Remember the quaint old days (think 2010) when MSNBC hosts were suspended for a few days for donating to politicians? This kind of policy has never applied to activist Rev. Al Sharpton, who hosts an MSNBC show and runs his leftist "National Action Network" at the same time. The Hill reports Sharpton is touring Michigan on Thursday to get out the vote for Harris....four days after his MSNBC interview with Harris.  Sharpton will campaign in churches in Pontiac and Flint, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and end at a community college in Detroit. He’ll be joined by Terrence Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, as well as Korey Wise and New York City Council member Yusef Salaam, two members of the Central Park Five. National Urban League president Marc Morial will join the rally in Detroit.  They might claim on Instagram that it's "nonpartisan," but the quotes give it away.  “Voting rights, reproductive health, economic opportunity, educational access, and other hard-won rights for our communities are at their greatest risk in generations, which is why we must paint the polls Black on November 5th,” said Sharpton in a statement. “Over the last month I have traveled the country, from Philadelphia to Columbus to Atlanta, to remind Black voters of what we lose if we stay home on Election Day,” he added. “Black men, who Donald Trump has tried to wrongly court by thinking his 34 felony convictions appeals to them, have especially heard from Korey and Yusef how he attacked them as teens and what he really thinks of them. In these final two weeks, we will make this case even stronger that Black Americans have a choice to go back to the 1950s or make the most of the 2020s.” Sharpton spoke on Day 4 of the Democrat convention with Central Park Five figures.  Sharpton’s Michigan trip follows stops in Philadelphia and Ohio with other Black leaders including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio). 

Of course we saw this coming. With Election Day less than two weeks away, the Regime Media are pulling out all the stops, and promoting all manner of questionable stories related to former President Donald Trump in a quest to create a late October Surprise and drag Vice President Kamala Harris over the finish line.  Watch ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir’s breathless introduction to Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce’s report, in yet ANOTHER overwrought minute-long brief that could’ve been its own report (click "expand" to view transcript): DAVID MUIR: Good evening and we begin tonight with this new warning, with just 13 days to the election. The retired four-star Marine general, who was former President Donald Trump's longest serving Chief of Staff, retired General John Kelly, warning that if Trump is elected again he would rule like a dictator, and Kelly describing in detail what Trump said about Hitler on a number of occasions. You will hear the audio of General Kelly right here tonight. Vice President Kamala Harris coming before the cameras this afternoon, calling Trump's alleged comments about Hitler, quote, “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous.” As a retired four-star general, General Kelly does not make political endorsements, but he says he felt compelled to speak out after Trump repeatedly threatened to use the American military against the quote, “enemy within”, Americans in this country. At a town hall in Georgia, Donald Trump made no mention of Kelly's comments today but tonight, Donald Trump posting just moments ago that the general is a low life who made up a story. Tonight, General John Kelly in his interview with The New York Times signaling voters should consider fitness and character when voting for president this year. We have both campaigns covered, Mary Bruce leading us off with the vice president in Pennsylvania tonight. These allegations are in service of the atrocious hit piece in The Atlantic which alleges, per unnamed sources, that Trump claimed to want generals as loyal as Hitler’s, both of which served as the factual bases behind Harris’s statement at her official residence and, ostensibly, her “closing argument” speech next week.  The media firefought the obvious question people ask themselves when hearing shocking allegations conveniently timed for release just before a presidential election: “why now?” In this case, Trump’s “enemy within” remarks were what compelled Kelly to find his nerve after all these years. The Regime led and its media followed: KAMALA HARRIS: Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within, and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens.  DAVID MUIR:  As a retired four-star general, General Kelly does not make political endorsements, but he says he felt compelled to speak out after Trump repeatedly threatened to use the American military against the quote, “enemy within”, Americans in this country. MARY BRUCE: But Kelly says he felt compelled to speak out after Trump threatened to use the military to go after his political opponents, describing them as the enemy within. Harris seizing on those words today. NIKOLE KILLION: Both Harris and Kelly also pointed to the former president's recent rhetoric about the enemy from within, suggesting he might use the military against domestic opponents. PETER ALEXANDER: Kelly says he's speaking out now because Trump recently suggested using the military against political opponents who he called “the enemy from within” if there is Election Day chaos. NBC’s Peter Alexander is the only one to point out that Trump talked about activating the military in the event of post-election unrest. After the 2020 attack on The White House which saw many law enforcement and Secret Service personnel injured, this is not an unreasonable position to take. If this position is so beyond the pale, then, it is worth asking why the Regime Media have not reported on the Biden Administration allegedly amending a Department of Defense directive in order to allow DoD personnel to use lethal force against American citizens on American soil (DoDD 5240.01). Has anyone checked in with John Kelly and asked him about this? Has anyone in the Regime Media checked in with his combatant commander counterpart Lloyd Austin, who signed off on the rule change? It seems to me that this is the conversation to have if you’re freaked out about presidents deploying the military against American citizens, no?  The Regime Media expect us all to willfully suspend disbelief and believe that a battle-hardened Marine Infantry Officer suppressed these bad things for YEARS but magically found the courage to reveal them TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION because Donald Trump said some things about curtailing political violence.  This proves that Kelly was needed in order to bolster The Atlantic’s wrap-up smear, sold retail by the Regime Media so that Kamala Harris could walk on stage and edge close to the line of calling Trump Literally Hitler, hopefully not further inflaming the next potential Trump assassin.  Bookmark this narrative, and the Regime Media’s insistence in pushing it, for when the next weirdo gets caught and his notebook is full of Trump-Hitler press clippings. Click “expand” to view full transcripts of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective network evening newscasts on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024: ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT 10/23/24 6:33 PM DAVID MUIR: Good evening and we begin tonight with this new warning, with just 13 days to the election. The retired four-star Marine general, who was former President Donald Trump's longest serving Chief of Staff, retired General John Kelly, warning that if Trump is elected again he would rule like a dictator, and Kelly describing in detail what Trump said about Hitler on a number of occasions. You will hear the audio of General Kelly right here tonight. Vice President Kamala Harris coming before the cameras this afternoon, calling Trump's alleged comments about Hitler, quote, “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous.” As a retired four-star general, General Kelly does not make political endorsements, but he says he felt compelled to speak out after Trump repeatedly threatened to use the American military against the quote, “enemy within”, Americans in this country. At a town hall in Georgia, Donald Trump made no mention of Kelly's comments today but tonight, Donald Trump posting just moments ago that the general is a low life who made up a story. Tonight, General John Kelly in his interview with The New York Times signaling voters should consider fitness and character when voting for president this year. We have both campaigns covered, Mary Bruce leading us off with the vice president in Pennsylvania tonight. MARY BRUCE: Tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris issuing a dire warning after Donald Trump's longest serving chief of staff, retired four-star Marine General John Kelly, told The New York Times Trump fits the definition of a fascist, and that the former president has said Adolf Hitler quote, “did some good things.” KAMALA HARRIS: It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side-by-side in The Oval Office and in The Situation Room. BRUCE: Kelly, telling the Times Trump repeatedly had words of praise for Hitler. JOHN KELLY: He commented more than once that, you know, Hitler did some good things too. And, of course, if you know history, again, I think he's lacking in that. But if you know what his-- you know what Hitler was all about, you'd be pretty hard to make an argument that he did anything good. MICHAEL SCHMIDT: So what would you- what would you say when he said to you that Hitler did a lot of good things? KELLY: Well, I'd tell him that, I said, if you- first of all, you should never say that. But if you knew what Hitler was all about, from the beginning to the end, everything he did was in support of his racist, fascist life, you know, the- you know, philosophy, so that nothing he did, you could argue, was good. BRUCE: Kelly saying Trump fits the definition of a fascist. KELLY: Certainly, the former president is in the far-right area, certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators. He has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure. BRUCE: Kelly insisting personal loyalty means everything to Trump, that he puts it above loyalty to the Constitution, and that he has an affinity for dictators. As news of Kelly's comments broke overnight, Trump was onstage in Greensboro, North Carolina, praising authoritarian leaders like Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's XI Jinping. DONALD TRUMP: He's smart. He's a smart man. He's a fierce man. I got along with him very well. Putin -- these are people that are tough people. BRUCE: Kelly's statements an extraordinary move from a four-star general who does not make political endorsements. But Kelly says he felt compelled to speak out after Trump threatened to use the military to go after his political opponents, describing them as the enemy within. Harris seizing on those words today. HARRIS: Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within, and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens. And let's be clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within: anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to criticize him would qualify, in his mind, as the enemy within. Like judges, like journalists, like nonpartisan election officials. BRUCE: Harris warning that if Trump returns to The White House, he won't have Kelly, the former four-star general, and other top officials from his first administration to serve as a line of defense for the nation. HARRIS: Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable. And in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions. Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there and no longer be there to rein him in. So the bottom line is this. We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be: What do the American people want? BRUCE: Harris is here in Pennsylvania tonight for a town hall, and we've just learned that next Tuesday, exactly one week from Election Day, she'll be giving a major address outlining her closing argument to the American people, speaking on the National Mall at the exact same site where Donald Trump addressed his supporters and urged them to March to the Capitol on January 6th. Harris using the site to argue, it's time to turn the page on Trump. David. MUIR: Mary Bruce leading us off tonight. Mary, thank you. CBS EVENING NEWS 10/23/24 6:30 PM NORAH O’DONNELL:  Less than two weeks to go until Election Day and Vice President Kamala Harris is calling Donald Trump increasingly unhinged and unstable. That comes after the former president's own former Chief of Staff John Kelly said, on the record and on tape, that Trump repeatedly praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. He also said his former boss was the definition of a fascist. Kelly is a retired four-star Marine General who also served as Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security. Vice President Harris warned today that if Trump is elected again, people like General Kelly will not be there to serve as guardrails and keep him in check. The Trump campaign vehemently denies Kelly's remarks, but this is all playing out with voting already underway. More than 24 million Americans have already cast ballots, either in person or by mail. We have a team of correspondents covering both campaigns, with tonight's analysis from CBS's Major Garrett. But we’re going to begin with CBS's Nikole Killion on the trail with Donald Trump in battleground Georgia, and some late breaking news. Good evening, Nikole. NIKOLE KILLION: Good evening to you, Norah. Former President Donald Trump hit back tonight saying that John Kelly made the story up, calling him dumb and a low life, and that is despite reports on Trump's comments that have been cited by multiple sources. Former President Donald Trump made no mention of the stark new warning from his longest-serving White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who told The New York Times Trump could govern as a dictator if elected. JOHN KELLY: He’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators. He has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure. KILLION: The retired four-star general also corroborated reports that the former president spoke favorably about Adolf Hitler. KELLY: He commented more than once, you know, Hitler did some good things, too. KILLION: That provoked a direct and blunt response today for Vice President Kamala Harris HARRIS: It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews, and hundreds of thousands of Americans. All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is. KILLION: Both Harris and Kelly also pointed to the former president's recent rhetoric about the enemy from within, suggesting he might use the military against domestic opponents. DONALD TRUMP: This should very easily be handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary by the military. KILLION: Something Kelly said Trump was repeatedly told by advisors not to do. KELLY: Originally, the conversation would be: you know, Mr. President, that's outside your authority, you really don't want to do that inside the United States. HARRIS: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be: What do the American people want? KILLION: Those here say they are still with Trump. TRUMP SUPPORTER: Did he run this country as a dictator the four years he was in? Absolutely not. KILLION: Tonight, CBS News has learned that the Justice Department has sent a letter to a Super PAC run by one of Trump's biggest backers, Elon Musk. The DoJ says that a recent $1 million giveaway to registered voters to sign a petition could violate federal law. Norah. O’DONNELL: Nikole Killion on the trail with Trump in Georgia. Thank you, Nikole. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS 10/23/24 6:31 PM LESTER HOLT: Good evening and welcome. A former White House Chief of Staff to Donald Trump is providing new fodder in the question over Mr. Trump's fitness to serve. Retired four-star Marine Corps General John Kelly agreeing with the notion that the former president could be called a fascist. Kelly in an interview at The New York Times also describing instances in which he says Mr. Trump spoke of good things done by Adolf Hitler. His reported remarks immediately seized upon by Vice President Kamala Harris, who warned of the consequences of a Trump presidency without guardrails. For his part, Mr. Trump's campaign latching on to remarks made by President Biden about locking up the former president, as Mr. Trump spent the day trying to appeal to Latino voters. Let's begin with Peter Alexander. PETER ALEXANDER: Tonight, Vice President Harris seizing on sharp new criticisms of former President Trump from his own former Chief of Staff John Kelly, who now publicly says Trump could be called a fascist. KAMALA HARRIS: This is a window into who Donald Trump really is. From the people who know him best. ALEXANDER: Harris using retired four-star Marine General Kelly's words to fortify her arguments that Trump is unfit to serve. HARRIS: Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable. And in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails. We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be: What do the American people want? ALEXANDER: Kelly making his new claims two weeks before Election Day in an interview with The New York Times. JOHN KELLY: Certainly, the former president is in the far-right area, certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators. He has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist for sure. ALEXANDER: Kelly also claiming Trump made complimentary statements about Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. KELLY: He commented more than once that, you know, Hitler did some good things too. (VIDEO SWIPE) I’d tell him that, I'd said you know Sir, if you, first of all, you show never say that. Nothing he did, you could argue, is good. ALEXANDER: The Atlantic reports that two unnamed sources say they heard then-President Trump say, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had, people who are totally loyal to him that follow orders.” NBC News has not independently confirmed that reporting, and the Trump campaign says Trump never made those comments. Kelly says he's speaking out now because Trump recently suggested using the military against political opponents who he called “the enemy from within” if there is Election Day chaos. Kelly became a fierce Trump critic after leaving The White House, and the Trump campaign tonight responded, quote, “John Kelly has totally beclowned himself with these debunked stories he has fabricated”, insisting Kelly has Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump was recently asked about several former top staff members who’ve come out against him. DONALD TRUMP: About 97% of the people in the administration support me. But because it's me, somebody doesn't support, they get a little publicity. HOLT: And Peter, we've got a little less than two weeks to go in this campaign. You’ve got some new reporting this evening on the vice president's closing argument plan. ALEXANDER: Lester, that's right. A senior Harris campaign official says that Kamala Harris will deliver a speech next Tuesday in Washington, D.C. at the same location where Donald Trump made his remarks the morning of the January 6th attack. She's expected to argue that Americans should turn the page against his era of chaos and division. Lester. HOLT: All right. Peter Alexander tonight. Thank you.  

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a CNN town hall event on Wednesday evening in Pennsylvania, where she took questions from so-called undecided voters.One of those individuals was Carol Nackenoff, a political science professor at Swarthmore College, whom Anderson Cooper introduced as “a registered Democrat, who says she’s leaning towards voting for you [Harris].”Cooper noted that Nackenoff “has yet to make her final decision.”'If you could accomplish only one mayor policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be and why?'However, Federal Election Commission reports revealed that Nackenoff has donated more than 50 times since 2009 to Democratic political action committees, including ActBlue, the Hillary Victory Fund, Hillary for America, and Bernie 2020. Of the more than $2,552 the professor has reportedly donated over that period of time, only $25 — one donation in 2023 — went to WinRed, a fundraising platform for the Republican Party.Since June 2024, Nackenoff has made six donations totaling $215 to ActBlue, a PAC collecting funds for the Harris-Walz ticket and other Democratic candidates.One of those donations was earmarked for Bob Casey for Senate, a Democrat seeking re-election in Pennsylvania. Casey spoke at Harris’ Wilkes-Barre campaign rally in mid-September. Another ActBlue donation was allotted to Gen-Democracy, a group that pledges to “defeat Trump” and “win back Gen-Z voters,” according to its website. The remainder of Nackenoff’s ActBlue donations from this year were earmarked for the Democratic National Committee or general contributions to ActBlue. During the CNN town hall event, Nackenoff asked Harris, “If you could accomplish only one mayor policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be and why?”Harris responded, “Well, there’s not just one. I have to be honest with you, Carol. There’s a lot of work that needs to happen.”The vice president seemed to briefly stumble through her answer.“But, let’s, let’s — I think that, maybe, part of this point, that I — how I think about it, is we’ve got to get past this era of politics and partisan politics, slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country,” Harris continued. “And that means working across the aisle. I’ve done that before; we did it around — whether it be what we were able to accomplish with the bipartisan infrastructure deal or some of the work that we have done in terms of dealing with gun safety.”Harris repeated her commitment to reaching across the political aisle to “deal with a number of issues.”“Whether it be what we need to do in terms of housing and creating legislation that creates incentives for that. What we need to do to reinstate the freedom of the woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do,” Harris said. “Whether it be what we need to do to actually invest in a substantial way in the industries of the future, in American-based manufacturing in American-based industries where American workers and union workers have those jobs in a way that is good-paying jobs that gives people the dignity they deserve.”She added, “All those areas I plan on working across the aisle and with Congress, including the issue of immigration, which we’ve got to fix.”Jordan Gehrke, a political consultant, posted a photo on X from the town hall of Nackenoff asking Harris her question.Gehrke wrote, “CNN would have you believe that the Poli-Sci Professor on the left wearing those glasses is undecided.”Donald Trump Jr. responded to the post, “That person is more decided than me. Lol.”Another individual noted that none of CNN’s so-called undecided voters stated they were leaning toward former President Donald Trump. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An Ohio mother was convicted of abandoning her three young children — two of whom have special needs — to go on a Florida vacation to be with her friend who was getting liposuction surgery. On Feb. 22, a Westlake City Schools special education teacher notified police that one of her students — a 7-year-old girl — informed her that she had been left home alone with her twin sister and her 10-year-old sister. The special education teacher requested a welfare check from police, according to newly released audio. 'Do you remember why she was in Miami? Her friend needed liposuction surgery.'On the same day, police conducted a welfare check on the apartment in Westlake – roughly 15 miles west of Cleveland. Officers said the children were alone and the apartment was in complete "disarray."Citing police, WKYC reported that the apartment was "in shambles" and "there was clothing, food, trash, and an unknown liquid covering the floor." The officer noted there was "furniture stacked up in a corner, storage boxes stacked in another corner, and the apartment itself smelled of old food and body odor."“Garbage, bins, and bags were strewn all over the floor,” court records state, according to the Independent. According to court documents, the children told police they did not have a cellphone to contact their mother but had been communicating with her through Nest cameras located around the unit and FaceTime on a MacBook tablet.Investigators determined that the mother — Dominique Knowles — had abandoned her children to go on vacation in Miami. The children's grandmother purportedly told police Knowles had not left the state, and Knowles allegedly told a detective she was not out of state.Westlake Law Director Michael Maloney determined that Knowles had traveled to Miami a day before police conducted the welfare check. Investigators used subpoenaed cellphone records to determine that Knowles made or received 50 calls in the greater Miami area from Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, according to court documents. During a hearing Wednesday, a prosecutor informed the judge: “Do you remember why she was in Miami? Her friend needed liposuction surgery.”When arrested, Knowles allegedly told police, “My kids are allowed to be here by themselves.”The arresting officer allegedly responded, “Not when you have two special-needs kids.”Knowles told the courtroom Wednesday, "I understand what I did was wrong, and this absolutely would never happen again. I did believe my kids were able to dress themselves and get themselves to school. I wouldn’t dare let anything happen to my kids. I wish I could go back and change the circumstances."Despite her plea, Knowles was found guilty of two counts of child endangerment — a first-degree misdemeanor that can be punishable by six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 per count. However, Knowles was sentenced to five years of probation and 360 days of house arrest, ordered to attend a parenting class and mental health counseling, and given $800 in fines. Knowles will be allowed to leave house arrest to go to work.Judge Joseph Burke of the Rocky River Municipal Court declared, "Something bad could’ve happened to the children, they could have started a fire in the apartment, they could have hurt themselves or suffered a medical emergency, or they could have been taken by a stranger. But most of all, they needed their mother to be there and parent them and not ... by remote cameras from Florida."Burke noted, "I don’t want to further victimize your daughters by separating you from them. It is now time for you to become the mother that your daughters deserve, need, and require."Blaze News reported in February that an Ohio mother left her 16-month-old daughter alone in a filthy playpen at home for 10 days while she went on vacation in Puerto Rico.Kristel Candelario, 32, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and child endangerment. In March, Candelario was sentenced to life without parole in what the judge described as the "ultimate act of betrayal."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A swath of internal TikTok documents revealed that the company knows much more about its platform's addictive properties than it publicly admits.The company knows how quickly users can become addicted and how disruptive the app is to children's lives.With 14 states currently suing TikTok predominantly over the platform's algorithm — claiming it addicts children — court filings are making their way into the public's hands. Large portions of Kentucky's 119-page court filing were redacted when it was uploaded online. However, as Louisville Public Media reported, Kentucky Public Radio was able to read the text underneath the digital redactions, which contained summaries and primary quotes of internal TikTok documents and communications.The summaries revealed shocking revelations, including the precise amount of videos it takes for a TikTok user to become addicted.According to state investigators, TikTok has determined that it takes 260 videos before a user is "likely to become addicted to the platform."Kentucky authorities stated that "while this may seem substantial, TikTok videos can be as short as 8 seconds and are played for viewers in rapid-fire succession, automatically.""Thus, in under 35 minutes, an average user is likely to become addicted to the platform."NPR reported that internal documents showed TikTok was aware that many of its features urged young people to keep opening the app. The company's research reportedly stated that "compulsive usage correlates with a slew of negative mental health effects like loss of analytical skills, memory formation, contextual thinking, conversational depth, empathy, and increased anxiety."Disturbingly, other TikTok research, distributed in 2019, found that younger users are more likely to be addicted, as well."As expected, across most engagement metrics, the younger the user, the better the performance," a document allegedly read.Along with disrupting sleep patterns, TikTok is allegedly aware that compulsive use of the app tends to interfere with personal needs such as work, school, and even "connecting with loved ones."'This complaint cherry-picks misleading quotes and takes outdated documents out of context.'When speaking to NPR, TikTok spokesman Alex Haurek said in a statement that the publication of such information from the legal documents is "irresponsible.""It is highly irresponsible of NPR to publish information that is under a court seal," Haurek said. "Unfortunately, this complaint cherry-picks misleading quotes and takes outdated documents out of context to misrepresent our commitment to community safety."Haurek said the company has "robust safeguards, which include proactively removing suspected underage users, and we have voluntarily launched safety features such as default screen time limits, family pairing, and privacy by default for minors under 16."The spokesperson has previously said that the company is "deeply committed" to protecting teens as they continuously update and improve their product.Sorry, you're uglyThe lawsuit additionally claimed TikTok is aware of how harmful their filters can be for minors, allegedly telling employees in an internal document that the filters perpetuate "a narrow beauty norm" that could "negatively impact the wellbeing of our community."At the same time, an internal report that analyzed TikTok's main video feed found that it was pushing "a high volume of ... not attractive subjects," so TikTok retooled the algorithm to amplify users that were deemed attractive."By changing the TikTok algorithm to show fewer 'not attractive subjects' in the For You feed, [TikTok] took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their Young Users," authorities wrote.TikTok also experimented with screen-time prompts, but when implemented, they only reduced the average use time for teens by about 1.5 minutes, from 108.5 minutes per day to about 107 minutes. TikTok stopped the experiment following the results."The company did not revisit the design of the tool to be more effective at preventing excessive use of TikTok," the Kentucky filing said.Parent company ByteDance has until mid-January 2025 to sell TikTok in accordance with federal laws but is challenging the ruling in a Washington appeals court.The 14 states suing TikTok are the following: California, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington, along with the District of Columbia.TikTok does not allow children under 13 to sign up and restricts some content for those under 18.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The owner of the Los Angeles Times is setting the record straight.After decades of endorsing Democrats for president, the L.A. Times is not endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president — but that's not because the editorial board did not want to. Rather, Semafor claimed that L.A. Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong "blocked" the paper from endorsing Harris.'Instead of adopting this path as suggested, the Editorial Board chose to remain silent and I accepted their decision.'Mariel Garza, the now-resigned editorials editor at L.A. Times, told Columbia Journalism Review that she had drafted an outline for an editorial endorsing Harris when she was informed the paper would not be endorsing anyone. Garza, in an interview, suggested the decision blindsided her.But, according to Soon-Shiong, that's not exactly what happened.Instead, Soon-Shiong, a billionaire who purchased the failing newspaper in 2018, explained on Wednesday that the editorial board did not follow a directive to be fair and balanced."The Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation," Soon-Shiong said."In addition, the Board was asked to provide their understanding of the policies and plans enunciated by the candidates during this campaign and its potential effect on the nation in the next four years. In this way, with this clear and non-partisan information side-by-side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being President for the next four years," he explained.But his employees chose not to follow that directive."Instead of adopting this path as suggested, the Editorial Board chose to remain silent and I accepted their decision," Soon-Shiong revealed. — (@) In response, Garza did not dispute the directive to be fair and balanced to Harris and Donald Trump. Instead, she complained that a fair analysis of each candidate fails to qualify as an "endorsement.""What he outlines in that tweet is not an endorsement, or even an editorial," Garza told CJR.Importantly, CJR executive editor Sewell Chan explained why Soon-Shiong had the right to issue his directive to the L.A. Times editorial board."I have deep respect for the Soon-Shiong family, who rescued the paper from the doomed and recently bankrupt Tribune Company," Chan wrote at CJR. "He’s a decent and thoughtful person, and as the owner of the paper, it is ultimately up to him to set the editorial direction."Garza ultimately justified her resignation by telling CJR that she is "not OK with us being silent" because "in dangerous times, honest people need to stand up." Moreover, she acknowledged the L.A. Times is a "very liberal" newspaper whose readers are Harris supporters and whose endorsement would do next to nothing.And yet, it's telling that journalists at one of the biggest newspapers in the country allegedly refused to treat Trump in a fair and balanced way. The average American, though, is probably not surprised.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Biden-Harris administration has prioritized the advancement of the LGBT agenda and climate alarmism in its foreign policy. President Donald Trump has identified a different priority for his future administration: Combat the brutal persecution of Christians around the globe. Trump noted Wednesday on Truth Social, "Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh. Christians around the World will not be safe if Kamala Harris is President of the United States." "When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I will work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan," added Trump. The Republic of Artsakh, which is also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, is a region in the Caucasus Mountains that lies within Azerbaijan's borders. While internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan — whose close ally Turkey, formerly the Ottoman Empire, killed 1.5 million Armenians in what is regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century — the region was, at least up until September 2023, home to over 100,000 Armenian Christians who contested Azerbaijan's territorial claims. The region became autonomous in 1923 while Armenia, the world's oldest Christian country, and Azerbaijan, whose population is 97.3% Muslim, were both still members of the former Soviet Union. Two bloody wars were fought over the area in the last 30 years — the first in 1988 and the second in 2020. Azerbaijan — given military assistance by the Biden-Harris administration despite its war crimes and torture of Armenian prisoners — launched a blitzkrieg on the region on Sept. 19, 2023, and saw to the dissolution of the Armenian enclave by Jan. 1. Azerbaijani forces killed hundreds of ethnic Armenians and added insult to injury by destroying churches and cemeteries. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians were forced to flee. 'Vice President Harris — whose Administration armed Azerbaijan's genocidal blockade and attack on Artsakh — did not lift a finger or even raise her voice against Azerbaijan’s 2023 aggression.' Armenia and Azerbaijan have been engaged in peace talks in the months since. While there has been some grumbling in recent years from the State Department — an official claimed in a September 2023 Senate hearing that the U.S. would not "countenance any action or effort, short-term or long-term, to ethnically cleanse or commit other atrocities against the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh" — the Biden-Harris administration was less than helpful where Armenian Christians were concerned. The Armenian National Committee of America blasted the Democratic administration in July over its "two-faced policy." The ANCA said in a statement: There is no clearer example of the Biden-Harris administration’s two-faced policy towards Armenia than the spineless inaction of USAID Administrator Samantha Power during Azerbaijan’s blockade and ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh. As Azerbaijan deprived Artsakh’s 120,000 Armenians of access to food, fuel, medicine, and humanitarian goods in a brazen violation of international law — Administrator Power refused to acknowledge the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding. The genocidal ethnic cleansing of Artsakh’s entire Armenian population was a humanitarian catastrophe the United States had every opportunity to prevent but instead chose to enable — sacrificing the existence of the region’s indigenous Christian Armenian population for misguided geopolitical interests. The ANCA noted further that the administration's inaction "will weigh heavily on the minds of Armenian American voters this November — including those in the key swing states of Nevada and Michigan as well as in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." As of 2021, there were more than 2 million Americans with Armenian heritage. In late September, Harris signaled support for Armenian Christians' return to Artsakh. ANCA executive director Aram Hamparian said in response, "As Vice President, Kamala Harris has had a full year to act on Artsakh's right to return — via a U.S.-led resolution at the U.N. Security Council — yet she has only started talking (to Armenian Americans, not U.N. member states) about this right 40 days before an election in which Armenian voters across key swing states may prove decisive." "Notably, Vice President Harris — whose Administration armed Azerbaijan's genocidal blockade and attack on Artsakh — did not lift a finger or even raise her voice against Azerbaijan's 2023 aggression. Even at the level of campaign rhetoric, she has not said a word about cutting U.S. military arms and aid to Azerbaijan, or otherwise holding Baku accountable for its crimes," added Hamparian. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) echoed Trump Wednesday, writing, "The United States should fight against the persecution of Christians all over the world, and it will when President Trump is back in the White House. Kamala Harris has done nothing." Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote, "Very gratified to see President Trump speak out about the persecution & displacement of Armenian Christians in Artsakh. It’s our job to call out the hypocrisy of the foreign policy establishment & we refuse to simply sweep this issue under the rug." Artsakh is hardly the only place where brutal regimes and radicals have sought to crush Christians and their faith. According to the persecution watchdog Open Doors, 317 million Christians around the world face very high or extreme levels of persecution. Last year, 4,998 Christians were reportedly slaughtered for faith-related reasons; 14,766 churches and Christian properties were attacked; and over 295,000 Christians were displaced. The top 10 worst countries for Christians in terms of persecution were, in this order: North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Supposedly developed nations farther up the list aren't a great deal better. China, for instance, subjects Christians to routine torture, detentions, and executions. Persecution and attacks have also been on the rise in Western nations, including the U.S., Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. Arielle Del Turco, director of the Family Research Council's Center for Religious Liberty, indicated in a report earlier this year that between 2018 and 2023, there were nearly 1,000 acts of hostility against American churches. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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