paediatrics described accelerated growth in two pediatric patients, while a separate case report documented a teenager who grew more than 5 inches during treatment but developed serious skeletal complications.CALLOUT:Physicians caution that these spurts do not equal healthy skeletal growth. Dr. Jessica Gray, a family physician in Lubbock, Texas, warned that forced, rapid growth can trigger dangerous structural problems, including premature growth plate damage and bone fractures.POPULAR WEIGHT-LOSS DRUGS FACE NUMEROUS LAWSUITS OVER RARE ‘EYE STROKE’ LINKED TO VISION LOSSThe drug works by blocking specific cellular signaling pathways involved in cancer cell growth, Widmer shared during an appearance on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”Those same pathways also play a role in bone development, which may help explain why some pediatric patients experienced unexpected growth during treatment.Widmer noted that height is overwhelmingly governed by genetics, and biological shortcuts do not exist. Once growth plates close near the end of puberty, medications cannot reopen them, meaning older adolescents taking the compound are incurring catastrophic health hazards without any chance of gaining height, she said.”One of the biggest concerns is that these medications can cause serious side effects, including potentially permanent vision damage, elevated phosphate levels and other metabolic abnormalities,” Widmer said.”We’re talking about adolescents whose bodies are still developing, and exposing them to these risks for a cosmetic goal is particularly troubling.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTEROther warning signs and side effects linked to the medication include skeletal pain — especially in the hips or knees — as well as mouth sores, loose nails and skin disorders.CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIESThe trend has also raised concerns about the influence of social media on teenagers’ decisions about their health. Widmer noted that online discussions about physical appearance and self-improvement can expose young men to potentially unsafe practices that lack medical evidence.”Parents need to understand that this goes beyond teenagers being insecure about their height,” the doctor said.”We’re talking about young people potentially obtaining prescription cancer medications and experimenting with them outside of medical supervision. If a child has concerns about their growth, that conversation belongs in a pediatrician’s office, not on an internet forum.”TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZDoctors advise parents to watch for symptoms such as unusual joint pain or unexplained physical changes, and to speak with their children if they suspect they are using medications obtained online.Teenagers concerned about their height or growth should consult a pediatrician before considering any medication.”We should be encouraging teenagers to prioritize their health, not teaching them to gamble with it,” Widmer said. “No amount of additional height is worth risking permanent damage to your vision or other serious and potentially unknown medical complications.”