Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and self-described “First Partner of California,” offered a bizarre defense of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi. Newsom, in a recent video, claimed that the two women — both recently removed from cabinet-level positions in President Donald Trump’s administration — were victims of “the Patriarchy” and proof positive that the war on women was raging ever onward. WATCH:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Jennifer Siebel Newsom (@jennifersiebelnewsom) “Trust me, I’m not a fan of Pam Bondi nor Kristi Noem,” Newsom began, adding, “But I need to call out that it’s no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women.” “Let me explain. The conservative women that Trump handpicks, who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy, and pushing us back into the straitjacket of femininity that is only in service of men, that’s a familiar pattern here,” Newsom claimed. “Women are brought in and packaged Mar-a-Lago-style and lifted up, as long as they commit to whole-heartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top.” Newsom went on to argue that those positions only appeared to hold power “or proximity to power” and failed to provide any kind of real authority or security: “There’s no secure place inside this handpicked patriarchal body that systemically disrespects, devalues, and discriminates against women and girls.” California’s “first partner” pivoted to attack Noem and Bondi — and other women aligned with the Trump administration — as “complicit” in devaluing other women and warned that they would always be the “first to go” when it mattered. “Your power is only temporary,” she claimed, adding, “And ultimately, they will come for you.” Newsom made no mention of the fact that Trump was responsible for hiring the first woman to manage a winning presidential campaign (Kellyanne Conway), the first working mother to serve as White House Press Secretary (Sarah Huckabee Sanders), and the first woman to serve as White House Chief of Staff (Susie Wiles). She also failed to acknowledge that it was actually a man — Green Beret veteran Mike Waltz, now serving as U.S. Ambassador to the UN — who was the first high-ranking official to be ousted from his role as national security adviser.

Political consultants spend a lot of time trying to manufacture enthusiasm. And they make a lot of money doing it — or failing to do it, in many cases. Kamala Harris’ campaign ended up in debt, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, because they paid a few celebrities to pretend to like her. This kind of political marketing is big business because, increasingly, our politicians are out of ideas. They’re inauthentic. They’re not particularly bright. So they cut some checks, and hope for the best. But the best kind of political messaging, and by far the most effective, isn’t really political at all. If you want to motivate millions of people to vote in a particular way, it’s actually not that difficult. It doesn’t require a convoluted argument, or an appeal to authority, or exhaustive statistics, or anything like that. All you need to do is show people what’s been taken from them. You have to demonstrate that, not too long ago, people lived much better lives, on a day-to-day basis. You have to illustrate, in an objective fashion, that the birthright of millions of Americans has been stolen. It’s harder to find a man who’s angrier — and justifiably so — than a man whose children will be forced to grow up in a more dangerous, more dirty, less wealthy, and less proud nation than the one his ancestors did. This is why Trump’s famous slogan, “Make America Great Again,” resonated to the degree that it did. And it’s also why this footage — posted by the official account of Fenway Park in Boston on April 2nd — has racked up more than ten million views, and radicalized pretty much everyone who’s seen it. In their post, Fenway Park was attempting to mark the occasion of Opening Day. And to do that, they posted old footage of previous Opening Days at Fenway Park in the 1950s. See what you notice: Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/JHs7eblKDp — Fenway Park (@fenwaypark) April 3, 2026 @fenwaypark/X.com Everyone’s well-dressed. They’re behaving in an orderly fashion. Everything looks clean and bright and safe. You can’t help but notice that pretty much everyone is white. And in general, they all seem to be happy. Immediately, tens of thousands of comments began flooding in. Here’s just a handful of them. National Revival wrote, “Mayor Michelle Wuhan and the Radical Left have done everything in their power to erase this version of the Once Beautiful City of Boston.” Thymotic Assertion wrote, “Dear God, this is heartbreaking. What have we done to our civilization since the 1960s cultural revolution?” Sovereign Economy wrote, “America of the past is unrecognizable when compared to today. Sad..” PNWxNobody wrote, “Um, where’s the diversity? Where’s all the Somalians and transgenders that are the fabric of ‘our democracy?’ This is racist and transphobic.” Cape Aerial wrote, “It’s wild how you can post a video from 60 years ago in Boston and it immediately looks like (what Democrats call) ‘White supremacist’ propaganda.” And on and on. Every single comment was like this. So eventually, the Fenway Park account decided to shut down the comments section. No one else could reply to their video, at least not directly. So, Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas wrote this message about Fenway Park’s video on his own feed. A world my generation never got to experience. Our country declined so much in just a few decades, and it’s utterly radicalizing. You can make the case that this short, one-minute video from Fenway Park is the single most effective piece of political messaging of the year. Everyone knows that Boston no longer looks anything like that footage from the 1950s. And everyone knows that, since the 1950s, every single major city in the United States has transformed in very similar ways, from Los Angeles to Detroit to New York. For simplicity’s sake, let’s stick to Boston for now. Take a look at this chart. @BWLH/X.com The demographic element of this story is unavoidable. In 1950, white people accounted for 95% of Boston’s population. As of last year, whites are now a minority. The white population dropped to 45% in 2018, and it’s been falling ever since. This is the kind of mind-blowing, historic demographic transformation that, if it were happening to any other race or ethnicity, it would be treated as a crisis and a tragedy. But for white people, it’s supposed to be a cause for celebration.  More than a quarter of Boston’s residents were born in a foreign country — typically the Dominican Republic, China, or Haiti. According to the city government, “234,792 residents (37% of Boston’s population) speak another language at home,” besides English. And more than 105,000 people — 16% of Boston Residents aged five and older — “do not speak English as their primary language and have some language access need in speaking, reading, writing, or understanding English.” Instead of English, they’re speaking Spanish, “Haitian Creole,” Mandarin and Vietnamese. And those are just the official numbers. A lot of illegal aliens don’t respond to these surveys. So the actual figures are probably even worse — a lot worse. This is a transformation that no American should tolerate. It is total demographic replacement. Even if Boston (and other major cities) were importing high-achieving, law-abiding foreigners — which they aren’t — it would still be unacceptable. This country was built, in every meaningful way, predominantly by white people who came from Europe and descended from Europeans. Those Americans created a distinct culture and way of life — which is why we’re basically the only country on the planet anymore that actually respects the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion, or that’s capable of sending men to the moon. That’s worth defending. But unless we make the active, conscious choice to defend this country, we will lose it. That’s how the Bolsheviks conquered Russia — people got too complacent and too passive. It’s also how other Western countries, including the UK and Canada, have collapsed in a very short period of time. They’re unrecognizable now. They’ve been colonized, without a single shot being fired, by foreigners who have nothing in common with them. The same thing is happening to us. Take a look at this footage from Opening Day at Fenway, from a couple of days ago. See if you notice any differences from the 1950s: Missed the loudest part but my favorite annual tradition. Booing mayor WUhan https://t.co/exbaLIvitb pic.twitter.com/qp0Xt9aGNq — Alex (@Alexzachary305) April 3, 2026 @Alexzachary305/X.com Boston’s Mayor Got Booed At The Red Sox Home Opener Boston mayor Michelle Wu was a guest at the Boston Red Sox home opener on Friday and it’s safe to say that she isn’t a beloved figure at Fenway Park. pic.twitter.com/aDq20Id2ve —

More than six years after overstaying his tourist visa, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela allegedly tried to murder a man on a Long Island beach last month, The Daily Wire has learned. Ruben Guanipa Ramirez, 26, allegedly drove an acquaintance to Gilgo Beach, a remote location where he attacked him from behind, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. The Venezuelan national allegedly shoved a black cloth into his victim’s mouth while stabbing him in the left side and attempting to slit his throat. Ramirez picked up the man from his Queens home before the two ended up playing pool at Sport Billiard Pool Hall, the DA’s office said. The Venezuelan national then allegedly drove his victim to Jones Beach and then Gilgo Beach, where the attack occurred. Ramirez attacked when the two were walking back to the car, according to prosecutors. The victim was able to wrestle the knife out of Ramirez’s hands, resulting in defensive wounds. The victim was able to drive off in Ramirez’s car, leaving his alleged attacker on the side of the road, and call 911. He then went to his friend’s house in Queens, where he was met by police and an ambulance, which transported him to a nearby hospital. Police arrested Ramirez later that same day after spotting him walking along the Long Island Expressway in Nassau County, prosecutors said. Authorities later discovered three kitchen knives, one of which was covered in blood, along with rope, duct tape, blankets, plastic drop cloths, a large-wheeled bag, gloves, and a boxcutter inside Ramirez’s car. Ramirez came to the United States in June 2019 on a B-2 tourist visa, which required him to leave the country by December of that year, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire — but he never left. Now, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pressuring authorities in New York not to release the illegal immigrant. The district attorney in Suffolk County, Raymond Tierney, has condemned the state’s sanctuary laws and recently used a loophole to have ICE pick up a child rape suspect from Guatemala, according to Fox News. “Ruben Guanipa Ramirez is a dangerous criminal illegal alien who violently stabbed his victim and attempted to slit his throat,” Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement on Monday. “ICE lodged an arrest detainer requesting Long Island not release this attempted murder from jail without notifying ICE.” “We need more state and local law enforcement to work with ICE to get criminals out of our neighborhoods. This attempted murderer will never be loose on American streets again. Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS has unleashed ICE to target dangerous criminal illegal aliens, like Ruben Guanipa Ramirez, to put the safety of Americans first,” Bis added.

This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you. *** “Welcome to ‘TODAY’ … it is good to be home,” Savannah Guthrie said through a camera-ready smile at NBC’s Studio 1A in Rockefeller Center. Wearing a yellow floral dress as sunny as the roses on set, she made her much-anticipated return to the anchor desk on Monday after a two-month hiatus as the search for her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues. “Here we go, ready or not, let’s do the news,” she said. As the famous face of the cause célèbre, Savannah has endured forensic scrutiny over her own behavior following her mother’s disappearance on February 1. Body language experts dissected her crossed arms while holding her siblings’ hands. Legal analysts drilled down on her measured pleas to alleged kidnappers. And podcasters noted her drab, reworn clothing and puffy, makeup-free face. But Savannah’s latest enterprise — simply returning to the network where she’s worked for more than 14 years — stripped her essence to the bone, raising one question about humanity’s greatest heartbreak. Is it ever “too soon” to move on? Moments after her reintroduction, Savannah was in tears, walking arm-in-arm with Jenna Bush Hager to greet the audience outside. Holding hands to hearts and biting quivering lips, excited tourists donned yellow remembrance ribbons and held up images of Savannah and Nancy from better days. Homemade T-shirts read “Welcome Home Savannah,” while other signs gave shout-outs to family members watching from home. The bustling chaos put an odd frame around Savannah’s return. It’s unfair to compare Savannah choking up while saying, “I’ve received so many letters, so much kindness” to the whooping girls with the “VISITING FROM VIRGINIA BEACH” poster. And why should these carefree fans be forced to empathize with someone else’s walk through the valley of the shadow of death? They might be going to the Jellycat Diner at FAO Schwarz after this, not forming a search party to look for Nancy Guthrie.  Like anyone grieving a parent or child, Savannah seems to have narrowly avoided total consumption. Just a day before her return to the morning show, she participated in an Easter Sunday message for her church, Good Shepherd New York. Confirming God’s promise of “a new life that never ends in death,” she added a boldfaced footnote when she said, “There are moments when that promise seems irretrievably far away. When life itself seems far harder than death.” Admitting “utter abandonment” as well as a “deep disappointment with God,” she wondered aloud if Jesus had ever felt the sort of pain she was feeling. He knew his exact destiny; he had all the answers. “God does not ask us to be stoics with standards of pain, with zen-like remove or shallow sloganeering about the hard battles God gives to his toughest soldiers,” she said. Noting the darkness of the three days between Jesus’ death and the empty tomb, she added, “And so it went for me, this portal opening, as I stared at yet another incongruently luminous desert sunset amidst my spirit’s utter darkness.”  Once she broke the ice on “TODAY,” Savannah cracked jokes with an expert guest about perimenopause, shared the couch for news about a “Spaceballs” sequel, and checked in on the status of the Artemis moon mission.  If you’ve experienced grief, you’re familiar with how disorienting it can make news segments on, say, baby eagles feel. Competitors praised Savannah for being “incredibly resilient,” while the New York Times propped her up for “learning to live with not knowing.” These types of phrases fold into a neat little envelope. Return to sender.  Fans who saw themselves in the news anchor posted, “Her job is to be bubbly and joyful on TV — I can’t imagine how hard it will be to put on that face every morning.” Another commented, “Going back to work is going to be hard whenever she does it so might as well do it now.” Looking ahead, someone else wrote, “I can’t imagine reporting on daily stories of other prominent murders, kidnappings, losses of life, and tragedies or any story involving families without completely losing it.”  Jewish tradition offers a merciful guideline for reintroducing the obligations of daily life over the course of a year following the passing of a loved one. Several other religions hold space for the soul’s transition to the afterlife (and the most intense period of mourning for the living) over the span of 40 days. Modern psychology typically suggests that a healthy grieving experience lasts anywhere from six months to two years. Give or take a few lifetimes. Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was killed in cold blood last year, his wife, the new Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, was smeared for “not grieving correctly,” with the wildest conspiracies also suggesting she was somehow to blame for Charlie’s death. “I am getting so much noise from everyone,” Erika recalled. “You get people analyzing everything about you. They think they know everything about you. They know nothing about you. They see you on TV, they think, ‘Oh, she’s this, she’s that.’”   “My silence does not mean that I am complacent,” she told Fox News. “We are all grieving in our own way … trying to find the answer to something that happened that was so evil.”  We can’t help but start a countdown on a grief timeline. But our timing for each other is never right.  “I want to smile. And when I do, it will be real,” Savannah told former “Today” cohost Hoda Kotb less than two weeks before returning to the air. “I’m not gonna be the same, but maybe it’s like that old poem, more beautiful in the broken places.” My youngest sister died of brain cancer at age 8. I was 15 at the time, and I remember smiling so much at her memorial service that my teeth hurt. Trying to live up to the praise I was getting for being “so strong,” I went back to school the week following her funeral. I can’t recall what friends whispered to me by my locker, or what my fractured family ever did to stay together, but I wonder if soccer practice, piano, and homework helped keep me tethered to a new reality I needed to face.  Can we be okay with no working blueprint for the “right amount of time” to grieve? Can we accept that by some miracle, our hollowed-out souls can coexist with a daily routine, and even allow us to thrive? Maybe gallows humor and inconvenient, bittersweet memories aren’t bugs in our systems, but are instead features of our divine design. We wouldn’t be human if we easily got over the people we’re hoping never to forget.

Sunday marked Easter and the day before the 2026 College Basketball National Championship game where the UConn Huskies are taking on the No. 1 seeded Michigan Wolverines. Huskies head coach Dan Hurley spent his Sunday in that order —  observing Easter came first, then it was time to game plan. “Once I got out of Mass this morning, now it’s preparing for Michigan,” Hurley said Sunday. The two-time national champion is getting UConn ready for their third title game in four years. A dynasty in the works. Though Hurley leans on his faith to get through the grueling college basketball season, he’s not praying for a positive outcome on the court. “I’m praying for strength, for all the people that I’ve lost, and I pray to God for wisdom,” Hurley told National Catholic Register after his second championship. “And I do ask that we could be at our best. But I don’t ask to win the game. I ask for everyone to be at their best.” Psalm 23 is what Hurley says he prays every day. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever,” the passage states. “I pray every morning because maybe of the line of work I’m in: the stress level and intensity of it. I’m an intense person, and that really resonates to me,” Hurley said. “I also like the Proverbs, the Our Father, Hail Mary and the ‘Serenity Prayer.'” He’s a man who sticks to his routine, especially on game day. Monday, he will know nothing more or less than he does for every game day as he sets his eyes on a third title, and sixth overall, for Connecticut. UConn is the underdog, but Hurley said his team is ready to take on a “dominant” Michigan team, adding that sometimes, the best team doesn’t cut down the nets at the end of the NCAA Tournament. “You’ve just got to be better for one night, and obviously for us, we need to play the game a certain type of way where we obviously can’t get into a certain type of game with Michigan. They’re an incredibly dominant team,” Hurley said. “There are no holes in their attack, they’re an elite defensive team, they’re an elite offensive team. They crush the glass.” Michigan head coach Dusty May gave credit to Hurley and his team’s ability to fight till the end. “They take what the games give them, they ride a hot hand … so there’s just a number of challenges,” May said. “You can’t go into this game saying if you do this, we are going to win … even if we do that well, they’re going to pivot, and we are going to have to find a way to counter that pivot.” UConn and Michigan tip off at 8:50 p.m. ET.