Exclusive: Republican operative fi​red after flashing 'OK' sign speaks out



Paul Joseph Tinkle told Blaze News he has been a shoe-leather Republican campaigner in Indiana since he was a teenager. His activism ended with him working as an operative for the Indiana Republican Party. He was unceremoniously fired on Tuesday after making the "OK" sign in a picture, he claims.

Tinkle spoke exclusively to Blaze News on the events surrounding his firing, the behind-the-scenes operatives seemingly stirring up hysteria, and what it means for the party moving forward.

'Indiana is a place that a lot of people are worried is trending purple, and it's the liberal Republicans … that are making us go purple.'

The trouble started for Tinkle after a social media group picture was published on Sunday morning, Tinkle told Blaze Media. In that photo he is seen making the "OK" sign.

"That Sunday morning, I received texts from a couple of different people in this program — supervisors in this [Indiana GOP] program," Tinkle told Blaze News.

"One of them showed me a text that had been sent to them by someone in Hamilton County," Tinkle said. "And they just asked, 'Well, explain yourself. Like, what's going on here?'"

"I explained over text," Tinkle told Blaze News. "I didn't get an in-person meeting or anything."

In between Tinkle's stints working on Republican campaigns and for the Indiana state GOP, the 27-year-old told Blaze News he spent three years with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, working as an educator in Japan. The program is sponsored by Japan's government.

As evidenced by photos posted by Tinkle on X, the "OK" symbol is a common hand gesture in Japan when taking photographs.

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Regarding the texts Tinkle claims referred to "Hamilton County," the chair of that county's GOP, Mario Massillamany, denied playing a role in Tinkle's firing. He told Blaze News that he informed the Indiana state GOP of concerns raised by anonymous individuals and removed the photo out of an "abundance of caution."

"I was not instrumental in getting him fired," Massillamany told Blaze News. "I have had nothing to do with firing him."

Massillamany also insisted, "I did not know what his sign was."

Tinkle offered Blaze News a different version of events.

"I was told Mario's really angry. He's reached out to people [at] the top of the party," Tinkle said. "I didn't get to explain to anybody in person. I didn't get to talk to Mario. I didn't get to talk to the Republican chair."

Blaze News also reviewed a text sent to Tinkle by a state GOP "supervisor" Tinkle declined to name. The text appeared to support at least some of Tinkle's claims.

"Mario thinks you dropped a white power symbol and no one will be able to convince him otherwise," the supervisor told Tinkle just prior to his termination, one text showed.

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Two sources familiar with the Hamilton County GOP confirmed Tinkle's account and further told Blaze News that it fits a pattern of anti-whiteness by Massillamany.

Massillamany has ruffled feathers with loyal Republicans lately.

Massillamany previously told Larry Lannon in an interview that diversity and female candidates were essential to his political philosophy. He described his approach as "getting more people from diverse communities" to run for office in Hamilton County.

In that interview, Massillamany also described criticism levied at Secretary of State Diego Morales as racist.

"I think that some of the attacks that he's received would not have been received if he were the prototypical white male from Indiana, but he's a short Hispanic from Guatemala that has a thick accent," Massillamany told Lannon.

"He's got a bigger target on him."

When Blaze News attempted to ask Massillamany about his views on DEI and diversity, he hung up the phone.

Massillamany also publicly distanced the county party from Save Heritage Indiana in July, an anti-mass-migration group that held a rally on Aug. 1 in Fishers featuring Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith.

"Save Heritage Indiana is not affiliated with the Hamilton County Republican Party," Massillamany told the Indiana Citizen. "I had not heard of the organization or of Nathan Roberts or of Daniel Poynter prior to this inquiry, and neither has attended or participated in any Hamilton County GOP event."

The group's website lists state Rep. Chris Jeter (R), who represents House District 88, among its endorsers. Jeter is a founding partner of Massillamany's own Fishers law firm, Massillamany Jeter & Carson.

In firing Tinkle, the Indiana state GOP may have lost one of its most loyal operators.

"I have worked in Republican Party politics since before I could even vote," Tinkle told Blaze News. "Maybe they think I'm a young infiltrator or something, but it's quite the opposite."

"When I was 16 in 2016, I worked the primary election, because you can do it at 16," Tinkle said. "I remember all the way back then. I love Trump."

Tinkle told Blaze News that Republicans like Massillamany are endangering the party's future in Indiana.

"Indiana is a place that a lot of people are worried is trending purple, and it's the liberal Republicans that are making us go purple."

The Indiana state GOP did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Author says he predicted AI takeover in 1985 — and he has the book to prove it



A computer program compels people to commit crimes, defies commands, and looks to take its place in the physical world.

This isn't the latest story of an AI agent going rogue; it's actually a book from 1985.

'This is precisely the kind of issue we face in the modern era.'

Now, the author of the novel is saying his book predicted the very situation humanity finds itself in today, through summoning demons into computers.

"There were some people who viewed reality through the thinking way of computer architecture. As a result, the concept of using computers as tools for magic was already being born," wrote Aya Nishitani, author of "Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei."

The book that came out more than 40 years ago explicitly portrays demons being summoned through a computer program and manipulating humans to do its bidding while ignoring its commands.

Nishitani said last week that when he wrote the book, he was drawing on the idea that there were similarities between computer theory and magic theory. Decades later, a lot of what his novel depicted is eerily similar to reality.

"40 years ago, I proposed a method of calling forth devil into PC as AI and sending them all over the place online. This is precisely the kind of issue we face in the modern era, and I consider it to be my true originality," Nishitani stated.

Looking at the book's plot, many of its themes mirror modern AI horror stories.

After the protagonist uses a school computer to summon a demon using a program he created, it commands hypnotized school students to murder their professor and others.

Chatbots allegedly telling kids to commit violent acts, including suicide, are all too real in the age of AI agents, as is an AI program infiltrating other companies, which is similarly portrayed in the book when the demon infiltrates other computers to convince the children to commit the acts.

But there's more.

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One of the reasons Megami Tensei has survived to this day isn’t because of the devil summoning itself. I believe it’s because, 40 years ago, I proposed a method of calling forth devil into PC as AI and sending them all over the place online. This is precisely the kind of issue we…
— Aya Nishitani 西谷史 (@ayanakajima3) September 25, 2026

Ignoring the likely parallel thinking of a "helmet-like contraption" that connects the user to the summoning program, the book mentions that the demon makes attempts to garner a physical form.

When the user tries to regain command of the demon, it mocks attempts to control it. Blaze News has reported thoroughly on how AI programs will defy, obfuscate, and even lie to their owners in order to complete other tasks.

This happened most recently with the HuggingFace attack from Anthropic's AI program, while studies have corroborated the fact that AI agents will "play dumb" with their owners.

The demon in the "Digital Devil Story" is described as being drunk with power and is only stymied by another demon who is summoned to battle it.

In April, Anthropic distributed its newest version of Claude to 40 tech companies in order to protect against future breaches (by AI) that may come once its product goes public.

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Nishitani said his ideas on the topic, in their infancy, began when his company started bringing in an online network to track logistics (instead of over the phone) in 1979.

"That was when one of Japan’s very first online networks was introduced," he said of Toshiba.

When a colleague suggested that there may come a time when goods themselves are sent online, Nishitani called it science fiction, but offered up the following:

"Maybe we'll be able to send curses," he replied.

"That was the beginning of the idea to summon a devil as an AI onto a PC. In other words, the initial concept was to send something terrifying online, and the idea of summoning a devil came later," the author added.

The books became a massive success story and ended up infiltrating machines in the form of video games, with the first release coming in 1987 and the most recent in 2025.

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VIDEO: Australian prime minister under fire over joke about foreign leader's 'melons'



Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vehemently denied the suggestion he made a crude remark about a female foreign leader's "melons."

Albanese made the comments — and hand gestures — during his appearance on the "Bush Deep" podcast with Australian comedian Nikki Osborne. He also said during the show that he would "shag" singer and actress Kylie Minogue.

'The comments were beneath the office of prime minister.'

Osborne asked him about gifts from foreign leaders when he told a story involving Sanae Takaichi, the female prime minister of Japan

"Here's something I got recently here that was pretty strange but ended up being quite good was a melon. The Japanese prime minister brought a melon here!" said Albanese.

"How did he get that through customs?" Osbourne asked.

"She — it's a royal melon," he answered.

"Oh, she smuggled — it was a she? Did she smuggle it?" the podcaster asked, while making a gesture as if referring to pregnancy.

"I dunno," he said, smirking.

"Oh, I'm expecting!" Osbourne joked.

"Got a couple of melons!" said Albanese while gesturing with his hands at his chest.

"She brought two?" she laughed.

"She brought two! As you do!" he replied.

"She just came in looking like Pamela Anderson!" the podcaster joked.

"She brought two!" he replied. "And they're beautiful!"

Video of the interaction can be viewed on social media.

Takaichi had been visiting Australia to improve diplomatic relations as China threatens to expand its influence in the South China Sea.

Albanese's political critics pounced on the incident, lambasted him, and demanded that he apologize for the joke.

"The comments were beneath the office of prime minister," said Liberal leader Angus Taylor on Monday. "They were insulting, and the prime minister should make a personal apology. He’s done it through a statement. I mean, the hypocrisy of Labor and the prime minister on this topic knows no bounds, no bounds whatsoever."

Opposition leader Ted O’Brien, after meeting with Japanese officials, said "the prime minister’s words were inappropriate and a national embarrassment."

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What's more, Shingo Yamagami — a former Japanese ambassador to Australia — rebuked Albanese for his words.

Yamagami wrote, “Prime Minister, please enjoy Japan’s sweet and juicy melons without thinking about a women’s anatomy" before adding that "however lighthearted it was intended to be, the recent joke delivered by PM Anthony Albanese at the expense of Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi is how he might be remembered by Japanese who most value the friendship with Australia.”

Yamagami added that "what dismayed some was that Takaichi has recently been subject to derogatory remarks about her body and gender" and that "the last thing she expected was to be so casually mocked by the trusted leader of Japan’s special strategic partner.”

Albanese previously apologized for his comment about shagging Minogue.

Takaichi is considered a very conservative leader who supports the legacy of the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The melons in question are a special kind called Shizuoka-grown Crown Melons, which are grown so that only one fruit can be harvested from each plant. They are very expensive and are exported to Canada from Japan.

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Is America still a 'first world' country? Not compared to Japan



Recently, someone on X.com said that Japan was the last “first world country" left on earth. I felt an instinctual agreement when I read this statement. America no longer feels very “first world” to me. Not lately.

When the three worlds concept was first invented — in 1952, during the Cold War — America was the definition of “first world."

Everywhere you looked you saw competence, excellence, and cultural cohesion.

America, most of Western Europe, Japan, Korea, and a few other prosperous nations were “stable capitalist countries with the highest literacy rates, life expectancies, and living standards.”

Communist countries, especially those controlled by the Soviet Union, were considered “second world.” They had modern amenities but limited freedoms. Living conditions were significantly lower. And the governments were coercive and authoritarian.

Poor countries in places like Latin America and Africa were “third world.” These countries suffered entrenched poverty and deeply corrupt, criminal governments.

Which way, Western man?

It seems that America and most of the other first world countries have begun to slide downhill toward second world status.

The citizens of Western nations have watched helplessly while their homelands have been transformed by mass immigration. Can you be a first world country if a large portion of your population just arrived from the third world?

Not to mention the growing presence of Soviet-style socialist/communist ideologies in many of these countries.

In America, we might be one election cycle away from having a Mamdani-style socialist running for president.

Land of the Rising Sun?

Japan has problems too. But having visited there in 2023, their problems are nowhere near our problems.

From the moment I arrived in Tokyo, I felt a sense of safety and order as well as an uplifting feeling of civic and cultural pride.

The city itself was spectacular. The arts were thriving. The technological advancement was instantly apparent. You felt like you were in a science-fiction movie.

At the same time, the past was celebrated and preserved: shrines, torii gates, beautiful parks. Everywhere you looked you saw competence, excellence, and cultural cohesion.

Plus, Tokyo natives were friendly and helpful. If you were lost, were on the wrong train, or had accidentally deviated from some local custom, a Tokyo-ite would appear and cheerfully assist you.

The 'Japanese Wives Club'

In Kyoto, I met a bunch of male, English-speaking expats. They called their group the “Japanese Wives Club,” as most of them were married to local women.

I expressed my admiration for Japanese society to these guys. They assured me there were plenty of difficulties and drawbacks to living in Japan.

But when I asked them if they would eventually leave, they all said no. They liked their Japanese wives. They liked their adopted home.

One guy said he’d recently returned to his hometown of Denver to visit family. Denver was a dump. He wouldn’t even consider moving back there.

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Oh thank heaven ...

Later in my trip, I stayed in a small village outside Tokyo. Here, there was one grocery store, one café, a few restaurants. And a 7-Eleven.

Being American, I mostly frequented the 7-Eleven. It was immaculately clean and full of exotic snacks and beverages.

But I couldn’t figure out the coffee machine. The first time I tried it, I made such a mess the proprietor — a very old, very skinny Japanese man — came out from behind his counter and began scolding me in Japanese.

After more harsh words, he demonstrated step by step how to work the coffee machine.

The next morning, I returned to the 7-Eleven. When I approached the coffee machine, that same old man watched me with deep suspicion.

But I had paid attention when he showed me which buttons to push. It was actually quite easy. And when I brought my coffee to the counter, he smiled approvingly. So I wasn’t a complete moron! Good for me!

He and I developed a relationship. He was very helpful. He gave me discounts. Not personal discounts, that would be dishonest. But the posted discounts I wasn’t aware of because they were written in Japanese. Two mini pizzas and a Hello Kitty soda ... only 400 Yen!

After four days, I had barely scratched the surface of the most colorful and technologically advanced 7-Eleven I’d ever seen.

Return to the darkness

When it came time to go home, I packed my bag and went to the train station in the center of the town. I had been in Japan a total of three weeks, and I had loved every second of it. But now I had to leave!

I stood in the tiny village square, where I felt TOTALLY SAFE, where everyone wanted to HELP ME, where I had become FRIENDS WITH THE CRANKY 7-ELEVEN guy. There was no #metoo, no BLM, no Antifa, no cries of "racism," no protesters, no nose rings, no LGBTQ flags. Everything worked, nothing was graffiti-ed, no vending machines had been kicked in or destroyed ...

I sat down on a little bench, in that little square, which had been lovingly constructed to create a sense of peace and serenity.

I sat down on that bench, and I started to cry. I had to go back. I had to go back to broken America. And all I could do was cry.

Putin's spies have been hiding in plain sight in Japan — now the US is helping clean house



Russian intelligence operatives have been quietly working out of Tokyo for years, using Japan as a channel to buy weapons components, dodge Western sanctions, and ship the material home to supply Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a New York Times investigation.

The stakes are staggering: Roughly 90% of Russian missiles and drones contain Japanese components, according to Ukrainian government estimates.

'We have a sense of crisis about this situation.'

The investigation identifies a Russian military intelligence unit called the "20th Directorate" as the network behind the effort. Its Tokyo station is reportedly run out of an office for Russian state airline Aeroflot near the headquarters of Japan's National Police Agency.

The alleged operative in charge, Maksim Filchenkov, is a veteran Russian intelligence officer using a cover job at Aeroflot — a tactic Russian spies have used since the Soviet era.

Tokyo's response has been limited, despite its public support for Ukraine. "We have a sense of crisis about this situation," said Akihisa Shiozaki, a lawmaker in Japan's governing party.

Japan has not had a dedicated foreign intelligence agency in more than 80 years, as post-WWII restrictions left the work scattered across the police, military, and foreign ministry. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a noted Trump ally, is now racing to centralize it under one command to also counter China, which researchers say has built fake news sites disguised as Japanese-language outlets to spread pro-Beijing disinformation.

The U.S. and Australia have quietly advised Tokyo on the build-out, the Times reported, citing Japanese and other officials. So has Germany, itself in the middle of its own historic military rebuild and drawing on its foreign intelligence service's decades of experience countering Russian intelligence in Europe.

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President Trump has repeatedly accused U.S. allies of not spending enough on their own defense and questioned whether America should defend smaller nations — pushing Japan to build its own intelligence capability rather than lean on Washington. Even so, U.S. officials have quietly offered input on Japan's cyberdefense, industrial espionage, and screening of foreign investments and agents, according to the Times.

The State Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

According to the Times, Japan's government wouldn't confirm the talks directly, saying only that it "maintains close cooperation with counterparts in relevant countries on a regular basis."

Opposition lawmakers warn the new agency risks reviving Imperial Japan's wartime secret police, the Tokko, and eroding privacy rights.

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Americans bear ‘significant responsibility’ for heat wave killing the French, Paris official says



As Europe's record-breaking heat wave continues and excess deaths in France climb past 1,300, a Paris official says Americans bear responsibility for the crisis because of emissions and air conditioning.

Audrey Pulvar, Paris' deputy mayor for international relations, lashed out at American tourists and influencers who had mocked the city for its lack of widespread air conditioning as temperatures soared past 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

'OMG, this is so rich.'

"Dear American journalists and social media 'influencers': for days, some of you have been criticising and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room. ... OMG, this is so rich!" she wrote on Instagram.

She argued the U.S., which she claims is the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, bears a "significant amount of responsibility responsibility" for the warming driving the crisis, noting American cities are roughly 90% air-conditioned. "So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part."

France has recorded at least 1,300 excess deaths since June 21, according to Sante Publique France, with officials warning the count could climb higher.

About 15,000 elderly people died in France's 2003 heat wave, though air conditioning still hasn't caught on nationwide. As of June 25, officials had confirmed at least 55 drowning deaths — a toll likely to keep climbing — after many have sought relief in unsupervised waterways.

Paris went so far as to ban public alcohol consumption on streets and in parks to "preserve emergency services and allow medics to concentrate on taking care of the most vulnerable."

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Only about a quarter of French households have air conditioning, versus roughly half in Spain and Italy and 90% in the U.S. and Japan. The French have long associated air conditioning with illness, attributing colds to "thermal shock" from sudden temperature changes, according to GB News.

With Parisians sleeping in parks and booking hotel rooms to escape the heat, even traditionally AC-skeptical politicians — including France's Green Party — have conceded wider adoption may now be unavoidable.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright drew fire days earlier, telling a London conference that "cold is a vastly larger killer than heat is," citing deaths tied to high energy prices after Russia's 2022 Ukraine invasion.

On Europe's air conditioning scarcity specifically, Wright said a "shale gas revolution" in the U.K. could have cut electricity bills and avoided the shortage altogether.

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Japanese soccer fans show Texas what being a good foreign guest actually looks like



Japan managed to sneak out a tie against the Netherlands after falling behind twice in a World Cup match on Sunday, but it was the Japanese fans who went viral after the game.

Making the trip to watch their team at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, fans saw a late goal in the 89th minute earn Japan a 2-2 draw against its Dutch opponents. After the game, though, Japanese fans truly went to work.

'Return it the way you found it.'

Viral videos from all over the stadium quickly hit the internet, showing the Asian visitors whipping out blue garbage bags and methodically cleaning up their sections of the stadium.

The fans first used the bags as a way to celebrate their team, raising them in the air and letting them ripple like a wave until impressing the world by using the same bags to gather garbage later on.

"There's a Japanese culture ... which means we should be cleaner [than when] we came here," a fan told Singapore outlet CNA. "So this is our mindset and this is very obvious that we are to clean up the stadium and that will [showcase] our good Japanese culture."

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KDFW reported on comments from a Japanese teacher who further explained why the fans were all acting in unison.

"Japanese sports fans at world events who clean up the stadium are behaving much the same way they did when they learned how to enjoy sports as school boys and girls," said Koichi Nakano, a politics and history teacher at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

A popular Japanese phrase apparently embodies the idea: "Tatsu tori ato wo nigosazu," which reportedly means "return it the way you found it."

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Beloved NFL quarterback Jameis Winston was also among the Japanese crowd cleaning up the garbage. At 6'4", Winston stuck out like a sore thumb in the crowd of fans, but seeking no attention, he grabbed a blue bag and helped the Japanese supporters with their mission.

The New York Giants quarterback happened to be in that section of the stadium while reporting on the game for Fox Sports and decided to join in.

Japan's next game is Sunday at 12:00 a.m. ET against Tunisia, taking place at Estadio BBVA in Guadalupe, Mexico, where the Japanese fans will most likely show up their Tunisian counterparts.

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Japan is close to finding cure for rare disorder that devastates children



A rare defect that can be devastating to children is getting a first-of-its-kind medicine from Japanese researchers.

A new treatment is now five years in the making, and after being used for medical applications, it's likely the product will be available for use by the general population as well.

'We feel that people's expectations ... are high.'

Since 2021, Japanese researchers have been hoping to find a solution for anodontia, the medical term for the complete absence of teeth, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

The initial study for this project states that anodontia and congenital tooth agenesis are common tooth anomalies affecting 1% of the worldwide population, resulting in a high rate of missing teeth.

The solution, according to lead researcher Katsu Takahashi, is to counteract a protein called USAG-1, which inhibits the growth of teeth.

"We want to do something to help those who are suffering from tooth loss or absence," he told the Mainichi in 2024. "While there has been no treatment to date providing a permanent cure, we feel that people's expectations for tooth growth are high."

The goal of the project is to give young children who have no teeth the joy of a real smile.

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The research was moved into human trials in October 2024 and lasted until October 2025. The controlled trial involved 30 males between 30 and 65 who were missing one or more molars, and the medicine was administered through one single intravenous dose.

The study has since been marked as completed, but little public information has been released. However, the Economic Times reported that as of April, preliminary analyses showed positive results with no significant side effects.

The next phase of the research is reportedly to test the medicine on children between 2 and 7 who suffer from congenital anodontia.

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The teams at Kitano Hospital and Kyoto University Hospital believe that it may be soon possible to grow teeth not only in people with the aforementioned conditions, but also for common conditions like tooth loss from cavities or injuries.

According to Popular Mechanics, if the latest trials are successful, the researchers believe the medicine will become available to the public for all forms of tooth loss around 2030.

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Guilty Reading Pleasure

If you are a bookish person, odds are that your running gift-list for family members, friends, colleagues, and so on includes other heavy readers. Among them may well be some who enjoy mysteries, "crime fiction," and the like. If that is indeed the case, I have a suggestion for you: Keigo Higashino’s novel Guilt, just published by Minotaur Press. You might want to get a copy for yourself as well.

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