President Donald Trump’s top consumer protection and antitrust official has approved a massive $13.5 merger that will reshape the advertising industry, effectively putting the final nail in the coffin of coordination against outlets based on their political viewpoints. The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday morning that it has decided not to block a merger between Omnicom and IPG, two rival firms which together make up a third of the world’s “Big Six” advertising agencies. But rather than rubber stamp the deal, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson extracted a major concession: the firms have agreed to cease all coordination related to viewpoint discrimination, refrain from any coordination in the future, and submit to strict compliance mandates. Ferguson on Monday in his official statement on the decision said the firms have offered not only to cease coordination in any way that would steer advertising dollars away from publishers based on political viewpoints, but to cooperate with the FTC’s investigation into past collusion and submit to regular compliance reviews. The FTC appeared poised to block the merger based on evidence of past “anticompetitive” coordination against conservative news organizations, an issue the commission is actively investigating. Ferguson on Monday pointed the finger at the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, better known as GARM, which was disbanded in controversy after it was caught directing ad dollars away from right-of-center outlets, including The Daily Wire. “A Congressional investigation concluded that GARM banded together the most powerful firms in their industry to choke off the vital advertising revenue of those who disagreed with them,” Ferguson said in a Monday statement, adding that GARM aimed “to destroy publishers of content of which they disapproved.” “GARM was neither the beginning nor the end of harmful and potentially unlawful collusion in this industry,” Ferguson said, a reference to concerns that GARM would reconstitute itself.  “Numerous other industry groups and private organizations have publicly sought to use the chokepoint of the advertising industry to effect political or ideological goals.” The conditions proposed by the companies, however, “mitigate” the FTC’s concerns about politically-motivated collusion in the future. “Today, Omnicom and IPG have committed themselves to help stop that sort of coordination in their industry,” Ferguson said. “This consent agreement will help mitigate the dangers inherent in a consolidated national advertising market.” “I hope the conditions imposed on this merger will encourage all advertising firms to adopt similar practices and thereby reduce the temptation to collude to the detriment of their customers, independent journalists, small and independent media companies, consumers, and the American public square,” he concluded. GARM came under fire in 2024 after a congressional investigation, first reported by The Daily Wire, uncovered overt political bias in the advertising coalition that was being used to keep ad dollars away from websites that weren’t deemed “brand safe.” READ MORE: GARM Exposed: House Judiciary Report Says Ad Coalition Likely Broke Law To Silence Conservatives Internal emails from ad executives involved in the coalition, which included both Omnicom and IPG, showed that The Daily Wire was put on a “High Risk exclusion list” and “categorized as Conspiracy Theories.” Other emails show that the highest ranking official derided people “advocating for freedom of speech online” and complained that the Constitution was written “by white men exclusively.” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus and co-founder Ben Shapiro testified to Congress that GARM was a “cartel,” and effectively made it impossible for conservatives to run an ad-based business. “GARM acts as a cartel,” Shapiro said. “Its members account for 90 percent of ad spending in the United States–almost $1 trillion. In other words, if you’re not getting ad dollars from GARM members, it’s nearly impossible to run an ad-based business.” The concessions by Omnicom and IPG — which, once merged, will represent the largest ad firm in the world — are a sea change for the ad industry. While individual companies are certainly still able to decide where they’d like to advertise, it has become standard practice in recent years for the industry to move in concert. Rather than making individual decisions, the industry giants created blacklists using biased third party “misinformation” services such as Newsguard. Entire business sectors would cut off access to disfavored publications based on exclusion lists that became industry standard. According to the consent decree issued by the FTC on Monday, the firms have agreed to submit annual compliance reports on the matter of coordination for the next five years, as well as spot compliance reports any time the FTC requests one. The FTC is urging publishers to alert the commission if they believe they are the “object of unlawful collusion.” The agreement also stipulates that the firms will cooperate with the FTC on all past coordination to boycott publishers based on viewpoint. “This Agreement requires Omnicom and IPG to cooperate with the Commission in any investigation relating to media-buying services,” Ferguson said, adding that “investigating and policing censorship practices that run afoul of the antitrust laws is a top priority of the Trump-Vance FTC.” It is unclear whether the other four major ad firms — Publicis, WPP, Dentsu, and Havas — will take action regarding their own practices following the change by Omnicom and IPG. The ad industry has been gathered at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, where the potential merger was certainly a main topic of discussion. The public will have 30 days to submit comments to the FTC on the merger decision.

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dispatched his foreign minister to Moscow on Monday, seeking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s support after President Donald Trump ordered devastating strikes against Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi reportedly arrived in Moscow carrying a letter from Khamenei specifically requesting Putin’s backing, senior sources told Reuters. President Trump ordered strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Iranian nuclear program was “devastated” and “obliterated.” Reuters reported that Tehran has not been impressed with Putin’s tepid support thus far, and the letter requests that Putin take stronger measures backing Iran against Israel and the United States, though what assistance was being requested was not specified. Putin, who condemned the Israeli strikes of the past week, has yet to comment on the U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. Last week, Putin called for peace and offered Moscow’s services as a mediator, showing little appetite for direct confrontation with Trump as he fights a protracted war in Ukraine. Russia’s peacemaker approach to the conflict comes only a year after signing a 20-year strategic partnership with Iran. The countries agreed to “work together against common military threats, develop their military-technical cooperation, and take part in joint exercises,” Reuters reported. However, the partnership does not include a mutual defense clause that would obligate Moscow to defend Iran militarily against external attacks. At the United Nations Security Council on Sunday, Russia joined China and Pakistan in proposing a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, with Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia comparing the situation to Colin Powell’s 2003 Iraq presentation. “Again, we’re being asked to believe the U.S.’s fairy tales, to once again inflict suffering on millions of people living in the Middle East. This cements our conviction that history has taught our U.S. colleagues nothing,” the ambassador stated. Putin has maintained communication with Israel during the escalating tensions. Israeli officials have reportedly assured Putin that Russian specialists currently helping build two additional reactors at Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant would be safe. For Moscow, which has historically played a role in Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the West as both a veto-wielding U.N. Security Council member and signatory to the original nuclear deal, the current crisis presents a delicate balancing act between supporting a regional ally and avoiding direct conflict with the United States.

On June 15, masculinity planted its flag in the public square and dared the culture to yank it out. Father’s Day 2025 wasn’t a Hallmark pit stop. It was the inflection point my two recent Daily Wire op-eds — on the hijacking of manhood and its collateral damage — we’re racing toward. This piece is the capstone. The frontier has been claimed. The real work begins now. Consumers shelled out a record $24 billion honoring dad, the most the National Retail Federation has ever logged. Boys needed reassurance. Fathers needed reassurance. Families needed reassurance. And they finally got some. The White House echoed the mood. In his Father’s Day proclamation, President Donald Trump praised dads as “custodians of our strength…protectors of our security and safety,” tying fatherhood to tough-on-crime, border-security, and anti-gender-ideology policies. A year earlier, President Joe Biden had joked in Scranton that he wanted to “smack” the “macho guys” who backed Trump — an encore to his 2018 boast about taking Trump “behind the gym.” One Oval Office mocked male toughness; the other affirmed it. The times they are a-changin’. The weekend also delivered a storybook moment on the 18th green at Oakmont. J.J. Spaun made a bleary-eyed 3:00 a.m. CVS run when his toddler began vomiting, then birdied four of his final nine holes to win the U.S. Open on Father’s Day — trophy in one hand, daughters in the other. Paternal duty and professional excellence aren’t rivals; they’re complimentary capabilities. Corporate America is relearning the same lesson. Dove Men+Care’s new Care Makes a Dad ads showcase hands-on fathers instead of worn-in La-Z-Boys. Bud Light is still bleeding from its 2023 misfire — sales linger about 30% lower and brand equity has vaporized by the tens of billions. Mock men and you lose money. Honor them and the cash register rings. Entrepreneurs have noticed. NBA forward Jonathan Isaac’s faith-first label UNITUS can’t keep inventory in stock, and it has company. Men’s-grooming upstart Duke Cannon, which markets “big-ass bricks of soap” with unapologetically rugged copy, logged a 70% year-over-year jump in facial-care sales at Target, while Black Rifle Coffee Company — founded by Special Forces veterans and pitched as java “for America’s heroes” — is projecting double-digit EBITDA growth over the next three years on revenue already north of $100 million. Capitol Hill is chasing the cultural tailwind. Republican Reps. Byron Donalds (FL) and Burgess Owens (UT) introduced a bill declaring fatherhood “essential to the development of all children” and calling for mentorship, re-entry help, and tax policies that keep dads in the home. Former NFL safety Jack Brewer launched a National Fatherhood Center to lobby the bill. Hard numbers justify the urgency. About 17.6 million children still lack a resident dad — too many — but for the first time in a generation that figure is inching downward, with 75% of American kids now living with a father. Prime-age male labor-force participation sits at 67.8%, well above its pandemic nadir yet a full generation below post-war norms. Even the Federal Reserve lists the shortfall as a macro-economic drag. In classrooms, 8th grade boys trail girls by eight points in reading, a gap that drags on lifetime earnings. Yet the renaissance has begun. High school shop class enrollment is rising as districts finance welding bays and construction lab.; Promise Keepers’ stadium events are back. NFL legend Jason Kelce hit Cannes Lions in a “Bluey suit” just to thrill his four daughters. Alexis de Tocqueville would nod knowingly — he wrote in 1835 that American fathers ruled not through fear but through “the affection and experience of age.” Cultural commentators are rediscovering frontier wisdom. John Wayne reminded us, “You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman,” while Theodore Roosevelt insisted the nation must cultivate “the iron qualities that go with true manhood.” We spend endless airtime debating how to raise great men. Father’s Day 2025 finally laid the foundation by teaching boys what it means to be a man at all. It also marked a defiant rebuke to the ideology that has long tried to erase the family altogether. Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” lists “abolition of the family” among its necessary steps toward collectivism, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors once boasted, “We are trained Marxists.” Marxism dissolves individual loyalties — faith, family, even biological sex — so only the collective remains. Father’s Day 2025, with its record spending, viral dad-stories, and presidential blessing, was a nationwide celebration in Marxism’s face, a reminder that liberty begins with individuals anchored in families, not citizens melted into a hive. The stakes are concrete. Cities that nurture father engagement post double-digit drops in juvenile crime; every percentage-point rise in male labor-force participation adds billions to GDP. The formula is simple: slash fatherlessness and flood the workforce with men who show up. Close the classroom reading gap, and everything else falls into place. Critics say re-centering men marginalizes women, but a 2023 University of Leeds study found that when dads spend as little as 10 minutes a day reading or playing with their kids, daughters register a measurable jump in early test scores. Pew analysis shows families that keep dad in the home slash mom-and-child poverty rates by more than two-to-one. Momentum matters, but so does personal action. Now it’s our turn. Mentor a boy for an hour each week; shop brands that honor fathers; prod your school board to revive shop class; stretch Father’s Day into a civic festival so virtue becomes visible. Historian Arnold Toynbee said civilizations rise when they successfully respond to great challenges. America’s challenge is fatherlessness. The answer is taking shape. Manhood isn’t baggage, it’s jet fuel for a free nation — raw strength harnessed by honor, propelling liberty farther than any bureaucrat’s decree ever will. Gates Garcia is the host of the YouTube show and podcast We The People. Follow him on IG and X @GatesGarciaFL The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Florida is a beautiful place for folks to both visit and call home. That said, anyone who has ever been here can attest to the fact that the weather can be extreme at times. From hurricanes and tornadoes to waterspouts, this state’s warm climate can lead to all kinds of unexpected weather. Recently, a few Floridian boaters captured a particularly rare phenomenon in the form of double waterspouts. In case you aren’t aware, waterspouts are essentially tornadoes that take place over water rather than land. That said, there are some pretty big differences between the two. Unlike tornadoes, waterspouts tend to be less powerful and, in turn, less destructive. Spotting a single one in Florida isn’t uncommon but seeing double!? Now that is rare! See for yourself in the video below. @abcnews Boaters in Florida captured footage of twin waterspouts on the Manatee River. #boaters #florida #waterspouts ♬ original sound – ABC News Floridian Boaters Off the Coast of Anna Maria Island Spot a Rare Phenomenon: Double Waterspouts “Looks like something out of the movie Twister,” someone on social media points out about these fascinating waterspouts. Others add, “I can’t imagine being in a boat and seeing it drop” and “My wife and I were on Coquina Beach yesterday as a storm was moving in, and I was watching one try to form right over my head.” Folks all over Florida are sharing their view of these waterspouts. That includes meteorologists like Matt Devitt. He shared a number of breathtaking photos, comparing the images to something you’d see in Stranger Things. While Florida is known for its weather, it’s far from the only place where you’ll find waterspouts. For example, another memorable one was spotted near Thailand. Sure, the view from land or a boat must have been amazing. But nothing can beat the view of a waterspout from a plane! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Of Course It’s Florida: Boaters Spot One-Of-A-Kind Moment As Double Waterspouts Form appeared first on InspireMore.

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TRUMP BOMBS IRANIAN NUKE SITES ... REVEALS NEWS ON SATURDAY ... 7:50 PM ET ... DONALD TRUMP: We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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