West Hollywood has found a new job for local government: keeping track of who’s sleeping with whom.

On November 2, the City Council approved an ordinance allowing romantic groups of three or more adults to register their relationships with City Hall. The new arrangement comes complete with official declarations, termination procedures, and a six-month waiting period before someone can register a new relationship after terminating an old one. Romance may be complicated, but leave it to California progressives to make it bureaucratic.

Imagine the legal bills when four ex-partners, three breakups, and one shared lease end up in court at the same time.

The ordinance, which takes effect December 2, doesn’t legalize group marriage or create state-recognized domestic partnerships. Instead, it establishes a municipal registry for relationships involving at least three adults, extending certain housing protections and visitation rights. More importantly, the city explicitly describes the measure as a first step toward expanding recognition and benefits at the state and federal levels.

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Marriage used to mean a serious, lifelong commitment between two people, carrying duties that extended well beyond someone’s personal fulfillment and a shared lease. California progressives now view that traditional two-person model as little more than an arbitrary speed bump in need of a thorough flattening.

These are the same cultural crusaders who spent decades telling traditionalists to stop imposing their morality on the public. Yet they refuse to leave long-standing institutions alone, insisting on redefining the exact social foundations they once claimed shouldn’t have any fixed meaning at all.

West Hollywood has been laying the groundwork for some time. In March, the City Council approved a separate ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on family or relationship structure, including polyamorous arrangements. Now it has moved from protecting unconventional relationships against discrimination to giving them formal civic recognition.

Naturally, the adults get their headline-grabbing victory while the children are left to navigate the potential collateral damage. Media coverage celebrates grown-ups seeking public approval for their polyamorous setups, yet pays considerably less attention to the children growing up inside them.

What happens to parenting, discipline, and daily stability when several adults occupy parental roles, particularly if partners come and go? A child may develop a close attachment to an adult who has no legal parental responsibility and can leave the arrangement without the obligations that accompany divorce.

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West Hollywood’s ordinance doesn’t rewrite state custody laws. Indeed, the city’s own legal analysis acknowledges that multi-partner relationships lack many of the parental rights, child-support obligations, and property protections associated with marriage. Local politicians are eager to recognize the adult relationship while leaving these considerably more complicated questions for someone else to resolve.

Though it’s difficult to have sympathy for many city staffers, spare a thought for the poor soul stuck managing the paperwork for this administrative circus. Under the new rules, all partners must sign a declaration, provide identification, and agree to notify City Hall when the relationship changes. Anyone wishing to end the arrangement must file a termination statement and certify that the other partners have been notified.

Better yet, anyone who has registered a multi-partner relationship must wait six months after a termination statement is filed before registering another one.

Even in the brave new world of officially sanctioned romantic flexibility, apparently there’s a bureaucratic cooling-off period.

The city anticipates negligible administrative costs and plans to charge registration fees. But West Hollywood didn’t merely pass a far-left, non-binding resolution to feel good about itself. It established a formal registry, complete with declarations, amendments, termination forms, and certified copies. City Hall now has a whole new category of relationships to administer.

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Throuple goals

For generations, traditional families served a clear social purpose: raising the next generation and keeping communities grounded. Today’s progressive policy treats every domestic setup as an interchangeable lifestyle preference. A healthy society can certainly tolerate unconventional, even outlandish, living arrangements without pretending that all are equal or that all help build a stable society.

West Hollywood wants to give official standing to domestic setups that may not survive past January. Polyamory is marketed by some of its enthusiasts as an evolved, modern form of intimacy that can overcome old-fashioned jealousy. Yet adding more people to a relationship also multiplies the opportunities for insecurity, petty resentment, and financial squabbles. City Hall can hand out all the official certificates it wants, but no government seal can force three, four, or five different people to agree on who takes out the trash or cleans up after the explosive Pomeranian.

West Hollywood has been here before. In 1985, it established a domestic partnership registry that helped give same-sex couples a form of official recognition decades before nationwide marriage equality. City officials now see the multi-partner registry as another pioneering step in that tradition.

The city’s own staff report acknowledges significant complications in extending benefits and legal protections to multi-partner relationships. Its proposed solution is to establish recognition now and hope that state lawmakers, employers, insurers, and other institutions eventually follow.

When these multi-person arrangements break down, the questions become more difficult. Who remains responsible for a shared lease? What happens to jointly purchased property? What obligations, if any, should former partners have toward children they helped raise? West Hollywood’s registry leaves most of these questions unresolved. Standard divorces between two people already drag on for years and empty bank accounts faster than a North Korean hacker. Imagine the legal bills when four ex-partners, three breakups, and one shared lease end up in court at the same time.

Lawyers may eventually have a field day. But anyone concerned about America’s future should be shedding a tear. Because unlike Vegas, what happens in California rarely stays in California.

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Google has an unwavering foothold in the U.S. public education system, selling cheap Chromebooks and providing cloud-connected services like Drive, Docs, and more to students from coast to coast. Now it wants to use its power to force Gemini into schools, and the internet isn’t happy about it.

The Mountain View tech giant started off November by announcing an expansion of Guided Learning for schools. Originally unveiled for Gemini in August, Google describes Guided Learning as an “interactive study tool that coaches students through the process of problem solving through open-ended questions and step-by-step breakdowns.”

Google is taking an all-or-nothing approach to its online services in the classroom.

Instead of simply telling students the answer to a problem — as many AI services do today — it shows them how to find the answer on their own by offering steps along the way like a teacher or a mentor.

So far, that all sounds like a more responsible way to use AI at school. So what caused the internet to rage against Google?

Google is broadening Guided Learning’s capabilities to include other Google products for school, like Google Search and Google Classroom. While that also sounds fine, the problem lies in the implementation.

Google is taking an all-or-nothing approach to its online services in the classroom. If teachers want students to use Guided Learning, they have to give their students access to Search, Classroom, and Gemini. If they don’t want Guided Learning, all three services will be disabled, taking students back to a time before the early 2000s.

This approach has summoned the ire of many on the internet, with many claiming that Google is forcing Gemini on students by attaching it to Search.

In this way, Google would walk away with two major wins: It would bring young students into the Gemini ecosystem in hopes of turning them into lifelong customers while snubbing competitors like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. It would also boost Gemini’s user numbers, artificially making Gemini appear more popular than it is with consumers, as its market share lags firmly behind ChatGPT in second place.

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Google responded to the uproar with a lengthy post on X, writing:

We want to clarify what we announced today about our education services. Today’s announcements give schools more choice, not less. Here’s what we announced:

Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search will be OFF 🔴 by default. This is based on K-12 schools asking for more control over student use of AI services.Schools are in control: They can choose to turn ON 🟢 one, two, or all of these services individually.We are also updating Search for schools to make it better for learning. Specifically, AI Mode and AI Overviews will offer step-by-step guided learning through problems, so that students don’t get quick answers to schoolwork.We know there’s concern about students using AI to shortcut schoolwork, and schools have told us they want control. That’s exactly why we are making these changes today to address the feedback we’ve heard from educators in recent months. And we’ll continue to engage deeply with educators to ensure we are giving schools more choice, more controls, and improved Search for learning.

According to the New York Times, Google VP of education Chris Phillips said otherwise, stating, “Search and A.I. are deeply integrated.” He continued by claiming that schools that disable Gemini “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.”

Naturally, this kind of mixed messaging only sows confusion among parents, students, and teachers. Blaze News reached out to Google for clarification, but we did not receive a response by the deadline.

The Guided Learning expansion comes at a dubious time, as Google admits that AI Overview, its primary AI tool that replaced classic Search, is costing the company ad revenue because users aren’t clicking through to websites with Google Ads like they once did.

The Guided Learning update is rolling out to schools “in the coming months,” likely in 2027. In the meantime, Google claims that it is listening to public feedback, and there’s a chance it may revise its approach before the full launch. Parents concerned about the program can submit their feedback to Google here. It also may be a good idea to speak with the administrators.

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Last weekend, comedian Dave Chappelle sparked backlash after leaked clips from his Madison Square Garden shows captured him making light of the murder of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

“Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered — and I shouldn’t say this publicly — but I feel better,” he said to a crowd that laughed and applauded.

Two days after Chappelle’s “joke” ignited a social media firestorm, CBS correspondent Ross Douthat interviewed President Donald Trump on “60 Minutes.” Douthat asked him whether he could forgive enemies like Nancy Pelosi and James Comey if doing so were required to enter heaven, and Trump confessed that he “probably cannot” forgive them, even under those conditions.

“I do hate some of my enemies, and I always will,” he added in a moment of brutal honesty.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes both Chappelle and President Trump were presented with the “same question”: “What do you do with your enemies?”

“The president’s answer was honest. It was not Christian, and both of those things can be true at the same time,” Glenn says, acknowledging the president’s ongoing history of being targeted with lawfare, assassination attempts, and attacks on his family.

“It’s not an excuse. My forgiveness is not dependent on what they do; my forgiveness is required no matter what they do, OK?” he adds. “But I’d rather have a man tell me the truth about his heart than recite a sermon he doesn’t believe.”

Chappelle’s “joke,” however, is a different story altogether in Glenn’s eyes.

He points out that in 2022, a man rushed the stage at the Hollywood Bowl and tackled Chappelle in the middle of his set.

“Chappelle knows exactly what it feels like to be a man with a microphone when somebody decides your words deserve violence,” Glenn says.

“Back then, who stood up for him? Charlie Kirk,” he answers.

Glenn is angered by the sick irony of the situation.

“[Charlie] was shot in the neck while doing the thing that Chappelle does for a living — just talking. … And 14 months later, one of the most famous comedians in the world stood in the most famous arena in the world and told 20,000 people that the murder puts him in a good mood!” he exclaims.

But there’s another dark irony that provokes Glenn: The media is treating only Trump’s answer as a moral question.

“Where’s Douthat asking Chappelle about the judgment seat? Where’s the correspondent leaning in, ‘Can you find it in your heart to stop celebrating the death of a murdered man? Why not? Are you worried about going to hell?’” he says.

“Where are the thoughtful columns about what this says about our souls and the souls of all those who clap and cheer? The same people who were really super concerned this weekend about whether the president’s going to forgive Nancy Pelosi have very little to say about the man joking that a dead father improved his morning commute,” he continues.

For Glenn, it’s obvious that “the hard questions only go one way.”

“You can’t demand grace from a man who was shot at and then say nothing to the man laughing at the one who was shot,” Glenn says. “That’s not a moral standard; that’s a weapon, and people see it.”

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The 2026 midterms did more than punish Republicans. They rearranged the political fortunes of presidential hopefuls in both parties — and created some unexpected winners and losers, some with consequences for 2028.

Some changes were obvious on election night. Others became apparent only as the shock waves spread.

The sting is sharp, but the Band-Aid is off.

Losers

Start with Republicans. They entered November 3 holding the White House and both chambers of Congress, only to suffer a defeat that will shape their next two years and perhaps much longer.

The biggest loser, undoubtedly, was President Donald Trump. Midterms are almost invariably referendums on the president, with his party in Congress receiving the verdict. A Republican setback was expected. Its scale was not. The defeat will hamper Trump’s final two years in office, and its consequences for his political legacy may last much longer.

The Republican Party is the second-biggest loser. What a wave took may take another wave to return. Some Republicans who deserved to lose did. Plenty who did not deserve to lose went down with them. Democrats have a chance to turn this year’s gains into an enduring congressional advantage.

Republicans’ third-biggest loser is Vice President JD Vance. Before November, he seemed to have the inside track to Trump’s endorsement and, with it, the 2028 Republican nomination. Now he is tied to a crushing Republican defeat. He left a safe Ohio Senate seat to join Trump’s ticket; on November 3, Democrat Sherrod Brown won that seat from Republican Jon Husted. Instead of launching a presidential campaign from the Senate, Vance faces two years in an administration under siege.

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Democrats have losers too, though they may be harder to spot amid the party’s happiness hysteria.

At the top of that list is Kamala Harris. She spent much of 2025 on the sidelines and was scarcely more prominent in the midterm campaign. Democrats have now demonstrated that they can win big without her. In fact, they did considerably better without Harris in 2026 than they did with her at the top of the ticket in 2024.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is another Democrat loser. His national profile no longer looks quite so indispensable when Democrats are winning in places far removed from California and its political baggage. His endorsement did not save Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) from defeat. And his decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 people on California’s death row — a move requiring state Supreme Court approval in many cases — gives future opponents an obvious target. Newsom may find that his California record travels less well than he expects.

The third-biggest Democrat loser may be the Democratic Party itself. Impossible? Consider the democratic socialists, now more deeply entrenched in the party and more numerous in Congress. The more elections they win under that banner, the harder it becomes for party leaders to keep them from defining the national Democratic agenda.

Winners

The biggest winners, appropriately enough, are Democrats. They won up and down the ballot and across the country. Candidates captured offices they might never have imagined winning. Some will hold those offices for years, perhaps multiple terms, as incumbency gives them opportunities that were out of reach before November 3.

Second are the democratic socialists. They have penetrated the Democratic Party to an unprecedented degree. Their ranks in the House will more than double when the new Congress convenes. Democratic socialists already lead New York and Seattle; last week, candidates from the movement won mayoral elections in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The country’s two largest cities will soon have democratic socialist mayors.

Even in defeat, they made a showing: Angie Nixon lost Florida’s Senate race to Republican Ashley Moody by fewer than three percentage points.

Such results will make it harder for Democrat leaders to argue that socialist candidates cannot win. And the movement is unlikely to stop recruiting candidates while the victories keep coming.

The third-biggest Democrat winners are the party’s prospective 2028 presidential contenders — anyone not named Harris. They have just been handed a national victory to claim and a new political landscape in which to compete.

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Believe it or not, Republicans had winners too.

First are their prospective 2028 presidential contenders not named Vance. The Republican nomination looks more open than it did before the election, and more candidates are likely to enter. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Secretary of State Marco Rubio may find their positions strengthened as Republicans look for a way forward.

Next comes Florida. It held firm against the blue wave while Texas drowned. Both states have robust economies and deep Republican benches, but Florida now stands out as the party’s strongest large-state showcase. Byron Donalds’ victory in the governor’s race gives the GOP another rising figure to watch — and another reason for national Republicans to look south.

Finally, the Republican Party of 2028 may be a beneficiary of the very defeat it has just suffered. Win or lose, the party eventually had to move beyond Trump. A narrow midterm outcome would have made that reckoning easier to postpone. A rout did not. The sting is sharp, but the Band-Aid is off.

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President Trump gave supporters of immigration enforcement a jolt Sunday night. In an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” he called his administration’s deportation policy “too tough” and entertained a deal with Democrats that could allow some people here illegally to stay. The president who promised mass deportations has put legal status back on the table.

Trump spoke sympathetically of hotel and landscaping workers who have lived here for 10 or 15 years. He offered no plan or eligibility rules. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said amnesty was out of the question. Good. But after the president’s remarks, a warning is in order: We have seen this “bargain” before. It failed.

Migrants are plainly paying attention to Washington’s political signals. Congress should pay attention to the signals it sends.

In 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, legalizing roughly 2.7 million illegal aliens. The law also established penalties for employers who knowingly hired unauthorized workers and a process for verifying employment eligibility. Americans were told that legalization and enforcement would work together to bring illegal immigration under control.

They didn’t. The legalization happened, but lasting enforcement did not. The estimated population living in the United States illegally fell to around 1.9 million in 1988, then grew to around 12.4 million by 2007. Economic conditions and other policies contributed to that increase; the numbers do not prove that amnesty alone caused it. They do prove that the promised solution did not solve the problem.

The law’s enforcement provisions proved terribly inadequate. The Government Accountability Office later found weaknesses in employment verification and worksite enforcement that left employers too much room to hire illegal labor. Washington had provided legal status to millions without building an effective system to prevent the next wave.

California offers a lesson in the political afterlife of legalization. Los Angeles limited police immigration inquiries in 1979, and San Francisco declared itself a refuge in 1985. But the 1986 amnesty created a new legal immigrant constituency. Researchers have found increased Hispanic voter turnout and officeholding in communities affected by legalization. Then the fight over California’s 1994 Proposition 187 helped mobilize an immigrant-rights movement whose political influence eventually contributed to the state’s 2017 sanctuary law.

Legalization is not the sole cause of California’s politics. It is part of the history that shaped them.

Now we are apparently invited to make the same deal, only this time with the assurance that the people who have been here long enough, worked hard enough, or paid enough taxes should be allowed to remain. How long is long enough? Ten years? Fifteen? And what would prevent a future Congress from moving the cutoff date again?

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Amnesty creates an expectation worth examining before Washington acts: If someone can enter or remain illegally and eventually receive legal status, others may calculate that patience will pay. That incentive cannot be measured by a single migration statistic, but dismissing it would be foolish. The message a law sends beyond our borders is part of the law’s effect.

This is more than a theoretical incentive. CNN reported on Saturday that caravans from Honduras and El Salvador were headed toward the United States, with some travelers hoping the newly elected Democratic Congress would ease their passage. Telemundo reported Monday that hundreds were moving through southern Mexico and that some expected the election to change border policy. It has not. Their hopes may prove groundless. But migrants are plainly paying attention to Washington’s political signals. Congress should pay attention to the signals it sends.

There is a cost to American workers, too. Employers who evade immigration and employment rules gain an advantage over businesses that obey them. Workers in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and service jobs deserve a labor market in which the law is enforced consistently. Legalizing people already employed does not, by itself, add new workers to the labor force. The greater concern is an arrangement that rewards the existing violation while leaving the incentive for the next one intact.

The 1986 experience also warns against treating eligibility verification as a formality. A Justice Department inspector general later described the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s belief that fraud had been widespread in the law’s special agricultural worker program. Any new legalization would require a credible system for verifying identity, residence, and eligibility. Why should anyone trust Washington to deliver one after the fact?

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There is nothing wrong with Congress discussing immigration law. There is everything wrong with making lawful status the opening bid while reliable enforcement remains aspirational. A durable policy would make employers answer for illegal hiring, verify work eligibility, maintain border security, and enforce removal orders under the law. It would not tell the next generation of illegal entrants that the political calendar eventually wipes the slate clean.

The president has fought battles over border security that previous administrations preferred to avoid. He should not squander that record because last week’s elections went badly for Republicans. A defeat at the polls is no reason to abandon a principle at the negotiating table. Nor should a softer public-relations message be confused with a solution to the failures that have persisted since 1986.

Markwayne Mullin and Stephen Miller are right to draw a hard line against amnesty. Trump should draw the same line, publicly and without qualification. The country has already paid for one grand compromise that delivered legalization and promised lasting enforcement. There is no reason to buy another ticket to the same movie. No amnesty.

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Thomas Markle — the 82-year-old estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex — cut off his ankle monitor just days after his child porn arrest, the Department of Justice told the Associated Press Tuesday.

Markle was in custody awaiting a hearing in federal court in Tampa, Florida, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told the AP.

‘I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications’ distortion over the years, any distance from my father and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children was for one reason: to protect them.’

Markle was arrested shortly after he cut the electronic monitoring device off his ankle at 1:45 a.m., Essayli added to the outlet.

Markle previously was arrested Friday after the seizure of about 78 items — including slides, film negatives, and books that contained suspected child sexual abuse images — that were in storage in the Los Angeles area, Essayli told the AP.

Amid his Friday arrest, the AP said Markle was taken from a senior care center in Lakeland by ambulance. Hours later a judge allowed Markle’s release on the condition that he stay on electronic monitoring, the outlet said, which usually means wearing an ankle tether.

The judge also ordered a mental competency exam and a report by Nov. 20, the AP said.

“We are asking the court to revoke his release and detain him pending trial, and we will continue to prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law,” Essayli noted on X.

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Markle’s daughter, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in 2018, the AP said, adding that Meghan is an American citizen and actor who starred in the U.S. television drama “Suits.”

Meghan recently said she was “deeply distressed” by allegations that a collection of child sexual abuse images had been found at her father’s former home, the outlet said. She also disclosed that a letter containing “troubling allegations” about her father had been sent to police in London in 2019, the AP added.

“It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my father, and I was given assurances that these were being investigated,” Meghan said of the letter, according to the outlet. “I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications’ distortion over the years, any distance from my father and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children was for one reason: to protect them.”

Thomas Markle was living in the Philippines this year when he suffered a stroke, after which his left leg was amputated, the AP said, adding that those circumstances forced him to return to the U.S.

Markle’s arrest took place on the heels of reports by The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper, that Meghan’s half brother found a collection of child sexual abuse images while clearing out their father’s home in the Philippines, the AP reported. That discovery led to information about two U.S. storage units in California, which Markle had rented since 2008, the outlet added.

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One race in North Carolina has prevented a complete takeover of the state’s government by Democrats, if the final tally after a provisional-ballot count holds.

Democrats control the governor’s office of North Carolina, and unofficial election counts indicate they will take over the state’s House of Representatives.

Republicans may have avoided losing control of the state Senate by only 228 votes.

Control of the state’s Senate depends on Republican state Sen. Danny Britt Jr. defeating a challenge from Democrat Catina Hamm in District 24.

The latest update of unofficial results from the North Carolina State Board of Elections shows Britt with 28,047 votes and the Democrat with 27,819 votes.

That means Republicans may have avoided losing control of the state Senate by only 228 votes in the pivotal contest.

The results will become official after canvassing and certification is completed.

Democrats across the country not only won both chambers of the U.S. Congress but won hundreds of state-level elections that flipped several states into the “trifecta” column for them.

In North Carolina, Republicans lost their veto-proof majority against Democratic Gov. Josh Stein. But if the results hold for Senate District 24, they will avoid handing Democrats another state trifecta.

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If Hamm is somehow able to defeat Britt, both Republicans and Democrats would hold 25 seats each in the state Senate. The deadlock would be decided by the lieutenant governor, who is a Democrat.

A recount is not automatic, but the losing candidate can request a recount if the margin is less than 1%, which is currently the case in the Britt-Hamm contest.

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