Social media influencer Hannah Neeleman, better known by her social handle and business name Ballerina Farm, was a polarizing figure even before the interview that made her go viral.
Critics saw her as a shackled housewife popping out kids when she could have been dancing at Juilliard. But even fans of the so-called “trad-wife life” took issue with Neeleman’s brand of homesteading, claiming she was too beautiful, too curated, and most of all, too staged.
They couldn’t help but point out how Neeleman’s husband was a literal billionaire (son of David Neeleman, who founded multiple airlines including JetBlue) so obviously, this was all simple for her. They accused the Instagram star of cosplaying farm wife life and painting an unrealistic portrait of hard work.
Neeleman had already gone viral when she competed in the Mrs. World pageant just 12 days after giving birth to her eighth child, a feat she accomplished without pain medication and at home in bed. Photos and video clips of her competing make it clear why so many followers take issue with her – even two weeks postpartum, the Instagram star is stunning. Jealousy is common, especially on social media.
Then, the interview came out. U.K.-based outlet The Times published a lengthy <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-sunday-times-magazine/article/meet-the-queen-of-the-trad-wives-and-her-eight-children-plfr50cgk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> after writer Megan Agnew visited the famous Utah farmstead and got to experience the beauty of Neeleman, Mormon mom of eight, firsthand. But then Agnew decided to make the influencer’s husband Daniel sound like her captor rather than her life partner. She openly lamented Neeleman’s decision to scale back on her career ambitions and devote herself to making her home and raising kids.
“Is this an empowering new model of womanhood — or a hammer blow for feminism?” the writer wondered.
“My goal was New York City. I left home at 17 and I was so excited to get there, I just loved that energy. And I was going to be a ballerina. I was a good ballerina,” Neeleman told Agnew during the interview. “But I knew that when I started to have kids my life would start to look different.”
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Agnew made her disdain for Neeleman’s husband and family clear. “I can’t, it seems, get an answer out of Neeleman without her being corrected, interrupted or answered for by either her husband or a child. Usually I am doing battle with steely Hollywood publicists; today I am up against an army of toddlers who all want their mum and a husband who thinks he knows better,” she wrote in the piece.
One viral line from the article quotes Neeleman as saying, “‘Our first few years of marriage were really hard, we sacrificed a lot. But we did have this vision, this dream and —’”
The interviewer noted how Daniel “interrupts” to say, “We still do.”
The passage continued, “What kind of sacrifices, I ask her. ‘Well, I gave up dance, which was hard. You give up a piece of yourself. And Daniel gave up his career ambitions.’”
Reactions to the article were so strong that Agnew wrote another <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/my-day-with-the-trad-wife-queen-and-what-i-really-thought-of-her-qmbmmhkp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">follow-up piece</a> a few days later responding to her expose on “the queen of the internet ‘trad wives’” and resulting commotion. The interviewer said Neeleman had “become an avatar through which people hotly debate motherhood, womanhood and freedom to choose either.”
Every post shared on the Ballerina Farm social accounts – whether it’s a video of her making pasta from scratch, or churning her own ice cream – has a fair amount of negative comments alongside the gushing support and requests for recipes. Neeleman doesn’t often address the haters. But in the case of The Times article, she did come to her own defense.
She shared her thoughts in an Instagram clip shared on July 31. “A couple of weeks ago, we had a reporter come into our home to learn more about our family and business,” Neeleman said in the video.
“We thought the interview went really well,” she continued. “We were taken [aback] however, when we saw the printed article — which shocked us, and shocked the world by it being an attack on my family and my marriage.”
“That couldn’t be further from the truth … which leads me to believe that the angle taken was predetermined,” Neeleman said of the piece. “Together, we have built a business from scratch. We&#8217;ve brought eight children into this world and have prioritized our marriage all along the way. We are co-parents, co-CEOs, co-diaper changers, kitchen cleaners and decision makers.”
In another post shared the same day, the beauty queen once again got personal.
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“Everyday I share a glimpse into our rural farm and family life here in the mountains of northern Utah,” she wrote. “I wear many hats–mom, wife, cook, business owner, content creator, lover of God and all things butter. For long time followers and those just joining the journey, I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you our story in my own words.  My time before marriage, before kids, before I even dreamt of creating Ballerina Farm.”
Neeleman encouraged followers to read more of her story on the <a href="https://ballerinafarm.com/pages/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">About Us page</a> of the official Ballerina Farms website, where the influencer discussed growing up in Utah as one of nine children as her parents ran a small flower shop.
“Cash was tight, entrepreneurial spirit was thick, and we worked hard to make ends meet,” she wrote. &#8220;Looking back now, I realize I was raised in a small business training incubator. A front line view of how business works.”
“With the flower shop being in retail I learned all about the seasonalities of cash flow, the importance of a good customer experience, and the value of great employees,” Neeleman continued.
She called her marriage to Daniel the “best decision” she ever made and gushed about having her first child, too. “Motherhood was my new dream.  God was guiding me, as He always had,&#8221; she wrote.
As for shifting her priorities from prima ballerina to family life, Neeleman said she has no regrets.
“We started chasing after our new list of dreams. The channel is an expression of my real life. It is beautiful, rewarding and I get to do it with my family. We have many dreams still to accomplish and I can’t wait to see what the future holds,” she concluded.

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Mom Of 8, 'Ballerina Farm' Founder Defends Her Life Choices, Marriage After Scathing Expose

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Taylor Wily, who starred in the remake of &#8220;Hawaii Five-O&#8221; and &#8220;Forgetting Sarah Marshall,&#8221; died on Thursday. He was 56 years old.
Wily’s death was confirmed on Hawaii&#8217;s KITV 4 Island News by musician Lina Girl Langi, one of his close friends.
&#8220;It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of the passing of a Hawaii celebrity who was also a family friend,&#8221; Langi said. &#8220;Taylor Wily, former wrestler, MMA fighter and actor passed away today in Hurricane, Utah.&#8221;
&#8220;He would look physically menacing until you just folded right into a hug, and that was it,&#8221; she added. &#8220;My heart is breaking.&#8221;
Michael J. Henderson, Wily&#8217;s manager, <a href="https://ew.com/taylor-wily-dead-hawaii-five-0-forgetting-sarah-marshall-8667237#:~:text=Taylor%20Wily%2C%20the%20Samoan%20actor,He%20was%2056.">told</a> Entertainment Weekly that he died from natural causes and no further details would be available at this time.
Wily, born Teila Tuli, was born in Hawaii in 1968 and started his career in the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling in the 1980s and had a successful run, becoming &#8220;the first foreign-born wrestler to win the championship in the third-highest Makushita division,&#8221; according to <a href="https://people.com/hawaii-five-0-actor-taylor-wily-dead-at-56-8667178">People</a>.
He later went on to fight in the first UFC fight in 1993, losing to UFC fighter Gerard Gordeau.
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Despite his enormous size and previous career as a professional fighter, he was widely remembered by those who knew him as a &#8220;gentle giant.&#8221;
Wily appeared in seven episodes of the original &#8220;Magnum P.I.&#8221; and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
He is best known for his role as Kamekona on CBS&#8217;s remake of &#8220;Hawaii Five-O,&#8221; where he appeared in more than 170 episodes during the show&#8217;s 10-year run from 2010 to 2020.
“Hawaii Five-O” and “Magnum P.I.” executive producer Peter Lenkov posted on social media that he was &#8220;devastated&#8221; and &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; by the news.
“You came in with a towel on your head mopping up sweat, and I was smitten. You charmed me into making you a regular… on the show… and in my life. You were family. And I will miss you every day, brother,” he said in a follow-up post. “PS: when we spoke last week, we laughed at how right you were from Day 1. Five-0 was our dream job. And I was so lucky we got to share that magic together.”

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The transgender suspect accused of murdering his parents at a home in Utah has admitted to the killings and stated that he would do it again, police said on Wednesday.
Law enforcement officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-catch-transgender-suspect-accused-of-double-murder-hiding-in-weeds">arrested</a> 28-year-old Collin Troy Bailey after he was found in a field of weeds on Wednesday following a roughly 12-hour search that began the night before after they received a call about a shooting at a home where a man and a woman were found dead.
Bailey, a man who claims that he is a woman, was charged with two counts of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, seven counts of shooting a gun, and aggravated burglary.
The victims — identified as 69-year-old Gail Bailey and 70-year-old Joseph — were Bailey&#8217;s parents, local media <a href="https://www.ksl.com/article/51047085/unremorseful-woman-brutally-killed-southern-utah-parents-tried-to-kill-brother-police-say">reported</a>.
Police documents said that Bailey had no remorse for murdering his parents, allegedly saying: &#8220;I would do it again. I hate them.&#8221;
A police booking affidavit stated that Bailey told law enforcement that he went to the home specifically to murder his parents.
Neighbors told police that there was a lot of &#8220;volatility and bad vibes&#8221; in the family.
Bailey told police that he had &#8220;strained relationships&#8221; with multiple other family members, the document said. Multiple family members told police that they were afraid of him.
Someone in the home heard the gunshots and fled to a neighbor&#8217;s house, where they called the police.
Bailey&#8217;s brother reportedly locked himself and his wife in his bedroom during the killings.
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Bailey shot at the locked bedroom and told police that he didn&#8217;t care if he killed his brother, according to a booking affidavit.
He told police that upon breaking into the home, he opened fire on his mother, shooting her three times. When his father started coming toward him, he shot his father in the head. He later returned and shot both parents again in the head to ensure that they were dead.
&#8220;Mia describes jumping fences or walls, hiding in bushes, sleeping in a park bathroom, and other efforts to elude law enforcement,&#8221; police said in the document. &#8220;Mia bragged about [his] ability to avoid the efforts of law enforcement to locate [him], including evading officers, hiding from helicopters and hiding from drones.&#8221;

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Police Say Transgender Suspect Admits To Murdering Parents: ‘I Would Do It Again. I Hate Them.’

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Law enforcement officials in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a> located a transgender suspect who they believe is responsible for murdering two people inside their home this week who share the same last name as the suspect.
Police began searching for 28-year-old Collin Troy Bailey on Tuesday night after they were called about shots fired in a neighborhood in Washington County.
They said that officers entered the home through the front door and discovered a man and a woman who had been shot to death.
Police identified Bailey as the sole suspect in the case and described him as a “transgender male transitioning to a female and [who] currently goes by the name of Mia Bailey.” They said that he wears “wigs and is known to change hairstyles frequently.”
Authorities located Bailey hiding in a field of weeds on Wednesday afternoon and quickly arrested him without further incident, according to video that was recorded from the moment that he was captured.
While no information has been released about the identities of the victims, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13546637/Trans-woman-28-run-woman-man-shot-dead-Washington-City-home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the home where the murders happened was listed as Bailey&#8217;s home address and others who were listed as living at the residence included &#8220;Gail Bailey, 69, and her husband Joseph, 70, who appear to be Bailey&#8217;s parents.&#8221;
Washington City Police Department Lt. Kory Klotz said that Bailey had a firearm on him when he was located by law enforcement and that he put it on the ground before he was arrested. The weapon was later recovered by law enforcement.
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&#8220;We have some good news,&#8221; said Officer Tiffany Mitchell with the St. George Police Department. &#8220;We have the suspect in custody. Everyone is safe. No one else was injured.&#8221;
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Police Catch Transgender Suspect Accused Of Double Murder Hiding In Weeds

Law enforcement officials in Utah are searching for a transgender suspect after two people were found murdered in their home this week.
Just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Washington City Police were called about shots fired in a local neighborhood, police <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=780214064291117&amp;set=pcb.780214590957731">said</a> in a statement.
&#8220;Washington City Police Officers arrived on scene and entered the residence through the front door,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Upon entry into the home, two deceased adults (one female and one male) were located inside from apparent gunshot wounds. Officers on scene attempted life saving efforts on the two victims but efforts were unsuccessful. Upon searching the home further, no other victims and no suspects were located. From the initial investigation, it was apparent a double homicide had occurred.&#8221;
Police said that they identified a single suspect in the case, Collin Troy Bailey, who they described as a &#8220;transgender male transitioning to a female and currently goes by the name of Mia Bailey.&#8221;
Police said he is white, 5&#8217;10&#8221; tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has brown hair. They noted that he wears &#8220;wigs and is known to change hairstyles frequently.&#8221;
He was seen leaving the area in a yellow 2014 Kia Sol with Utah License Plate U069GF.
Police said that his current whereabouts are unknown and he is &#8220;considered armed and dangerous&#8221;. Police said the public should not approach him if they spot him and should instead contact law enforcement.
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Law enforcement said that they do not believe there are currently any threats to the general public, even though they suspect he may still be in the area.
Police did not say what the relationship was between the suspect and those in the home who were murdered.
&#8220;The Washington City Police Department sends our heartfelt condolences to the victim&#8217;s family in this horrific tragedy,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;We also want to thank all those who assisted with this incident, which is Washington County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, St George City Police Department, Utah Highway Patrol, Washington County Attorney&#8217;s Office, and local citizens on scene.&#8221;

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Police Searching For Transgender Suspect After Two People Murdered In Home

“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/faith-based-series-the-chosen-hits-3-at-box-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Chosen</a>” creator Dallas Jenkins opened up about Season 4, 5, and what fans can expect as the hit faith-based series gets back to filming.
Speaking to The Daily Wire, the creator of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chosen-actress-once-skeptical-about-god-says-role-has-been-life-changing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series</a> — which explores the life of Jesus through those who were closest to him — talked about the unique legal and financial challenges the series has faced with releasing Season 4 to the streaming site after releasing the season exclusively in theaters earlier this year.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chosen-creator-talks-about-season-4s-extreme-pain-and-sadness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenkins</a> has been very transparent with his audience throughout the entire delay and says it has been, “painful and no one has been more frustrated about it than I am.”
“But I do promise that Season 4 is going to be very impactful, if you haven’t seen it yet,” he added. “And that in a few years when you look back you&#8217;re not going to remember these couple of months that we didn’t want to wait.”
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In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-wait-is-finally-over-the-chosen-announces-huge-news-about-season-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> on Wednesday, “The Chosen” announced the first episode of <a href="https://www.thechosen.tv/en-us/statement?utm_source=vanity&amp;utm_medium=vanity&amp;utm_campaign=season4news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Season 4</a> will be available for streaming beginning on Sunday, June 2, with the second episode coming out the following Thursday, June 6.
“The wait is finally over,” Dallas Jenkins, creator, producer, director and writer of the hit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chosen-actress-once-skeptical-about-god-says-role-has-been-life-changing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series</a> said in the release.
“The response from those who’ve seen Season 4 in theaters was that this is our best season, so I can’t wait to deliver these episodes free and easy to the world,” he added.
“We wanted to offer fans a chance to see it on the big screen together in theaters,” Jenkins continued. “But I’ve maintained the show will always ultimately be available free and easy, and we’re now ready for our livestreams, which are going to be bonkers this year.”
<h4>SEASON 4</h4>
“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-chosen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Chosen</a>” first three seasons were all available for fans to watch on the show’s <a href="https://new.thechosen.tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">app</a> and stream for free with a message about paying it forward. Season 4 was the first time they opted to release it first exclusively in theaters. Jenkins said doing so helped with funding the show so that they can provide it for free to stream.
“Releasing it in theaters first not only allowed us to give the fans a great experience, and allowed those who were willing to pay for it to to see it on the big screen and to see it in community which is important to a lot of people, see it in the way that we really intended it,” the creator said.
“But it was also able to give us a little bit of a financial boost and we have to come up with creative ways to do that when we have a show that’s ultimately free and the people don’t have to pay for it if they don’t choose to,” he added. “So, when people are willing to do that, we want to definitely take advantage of that because we need it. We have a lot of money to raise, a lot to finance. We don’t have a studio or streaming platform that’s financing this whole operation.”
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Season 4 is an emotional one with the feeling of impending doom surrounding Jesus and his followers. Jenkins talked to us about how he tries to strike a balance between the difficult parts of the greatest story in human history — about “life triumphs over death and good triumphs over evil” — and how vital it is for the audience to relate to Jesus’ disciples.
“But every good story also is not going to shy away from the pain,” Jenkins said. “And the pain and the sadness, and the impending doom is a part of life. I think it’s essential for audiences to go through with us.”
“Because maybe there’s some who don’t want to go through some of that pain but I think for others, they need to, they want to because they want to be able to relate to this story and to these people and to know that that the followers of Jesus in history, the builders of the early church … were human beings just like us,” he added.
“And they struggled just like we did and they have questions just like we do,” Jenkins continued. “And they experience poverty, oppression, and racism, and tribalism, and hardships and health problems just like we do. And that is so essential for the audience to understand and to know. Because when they relate to that then the answer and the hope that is provided can apply to them too.”
<h4>SEASON 5</h4>
Production on Season 5 has begun with more than three weeks so far of filming in Utah where 600 extras, from all over the world, were on set everyday for three weeks.
As for what fans can expect from Season 5, the creator of the series confirmed it’s going to be about Holy Week. Jenkins said that, just as the Gospel of Luke references the resoluteness of Jesus during the Passion Week, those working on the series have “absolutely” felt that same sense of resolve and urgency.
“The filming of Season 5, we are a few weeks into it, and it has really been overwhelming,” Jenkins said. “For three weeks we had 600 ‘Chosen’ fans per day on set in first-century costumes participating with us in some of these immensely important and life-changing events from scripture during Holy Week. The most impactful week in the history of the world.”
“Week one we filmed Jesus arriving in Jerusalem for Holy week and the actors were overwhelmed,” he added. “Several of them would come back after a take with tears streaming down their face talking about how humbling it was to see 600 people waving palm branches and chanting and singing and Romans on horseback and this big Jerusalem set that we’re filming on I mean it felt like we were in the first-century.”
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“That’s happened a few times, filming moments from Holy Week, historical moments that were so impactful,” Jenkins continued. “Getting a chance to recreate those and see them in real time really is jaw dropping. And having the fans there with us and crying during some of these scenes, and supporting us and telling us that the show has changed their lives, is the fuel for us.
Jenkins couldn’t say whether all of Season 5 will be first released in theaters exclusively. He added that “it’s very likely they will release the entire thing in theaters first, but hopefully next time around there won’t be a delay in the streaming.”
As the creator of the hit series, Jenkins will often say “something special is happening on the set of ‘The Chosen,’” and he told The Daily Wire that is already evident during the filming of Season 5.
Obviously, Jesus’ character (played by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jonathan-roumie-says-hes-on-mission-from-god-with-his-portrayal-of-jesus-in-the-chosen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Roumie</a>) is going to have a huge impact in the upcoming season, but another character he said the audience is going to get a deep dive into is Judas (played by Luke Dimyan).
Jenkins said during a press conference he loves looking into how Jesus’ followers didn’t know it was Judas who betrayed him.
“How they wrestle with the fact that something bad is happening,” Jenkins said. “Jesus outright told the disciples one of you will betray me. How did this impact Judas? Who is it that Judas first approached? Specifically, the Romans, the religious leaders? How did it happen without the disciples knowing. The betrayal in Season 5 is really exciting and heartbreaking.”
<h4>Popularity Growing</h4>
The creator of the series also talked about its growing popularity, noting that when singers like Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani post on <a href="https://x.com/blakeshelton/status/1792722359281184908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> about watching and loving the show, news outlets have to pay attention.
Shelton recently took to X and wrote to his 19 million followers, “Random two thumbs up from a country singer… Just finished season 3 of ‘The Chosen’ and I absolutely love it. No question in my mind why it’s a worldwide phenomenon.” Stefani <a href="https://x.com/gwenstefani/status/1792783298894410149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added,</a> “[BlakeShelton] Obsessed, Can’t wait for season 4 [thechosenTv] u better not watch w out me!! Gx.”
“… they aren’t journalists, but when the Kardashians and Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton are tweeting about how much they love the show, at some point it [success] becomes undeniable and at some point, whether you are a mainstream or faith-based journalist, you can’t deny what’s growing,” Jenkins said during a press conference later.
With over 200 million viewers, “The Chosen” is one of the most-watched shows in the world, a press release noted. The series is consistently a top performer across streaming platforms Amazon Prime, Peacock, and Netflix plus a top-rated broadcast weekly on The CW.
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<h4>SEASON 6</h4>
Looking ahead, Season 6 will deal entirely with the crucifixion and Season 7 the resurrection. Jenkins, who didn’t want to get ahead of the current season they are working on, did say that he recently read the script for episode one of Season 6 and could say that, “I&#8217;m absolutely just telling you we are doing it in a way that’s never been done.”
“And it’s really going to blow people away,” he added. “These last few seasons I think are not only going to be the best seasons but they are going to justify the time that we have taken to set them up with the first four seasons.”

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A squatter charged with murdering a Utah teenager has officially pleaded guilty to the crime.
James Brenner was charged in the 2022 disappearance of 19-year-old farmer Dylan Rounds, whose remains were found last month after Brenner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/remains-found-believed-to-be-of-teen-who-disappeared-from-his-farm-in-2022-a-squatter-was-arrested-for-his-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> authorities where to find the body. On Wednesday, Brenner formally pleaded guilty to Rounds’ murder, the Box Elder County Attorney’s Office said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=843865617761943&amp;set=a.300843895397454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a>.
Brenner had reached a plea deal with prosecutors that required him to tell authorities where Rounds’ body had been left.
&#8220;In exchange, Brenner received a reduction from first-degree felony aggravated murder to second-degree felony murder. The second charge, desecration of human remains, was dismissed,&#8221; the attorney’s office said.
Brenner also pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a firearm by a restricted person. His plea agreement closed three cases, two of which related to Rounds. The third case involved an aggravated assault and was not related to Rounds.
Under the plea agreement, Brenner will be sentenced for each charge and will serve his time consecutively. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 1.
Rounds disappeared in 2022 after speaking with his grandmother on the phone, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/utah-teen-dylan-rounds-presumed-skeletal-remains-found-as-james-brenner-faces-murder-charge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“On April 9, 2024, skeletal remains presumed to belong to Dylan Rounds were recovered in the remote western Box Elder County area of Lucin,” the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/people/Box-Elder-County-Sheriffs-Office/100069247537764/?locale=fr_FR&amp;paipv=0&amp;eav=AfYYbTyirhqFGyQDGp1dWy8CiMi5VWmwtULb7Dh1A9OOx90NRwvfGqm5k2rH16VLPWk&amp;_rdr">said</a> on Facebook. “The FBI assisted the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office by processing the area for evidence and recovering the remains.”
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Brenner was squatting on land next to Rounds’ trailer when he allegedly murdered the teen, East Idaho News <a href="https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/06/james-brenner-man-accused-of-killing-dylan-rounds-appears-in-utah-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last year, and was charged with one count of aggravated murder and one count of abuse or desecration of a human body. Brenner had a violent criminal history and had been arrested on outstanding warrants in June 2022 before authorities announced that he was a suspect in Rounds’ disappearance.
During a hearing last year, Brenner appeared with a limp, prompting Rounds’ parents to accuse him of attention-seeking behavior.
“He’s despicable. His whole act of limping around is a complete act,” Rounds’ mother, Candice Cooley, told East Idaho News at the time. “I don’t know if it’s so we think he’s going to die or make him some sort of deal but he wants people to feel sorry for him.”
“He looks for attention to have people feel sorry for him. That’s all. I think it’s an act,” Rounds’ father, Justin, told the outlet.
“Our hearts go out to the family of Dylan Rounds,” the sheriff’s office <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/utah-teen-dylan-rounds-presumed-skeletal-remains-found-as-james-brenner-faces-murder-charge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We offer our sincerest condolences for the loss of their family member. We understand that the pain of their loss is immeasurable, and we want to express our deepest sympathies to them. It is our hope that they can find peace moving forward.”

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A group of Republican attorneys general announced a new lawsuit against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> over its changes to Title IX that would expand prohibitions on discrimination to include gender identity.
The 85-page <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/KS-Title-IX-Complaint-filing-copy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed by Kansas, Utah, Alaska, Wyoming, Moms For Liberty, Young America’s Foundation, and Female Athletes United, says that the rule politicizes the education system to “conform to the radical ideological views of the Biden administration and its allies.”
The Education Department, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the Justice Department, and Attorney General Merrick Garland are all named in the suit. Conservatives have argued that Biden’s changes to Title IX will endanger state laws keeping males out of women’s sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms.
“If Biden has his way, a 16-year-old female high school student on an overnight field trip could be forced to share a hotel room with a biological male who identifies as a girl or the district would risk losing federal funding,” <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/more-states-girls-sue-biden-admin-illegal-attempt-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. “A 14-year-old girl could be forced to share a locker room and change in front of an 18-year-old man who identifies as a woman or the district could lose funds. It’s unconscionable, it’s dangerous for girls and women, and it’s against federal law.”
During a press conference announcing the suit, Kobach said that there were multiple concerns with the rules, including the intrusion of transgender-identifying males into female spaces, loss of due process for students accused of sexual misconduct, and expansion of benefits for students and school staff for abortions.
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“Sports should be free of politics, we’re not injecting politics into sports, we’re keeping politics out because it is a pure, ideological crusade that is driving this attempt to change women’s sports,” Kobach <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/963297708765749">said</a> during a press conference.
The suit argues that Biden’s new guidelines violate federal law, as well as the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
“This unlawful rule also robs girls and women of their opportunity to participate in their school’s education programs and activities, especially athletics, by forcing them to compete with biological males,” the suit says. “It forces both boys and girls, in their most formative years, to sacrifice their privacy in personal spaces such as restrooms, locker rooms, and even overnight accommodations.”
A number of other Republican officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-states-file-flurry-of-lawsuits-against-biden-admin-over-transgender-title-ix-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have filed</a> challenges to Biden’s Title IX re-write, including Montana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina.

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Transgender activists have called in thousands of hoax reports to a Utah tip line in an attempt to hamper enforcement of the state&#8217;s new bathroom law.
The online tip line has received more than 10,000 submissions in the one week it has been up and running, and none of the complaints appear legitimate, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathroom-law-utah-tip-line-943112e6ff6f5768caa0cd42403957a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Utah Auditor John Dougall.
The tip line&#8217;s form asks people to report public school employees who knowingly allow someone to use the bathroom of the opposite sex.
Utah&#8217;s new law, which the governor signed in January, prohibits trans-identifying people from using the bathroom of the opposite sex in government buildings like public schools. Schools and government agencies that fail to enforce the new rules can be fined up to $10,000 per day for each violation.
The bill also establishes that the state’s legal definition of “male” and “female” is based on their reproductive systems rather than their gender identity.
Since Wednesday when the tip line was first launched, transgender activists have posted it all over social media. They have also posted examples of the fake reports they submitted and encouraged others to flood the tip line.
One of the activists, Erin Reed, a trans-identifying man, explained the hoax strategy to the Associated Press.
“There will be people who are trans that go into bathrooms that are potentially reported by these sorts of forms, and so the community is taking on a protective role,” Reed said. “If there are 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 form responses that are entered in, it’s going to be much harder for the auditor’s office to sift through every one of them and find the one legitimate trans person who was caught using a bathroom.”
The law&#8217;s main sponsor, Republican state Representative Kera Birkeland, stood by the tip line in the wake of the activists&#8217; coordinated attack.
“It’s not surprising that activists are taking the time to send false reports,” Birkeland <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathroom-law-utah-tip-line-943112e6ff6f5768caa0cd42403957a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “But that isn’t a distraction from the importance of the legislation and the protection it provides women across Utah.”
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Schools have come under particular scrutiny in recent years for allowing trans-identifying male students to use the girls&#8217; bathroom and locker rooms. Many female students, especially those who play sports and use locker rooms to change and shower, have expressed their discomfort with sharing these facilities with trans-identifying male classmates and teammates.
At <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/utah-ban-on-transgender-bathroom-use-awaits-governors-signature">least</a> ten other states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee — also have laws dealing with which bathrooms trans-identifying people can use.

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When Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> spoke last month at the University of Utah, he was met with a host of leftist protesters and university-approved transgender flags filling the building he was speaking in — a demonstration that was in part <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBXjhH7EzvQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> by the school faculty. 
The protest took place as Knowles, who had been brought to campus by the Young America’s Foundation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-especially-american-problem-michael-knowles-addresses-the-u-s-establishments-radical-embrace-of-transgenderism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave a speech</a> on the problems with transgender ideology on April 8 at the university. At the same time, Philip Osteen, the dean of Utah’s College of Social Work, reportedly extended the school’s Pride celebration so that it coincided with Knowles’ speech and approved for transgender and LGBT flags and banners to fill the building Knowles was set to speak in. 
Osteen, the dean of the building where Knowles spoke, approved the trans flag demonstration, but said he couldn’t give the go-ahead for students to put up American flags when pressed by YAF representative Breana Marsh. 
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Meet Philip Osteen, the College of Social Work dean at the University of Utah—a public school—who was so bothered by my presence on campus that he prevented <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YAF</a> students from flying American flags in the foyer, where his college had sponsored a trans propaganda extravaganza. <a href="https://t.co/awuioyARWk">pic.twitter.com/awuioyARWk</a>
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“I think it&#8217;s a gross misuse to say that we’re going to make a safe place, we’re going to make students feel represented and protected, and everyone feels safe, at the absolute hanging of your conservative students,&#8221; Marsh said in audio shared by YAF with The Daily Wire. 
Osteen said she should bring her concerns to the dean of students, saying that YAF could put up American flags in the room where Knowles was speaking but “not in the decoration of this building.”
He then said that if YAF got approval from facilities and the dean of students that they could put up American flags. When asked why he could approve Pride flags, but not the American flag, he said “because I approved these to go up as a celebration of our pride.”
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When asked about why Pride week had been continued into a second week, Osteen said it was because the school wanted students to know it was “an inclusive place to support trans rights, LGBTQ2s rights.”
Later, during his speech Knowles commented on the amount of students who had shown up to oppose him. He said he was surprised that even in “meek and mild Utah,” he saw a video of “some wild banshee-like lady accosting, assaulting one of the students here as the student was hanging up flyers for this lecture tonight.”
One protester, who did not listen to Knowles&#8217; speech, sat down with The Daily Wire host after to discuss their views. During their conversation, Knowles pushed him to reconsider his acceptance of transgender ideology. 
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The State Financial Officers Foundation announced on Tuesday a new effort, joined by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a> Treasurer Marlo Oaks (R), to push back on the use of pension funds to back leftist political causes.
The foundation launched the <a href="https://publicfiduciary.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Public Fiduciary Network</a>, chaired by Oaks, to raise awareness about the use of public pension funds to push politicized Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. According to the group, there are about 5,000 state and local pension funds across the United States that control trillions of dollars in assets.
“Our goal is to provide education and resources for to them to understand the scope of the problem in the financial industry, the level of politicization of these funds, and to understand very clear ways that they can protect the fiduciary duty with respect to how they’re managing and overseeing these pension funds,” Noah Wall, the executive director of the State Financial Officers Foundation, said at a press conference in Florida.
Oaks, who will be the network&#8217;s national chair, said that teaching individuals on state and local pension boards about the efforts of some asset managers to back certain agendas was a “critical issue” because of the “politicization of our capital markets.”
The Republican said that pension fund managers needed to go back to the traditional understanding of fiduciary responsibility where political agendas do not impact investment strategies.
Earlier this month, a report from the American Accountability Foundation showed that Oklahoma public official retirement funds were being used to push decarbonization, racial audits, and pro-abortion policies. The report identified at least 216 ESG-tinged proposals that were backed using public retirement funds.
When asked by The Daily Wire if there would be a specific area of geographic focus for the network, Wall said they hoped to recruit partners at every level across the country.
“It’s a 50 state issue,” he said. “We’ll be working on recruiting members on states from around the country. It’s not a red state or blue state problem. This is a national issue. We’re going be recruiting everyone down to the county commissioners that oversee local pension boards.”
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State Financial Officer Foundation CEO Derek Kreifels said that raising awareness was especially needed because giant asset managers, like BlackRock, have stepped up their lobbying at the state and local level. Kreifels said BlackRock has sent mixed messages about its commitment to ESG investments, saying that its stance “depends on who&#8217;s in the room and who they’re talking to.”
In recent years, states have stepped up efforts to block state funds from going through asset managers that have targeted the oil and gas industry.

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Let’s try to follow the winding contours of this bizarre story.
It begins earlier this week with students at Mt. Nebo Middle School in Utah staging a walk out in protest of all the furries that administrators have allowed to infest the school. It began with a petition, which gained over 500 signatures in a few days, calling for the school to start enforcing its dress codes and stop allowing students to come to class dressed in their furry costumes.
Then came the walk out. Adam Bartholomew, a local commentator in Utah, captured footage of the event. Watch:
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So the furries have gone feral, it seems. They are biting and scratching and pouncing on people. Some of the students have had enough of this behavior. They want to go to school at a school, not a petting zoo. And that’s why they walked out.
But then the fact checkers leapt into action to throw cold water on this whole story. Or to try, at least. Here’s the Salt Lake Tribune: 
<blockquote>Fact check: Nebo School District responds to claims about student protest over ‘furries.’ A district spokesperson said the protest seemed to be organized after a message sent to families was misinterpreted.</blockquote>
What kind of misinterpretation can lead these students to think that there are a bunch of furries in the school when there really aren’t? What could you have said in an email that people would mistranslate as a reference to furries? Let’s keep reading:
<blockquote>Video of middle schoolers walking out of a Nebo School District school in Payson on Wednesday quickly spread in conservative social media circles, with posts claiming the students were protesting because the district was allowing student “furries” to “terrorize” other students… Nebo School District spokesperson Seth Sorenson said that claim was false. He also said students at the middle school are not wearing full-body animal costumes to class, as “furries” — part of a subculture of people who sometimes dress up like animal characters but act like humans — are known to do… Dismissing the claims, Sorenson said the Wednesday protest seemed to be organized after a message the school sent to families last week was misinterpreted. The message was sent after a group of students had been targeting another group of students, saying things “that were overheard by others that the administration felt were inappropriate and shouldn’t be said,” Sorenson said. The group of students being targeted, he added, were students who sometimes come to school wearing headbands “that may have ears on them.” He said doesn’t think the targeted students necessarily refer to themselves as “furries.”</blockquote>
So the spokesman says there are no furries. The kids are lying, or somehow confused. There aren’t any furries, but there might be some kids wearing animal ears to class. Those kids, he says, may or may not identify as furries. It’s all a big misunderstanding. 
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But then he goes on to admit that there have been altercations over people “dressing differently:&#8221; 
<blockquote>In one specific instance, the targeted students “were sitting in a corner of the lunchroom, eating as a group of friends” when others began calling them names and throwing food at them “because they were dressed differently,” Sorenson told The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, providing more details about the situation. After word of the altercation spread, the school sent an initial message to families last Friday, stating, “We expect ALL students to be respectful towards each other while we are here at school.” “We hope you will treat others how you would like to be treated,” the message stated. “Outstanding behavior might demonstrate curiosity, understanding, patience and tolerance.”… But Sorenson said he thinks some parents misinterpreted the note, incorrectly taking it as a message that the school was “taking the side of a single group, saying, ‘We want you to be kind to this group, but they don’t have to be kind to anyone else.’” “Nobody was taking the side of one group or another,” he said. “What we were saying is everyone needs to treat everyone else with respect.&#8221;</blockquote>
Wait a second — he says the school isn’t taking the side of “a single group.” What group? I thought he said there weren’t any furries. Which group is he referring to? I thought the group in question doesn’t exist at the school? What is the fact check here? Is he saying that there are furries at school but he’s not taking their side? Is he confirming that there are indeed kids coming to class dressed like animals? 
This “fact check,” and the dozens of others published by various outlets over the last couple of days, have made it seem like the reports of furries were pure unfounded rumor. But that’s not quite what I’m getting from the spokesman’s own words. And then there’s this: 
<blockquote>On Tuesday, the school sent another message to parents, trying to clarify its original note. “We have had several parents reach out to us over the past few days, regarding rumors that are being spread about behaviors of a small group of students at our school,” the message read. “We hoped our efforts to clarify misconceptions would be sufficient, but it seems we still have some misunderstandings.”The note went on to quote the Friday message, and concluded with an acknowledgement of rumored plans of a walkout protest Wednesday.”</blockquote>
There’s again a reference to this group of students who, according to the fact checkers, don’t exist. How can a non-existent group of furries exhibit any behaviors at all, given that they don’t exist? Or do they? And if they don’t exist then why did we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears kids from that school, on camera, saying explicitly that their classmates are being permitted to come to class dressed like animals, and act like animals too? 
Here’s a video from a guy named Eric Moutsos with more insight from people who work at the school:
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Okay, well that confirms it. The furries in school is not a rumor, it’s not misinformation.
The Left has been denying that this sort of thing is happening for years. But here you have a teacher who is on the side of the furries — a teacher who doesn’t like the kids who were protesting — admitting, publicly, that “a few kids dress as pets.” She says that like it’s completely normal, like she sees no problem with it. She doesn’t, and that IS the problem.
We can have debates over dress codes and how strict they should be. But any halfway sane person should agree that the dress code should at least require every student to dress like a human being, at a minimum. Dressing as a pet is not something that a child of any age should be doing on a regular basis. Especially not a middle school aged child — during school hours.
By the way, the same guy, Eric Moutsos, has also obtained these photos of kids at this school dressed in their animal costumes.
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So we’ve got some kind of velociraptor-lion hybrid, and then a bunch of variations of cats. Kids are dressing like this for school. Their parents are letting them leave the house in animal masks. For school. This is happening. It hasn’t been debunked. It is real.
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But we haven’t gotten to the weirdest part of this story, somehow. The local ABC affiliate decided to provide more context by interviewing a furry in costume, and referring to the woman as her fictional character’s name. Watch:
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Yes, she doesn’t want these kids to “muddy the name” of the furries. They must not sully the reputation of the furries. They shouldn’t do anything that gives the public the impression that people who walk around in animal costumes are —I don’t know — weird, bizarre, deranged, mentally unbalanced. That’s according to “Strudel,” who the reporter refers to as Strudel, while also respecting the non-binary pronouns of the fictional character that the woman in the costume is pretending to be.
You may like to think that this is the media’s low point. That it has finally hit rock bottom. That it cannot possibly get any more embarrassing than this. But there is no bottom, I’m afraid. Searching for the media’s lowest point is like searching for the end of a black hole. It just keeps going and going, and it gets darker and darker all the while.
This — as many of us have warned for years — is the result of emphasizing tolerance and acceptance above all. I don’t say it’s the end result. It is not the final result. As I said, there is no end. There is no finality. It can always get weirder and more disturbing. But this is a result. This is an inevitable stop along the way once you board the crazy train.
When you start telling people — especially kids — that they can be whatever they want to be, and identify as whatever they want to identify as, of course some of them choose to be animals.
And since you’ve elevated tolerance and “personal expression” as the highest virtues, you now have no way of telling these kids not to behave this way. How can you? They’re expressing themselves; they’re being who they feel they are, deep inside. The school can&#8217;t put a stop to this without backtracking on the entire woke program. That’s clearly how they see it and they’re right.
There’s an interesting segment from that ABC affiliate’s written report on this issue. It also quotes Strudel, and calls her that in the report, but then it says this:
<blockquote>According to WebMD, a furry is someone who has an interest in animals with human qualities, and who sometimes dresses up as a cartoon-like version of an animal. “I really like the idea of animals that walk and talk, so I’m going to dress up as one, as kind of a fun sort of cosplay thing,” Strudel said… WebMD said people are often interested in becoming furries to find a sense of community, though some of the drawbacks they may face are negative stereotypes and social stigmas.</blockquote>
Now, I have no idea why WebMD is being consulted for furry information, but in any event, it implies that the “negative stereotypes” and “social stigmas” against this “community” are wrong. But they aren’t. There should be a social stigma attached to walking around in a ridiculous costume. It is normal for a person to treat such behavior as bizarre and antisocial, because it is bizarre and antisocial behavior.
A lot of what we now refer to as “bullying” among children is really just children acting normal and responding to weird, unhealthy things in a way that conveys that the things are weird and unhealthy. The schools want to condition children out of that natural, normal response. They want your child to treat the furry as normal, and then eventually see the furry as normal, and then eventually become one himself, or something just as, or more, bizarre.
That’s the process and the agenda. And it’s playing out at schools all across the country right now.

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