The military judge overseeing the long-delayed prosecution of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed recently threw out the terrorist’s confession to FBI agents, dealing a major blow to the government’s case. Now, the judge’s writings have come under scrutiny for his criticism of conservatives in the military.
Lt. Colonel Michael Schrama, an Air Force judge presiding over the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/us/politics/september11-confession-trial.html">ruled Friday</a> that statements Mohammed made to FBI agents in 2007 were not given voluntarily and could not be used against him at trial. The ruling came just days after Schrama set June 5, 2028, as the start date for Mohammed’s trial, nearly 27 years after the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
Mohammed had previously been subjected to CIA interrogations, including 183 instances of waterboarding, after his capture in 2003. Prosecutors had already excluded statements from those interrogations. Schrama went further, finding that the effects of the earlier interrogation continued to influence Mohammed when he was questioned by FBI agents at Guantanamo in 2007.
But scrutiny of the judge has also revived a <a href="https://warontherocks.com/creating-a-codified-legal-response-to-domestic-extremism-in-the-ranks/">2023 essay</a> in which Schrama argued that the military needed new legal tools to combat what he described as a growing domestic extremism which he attributed to the military&#8217;s &#8220;conservative tendencies.&#8221;
“As an active-duty Air Force military judge, I have seen firsthand a rising population of military members engaging in extremist activities,” Schrama wrote in the essay. Schrama argued that “military institutions tend to become more conservative and isolated from civilian society.”
“These conservative tendencies are constantly reinforced, and young military members can be easy prey for the extreme right-wing groups that relate through similar conservative ideology,” he wrote. He called domestic extremism in the military “a threat to national security” and argued that Congress should create a specific offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to allow commanders to punish such conduct.
The essay also discussed Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson, who pleaded guilty in 2019 to gun and drug charges after prosecutors alleged he had stockpiled weapons and planned to murder Democratic politicians, Supreme Court justices, and journalists. Schrama argued that the case demonstrated the limitations of existing federal law because prosecutors had charged Hasson with other offenses rather than a specific domestic terrorism crime.
The essay was not written in Schrama&#8217;s capacity as a judge on the military commissions. Schrama&#8217;s ruling on Mohammed&#8217;s confession is nevertheless likely to have significant consequences for a case that has been stuck in pretrial proceedings for nearly two decades.
“The prosecution has failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Mohammad&#8217;s statements to the F.B.I. were voluntarily given,” Schrama wrote, according to the ruling&#8217;s conclusion.
The judge found that Mohammed&#8217;s treatment by the CIA had created an “unbroken continuation of the CIA&#8217;s psychological conditioning and severe coercion” that carried over into his later questioning. He also found that FBI agents failed to explicitly tell Mohammed that he had a right to remain silent and consult an attorney.
The government has five days to decide whether to appeal the ruling, with the option to request another five days. Rear Admiral Aaron C. Rugh, the chief prosecutor, said the government would review the decision before determining whether to appeal.
Without Mohammed&#8217;s FBI confessions, prosecutors will have to rely on other evidence, including documents, telephone intercepts, and transcripts of other conversations. Some of that evidence has also been challenged in the years of litigation surrounding the case.
The confession was particularly important because Mohammed is accused of developing the 9/11 plot in the 1990s, pitching it to Osama bin Laden and helping select and train the hijackers who ultimately carried out the attacks. The case has already survived repeated delays and changes in judges. Schrama became the fifth judge assigned to oversee the prosecution in 2025.
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller blasted the decision, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-axed-911-mastermind-confession-blamed-military-conservative-tendencies-rising-extremism">saying</a> the American judicial system is &#8220;so badly broken it sides at every turn with predators, monsters and, in this case, a 9/11 mastermind.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s a disgrace, it’s a travesty, it’s an outrage,&#8221; Miller said.
Mohammed&#8217;s defense attorneys, meanwhile, have argued that his years of torture, isolation, and coercive treatment made his later statements to FBI agents involuntary. Gary Sowards, one of Mohammed&#8217;s attorneys, said the ruling demonstrated “why the government shouldn’t engage in such shameful conduct.”
For the families of the September 11 victims, however, the latest development represents another setback in a prosecution that has been delayed for years — and now prosecutors have to fight to restore one of the most important pieces of evidence in their case.

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Judge Who Tossed Confession For 9/11 Mastermind Outed As Left-Wing Ideologue

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he tried the ketogenic diet once, and it quickly became what he referred to as a &#8220;near-psychotic event.&#8221;
Rubio told podcast host Katie Miller — who is married to White House adviser Stephen Miller — that he&#8217;d tried the popular high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet, and the constant lack of sugar had made him so angry that he often felt like he might snap.
&#8220;I did, one time, maybe four or five years ago, I tried this thing called keto,&#8221; Rubio told Miller. &#8220;You&#8217;ve heard of this?&#8221;
Miller said she had, and Rubio continued, &#8220;And you just eat all this protein, so you go through this massive withdrawal from sugar and carbohydrates for the first 72 hours. It was a near-psychotic event for me.&#8221;
Jeanette Rubio, sitting beside her husband, laughed out loud, confirming, &#8220;It&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s true.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s like, if I did [keto] in this job, I would be in there, &#8216;Mr. President, we must bomb, you know, Paraguay,'&#8221; Rubio said, adding, &#8220;And it&#8217;s like, why? I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m just really mad, I haven&#8217;t had any sugar,&#8221; he laughed.
&#8220;It&#8217;s true!&#8221; Jeanette said again.
Rubio clarified that he wasn&#8217;t saying the diet itself — which focuses on restricting carbohydrates so the body burns fat instead of sugar — was necessarily bad, only that it was most definitely not the right choice for him.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not against this diet. I&#8217;m not asking that we ban it. I encourage people to try it,&#8221; Rubio added with a laugh. &#8220;I&#8217;m just saying it&#8217;s not for everyone. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m saying.&#8221;
During the wide-ranging interview, the Secretary of State also shared his thoughts on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy&#8217;s diet — and weighed in on the merits of the classic 1975 movie &#8220;Jaws&#8221; compared to the cult classic &#8220;Sharknado.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to the country after tens of thousands of African migrants stormed across the Moroccan border into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Thursday. 
“It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/2083161441268297975">said</a> during a phone interview with Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich on Friday morning. “If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life.”
Trump&#8217;s comments came after almost 50,000 migrants rushed across the border into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the tip of Morocco, bringing widespread chaos and unrest. At least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34-dead-after-tens-of-thousands-of-migrants-invade-spain">34 people died</a> as thousands of migrants, mostly young men, attempted to swim or force their way into Ceuta. 
The migrants, emboldened by the lax immigration policies of leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, brought chaos to the streets of Ceuta, causing fear among locals who were overwhelmed by the flood. 
The images were reminiscent of <a href="https://x.com/JennieSTaer/status/1770886341879885952">video</a> captured during the Biden administration of a large mob of young men breaking down razor wire and fencing to storm past Texas National Guard troops stationed in El Paso. Over seven million illegal immigrants from all over the world crossed the United States border during President Joe Biden’s presidency. 
Many other Republicans echoed Trump’s comments in response to the scenes of chaos from Spain. 
“The Democrats did this to America every single day for 4 years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater, if they are given any form of national power. Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said. 
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The Democrats did this to America every single day for 4 years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater, if they are given any form of national power. Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice. <a href="https://t.co/HKRKAOOkmi">https://t.co/HKRKAOOkmi</a>
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“This is what the defund ICE Democrats (even in Arkansas, Dems are openly campaigning on defunding ICE) see as a model,” said Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR). “They see open borders as a tool to import the third-world and fundamentally change America.”
“What&#8217;s happening in Spain should be a warning to every American who may have forgotten about what our borders looked like the last time Democrats were in power: All it takes is one election for your nation to become unrecognizable,” said Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX).

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Dr. Anthony Fauci recommended White House adviser Stephen Miller move into a hotel for two weeks after his wife, Katie Miller, tested positive for COVID-19 while 10 weeks pregnant, according to newly released diary entries.
The entries were released Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf">obtained</a> them during his investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and gain-of-function research ahead of Fauci&#8217;s planned testimony on Capitol Hill in the coming week.
&#8220;COVID-19 hits the White House!!&#8221; Fauci wrote on May 8, 2020. &#8220;Yesterday, it was revealed that the personal valet of the POTUS tested positive for Sars-CoV-2. However, today it was noted that Katie Miller tested positive. She was negative yesterday and positive X2 today!!!&#8221;
&#8220;She had sxs (sic) in the Sit room yesterday and sat next to Steve Hahn and behind Azar,&#8221; Fauci continued, listing a number of officials who had all attended the same briefing. &#8220;I was on the other side of the room from her, but she was coughing in the room. She sat next to Olivia Troye when she was coughing and, in the afternoon, yesterday, Olivia sat right next to me in the Ward Room of the West Wing for 45 minutes. In the room were Deb Birx, Steve Hahn, Bob Redfield, Tyler Ann, Seema Verma.&#8221;
Fauci went on to note that White House adviser Stephen Miller had tested negative even after his wife had tested positive — a relief for the White House chief medical adviser because he&#8217;d spent some time in close proximity to Miller.
&#8220;I spent much time on phone this evening advising Katie and Steve Miller as to what they should do,&#8221; Fauci continued. &#8220;She is 10 weeks pregnant. I advised that Steve must move out of the house into a hotel; he still has to self-isolate for 14 days. If he stays in the house, whether or not he gets infected, he still must self-isolate for 14 days after Katies (sic) tests negative. His clock will start after he separates from Katie and so he should start the clock now.&#8221;
Fauci explained that because he was a &#8220;low risk exposure,&#8221; he self-imposed a &#8220;modified quarantine&#8221; in which he would &#8220;get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually (sic), and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone in my NIH office and would go to White House or Congress with precautions of universal mask wearing and phycial (sic) distancing.&#8221;
He also noted that he was monitoring Katie Miller via phone, noting that she&#8217;d been very anxious about her health and that of her unborn child.
&#8220;She is very anxious about getting very ill since she is 10 weeks pregnant. Tonight she had an anxiety reaction. I calmed her over the phone. Her pulse Ox is fine and she is afebrile,&#8221; he wrote.
His other main concern was the fact that some of those who&#8217;d been seated close to Katie were not doing enough to mitigate the potential spread of the virus.
&#8220;Marc Short and others close to Katie really should do some sort of quarantine (even if modified), but they are not even wearing masks. Not a good metric,&#8221; he complained.

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Fauci Advised Stephen Miller To Leave His Pregnant Wife Alone With COVID, Get A Hotel

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Proponents of President Donald Trump&#8217;s mass deportation effort have become increasingly concerned that the administration is falling short of its lofty goal of carrying out one million removals each year while appearing to inflate the numbers.
A lawsuit <a href="https://itsyourgov.org/press/oversight-project-announces-investigation-for-deportation-data-the-two-commas-compliance-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> against the Trump administration by the Oversight Project, a nonprofit group advocating for a &#8220;mass deportation,&#8221; has brought those concerns to light. The complaint centers on the Trump administration&#8217;s failure to respond to outstanding Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for deportation data.
The group alleges that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may have provided deportation data to the American people that are &#8220;contradictory&#8221; to the numbers presented to lawmakers.
The claim is significant given the Oversight Project&#8217;s support of the Trump administration&#8217;s historic deportation push.
Scott Mechkowski, a visiting fellow for deportation studies at the Oversight Project, told The Daily Wire that he hopes &#8220;the numbers aren&#8217;t inflated,&#8221; adding that he has his doubts.
&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that the numbers aren&#8217;t inflated, but I just don&#8217;t see [it] with the current daily jail populations being down. I know that just recently in the last week or two, they&#8217;ve said they&#8217;ve arrested a couple thousand people. But before that, the numbers were down,&#8221; the former ICE official said.
&#8220;So, if the numbers are down, either they&#8217;re deporting more people &#8230; but then, where are all the charter flights? What flights are they leaving on? &#8230; If it meets the president&#8217;s agenda, why wouldn&#8217;t there be more press on that? If I&#8217;m getting rid of charter after charter of people,&#8221; Mechkowski added.
In one example cited by the nonprofit organization, a department press <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/20/dhs-sets-stage-another-historic-record-breaking-year-under-president-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> from January 20, 2026, stated that &#8220;over 3 million illegal aliens are out of the country, as DHS has removed more than 675,000 illegal aliens and estimated 2.2 million illegal aliens have self-deported.&#8221;
However, the department informed Congress in its fiscal year 2027 budget justification that &#8220;it had removed and returned a total of 442,637 aliens in Fiscal Year 2025 — which includes the final months of the Biden Administration,&#8221; the Oversight Project said in a recent press release.
Citing an internal agency document, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/us/dhs-self-deport-project-homecoming-invs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in March that 72,000 foreigners had self-deported through the Trump administration&#8217;s exit program.
In May, DHS <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-touts-millions-illegal-immigrant-departures-border-crossings-drop-94-under-trump?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News that deportations stood at 3 million, with more than 900,000 removals by federal authorities and another 2.2 million self-deportations.
The numbers &#8220;simply do not make sense,&#8221; the Oversight Project said, adding, &#8220;Our FOIAs and subsequent lawsuits seek to obtain actual data in a form that is easily understandable and gives the American people the ability to see the true deportation numbers.&#8221;
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has also failed to publish an annual report for fiscal year 2025, as they have in previous years.
&#8220;ICE has published an annual enforcement report every year, covering FY2020 through FY2024, with predecessor Year in Review reports going back to 2016. Congress directed ICE to keep publishing it, no later than 90 days after the close of each fiscal year, with five years of comparison data in a sortable, downloadable, and printable format,&#8221; the group said.
&#8220;FY2025 ended on September 30, 2025. The report was due by late December. More than six months later, it has not appeared.&#8221;
At the end of the day, &#8220;actions gotta match words,&#8221; Mechkowski said.
&#8220;You got Markwayne Mullin up there on day one saying this is gonna happen, I want to be transparent &#8230; And you know what, nothing&#8217;s being published. And why isn&#8217;t it being published?&#8221; Mechkowski said.
In response to the Oversight Project&#8217;s concerns, a DHS spokesperson said that during Trump&#8217;s first year of his second term, &#8220;more than 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration including an estimated 2.2 million self-deportations.&#8221;
&#8220;As of July 12, we have now deported over 985,000 illegal aliens and arrested over 1 million illegal aliens,&#8221; the spokesperson said.

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Trump Admin Faces Pushback From Conservative Allies On Deportation Data

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The national Democratic Party completely threw out the political playbook this week, descending into the absolute gutter on social media.
After Lone Star State Attorney General Ken Paxton clobbered incumbent John Cornyn in a high-stakes GOP senatorial primary, the Dems eagerly posted a photo of their own nominee, James Talarico, declaring on X: “Fired up. Ready to go. It’s time to take back Texas.”
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Fired up. Ready to go.
It’s time to take back Texas. <a href="https://t.co/BaFsUGOgSp">pic.twitter.com/BaFsUGOgSp</a>
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller poked the leftist bear, writing: “The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate.”
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The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate. <a href="https://t.co/KaGDLn2naP">https://t.co/KaGDLn2naP</a>
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Rather than offering a clever political retort, the official, blue-checked Democrats account completely unraveled, <a href="https://x.com/TheDemocrats/status/2059685644041892078">firing back</a> with a shockingly vulgar, schoolyard insult: “Shut up, you ugly f*ck.”
Talarico’s actual record in Texas is raising plenty of eyebrows. He’s already been dubbed “Six-Gender Jimmy” and “James Tala-freak-o,” and a look into Talarico&#8217;s platform shows a politician deeply obsessed with radical gender ideology.
The Democrat nominee’s spiritual home, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, behaves more like a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-book-is-gay-read-the-sexually-explicit-volumes-james-talaricos-church-gives-kids">woke indoctrination camp</a> than a house of worship. The church library proudly boasts a collection of &#8220;banned books&#8221; available to children that would make a sailor blush. The book collection includes &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; and &#8220;All Boys Aren&#8217;t Blue,&#8221; which feature graphic descriptions and illustrations of anal rape, incest, and oral sex.
The church even hosts trainings linked to the anti-Trump “No Kings” protest movement and bills itself as a “Reproductive Freedom Congregation” where “abortion is a blessing.” Talarico himself has taken to the pulpit there, once delivered a sermon asserting that “our trans community needs abortion care too.”
Talarico&#8217;s sympathy for the transgender movement isn&#8217;t just a church hobby; it&#8217;s his legislative identity. An unearthed podcast clip revealed Talarico proclaiming that, outside of family and friends, the thing he loves most in the world is “trans children.”
On the legislative floor, Talarico has consistently gone to bat for the most extreme wings of the trans movement. He voted against protecting children from irreversible transgender surgeries and cross-sex hormones. He fought fiercely against keeping biological men out of women’s sports. Even more radical, Talarico publicly argued that parents who refuse to “affirm” a child’s sudden gender confusion are guilty of being “abusive” and “destructive.”
To top off his bizarre theology, the lawmaker has argued in committee hearings that modern science recognizes “six biological sexes” and has claimed that “God is non-binary” and Jesus was a “radical feminist.”
With the Democrats melting down into profane tantrums online and their candidate pushing extreme gender theories in a state Donald Trump won by 14 points, Texas Republicans are smelling victory.
If the Dems keep up the X-rated rhetoric, &#8220;taking back Texas&#8221; is going to remain a pipe dream.

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‘Shut Up, You Ugly F*ck’: Democrats Melt Down After Stephen Miller Trolls Radically Woke Talarico

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After touting the destruction of 42 Iranian naval vessels in three days and the disruption of the country’s communications systems and air force, President Trump credited the success to policies from his first term.
“I built the military and rebuilt it and made it very strong in my first administration along with many other things,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;And now we are using it, unfortunately we have to.”
During Trump&#8217;s first four years in office, more than <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/national-security-defense/">$2.2 trillion</a> was directed toward defense spending. That funding went to modernizing nuclear forces and missile defenses, upgrading cyber defenses, and advanced missile defense capabilities and regional alliances.
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared the United States military had been &#8220;unleashed&#8221; after ditching political correctness.
&#8220;One of the reasons I fear that some people in this country lost faith in the military and the capacity to use that military to defend us is because we had a Woke Pentagon — because we had a military who, at the very highest levels—not the warfighters—was forced to fight a less than full fight,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2029391225019654433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2029391225019654433%7Ctwgr%5E878a7800280a4245b5a897fca819016bf58d422a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Funleashed-stephen-miller-declares-end-of-woke-pentagon-as-trump-restores-military-might">stated</a> Miller on Thursday. &#8220;What you&#8217;re seeing now is a military that is unleashed in all of its lethal prowess to go out and seek, destroy, and kill the enemy.&#8221;
President Trump&#8217;s U.S. Space Force, established in 2019, helps feed intelligence across the military. Space Force develops and defends communication satellites, engineers global cybersecurity networks, supports rocket launches, and uses space systems to connect operations on land, sea, air, cyber, and space. Space Force provides the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines with GPS/navigation, missile warning systems, and intelligence from space.
The strength of the United States military is known worldwide, with world leaders praising it as well. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nato-europe-us-nuclear-trump-defense-security-c1575be708cbd813f1c7d97c87628ff6">told</a> EU lawmakers, “If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming.”
President Trump said he did the world a favor by targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They were very close to a nuclear weapon. They would have had one if we didn’t do our B2 hit, Midnight Hammer. They would have had it eight months ago. They would have had a nuclear weapon and they’re crazy and they would have used it.”
When asked to rate the success of Operation Midnight Hammer on a scale from 1-10, the president responded, “About a fifteen, I would say—with ten being the best.” He added, “There’s no military on earth like it, not even close. We are doing very well in Iran. You see the result. It’s been amazing.”
The U.S. Central Command revealed on Friday that U.S. forces struck over <a href="https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2030118409883541979">3,000</a> targets in the first week of Operation Epic Fury. The military is targeting Iranian command and control centers, ballistic missile sites, Navy ships and submarines, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) joint headquarters.
&#8220;They’re just bad people. When you look at October 7 and beyond October 7, look at all the killing that they’ve done. Over the years, for 47 years. And this had to be done,&#8221; the president said.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-least-5000-dead-in-iran-unrest-official-says-as-judiciary-hints-at-executions">Thousands</a> of people have been killed while protesting in Iran, with the total number of protester deaths believed to be in the tens of thousands.

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Trump Credits First-Term Military Rebuild With Powering U.S. Offensive Against Iran

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In a blistering appearance on Hannity Wednesday night, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared that under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States military has finally been &#8220;unleashed&#8221; from the shackles of political correctness.
Miller’s remarks serve as a sharp course correction from the previous years of &#8220;woke&#8221; indoctrination that plagued the Pentagon under the Biden administration—a period defined by top brass who seemed more interested in pronoun etiquette than lethality and victory.
Miller drew a hard line in the sand regarding Iran, a regime he noted has waged war against Americans for 47 years. From the 1979 embassy hostage crisis to the 1983 bombing of the Marines in Beirut, and the murder of the CIA station chief, Miller emphasized that the era of American retreat is over.
&#8220;America First means America will be the greatest, most unquestioned, unmatched power in the world,&#8221; Miller asserted. &#8220;And it means we will defend American lives. And yes, we will avenge American blood.&#8221;
He made it clear that the Trump administration will not tolerate a regime that trains proxy armies, menaces U.S. troops with missiles, or pursues nuclear weapons. But the most significant shift, Miller noted, is internal.
The transition marks a radical departure from the tenure of figures like former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, who once famously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joint-chiefs-of-staff-chairman-milley-protests-im-not-sure-what-woke-means?utm_source=chatgpt.com">claimed</a> he didn’t know what &#8220;woke&#8221; meant while simultaneously defending the study of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and &#8220;white rage&#8221; to Congress.
Under the previous guard, the military was bogged down by whistleblower reports of mandatory training on &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and &#8220;systemic racism,&#8221; Air Force instruction telling cadets to avoid gendered terms like &#8220;Mom&#8221; and &#8220;Dad&#8221; in favor of &#8220;caregiver,&#8221; and &#8220;Privilege walks&#8221; that forced service members to separate themselves by race and gender.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cotton-reveals-military-whistleblower-complaints-on-woke-training-bidens-secdef-insists-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is-important-to-this-military?utm_source=chatgpt.com">previously warned</a> that this &#8220;anti-American indoctrination&#8221; led to plummeting morale and a wave of separations from service members who signed up to fight enemies, not participate in race-based stratification.
Miller noted that the &#8220;warfighters&#8221; were never the problem; it was a &#8220;woke Pentagon&#8221; at the highest levels that forced the military to fight with its hands tied. That era, Miller said, has ended.
&#8220;What you&#8217;re seeing now, Sean, is a military that is unleashed in all of its lethal prowess to go out and seek, destroy and kill the enemy,&#8221; Miller concluded. &#8220;Which is what militaries are for.&#8221;
With the focus shifting back to &#8220;operational excellence&#8221; over &#8220;equity,&#8221; the message from the White House is clear: the U.S. military is no longer a laboratory for social experiments—it is once again a focused instrument of national survival.
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Right now, the moment either the Democratic Party or the GOP senses momentum, they put the pedal to the metal, and then proceed to overreach so dramatically that the American people are repulsed and react in disgust to that agenda.
Democratic politicians are being driven by a media and celebrity culture that has decided that what’s going on with ICE is the new, gigantic outrage of the day, and therefore everyone must speak out. They have decided this is their new civil rights moment.
The Democratic base is constantly in search of an animating principle, and the animating principle is supposed to be a pale knockoff of the civil rights movement of the 60s. They’ve done it with gay rights, transgenderism, and now with illegal immigration. “The jackbooted thugs, they&#8217;re enforcing laws that are discriminating against wide classes of people,&#8221; Democrats still argue. 
They&#8217;re always looking for their chance to do a Selma bridge moment. The problem for them is that those moments are rare because — thank God in America — that sort of stuff has been outré for half a century.
In terms of generic public policy, every country has to enforce its border, and every country has to make sure that illegal immigrants are deported. There&#8217;s nothing new about that.
But Democrats, and particularly radical activist class Democrats, are always looking for their new moment to be involved in a civil rights movement. The minute they see anything even remotely resembling that moment, they go for it whole-scale.
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This is how you end up with Scott Galloway suggesting the Democrats should conduct Nuremberg trials against the Trump administration. He stated, “I think there should be something equivalent to the Nuremberg Trials after this is all over. And to make it clear that once we’re back in power, which we will be, this is going to happen.”
This sort of language is not helpful. Kara Swisher, on the same podcast, suggested that Stephen Miller has blood on his hands and should be put in jail. She also compared Miller to arch-Nazi Heinrich Himmler, saying, “We always focus on Trump, as we often focus on the top people. But Stephen Miller, like a man named Bendetsen, he was the one who created the internment camps for Japanese, Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi regime, this is what he is.”
Comparing Stephen Miller to Heinrich Himmler is an astonishing leap.
In addition, we have the entire celebrity class, who, of course, have now been reanimated. They found their new cause.
One year ago, they were wearing Hamas pins at the Oscars. This year, presumably, it will all be about ICE.
Katy Perry, who is now dating Justin Trudeau, the Bernie Sanders of the north, ventilated on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DT_FY_8Dbox/">Instagram</a>, “Who: You, the power is in your hands. What: Call your senators. When: Now. We have until Friday, January 30th to block $10 billion (on top of the $75b that’s already been funded) from going through to ICE.” Then she put up a phone number because she feels it&#8217;s time to turn anger into action.
I&#8217;m not sure why we should treat the musings of celebrities as particularly important, but they clearly think their musings are.
Natalie Portman <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DT6WzUgDjBK/?hl=en">suggested</a> that she&#8217;s never been sadder to be an American. “I could not be prouder to be American right now by the way the Americans are acting,” she bloviated. “And I could not be sadder to be American right now with the way the government is behaving.”
Last I checked, Portman has been living in Paris with her children since she moved there in 2014. She even chose to stay there after she and her husband — who had taken a position with the Paris Opera Ballet — got divorced in 2024.
Olivia Wilde <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/olivia-wilde-natalie-portman-criticize-161351146.html">suggested</a> that ICE is a criminal organization, saying, “We can’t go another day accepting this as our new norm. It’s outrageous. People are being murdered, and I don’t want to normalize seeing that violence—on the internet or on film. It’s hideous. If we can do anything to support the movement to cast ICE out and delegitimize this criminal organization, then that’s what we should be doing.”
The musings of actors mean very little, but they do mean a lot in Democratic upper-echelon circles. When the celebrity class speaks with one voice, the people who tend to listen are the people they go to cocktail parties with: Democratic front-runners. That could be people like Wes Moore in Maryland, or Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, or Gavin Newsom in California.
And then there was Ethan Hawke, who is currently nominated for best actor for a movie called “Blue Moon.” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUBn4hUEisy/">He said</a>, “I never felt scared about what I was going to say until the last couple years. Where I feel like ‘Oh, you have to be careful. Or, or what? I don’t know, but there’s a kind of fear in the air that I’ve never felt before — and it’s not America. To get to be an artist in a free country, I’ve had enough of an education to know what a privilege that is. And, um, I don’t feel that way anymore.”
He doesn’t feel that way anymore? The hell he doesn’t. He’s out there making movies all the time.
There&#8217;s “fear in the air”? There’s this evanescent fear in the air?
Ethan Hawke is not walking around in fear.
My favorite thing about modern America is when people who have all the rights and privileges of being a modern American suggest that they are living in deep fear when they clearly are not. For God’s sake, he&#8217;s speaking into a microphone on camera.
You know what? People in totalitarian regimes don&#8217;t do that thing because they know what comes next — and it ain&#8217;t good.

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The newest “Star Trek” series is apparently so awful that it got the original Captain Kirk to see eye-to-eye with one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller responded to a brief clip of the new Paramount+ series &#8220;Star Trek: Starfleet Academy&#8221; in an X post, arguing that the only way for producers to save the show would be to give full creative control to actor William Shatner.
&#8220;Tragic. But it’s not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control.&#8221;
Shatner <a href="https://x.com/WilliamShatner/status/2013275829464383866">responded</a> several days later, saying, &#8220;I am so on the same page with you @StephenM&lt;! The fact that they have not [cured] Hyperopia by the 32rd Century is an abysmal oversight on the writers!&#8221;
&#8220;Also @paramountplus needs to up the budget because I’m sure that a well oiled organization like Starfleet in the distant future could afford more than one pair of glasses for at least this hyperopic bridge crew,&#8221; Shatner continued, adding, &#8220;Do they pass the glasses around while piloting the ship? Shame on the line producers! That is what you meant, right?&#8221;
&#8220;I am ready to assume command of the series! Call me!&#8221; he concluded.
Shatner was written out of the franchise in the 1994 film &#8220;Star Trek: Generations&#8221; – a move he&#8217;s said was made because producers wanted to move on to solely using the &#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221; cast led by British actor Patrick Stewart&#8217;s Jean-Luc Picard.
Shatner said that he was told before filming began for &#8220;Generations&#8221; that Captain Kirk was going to die in the film whether he participated or not – and so he opted for an onscreen death that allowed him a heroic exit.
&#8220;So the producer said, &#8216;We&#8217;re going to kill Kirk because we think that The Next Generation will make more money at the box office,'&#8221; he explained.
Three more movies followed with &#8220;The Next Generation&#8221; cast, and the series has since rebooted with three more films, starring Chris Pine as Captain Kirk.

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White House Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller fired back after a 60 Minutes correspondent accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of yanking a story about the Trump administration’s deportation of hundreds of immigrants to CECOT for “political reasons.”
“This is another pathetic 60 Minutes hatchet job. They are trying to tell sob stories about Tren de Aragua gang members who drill holes in people’s hands, who rape and murder little girls?” Miller <a href="https://grabien.com/story?id=562966&amp;utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20251224&amp;utm_content=story562966">said</a>.
“You actually have somebody, from the outside, new, who’s trying to actually act like an adult over at 60 Minutes and say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, you failed to talk to the administration, you failed to put in any sort of context, whatsoever, for the story, and so she’s decided to pause the story and now there’s an open revolt at 60 Minutes,” Fox News host Charles Hurt said to Miller. “First of all, were you contacted at all about this package, and what do you make of all of it?”
“I don’t remember anybody reaching out to me,” Miller replied. “Of course, as you know people put things at the comms inboxes and general feedback comments, but I don’t remember getting anything.”
“But more fundamentally, this is another pathetic 60 Minutes hatchet job,” he continued. “They are trying to tell sob stories about Tren de Aragua gang members who drill holes in people’s hands, who rape and murder little girls? This is the gang who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Jocelyn Nungaray. Remember her? That precious 12-year-old girl from Texas who was taken from her mom and went through horrors none of us can imagine?”
“And you have these 60 Minute producers who are living in comfort and security in their West End condos trying to make us feel sympathetic for these monsters?” he asked rhetorically. “Have you seen the tattoos, the face tattoos, the body tattoos on these killers? Would one 60 Minutes producer or writer agree to spend 30 minutes — I’ll make a deal. We will pick one person at random that we sent to CECOT, just a random lottery drawing, and they will spend one day, overnight, in your apartment.”
“Who is taking that deal at 60 Minutes? Nobody, because they know that these are monsters who got exactly what they deserved,” he declared. “Because under President Trump, we are not going to let little girls get raped and murdered anymore. And every one of those producers at 60 Minutes engaged in this revolt, fire them. Clean house, fire them. That’s what I say, Charlie.”
“And yet, somehow, they’re the compassionate ones and you’re the mean ones. But we’re glad you&#8217;re the mean ones and getting the job done,” Hurt concluded.
“I held that story because it was not ready,” Weiss <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/media/cbs-news-bari-weiss-60-minutes.html">said</a>, adding that the story had been reported by other news organizations. “The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison.”
The Daily Wire previously<a href="applewebdata://3CD6EBF5-83C4-49D9-9C71-580D795F3B88/v"> reported</a>:
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Weiss prevented the segment on El Salvador’s CECOT prison from airing on Sunday over concerns that the piece lacked important information, such as “the Trump administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.” She stated in a memo to CBS News staffers:
Last month, many outlets, most notably The New York Times, exposed the horrific conditions at CECOT. Our story presents more of these powerful testimonies—and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself. But if we’re going to run another story about a topic that has by now been much-covered, we need to advance it. Among the ways to do so: does anyone in the administration or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Alien Enemies Act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans endured at CECOT? That’s a question I’d like to see asked and answered.”
“At present, we do not present the administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. What we have is Karoline Leavitt’s soundbite claiming they are evildoers in America (rapists, murderers, etc.). But isn’t there much more to ask in light of the torture that we are revealing?” Weiss asked. “Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realize we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.”
In her third point, Weiss criticized one of the angles of the “60 Minutes” segment, arguing that it focused too much on the illegal immigrants sent to CECOT who do not have criminal histories and not enough on the violent criminals who have been removed from America.
“The data we present paints an incongruent picture. Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. We should spend a beat explaining this,” Weiss said. “We then say that only 8 of the 252 have been sentenced in America for violent offenses. But what about charged? My point is that we should include as much as we can possibly know and understand about these individuals.”
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Zach Jewell contributed to this story.

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The Supreme Court takes up a case that could decide the future of so-called birthright citizenship, elected leaders in Minnesota are scrutinized for links to the state&#8217;s massive welfare scandal, and the announced Netflix-Warner Bros merger sends shockwaves through Hollywood.
It’s Monday, December 8, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251208">video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump vs Birthright Citizenship</h2>
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Topline: The Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of birthright citizenship in what could be a historic court case brought on by the Trump administration.
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that children born in the United States to illegal immigrants and other short-term visitors would no longer be considered American citizens.
That order was immediately challenged in multiple lower federal courts and subsequently put on hold. But on Friday, the White House got some major news: the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case and will decide on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship. A ruling is expected by this summer.
Preview: The case will hinge on the court’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
Supporters of birthright citizenship say that sentence includes virtually everyone born on U.S. soil, but opponents say those born to illegal immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, and thus are not Americans.
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Essentially, the White House says birthright citizenship was originally a good-intentioned provision meant to extend citizenship to the children of former slaves after the Civil War.
But they argue it’s now been abused by millions of illegal immigrants and even tourists, who race across the border while pregnant to ensure their children will get citizenship. 
Lawyers for the White House argue that Trump’s executive order would simply “restore the clause’s original meaning.”
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Massive Minnesota Fraud</h2>
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Topline: The Somali-linked welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is now being tied to Democrat leaders in the state, drawing more attention from the Trump administration and Congress.
Catch up: Billions of tax dollars have been stolen in the state of Minnesota during the tenure of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. City Journal reporting has uncovered that at least a billion dollars in welfare and social service schemes have largely been connected to the Somali community in Minnesota. Alarmingly, some of this money was allegedly <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funneled</a> to Somalia-based terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
How could it be worse? Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says the welfare fraud scheme is far worse than the American people think, involving “complicit” state government officials and totaling more stolen money than initial early estimates stated.
“We believe we have only scratched the very top of the surface of how deep this goes,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1997135207707615556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1997135207707615556%7Ctwgr%5E79d8d486c99e2a14a41c75308117655867895db2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-somali-welfare-fraud-scandal-is-even-worse-than-you-think">said</a> Miller in an appearance on Fox News. “We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme, and we believe that what we are going to uncover is going to shock the American people.”
Miller also underscored the Somali ties to this fraud, connecting it to a larger conversation the nation is having about immigration from third-world countries.
“Seventy-five percent of the Somali population in Minnesota is on welfare, and that’s likely a significant undercount of just how much of a financial burden the Somali refugee population is imposing on this country,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1997135207707615556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1997135207707615556%7Ctwgr%5E79d8d486c99e2a14a41c75308117655867895db2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-somali-welfare-fraud-scandal-is-even-worse-than-you-think">said</a> Miller.
Who knew what: Reporting from the New York Post has tied Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar to the scandal. Omar held parties at one of the key restaurants named, and she knew one of its owners, who is now convicted of stealing millions in funds. Additionally, one of her own staffers has been convicted of stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud.
“I just think that a lot of the COVID programs were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created,” Omar <a href="https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1996395142001864889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1996395142001864889%7Ctwgr%5Edaf0b98b351595e957decab8d8baed2dec55e0db%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Filhan-omar-says-trump-supporters-might-attack-somalis-brushes-off-fraud-scandal">told</a> CNN last week when asked about the fraud.
There have also been questions about Walz’s oversight. The Treasury Department is investigating this scandal, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has announced a congressional investigation.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Netflix-Warner Bros Seismic Merger</h2>
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Topline: In a seismic shift for Hollywood, Netflix has struck an $83 billion deal to acquire Warner Brothers. The merger would potentially reshape the entertainment business for generations.
Announced just days ago, Netflix&#8217;s binding offer will give it not just Warner Bros the movie studio, but also streaming assets like HBO Max. And it&#8217;s gobbling up classics like Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Looney Tunes, Friends, etc.
It’s being called one of the biggest, if not the biggest, mergers in Hollywood history. It comes after a bidding war that saw heavyweights like Paramount Skydance and Comcast get outmaneuvered or outspent by Netflix.
The Netflix angle: Netflix has been in a content arms race with Disney and Amazon. The Warner Bros. vault offers instant firepower.
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos says it&#8217;ll “accelerate HBO Max growth” while blending Warner&#8217;s “theatrical expertise.” But many critics are concerned that this means Netflix will shorten theatrical windows and further decimate the moviegoing business.
That’s part of the reason many creatives hate this deal. During the bidding war, director James Cameron <a href="https://x.com/Todd_Spence/status/1996991743116591550?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Netflix&#8217;s acquisition of Warner Bros would be “a disaster” for the industry.
Batman director Christopher Nolan is representing the Directors Guild in meetings with Netflix to express concerns. Both the East and West Writers’ Guilds issued a joint statement unequivocally opposing the sale and asking regulators to block it.
Could it be blocked? There are already rumbles in Washington that the Trump administration doesn’t like this merger.
And opposition is bipartisan. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), chair of the antitrust subcommittee, said Netflix should “Buckle up for an intense antitrust hearing.” Meanwhile,  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has called the merger an “anti-monopoly nightmare,” warning that it could lead to higher subscription prices and fewer choices for consumers.
There’s no question that because Netflix is already the largest global streamer, adding Warner Bros. content and HBO Max subscribers would give it extraordinary dominance–over a third of the streaming market.
Netflix, though, already seems to be trying to soothe customer jitters. It sent a message to subscribers on Saturday night, repeatedly assuring them that their plans, fees, content access, and the separate operations of both Netflix and HBO Max will not change.

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