Actor Jonathan Majors will return to the screen for the first time in four years, and it will be for an as-yet-unnamed Daily Wire production. The 36-year-old star, best known for his roles in “Creed III” (2023) and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (2023), will begin working on the project this week in South Carolina, per Deadline.  Not many details are immediately available about the movie beyond the fact that it’s an action film similar to 80s and 90s classics such as “Red Dawn” and “Toy Soldiers.” Kyle Rankin (“Run Hide Fight”) wrote the screenplay and will serve as director, while Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and Dallas Sonnier of Bonfire Legend will be producing the project. Travis Mills (“Frontier Crucible”), Lillian Campbell (“The Pendragon Cycle”), and Sydney Aucreman (“Terror On The Prairie”) will also serve as producers, the outlet noted. The Daily Wire has made a notable push into entertainment through DailyWire+, releasing several feature films in various genres, including “Run Hide Fight” (2020), a thriller about a teenage girl who fights back against school shooters, which drew significant attention.  The company also produced “Shut In” (2022), a survival thriller, and “Terror on the Prairie” (2022), a Western starring Gina Carano, who was fired from Disney’s “The Mandalorian” and ostracized from Hollywood after Lucasfilm objected to her social media posts. “Lady Ballers,” a sports comedy tackling men in women’s sports, was released in 2023. There have also been several popular documentary films, including “What Is a Woman?” (2022), a documentary hosted by Matt Walsh that exposed the madness of left-wing gender theory. That was followed up with “Am I Racist?” (2024), another Matt Walsh documentary that dealt with affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In 2026, “The Pendragon Cycle,” an adaptation of Stephen R. Lawhead’s beloved series of novels, was released on DailyWire+. This ambitious series was done with incredible scale and production value and has been getting tremendous buzz from viewers. “Pulp Fiction” screenwriter Roger Avary said he was “completely blown away” during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast earlier this month. 

A former Trump administration official praised the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Microsoft, saying that the software giant’s track record on issues from China to European censorship demanded scrutiny. Joe Grogan, the director of the Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s first term, said that an FTC investigation probing whether Microsoft employed anti-competitive practices was much needed. “In the last year Microsoft has compromised American security by giving Chinese nationals access to cloud projects at the Pentagon,” he told The Daily Wire. “They’ve also signaled a strong willingness to bend to Europe’s anti-American digital services policies amid intense trade negotiations, all while pursuing anti-competitive practices to limit consumer choice. The administration is right to use its authority to hold them accountable.” The comments from Grogan, the head of the nonprofit Public Policy Solutions, come as the FTC is looking into whether Microsoft makes it challenging for customers to use its products on rival cloud services. After a report in July 2025 that Microsoft was employing China-based engineers for work on certain Pentagon cloud systems, the software company said that it adjusted its policies to ensure that “no China-based engineering teams are providing technical assistance for DOD government cloud and related services.” Grogan also argued that Microsoft is strengthening its ties to Europe while the European Union implements the Digital Services Act, a sweeping speech-regulation law that allows authorities to penalize companies for failing to remove so-called misinformation or other content deemed illegal. The FTC investigation into Microsoft is also supported by Will Hild, the executive director of Consumer’s Research. “Microsoft’s massive market power is finally being scrutinized by Trump’s FTC, and rightly so, as the company uses its dominant market share to push a radical, woke agenda while potentially engaging in anti-competitive behavior,” Hild told The Daily Wire. Last year, Consumers’ Research issued a “woke alert” highlighting various activist-focused initiatives at Microsoft, including donations to transgender activist groups and “pay equity” analysis comparing pay based on race and sex. “Consumers’ Research fully supports FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and welcomes this antitrust investigation,” Hild said. “We hope it helps prevent corporate power from being abused to advance ideology at the expense of consumers.”

Tampa International Airport announced a total ban on pajamas in an X post on Thursday, saying that they had “seen enough” and calling on travelers who came through the western Florida hub to dress like it was daytime. Citing a previous successful ban on Crocs, the statement said that it was finally time to tackle the “much larger crisis” of travelers who move through the airport dressed like they were headed to the refrigerator for a late-night snack. pic.twitter.com/mjHyM5KZkG — Tampa International Airport ✈️ (@FlyTPA) February 26, 2026 “We’ve seen enough. We’ve had enough,” the announcement read. “It’s time to ban pajamas at Tampa International Airport. After successfully banning Crocs and giving everyone the amazing opportunity to experience the world’s first Crocs-free airport, it’s time to take on a much larger crisis. Pajamas. At. The Airport. In the middle of the day.” “We know this decision could be disruptive to someone in your life. It’s time to have a difficult conversation with them. You can do this. We (and Phoebe) believe in you,” the statement continued, referencing the airport’s giant pink flamingo statue named Phoebe. “The madness stops today. The movement starts now. Help Tampa International Airport become the world’s first Crocs-free AND pajama-free airport. DO YOUR PART. SAY NO TO PAJAMAS AT TPA.” The announcement certainly made a splash on X, but was it real? The @FLYTPA account has a reputation for posts that lean into the silly and fun. On December 26, for example, a post read, “Happy National Pretend to Work Day™ to all who celebrate!!!” On January 5, another read, “Did you know??? The Tampa Airport gets its name from Tampa, Florida, the city where the airport is located.” “Good afternoon to everyone except the person who left their freezer open,” a post read as frigid winter weather stretched across the southern United States in late January. “GOOD MORNING FROM ANTARCTICA,” was the follow-up post a few days later. Social media manager C.J. Johnson said the silliness was all part of his strategy during a speech at the University of South Florida: “If I got on every day at Tampa International Airport and tweeted we have flights today, who would care? No one. If we do funny silly stuff like this with targeted messages that grow your audience and then I say, ‘Hey guys, by the way, we are closing the airport due to a hurricane,’ then people lean in and listen.”

The West is in trouble. One of the reasons is that the West has fundamentally failed to distinguish between tolerance of one another’s traditions and lifestyles on the one hand, and the bizarre bend-over-backward celebration that accompanies the undermining of traditions unique to the West. A perfect example is what’s happening in Germany now. It seems like a small story, but it is indicative of a broader mindset that has been setting in throughout the West for generations. In Germany, McDonald’s decided on an ad campaign. The German population is roughly 6.5% Muslim at this point. Muslims celebrate Ramadan around this time of year, which means they are fasting from sunup to sundown. Fine. That is the Muslim tradition. There are a lot of Muslims who live in the West who are perfectly fine Western citizens. McDonald’s is not halal, meaning food that religious Muslims can eat. If you are a Muslim who is celebrating Ramadan or commemorating Ramadan, chances are that you are eating halal in your non-Ramadan hours and in your non-fasting hours, because if you’re religious enough to actually not eat all day, you probably don’t go at sunset and find a rasher of bacon and eat it. But McDonald’s decided to put up an ad campaign in Germany. The ad campaign removes the food from the billboards during Ramadan hours out of respect for Islam. The food appears on the billboard after sunset, but it disappears during the day, presumably so as not to tempt Muslims to feel hunger pangs. That is Bizarro World. It’s weird and self-defeating, and it bespeaks of something that lies at the heart of the cowardice of a lot of both corporations and people in the West. It’s Bizarro World because McDonald’s is not halal. The people who are presumably going to be very moved by these billboards are not going to head over to McDonald’s after dusk and start chomping down on their cheeseburgers. So what is McDonald’s doing? According to Newsweek:  The campaign was created by the German agency Scholz & Friends, whose concept centers on removing McDonald’s most recognizable visual element—its food—as a gesture of respect for those observing Ramadan. This is strange. The reality is McDonald’s is a food company that sells food, and the vast majority of the food that you sell is not to the people to whom they’re trying to appeal. Who exactly is McDonald’s appealing to? Who’s the target audience? The answer is: The dullards in the West who believe that it is a mark of virtue to subsume your own values beneath the values of other cultures. That is the problematic part. It is a strange form of cultural reparation that somehow the West owes it to other cultures to participate in their religious activities while subsuming its own interests. I don’t think McDonald’s cares all that much in Germany about whether or not Muslims like McDonald’s. I think what German McDonald’s cares about is that there are a lot of people in Germany who see this as a form of left-wing social virtue signaling, in the same way that in the United States, you have major corporations that every year decide they’re going to signal for Black History Month or Gay Pride month. But the basic idea is not that you are going to earn vast oodles of cash from doing that. The idea is you’re appealing to left-wing people in the United States who will give you more money because they believe that you share their values. The reason that you see all these companies doing DEI in the United States is absolutely not because they think it’s going to be good for their balance sheet. Hiring on the basis of non-merit is always bad for the balance sheet. The reason these companies do it is because they believe they can appeal to an entire group of consumers who have warm feelings toward them if they take their own corporate business interests, throw those aside, and start signaling their politics. This is a major problem. It’s not unique to Germany and is a widespread symptom of a disease that is spread across the West, where you are supposed to be overtly apologetic about not celebrating Ramadan. This is not a sign of cultural respect. It’s a sign of cultural disintegration. It would be the same thing as if companies in the UK decided that they were suddenly going to take female models and suddenly cover up their faces out of respect for radical Islam. It’s saying something, but it’s not the thing they think they’re saying. There is an assumption that in the Trump era, DEI is basically dead, that we’re never going back to a time when corporations were virtue signaling like this, when policy did not reflect this idea that the dominant American culture ought to be put under the foot of splinter cultures. But the reality is that it can very easily come back. It doesn’t take a lot for it to come back. All it takes is a group of people who see it as a mark of virtue to yell at their own culture and pretend that it is somehow inferior and owes it to other cultures to demonstrate its own inferiority. There’s a piece from Time magazine titled “Why Donald Trump Can’t Kill DEI.” The point the piece makes is that the anti-DEI era, which is a backlash to the Barack Obama/Joe Biden era, will be followed by a backlash to the backlash, and that all this stuff will come back with a vengeance. The piece states: Ideas of inclusion and diversity also permeate everyday institutions, including schools, universities, foundations, nonprofits, and corporations. … Many companies have retreated from DEI under legal and political pressure. What makes fewer headlines is that most companies that have sidled away from the acronym continue to affirm the values of DEI under a different name. …  Boeing stated that it maintains “procedures aimed at encouraging an equality of opportunity.” Lowe’s has proclaimed that it remained “committed to fostering an environment where individuals are treated fairly, valued, respected, safe, and inspired to serve customers and the communities where we live and work.” These statements sure sound like diversity, equity, and inclusion to us. … The education sector is equally if not more committed: a 2025 review of 262 colleges and universities found that 245 of them still maintained DEI offices and programs. This is only going to continue. What does it mean? It means this will come back if Republicans lose the forward momentum. I know that we’re also riding high on the horse right now because Donald Trump won and because Republicans are in charge of the legislative branches of the government. But if you think this stuff can’t come back, you’re wrong.

A 27-year-old man accused of a separate crime was arrested Thursday in relation to the mob that surrounded NYPD police officers and pelted them with snowballs earlier this week. Gusmane Coulibaly was detained by NYPD officers after the department released images of four people, including Coulibaly, wanted after two officers were injured when a mob of people hurled snowballs at them at Washington Square Park on Monday. The NYPD said that Coulibaly was arrested earlier this month for “attempted robbery in the transit system.” This morning, the NYPD arrested Gusmane Coulibaly, 27 years old, for assaulting our officers earlier this week in Washington Square Park. Mr. Coulibaly was previously arrested less than three weeks ago for an attempted robbery in the transit system. pic.twitter.com/IHO2zTC4tr — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) February 26, 2026 The three other suspects wanted by New York police remain at large, the New York Post reported. It remains unclear what charges Coulibaly faces. New York City’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani put himself at odds with other city and state officials, including Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, when he told reporters he disagreed with calls for arrests following the snowball attack. The mayor urged people to treat the city’s law enforcement with respect, but added that the videos he saw of the incident only showed a snowball fight that “got out of hand.” “Look, I’ve seen the videos of this snowball fight. I think that it was a snowball fight,” he said, later adding, “I can just tell you from the video I saw it looked like kids at a snowball fight.” Mamdani’s office doubled down on the mayor’s stance on Thursday, with Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec telling The Daily Wire, “As the mayor has said, police officers deserve to be treated with respect. The videos he saw showed a snowball fight that got out of hand. He does not believe this situation rises to the level of criminal charges.” The incident took place after a massive storm dumped around two feet of snow on New York City and brought much of the Big Apple to a standstill on Monday. One video of the incident shows officers attempting to walk through the crowd as people slung snowballs at them and ran up behind them to dump large chunks of snow and ice on their heads. Some people in the crowd stood in front of the officers as they tried to walk through the park, and the officers threw at least two people to the ground. Another video showed a group of police officers fleeing the scene as the crowd continued to hurl snowballs at them. Two officers were treated at the hospital for lacerations on their faces. Tisch called the mob’s actions “disgraceful” and “criminal,” while Hochul said it is “never acceptable to throw anything at a police officer.” The NYPD Police Benevolent Association celebrated the arrest of Coulibaly on Thursday and blasted Mayor Mamdani, writing on social media, “A 27-year-old is not a ‘kid,’ @NYCMayor.” “This individual is an adult with a recent attempted robbery arrest, and your message was that it’s OK for him to assault police officers for doing their job,” the police union added. “This arrest sends a different message. We’re grateful to all who have worked so hard on this case. There is more work to be done…”