California Republicans move to end daylight saving time — America’s dumbest tradition



Every March, without consent, the federal government steals an hour of sleep from hundreds of millions of people. Every November, it hands the hour back, as if that settles the debt. It doesn’t. The damage is already done. The bodies counted. The fender-benders filed with insurance.

This is the absurdity of daylight saving time: a policy dressed up as convenience that functions, in practice, as a twice-annual public health hazard. Two states — Hawaii and Arizona, apparently the adults in the room — do not participate.

The trade: preventable deaths in exchange for slightly earlier winter sunsets. It’s not a close call.

The carnage is well documented and almost comically avoidable. Heart attacks spike in the days after the spring shift. Strokes climb. Traffic fatalities rise during that first fog-brained week, when reaction times slow to something approaching drunk driving. Workplace injuries surge. Emergency rooms fill.

Physiological shock

The mechanism isn’t mysterious. The human body is exquisitely calibrated to light cycles, and ripping away an hour mimics the physiological shock of being flung across time zones overnight. Stress hormones spike. Melatonin craters.

The body’s rather elegant machinery gets jammed with a wrench — annually, on a schedule — by people who will never be held responsible for any of it.

If a pharmaceutical company produced a drug with this side-effect profile, the FDA would pull it from the market within a week.

Classroom chaos

Children absorb the worst of it. After the spring shift, school buses roll before sunrise, hauling kids whose biology insists it’s still the middle of the night. Adolescents — already sleep-deprived by group chats and the algorithmic abyss of TikTok — get hammered hardest. Attention fractures. Memory slips. Impulse control dissolves.

The classroom after the time change looks less like a learning environment and more like a hostage situation.

Billions get poured into fixing education, while a mandated sleep disruption quietly picks its pockets twice a year. The policy eats the investment. Test scores dip, classrooms destabilize, and learning suffers.

All to preserve someone’s evening tee time.

Mental health follows the same logic. Circadian misalignment fogs the mind. It destabilizes mood, amplifies anxiety, and deepens depressive episodes.

The human standard

Standard time — anchored to the sun rather than legislative preference — flips that script. Earlier morning light stabilizes serotonin, steadies metabolism, and synchronizes human rhythms with the environment humans actually evolved under.

The benefits aren’t philosophical. They’re measurable, reproducible, and stubbornly indifferent to the opinions of state legislators.

Enter California’s Senate Bill 1197.

What makes this legislation notable — beyond its merits — is who is championing it: Republican senators who actually read the research.

Not a talking point. Not a culture-war signal. Just data, reviewed and acted upon.

In a political climate where bipartisan cooperation on health policy feels about as common as a lobbyist who forgot to file paperwork, a group of Republican legislators looked at the peer-reviewed evidence on sleep disruption, cardiovascular events, traffic fatalities, and childhood cognition and reached the obvious conclusion: This is stupid, and we should stop doing it.

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Votes are in

California voters agreed back in 2018. Legislative inertia is the only thing standing between the state and sanity.

The science here isn’t complicated, contested, or politically inconvenient. Even Sacramento should be able to handle that.

The economic case is just as compelling. Productivity losses from post-shift disruption cost tens of billions nationally every cycle. Sick days multiply. Error rates climb. Health care spending ticks upward.

Sleep debt correlates with obesity, metabolic disorders, and long-term cognitive decline — costs that don’t show up in the week of the shift but accumulate quietly across years.

Opponents of the bill will likely invoke evening leisure — longer summer nights for golf, grilling, gender-reveal parties, and so on — as if that justifies annual cardiac events and crashed school buses.

An obvious trade

Standard time still delivers long summer evenings. Sunset in Los Angeles in late June arrives around 8 p.m. under standard time. Nobody’s barbecue is getting canceled. Nobody’s constitutional rights are being trampled.

The trade: preventable deaths in exchange for slightly earlier winter sunsets. It’s not a close call.

The federal government could authorize a national fix tomorrow. Congress has simply chosen not to. In the meantime, California’s bill offers a replicable model: well researched, cross-partisan, and focused on whether a policy actually helps people rather than whether it polls well in October.

Pass S.B. 1197. Encourage every statehouse still running this cruel charade to follow.

The science on this one isn’t contested or nuanced. It’s stacked, overwhelming, and pointing in one direction.

Let noon mean noon. Let light arrive when it’s supposed to. And let people sleep without the government scheduling their insomnia.

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WATCH: Alex Stein ASSAULTED at No Kings protest



Last weekend, Alex Stein, Blaze Media’s resident troll and host of “Prime Time with Alex Stein,” entered the belly of the beast at Dallas’ No Kings protest, where violent liberal women assaulted him.

“The footage you just saw was from this past weekend. ... It was the No Kings round two protest, the anti-Donald Trump protest. And I really did not understand what we were even protesting because we don't have kings in this country,” says Alex.

“Really and truly, they were the ones that were acting like kings the whole time. They were the ones that were being rude and making me leave their country — a.k.a. the public park where they're all doing fentanyl.”

Alex’s guest political consultant and podcast host Ryan Girdusky describes the protest as “noticeably old” and “heavily female.”

“I think that those are the last people really watching cable news, and they are creating almost like a cable news-induced psychosis that's generational,” he says.

These geriatric protesters, he believes, “have this notion that democracy is ending,” even though “every sign is that democracy is there.”

“It so much reminds me of when teenage girls all of a sudden say they're trans. Like it is induced by what they're absorbing from the culture, and they have sat there and marinated in it,” he tells Alex.

“It’s kind of like the hippie Boomers that all got to buy their house for $100,000, and now they're worth like $2 million,” says Alex.

After being assaulted by some of these people, he wonders if conservatives are really becoming genuine victims in this country. “We keep on saying we're victims. Is that a real thing, or is that a right-wing conspiracy?” he asks Ryan.

After receiving “over a thousand threats ... within a 12-hour period” of being banned from CNN for a perceived Islamophobic comment he made to Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan, Ryan says the danger is real.

“I think Republicans are under assault, and there are crazy people who don't have the moral compass and the morality to sit there and see that there's a soul behind somebody, and they're created in the image of God,” he says.

And on top of that, they genuinely believe they are “fighting Nazis.”

“Is [a left-wing protest] the most dangerous place you could be? No. You could always be in a black majority Democrat-run city somewhere,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation and see footage of Alex at the No Kings protest, watch the episode above.

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MOCKING Charlie Kirk? Alex Stein's girlfriend DESTROYS liberal councilwoman



Fort Worth city councilwoman Elizabeth Beck decided to mock Charlie Kirk's death in an Instagram post, so BlazeTV host Alex Stein sent his secret weapon — his girlfriend, Paige, also known as "Pre-Paid Wireless" — to call out Beck’s disgusting actions.

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Beck immediately went to Instagram to post a story making fun of the Turning Point USA founder and point out that he supported the Second Amendment.

And Paige — along with many other Texans — is not happy about it.

“Hi, my name is Paige,” Paige began in the city council meeting. “Honestly, it feels like there’s no point in trying to reason with people who are so soulless and so far gone that they openly mock the tragic assassination of someone that they don’t agree with.”


“But the two city council members who did just that need to be publicly shamed and know that this type of behavior will not be accepted in this country. But you know, one of the best parts of social media is that it shows you who people really are,” she continued.

“And hate-filled leftists can’t help but to post every thought they have online, exposing how they truly feel about people who don’t agree with them. Councilwoman Beck quickly took to her Instagram after it was announced Charlie Kirk had been shot and posted ‘unfortunate’ with an out-of-context quote from Charlie Kirk about the Second Amendment on her story,” she added.

Paige went on to explain that the councilwoman made it “clear that if you support the Second Amendment and are tragically killed by a mentally ill man with a transgender boyfriend, that you deserved what happened to you.”

But that’s not all Paige exposed.

Paige also called out Beck for allegedly calling the volleyball coach “a white, skinny, dumb b***h” for not letting her daughter join the volleyball team after missing tryouts.

“Are you starting to see how these people operate?” she asked, adding, “They will call you names such as racist, bigot, white supremacist even if you don’t give them their way.”

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‘Obligation to mock’: Destiny’s HATEFUL response to Erika Kirk’s tearful address​



Political streamer Destiny, whose given name is Steven Bonnell II, recently appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” where he not only refused to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but openly mocked Erika Kirk for mourning her husband.

“I don’t understand you, Destiny. You have so much hatred in your heart,” Ana Kasparian said on the panel of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

“It’s such a simple thing,” Destiny responded. “If you’re going to weaponize somebody’s grief against the other party, well, then of course people have a right to fight back against it. I think that she has every right to grieve in whatever way she wants.”

“But when that grief is going to be weaponized to do recruitment, political recruitment and further radicalization of the other side, then of course you not only have the ability to mock, I think you have the obligation to mock it. It’s insane,” he added.


“If someone assassinated my husband,” Kasparian responds in disbelief, “I would not be able to have the level of composure she had during that speech. I would be out for blood. I understand why she’s angry and why she said the things that she said. Okay? You need to understand what being a human is.”

“Ana Kasparian,” BlazeTV host Alex Stein says on “Prime Time with Alex Stein,” “she nailed it.”

However, that’s not even the worst of the panel’s interactions with Destiny.

Jack Posobiec, who lost a best friend when he lost Charlie, spoke of one of the shooter’s bullets that said, “Hey fascist, catch,” before Destiny erupted.

“That’s not even the bullet that was fired. How are you lying about this?” Destiny said.

“Shut up, Destiny,” Posobiec says, clearly frustrated.

“You’re so shameless, dude. Oh my God. ... You’re such a disgusting piece of s**t,” Destiny shouted.

“That’s what Destiny does. He wants to argue semantics. Like, he’s trying to call Jack Posobiec a liar for not describing the exact bullet, even though we know all four bullets had all of these weird messages on them. So, I mean, regardless of the bullet that went in him, every bullet had a message,” Stein says, disgusted.

“He’s an evil, sick, sick, disgusting person,” he adds.

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‘Charlie Kirk would have been president’: Alex Stein remembers the Turning Point USA founder



Among those who loved, respected, and were grateful to Charlie Kirk for everything he did is BlazeTV host Alex Stein — who in a rare moment appears to be all out of jokes.

“People don’t understand that Charlie Kirk could have canceled me a million times. A million times. I did some very boneheaded things. And he always stuck with me, even when I was not representing Turning Point in the best light,” Stein says through tears on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“I am having trouble right now finding anything positive about this situation because I know there’s people out there, and it’s very true that Charlie’s legacy will live on forever, but the world is significantly worse today without Charlie Kirk than it was yesterday,” he continues.

“And Charlie had my back so much, and he didn’t have any motivation other than he actually believed in the First Amendment. He believed in the Second Amendment. He believed in the whole entire Constitution,” he adds.


While Stein says that everyone he has met in politics “has some sort of skeleton in their closet,” Kirk was “the closest thing to perfection when it comes to a human being and following God’s commandments and defending the Constitution.”

“There’s no better example in the entire universe than Charlie Kirk. And when you are perfect like that and when you don’t have skeletons in your closet and you cannot be blackmailed, they will publicly execute you in front of thousands of people, and they will make you scared on purpose,” Stein says.

Kirk was a husband and a father to two children, the founder of Turning Point USA, and only 31 years old.

“When you’re a 31-year-old man, father, that has accomplished more than 99.9% of the population, and you’re brutally murdered in front of your wife and two kids, that is a sick world that not even the most sinister Hollywood scriptwriter would write and produce,” Stein says.

“And that’s the current reality in which we live in. And nothing feels real. Me sitting here and saying Charlie Kirk is dead does not feel real,” he continues.

Not only is his death devastating to those who loved him, listened to him, were inspired by him — but Stein believes this will have a “ripple effect on society” that the leftists cheering on his death do not understand.

“Charlie Kirk would have been president of the United States of America,” he says, adding, “No doubt in my mind.”

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Democrat influencers funded by DARK MONEY GROUP



A secretive dark money group with ties to the Democrat Party is shelling out up to $8,000 a month to influencers to parrot left-leaning talking points.

The Chorus Creator Incubator Program is said to be funded by the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has funneled money to dozens of left-leaning influencers, according to a report from WIRED magazine.

Those paid through the program include Olivia Julianna, a Gen Z activist who spoke at the DNC; Loren Piretra, an Occupy Democrats YouTuber who worked as a Playboy executive in the past; and Barrett Adair, who runs an American Girl Doll meme account.

Other influencers include Suzanne Lambert, also known as “Regina George liberal”; Arielle Fodor, an education creator with 1.4 million followers on TikTok; and Sander Jennings, the older brother of trans influencer Jazz Jennings.


In the Wired magazine expose written by Taylor Lorenz, she explains that the only rules the influencers must abide by in order to get their money is they must keep it a secret, and they must agree to restrictions on their content.

“Creators told Wired that the contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program. Some creators also raised concerns about a slew of restrictive clauses in the contract,” the article reads.

“It’s a lot of money,” BlazeTV host Alex Stein comments on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.” “It’s not like ridiculous money, but it just shows you how easily somebody can be bought. I guess we could all use $8,000 a month though.”

“So basically $100,000 a year, that’s a pretty good gig,” he adds.

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What if time moves backward? Why 'African time' clashes with Western systems



Language, religion, and culture can be barriers that prevent people from different backgrounds from understanding one another. But time — the ongoing flow of moments from the past, through the present, and into the future — is something that unites us in its universality, right?

Not necessarily.

It turns out that time is also subject to interpretation.

“What if I told you that for many African societies, the concept of the future doesn't exist and that instead of time moving forwards, time actually moves backwards,” said Instagram user @mumbipoetry in a viral August 18 post.

Quoting Kenyan philosopher John Mbiti, she says, “time is a two-dimensional phenomenon with a long past, vibrant present, and virtually no future,” where the present encompasses “the now, the recent past, and the immediate future,” while “the vast endless past [is] where all events eventually go on to live forever.” But because “time is made up of events” and must be “experienced in order to be real,” the future “cannot constitute part of time” because it has neither events nor experience to legitimize it.

A year isn’t measured by Earth’s rotations around the sun; it’s measured by events. “A year is only over when those four seasons have taken place, so a year could take 365 days, 390 days — it doesn’t matter,” she explained, contrasting it with the Western world’s concept of time, where it’s treated as a “commodity” that can be “spent, saved, wasted, or lost.”

This two-dimensional understanding of time is why many African languages “don’t have a word to describe the distant future,” she explains.

The African notion of time is a real head-scratcher for Westerners, who are constantly preoccupied with thoughts of the future.

This difference, says BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre, is “so radical it makes cooperation basically impossible.”

Could this dismissal of the future be one of the reasons why much of Africa continues to face significant economic and social challenges? Could it be evidence that our two worldviews are incompatible?

“If you do not have a future, how do you understand planning for something? How do you understand a lower time preference that would allow you to build civilization? How do you understand denying yourself today so that you can thrive tomorrow?” Auron asks.

Having no concept or language for the future has sprawling implications that impact the individual person and the entire civilization, he explains. From contracts that establish future obligations to time zones, delivery schedules, and business deals, how does anyone thrive if their notion of time is that it only exists once an event takes place?

“People who do not have a word to describe this phenomenon [of the future] are going to have a very, very hard time working inside our system, adopting our customs, and they're going to lose out in the larger global economic picture — the geopolitical picture,” says Auron, pointing out that liberals often whine that this view is “imperialistic.”

“Yes, it is Western-centric. It is ‘racist’ to the extent that it favors people of European descent who understand the world in this way,” he adds. “But that's also why it works.”

“Maybe it's the way [Africans] want to live, but it will fall behind people who have a different conception of reality, a different understanding of time. Again, you don't have to hate people or make fun of people … because they have this different understanding, but you definitely need to factor that in when you're deciding who should be in your country and whether or not your system can be applied to other people.”

To hear more of Auron’s analysis, watch the episode above.

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Joy Reid gives ‘history’ lesson claiming white people stole all of black people’s ideas



Joy Reid is convinced that white people have stolen all of black people’s inventions, and she’s not being shy about it.

During a recent interview titled “How Mediocre White Men and Their Fragility Are Destroying America” with Wajahat Ali for his Left Hook substack, Reid criticized Trump’s review of the Smithsonian and took aim at all white people.

Even Elvis wasn’t spared.

“They can’t fix the history they did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell, but they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff. They got PragerU that can lie about the history to the children,” Reid said.

“They can’t originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music. We black folk gave y’all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn’t even invent that. But they have to call a white man ‘the King’ because they couldn’t make rock and roll,” she continued.


“So, they have to stamp ‘the King’ on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman,” she added.

“Wow, really going after Elvis Presley on that. What is all that?” BlazeTV host Alex Stein comments on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

Stein has noticed that Reid’s grievances are already being addressed at the highest levels of government.

“I went on a tour of the Capitol, and it was actually very, you know, they kind of use trauma-based mind control like what she wants the Smithsonian to be. They make you go into this big room before you get your official tour, and they play a video,” Stein explains.

“It’s like, ‘These hallowed halls were built by slaves.’ ... And they show, like, black men, like, building stuff and, like, a cartoon of it, and you know, it’s just like everything you see was built on the backs of slaves, which is true,” he continues.

“Wall Street New York was built by black people,” Stein jokes. “The pyramids, built by black people, right? I mean, probably Egyptians or whatever.”

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