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Nevada Police Official Who Taught Policing Classes Fired After He's Caught On Video Calling Cop Gay Slur During Traffic Stop
Oct 08, 2025
One of Nevada's top cops—who provided training for law enforcement across the state—gave a master class in how not to act during a traffic stop when he was pulled over for distracted driving in a state vehicle on August 18.
Chief investigator for the office of Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, William Scott Jr.—a retired Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) captain—did almost everything a person shouldn't do: arguing, name dropping, threatening retaliation, getting out of his vehicle to confront the traffic officer, and verbally berating and mocking the officer while using a homophobic slur.
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Ironically, one of the classes Scott teaches is "Preventing Police on Police Confrontations."
Scott was stopped by a Las Vegas Metro traffic officer for using his cell phone while driving, a violation of distracted driving laws across the country. In Nevada, it is illegal for drivers to "physically hold or manipulate a cell phone" for any communication, including "talking, texting, using the internet, or programming GPS."
Las Vegas CBS affiliate KLAS' 8 News Now broke the story last Wednesday, October 1.
In response to their report, Las Vegas Police Protective Association (LVPPA) union president Steve Grammas told KLAS the organization was "appalled and frankly, disgusted, with the choice of words used by a retired LVMPD captain."
Grammas added:
"While expressing displeasure with a car stop is the right of all people, using verbiage like we saw in the Body Worn Camera, by a former leader at LVMPD and current investigator at the attorney general’s office, toward an officer doing their job, is something that is extremely hard to comprehend."
"Holding his own personal judgment of our officer and using language the way he did should at minimum warrant a personal apology to our officer and potentially even an internal investigation by Attorney General Ford."
You can watch bodycam footage here:
When the officer asked for Scott's identification, he replied:
"I’m retired police captain with Metro—and I am the chief of investigations right now with AG’s Office."
Scott retired from LVMPD in 2019 and was appointed to his paid position with the Nevada AG's office in 2020.
As it became clear his name dropping and threat to call the LVMPD traffic officer's superior wasn't going to get him out of a ticket, Scott got verbally abusive.
After being given his ticket, Scott snapped:
"Bye, I have enough money to pay for mine, [f slur for gay men]!"
The officer replied:
"OK, very classy. I’m so glad that you’re retired and not with the department anymore."
Before news of his behavior broke, Scott's ticket for driving distracted was reduced to a parking violation with a fine of $119 by the Las Vegas Municipal Court.
Scott's LinkedIn profile states he teaches law enforcement classes including the aforementioned "Preventing Police on Police Confrontations,: as well as "Policing with Pride and Ethics in Leadership."
People were appalled that such a high ranking law enforcement official would behave in such a manner.
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When asked for comment on October 1, the state Attorney General’s office said they were conducting an investigation into Scott's behavior on August 18.
As of October 3, the AG's spokesperson stated Scott was "no longer employed" by their office.
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Stephen Miller's Cousin Reveals Family Disowned Him After He Became The 'Face Of Evil' In Resurfaced Viral Post
Oct 08, 2025
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, publicly disowned him in a post she shared over the summer that has resurfaced as President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown—which Miller orchestrated—accelerates.
Kasmer, Miller’s cousin on his father’s side, reminisced about their childhood, describing him as an “awkward, funny, needy middle child who loved to chase attention” but was “always the sweetest with the littlest family members.” She once regarded him as “young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless.”
But now, she made clear in her post, she is "living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil," stressing that "I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own.”
Kasmer described suffering two severe panic attacks in the aftermath of ICE raids in Camarillo—the worst in decades—and turning to writing as a way to process the emotional fallout. She expressed deep anguish over Miller, and confessed fear about sharing such raw feelings publicly.
She wrote:
"Last night, I found myself in a stage of grief I didn’t even realize I had been carrying. A grief that’s been living inside me for years—quiet, but constant. It comes from being so close to the root of something violent and vile in this country. I cried until I couldn’t breathe, hours of sobbing, gasping, shaking, sick to my stomach with a weight in my chest that was too heavy to fight."
"I was having a panic attack I couldn’t escape. Maybe it was ten years of anger and pain finally breaking through the surface. Maybe it was the most recent ICE raids turning my rage into sorrow. Whatever it was, something in me cracked wide open and has shaken me to my core."
"I think many of us are grieving. Grieving a world that feels more cruel than kind. A future that feels further away each day. I grieve for the country we could be… one with unmatched wealth, intelligence, and potential. A nation with resources to ensure everyone lives with dignity, equity, health, and safety. A nation with enough technological and medical advancements to be something truly extraordinary."
"But instead, those resources and that wealth are being hoarded by a few, poisoned by ego and power, devoid of empathy, starving the rest. Our privilege has been wasted on cruelty and torture, targeting the very people who make our communities whole—the hardest workers, the most vulnerable, the ones who carry this country on their backs."
"A society is only as strong as its most vulnerable, and ours are at their weakest. This is not by accident, but by design. Your design, Stephen."
She continued:
"Then there’s the grief I carry inside my own family- the most personal and painful. I grieve a cousin I once loved. A boy I watched grow up, babysat, and shared a childhood with. The kid I made fun of for his obsession with Michael Jackson and Ghostbusters. The awkward, funny, needy middle child who loved to chase attention, yet was always the sweetest with the littlest family members."
"A kid that reminded me of Alex P. Keaton, young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless. Or so I thought. But I was so deeply wrong. And the realization that I didn’t know you at all? It guts me. I grieve what you’ve become, Stephen. And I grieve what I’ve lost because of it."
"I grieve your children I will never meet. I grieve the future family you’ve stolen from me by choosing a path so filled with cruelty that I cannot, and will not, be a part of it. I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own.
"I grieve for the power you’ve been given and for those around you who have enabled it. I grieve for the family I once loved, who lifted me up, who helped me through life, who made me feel safe, who now leave me feeling unsettled and even afraid. I grieve the realization that maybe I never really knew these people at all. My heart breaks every day, over and over."
Further addressing him directly, she said:
"But most of all, I grieve for those directly harmed by your actions For the communities here in Los Angeles, our shared home, for all of California, and the rest of the country terrorized by the cruelty you have brought upon us all. I grieve for the families shattered by cruelty dressed up as 'immigration policy.' Targeting hardworking, vibrant community members who are being terrorized for simply being brown."
"This was never about criminals. Or “illegal” entry. And now, with the passing of this bloated, grotesque bill—stuffed with more funding for ICE than most countries spend on their entire military, I’m left speechless."
"Where does this hateful obsession end? What are you trying to build besides fear? Immigrants were a part of your upbringing. Is this cruelty your way of rejecting a part of yourself?"
Kasmer said her cousin's moral decline was akin to a “perfect storm of ego, fear, hate, and ambition" that turned privilege into a weapon. She expressed guilt and regret for not recognizing Miller's transformation sooner and wondered whether she could have intervened if social media had existed during their youth.
The pain is deepened, Kasmer noted, by the fact that they were both "raised Jewish":
"Stephen, you and I both know what that means. We were raised with stories of survival. We learned about pogroms, ghettos, the Holocaust—not just as history, but as part of our identity. We carry the trauma of generations who were hunted, hated, expelled, murdered, just for existing. We were taught to remember."
"We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say 'never again.' But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught. How can you do to others what has been done to us? How can you wake up each day and repeat the cruelty that our people barely escaped from?"
"We were taught to never forget where we came from. But you seem to have erased it all. And it devastates me. To be this close to the cruelty, through you, has left me ashamed and shattered."
"I try to fight your harm in every way I can. But it will never be enough. I can’t undo what you’ve done or who you have become. I can’t outmatch your reach or power. I feel helpless."
"The panic attacks haven’t stopped since the grief cracked open. The tears won’t stop, and the weight on my chest is constant. This isn’t about politics. This is about humanity. About decency. And you have lost yours."
She concluded:
"You’ve destroyed so many lives just to feed your own obsession and ego and uphold an administration so corrupt, so vile, I can barely comprehend it. As surreal as it all feels, this IS reality. As much as I try to disassociate from it, the truth remains—being this close to such deep cruelty fills me with shame."
"I am gutted. My heart breaks that this is the legacy you have brought to our family. A legacy I never asked to share with you, and one I now carry like a curse."
You can see her post below.
Kasmer's post resonated with many who offered their sympathy while condemning Miller for who he has become, as the architect of Trump's immigration policy.
Miller has pushed ICE to ramp up arrests as deportation numbers lag behind campaign pledges.
In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that Miller instructed agents to bypass the standard method of compiling suspect lists and instead focus on sites like Home Depot and 7-Eleven, where day laborers gather, to conduct mass arrests.
He later told Fox News that ICE should target a minimum of 3,000 arrests per day—far above earlier projections that prioritized individuals with criminal records—raising concerns about errors and wrongful detentions. As a result, ICE has sharply increased both the volume and scope of its arrests.
Amid protests in Portland, Oregon, Miller claimed authorities in the state are aiding “an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers” by refusing to aid ICE agents.
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AOC Hilariously Reacts After Fox News Makes Stephen Miller Watch Her Brutal Takedown Of Him
Oct 08, 2025
After New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller during an Instagram livesteam, Fox News played the video for Miller, only for Ocasio-Cortez to laugh at the awkwardness of it all in her follow-up response.
During her livestream, Ocasio-Cortez said “one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them," urging her followers to mock MAGA men. She then called Miller "a clown" and suggested he—the architect of President Donald Trump's immigration policies—takes out his anger on others because he's "like, 4 feet 10 inches."
Miller is actually a whole foot taller than that but you get her point:
“Stephen Miller is a clown! I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s, like, 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he’s 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is so mad that he is 4 feet 10 inches, that he has taken that anger out on any other population possible."
She noted that men like Miller are "dangerous" but said mockery has worked to take the air out of the sails of similar authoritarian regimes:
“Yes, they are dangerous. Yes, we’re here to be strong for one another. We need to expose the lies, we need never let off, like never let off the gas when it comes to protecting one another, exposing the lies, documenting things."
“Yes, the resistance to authoritarianism is very real. The risks of abuse of power are very real, but one of the most powerful cultural things that you can do to a political movement that is predicated on the puffery of insecure men — that’s what this is about."
“People talk about this toxic masculinity, let’s put that to the side for just one second, this is about insecure masculinity, and one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them.”
She clarified that "short kings are great":
“I’m not here – I want to absolutely make sure that I talk about that. I’m not here to make fun of anyone’s anything, but the way people overcompensate over their own stories is what I’m talking about there.”
You can see her post below.
An angry Miller was made to watch Ocasio-Cortez's video during an appearance on The Ingraham Angle and, while clarifying that he is in fact 5'10'', he added:
“Well, we knew that her brain didn’t work.Now we know that her eyes don’t work. So, the, she’s a mess, right? What a trainwreck. What a trainwreck.”
“Every time she’s on TV, Republican approval ratings go up, Democratic approval ratings go down. That lady is a walking nightmare.”
You can see Miller's response in the video below.
An amused Ocasio-Cortez couldn't contain her laughter when she saw that Miller had actually been made to watch the video on the air:
"I cannot believe they aired this and made him listen to it live. I am crying."
You can see her post below.
People appreciated her response—and mocked Miller themselves.
You lose this round, Stephen.
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People Reveal How They Accidentally Ruined Someone's Life
Oct 08, 2025
There's a saying:
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
People can have the very best intentions when doing something, but still have things go disastrously wrong.
And sometimes, other people get caught in the crossfire.
Reddit user xxHoneyBunxx_ asked:
"People who accidentally ruined someone‘s life without meaning to—what happened and how do you feel about it know?"
Last To Know
"I work in Human Resources and way back when I was new and naive, I had a home address change request for an employee come across my desk."
"I couldn’t read the handwriting and wanted to be sure I put in the correct new address, so I called their house and their wife answered."
"I asked her about it and much to my surprise she said what the hell are you talking about‽‽' The employee came up to me a few days later and said 'I didn’t tell her I was moving out yet'."
~ OutOfPlace186
Wing Man
"I unknowingly introduced a really good friend to the most toxic person I’ve ever come across in my life."
"My college buddy Chris (fake name) and I both had a Thursday afternoon off and decided to hit up a happy hour. It was early, there were only about a dozen people in the bar including us and a group of 3 girls."
"One of the girls was 100% Chris’s type (tall, thin, dark hair, outgoing), but he was a shy guy and didn’t have the courage to strike up a conversation."
"30min and some liquid courage later, I take it upon myself to start chatting with the girls and specifically introduced Chris to the tall, dark haired girl Veronica (fake name for this story). She and her friends were all single, our age, in a nursing program at a cross town school and seemed like nice gals."
"Chris, myself and the girls ended up shutting down the bar that night and by 10PM, Chris & Veronica were fully sucking face and acting like the rest of us didn’t exist. I was happy for him, but got a little nervous when they ended up leaving together and her friends started joking about ‘not knowing what he was in for’. Whatever, he’s an adult and far be it from me to rain on his parade."
"After that night, Chris effectively disappeared off the map. The only times I would see him was in class or at that same bar with Veronica. The dude just seemed off, but refused to talk about it and insisted he was happy. Veronica on the hand? Refused to let him out of her sight (would make him wait outside the bathroom for her)."
"Surprise surprise, turns out Veronica was a complete sociopath/narcissist/straight-up con-artist who bled Chris dry both emotionally and financially. Highlights include (but are not limited to) fake pregnancies, forcing him to cut off friends, demanding he drop classes to fit her schedule, and manipulating him into paying her rent/bills/lifestyle."
"Now, Chris came from a nice upper-middle-class family with whom he was super close, and apparently, they rightfully had some suspicions about this girl. I had just figured he was head over heels for Veronica and ignoring us all, but I knew something was wrong when his Mom called me and asked if I had spoken to Chris lately."
"Turns out he had drained his bank account and started wracking up significant debt on the credit card he shared with parents, buying crazy expensive jewelry/make up/clothes for Veronica. That was enough for his parents to drive the 4hours from their hometown to stage a mini intervention."
"In the end, Chris had to drop out of school, move back home, and his parents ended up getting a restraining order against Veronica. His parents forced him to get a job to pay off the $3K he accrued and ended up forfeiting his partial football scholarship."
"I lost touch with him once he moved back home, but I sometimes wonder how his life would’ve turned out if we didn’t go to happy hour at Kelly’s on that Thursday."
~ sloppy_sheiko
First Timer
"I was a volunteer firefighter a while back. Pager went off for a medical assist (we often had to help the ambulance with patient lifts, etc...). I opted to give my spot on the truck to the rookie we had in training, figured a lift assist, he could help the guys and get that mental boost of being on the team. No biggy."
"I shouldn't have. Patient was an older guy who had been smoking in his wheelchair, wearing synthetics, and with oxygen thru nose. Caught fire. Was a lift assist to get patient onto the helicopter. Didn't survive the flight."
"The rookie had to see that as his first call. He left brigade shortly after. Some sh*t you really can never unsee, and he was just a high schooler trying to do something good for the community. Hope he's OK these days."
"I've seen alot that'll never leave me either, but I have come to accept that is how life and death can be, and I was prepared the moment the helmet was on for whatever came at me. Kid probably was his first experience of that and unprepared for it."
~ waikato_wizard
Go With the Flow
"I was looking after my friends' apartment while they were on vacation. There was building work outside and someone hit the downpipe of the toilet, which broke the ceramic toilet bowl, flooding the bathroom."
"I cleaned it all up then complained to the building management and asked for the toilet to be replaced before they got back, which set off a series of events that led to them being evicted."
"It turned out they were illegally subletting without knowing it."
"I felt like absolute sh*t at the time, but they ended up moving back to Australia because if it, and living a good life there, so I'm OK with it now."
~ ScreamingDizzBuster
Timing
"An ex-coworker had been a manager at a different company, and at the time managed a team member who was not cutting it. He gave her lots of chances and opportunities, but she was failing miserably at the job."
"He made the decision to fire her. She was terribly upset - loved the job/company. Begged him to stay. He had to say no."
"Fast forward a few weeks later, she gets a new job opportunity - across the country. Needs to fly out for the interview. She was on one of the planes that hit the Twin Towers, on her way to that interview."
"He obviously had no control over any of this but felt deep regret for a long time. What if he waited just a few more weeks to fire her? Delayed her search for a new job, and then she wouldn’t have been on that plane."
"That story always sticks with me."
~ CurlyMom7
Hooked
"Many years ago I was going to the track (harness races) and I asked a guy, Alan, if he wanted to tag along. He was 17 I think. He'd never even seen a horse before. Each race I would tell him what I thought and he'd either bet $2 or skip the race. $2 was important to him."
"Then, in a late race, there was a horse named Minya Mitzvah. He got all excited. 'A Jewish horse! I gotta bet him!' The horse was awful, and I told him so. Went off at 30-1."
"This was early winte,r and there was a heavy fog obscuring the far side of the track. Off they go and disappear into the fog. Even the announcer is saying 'your guess is as good as mine'."
"They're in the fog for a long time, and finally, the first horse emerges. Alone. We're waiting for the rest of the pack, which eventually the field emerges, but the lead horse is way out in front."
"Who knows what happened in that fog. We can now see the colors, and sure enough, it's Minya Mitzvah."
"It cruises home, and Alan reveals that he bet $10. So now this kid suddenly has more money than he'd ever seen in his life. His brain is doing cartwheels."
"He was hooked. From that day on he became a degenerate gambler, always chasing that high. Years later, he told me, 'I can't stop. Even if you gave me a million bucks, I'd be broke in a year."
"All because of a Jewish horse and me casually asking him if he wanted to tag along."
~ ParadisePete
Phone Tag
"My good friend was scheduled to have surgery when it was discovered she had an aneurysm. I was with her at the hospital with her family and right before she was taken away, she handed me her phone and said she wanted me to keep it until she was in recovery."
"She ended up dying on the table, she was a heavy smoker for 20+ years and that doctor couldn’t find any good tissue to graft to save her."
"I turned her phone back on and just handed it to her husband. It was maybe 24 hours after her death when we discovered that she had been having an affair for years, had been embezzling money from the business to provide for her boyfriend, and signed over a car to him that he was supposedly still paying for."
"It broke all of us, and I still have unresolved feelings towards her for putting me in that position. I think she knew I would figure it out from her phone and expected me to cover for her."
"I love and miss you Amy but you’re a POS for doing that to your family."
~ Trin_42
Lost In Translation
"I do photography and videography at weddings. This particular wedding, half the guests spoke a language I am not fluent in and it was before AI translations existed."
"The mother of the bride said something derogatory about the groom's mom in her native language and I included it in their video because she was smiling when she said it."
"Turns out the groom's mom spoke multiple languages."
"The cameras we use for video look just like a still camera so sometimes I intentionally let people think I am taking photos because it makes for better candid b-roll.
Bride's family was from India, groom's family was from California. Both very wealthy. It's a destination wedding location and it's not uncommon for weddings to break $100k all in.
"The groom's mom was in great shape and wearing a dress that let everyone know. Bride's mom was in traditional Indian wedding attire which is typically very conservative."
"The comment was about the dress being too revealing. The groom's mom traveled to India for work and spoke basic Hindi, but didn't tell anyone. I assume in an attempt to eavesdrop."
"We post a teaser video before the full video goes live a few weeks later, so everyone already has a link and gets a notification when the video uploads. Because of the time difference, the groom's family saw the video before the bride's side."
"I have since done photos for the couple and the parents from California. They mentioned that the bride’s mom was so embarrassed by the comment being on video, that contact has been minimal."
"California mom doesn't take it personally. Cultural issues are common at weddings."
~ Sufficient_Bake6862
Jessica
"Coworker would always talk about how 'Jessica and I' were going to go here, or 'Jessie and I' went there, or 'Jess and I' got up to this, that, or the other."
"One day I ran into him and his wife in the wild. He introduced her only as 'my wife'. I, of course, said 'Oh, Jessica. It's nice to meet you. I've heard so much about you'."
"Gentle reader, his wife's name was not Jessica."
"I feel nothing about it. He shouldn't have been cheating on his wife."
"But if was going to, he shouldn't have spent years telling me about Jessica then introduce his wife only as 'my wife'."
~ pm_me_gnus
Nepotism
"I was working for a federal program and had a boss who hired her sister without disclosing to higher ups that it was her sister. A disclosure required by the program."
"Boss then paid the sister 2x the usual rate for the job and sister was logging a lot of extra work hours that she hadn't actually been working. I only found out because my boss insisted I needed to do the time sheet inputs for her because she couldn't be bothered."
"Boss told me to take any questions to Boss's boss and left for the day."
"I noticed the discrepancy immediately, and went to boss's boss to let them know there was an issue with time tracking vs scheduling 'on her sister's time sheet' and wanted to know what I should do."
"The sister thing was news to Boss's boss and then the discrepancy triggered an investigation that uncovered a whole bunch of other misuse of government funding. Boss lost her job, the FBI got involved, and Boss eventually ended up with some massive fines and jail time."
"Knowing what I know now, I would accidentally report her again."
~ St3phiroth
Moving Day
"Big move on a busy road a while ago. Lots of moving parts. Permits. Store downstairs. Reserved parking. Just an incredibly stressful amount of management."
"When the day comes me and my roomies were incredibly stressed because if one thing goes wrong, the whole house of cards collapses. It seemed, however, to be smooth sailing."
"The only thing that was annoying, was that cars kept parking on our reserved space (before we got our moving vans there). Most left numbers we could call, so we did and they'd usually leave."
Right before my dad is supposed to show up, four cars park in the reserved spot. They'd left no number. Their owners weren't in sight. There was no way for me to get any of these cars out of there."
"To be clear: this meant that there was nowhere for my dad to park the moving van in this incredibly busy road. If he couldn't, we couldn't move my stuff, which was completely blocking the already very tight hallway and first part of the stairwell."
"Moving my stuff back up four floors was out of the question. I had like 40 minutes to solve this, so I just called the cops. They show up within 15 minutes, start writing down fines, and tell me they'll get a tow truck."
"Half an hour later, a tow truck shows up, along with a couple of the car's owners. Big arguments between the cops and the owners."
"All of a sudden, reinforcements show up. Like six other cops. Apparently they'd seen drugs laying in one of the cars illegally parked there. And the dude seemed to be working in the hookah bar across the street."
"So they detain the guy with the drugs and wait around for an hour to get a warrant to raid the f*cking hookah place. Meanwhile, one cop is holding back traffic (including trams in two directions) so my dad can parallel park the van)."
"Other civilians are still arguing. It's f*cking chaos and I'm just standing there so f*cking stressed out about what's going on."
"Suddenly, one of the cops asks me if the sandwich place downstairs in the building always has their outdoor seating out like this. Apparently that was also illegal so they start getting into that."
"Four people got pretty big fines and towing costs, the sandwich place has no more outdoor seating, the hookah place is closed and I'm sure the drug user was arrested."
"Just cuz they parked in my spot."
~ Friendly_District547
Have you ever witnessed someone's life ruined by accident?
What happened?
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Country Star Zach Bryan Sparks MAGA Outrage After Bashing ICE In Teaser For New Song
Oct 08, 2025
Conservative fans of country singer Zach Bryan lashed out after he released a snippet of his new song "Bad News" on Instagram, in which he criticizes President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration crackdown.
Bryan, a Grammy-winning singer and U.S. Navy veteran, wrote lyrics that touch on ICE raids and the erosion of American unity, symbolized by “the fading of the red, white, and blue.” The release follows his record-breaking concert at Michigan Stadium, where more than 112,000 fans attended.
The lyrics of the snippet are as follows:
"Didn't wake up dead or in jail/Some out-of-town boys been given us hell/I got some bad news/I woke up missing you"
"My friends are all degenerates, but they're all I've got/The generational story of dropping the plot/I heard the cops came/Cocky motherf**kers, ain't they?"
"And ICE is gonna come bust down your door/Try to build a house no one builds no more/But I got a telephone/Kids are all scared and all alone"
"The bars stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling/Thе middle fingers rising, and it won't stop showing/Got some bad nеws/The fading of the red, white and blue"
You can hear the preview of the song below.
The anger from the MAGA contingent was palpable, with many vowing to boycott Bryan for speaking out.
But others have come to Bryan's defense.
Bryan has not announced a release date for the full-length version of "Bad News" but we suspect the rest of the song's lyrics will be pretty similar to these.
In an email to Rolling Stone, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin quipped, “Stick to Pink Skies,” referencing Bryan’s apolitical ballad about family members reuniting for a funeral.
Despite that unsurprising pushback from the Trump administration, “Bad News” has nonetheless found a sizable audience, surpassing 150,000 views on a YouTube channel devoted to Bryan’s work.
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