Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t just struggle with her feelings about the president, she also has an issue with remembering her own daughter’s chosen pronouns — to the point that she needed to get them tattooed on her wrist.

In an interview on the “Good Hang” podcast with Amy Poehler, O’Donnell explained that she got the word “they” tattooed on her left wrist in honor of her 13-year-old daughter Clay, who apparently is “nonbinary.”

“This is a true story. So she, they, they, and it’s a they/them. That’s the pronouns that they choose, but it’s very hard,” O’Donnell told Poehler.

“I love that you’re constantly correcting in real time like we all do,” Poehler responded.

“It’s very hard, honey,” she said.

“I know it matters to them. And so when they first told me that it was they/them, I tried my best, but I kept saying ‘she,’” she continued.

Because O’Donnell kept getting it wrong, her daughter began carrying around a piece of cardboard that said her pronouns on it and held it up whenever O’Donnell said “she.”

“And so I took her to my cousin’s tattoo shop with the ‘they’ in her handwriting, and I had it tattooed on my wrist so that I would never forget, that it would remind me. And I thought she’d be very touched, and she didn’t give two s**ts,” she explained, adding, “She could not care less.”

BlazeTV host Pat Gray is about as impressed as her daughter.

“There’s no nonbinary people. None,” Gray says. “So she can say whatever she wants. We don’t have to play that game.”

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An individual was caught on video kicking a man in the back of the head while he sat in a Southern California jacuzzi earlier this month, after which another suspect stole the man’s phone.

The incident occurred Aug.14 when Greg Medina — who serves the homeless in San Bernardino — said he was relaxing in a jacuzzi when two suspects approached him from behind, KTLA-TV reported.

‘I could have lost consciousness, or I could have been hurt a lot worse and drowned.’

Surveillance video captured one of the suspects delivering a hard kick to the back of Medina’s head, the station said, adding that the other suspect reached down to steal Medina’s phone, which was sitting on the concrete.

Medina told KTLA he was listening to a class with earbuds when he “felt a sharp kick behind my head. I saw the kids off in the distance [but] didn’t really pay much attention to them.”

Medina added to the station that he didn’t get a look at the two suspects but that he believed they were either teens or young adults.

Medina tracked his phone to a neighboring apartment complex and contacted police, the station said.

He then went to an emergency room, where he learned he had suffered a concussion, KTLA added.

Soon, however, the case broke in a surprising way.

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Investigators told KTLA the parents of the two 13-year-old suspects turned them in Friday morning, and the pair were arrested on felony charges.

Police told the station that both teens were taken to Juvenile Hall; the suspect who allegedly delivered the kick was booked on robbery and battery charges, while the other suspect was booked on robbery charges.

The teens have not been identified because of their ages, KTLA said.

“I don’t hate them. … I forgive them,” Medina noted to the station. “I don’t wish any bad on anybody. However, I do feel that they need to be held accountable, especially the parents.”

“I could have lost consciousness, or I could have been hurt a lot worse and drowned,” he added to KTLA.

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President Donald Trump has revived speculation about whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) might be visited by consequence for alleged immigration fraud. On Sunday, the president shared a provocative Aug. 11 report from Just the News with the headline “ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing ‘enforcement proceedings.'”

Quick background

Years after coming to America as a refugee, Omar, a Somali-born ethno-nationalist, reportedly took out a marriage license to marry a man named Ahmed Hirsi. In 2002, she married Hirsi in a Muslim ceremony and had children with him but did not initially marry him legally.

‘You are not allowed to marry your brother.’

After supposedly breaking it off with Hirsi, in 2009, Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — a British-Somali national reportedly identified by numerous Somalis as Omar’s alleged brother. Omar allegedly separated from Elmi with a Muslim divorce in 2011, reunited and had another child with Hirsi in 2012, then formally divorced Elmi in 2017, reported the Center for Immigration Studies.

The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board revealed in 2019 that Omar and Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 — while Omar was still legally married to Elmi. The Hill noted at the time that filing a joint tax return where no legal marriage exists violates both federal and state law.

Abdihakim Osman, a self-identified friend of Omar, claimed to the Daily Mail in 2020 that Omar had confirmed that Elmi was her brother and that she married him so he could remain in the United States.

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Omar called the marriage-related allegations “absolutely false and ridiculous” in a 2016 statement, adding that “insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive.” There has been no concrete proof, DNA or otherwise, yet brought forward to verify that Omar’s legal husband from 2009-2017 was her biological brother.

In December, border czar Tom Homan said that the Trump administration was investigating Omar for alleged immigration fraud. Trump stated the following month that the Justice Department was “looking at” the Minnesota Democrat.

When asked in May about a possible forthcoming indictment against Omar for alleged immigration fraud, Vice President JD Vance said both that “it certainly seems like something fishy is there” and that it was something “the Department of Justice is looking at right now.”

How it’s going

According to the Just the News report that Trump referenced on Sunday, Just the News filed a Freedom of Information request in January for any records related to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into allegations of immigration fraud by Omar.

In response to the request, the outlet learned that ICE may have “enforcement proceedings” underway in connection with Omar.

ICE told Just the News in May, “ICE has determined that the information you requested is being withheld in full pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A). Disclosure of any responsive records at this time could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

ICE noted that FOIA Exemption 7(A) “applies to records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes when their release could disrupt such proceedings.”

According to the DOJ,

Exemption 7(A) requires a two-step analysis. First, there must be a “reasonable likelihood” of a pending or contemplated law enforcement proceeding. Second, release of the information must be reasonably expected to cause some articulable harm to that proceeding.

When asked for comment, ICE referred Blaze News to the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS, the White House, the DOJ, and Omar’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump has made no secret that he dislikes Rep. Ilhan Omar and is skeptical about her legal status in the country.

In November, for instance, he wrote, “The worst ‘Congressman/woman’ in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how ‘badly’ she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation.”

Trump suggested further that Omar “should go back!”

Omar is fighting to keep her seat in Congress and is scheduled to face off with challenger John Nagel, a Republican who served for three decades as a state trooper, in November.

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The end of the year is nigh.

The calendars you buy at Walgreens are all wrong, and so is your iPhone. The end of the year is not a month or so after we have swollen ourselves with food from Thanksgiving or when the Christmas decorations are up. The spiritual change of the year doesn’t occur when there is frost on the ground and winter boots by the door.

Perhaps the school schedule isn’t arbitrary or based on temporary factors but reflects a deeper truth.

The end of the year is nigh. Nay, it’s here (!); it’s right now. You and I are living through it today, at the end of the summer.

Back to school

I came across a post the other day from Benjamin Braddock. It read, “It feels like the fading of summer is the real ending of the year.” I tapped my iPhone, turning the little heart icon from white to red, indicating I agreed with his sentiment, sent it to a few friends for further discussion, and decided I needed to write something.

It would be easy to explain the feeling as a product of schooling. We spend more than a decade of our youth on that schedule, and it gets ingrained in us. A few weeks after Memorial Day, we would be let out and free for what felt like forever.

But it wasn’t forever. The summer always went quicker than we wished it did, and by the time the middle of August rolled around, we would start feeling a bit ill and rather depressed at the thought of beginning school again.

The last weeks before September aren’t the middle of the year; they are the end, and as children we knew it.

We live that schedule for years in our youth, but I don’t believe it’s that which is responsible for our feeling that the end of the summer is the real end of the year. Perhaps the school schedule isn’t arbitrary or based on temporary factors but reflects a deeper truth that indeed the year begins when the summer ends.

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Cold snap

It’s something about the knowledge of the impending cold and the freezing of the living world. I know that soon, all too soon, the leaves will begin to change. First the young trees and the very old ones. They go from yellow to orange, to red, and then they fall and they crackle and we rake them, and some burn them, and fall is here.

It’s a clear transition, even though it happens slowly, and a dramatic change in the world we see. And for some reason the change from winter to spring doesn’t feel like the beginning of the year even though we might think it would. Like the sun rises and the dark becomes bright, we might logically conclude that as the temperatures rise and the world blooms, we are beginning the year. But it doesn’t feel like that, does it?

Seemingly, counterintuitively, it is when the air turns cold that the year begins. And truth to be told, I believe it’s less about the arrival of the cold and more about the passing of the warmth.

Fleeting treasure

The end of the summer is the high point of the year. It’s when the air is at its warmest, when the water is most comfortable and swimming is best, and when every single tree is full of leaves. The way the light fills the sky and glitters on the water is very different at the end of the summer than it is at the beginning. It’s more golden, more full, and more treasured.

It’s finite, and we know it, just like we knew those last weeks of summer vacation were finite as kids waiting to begin sixth grade.

Then end of summer is the end of the year, and it has always felt right to me that Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year — comes in September. God gave the dates of the calendar in the Bible, and he made the new year at the end of the summer. Our feelings about the nature of the seasonal cycles and the feelings that accompany them reflect deeper ancient truths about the way the world has been ordered since the beginning of time. The school schedule came later.

Summer sigh

The last days of summer, the days we are living through right now, are like a sigh. A smiling and not yet mournful sigh, a sigh that means we are content and happy. The kind of sigh that you let out when you are so full that you wish the moment could last forever.

On the beach, the kids playing in the sand, splashing in the water, running and laughing, the sparkling water, sun-kissed skin more caramel than ever before, the happiness the sun brings, the sound of the waves.

Endless summer might be heaven, but heaven isn’t here on earth; for that we must wait. Those last days, the days at the end of the year, they tease us. And the knowledge that they are finite is what makes them precious. But what if these could last forever? If only they could last forever!

But they can’t. Time marches on, we are at the end now, a new year must begin, and it will begin soon, after the last day on the beach.

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What happened to investigative journalism?

Lots of things, none of them good. The conglomeration of publishers, revelations concerning Project Mockingbird, the re-legalization of government propaganda in the Obama era, drastically truncated attention spans, and the super-saturation of sheer information all came together to diminish its once-proud tradition.

Whistleblowers blew, the government failed to protect them, and a great many journalists (so-called) operated less as the brakes on power and more as easily purchased shills.

A new AI-integrated operation, however, seeks to put things back on track.

The turnaround time is already approaching lightning speed.

Effort.news is the creation of entrepreneur Brian Chau. The endeavor brings together high-power, customized artificial intelligence with an evolving human competency/responsibility component that signals the best of what’s possible in the era of AI integration.

Speaking to Blaze Media on the human component of his operation, Chau said, “When we hire, the single most important human skill is the ability to anticipate which stories, ideas, and issues will matter to potential audiences. That’s true across the publication. What findings are newsworthy? What headlines and prose read well? What will readers remember or infer about the graphs? When do we include information in prose vs. a table vs. a graph vs. a footnote? All of these are questions the AIs don’t answer well right now. I also don’t think it’s the type of skill that can be pulled out and separated. The people who are good at knowing what matters tend to be good writers, editors, and researchers.”

Hard-hitting coverage

Readers notice a few things immediately with Effort.news — first off, its leaders aren’t playing around in terms of applying those brakes on power. Recent investigations have focused varyingly on EU machinations in the Ceuta invasion-migration story, California’s race-based pregnancy funding, and the old-money families behind the “degrowth” meme.

Secondly, the investigations are not surface scrapes. They are going deep, isolating patterns in vast amounts of information (often intentionally obscure and hidden information) to cull what otherwise simply wouldn’t be done in either mainstream or, lacking the tools, grassroots journalism outfits.

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And, finally, they’re moving extremely fast. “Our complete production time used to be 4-10 days from first looking into a lead to finishing the completed article. Now it’s closer to 1-4 days,” says Chau. “I think the research techniques we use would just be impractical for human use.”

For example, Chau explains, “the main thing we did to uncover donation rows for the degrowth article was that we used AI to look up every single donor to Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and search the donor’s financials for whether they donated to P4NE. For context, SPF hides P4NE’s donations by mixing 106 different funds into one account. SPF had 249 donors in 2024, so depending on how thoroughly people searched each donor’s records and tried to validate matching financials, that table could take around a month at least.”

A glimpse of the future

So the product is high-level. The turnaround time is already approaching lightning speed and getting better. The key with AI, that it’s too late to turn back, appears to be finding the proper balance between human and machine. Chau may not have all the answers to how we get there as a whole, but he’s starting to fill in some blanks. No question, it will require immersion into the messy, and dangerous, process of trial and error, but it’s also going to require a return to standards and someone honest and/or determined enough to implement them.

Chau says Effort.news is still refining. “Our AI workflows are extremely customized, and our team updates them several times every day,” he says. “There’s a lot to optimize around cost and speed of retrieving data, mostly around cost and breadth of information covered. We also make a lot of qualitative improvements to how AI models present information to us. It’s still not clean enough to directly publish, but it made reading the AIs 95% more readable. We’ve improved the models enough to cut our production time by more than half on average, and I think we can cut our production time by half multiple times more.”

Come what may, Effort.news is just the beginning.

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While BlazeTV host Nick Freitas is disturbed by the vocal support for murder-trial defendant Lindsay Clancy — the Massachusetts nurse who killed her three children and is arguing postpartum psychosis as a defense — he isn’t necessarily shocked by it.

On this episode of “Making the Argument,” Freitas dissects the toxic cultural environment that’s responsible for making Lindsay Clancy into a martyr.

“How is it that so many women can have this overwhelming sympathy for Lindsay and appear to demonstrate what appears to me anyways to be very little sympathy for what those children were going through in the last moments of their lives?” Freitas asks.

His wife, Tina, helped him answer that question.

“Tina’s thing was, ‘Well honey, we live in a culture now where women celebrate abortion through all nine months worth of pregnancy. We live in a culture right now where women are constantly told that men are the threat,”’ Freitas recounts.

Regarding the latter issue, Freitas highlights how a vocal faction of Clancy supporters are insisting that it was her then-husband, Patrick, who killed their children and then framed her.

This conspiracy theory, he argues, is a side effect of the cultural norm of “women [ramping] each other up about the danger and the threat that men are” — a toxic trend that often leads to men being unfairly villainized or scapegoated.

“It’s not that it’s an inappropriate question whenever something like this happens to question everybody associated with the event or the act,” says Freitas, “but it’s the insistence that no, it must be the husband. … The father must have done something. … It can’t be Lindsay — like that sort of insistence is cultural.”

“When you devalue human life, when you treat men like they are the enemy … you shouldn’t be surprised when people respond accordingly,” he adds, calling the situation “horrific” and “evil.”

Even though there is no evidence that Patrick had anything to do with the deaths of his three children, the faction accusing him of being the culprit continues to grow louder — and more accusatory. Freitas points out that this vocal group is quick to attack fellow women who are critical or skeptical of the agenda to absolve Clancy of wrongdoing.

This reveals another destructive cultural pattern: the tendency to treat truth as tribal rather than objective.

“The truth is defined by tribe. The truth is defined by what my side is. … We can’t just go where facts take us, especially when the facts take us to a point where Lindsay has to be accountable for her actions,” says Freitas.

To hear more, watch the video above. “Making the Argument with Nick Freitas” is available on BlazeTV+, YouTube, and major podcast platforms.

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