The Innocence Project’s not so innocent: Criminals, anti-justice billionaires, and politicians



The Innocence Project has long been lauded by activists for helping those who were wrongfully convicted find their freedom again — but after a closer look, the project appears to have a habit of undermining true justice in the interest of social justice.

“A man who was released from prison because of the efforts of the Innocence Project has now been arrested for the possession of child sex abuse material,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey begins. “This is just the most recent example of criminals who have been advocated for by the Innocence Project who have gone on to reoffend.”

“And actually, the Innocence Project has a very long history of defending those who beyond a reasonable doubt have committed heinous crimes, including the rape and the murder of children,” she continues.

The case of Robert Roberson, another one that’s been taken on by the Innocence Project, features an autistic man who was convicted for the death of his 2-year-old daughter in 2002.


His daughter, Nikki, had been sick, and she was alleged to have fallen from her bed and later become unresponsive.

While the Innocence Project claims Roberson wasn’t responsible, he not only was reported by the hospital to be unemotional about his child’s injuries but also became very angry with his girlfriend, Teddie, when she asked Roberson to watch Nikki, since she was in the hospital.

It was the first time Roberson was ever left alone with his daughter.

“The next morning, Teddie ... was discharged from the hospital, and she called Robert to ask for a ride from the hospital. He responded, reportedly, that he probably needed to come to the hospital anyway, because their daughter, Nikki, wasn’t breathing,” Stuckey explains.

“Teddie testified that Roberson wasn’t upset at all about the situation. He didn’t seem flustered. He didn’t seem like he was in a hurry. He didn’t even pull up to the front door of the hospital. Instead, he took the time to find a parking spot,” she continues.

Medical exams following Nikki’s death painted the picture that her “brain swelling was so severe that her brain had shifted from the right to the left” and that the injuries had to be “intentionally inflicted.”

And for some reason, it appears there are very powerful people who want Americans fighting these convictions.

“The Innocence Project is also backed by the usual left-wing billionaires and left-wing political donors. They receive millions, no surprise, from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and radical leftist philanthropist MacKenzie Scott,” Stuckey explains.

“If there were any doubt about the Innocence Project’s ideological bent, they’re not just some apolitical organization that’s trying to exonerate innocent people,” she continues. “It’s about partisanship. It’s about undermining law and order, rewriting history, changing the facts, advancing a radical leftist — often racialized — agenda under the guise of compassion and empathy and justice.”

“They turn criminals into victims and the justice system into the oppressor. They distort reality and erode the very foundation of accountability and lawfulness in America,” she adds.

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White House torches Amazon's alleged tariff labels as 'hostile and political' — then company partly denies plans



A Tuesday report from Punchbowl News claimed that Amazon is planning to make an update to its shopping site that would inform consumers about how tariffs have impacted the total cost of items.

The outlet wrote, "Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war."

'I was getting so excited about the Amazon tariff tracker so I could avoid buying anything from China!!'

"So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan," it added. "The shopping site will display how much of an item's cost is derived from tariffs — right next to the product's total listed price."

The recent report sparked backlash from President Donald Trump's administration.

During a Tuesday press briefing, a reporter asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt about Amazon's alleged tariff label plan.

"I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon's announcement," Leavitt stated. "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon."

"Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?" she questioned. "I would also add that it's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm."

Leavitt's comment referenced a December 2021 report from Reuters that claimed Amazon had marketed "a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website."

"This is another reason why Americans should buy American," she added.

The reporter asked Leavitt whether Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is "still a Trump supporter."

"Look, I will not speak to the president's relationship with Jeff Bezos, but I will tell you that this is certainly a hostile and political action by Amazon," Leavitt responded.

However, an Amazon spokesperson rejected Punchbowl News' reporting.

The representative told ABC News, "The team that runs our ultra low-cost Amazon Haul store has considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products."

"Teams discuss ideas all the time. This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site, and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties," the spokesperson stated.

According to the company's website, Amazon Haul items include "unbelievable finds from $2.99." It explains that to keep prices low, Haul consumers are listed as the item's "importer for customs purposes."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) responded to Amazon's denial of the report.

"Ahhh come on Amazon!!" Greene wrote in a post on X. "I was getting so excited about the Amazon tariff tracker so I could avoid buying anything from China!!"

"Americans want to buy American and you were finally going to give us a way to know which products and companies were selling slave labor made goods from China undercutting our great American made goods," she remarked.

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Out of touch and out of orbit: Hollywood’s hypocrisy hits new heights



It’s a familiar pattern. Wealthy, self-righteous elites who crisscross the globe by private jet turn around and shame others for doing the same — so long as it’s done with less glamor and more purpose. The latest target of their selective outrage? Six women who took a private spaceflight last week aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket.

You’d think such a moment — an aerospace engineer, an entrepreneur, and other accomplished women making history on a suborbital mission — might warrant celebration. Instead, it drew scorn. According to Hollywood’s self-appointed moral authorities and their Instagram followers, this was a grave offense against the planet and the poor.

These flights are more than joyrides. They’re test beds for innovation, job creation, and future scientific breakthroughs.

What the climate elites ignore — again — is that progress for women, on Earth or in space, depends on one thing they take for granted: energy.

Access to reliable, affordable energy is the cornerstone of women’s liberation in the developing world. It means light to study at night, clean water, safer childbirth, personal security, and a future that doesn’t begin and end with gathering firewood. The freedom to dream big, like flying to space, starts with the freedom to flip a switch.

Classic virtue-signaling

Gayle King, one of the passengers and a trailblazer in journalism, rightly called the backlash “elitist and sexist.” But she left something out: it’s not just sexist. It’s sanctimonious, selective, and suffocating. These are the trademarks of climate virtue-signaling.

Here’s how the game works in today’s inverted moral order: Jet to Davos or Cannes to lecture the public on climate change and you’re hailed as enlightened. Board a rocket as a civilian scientist or entrepreneur, and suddenly you’re a villain — a carbon criminal with the wrong pedigree.

Leonardo DiCaprio can bounce between islands on a yacht to “save the seas,” and no one complains. John Kerry can cross the Atlantic alone in a jet to accept a climate award, and the hypocrisy goes unmentioned. But let six women go to space without the blessing of the green aristocracy, and the mob lights its torches.

Companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX aren’t just about space tourism. They’re pushing technological boundaries that benefit everyone — from global internet access to environmental monitoring. These flights are more than joyrides. They’re test beds for innovation, job creation, and future scientific breakthroughs.

And here’s the larger truth: Abundant, affordable energy is the single most powerful engine of human progress. Societies with the highest energy access are the ones where women thrive. Education, health care, and economic opportunity all expand when energy is plentiful. When the climate movement demonizes innovation and blocks energy development, it’s not saving the planet — it’s stunting the dreams of billions, especially women and girls.

But the climate elites aren’t interested in nuance. Their worldview leaves no room for liberty or aspiration — only guilt, rules, and control.

No apologies

What makes this worse is their arrogance. As if launching six women into space is somehow a threat to “equity.” These women didn’t beg permission from the climate commissars. They didn’t issue carbon apologies. They didn’t buy indulgences from Greenpeace. They flew — because they could. That’s what really infuriates their critics.

The same people who shame Americans for driving pickups or heating their homes sip imported oat milk and scold others from first-class lounges. They claim to speak for justice, but their double standards always circle back to their own comfort.

Instead of condemning these women, we should be applauding them. In an age where pessimism is the norm and grievance is currency, their boldness reminds us of what ambition without apology looks like.

We should be asking: How can we empower more women — not just to fly to space, but to lead in science, business, and technology? The answer is energy. The free market — not fearmongering — will launch the next generation of pioneers.

This was a win for human achievement. No amount of Hollywood hand-wringing can diminish it.

To the ladies of Blue Origin: Don’t let the sanctimonious elites pull you down. While they stare at the sky, you’ve already touched it.

Ridicule Is The Final Frontier For The Ladies Of Blue Origin

Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King, pretended to be astronauts and corporate media pretended their brief trek was news.

‘Kumbaya bulls**t’: Katy Perry’s post-space flight comments will make you CRINGE



Apparently, we’re supposed to jump and cheer because an all-female flight crew went to space for 11 whole minutes, supposedly proving that girls can do anything.

Maybe some of the world is celebrating. But those of us who know that this so-called gender gap is largely made up by radical left feminists — we’re all rolling our eyes.

That includes Sara Gonzales, who knows that this little stunt wasn’t some huge win for women. All that happened was “a bunch of chicks went to space.”

The flight crew included six women — Lauren Sánchez, fiancée to Jeff Bezos; pop star Katy Perry; Gayle King, co-host of "CBS Mornings" and editor at large at Oprah Daily; Kerianne Flynn, film producer and documentarian; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist; and Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist.

Upon landing, Katy Perry described the flight as “the highest high” and “surrender to the unknown — trust.”

She also said that the journey made her feel “super connected to love.”

“You never know how much love is inside of you, like how much love you have to give,” she said, claiming the mission was “all for the benefit of Earth” and that she had to “trust that the universe was gonna take care of [her].”

“You’ve got to trust in yourself on this journey, and then you feel in love when you come down for sure. And you’re feeling that strength, so I feel really connected to that divine feminine right now,” she continued.

“Trust in yourself? You didn’t do anything,” scoffs Sara.

BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden calls Perry’s comments “a whole collection of Kumbaya bulls**t.”

“This is what happens when you come away from real faith. ... You have to come up with some mumbo jumbo to connect to something bigger than you,” he says, alluding to Perry’s forsaken Christian upbringing.

“It's all about the all-female flight crew; it's all about what race people are. We've got to play the intersectionality wars, and, ‘Oh wow, an all-female space crew!’” derides Sara. “Remind me to never sign up for that ever if it's anything like what I just watched.”

To see the footage of Katy Perry’s insufferable speech and hear more of the panel’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Holding Space: Women Rejoice as Bezos Gal Pal, Others Make History

Lauren Sanchez, the body-positive icon and internationally beloved fiancée of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, thrust her way into the history books on Monday as part of the first all-female crew to travel to space.* Women around the world exuded feminist joy while watching the Sanchez and her fellow crew members, including the notoriously buxom musical legend Katy Perry, bust through the atmosphere aboard a phallus-shaped rocket operated by Blue Origin, the Bezos-owned space firm. Gayle King, the CBS News journalist and Democratic donor, was also along for the ride.

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'Humankind': Former astronaut corrects reporter's use of 'mankind' to change his 'perspective' on space travel



Former astronaut Mae Jemison shut down a reporter's use of the word "mankind" and said it should not be used if perspectives are to be advanced in terms of what people think when discussing space travel.

Jemison was an astronaut with the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992 and was providing commentary to CBS ahead of the launch of an all-female celebrity crew that went into what is technically considered outer space.

The publicity event, called the New Shepard program (currently NS-31), was launched by Blue Origin, which is owned by billionaire and Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. Crew members included singer Katy Perry, CBS host Gayle King, activist Amanda Nguyen, scientist Aisha Bowe, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, and Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez.

In the early hours before the flight, CBS host Vladimir Duthiers asked Jemison to explain why all space travel was important for science but made an apparent mistake when he used the term "mankind."

"Explain to our audience why even a trip like this one, all the trips that we take in space, benefit mankind," Duthiers said, setting Jemison up.

"So it benefits humankind," Jemison remarked. "And I'm gonna keep correcting the 'mankind' and the 'man-made' and the 'manned missions' because this is exactly what this mission is about, is expanding the perspective of who does space."

Duthier apologized, "Humankind. I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

'They're going to go up to space and be able to spread what they felt in different ways.'

As reported by Sky News, while the mission was aimed at creating a "lasting impact that will inspire generations," the crew members are likely not to be remembered as much given they will not be considered astronauts by any federal entities like the FAA, NASA, or the branches of U.S. military. All have different eligibility requirements that have not been met.

The crew members, who were selected by Sanchez, went on only an 11-minute trip in a reusable, self-driving rocket that traveled 62 miles above Earth. The 62-mile mark is known as the Karman line, which is considered internationally as the official boundary of space. There was an approximated four minutes of weightlessness for the crew during that time.

Sanchez told Elle that her selections for the mission were based upon each woman's proven ability to inspire others.

"All of these women are storytellers in their own right," Sanchez claimed. "They're going to go up to space and be able to spread what they felt in different ways."

The trip comes as an actual female astronaut, Suni Williams, recently returned to Earth after being stuck in space from September 2024 until March 2025. She along with other crew members were meant to be in space for just two weeks before shuttle complications — and politics — kept the astronauts in orbit much longer.

The first all-female crew was Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight to space in 1963.

There is currently a bevy of female astronauts, some of whom are currently on missions, who have not received anywhere near the same amount of publicity as the recent celebrity trip.

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