The FBI has issued a summons to actress Selma Blair, accusing her of assault after an incident aboard a flight in which she reportedly injured two flight attendants, biting at least one of them.
The violation notice lists &#8220;assaults within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/selma-blair-plane-9bce750da2a33f042b208388dd0b0f40">according</a> to The Associated Press. No date has been set for the actress&#8217;s first appearance in federal court in Brooklyn.
Blair was taken into custody Sunday after the Delta Air Lines plane arrived at JFK Airport following the alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/famous-actress-arrested-for-biting-flight-attendant-trying-to-open-plane-door">midair skirmish.</a> Her representative said she experienced a medical emergency that led to the alleged conduct.
It wasn&#8217;t the first time the &#8220;Cruel Intentions&#8221; star&#8217;s behavior aboard a flight had made headlines.
In 2016, the &#8220;Legally Blonde&#8221; actress was removed on a stretcher after an outburst aboard another Delta flight from Cancun, Mexico, to Los Angeles.
Entertainment site TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2016/06/20/selma-blair-flight-drinking-stretcher-lax/">reported</a> at the time that other passengers had witnessed her suddenly burst into tears, after which she began shouting strange things in the plane&#8217;s first-class section.
&#8220;He burns my private parts. He won&#8217;t let me eat or drink,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He beats me. He&#8217;s going to kill me.&#8221;
Witnesses told TMZ that Blair had been drinking wine and appeared to have combined it with medication. Two nurses reportedly checked her bag for pills, and the pilot reportedly radioed ahead about a passenger who had apparently mixed medication with alcohol.
When the plane landed at LAX, medical personnel came aboard and Blair was taken out on a stretcher.
Blair&#8217;s public apology came a day later — via a statement given to <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/06/selma-blair-apologizes-plane-blackout">Vanity Fair</a> — in which she confirmed that Blair had mixed alcohol and medication with blacked out.
&#8220;I made a big mistake yesterday. After a lovely trip with my son and his Dad, I mixed alcohol with medication, and that caused me to black out and led me to say and do things that I deeply regret,&#8221; she began.
&#8220;My son was with his Dad asleep with his headphones on, so there is that saving grace. I take this very seriously, and I apologize to all of the passengers and crew that I disturbed and am thankful to all of the people who helped me in the aftermath,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I am a flawed human being who makes mistakes and am filled with shame over this incident. I am truly very sorry.&#8221;
Blair was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2018 and has since advocated for disability rights.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said in April that she would welcome any and all investigations into her personal history — and on Monday morning, federal agents gave her exactly what she asked for.
The investigation escalated with an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-raid-home-of-ilhan-omar-as-criminal-probe-expands">early morning raid</a> on her home — which Omar immediately characterized as a political hit job and further proof that President Donald Trump was &#8220;weaponizing&#8221; federal law enforcement. According to Fox News, the investigation centers on immigration documents completed by the congresswoman&#8217;s late father.
Omar, who was born the youngest of seven children in Mogadishu in 1982, lost her mother at the age of two and fled civil war in her home country of Somalia at the age of nine. She then lived for four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the United States with her father in 1995. She became a citizen five years later, in 2000, when she was 17.
The Minnesota congresswoman has been married three times — and it&#8217;s the second of those marriages that has raised red flags for federal law enforcement, as numerous reports have not only identified her second husband as likely her biological brother, but have alleged that the timelines of her first two marriages overlap considerably.
Omar first wed Ahmed Hirsi (AKA Ahmed Aden) in a Muslim ceremony in 2002. She applied for a legal marriage license at the time as well, according to the <a href="https://cis.org/North/SomaliaBorn-Candidate-Congress-Accused-ImmigrationMarriage-Fraud">Center for Immigration Studies</a>, but did not go through with a legal wedding. Omar and Hirsi had two children together before separating in 2008. Because they were not legally married, they did not need a civil divorce.
One year later, Omar married Ahmed Elmi — a citizen of the United Kingdom who referred to himself as a &#8220;dirty dandy.&#8221; Although many reports suggested that he was her biological brother — and that the marriage was an end run around the United States immigration —official birth certificates were never obtained because many records were destroyed while Somalia was engulfed in civil war.
Omar reportedly divorced Elmi in a religious ceremony only — meaning that legally they were still married when she reunited with Hirsi in 2012 and they had a third child together. In 2017, Omar and Elmi were legally divorced, and in 2018 she legally married Hirsi.
One year later, in 2019, Omar officially divorced Hirsi. Several months later, she married political consultant Tim Mynett, who had worked on her campaign before they married.
But Omar&#8217;s marriage history, as complicated as it is, is far more likely to cause her a public relations headache than a legal one. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/us-news/why-ilhan-omar-cant-be-kicked-out-of-the-us-for-marrying-brother-immigration-officials/">reported</a> that even if it were proved that Omar had been involved in a sham marriage to help Elmi secure a green card, the likely result would be the State Department barring Elmi from returning to the United States.
According to reports on Monday&#8217;s search, investigators are examining the original documents Omar&#8217;s father filed when the family first came to the United States in 1995.
&#8220;If there’s enough evidence that she or [her father] lied on her immigration application to become a United States citizen, whether it was one time or several times, the Trump administration could initiate a denaturalization process that would strip her of her citizenship,&#8221; a top immigration official told The Post.
Omar&#8217;s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, served as a colonel in the Somali Army under socialist dictator Siad Barre. In the late 1970s, he is documented to have served during the Ogaden War — and while soldiers and officials on both sides of that conflict have been accused of committing war crimes and abuse, Omar&#8217;s father has never been personally linked to those accusations.
Barre, a top general in the Somali military, had seized power in 1969 and implemented &#8220;scientific socialism.&#8221; Between 1987 and 1989, Barre led a <a href="https://macmillan.yale.edu/gsp/somalia-isaaq-genocide#:~:text=A%20campaign%20designed%20to%20depopulate,Solution%20to%20the%20Isaaq%20Problem'.">genocidal campaign</a> against the Isaaq clan — the Hargeisa Holocaust — that was meant to depopulate Somaliland. In addition to building minefields in civilian areas and indiscriminately bombing villages, Barre&#8217;s forces poisoned wells, strafed fleeing civilians, and used rape as a weapon of war.
The exact date that Omar&#8217;s father left Somali military service is unclear, but some reports indicate that his <a href="https://sahanjournal.com/remembering-minnesotans-lost-to-covid-19/he-was-loved-by-everyone-the-somali-community-remembers-nur-omar-mohamed-who-died-of-covid-19/">service ended</a> with the fall of Barre&#8217;s regime in 1991.
If he left out his service—or any other relevant information—when he filled out immigration papers for himself and his family, that could immediately raise questions about the validity of Omar&#8217;s citizenship.

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&#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; actor RJ Mitte has died at the age of 34.
Mitte&#8217;s death, reported by entertainment site TMZ and confirmed by a county official, was living in Brownsville, Texas, at the time of his death. The actor, according to that report, died by suicide. An investigation into his death is still ongoing.
Mitte played Walter White Jr. on the popular TV show, appearing in 56 episodes of the show that also starred &#8220;Malcolm in the Middle&#8221; alum Bryan Cranston. He also appeared in &#8220;The Oak Room&#8221; and &#8220;The Recall.&#8221;
“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of beloved actor, philanthropist, and passionate disability rights advocate RJ Mitte,” a representative for Mitte said in a statement shared with <a href="https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/rj-mitte-dead-breaking-bad-1236909451/">Variety</a>. “Drawing from his own experience living with cerebral palsy, Mitte brought authenticity to the role and built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion.”
Both Mitte and his &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221;character both lived with cerebral palsy, and Mitte used his platform to advocate for actors with disabilities.
&#8220;My character was written with someone with cerebral palsy. This that was from the beginning. That was always the case. My character Walt Jr. was based on a real person, a friend of (Breaking Badcreator) Vince Gilligan in college who had cerebral palsy, who used forearm crutches and sometime after passed away. So it really felt real playing this character and getting into the groove with this character,&#8221; Mitte said on &#8220;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rj-mitte-dead-breaking-bad-walter-white-jr-1236728210/">The Joe Vulpis Podcast</a>.&#8221;
The actor served as an ambassador for both United Cerebral Palsy and Shriners Children’s, and he was also the president of his own charity, the Mitte Foundation. The Mitte Foundation worked to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes about people living with disabilities.
Mitte was engaged to his long term girlfriend, Kennedy Suarez, who he&#8217;d been dating since 2018. He proposed on October 10, 2025, on her 30th birthday.
&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to have found my person, my partner in life who makes me want to be better, no matter what we&#8217;re doing,&#8221; Mitte told People at the time. &#8220;Kennedy is my everything and I can&#8217;t wait to officially start our life together and see what adventures life takes us on next.&#8221;
Mitte&#8217;s <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/10/12/celebrity-news/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-made-final-public-appearance-days-before-death-at-34/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost">final public appearance</a> took place just over a week prior to his death.
If you or anyone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 988 or go to <a href="http://speakingofsuicide.com/resources" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources</a>.

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Metallica frontman James Hetfield paused during his October 10 concert to promise fans that he would not be using the stage to lecture them — and jabbed at other artists who have chosen to do so.
Hetfield, performing with the band during one of several shows at The Sphere in Las Vegas, took a moment to thank the fans for traveling to see the show.
&#8220;Unless you live in Vegas, you&#8217;ve come a long way to spend some time with Metallica. We&#8217;re grateful for that — your travels, the money you spend, the time it took, thanks for coming to celebrate with us,&#8221; he said. 

Then, he pivoted to address the recent rash of artists who have used the stage as a platform to promote certain political issues or agendas, and he made it clear that Metallica was having none of it.
&#8220;I just gotta say, Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their bullsh*t, okay? We are here &#8230; no bullsh*t &#8230; we&#8217;re here to forget about all the outside sh*t, okay? Metallica&#8217;s agenda is love, energy, and heavy music, baby!&#8221;
Some thought Hetfield was referring to rapper Macklemore, whose anti-Israel antics effectively blew up Ed Sheeran&#8217;s Loop Tour. Sheeran was left without his opening acts and even his back-up band — all of whom <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-of-ed-sheerans-support-acts-rage-quit-tour-back-macklemore">quit the tour</a> in solidarity after promoters dropped <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stadium-owners-were-promised-macklemore-wouldnt-repeat-antisemitic-rant-he-did">Macklemore</a>.
Others assumed he was talking about Paramore singer <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/paramores-hayley-williams-launches-vulgar-tirade-dhs-after-agency-defends-ice-officers">Hayley Williams</a>, who shouted &#8220;F*ck ICE&#8221; and &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; during her recent show in Chula Vista, CA.
In response to Williams, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that the singer should be grateful for ICE agents keeping her safe.
&#8220;America is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe. We suggest Ms. Williams to thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice,&#8221; a DHS spokesman said.
Williams, undeterred, posted her response via Instagram stories: &#8220;And may I suggest all Nazi b*tches suck on my fat d*ck.&#8221;
Hetfield, for his part, has made it a point to stick to the music and leave politics out of it.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of polarization going on in the [United] States, and I see it other places as well. But it just seems like you have to get more extreme to balance out the other extreme,&#8221; he told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37504227">BBC in 2016</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to find some balance in the middle here somewhere. We stay away from politics, from religion. That just seems to polarize people even more. We all have our own beliefs but, at the end of the day, we&#8217;re trying to connect with people and it seems like political views don&#8217;t do that as much as music does.&#8221;

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James Talarico&#8217;s Senate campaign is officially denying rumors that his two-week absence from the public eye was the result of a mental health crisis.  “This is a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory. Last week James Talarico was home in Austin, Texas, recovering from the flu,” campaign spokesman JT Ennis said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
Later on Sunday, the Lindner Center of Hope — where it was claimed that Talarico sought treatment — also released a <a href="https://x.com/lindnerctrhope/status/2109430626562785517">statement</a> denying that he&#8217;d ever been a patient there.
&#8220;Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope,&#8221; the statement read.
Ennis and the mental health facility were both responding to a social media post on Sunday by conservative media personality Nick Sortor and self-described &#8220;right-wing provocateur&#8221; Rhein Amacher, which included an audio recording of a woman who is purportedly an employee at the Lindner Center of Hope, a mental health facility in Mason, Ohio.
In the recording, the woman appeared to suggest that a James Talarico had recently been discharged from the facility, telling the callers she could not locate more detailed information because the discharge was so recent.
“Okay, nothing for James Talarico?” one of the callers asked.
“Let’s see, looks, well, this is what it’s — today — looks like he was just discharged this evening,” the woman replied. “That’s why I don’t have it.”
“Oh, he was discharged then?”
“Mmhmm,” she responded. “So he should be —”
When asked where she was located, the woman identified the Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio.
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🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week
The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE
Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.
While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.
The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful.
And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.
I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on.
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2109329520247660715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire has not independently verified the woman’s identity, her employment at the facility, or the claim made in the recording.
Jennifer Pierson, a representative of the Lindner Center, told The Daily Wire in an email that the facility would not disclose information about current or former patients.
“Lindner Center of Hope respects the privacy and confidentiality of all individuals,” Pierson wrote. “We do not confirm or deny whether any individual is or has been a patient, and we do not comment on individual cases.”
The speculation began after Talarico, appearing remotely at a U.S. Hispanic Business Council event on September 30, said he had been diagnosed with the flu at an urgent care clinic in Dallas. He then disappeared from the campaign trail for two weeks, with no further explanation given. His campaign maintained that he was recovering, but the prolonged absence fueled online rumors about his whereabouts and health.
Last week, unverified rumors from a number of sources began to spread that Talarico was experiencing some kind of mental health episode, not merely a nasty bout of influenza.
The Lindner Center of Hope provides mental health evaluations and treatment for children and adults, including inpatient, outpatient, and residential programs. The facility also offers a 10-day diagnostic assessment and a 28-day residential treatment program.
Its services cover a range of conditions, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, schizophrenia, and addiction. It is the same facility where Harris County, Texas, Judge Lina Hidalgo, another high-profile Democrat in the state, spent seven weeks receiving inpatient care in 2023 for depression.
Talarico <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/talarico-ends-his-disappearing-act-with-a-festival-cameo">resurfaced</a> Friday with a brief stop at the Austin City Limits music festival, where he filmed a promotional video with country music star Kacey Musgraves. Some social media users added additional speculation about a <a href="https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/JTL750">private jet flight</a> that departed from Austin, Texas, on Thursday night to Hamilton, Ohio, before returning Friday morning.

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday over last week&#8217;s shooting of an illegal immigrant by ICE officers in New York City — one of two such shootings since Mullin took over the department — and Mullin answered with numbers of his own.
Mullin, who succeeded Kristi Noem as secretary in March, argued that the figures deserving attention were the hundreds of illegal immigrants in New York wanted for or convicted of murder — and the American lives he said were lost because those suspects were in the country at all.
The Homeland Security chief told Tapper that Oscar Belgal had an impressive rap sheet for someone who had only been in the country for three years, and in addition to being in the United States illegally, he was credibly linked to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-agent-shoots-suspected-migrant-gang-member-in-new-york-city">Trinitarios street gang</a>. Mullin explained that often, when ICE went to apprehend someone, &#8220;fight or flight&#8221; instincts kicked in.
&#8220;When we&#8217;re approaching a vehicle, that individual knows that they&#8217;re going to jail,&#8221; Mullin explained. &#8220;Now, you want to talk about the two individuals that have been shot since I&#8217;ve been the secretary, let&#8217;s talk about the 258 illegals that are in New York City right now that are wanted for murder. Let&#8217;s talk about the 258 that are currently in state prison that killed individuals, that were illegals that we got detainers on.&#8221;
&#8220;All 258 of those individuals took an American life,&#8221; he added. &#8220;All 258 of those deaths were 100% preventable because those illegals shouldn&#8217;t be here. If people are really concerned about the tactics that are being used, how about the states cooperate with us? These individuals that I&#8217;ve talked about have detainers on them. Oscar had a detainer on him.&#8221;
Mullin also referenced two illegals who had been implicated in the stabbing of off-duty NYPD Detective Jose Mercedes, saying that one of the two had also had an ICE detainer.
&#8220;That means they were locked up before, we asked the state, we asked the city to give them to us, and they released them back on the streets,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If anybody should be outraged, it should [be] the public to the sanctuary states and sanctuary politicians that continue to release these murderers and thugs back to the streets and put the public in danger.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that the Democratic Party was long overdue for a name change that better reflected what the party truly represented within the current political landscape.
Trump made it clear that the Democratic Party had already done a thorough job of reinventing itself, embracing the socialists and communists that threaten to devour the organization from within and gleefully taking the 20-side of every 80-20 issue — like men playing in women&#8217;s sports and legal requirements for voter identification — and he suggested that it was high time for the party to be rebranded as well.
&#8220;I think that the Democrats have become the Socialists of America and I think that they ought to get rid of the name Democrat because it&#8217;s no longer accurate,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;But you have a combination of socialists and communists, and I think frankly, the word democrat is a — or &#8216;dumocrat,&#8217; as I call them — but I think it&#8217;s a very inaccurate name.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrat is a — they&#8217;re really socialists, they&#8217;ve become socialists,&#8221; Trump repeated, adding, &#8220;And they&#8217;re being dragged much further left than socialists.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comments come as a number of self-described Democratic socialists — including some who have aligned themselves with the radical Democratic Socialists of America — sit poised to win seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. And although most of them ran on watered-down platforms calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), police, and prisons, the official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dsa-uses-newfound-power-to-get-even-more-extreme">DSA platform</a> calls for the complete abolition of the United States Senate and the reinterpretation of both the presidency and the Supreme Court.
In addition, the DSA would have the United States dissolve all foreign military installations and defer to the notoriously anti-Israel International Criminal Court to handle accusations of war crimes.
The entire program, as previously reported by The Daily Wire, reads like part Marxist wishlist, part antisemitic fever dream: demanding open borders and mass amnesty; calling for a free Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital; and demanding the confiscation of large corporations and “aggressive wealth taxes.”
Some formerly within the party are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/panic-sets-in-dems-tailspin-as-they-realize-the-hostile-socialist-takeover-already-started" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sounding the alarm</a> — former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Democratic strategist James Carville, and comedian Bill Maher — but many appear to be ignoring the “socialist” part in a desperate bid to get more “democrats” on Capitol Hill.

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher gave New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani an earful over his &#8220;tone deaf&#8221; comments marking the third anniversary of the horrific October 7th massacre.
Maher used his monologue to rip into the self-described democratic socialist, who issued a statement that gave lip service to the suffering of Israeli civilians at the hands of Hamas terrorists from Gaza before blaming Israel directly for the broader conflict.
&#8220;Mayor Mamdani, not all that sympathetic to this stuff, but he did make some nice remarks about it,&#8221; Maher said during his Friday night HBO show. &#8220;But then he pivoted right to, ‘but Israel made them do it.'&#8221;
Maher jabbed at Mamdani’s attempts to make it as a rapper, adding, &#8220;You know, he used to be a rapper. His rap name was &#8216;Tone Deaf.'&#8221;
Mamdani actually performed under the stage names &#8220;Young Cardamom” and “Mr. Cardamom.&#8221;
Mamdani was broadly criticized for his comments on the October 7th massacre, in which he attributed the majority of the blame to Israel for the ongoing conflict in the region.
&#8220;This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/10/statement-from-mayor-zohran-kwame-mamdani-on-the-third-anniversa">Mamdani wrote</a> — and with that, he immediately pivoted to blame the Jewish state.
<blockquote>The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them—all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-hamas-protesters-say-mamdani-can-win-them-back-by-firing-his-jewish-police-commissioner">Mamdani</a> also took heat from the antisemitic crowd when he appeared at an October 7th vigil in New York City. The event was disrupted by anti-Israel protesters who called the mayor a &#8220;traitor&#8221; and suggested that he could smooth things over by firing Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who is Jewish.

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President Donald Trump tore into &#8220;Dumocrats&#8221; in a Columbus Day message posted to his Truth Social account, blaming the left for the crusade to take down statues of the Italian explorer.
Trump posted the message early on Sunday morning ahead of the federal holiday on Monday — which Franklin D. Roosevelt first proclaimed as an annual national observance in 1937 — and declared the days of tearing down statues to be &#8220;over.&#8221;
&#8220;HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY TO ALL, in particular our great Italian American Community which was forced to suffer as the Radical Left Dumocrats, Socialists, and Communists rampaged through our cities and towns ripping down almost all of the beautiful statues of Christopher Columbus,&#8221; Trump posted.
&#8220;Well, those days of plunder are over, and the statues are back, more magnificent than ever,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This is a big day for our great Italian American Community, and the Country of Italy itself, maybe the biggest. Congratulations!&#8221;
One such statue was placed in front of the Eisenhower Executivef Office Building, Trump announced in September.
&#8220;Christopher Columbus proudly stands at the entrance to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, directly adjacent to the White House, one of the most important Entrances to a Building in D.C. I did this in Honor of the Italian American Community — Industrious, brilliant, wonderful people. It is something that they have greatly appreciated!&#8221; he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117231833977439431">posted</a> on Truth Social.
Trump has consistently honored Columbus despite attempts from the left to have the famed explorer&#8217;s reputation disparaged and his statues torn down because of his alleged treatment of Native Americans.
&#8220;Christopher Columbus’s spirit of determination &amp; adventure has provided inspiration to generations of Americans. On #ColumbusDay, we honor his remarkable accomplishments as a navigator, &amp; celebrate his voyage into the unknown expanse of the Atlantic Ocean,&#8221; he posted on Twitter in 2018.
&#8220;I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.  I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed to shaping this Nation,&#8221; he added in the accompanying <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-columbus-day-2018/">Presidential Proclamation</a> honoring the day.
In a number of states, in response to pressure from the left, Columbus Day has either been renamed or combined with Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent responded to a letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with a brutal assessment of her economic literacy (or lack thereof), and he finished it off with a holiday twist.
In a letter dated October 9, Bessent responded to one he&#8217;d received two days earlier from the Massachusetts senator — in which she complained about the cost of the Iran war and that President Donald Trump&#8217;s signature One Big Beautiful Bill would add trillions to the national debt.
&#8220;I have received your October 7 letter, which adds to the mounting body of evidence of your complete paucity of knowledge about financial markets. Rather than take my suggestion of studying introductory economics, you have continued your letter-writing crusade and paid participation in tabloid fodder about the Treasury Department,&#8221; Bessent began.
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Warren claimed in the letter that the One Big Beautiful Bill would add nearly $5 trillion to the deficit over the next decade — and that it would solely benefit &#8220;ultra-wealthy and large corporations — while cutting health care and food assistance for families. Meanwhile, the Iran war has cost taxpayers an estimated $43.6 billion to date, according to the Pentagon.&#8221;
Responding to Warren&#8217;s claims that Bessent was helping to drive up costs, Bessent added, &#8220;It is difficult to treat your concern as sincere. As the federal funds rate climbed from near zero to its highest level in 22 years, with inflation hitting a 40-year high, you were a cheerleader for the Biden Administration&#8217;s reckless spending.&#8221;
&#8220;While you voted for a $5 trillion tax hike on everyday Americans, the Working Families Tax Cuts continue to deliver for families and workers across the country,&#8221; he added, noting that when things got worse for everyday Americans, she&#8217;d blamed the Federal Reserve instead of &#8220;your own irresponsible fiscal policies.&#8221;
Bessent laid out some of the numbers from the 2025 tax season, saying that the average tax refund had been $3400 — an 11% increase over the previous year – and that millions had benefited from increased deductions and provisions such as &#8220;no tax on tips&#8221; and &#8220;no tax on overtime.&#8221;
He concluded the letter with an offer to provide Warren with a &#8220;Foreign Exchange for Dummies&#8221; tutorial, adding a jab about her history as a Harvard University professor while he taught at academic rival Yale: &#8220;If you receive a passing grade to the Yale metric, not the Harvard curve, I would be happy to also include a Fixed Income for Dummies.&#8221;
He finished off the letter with a handwritten note across the bottom, wishing a &#8220;Happy Indigenous People&#8217;s Day in advance to you and your family.&#8221; Warren&#8217;s longtime claims of Native American heritage blew up in her face when a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elizabeth-warren-may-issue-official-apology-her-emily-zanotti">DNA test</a> revealed that she was just 1/64 to 1/1024 Native American — despite the fact that she&#8217;d previously claimed that heritage in order to receive minority considerations. She then had to apologize to several tribes who chastised her for taking the test at all, after they argued that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fbd21514284b461889161861a4161495">DNA testing</a> was not the true measure of Native American ancestry.

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Wherever he happens to be in the world, War Secretary Pete Hegseth often posts photos or videos of himself doing PT (Physical Training) with the troops — and critics are now using some of those videos to mock Hegseth’s fitness level.
Guys, the Secretary of War is not doing PT with the troops to prove to the terminally online fitness experts that he’s the baddest and the buffest soldier of them all. He’s doing it because it signals to every service member that he’s with them. I went through Army Basic Training in 1999, and it&#8217;s more clear than ever that some things never change: the leaders who earn the respect of their soldiers are the ones who get down in the mud with them.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth joins Marines from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing for a workout at the Miramar Sports Complex in San Diego.
The session included push-ups, pull-ups, weighted lunges, burpees and other exercises across 10 stations. https://t.co/fEc5pYOASt
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It&#8217;s also clear that some critics have no idea how military calisthenics are supposed to work. They post their videos and claim that Hegseth is &#8220;struggling&#8221; to finish — and never consider the possibility that the workout was designed to push soldiers to their absolute limits.
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Calisthenics workouts, from the very first days of training on, are absolutely brutal and intentionally so. I can recall more than a few core-focused workouts from my time at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, that reduced grown men to tears. If you don&#8217;t look like you&#8217;re dying — or at least feel like you are — by the end of the session, then you&#8217;re not doing it right. Every workout is designed to push limits, test stamina, and drive you to muscle failure — after which you&#8217;re told to walk it off and do it again.
They&#8217;re made to induce failure — and then push you past it — in a safe environment because failure is not an option on the battlefield. The enemy is not going to give you a water break, and if you&#8217;re only halfway to safety when your legs give out, you have to be able to tap into that muscle memory.
So when the War Department posts these videos — even the ones that show Hegseth and some of the other service members eating sh*t at the end of a workout — the point is not that Hegseth is the verybestever™ at PT, and it never has been. It’s that he’s a leader who is willing to put himself in with his soldiers.
And it&#8217;s clear that the troops understand that. During Hegseth&#8217;s recent trip to greet the beleaguered sailors aboard the USS Lincoln, they watched as he held himself accountable for a verbal gaffe in real time. After announcing that at the outset of Epic Fury, they&#8217;d performed &#8220;60 hours of constant combat flight ops,&#8221; someone in the crowd shouted that it was actually more than 100 hours.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll do two push-ups,&#8221; Hegseth said, immediately acknowledging his error and taking the traditional military punishment upon himself. The sailors laughed and cheered as he knocked them out right there on the deck — and then corrected the record: &#8220;160 straight hours with 60 strike hours, okay, I stand corrected!&#8221;
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth drops to the deck for two push-ups after correcting himself while praising service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln for their combat flight operations during Epic Fury.
The sailors erupt in cheers as Hegseth knocks out the push-ups before jumping back into his remarks.
&#8220;160 straight hours with 60 strike hours. Okay, I stand corrected.&#8221;
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So does it matter, as critics suggest, if Hegseth lags behind some of the troops on a run? Of course not! He’s 46 years old and no longer on active duty. I’m 47, and it might shock you to learn that I&#8217;m not only quite a bit slower than I was during training (when I was 20), but I can no longer do the nine pull-ups I could at peak condition. The fact that professional soldiers in their late teens and early twenties can outrun a man old enough to be their father is not sad; it’s expected — or at least it should be.
EXHIBIT A: My dad, CPT John Greenplate (1954-2017), was 44 when he received his commission into the U.S. Army Reserve — just two years younger than Hegseth is now — and because the age cutoff at the time was 37, he had to request a waiver in order to be accepted. The recruiter warned that the waiver would hinge on how well he did at PT. Dad just laughed.
A four-minute miler for much of his high school and college career, Dad held the Delaware State High School record in the two-mile (9:21) from 1972-2012 and went to the NCAA championships with William &amp; Mary’s 4th-place cross country team in 1973. At 44, he could still lay down a mile in under six flat.
After several reserve drill weekends, he called me to complain, asking, “What’s wrong with these kids?”
His concern: he was outrunning them. Easily. To him, the younger soldiers were supposed to be faster and stronger than he was, and it worried him that they weren’t.
It&#8217;s also worth noting that any time a big name shows up at PT, the rank and file interpret that as an open challenge — they all know that the guy who outran or did more pull-ups than the War Secretary will never have to pay for a drink again, especially if there&#8217;s proof.
So keep posting videos of Hegseth getting tired at the end of a session, “struggling” to finish a calisthenics workout, and “trailing behind” the troops on a run. You’re missing the point — and making his.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan&#8217;s December 3 execution by firing squad will be made public, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;ll make sure that people are able to watch it.&#8221;
Hegseth told &#8220;Human Events&#8221; host Jack Posobiec that he wanted to make sure people understood the serious consequences of Hasan&#8217;s attack, which killed 13 people in 2009.
Hegseth said the execution has been scheduled to mirror Hasan&#8217;s massacre, taking place at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m. local time, matching the day of the week and time of the attack.
&#8220;An Army Major betrays his country, radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood — of course we&#8217;re going to do it at Fort Hood. We&#8217;re going to do it on a Thursday, we&#8217;re going to do it at one o&#8217;clock, which is when he did it, and it&#8217;s going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t been since World War II since we&#8217;ve done that, and I kind of like the mentality that we had in World War II, which was WIN. Which was understand when the enemy attacks you, you stand your ground.&#8221;
&#8220;So it was a radical Islamist terror attack,&#8221; Hegseth continued, asking, &#8220;Remember what Obama called it? Workplace violence? I mean, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re up against. That&#8217;s the world view we&#8217;re up against. It&#8217;s &#8216;workplace violence.&#8217; We know what it is, it was a radical Islamist attack in uniform, inside the ranks and so he&#8217;s going to get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it&#8217;s public. Because people need to understand that this is — there&#8217;s serious consequences for these types of things!&#8221; the War Secretary declared.
Posobiec asked whether Hasan had made any special requests, but Hegseth made it clear he wasn&#8217;t interested in hearing any of that.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t care. We&#8217;ll see him on December 3rd,&#8221; he replied.
Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood in 2009, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others while yelling &#8220;Allahu Akbar.&#8221; He was sentenced to death in 2013.

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