News Pixar Pixar To Have Incredibles and Toy Story Sequels; New TV Shows in the Works We get Incredibles 3 and Toy Story 5 yet my unsolicited pitch for Rata2ouille remains unread. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on August 12, 2024 Credit: Disney/Pixar Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Disney/Pixar Things are cooking over at Pixar! During their D23 presentation this weekend, the company shared lots of first look images and details on projects new and old, such as the image you can see above of their upcoming film, Elio, which is set to come out on June 13, 2025. Here’s a rundown of what else we found out. Credit: Disney/Pixar Win or Lose TV Series Win or Lose is Pixar’s first original television series, and it will finally make its way to the small screen by the end of this year. The show, according to marketing materials, “reveals what it feels like to be in the shoes of eight different characters—the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire—as they prepare for a championship softball game. Will Forte lends his voice to the coach.” It’s written and executive produced by Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates, produced David Lally, and premieres on Disney+ on December 6, 2024. Credit: Disney/Pixar Inside Out TV Spinoff, Dream Productions It’s not surprising that Pixar is beefing up its content from Inside Out, given the second film in the franchise made almost $1.6 billion worldwide. The next installment is a television series called Dream Productions, which centers on the studio inside Riley’s brain. Check out the synopsis for the show, which takes place between the events of Inside Out and Inside Out 2: From the world of Inside Out comes Dream Productions, an all-new Disney+ series about the studio inside Riley’s mind where dreams really do come true—every night, on time and on budget, thanks to acclaimed director Paula Persimmon (voice of Paula Pell). Riley’s growing up and her core Emotions are on the job helping her navigate, but now Paula is facing a nightmare of her own: her signature combination of dreams featuring Rainbow Unicorn and copious amounts of glitter just isn’t working anymore. To try and save her career, Paula teams up with Xeni (voice of Richard Ayoade), an overly confident daydream director looking for his next big break. With differing visions on what makes Riley’s dreams successful, can the reluctant pair come together to create the next big tween-dream hit? Dream Productions comes from writer-director Mike Jones and is set to premiere on Disney+ sometime in 2025. Credit: Disney/Pixar Hoppers We also found out about a new Pixar movie coming to theaters in 2026 called Hoppers. I’ll let the synopsis do the explaining: What if you could talk to animals and understand what they’re saying? In Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film Hoppers, scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure introduces Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined. Sounds good to me! We also got a first look image, which you take a gander of above. The movie comes to us from director Daniel Chong, is produced by Nicole Paradis Grindle, and features the voices of Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan and Jon Hamm. Credit: Disney/Pixar Toy Story 5 Four Toy Story features aren’t enough! There’s a fifth Toy Story movie in production, and we’ve got an image from it (above) and a to-the-point logline: The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5, and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs get exponentially harder when they go head to head with this all-new threat to playtime. (So Woody’s back? How? Why? Will his travails with Bo Peep just be considered lost years? So many questions!) The feature is co-directed by Toy Story alum Andrew Stanton and McKenna Harris, and is produced by Jennifer Choi. It’s going to premiere in theaters on June 19, 2026. Just announced at #D23: #Incredibles3 is officially in the works at Pixar! pic.twitter.com/IZCEBFJwXs— Pixar (@Pixar) August 10, 2024 Incredibles 3 Sequels are where it’s at! Last but not least, we also found out that Incredibles 3 is happening. We don’t know much about it other than the shiny new logo above, and Brad Bird is working on it, but that’s something. No news on when Incredibles 3 will make its way to theaters, but it will likely be more than a couple of years. [end-mark] The post Pixar To Have <i>Incredibles</i> and <i>Toy Story</i> Sequels; New TV Shows in the Works appeared first on Reactor.

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Team Biden has denied almost every request for a Biden interview. The exception seems to be for celebrity softballers like Drew Barrymore and Ryan Seacrest. On Sunday Morning, CBS reporter Robert Costa wasn't bubbly like a celebrity, but the chat had all the energy of a co-produced White House video. A high-school student could have written these questions.  It began with CBS host Jane Pauley babbling that Biden's presidency "has been a challenging, complicated term of office from literally Day One."  Obsequious Costa began with a Biden Gracefully Retires question: "You're at your home, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, late July with your family, and you make the historic decision. Tell me the story." That was it! J.D. Vance submitted to fierce questioning from Margaret Brennan on Face The Nation, but Biden gets "Tell us your story, Grandpa." Even worse, you could tell it was a bowl full of Biden Syrup when the inevitable Beau Biden question came: "When I saw you with your family in the Oval [after making the Quitting the Campaign speech], I wondered, 'Is he thinking of Beau,too?" Why yes, said the president! Extra points for subservience.  This question wasn't really a statement. It was another prompt. "You've had a lot of ambitions. Some senators told me, in March of 2021, you took them into the Oval Office and pointed up at FDR's portrait and said, 'We`re going big. We`re going in that direction.'" CBS’s Robert @CostaReports effuses to Biden: “You’ve had a lot of ambition. Some senators told me in March of 2021 you took them into the Oval Office and pointed up at FDR’s portrait and said ‘we’re going big, we’re going in that direction.’” Earlier: https://t.co/4u8KUCb7jQ pic.twitter.com/pk45K42oIp — Brent Baker ?? ?? (@BrentHBaker) August 11, 2024 Costa didn't "fact check" anything Biden said how "we" created jobs and "we" turned the economy around.  Later, this panderer tried to pump up Biden's historical significance (smooch, smooch) by underlining they were in White House Treaty Room underneath a painting of President Ulysses Grant: The softball question was: "How do you want history to remember President Biden?' “Watching over us: Ulysses S. Grant.” More sycophantism from Robert @CostaReports on @CBSSunday: “When you think about the presidency, we are in a special room in the residence. So much history in this room. How do you want history to remember President Biden?” pic.twitter.com/PXDurOH5Zl — Brent Baker ?? ?? (@BrentHBaker) August 11, 2024 As he made these tweets, Brent Baker noted Costa only made one feint toward balance in this 12-minute pandering exercise. He offered a softball about Charlottesville, and then another about the peaceful transfer of power, and Biden talked about how he decided to run after Trump's "very fine people on both sides" remarks about Charlottesville, and how Trump promised a "bloodbath" if he lost this year. Costa gently noted a rebuttal: "Trump has said his remarks on Charlottesville were not intended to praise white nationalists, and that he was warning of economic carnage when he said 'bloodbath.'" Transcript below:  CBS Sunday Morning August 11, 2024 9:07 am JANE PAULEY: Joseph R. Biden, 46th president of the United States. His has been a challenging, complicated term of office quite literally from day one. He`s reflecting on the stakes for this election and on his legacy with chief election and campaign correspondent, Robert Costa. ROBERT COSTA: We`re living through history. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: We really are. COSTA: Let`s begin with your decision. You`re at your home, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, late July with your family and you make this historic decision. Tell me the story. BIDEN: Look, polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, would have been down to the wire. But what happened was, a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate just thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic. You`d be interviewing me about "why did Nancy Pelosi say, why did so-and-so", and I thought it`d be a real distraction, number one. Number two, when I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition President. I can`t even say how old I am, it`s hard for me to get it out of my mouth. But things got moving so quickly, it didn`t happen. And the combination was that I thought it`s a critical issue for me still, it`s not a joke, maintaining this democracy. But I thought it was important. Because, although it`s a great honor being president, I think I have an obligation to the country to do what the most important thing we could do, and that is, we must, we must, we must defeat Trump. COSTA: I saw those images of your family in the Oval Office sitting just over to your left as you address the nation. They came up to you after the speech. What did you say to them? BIDEN: It`s what they said to me. They said, my grandchildren call me Pop, my children call me Dad. And they said they were proud, and it mattered to me a lot. COSTA: When I saw you with your family in the Oval, I wondered, is he thinking of Beau, too? BIDEN: Look, I can honestly say that I think of him all the time. Whenever I have a decision that`s really hard to make, I literally ask myself, "what would Beau do?" He should be sitting here being interviewed, not me. He was really a fine man. You know, Beau was committed to my staying committed. We had a conversation toward the end when he was, everybody, we knew he wasn`t going to live. And he said, "Dad, I know, we know what`s going to happen." He said, "I`m going to be okay, Dad. I`m all right. I`m not afraid. But Dad, you got to make me a promise." I said, "What`s that, Beau?" He said, "I know when it happens, you`re going to want to quit. You`re not going to stay engaged," he really like to actually, "Look at me. Look at me, Dad. Give me your word as a Biden. When I go, you`ll stay engaged. Give me your word. Give me your word." And I did. And then, that`s why I had not planned on running after he died, and then Charlottesville happened. COSTA (voiceover): In 2017, white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia turned deadly when, on August 12th, Heather Heyer, a civil rights activist, was murdered in what the Justice Department called a "hate-inspired act of domestic terrorism." Biden has long traced his decision to run in 2020 to that moment. It really is the beginning of your journey to the presidency. As you look at American democracy seven years later, how do you see it? BIDEN: When I spoke to the mom who lost her daughter as a consequence of those neo-Nazis and right groups, white supremacists coming out of fields in America with torches, carrying Nazi banners, singing the same, sick antisemitic bile that was sung in Germany in the `30s, and when her daughter was killed, the press went to then-President Trump and said, "What do you think?" He said, "There are very fine people on both sides." I knew then, I knew I had to do something. And that`s why I decided to run, because democracy was literally at stake. And, you know, and then he evidenced everything that we thought. You know, January 6th, attack on the Capitol. He talks about now, because he now talks about making sure they`re all, you know, let out of prison. He`s going to pardon them. Think of this. Every other time the Ku Klux Klan has been involved they wore hoods, so they`re not identified. Under his presidency, they came out of those woods with no hoods, knowing they had an ally. That`s how I read it. They knew they had an ally in the White House. And he stepped up for them. COSTA: Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025? BIDEN: If Trump wins, no, I`m not confident at all. I mean, if Trump loses, I`m not confident at all. He means what he says. We don`t take him seriously. He means it. All the stuff about, "if we lose, it`ll be a bloodbath." Look what they`re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes. They`re putting people in place in states that they`re going to count the votes, right? You can`t love your country only when you win. COSTA: Trump has said his remarks on Charlottesville were not intended to praise white nationalists, and that he was warning of economic carnage when he said "bloodbath." But Trump isn`t the only thing on Mr. Biden`s mind. You have about five months left in your presidency. You`re managing two wars, domestic policy, the economy. On foreign policy, Israel`s war with Hamas. Is a ceasefire possible (INAUDIBLE) -- BIDEN: Yes. It`s still possible. The plan I put together, endorsed by the G7, endorsed by the U.N. Security Council, et cetera, is still viable. And I`m working literally every single day and my whole team, to see to it that it doesn`t escalate into a regional war, but it easily can. COSTA: You`ve had a lot of ambitions. Some senators told me, in March of 2021, you took them into the Oval Office and pointed up at FDR`s portrait and said, "We`re going big. We`re going in that direction." BIDEN: I did. And we have, with the great help of so many people. Look, democracy works. And it was very important to prove that it worked, prove that it worked. I mean, look at what we`ve been able to do: We created 16 million jobs, I mean, real new jobs. We`ve gotten around a brink of having the private sector invest over a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars in the American economy. One of the things I fought for as a senator for a long time was to change the dynamic of how we grow the economy, not from the top down, but from the bottom up. The idea of trickle-down economics doesn`t work, in my view. COSTA: You`re proud of this record. Will we see you out on the campaign trail for Vice President Harris? BIDEN: Yes. Yes, you will. I talk to her frequently, and by the way, I`ve known her running mate is a great guy. As we say, if we grew up in the same neighborhood, we`d have been friends. He`s my kind of guy. He`s real, he`s smart. I`ve known him for several decades. I think it`s a hell of a team. COSTA: To those who have expressed skepticism about how much you`ll be on the trail, or about the rest of your term, raised questions about your health, what do you say to them? BIDEN: All I can say is, "Watch." That`s all. Look, I had a really, really bad day in that debate because I was sick. But I have no serious problem. I was talking to Gov. Shapiro, who`s a friend. We have got to win Pennsylvania, my original home state. He and I are putting together a campaign tour in Pennsylvania. I`m going to be campaigning in other states as well. And I`m going to do whatever Kamala thinks I can do to help most. COSTA: We had this conversation in the President`s private residence, here in the White House Treaty Room, where historic peace agreements have been signed. Watching over us, Ulysses S. Grant, the general-turned-president who labored to restore the Union after the Civil War. When you think about the presidency, we`re here in a special room in the residence, so much history in this room. How do you want history to remember President Biden? BIDEN: That he proved democracy can work. It got us out of a pandemic. It produced the single greatest economic recovery in American history. We`re the most powerful economy in the world. We have more to do. And it demonstrated that we can pull the nation together. Look, I`ve always believed, and I still do, the American people are good and decent, honorable people. When I announced my candidacy to run, way back for President, I said, "We`ve got to do three things: Restore the soul of America; build the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down; and bring the country together." No one thought we could get done, including some of my own people, what we got done. But one of the problems is, I knew all the things we did were going to take a little time to work their way through. So now, people are realizing, "Oh, that highway, oh, that", the biggest mistake we made, we didn`t put up signs saying, "Joe did it." Folks, the people of this nation have spoken -- COSTA: Four years ago, what "Joe" did was defeat Donald Trump. Now, with Trump attempting to return to the White House, the President is sounding the alarm in a way sitting presidents rarely, if ever, do. The stakes are that high to you? BIDEN: I give you my word, I think they're that high. Mark my words. If he wins this nomination, I mean, excuse me, this election, watch what happens. It's a danger. He's a genuine danger to American security. Look, we're at an inflection point in world history, we really are. The decisions we make in the last three, four years, and the next three or four years are going to determine what the next six decades look like. And democracy is the key. And that`s why I went down and made that speech in Johnson Center about the Supreme Court. Supreme Court is so out of whack, so out of whack. And so, I proposed that we limit the terms to 18 years. So anyway, there`s little regard by the MAGA Republicans for the political institutions. That's what holds this country together. That's what democracy`s about. That`s who we are as a nation. COSTA: Mr. President, thank you. BIDEN: Well, thank you. I appreciate it. It's an honor to be with you. COSTA: An honor to be in this room with you. Thank you.

After weeks defending Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, standing idly by as they duck interviews, and hyping up their “joyful” campaign, the media have pivoted to praising Harris’s supposed “momentum.” This is a pretty standard case of news cycle manipulation. The media spend weeks astro-turfing support for Harris, then when polls begin to shift, they turn around and report on the campaign’s momentum — which they themselves worked to create. Must be good to be a Democrat. All Monday morning, celebratory chyrons blared talk of Harris “gaining ground” in key swing states, based on a handful of new polls that were conducted since she selected Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate. ABC’s Good Morning America, along with several MSNBC and CNN shows this a.m., opened with Harris’s “momentum” as their lead story. See the video below for what the media’s latest Kamala victory lap looked like this morning:

Is it a bot? Is it a person? The internet can’t say for sure, and techies are going nuts arguing over it all. Meet @iruletheworldmo — an out-of-nowhere account that almost immediately drew replies from the likes of Sam Altman due to its seemingly acute insider knowledge of impending breakthroughs in so-called “Artificial General Intelligence,” or, more portentous still, so-called “Artificial Superintelligence.” But what could be more powerful an inducement to give in to that temptation than a 'digital god' built to provide a massive, never-ending, immersive simulation of just those feelings and experiences?Deep dives into the mysterious provenance of @iruletheworldmo are already out there. Check out Digital Heresy’s trip down the rabbit hole for a (relatively) quick primer, which begins with this basic info:Q* (Q-Star) — Q* is a secret project code thing that Open AI and others have been hinting at as some kind of secret sauce algorithm going into the next gen model. Summaries like this post have pieced together that Q* represents a fusion of reinforcement learning and heuristic search to advance AI’s problem-solving capabilities, particularly in complex, logical tasks. It embodies a move toward more human-like reasoning and self-learning abilities, with potential implications for improving the reliability and generalization of AI systems.Strawberry — Now that it's done training the model and getting close to release, the hype train has ramped up, culminating in this new association between Q* and Strawberry, which seems to be the street name for the LLM.I managed to catch a follow from the strawberry-emoji-laden account with a tonally ambiguous reply. It was already clear to me that @iruletheworldmo was dedicated to the idea that humanity was about to be radically transformed by technology that the account owner had a hand in building and/or controlling, so my reaction to its response to my reply was to post a quote from the great monk, theologian, and writer St. John Climacus, author of the "Ladder of Divine Ascent," an enormously influential manual of ascetic spiritual instruction:“Many have received salvation without prophecies and revelations, without signs and wonders; but without humility no one will enter the marriage chamber”: that is, the kingdom of God, where union with the Lord awaits. That didn’t elicit a reply — not surprising coming from an account that also posted, “i am moloch. destroyer of worlds.” But that’s not what I came here to warn you about. Because, in addition to the moloch-posting, @iruletheworldmo also posted that “jesus would want ubi. fairly sure.” UBI meaning “universal basic income,” shilled since the pre-AI era as a way to ratchet closer to universal justice in this world. Not so coincidentally, it was recently revealed that Altman’s OpenAI funded a big UBI study that concluded with worse-than-mixed results. Altman himself is nevertheless on record not only supporting UBI but what he calls “universal basic compute,” a conceptual rival to the “second amendment for compute” that I and others have been pushing for these past several years. As noted here, OpenAI wants to register GPUs like anti-gun politicians want to register firearms. A second amendment for compute (which I have also laid out as part of a broader digital rights amendment) would discourage that — and the relentless centralization and control of how we use increasingly powerful computation and don’t. Altman’s — and @iruletheworldmo’s — approach to compute, complete with the use of Altman’s creepy and sometimes explicitly illegal Worldcoin, is essentially to impose on every person a new cyborg identity as parts of a planetary computational whole. As disturbing or frightening as this future might be to most of the world’s normal human beings, the real trouble is exposed by that pesky reference to Jesus. I’ve half-joked in the past that Altman seems to be auditioning for the part of the Antichrist. The attempt to associate Jesus with UBI — and, by proxy, universal basic compute — underscores what’s at stake. Now, the following point is a little inside baseball, but it’s important. We’ll all have to get used to becoming acquainted with more stuff like this as digital tech pushes us ever harder into theological territory. Keeping in mind that the "Ladder of Divine Ascent" emphasizes how the successful, proper, and true spiritual life demands ascetic disciplines and practices, another, much later theologian, Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, wrote in the 19th century against a much different spiritual guide that had become increasingly popular in the west — Thomas a Kempis’ "Imitation of Christ." The problem with that text, the bishop observed, was that is “conducts the reader directly into communion with God without previous purification by repentance,” deluding the reader into “rapture from a delight and intoxication attained without difficulty, without self-denunciation, without repentance, without crucifixion of the flesh with its passions and desires (Gal. 5:24), with flattery of their fallen state.” Imitation of the Lord is impossible without first and always exerting ascetic discipline, which hinges at all times on resisting and denying the tempting desire to be spiritually worthy of exalted feelings and ecstatic experiences. But what could be more powerful an inducement to give in to that temptation than a “digital god” built to provide a massive, never-ending, immersive simulation of just those feelings and experiences? Many mistakenly assume that the epitome of the Antichrist is the person who most imitates the devil. In fact, Antichrist — any anti-Christ — strives for power and authority by seeming to offer what people seek from God while also doing away with God by replacing Him. In other words, Antichrist simulates Christ. And in a world where compute that automatically simulates everything and anything is propagandized as utterly transformative AGI or ASI, the temptation to simulate Christ will become immense — for believers and unbelievers alike. “Let us be warned from this,” wrote the far-seeing Fr. Seraphim Rose: “the religion of the future will not be a mere cult or sect, but a powerful and profound religious orientation which will be absolutely convincing to the mind and heart of modern man.” Contrary to our earthly wishes, according to St. Nektarios of Aegina, “We have deep-rooted infirmities, passions, and flaws, many of which are hereditary. They are corrected not suddenly, [but] rather with patience and perseverance.” Any bot or human trying to direct technology to transform us out of our sacred God-created form into another will lead not to salvation but obliteration.

A CNN report backed by a climate change nonprofit group claimed that many cities across the world will become too hot to host the summer Olympics in the near future.By 2050, the report said, cities in the eastern United States and around the world will surpass safe temperatures in the summer and therefore not be suitable to host the Olympic games. Other cities that have already hosted the games will not be able to host again unless they offset the weather by hosting the competition in cooler months, the report continued.'We no longer have time for approaches that don't work.'A perceived heat-stress limit was measured by combining heat, humidity, windspeed, sun angle, and cloud cover. With these factors taken into consideration, the report explained that 82.1 degrees was the limit for holding safe sporting events.This would disqualify any states around the Gulf of Mexico, including Florida, Texas, and Georgia. CNN also determined that Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and much of Southeast Asia would be off limits for hosting the summer games in the regular months.CNN used the analysis of CarbonPlan, a nonprofit that describes itself as "addressing the climate crisis.""In addition to rapidly achieving deep emission reductions, we also need gigaton-scale carbon removal and sound strategies for adapting to climate change. Our solutions must respect science and support just outcomes. We no longer have time for approaches that don't work," the organization claimed.However, the most recent examples of a summer games that broke the alleged heat threshold was Tokyo in 2021. Despite being the hottest summer Olympics on record at an average of over 89 degrees, CNN noted that exactly zero athletes were hospitalized. No hospitalizations occurred, despite an alleged 1 in 100 athletes suffering heat-related illnesses. The underwhelming results were due to Japan's pristine preparations and protocols for addressing heat stroke, the report concluded.Sports are routinely played well above the 82-degree threshold and have been for decades. Using the NFL as example, there are many record-breaking events over the years that bring a supposed heat-stress limit into question.Super Bowl VII was the hottest Super Bowl on record and took place in 1973 at 84 degrees.In 1991, the New England Patriots played the Arizona Cardinals in 94-degree weather.In 2003, the Green Bay Packers visited Arizona to play in 102-degree heat. — (@) A 2007 match between the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins reached a record-setting 120 degrees at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida. This stands as being the hottest NFL game ever played.The Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars played under a 97-degree sun in 2018, while Fox Weather reported in 2022 that the Miami Dolphins routinely play at close to 90 degrees for their home games.That doesn't mean other sports don't take precautions for the heat; the MLB's Texas Rangers have moved most of their home games to be played at night due to the Arlington, Texas, heat. The Rangers even changed stadiums to have a retractable roof due to routine 100-degree weather at game time.With this 82-degree threshold being routinely surpassed over a 50-year period across various sports, it does seem that the alleged experts are once again wrong.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) plans to pull funding for cities and counties that fail to address the homeless crisis, warning Thursday he will redirect the money to those cities working on the problem.The threat follows his executive order last month that requires local jurisdictions to “urgently address homeless encampments." He demanded that cities and counties “do their job.”'We’ll send that money to counties that are producing results.'Newsom claimed the decision to implement the action was due to a June Supreme Court ruling that found laws restricting people from sleeping in public areas are not unconstitutional.At the time that he issued the executive order, Newsom stated that solving California’s homelessness problem is one of his primary concerns; however, the problem has only escalated under his leadership.According to Cal Matters, the state has roughly 181,000 homeless individuals and only 71,000 emergency shelter beds.On Thursday, Newsom stated that local governments that fail to comply with his recent executive order will have their state funding pulled, CNN reported. He noted that he expects cities and counties “to adopt humane and dignified policies to urgently address encampments on state property” that deliver “demonstrable results.”Newsom claimed that local jurisdictions have received “unprecedented resources” from the state.“No more excuses. You’ve got the money, you got the flexibility, you got the green light, you got support from the state, and the public is demanding it of you,” he stated. “I’m here on behalf of 40 million Californians that are fed up. I’m here because I’m one of them. I want to see results.”Newsom claimed that the executive action was “not about criminalization.”“What’s criminal, is neglecting people who are struggling and suffering and dying on our watch,” he continued. “This is a sincerely held belief that we need local government to step up. This is a crisis, act like it.”According to the governor, the state could start “redirect[ing] money” in January when it begins working on budget proposals.“I’m a taxpayer, not just a governor. It’s not complicated,” Newsom said. “We’ll send that money to counties that are producing results.”Last month, Newsom vetoed an assembly bill that would have required him to provide annual evaluations of funds the state provides to its Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention program. Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher slammed Newsom for shooting down the legislation, stating, “Gavin likes to spend. Oversight? Not so much.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A former Olympian and current Spanish boxing coach criticized the inclusion of athletes with allegedly male chromosomes participating in the Olympics.Rafael Lozano, a former boxer and now national coach for Spain, spoke to Spanish outlet Radio Marca about controversial Olympic boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting. Both boxers won gold in female categories at the Olympics but were shrouded in controversy for previously having failed gender tests.Lozano, who is reportedly the last Spanish boxer to win an Olympic medal, said that he had experience training Khelif at the Blume in Madrid, an athletic training center.'I don't see it as fair; I don't see it as equitable.'"They were doing a training camp here at the Blume and we couldn't put [Khelif] with anyone. We put her with Jennifer Fernández and it hurt her. Whoever we put her with, [Khelif] hurt her," Lozano said, as translated by Google as well as Brave browser.The coach then said it seemed more fair when Khelif was matched up against a man."We put her with José Quiles and they were [equal]. From my point of view I don't see it as fair,' the coach admitted.Quiles is a top Spanish boxer who has won two silver medals in international competitions, one in 2022 and another in 2023.Lozano added that he didn't think Khelif and Lin being in the women's category at the Olympics was "equitable.""I don't see it as fair; I don't see it as equitable. Everyone can think what they want, but that's how I see it," he concluded.Khelif won the gold medal in the women's 66kg weight class in Paris without losing a single round in three dominating victories.However, since the start of the Olympics, two governing bodies in boxing have claimed that Khelif is actually a man.The International Boxing Association disqualified the boxer at the 2023 world championships. IBA President Umar Kremlev said at the time that Khelif had "XY chromosomes."Less than a week after the Olympic controversy began, the European vice president of the World Boxing Organization said that Khelif was among several fighters in the female category who were revealed to be men. "The problem was not with the level of Khelif’s testosterone, because that can be adjusted nowadays, but with the result of the gender test, which clearly revealed that the Algerian boxer is biologically male," the WBO's István Kovács said, per Reduxx.Since winning the gold, Khelif has filed a legal complaint in France for alleged online harassment surrounding the alleged gender tests.The complaint was made to Paris' online hate speech office and claimed Khelif was a victim of ""aggravated cyber-harassment." Khelif's lawyer, Nabil Boudi, said in a statement that there was a "misogynist, racist, and sexist campaign" against his client, NBC News reported.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Independent reporter Matt Orfalea has blown the lid wide open on the manipulation of American voters by the Biden-Harris campaign during the 2020 election. Orfalea discovered a Zoom meeting from right after the election in which the Biden-Harris team reveal "how they manipulated voters to think Biden’s mental decline was ‘disinformation.’” In the call, it was revealed that the Democratic National Committee created a program to protect, track, and have social media platforms flag misinformation narratives — which included conversation online about corruption. The team had bragged that this campaign, which involved Big Tech collusion and the “targeting” of internet users in real time, resulted in 200,000 votes for Biden. “This is your federal government and your Democratic National Committee putting a program together to target you,” Glenn Beck says, outraged. Rob Flaherty, who was the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign digital director, called the program “one of the smartest things orchestrated by the Democratic Party.” Then, Biden for President's director of rapid response, who later became the Biden administration’s White House deputy director of digital strategy, said on the same Zoom call that “there was a massive amount of disinformation relating to Biden’s mental fortitude.” “She explained that people were making posts related to topics deemed disinformation, and they were targeted in real time online, based on their online behavioral cues, building out personas based on the kind of content that you were consuming and were searching for, and the kind of websites you were visiting,” Glenn explains. “They are monitoring every keystroke you make. If you say something out of line with what the state wants you to say — this is KGB stuff,” he continues. One of the most infuriating aspects of this entire campaign is that those who saw through it were all called conspiracy theorists. “Remember how we were all told that it is a conspiracy theory?” Glenn asks. “As they’re telling us that they have to police us for mis-, dis-, and mal-information, they told us that he was fine, that he was top of his game.” Then after his disastrous debate, it became impossible to keep up the charade. “All of a sudden, it was okay to question his mental acuity, and so they did, to the point where they operated a coup on him,” 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.

The leader of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's unit while he was in the National Guard is speaking out to give his perspective about Walz's decision to retire sooner than planned in order to avoid deployment to Iraq so that he could run for Congress.The Democrats' new vice presidential nominee's military service and comments he has made about it have come under intense scrutiny, as he made it appear, on multiple occasions, that he served in a combat zone, when he did not, and retired as a command sergeant major, when he instead officially retired as a master sergeant.John Kolb would have been Walz's boss if he had not left the service before the deployment.The issue has followed Walz since he started his political career.In a Facebook post, Kolb said, "I do not regret Tim Walz retired early" because the man who replaced him, Thomas Behrends, turned out to be an exemplary leader and was needed during their unit's tough mission to Iraq. He went on to criticize Walz for falsely claiming to be a retired command sergeant major for years."Thomas Behrends was the right leader at the right time. He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his family, business and farming-partner brother to train, lead and care for soldiers. He earned the privilege of being called Command Sergeant Major. Like a great leader he ran toward and not away from the guns," Kolb wrote."It was [Walz's] right to retire early. I also have no criticism of his service as an E7 and E8 in the MNARNG. By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant. I cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair," Kolb continued. "He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9. It is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path." — (@) Kolb is just the latest among a host of other National Guardsmen who were in Walz's unit and went to Iraq who have since criticized the governor for leaving the unit and not going to Iraq. The issue has followed Walz since he started his political career, but it has gained nationwide attention since Vice President Kamala Harris added Walz to the DemocraticLike Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!