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In word first leaked out Wednesday afternoon to the New York Post, Puck’s Dylan Byers, and others, Paramount Skydance will reportedly announce as soon as Monday it will not only acquire the great team running The Free Press, but make its founder Bari Weiss the editor-in-chief of CBS News, triggering a hopeful avalanche of changes to the ratings-challenged legacy liberal network at a time of record-low trust in the press.   Over at the New York Post, media reporter Alexandra Steigrad said Weiss would be given “unusual clout to revamp the struggling network” and she would “report directly to Paramount Skydance chief executive David Ellison,” not CBS News boss Tom Cibrowski or Paramount Skydance TV media chair George Cheeks. Steigrad cited sources who told her “they expect it will only be a matter of time before Weiss — who has emerged as a leading voice against antisemitism and the “woke” elites in mainstream media — zeroes in on Cibrowski’s job.” Steigrad also revealed a key fact about the future of The Free Press that had not otherwise been widely reported (if at all): “A source with knowledge said the Free Press will remain a standalone property operating separate from CBS News and owned by Paramount. It is unclear if the site will eventually be integrated into CBS News’ digital site.” Byers had reported last month the deal was “on the 1-yard line” and Weiss would have a key role “guiding the editorial direction of” CBS News. The Weiss-Paramount Skydance courtship first trickled out in a mournful late June missive from deranged liberal media defender and former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy. Weiss’s ascendance will undoubtedly cause turmoil in the far-left network, whether it’s wokesters with views that, say, include a hatred for Israel (and we can think of a few who’d fit here), aging journalists with a disgust for Trump voters (of which there are plenty), or staffers writ large with blinders to the world outside their deep blue, New York City bubble. Weiss will have a mountain to climb, both in making changes to the stories CBS covers to the tone and tenor that has come to dominate liberal TV networks. Without stealing and adopting it as their own moniker, Weiss would do well to (and we have no doubt she will) cultivate a newsroom with new and old voices that echo NewsNation’s slogan: News for all Americans. A simple respect for viewers would behoove CBS News staffers, especially at a time when trust in the media fell to 28 percent in a new Gallup poll and some may have the instinct to lash out and blame Americans as misinformed or too stupid to see things their way.

Recently, the Department of Homeland Security has announced ICE will be at February’s Super Bowl. This may strike normal people as uncontroversial given its historical precedent and the amount of security needed for the Super Bowl, but for ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, ICE’s Super Bowl deployment allows it to do its number one job: tackle brown people. Kimmel’s ramblings came against the backdrop of conservative reaction to Bad Bunny being named this season’s halftime performer, “Oh man, so much outrage. One of Trump's top henchweasels, Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski, is very angry at the NFL too. He said, ‘It's shameful that they decided to pick someone who just seems to hate America so much.’”     According to Kimmel, the person who really hates America is President Trump, “We said the same thing the day after the election.” He also saw irony in Lewandowski’s idea that the Super Bowl should not be a politically divisive event, “And then he said, ‘There are plenty of great bands and entertainment people out there who could be playing at that show that would bring people together and not separating them.’ Do these people even hear themselves talking?’” By that logic, no law should ever be enforced because sending criminals to jail is “separating” them from their families. However, Kimmel then took on ICE itself, “So now, because this Bunny is so very bad, they are planning to have ICE agents present at the Super Bowl. I guess, there's a reason. ICE heard there was a field where brown people get tackled and they’re like, 'Hey, that's our job.’” ICE was present at the Super Bowl in February, under President Trump, and nobody thought that was a big deal because it wasn’t. But for liberals like Kimmel, who think history starts today, every normal thing the administration does must also be included on the list of evidence that states that the administration is racist and a threat to democracy. Here is a transcript for the October 2 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 10/2/2025 11:40 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh man, so much outrage. One of Trump's top henchweasels, Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski, is very angry at the NFL too. He said, “It's shameful that they decided to pick someone who just seems to hate America so much.”  We said the same thing the day after the election. And then he said, "There are plenty of great bands and entertainment people out there who could be playing at that show that would bring people together and not separating them."  Do these people even hear themselves talking? So now, because this Bunny is so very bad, they are planning to have ICE agents present at the Super Bowl. I guess, there's a reason. ICE heard there was a field where brown people get tackled and they’re like, “Hey, that's our job.

Republican lawmakers have referred to the government closure as the “Schumer shutdown,” blaming Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for directing his fellow Democrats to oppose the clean continuing resolution that would have temporarily extended funding.'He’s afraid of his own party.'Majority Leader Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) shared his comments about the shutdown on Thursday, arguing Democrats had taken the CR hostage.“I don’t know that there’s a lot to negotiate,” Thune told NBC News. “I don’t think you can keep this hostage. As soon as they release the hostage, then we can talk about those other issues.”When asked whether Democrat lawmakers were “forcing Senator Schumer’s hand,” Thune responded, “Sure they are.”“He’s under a tremendous amount of pressure. The far-left activist base in his party is what’s driving this, and they want to fight with the president,” Thune continued. “They picked this hostage. I don’t think it’s a smart one, and I think it undermines what they’re trying to accomplish in the long run.”RELATED: Trump’s MASTER PLAN to ensure shutdown spells DOOMSDAY for Democrats Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesDuring a Thursday episode of “Blaze News: The Mandate,” Blaze Media senior politics editor and Washington, D.C., correspondent Christopher Bedford speculated that Schumer is afraid of a primary from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).“He’s afraid of his own party,” Bedford said. “And it’s people like her that threaten him.” — (@) He emphasized the importance of understanding government.“It’s fine to be AOC and a rock-thrower on the outside. It’s fine to be some of the back-benchers in the GOP, who just want to throw rocks and don’t want to get along with people and don’t understand why they can’t get their way. But at the end of the day, it’s the people who really understand how to wield power and how to use power, which is what’s differentiated this Republican administration from previous ones,” Bedford said.He explained that those in this Trump administration “actually know how the mechanisms of the bureaucracy work.”RELATED: Russell Vought’s quiet war on big government House Speaker Mike Johnson, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and Vice President JD Vance. Photographer: Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is “working diligently” to slash government bureaucracy amid the shutdown.“I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” President Donald Trump wrote on social media Thursday morning.Trump called on Republicans to use the shutdown as an opportunity to “clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud.” Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

X journalist Nick Sortor was on the ground in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday night, documenting Antifa harassing federal agents at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, when he was attacked by the far-left crowd and ended up getting arrested by Portland police officers.During the night, Sortor took away a burning American flag and put out the flames, video showed. Once the flames were out, he carried the remnants of flag away from Antifa. This led to Sortor being targeted by the Antifa crowd.Sortor recalled that he was getting video of federal agents macing protesters when he was surrounded by the crowd, who then pushed him down into a flower bed and one of them threw a punch, Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin reported. Sortor said he swung back and missed, but then disengaged and walked over to a group of Portland officers.It was at that point he was taken into custody by Portland police."He says he was then shocked to be arrested by them, and he sat in the back of a police cruiser while officers figured out what to charge him with. I asked him about the female protester who was also arrested with him. He said he talked to her in the jail and she didn’t seem like she was the one who assaulted him," Melugin reported.Sortor was charged with disorderly conduct and spent the night in jail. He was released from custody early Friday morning.RELATED: Democrats gloss over anti-ICE violence in Portland ahead of Trump's crackdown on 'domestic terrorists' Portland Antifa in 2021Photo by MATHIEU LEWIS-ROLLAND/AFP via Getty ImagesFor his part, Sortor is gearing up for a legal fight. Portland police "is going to absolutely HATE what’s coming. Lawyer up, folks!" he posted on X.Sortor further claimed that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has promised to investigate his arrest. "Attorney General Pam Bondi has ORDERED a full investigation, led by Asst. AG Harmeet Dhillon, of the Portland Police Bureau, following my wrongful arrest last night, Bondi confirmed to me," Sortor posted to X Friday, noting that Bondi had contacted him "personally" to let him know."FAFO, @PortlandPolice," he added.A spokesperson confirmed to Blaze News that the DOJ will investigate Sortor's arrest.Sortor's arrest by Portland police set off a firestorm among conservatives and the Trump administration. Earlier this week, Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt was allegedly attacked by Antifa. She was hit in the face with a flagpole that caused a black eye and a concussion. Daviscourt attempted to get Portland officers on the scene to arrest her suspected attacker, but an officer standing nearby seemingly let the suspect go, according to video.Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia Mclaughlin said there is going to be a surge of federal personnel in response to Sortor being attacked and arrested."This violence will end under [President] Trump," she added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

After stumbling upon a Netflix show titled “Dead End: Paranormal Park,” Elon Musk is not happy with the streaming service — urging his followers on X to “cancel Netflix for the health of your kids.”The show featured a teenage protagonist who is a trans boy — and in a clip making the rounds on social media, he’s shown kissing another boy to the cheers of his friends.In the show's description, it's advertised as an animated series that “centers on Barney, a transgender teen protagonist who relentlessly pursues another man sexually while battling demons.”Now, Netflix stock is tanking — but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales warns that there’s more shows that parents have to be worried about.The show “CoComelon,” which is for toddlers and babies, has a scene where two fathers are singing and dancing with their son, who is beaming while wearing a dress.“Oh, and the dads have to be interracial as well,” Gonzales comments.“This is for babies, and they just want to indoctrinate them as soon as they possibly can into thinking that this is normal, into thinking that they should strive to be like that,” she says.“And so, there’s been this big push, this big expose into Netflix, and why in the world as we allowing our children, not mine, why is America allowing their children to just sit in front of the TV, walk away, and let them just soak all of that in?” she asks.“Well, Netflix stock is tanking right now because people are waking up to this agenda. I don’t know why it has taken so long, but I welcome it. But I would just like to remind people that this problem goes way beyond Netflix,” she continues.“It is so many children’s shows. So many children’s shows across the board in the entertainment industry that are just subtle messaging, trying to just throw it in wherever they can to make it just seem like it’s just a blip. It’s just a blip on their radar. Because if it’s just a blip, that means it’s normal,” she adds.And Gonzales is right, it’s not just Netflix. In an all-hands company Zoom meeting in 2020, Latoya Raveneau, an executive producer for Disney, told her co-workers that “the showrunners were super welcoming” to what she called her “not-at-all secret gay agenda.”“They’re turning it around, they’re going hard, and then all that, like, momentum that I felt, like, that sense of, I don’t have to be afraid to, like, ‘Let’s have these two characters kiss’ ... I was wherever I could, just basically adding queerness ... no one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop me,” Ravaneau said.“Imagine being a grown adult and getting that much glee, that much joy from talking about how you’re trying to indoctrinate children,” Gonzales comments, adding, “It’s really sick, these people. These people need mental help.”Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, 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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