'I say worse things than that every day': Jimmy Carr issues hilarious defense of Shane Gillis
British comedian Jimmy Carr was asked to comment on the outrage over Shane Gillis' gym joke, and his response was absolutely hilarious.
Gillis has been excoriated by feminists and others on the left for saying that some women dress like "whores" at the gym during his monologue on "Saturday Night Live" on October 10, 2026.
'Shane is very clearly a lovely man. And he's trying to make people laugh. That's a joyful thing. Look at the intent, not the content.'
Carr often posts video of his interactions with his audience on social media from his stand-up appearances and decided to post his opinion on the Gillis outrage.
"What are your thoughts on the Shane Gillis controversy?" an audience member asked.
"Shane Gillis? If that's what passes as controversy, great!" Carr responded, which elicited laughter from the crowd.
"The weird thing about that is, I say worse things than that every day. And also, I think intent is much more important than content," he added.
"Shane is very clearly a lovely man. And he's trying to make people laugh. That's a joyful thing. Look at the intent, not the content. Don't take it out of context. He's a great f**king guy. Great guy, great comic," Carr said.
Carr got a lot of applause for his statement. He went on to make a fat joke at Gillis' expense.
"I think, though, the controversy probably means that he won't be able to go to the gym for a while," he said, laughing. "I don't think that's going to be a massive problem for him lifestyle-wise."
Carr's video garnered more than 2.6 million views after he posted it on Monday.
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Others have pointed out that Gillis' joke was ultimately meant to ridicule Gillis at the gym.
"Look, I’m sorry, there's no other way to describe [it]. Have you seen it? I've seen it. The shorts. Have you seen the shorts? Those neon, they're like artificial bait-colored. And the wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole. And don't look! You're not allowed to look," Gillis said to the "SNL" audience.
"For real, don't look because they are filming. I'm in the background of like 10 TikToks right now," he added.
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Activists protest red state's law by sending 'bearded, burly' trans-identifying protesters into women's bathrooms
Transgender-identifying people are protesting a law in Kansas by following it — with "bearded, burly" women who identify as men.
In one incident on Aug. 8, the protest caused the manager of the Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City to scream and help children leave the bathroom and changing area.
The reporter referred to the action as 'malicious compliance.'
The new SB 244 law restricts people from using a bathroom designated for a gender that doesn't match their gender assigned at birth.
Following the law led to the self-described "bearded, burly men" having an "uncomfortable" conversation with police where they had to describe their bodies and genitals, according to a report from a transgender-identifying reporter.
The report showed a picture of the three women wearing yellow shirts that read "SB244 Compliance Crew," which refers to the transgender law.
The reporter referred to the action as "malicious compliance."
Others were a part of the protest and made similar bathroom visits at a zoo, a library, a museum, and other parks. The group's press release claimed that neither the police involved in the water park incident nor the manager knew about the law.
"Segregating people by suspected genitalia does nothing to improve public safety; it does quite the opposite by opening Kansans up to sexual harassment and discrimination," said one of the women at the Dodge City protest. "At no point should anyone be asking anyone else what genitals they have in public."
The transgender activist group also claimed that the law had unequal outcomes for different transgender-identifying folks.
"Trans feminine people face the brunt of the KS Legislature's demonization while trans masculine folks are infantilized and characterized as non-threatening," the group states on its website, according to LGBTQ Nation. "We believe it's important to use that relative advantage to work for change."
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The transgender-identifying activists are plotting more protests against the Kansas law.
"I've got some ideas rattling around in my head," said Charles Osman, who created the SB244 Compliance Crew.
Osman says there's a reason the activists are targeting areas away from the metropolitan areas of Kansas.
"They almost exclusively vote Republican," Osman told the Lawrence Times. "And almost nobody knows about this law out in rural areas."
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Trump administration breaks record cleaning up Social Security files in HUGE fraud-prevention move
Tens of millions of Social Security records with previously missing or inaccurate information have finally been updated, according to a press release from the Social Security Administration.
It is the largest correction of vital Social Security records in the 91-year history of the department, according to the SSA.
'This is the first time SSA has undertaken an effort of this scale, and I am proud of the work we have done to strengthen the foundation of identity data relied upon throughout government and the economy.'
The massive effort corrected data of 15% of all active Social Security numbers, or about 50 million files out of 330 million.
About 25 million records with missing citizenship information were updated, and the agency is in the process of correcting the inaccurate citizenship status of 8.5 million records.
About 17 million death dates were also added to records.
The SSA also "implemented stronger internal controls to prevent inaccuracies due to manual data entry" that could otherwise have happened in the future.
"The Social Security Number database is our country’s books and records. The database’s accuracy is essential to maintaining integrity of government services for citizens," read a statement from Commissioner Frank Bisignano.
"Accurate SSN records prevent fraud across federal programs and support the proper administration of benefits," he added. "This is the first time SSA has undertaken an effort of this scale, and I am proud of the work we have done to strengthen the foundation of identity data relied upon throughout government and the economy."
The SSA said the corrections will prevent payments from being made to the wrong recipients.
"These improvements demonstrate a government‑wide commitment to safeguarding identity data, preventing fraud, and preserving proper program administration," said the SSA in its press release.
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Experts estimate that the Social Security program may no longer have enough funds to make benefit payments by 2034.
President Donald Trump previously promised he would not cut the program's benefits and said it could be fixed by purging its rolls of illegal aliens and others fraudulently receiving payments.
Democrats have floated plans to significantly raise taxes on the wealthy in order to ensure the program's viability.
"We will have to make a choice," said Glenn Hubbard, a top Bush administration economist, to the AP. "If you want Social Security benefits to look like they are today, we're going to have to raise everyone's taxes a lot. And if that's what people want, that's a menu, and you pay the high price and you move on."
He said the other choice is to restrict benefits to decrease the cost of the program.
"It's really a political choice," he said. "Neither one of those is pain-free."
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Leftist fire-starters and immigrants have pushed another French republic to the edge: 'Unholy alliance'
The French are no strangers to protests that go sideways. After all, the nation is on its fifth republic since 1792.
Nevertheless, the rally on Saturday planned by the General Confederation of Labor and various other leftist outfits — a rally that quickly devolved into an orgy of destruction — proved to be too much for the French authorities to handle.
'There’s a lot of tinder for the flame.'
Luke Foster, assistant professor of government at Hillsdale College, provided Blaze News with insights into what has changed and what France is up against.
Throughout the West but perhaps most acutely in France, the old left that was historically focused on issues affecting the working class has increasingly been displaced by the “new left, which is much more about sexual and racial politics," said Foster.
This shift appears to have taken place midway through the 20th century.
In “Explaining Postmodernism,” Stephen Hicks, formerly of Rockford University, observed that in response to the “crisis of socialism,” “much of the Left changed its official ethical standard from need to equality” and began “concentrating their efforts on the special issues of women and of racial and ethnic minorities.”
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This is certainly the case in France, where instead of relying on and weaponizing the resentment of French workers, the new left is increasingly leaning on easily mobilizable immigrants and the children of immigrants to help “channel revolutionary pressure,” said Foster.
This comports with what French conservative activist Thaïs d'Escufon has observed in her homeland.
D'Escufon previously told Blaze News:
What started as student protests, mainly led by the far left, has turned into ethnic riots that are spiraling out of control. Immigrants have become the street-level enforcers of the far left, spreading chaos, looting, vandalizing, stealing, and setting things on fire. It is an unholy alliance.
French leftists of all sorts were out in force over the weekend. For example, the suspect arrested in connection with the torching of the historic town hall in Limoges has been identified as a member of the ultra-left.
Foster noted, however, that the riots were undeniably “immigrant-dependent,” using at least the language and the symbols of Islamist politics and flying in some cases the Palestinian flag as well as the colors of North African countries, including Algeria and Morocco.
This foreign presence was no coincidence. Leftist organizers clearly intended to weaponize migrant resentment from the outset.
Saturday was the 65th anniversary of the 1961 Paris massacre, where French police lethally cracked down on Algerian demonstrators. A website promoting French protests on Saturday explicitly referenced the incident, claiming that the “racism” that supposedly animated the violence against “peaceful Algerians” in 1961 is “still used to divide” today.
The choice to hold the protests Saturday plays “to Algerian grievance politics, which are very powerful in France,” said Foster.
“Something like particular local grievances about the way the schools are being run can very quickly turn into an ethnically and religiously motivated attack on the state and the country as a whole,” added Foster.
The professor noted that “ground zero” for the so-called student protests that culminated in the riots on Saturday was unsurprisingly Saint-Denis, a poor and violent area that has a large “North and West African immigrant presence.”
Saint-Denis — where an estimated one in three residents was an immigrant as of 2024 — also happens to be the political proving ground for the France Unbowed movement, or LFI, and the immigration-centered “new France” envisioned by LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Mélenchon and other leftists "are pouring oxygen on the fire and giving it a kind of rhetorical ideological framework,” said Foster.
Foster noted that Mélenchon and the LFI are explicitly committed to an electoral strategy of uniting students and other young people to Islamist politics in order to “unravel the current regime and political system and build something new.”
Mélenchon, a presidential candidate for the 2027 election, is a poster boy for the new left. He has long downplayed Islam as a national security threat, advocated for the “creolization” of France, rejected the integration of migrants, and called for the decriminalization of illegal immigration as well as for a capitalism-destroying revolution.
Mélenchon urged his followers earlier this month to join the so-called protests and subsequently joined labor groups in condemning police for doing their jobs when things went south.
While critical of the looting, Mélenchon stated after the riots Saturday left thousands of businesses gutted and hundreds of police injured, “I support the youth and student movement and their demands.”
Mélenchon did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
Between Mélenchon’s apparent strategy and the character of the rioters, it appears that both President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron were right.
While Trump, who claimed that “what's happening in France is nothing less than out-of-control mass migration," has advocated for France to close its borders and take control "before it is too late," Macron blamed the riots on "seditionists from far-left fringe groups,” and his administration imposed nightly curfews.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu credited the curfews with achieving a semblance of calm in recent days.
"Tonight, new curfews will be decided where the situation requires it," said Lecornu early on Tuesday.
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Major company pays millions after making Americans jump through hoops for jobs
The Trump administration has closed a discrimination case against a well-known company — and the people who have had their eyes on this case for over a year are taking a victory lap.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced a settlement of $5 million with Instacart for allegedly discriminating against U.S. and American workers.
'We will not stop fighting for US workers until there is a fair playing field.'
In its investigation of the case, the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that Instacart gave preference to holders of temporary employment visas over American workers.
Specifically, the DOJ explained, Instacart "created additional burdens on U.S. workers to apply for job opportunities by requiring that applications be physically mailed for positions advertised as part of PERM recruitment."
PERM is the Permanent Labor Certification program used by companies to sponsor temporary visa holders for permanent resident status "after performing good-faith recruitment for U.S. workers."
As a result of the additional burdens, U.S. workers who applied were "not timely considered," the DOJ claimed.
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Maplebear Inc., doing business as Instacart, will be required to create and to pay $4 million into a settlement fund and will pay another $1 million in civil penalties to the United States.
According to a summary of the terms of the settlement, Instacart will also be required to revise its PERM policies, including allowing for electronic application submissions and to train personnel to give American workers proper consideration during the hiring process.
“This significant resolution marks the fifteenth settlement agreement the Civil Rights Division has reached under my leadership to protect U.S. workers,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in the DOJ's press release. “Our record demonstrates that the Justice Department is holding companies who prefer workers with temporary employment visas accountable. We will not stop fighting for U.S. workers until there is a fair playing field.”
Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, reaffirmed the Trump administration's commitment to holding companies accountable for discriminatory practices.
"The EEOC is committed to holding companies accountable when they deny equal work opportunities to U.S. workers by preferring temporary visa holders for jobs," Lucas said. "Discrimination against workers based on their American national origin has no place in our economy.”
The news of this settlement was gladly welcomed by Jobs.Now, which first sounded the alarm on Instacart's questionable hiring practices in April 2025.
Jobs.Now claims it documented several "hidden jobs" from Instacart before being "forced to take their ads down" after being threatened with a lawsuit. It then alerted The Hill to continue the investigation, culminating in a September 2025 report on the situation.
"So happy to finally see justice for Americans job seekers Instacart unfairly discouraged from applying!" Jobs.Now wrote. "Another win for Harmeet!"
In a statement to Blaze News, Jobs.Now explained the legal threat it received:
"We were shocked when Instacart threatened legal action against us simply for publicizing their job ads to the world, under the pretense that we were violating their copyright for the name 'Instacart,' and maintain that it is our First Amendment right to republish job ads so Americans can finally have the chance to apply."
The company said it was "extremely happy" to see the settlement announcement from the DOJ but added that more work needs to be done regarding the PERM process:
"We call for all PERM advertising to require:
- Job postings listed on companies' main career website[s]
- Allowing electronic applications directly through the career website
- Mandatory advertising on online job boards like Linkedin or Indeed
- Increased DOL enforcement to ensure PERM recruitment processes do not discriminate against American workers."
An Instacart spokesperson told Blaze News, "We encourage qualified U.S. job seekers to apply to join our team. Hiring and investing in American workers across our U.S. business is our priority, and we actively promote every role across many channels to ensure qualified U.S. candidates are always first in line for opportunities."
"While we maintain that our practices complied with all applicable laws and regulations, we’re pleased to have resolved this matter so we can keep our full focus on delivering on our mission for customers, shoppers, retailers, and brands."
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Abdul El-Sayed cried 'racism' over taxpayer-funded transgender operations for illegal aliens: AUDIO
Tax-paying voters who don't want to pay for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens are not likely to support Abdul El-Sayed after a new revelation.
The Democratic candidate for one of Michigan's seats in the U.S. Senate made the comments on podcasts back in 2021 and 2022, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.
'That’s going to be the example that they’re going to push forward because it captures a group of multiple marginalized people whom they want to cast as being undeserving.'
In one of the clips, El-Sayed complains that "conservatives" are using the issue of transgender surgeries for illegal aliens to oppose "Medicare for All."
"A lot of the most difficult conversations break on the question of who deserves what care, right?" he said on his "America Dissected" podcast from Feb. 2022, according to the Free Beacon.
"The prime example that conservatives will impose on a conversation about Medicare for All will be ‘well, what do we do with the undocumented person who comes to this country and wants to get gender reassignment surgery on Medicare for All?'" he adds.
He goes on to accuse those opposing transgender treatments for illegal aliens of being guilty of "the original sin of racism," a common anti-American trope among far-left extremists.
"That’s going to be the example that they’re going to push forward because it captures a group of multiple marginalized people whom they want to cast as being undeserving," he adds.
In the second clip from a Boston University health policy podcast in 2021, he makes it clear he wants the taxpayer to pay for the trans surgeries for illegal aliens.
"When you talk about care for transgender people, when you talk about care for immigrants, like, all of these things are going to be deeply politicized," said El-Sayed.
"My hope, right, is that we would pass a Medicare for All that is truly inclusive and offers the full gamut of health care that any and everyone would need," he added.
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El-Sayed Called for Universal Health Care for Trans ‘Undocumented Persons’
Cole Wozniak, a campaign spokesman for El-Sayed, released a brief statement that implied El-Sayed still supports transgender surgeries for illegal aliens.
"Abdul wants to guarantee health care for every single American taxpayer and believes that medical decisions should be between a patient, their family, and their doctor," said Wozniak.
Ironically, support for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens was one of the many issues that doomed the presidential campaign of Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024. In a brutally effective campaign ad, Harris is seen promoting trans-related surgery for prison inmates. The ad closes with the memorable line "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you."
An April 2025 poll by the American Principles Project found that 66% of American adults oppose the federal government paying for any transgender surgeries or gender reassignment treatments.
Here's the latest polling in the contest between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers, according to the Blaze News Poll Watch:
Michigan Senate polls 2026: El-Sayed vs. Rogers
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‘Finna get kirked’: Kansas man arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot Trump
A 24-year-old Kansas man is in federal custody after allegedly threatening on Facebook to kill President Donald Trump.
Jaden J. Read was arrested after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas charged him with making threats against the president, according to a Monday Justice Department press release.
'Let's shoot Trump honestly, where's our shooter?'
Read allegedly claimed to know exactly where President Donald Trump would speak during his visit to the Wichita area on Monday.
"IK where your speech will be. Already mapped out roofs around. Finna get kirked since yall couldn't help him," Read allegedly wrote.
"Kirked" is a reference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk and has become popular among left-wingers wishing death on conservatives.
A Crime Stoppers tip made on Thursday pointed authorities to Read's comments under a KAKE News Facebook post about the president's upcoming trip, according to the DOJ.
"Let's shoot Trump honestly, where's our shooter? I'm tired of living this money life," the one comment allegedly read.
"I just got a 308 and 305 round and I'm killing this pedo," Read also allegedly posted.
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Under a separate post from KWCH 12 News, Read allegedly wrote, "Can we shoot him in Kansas please I will myself."
The rooftop comment came about a minute later, according to prosecutors.
It follows the July 2024 attempt on Trump's life. Thomas Crooks shot and wounded the then-candidate from a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Charlie Kirk was shot from a rooftop at Utah Valley University in September 2025.
The complaint was filed Saturday, and Read was arrested in Clearwater the same day. He will remain in custody until a detention hearing, according to the DOJ. No hearing date has been made public.
If found guilty, Read faces up to five years in prison under the federal law barring threats against the president.
The Secret Service, U.S. Marshals Service, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Highway Patrol, and Wichita Police Department were all involved in the investigation, according to the release.
Trump went ahead with his Monday event at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, just north of Wichita.
U.S. Attorney Ryan Kriegshauser issued a stern statement for would-be assassins and those threatening the president online or offline.
"Political violence and threats of political violence will not be tolerated," he said in the release.
"The First Amendment allows for robust disagreement, but there are constraints," Kriegshauser said, cautioning people "to stay within the bounds of constitutionally protected speech."
The Secret Service, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Highway Patrol, U.S. Attorney's Office, and Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The attorney listed for Read did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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