Journalist Nick Shirley’s name is on the tip of everyone’s tongues after his massive exposé of Somalian day-care fraud plaguing the taxpayers of Minnesota under Tim Walz’s watch — but that’s not the only event he’s covered.“I’ve spent a lot of time in London,” Shirley tells BlazeTV host John Doyle at AmFest.“I’ve been to a few of the marches that have been held there. I originally went there just to see what was happening cause I’ve heard of illegal immigration — or mass migration, not even illegal, because a lot of their immigration is legal — but how mass migration has shifted London,” he explains.“Do you have to worry at all while you’re over there getting that kind of content that, like, the police are going to arrest you for hate speech or something?” Doyle asks.“Yeah, that’s the thing that’s interesting about being in London. You don’t have to worry about being attacked per se. You have to worry about being arrested for the videos you make inside of London. So, I always film, and then I post them once I get out of London,” Shirley says.And recently, Shirley has been impressed with the amount of people who have been taking to the streets to protest censorship or mass migration.“They had, like, over a million people out in the streets of London. That was pretty incredible just to see how many people are actually very, not as much interested, but more so impacted by what’s happening in their country that a million people came out to support,” he explains.This protest in particular was about both free speech and mass migration.“Were people more or less happy to see an American over there in support of them?” Doyle asks.“Very much so, because they say that if it wasn’t for Donald Trump, who knows what would happen with the West,” Shirley says.“They feel a lot more safe, and they feel like their country is going to be in a lot better position,” he continues, “because Trump does stand for Western values, and he doesn’t want to see these other countries get diminished.”Want more from John Doyle?To enjoy more of the truth about America and join the fight to restore a country that has been betrayed by its own leaders, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the general public is looking at artificial intelligence through the wrong lens.In a recent blog post, the India-born executive told readers to start viewing AI platforms as "bicycles for the mind."'While AI can improve efficiency, it may also reduce critical engagement.'Nadella explained that he prefers users would think of AI "as a scaffolding for human potential vs. a substitute" for human labor.This scaffolding should be used to achieve goals, not replace humans in their roles, he continued, before saying debates around AI should not include an argument as to whether or not something is "slop.""We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs. sophistication and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our 'theory of the mind' that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other. This is the product design question we need to debate and answer.""Slop" was named as Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025 and was defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence."With this definition in mind, it is no wonder that Nadella would rather his users shy away from using such a term.RELATED: CRASH: If OpenAI's huge losses sink the company, is our economy next? The blog post, titled "Looking Ahead to 2026," envisioned a world where it is not even considered to not integrate AI into regular tasks.Society must account for AI's "'jagged' edges" and enable rich and safe "tools use" to advance to proper "scaffolds," Nadella claimed.Consistently using this term to imply assistance in man-made projects en masse, Nadella described the use of AI as necessary in the face of "scarce energy, compute, and talent" resources."If Nadella wants people to stop referring to AI output as slop, then the AIs should be improved so they no longer produce slop," said Josh Centers, a tech expert from Chapter House.Interestingly enough, the very same slop that generative AI models have produced recently have actually not enhanced human thinking, according to studies. As PC Gamer noted, Microsoft even co-authored a study that showed reliance on AI models can reduce independent problem-solving capabilities."Surprisingly, while AI can improve efficiency, it may also reduce critical engagement, particularly in routine or lower-stakes tasks in which users simply rely on AI, raising concerns about long-term reliance and diminished independent problem-solving," the paper revealed.RELATED: ROTTEN APPLE? Top execs bail on CEO Tim Cook as woked-up tech giant fumbles lead Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images The study also noted that AI tools "appear to reduce the perceived effort required for critical thinking tasks among knowledge workers, especially when they have higher confidence in AI capabilities."Content creator Kabrutus — who represents a community of more than 470,000 disenfranchised gamers — has heavily criticized AI when it does churn out "slop.""I think Nadella's main goal on wanting us to stop using the term 'slop' to refer to their AI is because he realizes AI is perceived as something very negative on many different fronts," he said.He added, "Nadella is trying to make people stop using this term while the 'AI culture' is still small, because it's easier. Once AI gets HUGE, and pretty much everybody calls it 'slop,' it will be impossible to revert the situation.""Why is he so worried about it?" the Brazilian asked. "Because AI is going to be one of the flagships of 'his' company in the near future, and if people perceive AI as 'slop' it will be much harder to sell them AI-based products, right?" Meanwhile, Lewis Brackpool, U.K. director of investigations for Restore Britain, said he sees slop as something that defines "meaningless, talentless content creation that numbs the brain" and is plastered all over social media.Brackpool explained that asking people not to use the term "slop" seems like "a marketing tool to prevent criticism of a product that could hurt sales numbers" and act as a coping mechanism for a company because "their product likely sucks."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Just days after the inauguration of democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, his administration is having to face damaging accusations from critics.Mamdani picked housing rights activist Cea Weaver to join his team, but her past comments equating homeownership to white supremacy have led to widespread condemnation.'That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality.'Among those decrying the pick is former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, also a Democrat."Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle," Adams wrote on social media."You have to be completely out of your f***ing mind to call that 'white supremacy,'" he added. "That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality."Adams included a screenshot of the questionable post made by Weaver in 2019."Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy," she wrote.Mamdani rode into the mayor's office on a wave of residents' grievances over high housing costs by promising to extend rent control. Critics of the policy, including many economists, oppose rent control because it leads to abandoned rental units and, paradoxically, higher rents.In other resurfaced comments, Weaver implied that white people would need to change their relationship to private property for the sake of social justice equity.RELATED: Mamdani makes bizarre promise on World Cup tickets — and gets wrecked in community note "I think the reality is, is that for centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good," Weaver said in video-recorded comments."And transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently," she added. "And it will mean that families, especially white families but some [people of color] families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have."Mamdani's director of appointments has already resigned over comments on social media deemed anti-Semitic. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has shocked the world, but Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes that Trump’s true motive is much bigger than the speculation surrounding it.“I want to give you a completely, I think, different perspective on what happened in Venezuela. Let me just say this: It is not about the oil. It’s not about drugs. It’s not about terrorism. It’s not about China. It’s not about communism, Marxism, or socialism,” Glenn says. “It’s about all of those things.”“So, if anybody tells you that this is really all about the oil, just listen to them, because they might have a very good point on the oil thing, and go, ‘OK, well, that’s cute.’ But that’s not all it’s about,” he continues.What Glenn believes Trump is really doing with this move is “playing to win.”“And I mean win all of it. Never have I seen this before. Donald Trump has been saying, ‘America First,’ ‘America First’ his entire life. It hasn’t been a slogan. ... It’s his worldview, and it always has been,” Glenn says.“This is truly about who sets the table and the agenda for the next 100 years. Who’s it going to be? A global government, the Chinese government, AI, some technocratic government, or the American government?” he continues, pointing out that Trump’s latest move is making it much more likely that the ruler will be the last on that list.“We’re going to look back at this time, assuming that it works, and we’re going to say, ‘That was brilliant.’ Do you know that because of Venezuela, we don’t need the oil? I’m going to get into this here in a second. We don’t need the oil,” Glenn says.“Do you know that this is the first time since FDR that the world’s resources are now back under American, not control, but in friendly territory, that we’re the ones that dominate not just our oil but the resources?” he continues.“It wasn’t like that two years ago. A year ago, it wasn’t like that,” he adds.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.