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Say what you will about our president — at least he doesn't eat cats.Actress Anne Schedeen, best known for playing Kate Tanner on the 1980s sitcom “Alf,” died this week at 77. The news likely stirred fond memories with Gen X fans, but news of her passing featured a very 21st-century nugget.'[Supergirl] doesn’t live inside the binary of what we think a woman should be, that is what makes it so special and so exciting and so new.'News outlets reported her passing, complete with a family statement lovingly remembering the mother, wife, aunt, and sister for her wit, creativity, and all-consuming obsession with our current president.She leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of creative energy, whip-smart humor, delight in her family, adoration for little dogs, burning hatred for Trump, passion for secondhand thrifting, and love for a good story.Wait … what?Now, we’re used to stars like Robert De Niro slagging President Trump in every third sentence, but why would any family insist the press share their loved one’s political views in an obituary?When “Alf’s” adopted parent is against Trump, you know the walls are closing in …Silly MillyFor all we know, “Supergirl” star Milly Alcock may have the acting chops to be the next Meryl Streep. But for now she seems determined to be the next Rachel Zegler.Zegler infamously helped crush her “Snow White” reboot with a series of silly, alienating press interviews. She wasn’t solely to blame for the film’s box-office pratfall, but she didn’t inspire audiences to flock to her film.She became a case study for how not to market a movie. Now, it’s Alcock’s turn.First, she whined about male viewers judging her as part of the “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon.” Later, she doubled down on that sentiment, singling out Christians in the process.Now? She’s describing Supergirl as gender-fluid, or something.“I’ve played a few characters that might have a potential queer through-line. I have many queer friends. So honestly, I’m kind of honored.”Make it make sense. Alcock tries. Sort of.“[Supergirl] doesn’t live inside the binary of what we think a woman should be. That is what makes it so special and so exciting and so new.”Apparently, one of Supergirl’s superpowers is time-traveling back to 2020, the peak woke era …RELATED: Full 'Disclosure': Steven Spielberg's latest has no signs of intelligent life Damon Packard/spectacletheater.com/Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesCard sharpWe all know Whoopi Goldberg can play the race card like few others. Yet when Vice President JD Vance confronted her on the issue, she folded like a deck of, well, cards.Later in the week, when a sane person like Vance wasn’t around, she went right back to her ... black-and-white thinking.Goldberg brought up the world champion New York Knicks and the team’s White House rendezvous, which led to this on-brand exchange from the “Sister Act” alum.“I want all those black men to stand in our house and remind all of those people, as we tried to remind the vice president, that when you try to destroy one part of history, you are destroying all of our histories.”Goldberg sure talks tough when someone with a functioning cortex isn’t on the panel…'Powers' boost“No, baby, no!”The world’s sexiest spy, albeit with the worst teeth, is heading back to theaters. So says Mike Myers, the mischievous mind behind "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery."The character headlined the 1997 comedy smash, and he came back for two diminishing sequels. We haven’t heard much from Myers over the past decade. He has disappeared into smaller character roles, like the record executive in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”Now, he’s threatening a fourth Austin Powers adventure.Delayed sequels have a choppy history. “Zoolander 2” proved to be a disaster. “Anchorman 2” scored with audiences, but it couldn’t capture the original film’s glory. “Happy Gilmore 2” was pure nostalgia, little else. And the less said about “Blues Brothers 2000,” the better.Myers looks rather youthful at 63, but some things are better left in the past. But if Austin could strike a death blow to the dying woke mind virus, maybe the time is right for a man whose middle name remains “Danger" …Man with the tanHe’s been gone for about a month, but he remains his same insufferable self.Stephen Colbert showed up at the opening of President Barack Obama’s Death Star, er, presidential center. And the former late-night host wore a tan suit to honor the man in question. Remember the media’s narrative that Obama’s tan suit moment proved his only real scandal?That's true ... if you overlook the Russia collusion hoax, the Obamacare “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" bait and switch, and the IRS’ targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status.It’s all fodder for a great political satirist, which explains why Colbert didn’t go near any of the above.Never change, Colbert. Never change.

When 18-year-old student Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa, a British Sikh, a horrific local crime quickly escalated to international headlines due to a catastrophic law enforcement failure.Spurred by Digwa’s false accusation of racism, responding officers immediately handcuffed the mortally wounded teenager, even as he told them nine times that he could not breathe and four times that he had been stabbed. That Nowak was arrested and treated as a criminal while taking his final breaths has shocked and appalled the United Kingdom.British institutions have traded the safety of their citizens for wokeness.Bodycam footage of his harrowing final minutes also caught the attention of the U.S. government. The State Department warned on X that “ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline that must be rejected across the West.”Two-tier policing refers to the public perception that British law enforcement operates under a double standard — treating suspects, victims, and protesters differently based on race, religion, or political ideology. The roots of this bias lie in the policies established by the College of Policing (the official national body that sets training standards) and the National Police Chiefs’ Council, which coordinates operational policy across all 44 U.K. police forces. These two bodies introduced the highly controversial and censorious “Non-Crime Hate Incidents,” which legally requires British officers to log and investigate citizens for lawful speech if anyone perceives it as motivated by hostility — even when no actual crime has been committed. In May 2022, in the aftermath of the global George Floyd protests, the College of Policing and the NPCC launched the Race Action Plan, explicitly designed to embed anti-racist training across the entire justice system. The plan’s 2025 update codified an even more racialized doctrine. Official guidance now states that a commitment to racial equity “does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind.’” By abandoning equality before the law, the policy instructs British police to treat individuals differently based on their race in an attempt to engineer equal outcomes. With law enforcement having absorbed this radical ideology, officers have become selective enforcers of justice, failing to intervene for fear of being labeled racist.This is not a fringe theory. A new survey by the research group More in Common found that one-third of Britons now believe police actively favor ethnic minorities over white people. The chronic mishandling of the Nowak case provides further evidence of a system that despises the majority of its own citizens.RELATED: America is done buying bogus racial alibis Bill Oxford/Getty ImagesGoverned by an anti-racism doctrine, British institutions have traded the safety of their citizens for wokeness. The fatal cost of this ideological capture was laid bare in 2023 when Valdo Calocane slaughtered three people in Nottingham. He should not have been free.Psychiatric professionals had repeatedly refused to section the psychotically violent Calocane, citing concerns about the “disproportionate overrepresentation of young black males in detention.” Captive to the progressive view that any statistical disparity constitutes systemic racism, authorities left a violent, psychotic man on the streets rather than risk accusations of racism. Tragically, this stigma also contributed to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017 following a concert by Ariana Grande. Kyle Lawler, an on-duty security guard, witnessed the bomber, Salman Abedi, acting suspiciously with a heavy backpack. But Lawler failed to intervene or raise the alarm for fear of being branded a racist. Abedi detonated the device minutes later, killing 22 people — predominantly children and teenagers — and injuring over 1,000.The Nowak case illustrates the same dynamic. Public criticism from Washington, combined with mounting protests on British streets, prompted pushback from Downing Street. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and senior Labour politicians vehemently rejected the two-tier accusation, stating categorically that they did not recognize the State Department’s characterization of the British justice system, a sentiment echoed by Justice Secretary David Lammy. Starmer condemned the U.S. critiques, and even accused Elon Musk of overstepping diplomatic boundaries and attempting to stoke division on U.K. streets. But in 2020, Starmer had no such reservations about commenting on American internal affairs following the death of George Floyd. He publicly urged then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson to address systemic racism directly with Donald Trump, openly criticized Trump’s response to Floyd’s death, and famously took a knee in a highly publicized display of solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Labour’s attempt at containment was exposed when Vice President JD Vance took to X. Echoing his powerful Munich Security Conference speech, Vance argued: Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. ... He would still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.Vance’s warning came days after a Sudanese asylum seeker was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a savage knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland — reported by the Telegraph as an attempted beheading. The victim, a man in his 40s, remains in serious condition after suffering significant injuries to his eyes, face, and back. Police stated the suspect is believed to have entered the U.K. by traveling from Dublin into Northern Ireland, where he had been granted leave to remain under a five-year visa.The refusal to stem illegal immigration is a direct result of the policies of both main political parties. During the last six years of Conservative government, 128,000 undocumented migrants entered the country via the English Channel. Since Labour took power in July 2024, more than 70,000 illegal migrants have crossed into the U.K. on small boats. Among those Britain is importing are individuals who despise the West and seek to harm its citizens. In the final week of January 2026, a Sudanese illegal migrant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of Rhiannon Skye Whyte, a hotel worker whom he stabbed 23 times at a railway station. Less than a fortnight later, an Iranian migrant pleaded guilty to sexual assault. In March, an Afghan asylum seeker received a 15-year sentence for the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old girl in a park.For decades, uncontrolled immigration has been imposed upon the British public under the guise of multiculturalism, driven by successive governments in thrall to the liberal notion that diversity is a strength. This result has been social upheaval, rapid demographic change, and a society fractured into segregated cultural enclaves. Expanding hate speech laws has effectively criminalized questions and complaints, leaving a nation paralyzed by fear and fueled by anger. JD Vance is correct to call this the politics of self-hatred.Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at the American Mind.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade was supposed to be the pro-life movement’s greatest victory. Instead, abortion pills have become increasingly accessible, and abortions rates have skyrocketed.BlazeTV host Steve Deace is well aware why that is.“We’re having this big debate right now within our pro-life circles about how to proceed moving forward. And somehow we’ve been exceedingly stalled,” Deace says, pointing out that “nothing of significance” has happened in the pro-life movement since the overturning of Roe.“Not only that, since we overturned Roe, basically every mailbox can have an abortion pill in America right now. Right? So something has clearly and systemically gone wrong,” he continues.“We pulled off D-Day, but now we’re losing the war,” he adds.One of the main reasons why the pro-life movement has stalled, Deace explains, is there is a “deep division over a particular tactic, and it’s the question of abolition as it’s called in some places.”“My buddy Seth Gruber calls it equal protection, and it’s the idea that if you commit a murder, you should be held accountable as we hold people accountable for committing any other form of murder. And the mainstream pro-life movement is adamantly against this,” he explains.“The biggest source of opposition to this in the mainstream pro-life side, frankly, is they just don’t think it’s politically viable, and it’ll get us nuked,” he adds.However, Deace doesn’t think they truly believe in their mainstream pro-life beliefs.“I don’t believe very many mainstream pro-life leaders truly believe in a second generation of third-wave feminism, there’s just a bunch of scared girls who don’t know what to do, like my mom 50 years ago before we saw what, you know, thermal imaging inside of the womb looked like,” he explains, noting that they’re making “political calculations.”However, there has to be political calculations.“We’re human beings in a fallen world,” he says, before giving his solution.“We’re going to ban all the abortions except your so-called exceptions. Are you in? Not because we agree that there’s exceptions to murder, but we’re going to call forth a false objection. We’re going to call a bluff,” he explains.“We’ll even let the doctor determine if it’s an exception or not. Think they’d still take the deal? No. And why won’t they take the deal?” he asks, adding, “Because they want to kill them all.”Want more from Steve Deace?To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The lion’s share of Nvidia’s business is built around high-end GPUs — first for gamers, then for cryptominers, and now for AI data centers. This year, however, the company is branching out into an even bigger consumer computing category with its shiny new RTX Spark chip series destined to make Windows devices faster, more efficient, and more powerful than ever before.A new ‘Spark’ of innovationNvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Computex in Taipei to unveil the first generation of RTX Spark hardware.First came the chips themselves. The N1X, built in partnership with Mediatek, is a brand-new system on a chip) by Nvidia designed on an ARM architecture intended for Windows machines. It’s meant to compete directly with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips for Windows on ARM and Apple Silicon for Mac.Windows ARM laptops have yet to reach mainstream appeal. Nvidia hopes to change that.Although the N1X is the most powerful option on the table, a lower-end N1 chip will also be available. Nvidia RTX Spark laptopsNvidia/Computex 2026For the spec nerds out there, NX1 features a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6144 CUDA Cores and 1 petaFLOP for AI computing, a 20-core Grace CPU, 128 GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, 70 billion transistors, and a Windows agent platform built alongside Microsoft. It looks impressive on paper.Next came the devices. Nvidia is working with a number of OEM partners — including Microsoft Surface, Dell, HP, and many more — to launch and release the first RTX Spark-powered laptops, desktops, and workstations later this year. Laptops are expected to achieve all-day battery life on a single charge, while workstations can run local AI agents from the comfort of your home 24/7.RELATED: Now our tech lords are saying AI won't take everyone's jobs. Here's what's really going on. Moor Studio/Getty Images Lastly, Nvidia is investing heavily in the longevity of RTX Spark devices with next-generation N2X and N3X chips already in the works for future releases. RTX Spark desktops, laptops, and workstationsNvidia/Computex 2026Why RTX Spark is importantRTX Spark is a significant departure from Nvidia’s usual business strategy. Historically, the company has only built dedicated GPUs for Windows machines that run alongside the CPUs and integrated graphics from companies like Intel or AMD. NX1 marks the first time it has released a complete solution that combines CPU, GPU, and memory into a single Nvidia-branded package for computers.Now that Nvidia can control the entire chip experience within a Windows device, Huang claims that 100% of Nvidia’s software stack runs locally, from coding to generative AI, AI agents, and graphics. He further promises that every app ever made to work on an Nvidia GPU and every app made to run on Windows is compatible with RTX Spark, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and even AAA video games. RTX Spark NX1 chipNvidia/Computex 2026This is a huge promise, considering that RTX Spark chips are built on an ARM architecture instead of the legacy x86 platform that powered Windows for the last 40 years. To drop an analogy, Huang is saying that his team has figured out how to put diesel in a gasoline-powered engine and make it run perfectly.Disrupting Windows’ status quoThe RTX Spark series aren’t the first ARM-based chips for Windows. Qualcomm launched its own Snapdragon X Elite SOCs back in 2023. However, due to incomplete x86 legacy software compatibility and limited game support, Windows ARM laptops have yet to reach mainstream appeal. Nvidia hopes to change that, and if Huang’s claims are true, it might actually succeed.To prove it, Huang touted the new Forza Horizon 6 and 007 First Light playing on two laptops in his hands as he stood on stage. Although the machines appeared to be showing videos of each game instead of running the games natively, Huang’s implication was clear that RTX Spark laptops could actually play both titles at up to 100 fps at 1440p. RTX Spark compatibilityNvidia/Computex 2026Our take on RTX SparkI’m a huge fan of ARM laptops. As a Mac user, I was an early adopter of Apple Silicon with the M1 series in my 2020 MacBook Pro. At the time, there was nothing else like this chip — it was impressively fast, it sipped battery life to the point that I could use it for an entire workday and then some without a recharge, and it rarely heated up enough to kick on the fans. Apple Silicon is the ultimate companion for a remote writer like myself.The story hasn’t quite been the same on Windows. While the Snapdragon X Elite offers a glimpse of the benefits I have grown to love in Apple Silicon Macs, inconsistent software compatibility, variable battery life, and poor performance have left Microsoft’s ARM-based OS looking rather inferior. I’m hopeful that RTX Spark will finally give Windows a competitive edge to push the chip category forward without losing any of the legacy support that made Windows great in the first place. Only time will tell.RTX Spark devices are expected to be available this fall. Unfortunately, prices haven’t been released yet, and given the latest RAM shortages and inflated electronics prices, they’re sure to be expensive.