Online personality Taylor Lorenz faced brutal online mockery after announcing that she would be leaving the Washington Post in order to strike out on her own. The technology columnist was under investigation for an Instagram story in which she called President Joe Biden a "war criminal," ostensibly for supporting Israel in its military action against the Hamas terrorist group. On Tuesday, she announced her exit from the Post. "I'm going independent and launching my own media outlet on Substack called User Mag," she wrote. "Please consider buying a yearly subscription to help me continue my work." Ironically, Lorenz had previously criticized Substack as being a haven for "Nazis." “I just wanted to get out of legacy media. I feel like it’s just really, really difficult to do the kind of reporting that I want to do on the internet within these kind of older institutions as a primary job,” said Lorenz to the Hollywood Reporter. How are folks reacting?Many on social media mocked and ridiculed Lorenz over her unceremonious departure and demotion. "So Taylor Lorenz 'left' WaPo to start a Substack? Sure, because that doesn’t scream ‘got fired but make it sound trendy’ at all," replied Ariadna Jacob, who says in her X profile that she "survived a ... Taylor Lorenz hit job.""Taylor Lorenz's WaPo reporting served as a conduit for radical leftwing ideology rather than as a beacon of good journalism. Her bias colored her choice of subjects and the angle of her stories with a presentation designed to influence public opinion rather than to inform," said one detractor. "I’m sure it’ll do great, she’ll have literally dozens of readers," read another response. "Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let this Leftist propagandist banshee shrill scream into the void of her echo chamber (while triple masked, of course)," said another critic. Who is this person exactly?Lorenz is known for waging a rhetorical war against many on the right, most notably the "Libs of TikTok" account, which Lorenz has accused of inciting violence and terrorism. She has called on social media platforms to cancel many accounts on the right for refusing to parrot the politically correct narratives endorsed by the far left. She also continued to support coronavirus lockdown measures long after the end of the pandemic, including the wearing of face masks, even in the outdoors. "They are going to save a fortune on masks," joked one account after her exit from WaPo. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A heartbroken mother refused to accept the initial ruling that her daughter's death was a suicide because she believed it was something far more sinister. April Holt — a 29-year-old mother of two — was found by police almost lifeless at her apartment in Antioch, Tennessee, on July 31, 2023. Officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department said they found Holt in the bathroom with a plastic bag duct-taped tightly around her neck. 'And I'm curled up in a ball on a bench next to him, just hysterically crying and just calling out to God to save my child. Even though I knew in my gut that she was gone.' Holt left behind a 12-year-old daughter, an 8-year-old son, and her husband – 33-year-old Donovan Holt.The case was later closed after an autopsy officially ruled Holt’s death a suicide. However, Holt's mother believed her daughter's death was not by her own doing. Jamie Dickerson, Holt's mother, said April embodied positivity, and it was apparent in her TikTok with 200,000 followers. April previously had taught middle schoolers at Believers Faith Fellowship and recently had opened her own lash studio in Nashville.Dickerson recalled how she invited her daughter to the movies just before her death.“We were going to go see the Barbie movie,” Dickerson told WSMV-TV. “She said, ‘Donovan has to work, I can’t go to the movie, but I’ll meet you at church at the Blast classroom tomorrow.’”Dickerson never got a chance to respond to her daughter. The next day, she received the call that would wreck her world. “The phone rang, and it was Donovan, and he was upset — kind of like a panic upset,” Dickerson explained. “He was like, ‘We found April. She wasn’t breathing, and she’s in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.’”Dickerson told Fox News, "So I jumped in my car, but even right when I got the first phone call, I was like, 'Something's not right. April's in perfectly good health.' An hour and a half ago or so, she texted me perfectly fine. So something's not right. Like I thought maybe she had passed out. Maybe she hit her head because she passed out. I didn't know. I mean, like, why would she just not be breathing? I didn't know anything about it.""From that second on, when I got into the room at the hospital, he was just like rocking, like pacing," Dickerson continued. "And I'm curled up in a ball on a bench next to him, just hysterically crying and just calling out to God to save my child. Even though I knew in my gut that she was gone."April Holt died at the Southern Hills Hospital that same day.Once authorities ruled Holt's death a suicide, Dickerson launched her own investigation.“They closed April’s case. DA and everyone agreed to close it," Dickerson said. "I got up, marched out of that room and said, ‘I’m not done, I’m going to keep investigating.’”Dickerson would spend hours each day trying to determine who killed her daughter, but she had one suspect in mind. Dickerson recalled that April said two weeks before her death, "I'm getting a divorce."The mother said of her son-in-law, "He had an obsession with April. So the weird part is, is like you see these movies, and they love somebody so much that they're willing to do literally anything. I think that was him because she'd left him before, and he would sleep outside of her apartment. He would sleep in her car if it was unlocked." "And it's heartbreaking. It's absolutely heartbreaking. And so I'm just, I'm not shocked," she said. "I think that when she said that this time she was very serious."A few weeks after her daughter's death, Dickerson's grandson told her he witnessed a fight between his parents on the same day April died, according to the Independent. The outlet also reported that Donovan pawned his wedding ring the week prior to his wife's death. Dickerson told WZTV, "She had bruises on her wrists, her neck, her ankles, her thighs, and none of it was taken as evidence."The mother filed complaints and eventually convinced the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department to investigate their own investigation. In the 47-page report, detectives said there were “two hits” of Donovan Holt’s fingerprints on the duct tape roll.Despite the new evidence, Dickerson claimed police told her, "They said they still didn't have enough evidence to convict him."Dickerson said when she saw that key piece of evidence, she confronted Donovan Holt. “I told him he had a choice,” she said. “He could tell me what happened, or I was going to go to the cold case department.”Dickerson said Donovan admitted that he strangled April, dragged her into the shower, and taped a bag over her face to make it appear that she had committed suicide. Dickerson reportedly recorded the conversation — and then she notified police.Last month, Donovan was arrested in San Antonio, Texas.Nashville Police said in a news release that Donovan confessed to detectives with the MNPD's Cold Case Unit in July that he had strangled his wife.On Sept. 19, a grand jury indicted Donovan Holt for reckless homicide, evidence tampering, and false reporting.Holt was extradited back to Nashville where he is being held on $75,000 bond in Davidson County Jail awaiting his Oct. 23 arraignment."The person you were supposed to love, you killed, and then you put a trash bag over her head and ate lunch? Like she wasn't in the other room dead? And then you sent your son in there to be traumatized for the rest of his life. It's just bizarre," Dickerson said.Despite her daughter's murder, Dickerson is praying that Donovon Holt's "heart gets right.""As a Christian woman, I pray that his heart gets right. That's what I would want for him. I know it's what April would want. And even after killing my daughter, that is what I'd want for him," Dickerson said. "And I would want anybody to be able to have everlasting life."Like Blaze News? Circumvent the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul will compete in mixed martial arts following his super fight against boxing legend Mike Tyson.Paul and Tyson are set to box in November at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Netflix. Likely in 2025, Paul will get into a cage for the Professional Fighters League in his first pro MMA fight.PFL CEO Peter Murray insists that Paul is ready to make the jump and will take on a legitimate opponent:"We have a partnership with Jake and we're looking forward to supporting him in MMA. We're going to stage that mega event next year and more to come on that too, that will happen. There's a number of opponents who continue to line up.""Conceptually this event continues to getting bigger and bigger. Jake has committed to take on a for real, legitimate fighter. So it'll be a spectacle," Murray said, per Bloody Elbow.A weight class and opponent are still yet to be determined, however when Paul signed with PFL in January 2023, it was reported that he would fight in a newly-created Super Fight division."This is about changing MMA, disrupting, innovating, and creating the next big league," Paul said, according to MMA Junkie. "I've already disrupted boxing, and now it's time to disrupt MMA."'It would be very, very serious. I would probably start working with either Sean O’Malley's team.'During a press scrum in August, Paul told the media that while he doesn't want an easy fight, he is still managing his expectations."It has to be a fight where it's, like, this is my first MMA fight. So I think I can beat Nate Diaz in my first MMA fight, it would be tough of course. It's a 50/50 fight but I don't want to go into something where I'm going to be outclassed like fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov in my first fight."Nurmagomedov is widely considered one of the greatest MMA fighters ever, having retired undefeated at 29-0.Diaz, on the other hand, is more than 10 years older than Paul but still active in MMA with a record of 23-13. Diaz last fought in 2022 when he beat UFC legend Tony Ferguson.Paul defeated Diaz in boxing in early August in what was a clear defeat but not a dominating performance. Both fighters immediately discussed the possibility of an MMA match following the fight."It’s just about finding the name," Paul told media. With the money available, Paul said his team is "ready to make offers" but his opponent needs to have shown that they can draw sales.As for his MMA training, Paul said, "It would be very, very serious. I would probably start working with either Sean O’Malley's team or maybe Javier Mendez over in California. I would take it very, very seriously, I wouldn't want to lose and I take everything I do seriously, so I would definitely go hard as f***."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

California's Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta continued his crusade against pro-life institutions Monday, filing a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital, Providence St. Joseph of Eureka, for not promptly aborting a mother's twins. "With today's lawsuit, I want to make this clear for all Californians: Abortion care is health care. You have the right to access timely and safe abortion services," said Bonta. "At the California Department of Justice, we will use the full force of this office to hold accountable those who, like Providence, are breaking the law." According to the complaint, Anna Nusslock visited Providence after her water prematurely broke and she began bleeding. A doctor allegedly diagnosed Nusslock, then 15 weeks pregnant, with previable premature pre-labor rupture of membranes and told the mother that while both twins had heart tones, one of them was sure to perish and the fate of the other baby was uncertain. Another doctor at University of California San Francisco Medical Center told Nusslock over the phone that there was only a remote chance that the second twin might survive. 'We have a hospital implementing a policy that's reminiscent of heartbeat laws in extremist red states.' The hospital, which recently saved the life of a baby boy born 96 days early, allegedly informed Nusslock that policy precluded medical professionals there from providing an an "emergency" abortion as long as one of the babies had a "detectable heartbeat" or unless there was an immediate risk to Nusslock's life. "It is damning that here in California, where abortion care is a constitutional right, we have a hospital implementing a policy that's reminiscent of heartbeat laws in extremist red states," Bonta said of the apparent policy against elective abortions. The complaint noted that the hospital initially recommended that Nusslock be helicoptered to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, but she declined, unwilling to be separated from her husband and convinced that her insurance would not cover the cost. The hospital then allegedly discharged Nusslock with free towels and instructions to drive to Mad River Community Hospital, roughly 20 minutes away. The lawsuit accuses the hospital of violating the Unruh Civil Rights Act, violating the health code's nonmedical transfer provision, and violating the state's Emergency Services Law, which requires hospitals to provide care "necessary to relieve or eliminate the emergency medical condition." A spokesman for the hospital said in a statement to ABC News that "Providence is deeply committed to the health and wellness of women and pregnant patients and provides emergency services to all who walk through our doors in accordance with state and federal law. We are heartbroken over Dr. Nusslock's experience earlier this year." "This morning was the first Providence had heard of the California attorney general's lawsuit, and we are currently reviewing the filings to understand what is being alleged," continued the spokesman. "Because this case is in active litigation and due to patient confidentiality, we cannot comment on the matter," the spokesperson added. In his remarks, Bonta bemoaned the U.S. Supreme Court's recent refusal to qualify abortion as among the varieties of "stabilizing care" required of every hospital with an emergency department participating in Medicare under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Without such a federal mandate conflating stability with the termination of human life, Bonta indicated that "states like California have to rely on their own state laws to protect pregnant patients." Bonta has not only worked to combat policies ostensibly designed to protect life in his state but in other states as well. Last year, he joined New York Attorney General Letitia James in leading a coalition to back the Biden-Harris administration's challenge to Idaho's popular and democratically passed pro-life law. They failed. Bonta also sued Heartbeat International last year and a chain of crisis pregnancy centers over their promotion of medical abortion reversal. That case has yet to be decided. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When videogames are described as being 'like anime,' it usually conjures up images of licensed fighting games along the lines of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, visual novels such as Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, or RPG games like Persona 3 Reload, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Genshin Impact. There are plenty of other genres of Japanese animation to draw inspiration from, though, especially film and TV shows that portray space combat between sci-fi fighter jets. It's this type of animated action that serves as inspiration for Rogue Flight, a newly announced aerial combat game in the vein of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown or Starfox. Continue reading Retro anime visuals and Ace Combat’s shooting combine in Rogue Flight

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