New York’s mayor wants a photo ID to buy discounted groceries. The same politics say requiring one to vote is racist.
John Amanchukwu is joined by Auron MacIntyre — Blaze Media host and author of The Total State — and Marty O’Donnell, the composer behind Halo and Destiny, now the Republican nominee for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District.
First: the WNBA turns on one of its own.
Sophie Cunningham said she believes women’s sports should be for biological women. She wasn’t hateful and she didn’t use derogatory language. Minnesota’s Cheryl Reeve wore a “trans kids belong” shirt on the sideline. Golden State’s Natalie Nakase compared the issue to being criticized for her height and her ethnicity, and said inclusivity means trans women too. ESPN praised both.
MacIntyre’s answer inverts the premise: sports isn’t about inclusion at all. It’s about exclusivity, excellence, and hierarchy — the whole appeal is watching people who are better than everyone else. And a women’s league exists in the first place only because men and women are different. Erase that and you’ve erased the reason for the league.
Then he goes further back. Title IX was written to protect women’s sports. So how did it become the instrument dismantling them? MacIntyre traces it to the Civil Rights Act — arguing, along with Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement, that it became a de facto second constitution, and that the Supreme Court rewrote its meaning in Griggs v. Duke Power just years after passage. His line: you couldn’t have told a civil rights activist in 1965 that the solution to his problem would one day eliminate girls’ sports.
Plus the clip that has to be seen — Cunningham takes an elbow to the jaw and the review comes back a defensive foul, no hostile act.
Then Marty O’Donnell.
O’Donnell wrote the music for Halo and Destiny. He won the June primary with President Trump’s endorsement, and he faces incumbent Rep. Susie Lee in November. He didn’t expect to be having this conversation at all — he thought the sports question was settled a year ago and is genuinely surprised to see it back.
His answer on the WNBA is short: women are women, men are men, truth comes from God and not the mind of man, and Sophie Cunningham is being made to defend something that isn’t strange in the slightest.
Then New York. Mamdani has proposed five city-owned grocery stores selling a core basket at thirty percent below retail. Asked how they’d stop people from gaming it, the city’s economic development chief floated “a sort of library-card-esque thing” to make sure they’re targeting actual New Yorkers. President Trump’s response: he wishes they’d want an ID for the voting booth. Elon Musk called the irony too much.
O’Donnell’s take is worth the runtime on its own — including the SpaghettiOs question nobody at that press conference thought to ask. He also gets into why government-run stores have been tried before, what Stalin and Chávez have to do with it, and the thing he thinks matters more than any of it: that a strong family is the foundation, that it doesn’t take a village to raise a child, and that one good job used to be enough to start one.
