“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan said he really doesn’t care what the critics think and admitted to “rage bait[ing]” them on occasion. The hit-producing showrunner, who debuted the popular series “Landman” in 2024, said during a recent appearance on “The Bill Simmons Podcast” that he doesn’t typically follow the established rules of the entertainment industry. “I knew when I started writing [I wanted] to simply not do what everyone else was doing,” Sheridan said. “What everyone else was doing was taking shortcuts, essentially breaking all the very basic fundamental rules of storytelling, because they couldn’t figure out their story. With a movie, you’re supposed to show me what’s happening. The camera is supposed to move the story. The dialogue is supposed to tell me how the people in this world feel about what’s happening or what they hope to do or what they wish they hadn’t done or had done.” Sheridan said the critics took issue with how he wrote Demi Moore’s character, making her less of a focus in the first season with the intention of stepping up her involvement in season two. “The critics are going to come after me. I’m underutilizing [Moore], can’t write for women, all this nonsense. Then I’m going to kill your husband and you’re going to have to run the oil company. The critics and me … I don’t care what they think, and it annoys the sh*t out of them that I don’t care. I’ll be the first to tell you that there are things that I do that rage-bait them a bit, and this is one of them. F*ck ’em, honestly.” Sheridan came down hard on entertainment executives in particular, saying they were not the experts when it comes to telling great stories.  “It didn’t used to be this way when Steve McQueen was a movie star at Paramount, and Bobby Evans ran the studio because writers were turned loose. Directors were turned completely loose. There weren’t endless rewrites. There weren’t meetings with executives about tone and mood and all this nonsense.” “By the way, the studio executives and the network executives — these are marketing executives, for the most part,” he went on. “Or maybe they studied law or whatever. Then they came, got a job in the mailroom at CAA or WME, and hated that sh*t. So then they ended up as an intern at some network. Then, through attrition, they find themselves the head of development. Well, what do you know about developing story? You know nothing. So they get terrified, panicked that the audience won’t get it because they actually have no storytellers.” He said oversight from the executives is stifling. He also noted that he’s not in the business to win awards.  Sheridan continued, “Our business, at this point, is truly governed by these executives because they’re the ones that are going to determine whether or not your script is going to go into production. They’re going to try and control every element of that.” “This is not a democracy. There’s no committee. You’re going to pay me and you’re going to give me a bunch of money and I’m going to deliver you these shows. I’m pretty common and I’m going to tell stories that common people are going to understand. That’s most of America,” he said.  “You’re not going to win no Emmys with me, but I’m not trying to win Emmys. That’s not my goal. My goal is to sit somebody on their couch and move them, make them think, make them laugh, scare the sh*t out of them, excite them. That’s what I want to do, because that’s what I want from a show.” Sheridan said he has no interest in making shows in Los Angeles anymore, either.  “The only way you’re getting me back to Los Angeles is if it secedes from the union and I’m drafted into the Army to take it back. It’s the only way,” the showrunner went on. “I love New York. That city’s way, way stronger than whatever political wind is blowing it in any direction, right? Whereas L.A. is built on sand.” Despite the popularity of “Yellowstone” and contending for nominations for both “The Madison” and “Landman,” Sheridan has famously never won an Emmy Award.

The teaser for The Daily Wire’s latest project, “Run Hide Fight: Infidels,” is causing quite a stir online.  The sequel to the hit 2020 action film “Run Hide Fight” — which dealt with a school shooting — takes place on a New England college campus that has been taken over by violent terrorists in a situation that’s chillingly true to life.  “When radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels in a makeshift caliphate, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of ‘Uncle Tom’ smears and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers and keep America from surrendering to the enemy on its own soil,” the logline of “Infidels” says. The trailer includes footage from September 11, anti-Israel college protests, news reports on terror threats, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling Fox News, “Radical Islam has designs openly on the West.” The trailer later shows an ISIS flag flying over a college campus and a departing message that says, “Coming soon … Or already here?” The film marks a comeback to the industry for actor Jonathan Majors. It’s reported to be a return to traditional action-packed storytelling that’s been missing from Hollywood for some time.  Producer Dallas Sonnier revealed a little bit about the inspiration, telling Page Six, “We all worship at the altar of [director] John Milius and Red Dawn. And Eastwood, and all the other wonderful action stars of the ’80s — Stallone and Schwarzenegger. Nobody’s making these types of movies anymore.”  As for the film’s star, Sonnier said, “[Majors] loved the script, loved shooting the movie, is so great in the film, and he is totally 1,000% behind it.” 

WASHINGTON — As reporters across the nation scrambled to publish multiple massive Supreme Court stories on Tuesday morning, one newsroom’s error brought the news cycle to a grinding halt. NPR mistakenly published a story claiming that the famed Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, citing a Supreme Court announcement. Within minutes, the outlet clarified that this was an error and retracted the story. The Supreme Court quickly denied that Alito was retiring. But the story’s publication prompted Washington to wonder: Is Alito pondering retirement? And how soon would that retirement come? The justice has already chosen his clerks for the next term, a person familiar with the matter told The Daily Wire. Alito’s clerks will include Marisa Sylvester, Zach Gluckow, and Bradley Larson. This doesn’t mean that the justice cannot retire; however, Alito’s clerks could be reassigned to other justices if he decided to leave. Court watchers have pointed to possible signs that the justice may retire in the near future, including the legacy of the historic opinion he authored deciding the fate of Roe v. Wade, and his upcoming book, set to go on sale in October 2026 (the day after the court’s next term begins), Reuters reports. But people close to Alito have suggested that he’s not yet ready to leave the Supreme Court. Neither is Justice Clarence Thomas, for that matter. “I don’t see Thomas or Alito retiring this term,” a person close to Thomas told The Daily Wire. Samuel Alito (L) is sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as his wife Martha-Ann Bomgardner holds a Bible during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House February 1, 2006, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) President Donald Trump addressed the matter in February, telling reporters, “I hope they’re going to be around a long time,” when asked about Thomas or Alito retiring. “I hope they’re going to stay healthy. They’re great people.” If he did decide to retire while President Donald Trump is in office, Trump would choose Alito’s replacement. Trump’s past nominees to the court have prompted a firestorm from leftist activists and lawmakers, most notably over the appointment of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, who were seen as the tipping point in overturning Roe v. Wade. “The window for Trump to nominate a Supreme Court justice, ​or any federal judge, with a friendly Republican Senate could be closing by the end of this year,” Bush-era DOJ lawyer John Yoo told Reuters earlier this year. “I think a conservative justice would want to retire during a time when an originalist would follow him or her,” he added, “and that ​is most likely with Trump as president and the Senate controlled by Republicans.” So far, the White House hasn’t shown much appetite for a Supreme Court vacancy — though legacy media and activist groups on the Left have been chomping at the bit for such a moment. “The White House hasn’t been publicly pressuring the justices to retire,” the source close to Thomas noted. “They’re respecting the justices’ decisions on how and when they would retire.” If Alito actually retired, there are several possible candidates that the president could nominate in his place. One prominent option is Andy Oldham, a former Alito clerk who sits on the Fifth Circuit. Another is James Ho, a former Thomas clerk who is also from the Fifth Circuit. Emil Bove, a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, has also been floated. “One of the best things about Trump’s position right now is all his previous appeals court nominees are in great position in terms of age and time on the lower court bench,” a person close to the conservative justices shared. “It’s a deep bench.” A White House official told The Daily Wire that they wouldn’t speculate on potential vacancies at any level, but noted: “The President is always prepared to nominate highly qualified judges who will uphold the Constitution and rule of law.”

The Ford Motor Company has been hiring humans again after finding that artificial intelligence (AI) could not match the expertise of experienced technicians.   Over the past three years, the second-largest U.S.-based automaker reportedly said it rehired more than 300 “veteran” quality inspectors, including former Ford employees and engineers from other automotive suppliers, after automated systems fell short. “Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles,” Ford Vice President of Vehicle Hardware Engineering Charles Poon said to reporters. Ford’s renewed emphasis on experienced engineers coincided with improved vehicle quality. It ranked first among mainstream brands in the 2026 JD Power U.S. Initial Quality Study after placing 15th in 2023, a turnaround Ford has attributed to its renewed focus on experienced engineers. The human employees were tasked with conducting mandatory weekly design reviews, identifying potential failure points in blueprints, and serving as internal auditors. Ford had previously embraced AI across its operations. CEO Jim Farley predicted the technology would “leave a lot of white collar people behind,” while Chief Operating Officer Kumar Galhorta said AI would be used “across the entire industrial system.” Ford’s plans included installing 900 AI-powered cameras in manufacturing plants and expanding AI-assisted engineering tools meant to tackle “quality issues” in the production process. But Poon said those systems fell short.  “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product,” Poon said. Poon said AI remains “a fantastic tool,” but emphasized the technology is “only as good as the information you use to train it.”

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump celebrated a massive Supreme Court ruling on men in women’s sports on Tuesday, heralding the landmark decision as a “BIG WIN.” The president reacted to news Tuesday morning that the Supreme Court had ruled that states have the power to ban men from women’s sports. “BIG WIN,” he posted on Truth Social. “The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.” “Wow,” he added. “That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!” That post is reminiscent of the president’s messaging throughout his 2024 campaign cycle, during which he repeatedly reminded the public that gender ideology and the movements advocates were “crazy” and out of touch with American sentiment. Trump has long promised to remove men from women’s sports, pouring millions into television ads during the campaign cycle that highlighted Kamala Harris’s promotion of far-left policies, including taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants and federal prisoners. The Daily Wire reported shortly before the election that transgenderism had become “the 2024 sleeper issue,” and the president had harnessed that momentum.   (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Activists and operatives close to Trump world said that the events of the four years leading up to the election, including the grassroots uprising of parents against ideology in schools, the Loudoun County, Virginia, sexual assault of a young girl by a trans-identifying student, and the emergence of fighters like former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines — all these incidents convinced Trump that he needed to be at the forefront of the transgender culture war. Trump messaged throughout his campaign that Harris and the Democrats were pushing dangerous ideology that Americans didn’t want, arguing repeatedly that the far-Left policies of the Democratic Party were “crazy.” Those assertions were based on polling, both internal and external, showing that Americans don’t want these radical transgender policies. That messaging paid off when Americans voted against Harris — and for Trump — in the 2024 election. Shortly after he took office, Trump signed an executive order banning men from women’s sports, surrounded by advocates who fought against gender ideology and for the preservation of women’s spaces, including activist Riley Gaines. “We are fighting for the bare minimum here,” Gaines said ahead of the Supreme Court ruling. “Can we allow ourselves to be vulnerable in an intimate area of undressing such as a locker room without having to fear a man walking into that space? Can we do those things?” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored the opinion in Tuesday’s ruling, stating that Title IX allows schools to determine eligibility for female sports teams based on biological sex. He was joined by the other conservative justices, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed with a few parts of the majority opinion but dissented on others. The decision specifically dealt with laws passed in Idaho and West Virginia banning males from female sports. More than half the states in the country have passed similar laws protecting the integrity of girls’ sports and spaces. The Supreme Court upheld those laws Tuesday, though it left the question of whether Title IX requires states to ban trans-identifying athletes from competing against girls. “They may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex,” Kavanaugh wrote. “The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women’s and girls’ sports throughout America.”