Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax took his children’s horseback riding money to purchase the gun he used to kill their mother, according to court documents. Divorce documents obtained by the New York Post reveal that Fairfax purchased the handgun in 2022 — the same year he left office after sexual assault allegations had severely damaged his political career — with cash that had been set aside for his children’s horseback riding lessons. Also in that same year, “heavy daily alcohol” use became part of his normal routine. Fairfax went from being considered “a rising star” in politics to spending his days isolated in his home office surrounded by “empty wine bottles, trash and piles of dirty laundry.” The divorce documents allege he only came out “to get food or smoke cigarettes.” His wife, Cerina Fairfax, was in the process of getting a divorce from her self-proclaimed “deadbeat” husband. Representing himself in court, Justin did not deny any of Cerina’s allegations against him. A judge ordered Justin to leave his shared home with Cerina by April 30, but 14 days before his scheduled eviction, Fairfax killed his wife.  The couple’s teenage children were home at the time, and their son placed the 911 call after Fairfax had shot his wife in the basement and had gone upstairs to shoot himself in the head. Police responded to the house in Annandale, Virginia, “shortly after midnight.” The shooting was not Fairfax’s first troubling incident involving the weapon. In 2022, he went to a public park with the firearm and a suitcase of clothes, where he was later found by his wife and her stepfather. Fairfax said he carried the weapon for protection after losing his security detail when his term ended. Around 1 a.m., his brother arranged for a mental health professional to speak with him in the park parking lot. The Fairfaxes had been married for over twenty years when Cerina filed for divorce in July 2025. Court documents indicate that Justin’s downward spiral accelerated after he faced sexual assault allegations in 2019. According to the New York Post, after the scandal, Fairfax could not find a job or attract legal clients despite opening a private legal practice out of his home. Cerina worked as a dentist. Fairfax served one term as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. In 2021, Fairfax ran for governor, but ultimately failed to win the Democratic primary. While Fairfax served as lieutenant governor, he pushed for gun control.

Outrage erupted this week after a gay Grammy Award-winning singer appeared to mock his baby who cried out for his mom in a viral video. A video posted Wednesday by country singer Shane McAnally shows a baby being asked if he wants his “dada” or “papa” before he begins crying after being told “there is no mama.” McAnally, who has won four Grammy Awards, has previously made fun of his baby for being “homophobic.” “Hey, hey. 
Who do you want? Dada or Papa?” McAnally’s baby is asked in the video before he appears to reply “mama” as the men laugh. “No, Mama, do you want Dada or Pop?” the baby is asked again. “Who do you want? Dada or Pop?” The baby again appears to ask for his mother before the man says, “There is no mama. I’m so sorry.” After the baby starts crying, the two men laugh at the reaction as they tell him he has “two choices,” but no mother. The video was captioned “who’s gonna tell him?” with the hashtags “comedy” and “standup.” The video quickly racked up tens of thousands of views after it was posted to X and hundreds of comments on Instagram with many criticizing the men for laughing at the baby’s desire for his mom. “The most horrifying video I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Daily Wire host Michael Knowles. “This video ignites disgust and anger on a primal level. If you don’t feel it, you’re broken. This baby just wants Mommy,” said conservative commentator Robby Starbuck. “The gleeful way these guys respond to the sad baby is just evil. I’ve seen this cry before, and the sweet embrace of Mom as she runs in. Babies need their Mom!” Another post from December 2025 pinned to McAnally’s Instagram features a video with the baby making a weird face when he is told he has “two dads.” The post is captioned “6 week old homophobic baby.” “This is not the first time Tony winning musician Shane McAnally has made a joke out of his son’s instinctive desire for his mother, rather than two fathers,” said Concerned Women for America. “Children deserve better than this.”

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 the Bright Side, a weekly roundup of all the good news and ideas you might have missed from the past week. The weather is beginning to warm up in Nashville, which makes me want to spend every night on a restaurant patio somewhere, sipping something from a stem glass and listening in on other people’s bubbly conversations. The air smells sweet with honeysuckle blossoms, the birds start chirping before the sun comes up, and I’m determined to get to know the local groundhog a little better before I give him a name. I’ve also been warned that this “fake summer” belies the oppressively buggy humidity of the upcoming months. Still, I’m determined to soak up the fleeting moment. If you’d like to freshen up your news feed with a little spring sunshine, grab a pool noodle and dip a toe into these soul-soothing snippets from this past week. A quote to elevate our perspective: “While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity,” NASA Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman said. He just completed his most recent mission, but in 2014 he observed how his own weightlessness outside the International Space Station eliminated his fear of falling. Imagine what you could do if you knew you couldn’t fall — or fail.    Why home is where your pets are: Sticking with the space theme for a minute, Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch’s dog Sadie pulled off a welcome home greeting for her favorite astronaut that was so joyful, I’ve watched it 17 times already.      View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Christina Hammock Koch (@astro_christina) The wiggly tail wag, fetching her favorite toy, and then running through the waves by the beach? Koch’s sweet pup reminds us that when you’re with your favorite people, there’s no place like home. The easiest, most comforting weekend pasta recipe: As fresh basil takes over the farmers market this summer, “I Dream Of Dinner” author and recipe developer Ali Slagle’s five-star, one-pot cottage cheese basil pasta checks every deliciously creamy, herby, noodle-y box.    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by NYT Cooking (@nytcooking) After tossing long pasta in a sauce made from fresh basil, cottage cheese, baby spinach, garlic, and parmesan, all you need is a finishing drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Lighting a candle for the table creates the kind of New York City restaurant energy that makes it slightly less awkward when you charge your family for seconds.  Turning toddler musings into music: “I’m interested in the musicality of the world,” college music professor and composer Stephen Spencer says. But he went viral for creating energized earworms out of his three-year-old daughter’s hilarious stories. “Little Tall Prince” is an inspiration, and you’ll be queuing up “Apple Man” on repeat.    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Stephen Spencer (@_stephenspencer) Spencer keeps his daughter’s identity private, but her imagination won over the internet. When she learned the word “regular,” he flipped her conversation into lyrics: “There was one just regular rabbit, she had regular ponytails just like me.” You’ll be regularly singing “Regular Rabbit” the rest of the day.  It’s never too late to realize your potential: She loved to jump rope as a kid, but now that she’s 82, Annie Judis is the undisputed 12-time Guinness World Record-winning oldest female competitive rope skipper. She starts every day by jumping rope for five minutes, then strength training for an hour with her trainer. Previously, she worked as a film actress and beauty queen, but she’s finding her purpose these days in motivating others to stay active. Boxers and other professional athletes have long loved training with a jump rope for its strength and cardio benefits. But the same goes for fit-minded octogenarians who hope to maintain bone density, balance, and coordination. “Once you dream it, you can do it,” Judis says, claiming to be more fit than she was years ago. But while her accomplishments are impressive, her mental game is an inspiration, too. “I think joy is so important in your life. I try to spread happiness around people around me.” A moment of gratitude inspired by people who have it all: It’s easy to shake your head at the lifestyles of the extremely rich and famous. But the revelatory morning routine of Amazon power couple Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, who were married in June 2025, is worth a quick mention. Or 26 pages in the New York Times.  “On a typical day, the newlyweds wake up around 6 in their new, roughly $230 million compound on Indian Creek, an exclusive private island in Miami often called ‘Billionaire Bunker,’” the profile read. But this was the part worth sharing: “They don’t touch their phones. Instead, they begin each day by listing 10 things they’re grateful for — and they can’t repeat what they named the day before.”    View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Lauren Sánchez Bezos (@laurensanchezbezos) A daily thankfulness practice can boost your outlook by reducing anxiety, depression, and stress. It can even help you sleep better and improve the health of your heart. Rising and shining by not immediately jumping onto X or Instagram, and instead spending a little time focusing on the important things in life, sounds like a great way to start the day.  We would love to hear about the things currently brightening your day! Share a comment or email me with your favorites, and help us spread the joy! — Lauren

A Republican state senator in Idaho said her family’s livelihood is on the line after a united effort from major dairies in the state to cut off business with her husband over her stance on illegal immigration.  Senator Glenneda Zuiderveld said multiple dairies are refusing to work with her husband Tom because of her politics, adding that they have lost 85% of their income in the past month. While the state’s dairy industry says Zuiderveld is “anti-ag,” she believes that she is being targeted because of her support for tough-on-illegal immigration policies like those that mandate employers verify the legal status of workers. “I’m about trying to protect our state from illegal immigration, but they’re always trying to protect their workforce,” she told The Daily Wire. “They’re basically working with other dairies that will probably be withdrawing from us. So they’re colluding together. So that’s not free market. That’s intimidation.”  The incident shows how even in red states, Republicans can split over agricultural and immigration enforcement interests. In this case, it appears to be large dairies against Zuiderveld, a member of Idaho’s firebrand Freedom Caucus. A letter from Zuiderveld’s employer obtained by The Daily Wire shows that multiple dairies, including Millenkamp Cattle, Black Pine Cattle, and Cedar Ridge Dairy requested last month “to no longer work with” her husband.  “We have been informed that these customers have aligned with others in a coordinated effort to no longer direct business through you,” the letter said. “The concerns raised are tied to your wife’s political role and are not related to the level of service you have provided. While not making judgements on these factors, they are impacting these customers’ willingness to continue doing business with us.” The letter added that one dairy even demanded that Tom be fired from the company, which the Zuidervelds have chosen to keep anonymous.  “One customer indicated they would consider moving their business away from [redacted] if we did not terminate you. While termination is not something we are considering, it does underscore the seriousness of the situation,” the letter said.  The Daily Wire reached out to Millenkamp Cattle and Black Pine Cattle for comment, which falls under the same ownership. An employee for Cedar Ridge Dairy who answered a phone call said he was not authorized to talk to the press and hung up.  “Our business has always been in the dairy industry,” Zuiderveld told The Daily Wire. “They’ve always known what our politics are, but just recently they wrote a letter saying that they didn’t like my politics, and that they wanted our company basically to fire my husband, which they didn’t do because we’re independent sales reps.” Zuiderveld said that her Senate district, which encompasses the Magic Valley heavy agricultural area of south central Idaho, has more dairies than any other district. A fourth dairy, Riverbend Dairy, stopped doing business with them on Monday, Zuiderveld said. The Daily Wire reached out to a phone number listed for the dairy, but did not hear back.  While the dairies did not respond to requests for comment, Rick Naerebout, the CEO of the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, chalked up the issue to “free-market capitalism” in an interview with The Idaho Statesman.  He accused the Zuidervelds of being “anti-ag” and claimed that “not all Idaho Republicans are created equal.” He pointed to Zuiderveld’s opposition to $30 million in taxpayer dollars for water infrastructure and vote over funding to target an invasive mussel.  Zuiderveld said that those issues were just a distraction from the issues of illegal immigration. She said that she opposed the water funding because there was not significant accountability for the dollars and said she was skeptical of the environmental claims about the mussel.  “They’re trying to distract,” she told The Daily Wire. “The main reason is the illegal immigration issue — 90% of their workforce is what they call foreign-born, and I would have to say, probably 70% if not more of it is illegal.”

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. *** It’s a common conversation among millennial parents, so common that it isn’t worth remarking on beyond the brief acknowledgement of shared pain. A writer colleague on a trip together broke the ice with a mention. “Yes, we’ve got three at home, and my husband has them; he’s very capable. Grandma is there, too,” she said with a long sigh. “She actually makes things harder. I just wish she could, you know, help? I don’t get it. She always wanted grandkids, she always told me she wants grandkids, but now it’s like, ‘It’s Tuesday. I have pilates.’” The Baby Boomer generation is the greatest generation in only one measure: in terms of the redistribution of wealth to itself. No other American generation comes close, thanks to the timing of the Great Society, the expansion of old-age benefits, the timing of Wall Street booms, and a real estate market Boomers continue to dominate. They are the largest group of homeowners by far, despite being just 20% of the population; in 2025, they were also the largest group of home buyers, typically with cash. Empty nest boomers own a third of all three-bedroom homes in America. They own double the percentage of homes millennials do, and according to a 2025 survey, 61% of boomer homeowners say they never plan to sell their homes. Those homes are often the epicenter of family moves. Because millennials rent when their parents bought, they are the ones who have to move when they have kids, proximity to grandma and grandpa being a presumed benefit offering free childcare and occasional help. Three-quarters of millennials say it’s important to live near their parents after having kids, and depending on the survey, approximately a third say they’ve relocated or already made a point of living near their parents because of the kid factor. But when it comes to delivering on that help, Boomers are sorely lacking: Just one out of five millennial parents says parents help with regular childcare. The anecdotes are ubiquitous, and they are not flattering. “We moved 15 minutes away from my parents after we had our second,” a friend tells me. “Since we had a boy, I thought my dad would want to spend time with him. We’ve lived here a year, and he’s seen him four times. He held him once.” The Boomer drive-by seems to be the most common interaction: a momentary disruptive pause in the day when kids are taken to do some activity that could conceivably give you enough time to run a few errands, get the car serviced, or spend actual time picking out a steak. But it turns out that something happens, or the kids were rowdy, or grandpa forgot he has to do something, and they’re back on your doorstep 45 minutes later, somehow still hungry. Or there’s one level worse: the drive-by for social media, where grandma is just in the house long enough to snap a picture for her friends on The Facebook. “My brother had kids 10 years before I did, and he got ‘grandma weekends,’ the kids staying over at their house for two to three days,” another friend tells me. “I didn’t get married till a decade later, and I’m lucky to get ‘grandma lunch.’ She’s in Europe for a month. He played golf at Spyglass; I’m lucky to get a Costco run in.” Anecdote isn’t the plural of data, but the conversation around this topic has been widespread and only goes in one direction: toward Grandboomers who are consistently more interested in fun than in helping out with the grandbabies. It’s fine if the elders are just deciding that taking care of a toddler isn’t “living their best life,” but they can’t expect to escape criticism for it. As one beleaguered mom whose complaints went viral told Newsweek last year, “It definitely triggered guilty boomers who were irritated and said they’re not going to raise our kids, but that’s not what we’re asking for. I have gotten so many messages from millennials saying they felt heard and less alone. They thought it was only their issue, and they had no idea that others dealt with this.” Believe me, if you talk to your fellow millennial parents, you absolutely know. You can ascribe this social trend to any Boomer aspect of your choosing: permanent main character syndrome, an abiding aversion to any reminder of their aging nature, belief that they “did their time” changing diapers and shouldn’t have to do another run, or just a rejection of the parenting styles of millennials as being too demanding, too helicopter for their tastes. But it is an undeniable trend, one that virtually every millennial parent knows all too well. “My mom changed our diapers growing up, and she says she’s done enough for her life,” yet another friend tells me. “But it sure would be nice if she was willing to do it just for one Friday a month.” You can dismiss this development as just a generation that has lived longer enjoying life to the fullest. You can describe it as irrelevant because millennials should figure out ways to pay for childcare and take care of it themselves. But the hard fact is that an underlying reason for the decline in American population that we see so regularly reported, year after year, is this Boomer attitude. It is a simple binary: In the absence of date nights, without a break from the kids, millennial parents simply do not have time to make more kids. If that’s something America wants to change, it’s going to have to bring back shame for our elders. Help your kids, or get used to fewer grandkids. You’re the product of a Baby Boom, but you seem completely uninterested in creating another one. That’s the reality. Change starts with you.