The Pied Piker has been piping a dangerous tune for years. The question is whether anyone’s finally going to take away his flute. The Leftist, who built a multi-million dollar streaming empire, is telling his followers to “kill those motherf*ckers” and “let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood.” This is a man who said America deserved 9/11, and who recently sat before his camera, voice visibly shaking, delivered the political commentary of his career: “Is this helpful for you if I go to f*cking prison?!?” Me individually? Probably not. But America as a whole? Yes. Hasan Piker, the wildly popular Marxist Twitch streamer, has been subpoenaed by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in connection with his participation in a Cuba aid convoy that, federal investigators believe, may have directly violated U.S. sanctions against the Communist Party of Cuba. On his livestream this week, Hasan Piker says the federal probe is “not great.” You don’t say. In March, Piker traveled to Havana as part of the Nuestra America Convoy, an international activist flotilla organized by a coalition of Marxist, socialist, and communist-aligned groups; including Code Pink and the Democratic Socialists of America. The convoy delivered aid directly to institutions controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba. They reportedly stayed at hotels on the U.S. State Department’s Cuba Restricted List; establishments that exist to directly benefit the Cuban regime and the Cuban regime alone. So while millions of Cuban citizens endure 22-hour daily power blackouts and widespread starvation under the boot of the regime Piker so admires, he and his crew were partying in regime-linked hotels, handing over supplies to the very government that keeps those people in chains, and then posting about it online like it was a music festival. You can imagine, if a Republican did this, it would spark DEFCON 1 over on Bluesky. In the aftermath of the Communist Convoy, OFAC issued information requests to Piker, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and roughly 40 other Americans, investigating whether they materially supported the Cuban government in violation of federal sanctions law. A second, arguably more serious question is also on the table: Was Hasan engaged in illegal foreign influence peddling? This would require federal registration as a foreign agent, but Piker hasn’t registered for anything except Twitch. Follow the money, and you find Neville Roy Singham, a China-based Marxist billionaire who has funneled $285 million since 2017 into U.S. nonprofits pushing pro-Cuba, pro-China, anti-American messaging. Recipients include Code Pink, People’s Forum, PSL, and the ANSWER Coalition. His wife co-founded Code Pink. She was also on the Cuba convoy. We know all of this partly because Piker confirmed it himself on a six-hour livestream he titled, with characteristic subtlety, “Feds Are After Me,” naming Singham as a “funding vehicle for a lot of political movements.” He called him “Roy.” Like a friend. These are registered nonprofits. They are explicitly not supposed to be political operations. Yet here’s their most prominent amplifier, on camera, confirming the whole ecosystem is a coordinated machine bankrolled by a man in Shanghai. Piker isn’t the wallet. He’s the flute. Leading millions astray. Can we deport him? (We cannot. But allow us a moment.) Hasan Piker is an American citizen. Born on U.S. soil while his parents were visiting, which is a compelling argument for revisiting birthright citizenship. His uncle is Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, a progressive, Left-wing populist commentary program. He got a communications degree from Rutgers, moved to Hollywood, bought a $2.74 million home, and has spent the intervening years lambasting the very country that gave him everything. Much as the impulse is understandable, we cannot deport him, but we can prosecute him. If the evidence shows Piker financed, coordinated, or materially aided a sanctions-violating convoy; staying in regime-linked hotels, delivering goods directly to Communist Party entities, and confirming on-camera that he knew exactly whose money was behind it, then he deserves the maximum the law provides. Ruinous fines. Asset forfeiture. If criminal intent can be proven, prosecution. America has, for a long time now, been operating with two sets of rules. On one hand are parents labeled domestic terrorists by the DOJ for showing up to school board meetings, January 6 defendants held for years in pretrial detention, and a Catholic grandmother prosecuted under the FACE Act for praying outside an abortion clinic. On the other hand, the liberals who burned federal courthouses in the summer of 2020, who had their charges dropped, and a Marxist streamer who hand-delivered supplies to a communist regime and bragged about it on camera, spent years being punished… by collecting a blue checkmark and a New York Times profile. The radical Left has been living by a different standard entirely. This is where that road ends. Not with new laws or show trials or political persecution. With the simple, consistent application of the rules that already exist, applied equally to everyone, including and especially the loudest voices who’ve spent years insisting those rules don’t apply to them. The man who once told his followers that America deserved 9/11 is now sitting in his $2.74 million Hollywood home, very sincerely hoping that America’s legal system will extend him a courtesy he never extended to anyone else. For years, millions followed the Pied Piker wherever he led: toward Marxism, toward contempt for their own country, toward the warm ideological embrace of regimes that would jail them for the very speech he profits from. He played the tune. They marched. The music has stopped. The answer now should be simple: equal justice under law, for everyone. Even the Pied Piker.

Lawyers defending illegal immigrants may be the next target of the Trump administration’s war on fraud. The Trump administration is instructing ICE attorneys to scrutinize immigration attorneys it says “frequently coach” illegal immigrants “to conceal their past and even outright lie in their asylum claims,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday. “For many years, millions of illegal aliens have committed fraud in our immigration system. No place is this more rampant than in immigration court,” Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival said in a statement. Foreigners apply for asylum once they reach United States soil and must prove that they’re victims of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in their home country to receive protection. “Protection claims like asylum are intended to cover unique and narrow circumstances, but it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country,” Percival said. “Historically, ICE has depended on the discipline of immigration judges and the enforcement of criminal fraud laws to deter this conduct, but ICE has its own tools. Now, thanks to this directive, ICE attorneys have greater authority to enforce the law and stop the abuse of our asylum system by illegal aliens and attorneys,” he added. As part of its mass deportation effort, the Trump administration has made sweeping changes to the immigration court system. The Justice Department swore in 82 immigration judges — the largest class in agency history — bringing total fiscal year 2026 hires to 153, the most in any single year. Now, the United States has nearly 700 immigration judges. The hiring blitz followed a mass firing of more than 100 immigration judges who granted asylum in 46% of cases, according to The New York Times. The federal government also recently issued a new rule to force green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply for permanent residency. In many instances, foreigners in the United States on temporary visas may remain and await a decision on their applications. The Trump administration has said that the previous rule resulted in individuals who were ultimately denied a green card staying and increasing the illegal immigrant population. When those illegal immigrants failed to ultimately leave the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had to hunt them down. As of September 2024, roughly 500,000 immigrants had overstayed their visas, according to Homeland Security data. It’s not clear how many of them had previously applied for green cards.

Jonathan Andic, an heir to the Mango clothing company, stepped down Tuesday as vice president of the fashion empire after being accused of involvement in his billionaire father’s death. He said he left his role to focus on clearing his name after Spanish authorities arrested him in connection with the case. “I make this decision sadly, but convinced that it is what’s best for the company and for me,” Andic wrote in a letter to staff. “I need to concentrate all my energy on demonstrating my innocence.” His father Isak Andic, the founder of Mango and one of Spain’s richest men, tragically died in December 2024 after falling from a cliff during a hike with Jonathan outside of Barcelona. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of roughly $4 billion, according to Forbes. Authorities initially believed the death was an “accident.” But prosecutors reopened the investigation in October 2025, according to CBS News, and Jonathan became the primary suspect. The 45-year-old was arrested last week in Spain before posting bail equivalent to $1.2 million. During the investigation, detectives uncovered tensions between the father and son related to money and changes to Isak’s will, per TMZ. Jonathan strongly denied any wrongdoing in the letter to employees. “A public narrative has been constructed that is one-sided, taken out of context and distorted, and which has created a perception of guilt that bears no relation to reality,” he wrote. “I know that dismantling it will require time, effort, and intense dedication.” Just weeks after his father’s death, Jonathan was appointed executive vice president of Mango’s holding company in January 2025, Reuters reported. Jonathan, who inherited part of the business alongside his two sisters, calls the accusations against him “serious, unjust, and unfounded.” Mango CEO Toni Ruiz and the company’s board continue to support Jonathan following his resignation. In a memo to employees, Ruiz said company leadership believes the legal process will clarify the facts, and he urged staff to “remain united.” Isak founded Mango in Barcelona in 1984, and the fashion group expanded internationally in 1992 with its first store in Portugal before eventually growing worldwide, including a flagship location in New York. Jonathan is due back in a Spanish court next month.

Ohio officials are moving to overhaul the state’s anti-fraud infrastructure after The Daily Wire’s reporting exposed massive abuse inside Ohio’s Medicaid system, with top fiscal watchdogs now aligning themselves directly with Vice President JD Vance’s national anti-fraud push. In a major development first shared with The Daily Wire, Ohio State Auditor Keith Faber has joined the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF), a growing coalition of state auditors, treasurers, and comptrollers focused on combating government waste, fraud, and abuse. The move comes after Daily Wire investigations uncovered widespread fraud in Ohio’s Medicaid home healthcare programs, including cases in which convicted fraudsters were permitted to operate taxpayer-funded healthcare businesses while billing the government millions of dollars. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Ohio Auditor Keith Faber as our 42nd state financial officer,” OJ Oleka, the CEO of SFOF, told The Daily Wire. “As outrageous Medicaid fraud in Ohio continues to be exposed, Auditor Faber is precisely the kind of leader needed to root it out entirely and take bold action to make the state’s programs safer for taxpayers and beneficiaries than ever before,” Oleka added. According to Oleka, Faber’s office has already identified nearly $9 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse across state government programs.  Faber framed the effort as part of a broader national mission among conservative fiscal watchdogs aligned with the Trump administration’s renewed crackdown on government corruption. “We look forward to working with other conservative fiscal officers to protect taxpayers from waste, fraud, and abuse,” Faber told The Daily Wire. “Transparency and accountability with taxpayer money is a team sport.” At the same time, Ohio State Treasurer Robert Sprague is pushing major reforms to Ohio’s government transparency system, known as Ohio Checkbook, which allows taxpayers to track public spending data. Sprague’s office recently backed legislation that the Ohio House overwhelmingly passed and would dramatically expand the transparency database and increase public access to government expenditure information.  “More than ever, taxpayers must have confidence that their hard-earned money is being used efficiently and honestly,” Sprague told The Daily Wire exclusively. “Our office stands with Vice President Vance and financial officers nationwide in our mission to not only expose waste, fraud, and abuse, but prevent it.”  The reforms reflect a growing national movement among Republican state financial officers who increasingly view themselves as on the front lines of the Trump administration’s “war on fraud.” Auditors across the country have begun deploying aggressive new tactics ranging from AI-assisted audits to citizenship verification systems aimed at preventing taxpayer-funded benefits from flowing to ineligible recipients. North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek said fiscal watchdogs should prioritize taxpayers over protecting government bureaucracy. “It’s not my job to protect government,” Boliek told The Daily Wire. “It’s my job to protect the taxpayer, and they need an advocate.” Utah State Auditor Tina Cannon warned that political resistance often comes from those who benefit financially from bloated government systems. “The thing that bothers me the most is when people call the federal money coming into the state free money,” Cannon said. “No, that’s somebody’s federal tax return that is going to this program.” The intensified focus on fraud comes as the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, spearheaded by Vance, increasingly coordinates with conservative state financial officers to uncover abuse embedded throughout federal and state programs. For Ohio Republicans, The Daily Wire’s reporting appears to have accelerated that effort.

Did AOC just do the impossible and unite the entire Southeastern Conference? A college football hype video featuring New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has brought together SEC fanbases that normally can’t stand each other. Not just the kind of disdain where you root against your conference opponents. SEC rivalries go further than fandom: they determine marriages, children’s names, and whether or not your parents pay for your college. Now it’s only May, but this could be a contender for best hype video of the 2026 season — and it’s simply an AOC speech where she rails against what’s wrong with the South, and, arguably, the best part of the South — SEC football. NEW TREND: AOC – COLLEGE FOOTBALL EDITS. pic.twitter.com/LjP2WjoKrb — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 26, 2026 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a fiery speech from behind a bulletproof shield in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 16 at the “All Roads Lead To The South” rally, where she encouraged northern liberals to “pull up to the South” and fight what she describes as political injustice below the Mason-Dixon Line. While she never specified what she meant by “pull up” (according to Urban Dictionary, “pull up” when used as a phrase means to fight somebody), it didn’t take too long for college football fans to troll the New York native. Using clips from her rally speech, the now-viral TikTok shows the University of Alabama running onto Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium after AOC says, “It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama.” AOC continued, “It’s time for all of us to come to Georgia” — a perfect intro to show the University of Georgia Bulldogs taking the field in Sanford Stadium. Let’s be honest, AOC doesn’t scream SEC, which is largely made up of conservatives — but man, did she say the perfect words to show off what some claim are the best college football programs in the country. With the help of this football hype video, she may get more conservative eyes on her speeches than ever before. “AOC is now being mocked by SEC fans,” OutKick founder and avid college football fan Clay Travis said alongside the video on X. A University of Tennessee fan noticed his on-the-field rivals had the same opinion of the AOC SEC football mashup. “She has temporarily united the SEC fanbase against her and her far left socialist lunatics,” Brandon Harbin wrote. “We don’t do socialism in the South.” Even fellow politicians couldn’t help but put their college football rivalries aside to give this hype video some love. “I never repost LSU Football, but this is so awesome, it must be the exception,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted alongside the video from a Tigers fan account. “Bring it AOC. See you on game day.” The kickoff to college football is 95 days away, and there will be plenty more hype edits made, though having an AOC/SEC crossover is an unexpected move that will forever be meme’d … sorry … remembered.