Pictures of bikini-clad women have been known to cause strain in marriages. But could skimpy swimsuits trigger a thread to the United States’ and Great Britain’s “special relationship?” In recent weeks, young women have been targeted on X by individuals using Grok’s AI technology to manipulate their image without their consent. I, myself, was a victim in this scandal: an anonymous user replied to a perfectly normal post I had written about puberty blockers and instructed X’s AI to generate a sexualized deepfake of me: “put her in a micro-bikini, on her knees, knees out, tongue out.” I have never taken, shared, or consented to anything remotely like that. The ability of a stranger to weaponize my face and turn it into public pornography is a profound violation. It strips you of your dignity, your identity, and your sense of personal control in a way few things can. So, I reported it. And X acted: fast. The comment was removed, the image was deleted, and the account responsible was, as far as I can tell, permanently suspended. Soon after, X restricted Grok’s image-generation features for non-subscribers, effectively shutting down the anonymous abuse that had driven most of this trend. Within days, the phenomenon had largely disappeared. It was a negative experience, but it was handled. The platform corrected course. We moved on. Or at least, most of us did. The British government did not. Instead, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration has chosen to escalate the incident into something far bigger: floating the possibility of banning X entirely in the United Kingdom. This has triggered an extraordinary diplomatic row with the United States, whose State Department has now openly warned Britain that such a move could provoke retaliation. State Department spokesmen have made clear that Washington would view such a ban as an unjustified attack on freedom of speech, behavior more typical of an authoritarian state than a Western democracy. Some American officials have even hinted at travel restrictions or legal pressure against British officials involved in enforcement. That kind of terse language is almost unheard of between Britain and America. But it didn’t come out of nowhere. Tensions have been building over the last few years as the United Kingdom persistently flouts respect for free expression. Mothers are jailed for months on end for long-since deleted tweets. Christians are convicted for praying silently near abortion facilities. The examples are racking up at an extraordinary pace. The recent government targeting of X is ostensibly meant to prevent women and children from porn-related crime. But if ministers were genuinely driven by concern for female dignity and child safety, X would be nowhere near the top of their list. Pornhub, one of the largest pornography platforms in the world, has a documented history of hosting child sexual abuse material, rape videos, and non-consensual content. In 2025, American regulators concluded that Pornhub’s parent company had misled the public about safeguards and failed to prevent the re-uploading of illegal material. And yet Pornhub remains accessible in Britain. No threats or bans from the government. Just quiet assurances about age verification and “compliance.” The same is true of other AI platforms. Gemini, ChatGPT, and countless image-generation tools have all faced cases where non-consensual deepfakes were produced. None have been threatened with national expulsion. None have been treated as existential threats to public safety. So, why X? X is not primarily a sexual platform. It is a political one. It hosts journalists, dissidents, activists, and cultural critics. It is messy, chaotic, and often offensive — but it is also one of the last major spaces where unfiltered political disagreement still happens at scale. That is why this fight has become transatlantic. The United States understands something the British government seems either unable or unwilling to admit: a wholesale ban on X would be a gross attempt to control and shut down public conversation, including views the government simply dislike. If Starmer truly believes in protecting the vulnerable, his government should be relentlessly targeting the platforms that profit from sexual abuse and exploitation. Until that happens, the sudden ferocity directed at X will remain impossible to read as anything other than ideological. And now, thanks to America’s spotlight, the world is watching. * * * Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) is a writer and commentator from Great Britain. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The stage is set for a GOP bro fest between President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the College Football Playoff National Championship in Miami Monday night. Both will attend the title game between the No. 10 Miami Hurricanes and the No. 1 Indiana Hoosiers. Trump and Rubio have only gotten closer over their shared passion for football, Axios reported. “They like to bro out over football. It’s not all talk about Venezuela,” an insider told the outlet. The two have long made their love of the gridiron known, but this game comes with added intrigue for the commander-in-chief and his high-ranking cabinet member. Rubio hails from Miami, where the game is taking place, and also earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1996. Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, has signed to play golf for the University of Miami next year. Rubio will likely root for his alma mater, but the Secretary of State has connections with Indiana’s Heisman-winning quarterback, Fernando Mendoza. Like Rubio, Mendoza hails from Miami. Both are Cuban and are outspokenly proud of their heritage. And, as if the world could get any smaller, Rubio is friends with Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal, who played high school football with Mendoza’s dad in Miami. Both Rubio’s son and Mendoza played prep football in the 305. Mendoza played at Cristobal’s alma mater, Christopher Columbus, while Rubio’s son, Anthony, went to Belen Jesuit. And while we are spinning the Miami web of connections, the Indiana quarterback’s mom, Elsa, played tennis for the Hurricanes. But back to the GOP attending the CFP Title Game. Axios reported Trump hasn’t declared who will be his dog in the fight, though the president has praised Mendoza this season. Monday night’s game at Hard Rock Stadium is the third College Football Playoff National Championship Trump has attended. He attended the 2018 championship game between Georgia and Alabama, as well as the 2020 title game between LSU and Clemson. This past season, Trump attended the Army-Navy football game and participated in the pre-game coin toss. Trump also attended an NFL game this season between the Detroit Lions and the Washington Commanders. The former high school football player-turned-president also provided a little play-by-play in the broadcasting booth during the game. Miami was the last team into the 12-team CFP field. Before the final bracket was announced in December, Rubio jokingly said Trump should scrap the postseason altogether if the Hurricanes didn’t make the playoffs. Miami made the playoffs and dominated — beating Texas A&M, Ohio State, and Ole Miss on their way to the championship game. Indiana has made its opponents look junior varsity in their quest for the title. The Hoosiers handled Alabama and Oregon easily to punch their ticket to South Beach. The College Football Playoff National Championship kicks off Monday at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Former vice president and failed presidential hopeful Kamala Harris may have just proved she doesn’t believe her own rhetoric. According to multiple reports, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, recently purchased an $8.15 million home in Point Dume, an exclusive oceanside neighborhood in Malibu. The purchase is raising eyebrows after Harris spent years as a senator and vice president warning the public about climate change and coastline erosion. The 4,000-square-foot property includes four bedrooms and six bathrooms situated on about three-quarters of an acre, per the New York Post. One real estate listing describes the home as “perched in a prime coastal location” with “breathtaking ocean views.” The house is located near Point Dume State Beach, a ritzy area that was identified as having a high risk for flooding and erosion. A climate model previously endorsed by the Biden-Harris administration projected that Point Dume State Beach could suffer significant damage from rising sea levels. That model was discontinued in June 2025 under the Trump administration, as noted by The Free Beacon. Also, a 2023 Interior Department study concluded that up to 75 percent of California’s beaches could be eroded by the year 2100. The Point Dume area also suffered significant damage during the 2018 Woolsey Fire and some damage during the 2025 Palisades Fire. Harris has been sounding the alarm on climate change for years. “Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Climate change is real and we must act before it’s too late. That’s why I support a Green New Deal,” she tweeted in 2019. The same year, Harris sponsored the Living Shorelines Act, which called for $50 million annually in federal funding to help address rising sea levels. While serving as vice president, Harris was named the administration’s lead spokeswoman for the Climate-Ready Coasts initiative, a multibillion-dollar federal program. In April 2023, she announced $562 million in grants to benefit communities “on the front lines of the climate crisis.” “The climate crisis represents a profound threat — as we all know — to our nation and to the world,” she said during a speech at the University of Miami, claiming that “we still have time to make a difference.” The home reportedly purchased by Harris and Emhoff includes features that the Biden-Harris administration found problematic, including a gas stove and fireplace, plus a tankless water heater. While serving as vice president, Harris advocated for energy efficiency regulations that would have restricted certain gas stoves and tankless water heater models. Point Dume is one of Malibu’s most exclusive neighborhoods, known for its privacy and gated access to Little Dume Beach. The area has attracted celebrities and tech moguls including Sean Penn, Gerard Butler, and Julia Roberts, as the New York Post noted.

The Democratic Party is insisting that basic law enforcement action against illegal immigrants, particularly criminal illegal immigrants, is some sort of violation of the American compact. They are, astonishingly, equating the American system with the Iranian ayatollahs in terms of tyranny.  That is the case currently being made by Ken Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee. And it’s nuts. The Wall Street Journal reported: As President Trump cancels meetings with the Iranian regime, increases the economic pressure and promises imminent help for the protesters being slaughtered in the streets, the Democratic Party’s boss has chimed in. Consider what Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee Chairman, has to say: “From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis, people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability,” Mr. Martin wrote Sunday on social media. “Solidarity across borders means opposing authoritarian power everywhere and defending the right to live free from fear and state violence.” When told that the continuing massacres by Iran’s regime and the tragic, split-second Jan. 7 killing of Renee Good by a U.S. law-enforcement officer aren’t the same, Mr. Martin plunged deeper into moral equivalence. “If comparing the U.S. to Iran makes you angry, ask why,” he wrote. “Killing protesters. Crushing dissent. Kidnapping and disappearing legal citizens. Ignoring courts. Threatening critics. Terrorizing communities. That’s authoritarian behavior—anywhere.” This is incredibly ironic, as the leader of the DNC — the party that has treated Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the various terror arms of Iran as some sort of half-political organizations, treated the Iranian government as a quasi-innocent in the region — now cites Iran as the repressive power to compare to President Trump, the president who actually struck Iran back in June of last year, blowing up their nuclear facility at Fordow. It’s also amazing he compares the ayatollahs who are ordering the shooting of thousands of people in the streets to ICE agents enforcing criminal law while obstructed by benighted and misguided people. “Killing protesters?” The Trump administration is not unleashing ICE to mass-shoot protesters. That’s insane. That’s psychotic. And disgusting. Ken Martin is out of his mind. “Kidnapping and disappearing legal citizens. Ignoring courts. Threatening critics. Terrorizing communities. That’s authoritarian behavior—anywhere.” That is absolutely insane. The fact that Ken Martin would say such things is demonstrative of how disconnected the Democratic Party is from reality at its top levels. He’s not the only one who’s saying this, by the way. Representative Eugene Vindman of Virginia said on CNN, “We need to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom and independence. They’re protesting largely peacefully on the streets. And they’re being attacked and murdered. And I think, you know, there’s an irony, obviously, in what we see with ICE on America’s streets.” Peter Baker of The New York Times was on MS NOW, where he declaimed, “People are watching the split screen situation of mass protests in Tehran and mass protests in Minneapolis. And of course, they’re looking to see how a president handles each of them. And while you really can’t compare the substance of these two very important issues happening for different parts of the planet, you can, I think, look at the rule of thumb that Donald Trump brings to it.” “And I think the rule of thumb is pretty simple,” he continued. “If you’re protesting against a regime he disfavors, he opposes, then you’re heroes. If you’re protesting him or his policies, then you are illegitimate. You’re radicals. You’re radical Left lunatics.” That’s ridiculous. If you are protesting the Ayatollah’s regime — the one where they murder you if you protest; the one where women are forced to wear hijabs; the one where they spread terrorism all over the region while impoverishing their people to the tune of no water or power in their capital — I don’t see how that is comparable to someone looting gun lockers in ICE vehicles in Minneapolis. Why do Democrats and the Left embrace this equivalence? The truth is that they make excuses on a consistent basis for some of the worst people in the Middle East while ripping into governments that attempt to fight those people in the Middle East. There’s been significantly more ire from the mainstream media at Israel for its action in the Gaza Strip, which was targeted action against a terrorist group hiding behind civilians, than there has been against the Iranian government thus far. The enemy of good sense is the failure to speak basic truths. There is a deeper agenda at work, of course. And that deeper agenda has to do with a Democratic party point of view that suggests that the importation of a large number of people from outside the United States inherently makes the United States culturally stronger. That leads to this agenda: Don’t enforce immigration law. The narrative that is being promoted by the Democrats and by the legacy media is that ICE is willy-nilly mass-arresting people for no reason at all based on the color of their skin. That is a lie. The vast majority of people that ICE is detaining and actually arresting after detention are criminals. The Democrats are hoping that a little chaos and willfully misleading people will convince America to give up on immigration enforcement. They are wrong.

Former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema is being sued under North Carolina’s “Homewrecker Law” over alleged interference in the marriage between a former member of her “security detail” and his now ex-wife. North Carolina is only one of the handful of states that allows individuals to sue for “alienation of affection,” and the lawsuit accuses Sinema of “intentional and malicious inference” in a “good and loving marriage” between Heather and Matthew Ammel, who separated in November 2024, according to the complaint filed in September 2025 that has recently resurfaced. Ammel joined Sinema’s security team in 2022, and the lawsuit claims that Sinema’s head of security left her job in fall 2023 over concern that the senator was “having sexual relations with other security members.” Ammel decided to stick around “due to the financial security of the job,” despite receiving encouragement from the head of security to also quit, the lawsuit says. Sinema allegedly hired Ammel as a Defense and National Security Fellow for her official Senate office while also working as her “personal security guard.” The lawsuit alleges that Sinema had “numerous lengthy conversations with Mr. Ammel” through multiple platforms, including in-person and over text, that were “emotionally romantic or sexual in nature.” The lawsuit also alleges that Sinema met with Ammel regularly outside of professional settings, including meetings that were “emotionally or physically romantic or sexual in nature,” and that Sinema was “encouraging” Ammel to leave his wife. It says in the spring or early summer of 2024 that Ammel “stopped wearing his wedding ring,” and the lawsuit says it is because Ammel said it was to avoid negative “public optics” when the then-senator was “putting her hands on a married man when they were out at concerts and various other public events.” Other allegations in the lawsuit detail messages where Sinema was “wrapped in a towel” and suggested that Ammel “bring MDMA drugs on a work trip so that she could guide him through a psychedelic experience,” as Sinema offered assistance with his “mental health challenges.” The lawsuit said that Ammel was on numerous trips with Sinema, and that starting in 2024, the plaintiff noticed frequent messaging on Signal between the two, alleging that it “exceeded the bounds of a normal working relationship.” One of the messages exchanged included Sinema saying she was not attending the State of the Union address because “she didn’t need to listen to some old man, President Biden, talk about the legislation that she wrote.” Another message exchange said that Ammel wanted to start a “F*ck the troops” chant at a baseball game he attended alone, to which Sinema allegedly replied that “she would ‘f*ck the hot ones.'” It also outlines that the duo went to numerous concerts together, including U2 and the Extra Innings Festival. The plaintiff claims that Ammel said that Sinema was “handsy with him at this event.” She is asking for damages “in excess of” $25,000 for the allegations outlined in the case. The lawsuit said that Ammel is an Army veteran with PTSD, and the Phoenix New Times reported in March about Sinema’s post-Senate advocacy for more psychedelic research, noting Ammel’s experience with it. “I saw the difference it was making in his life, his thinking, and his behavior,” Sinema said to the Phoenix New Times in the interview. The Daily Wire reached out to the former senator, who is now an attorney at Hogan Lovells, for comment. The Daily Wire attempted to reach Matthew Ammel through a publicly available email that appeared to belong to him. A man by the same name appeared to have been arrested in Moore County, North Carolina, for assault charges in November, but The Daily Wire is unable to confirm whether it is the same individual.

When Iranian airspace closed on Wednesday night, it seemed like an American attack was imminent. Some military assets moved, American bases had degrees of evacuations, and tension spiked. But the attack never came. Experts now warn that this is not an end to the standoff, but a strategic maneuver in what they call the “fog of Trump” — the president’s typical unpredictability, which leaves both allies and adversaries scrambling to guess his next move. According to Jonathan Schanzer, the Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, it is clear that things were happening Wednesday night, but something changed. “The bottom line is, it appears that Trump had made a decision, reversed his decision, and may yet reverse it again,” Schanzer told The Daily Wire, “This is the fog of Trump, not the fog of war. Everything appeared to be moving toward an operation, and then that operation was apparently called off. What happens next is a big question.” Earlier on Wednesday, Trump shifted his tone regarding the Iranian regime. He had previously threatened to strike if protesters were killed, but stated from the Oval Office that he believed the “killings in Iran have stopped.” Many observers saw this as part of Trump’s strategy to add confusion ahead of a potential strike. He reiterated this stance Thursday morning, while still leaving the possibility of action on the table. “I’m not going to tell you that,” he said when NBC News asked if he had ruled out military intervention. Some have suggested that Trump was testing Iran’s readiness by observing how they reacted to what appeared to be preparations for an American strike. Al Jazeera reported that Trump communicated to Iran that he is not planning to strike, while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-GA) said that the question isn’t whether the operation will happen, but whether it “should be bigger or smaller.” There are missed signals, and according to Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran, that is precisely the point. “I think what you have seen over the last few days has been a concerted psyop, or psychological operation, that has been meant to confuse the decision-making of the Islamic Republic of Iran while the U.S. prepares for a military strike and moves assets into place,” Brodsky told The Daily Wire. Both Brodsky and Schanzer point to the importance of the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group reportedly moving from the South China Sea to the Middle East, a voyage that will take about a week. “I think that the most important data point that we received over the last 24 hours has been the U.S. moving the USS Abraham Lincoln from the South China Sea into the CENTCOM theater,” Brodsky said. “I think President Trump likes to keep all options open, but I think that they’re laying the groundwork for the eventuality of potential military action. During the 12-Day war between Israel and Iran over the summer, Trump was also mulling striking Iran and suggested he would make his decision “within the next two weeks” before striking Iranian nuclear sites just a few days later. “I think we saw this kind of mixed messaging before the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear program during the 12-Day War and it was part of a concerted effort, reportedly, to throw off the Iranians,” Brodsky said. “That kind of veering and mixed messaging is part of the strategy.” There are reports that Arab nations and Israel urged Trump to exercise caution. The Arab states reportedly asked him not to attack Iran, while Israel requested a temporary delay on a strike. According to the New York Times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested that Trump postpone plans to strike Iran. Some have suggested the request was driven by the need for Israel to ready itself in case the regime responded to American action by striking the Jewish state. On Wednesday, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin confirmed that the IDF is on full alert and taking steps to strengthen its defensive readiness. “The region is on high alert,” Schanzer said. “The Israelis are preparing for a potential onslaught of ballistic missiles from the Iranian regime. This has been the threat—that if the U.S. attacks, then the Israelis will take the brunt of it.” So far, the Iranian regime has threatened to attack American bases in the Middle East if Trump decides to attack. Schanzer emphasized that the situation is far from over. He noted that Trump is operating with “maximum flexibility” while weighing risks and seeking the best outcome from his advisors. “I think something can very easily still happen,” he said. “The easiest thing to do would be to take out the tech that has halted the flow of information with the 8-day internet blackout. You could allow the Iranians to begin to communicate freely with themselves and with the rest of the world; that’s an important step.” He added that cyber, economic, and diplomatic options are on the table. On Thursday morning, the Treasury Department announced a new round of sanctions targeting the Iranian regime in response to its ongoing crackdown on protesters. The sanctions designate several senior Iranian security officials responsible for directing the regime’s bloody response to demonstrators, including: Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme Council for National Security, Mohammad Reza Hashemifar, commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in Lorestan Province, and others. Regardless of what move Trump decides to take, Brodsky says Trump showed unprecedented support to Iranians by speaking out against the regime and encouraging Iranians to keep protesting and take over their institutions, and that help is coming. “The president has gone further than any American president in history by being on the side of the Iranian people,” he said. “I think that there is a need to demonstrate how help is coming, and I think that the president and his team know that. It’s just very important that we follow through.”

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