Must have slipped Audie's mind. Couldn't possibly have been an intentional omission! Or was it? On Thursday's CNN This Morning while discussing the Minneapolis school shooting that left two children dead and almost two dozen injured, host Audie Cornish said: "Police now turning their focus to a potential motive. Investigators say the suspect left behind what they call a manifesto. There were also videos published to a YouTube account, believed to have belonged to the shooter, displaying weapons with antisemitic, anti-black, and anti-religious messages painted on the side." What Audie somehow managed to overlook was another message painted on the side of one of the shooter's guns: "Kill Donald Trump".     The Minneapolis police chief and a Cornish guest also failed to mention the shooter's threat to President Trump. The police chief said, "What we've seen so far is just a variety of hate." Imagine that the shooter had written the same message on one of his guns, but had named a former Democrat president rather than Trump as his target. Think Cornish would have mentioned it?  The expert guest was Shawn Turner, a CNN national security analyst. Cornish described Turner simply as a "former communications director at U.S. National Intelligence." Turner then offered this wild declaration about motive: "I think this is going to be a tough investigation, because as we've seen from the manifesto, the writings, this individual had animus toward lots of different groups, lots of different situations in his life, and it's not really clear exactly what drove him to snap at the moment that he did." Pro Tip: When CNN introduces someone as a former government official without mentioning in whose presidential administration he served, you can be virtually certain it was in a Democrat administration. In the case of Turner, he was appointed by Obama not only to his US National Intelligence post, but also as Obama's Deputy White House Press Secretary for National Security. In contrast, when a guest served in a Republican administration, the CNN introduction will almost invariably mention that fact. Consider it a warning to the viewers: "Take what this guy says with a grain of salt: he's one of THEM!" Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 08/28/25 6:45 a.m. Eastern MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY (D): What we know is that far too often people are robbed of that childhood because of this senseless gun violence. Don't let anybody tell you that it's not about guns, because it is.  PEGGY FLANAGAN [Ojibwe name: Gizhiiwewidamookwe] We need to love our babies and our children more than our guns.  AUDIE CORNISH: The mayor of Minneapolis and the lieutenant governor, demanding action after the deadly Catholic school shooting in the city. Police now turning their focus to a potential motive. Investigators say the suspect left behind what they call a manifesto. There were also videos published to a YouTube account, believed to have belonged to the shooter, displaying weapons with antisemitic, anti-black, and anti-religious messages painted on the side. The FBI says they are investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terror and a hate crime.  MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF BRIAN O'HARA: You know, what we've seen so far is just a variety of hate. Just really deranged comments.  (....) SHAWN TURNER: I think this is going to be a tough investigation, because as we've seen from the manifesto, the writings, this individual had animus toward lots of different groups, lots of different situations in his life, and it's not really clear exactly what drove him to snap at the moment that he did. 

Public health officials have a long way to go before they regain the public’s trust, and a regrettable Thursday segment on CNN’s The Source showed just how little some in the industry and in the media care. Amid some weak questioning from host Kaitlan Collins, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who recently resigned as the CDC’s Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, trumpeted his use of the term “pregnant people” and his pronouns. Collins teed up a clip from the day’s White House press briefing, “Dr. Daskalakis, you were specifically referenced today, during the White House press briefing. I'm not sure if you saw this, but I want—I want everyone to listen to what the press secretary had to say today.”     In the clip, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared, “One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as pregnant people. So that's not someone who we want in this administration, anyway.” Collins then simply put the ball on the tee, “I want to give you the chance to respond to that.” Daskalakis began with a digression into the need for experts to consult President Trump on various infectious diseases before finally getting to Collins’s prompt, “But back to the question. I mean, I had, for my entire career, been an advocate for the LGBTQ community, through my work in HIV, through my work in Mpox. I find it outrageous that this—that this administration is trying to erase transgender people. I very specifically used the term, pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter, to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy, trying to erase people, and not allowing them to express their identities. So, I accept the note from the press secretary, and counter that with, I don't care.” That’s the problem. He should care. As a public health official, Daskalakis may not like it, but it is true that many people will see a man of science include his pronouns with his signature and who refers to pregnant people as pregnant people and either ignore everything else he says or think he must be wrong because if he can’t get basic things like only women can get pregnant right, then how could you possibly trust him on other issues? Likewise, Collins, as a journalist, has a responsibility to press him on these things. Here is a transcript for the August 28 show: CNN The Source with Kaitlan Collins 8/28/2025 9:21 PM ET KAITLAN COLLINS: Dr. Daskalakis, you were specifically referenced today, during the White House press briefing. I'm not sure if you saw this, but I want — I want everyone to listen to what the press secretary had to say today. KAROLINE LEAVITT: One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as pregnant people. So that's not someone who we want in this administration, anyway. COLLINS: I want to give you the chance to respond to that. … DEMETRE DASKALAKIS: But back to the question. I mean, I had, for my entire career, been an advocate for the LGBTQ community, through my work in HIV, through my work in Mpox. I find it outrageous that this — that this administration is trying to erase transgender people. I very specifically used the term, pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter, to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy, trying to erase people, and not allowing them to express their identities. So, I accept the note from the press secretary, and counter that with, I don't care.

Houston police said two males wearing face coverings, tactical vests, and badges displayed around their necks approached a residence in the 4000 block of Bellnole Drive around 11 p.m. last Friday.Both males were armed with guns and told those inside the residence that they had an arrest warrant, police added.'They knocked on the wrong door.'Those inside the home "became suspicious because they have a Ring camera, and the suspects were stating they had a warrant — but it's just two people, and they're masked up, and [there are] no police cars, no lights, or anything like that," Lt. Khan told KRIV-TV. With that, police said the two groups exchanged words, which led to an exchange of gunfire, and the two males wearing tactical gear — ages 28 and 36 — were struck by gunfire.RELATED: Male posing as federal agent fires about 30 rounds from AR-15 rifle outside Texas sheriff's office, sheriff says Image source: Houston Police DepartmentThe residents called 911 following the shooting, police said, but responding Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced both males dead at the scene.The identity of the deceased males is pending identification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, police said.While both residents are cooperating with the investigation, police said the fatal shooting will be referred to a Harris County grand jury.Blaze News on Thursday asked an official in the Houston Police Department's Office of Community Affairs what citizens should do if they encounter those who are impersonating police officers, and the official said people should "call 911" in the event that they are faced with "someone suspicious." The official noted, "It's as simple as that," and that it's in the interests of "everyone's safety."A number of commenters under KRIV's Facebook post about the deadly incident seemed decidedly behind the winners of the shoot-out:"Homeowner of the year, BRAVO! You are the best!" one commenter declared."They knocked on the wrong door," another user surmised."More of that needs to happen around here," another commenter stated."This is the best news," another user wrote.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz — the blogger who doxxed Libs of TikTok in 2022, called breathing without a mask "raw dogging the air," and expressed "joy" over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's assassination — appears to have finally stumbled across a story of value.Lorenz detailed in a piece for Wired magazine this week how a dark money group has launched a "secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet," offering would-be propagandists up to $8,000 a month for their services but requiring in exchange the surrender of a significant amount of creative control as well as "extensive secrecy about disclosing their payments."'You failed. You didn't influence anyone. You made fools of yourself.'Lorenz indicated that among those allegedly approached with contracts by Chorus, the apparent nonprofit arm of a liberal influencer marketing platform, was nonstraight activist Laurenzo; Eliza Orlins, a public defender who once competed on "The Amazing Race"; and one of the pro-abortion zealots behind the Women in America account on TikTok — three individuals who did not respond to Lorenz's requests for comment. Other influencers allegedly involved "in communication about the program" include: 2024 Democratic National Convention speaker and Gen Z influencer Olivia Julianna; Playboy executive turned podcaster Loren Piretra; leftist YouTuber David Pakman; and Sander Jennings, the brother of Jared Jennings — the boy called "Jazz" whose genital mutilation was promoted on reality television.Chorus has reportedly boasted that its initial propagandist cohort has a collective audience of over 40 million followers.Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford said Thursday on "The Mandate" that "this was designed to reach out to among the most unstable TikTokers you've ever seen — the kind of folks who were at the White House with the nine-inch nails talking about how everything is gay and how great Joe Biden is because everything is gay now. These are the people that they are trying to pay — and they were also trying to control the message.""My favorite part about the story is how incredibly incompetent this operation was," said Bedford. "Reading through it, I'm thinking: Well, you failed. You didn't influence anyone. You made fools of yourself." This initiative, the Chorus Creator Incubator Program, is funded by the second-largest super-PAC donor in 2020, the Sixteen Thirty Fund.Politico indicated that the Sixteen Thirty Fund forked out $410 million in 2020 in an effort to torpedo President Donald Trump's re-election and to help Democrats take control of the Senate. It has kept up pressure in the years since.According to Influence Watch, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which is not obligated to reveal its contributors, is managed by Arabella Advisors — a leftist, for-profit dark money group based in Washington, D.C., that is presently undergoing a messy breakup with the Gates Foundation.The Sixteen Thirty Fund confirmed to the New York Post that it is serving Chorus as a "fiscal sponsor" and providing it with "operational and administrative support."The Chorus Creator Incubator Program was reportedly launched in July. The propagandists involved were notified that over 90 influencers would take part.Some of those who apparently signed on told Wired that the "contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program."RELATED: Democrats want a new Joe Rogan — but their dogma won’t allow it Blaze Media IllustrationCopies of the contract reviewed by Wired apparently confirm these claims, indicating that participants cannot disclose their relationship with Chorus or the Sixteen Thirty Fund and cannot disclose that they're paid shills. In addition to their discretion, program participants must allegedly clear all of their bookings with lawmakers and political leaders through Chorus.On a Zoom call reviewed by Wired, Graham Wilson, a lawyer working with Chorus, allegedly told participants, "There are some real great advantages to ... housing this program in a nonprofit.""It gives us the ability to raise money from donors. It also, with this structure, it avoids a lot of the public disclosure or public disclaimers — you know, ‘Paid for by blah blah blah blah’ — that you see on political ads," Wilson allegedly said. "We don’t need to deal with any of that. Your names aren’t showing up on, like, reports filed with the FEC."'They don't know how to deal with bad press.'Wilson did not respond to Wired's request for comment, and the Federal Election Commission declined to comment.Ellie Langford, the director of programming at Chorus, reportedly told liberal influencers on a Zoom call in June, "Our political systems haven’t been able to figure out a real solution, and I’ve been really excited to see you all treading the path forward. I deeply, deeply believe that the work you all are doing is what’s going to make the difference in supporting and frankly resuscitating our democracy."Bedford noted that this ham-fisted effort on the part of leftists to regain control of the public discourse made him realize that "in the last couple of decades, while the American right has been building an alternative media system, which has become extremely successful and really launched into cool mode around 2011, 2012, with Daily Caller, but then finally came into its own with the meme wars in 2016.""They're 10, 20 years ahead of where Democrats are," continued Bedford. "Democrats don't know what to do if ABC and CBS and CNN lay off half their employees. That's all they know. It's their only game in town. They don't know how to deal with bad press. They don't know how to deal with new media — and they're going to have to learn real quick."Bedford noted further that it's clear from liberals' desperation to find and anoint a Joe Rogan-caliber influencer that they've missed the point."They put politics before entertainment. 'We need a liberal Joe Rogan.' No, you don't. You just need to convince Joe Rogan," added Bedford.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Goodbye, “new and improved” Yellow Brick Road? Not so fast. Yes, the proposed “Wizard of Oz” remake from wokester Kenya Barris appears to be stalled, possibly for good. The project announcement came all the way back in 2022, when woke still ruled Hollywood.If Hollywood’s imagination drain continues, in 30 years they’ll make a movie about the movie about the movie ...But now, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton promise a “new” “Wizard of Oz” series that reimagines the saga from a young adult perspective.The series will use “the Yellow Brick Road as a metaphor for the challenges and choices facing young adults today.” As Keanu Reeves might say, “Whoa!”Maybe if we click our heels three times, this project will go the way of the Wicked Witch of the West ...‘Potter’ squatterSometimes, even Hollywood types make total sense.Take Chris Columbus. The “Home Alone” director shot the first two “Harry Potter” films in that insanely successful series. Now, HBO Max is prepping a new “Potter” series that will bring the beloved books to life.Again.Didn’t the films do just that in epic fashion? Was anyone dissatisfied with the finished product? It’s all pretty confusing to Columbus (and to anyone who doesn’t understand Hollywood’s lust for intellectual property).“I looked online, and there are photographs of Nick Frost as Hagrid with the new Harry Potter,” Columbus said. “And he’s wearing the exact same costume that we designed for Hagrid. Part of me was like, ‘What’s the point?’ I thought everything [on the HBO show], the costumes and everything, was going to be different. It’s more of the same.”He’s right. And it doesn’t matter. The streamer wouldn’t risk all that cash — a reported $100 million per episode — if it didn’t have faith it’ll draw a crowd.Heck, they might as well start a third Harry Potter adaptation as soon as this one wraps ...Rocky’s roadSick of reboots, sequels, and prequels? How about a movie about the making of a movie? It sounds pretty darn meta, but this one actually might work.Why?The film is “I Play Rocky,” and it recalls Sylvester Stallone’s battle to both write and star in the movie that would change his career. A young Stallone was a virtual nobody in Hollywood when he wrote a script about a down-on-his-luck boxer who got a chance at being the champ.The studio loved the script but clamored for a “star” to play the main character. Stallone dug in his heels, insisting he was the right person to play Rocky Balboa. “Yo!”It’s as inspiring as the actual film, and director Peter Farrelly previously gave us the Oscar-winning “Green Book.”If Hollywood’s imagination drain continues, in 30 years they’ll make a movie about the movie about the movie ...‘Eternals’ flame outAsk any indie filmmaker what they crave more than anything else, and the answer is clear.Money. As in, “Can I have some more, please?”Indie filmmakers make do with less, cutting corners wherever possible and finding new ways to stretch their limited budgets.So when indie auteur Chloe Zhao got the keys to a Marvel project, she probably pinched herself. Endless Mouse House cash!It turns out that wasn’t necessarily a good thing. Zhao’s “Eternals” flopped, at least by superhero standards, and she retreated to more familiar terrain with the upcoming indie drama “Hamnet.” That film is a fictional look at the death of William Shakespeare’s son and how it inspired the creation of “Hamlet.”Too much cash wasn’t the elixir Zhao expected.“‘Eternals’ had, like, an unlimited amount of money and resources. And here we have one street corner that we can afford, to [stand in for] Stratford. ... ‘Eternals’ didn’t have a lot of limitations, and that is actually quite dangerous. Because we only have that street corner [in ‘Hamnet’], suddenly everything has meaning.”Here’s betting she’ll miss that MCU-size personal trailer ...No sisterhood for Sweeney“It girl” actress Sydney Sweeney enraged the left by flaunting her good “genes” in an American Eagle ad. The commercial roiled the usual suspects, who dubbed her a Nazi for trying to peddle jeans with her iconic curves.Conservatives rallied to her side, understanding that sex sells and Sweeney did nothing wrong. One group that refused to have the starlet’s back?Feminists.RELATED: Sydney Sweeney is rebuilding Americana — one Bronco at a time Photo by MEGA / Contributor via Getty ImagesWhy didn’t they support her against the woke mob? Doesn’t she have the “agency” to make her own creative choices?Their silence got even louder when a certain comedian came to her defense. Matt Rife, known for his rough-and-tumble crowd work, isn’t a feminist by any definition. Glamour magazine slammed his comedy brand as misogynist.Yet it was Rife who defended Sweeney on a related subject. The actress recently teamed with Dr. Squatch for a bathwater soap product dubbed “Bathwater Bliss.” “I keep seeing people mad at Sydney Sweeney for noooothing. She’s learning that the internet is full of absolute garbage losers who will twist anything you say into a c**ty misinterpretation. People are awful.”People can be awful. And feminists can be hypocrites all day long.

Detransitioner Claire Abernathy was just 14 years old when doctors told her parents she’d take her own life without hormones and surgery — and promised “gender care” would save her life.“I started identifying as trans when I was 12 years old following a sexual assault and some pretty severe bullying that I was experiencing at school,” Abernathy tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”“Adopting this identity gave me, well, one, it gave me the ability to pretend to be a new person, someone that this didn’t happen to. And it also gave me an entire social network, a whole friend group of other kids who felt similarly to the way I did,” she explains.That’s when Abernathy began going to therapists who were recommended by others with the same issues.“They made my parents feel like abusers for being skeptical, for wanting to take pause before making irreparable changes to their child’s body,” she tells Glenn.“Did anyone say, did any doctor say, ‘Hang on, we should look at the abuse’?” Glenn asks.“No one. My mom asked about the abuse, the bullying, all these things that I’d gone through, disordered eating, and she was told in no uncertain terms, ‘No, that does not make a child think that they’re trans,’” Abernathy explains, noting that this occurred at “one of the most well-funded children’s hospitals in the nation.”Abernathy was then put on testosterone at 14 years old, and then shortly after they were discussing surgery.“I started testosterone in November of 2018, and by January, I was approved for surgery. It didn’t happen until June, but that was just because we wanted to wait until the summer between my eighth and ninth grade years,” she says.Doctors told Abernathy and her parents that the only effective treatment for her “gender dysphoria” was “chemical and surgical intervention” and that if she did not go through with it, “the most likely outcome was suicide.”“They didn’t tell me that it would permanently take away my ability to breastfeed. They didn’t tell me that the majority of kids who look to pursue this end up growing out of it,” she says. “There was a lot of things that I wasn’t told.”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.

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