“Uncut Gems” actress Julia Fox is facing backlash for her controversial Halloween costume, which social media users are calling “sick and disgusting.” The 35-year-old celeb, who is an ex-girlfriend of rapper Kanye West, stepped out for a Halloween party in New York City on Thursday and donned an outfit meant to depict the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Fox was photographed wearing the recognizable pink suit and pillbox hat that JFK’s wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore on that day. The outfit was splattered with blood meant to represent the assassination. Reactions on social media were fiercely opposed. “Julia Fox continues to be one of the most insufferable people imaginable,” one person replied.  “What a ghoul,” another person echoed. “You will never be able to convince me that Hollywood is not a product of the devil,” said another. “Tasteless, narcissistic attention seeking,” another commenter replied. As backlash mounted, Fox posted a statement on Instagram defending the outfit, insisting her morbid outfit choice was “not a costume” but “a statement.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Julia Fox (@juliafox) “When her husband was assassinated, she refused to change out of her blood-stained clothes, saying, ‘I want them to see what they’ve done,’” the celeb wrote.  “The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern history. Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation. Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It’s about trauma, power and how femininity itself is a form of resistance. Long live Jackie O.” Fox is known for getting attention by wearing provocative outfits. In a New York Times essay published last year, the actress said she was sick of pretending to be normal and instead wanted to openly be a “freak.” “I remember being in fifth grade [on New York’s Upper East Side] and being exhausted from trying to pretend to be normal all the time,” Fox wrote. “It’s not easier [to try] to be normal … eventually freaks are like, ‘I’m going to be myself and live my truth because I can’t pretend anymore.’ Pretending is draining; it’s exhausting; it’s depression. Being a freak’s not an easy thing, but it can be a very beautiful thing.”

Connecticut Democrat Rep. Jim Himes made some startling comments on MSNBC earlier this week, arguing that because of President Trump’s strikes on suspected narco-terrorist boats, MAGA supporters should be worried about “who gets killed” when the next Democratic president gets into office. “There will be a Democratic president someday. And all my MAGA friends who are cheering on these illegal killings need to imagine who gets killed when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that it doesn’t matter what the law says, she’s going to do what she’s going to do,” Himes said. Himes made his comments in response to Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), who ripped into Sen. Ruben Gallego, (D-AZ) earlier this week after Gallego said U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean “sanctioned murder.” “To say that we’re engaging in murder is just such an outrage,” Graham stated. “The president of the United States as commander in chief has the authority to do these strikes. Nobody accused Bush of committing murder when he invaded Panama to take down Noriega. Nobody accused Reagan of murder when he went into Grenada to stop Cuban influence growing in Grenada, threatening our backyard, so the president has history on his side, he has the Constitution on his side. Congress has declared war five times in 250 years, so when I hear that the military can’t be used by the commander in chief, unless Congress declares war, it just shows me how ignorant these people are.” “The president has all the authority in the world and if you want to fight over this, let’s fight over this. I think most Americans are going to be with Trump,” Graham added later. During his MSNBC interview, Himes hypothesized, “There is a purported memo inside the White House articulating the legal basis for these strikes which has not been shared with the Congress. Now, I wonder why it hasn’t been shared with the Congress because I bet if it exists, that it’s nonsense. And look, if Lindsey Graham and other Republicans want to go the route of saying, ‘It’s OK to kill people illegally, just so long as the American public supports it,’ the American public needs to really think that through.” Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes informed the world that AOC really does run the Democrat Party, stating, “Imagine who gets killed when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that it doesn’t matter what the law says.” pic.twitter.com/837GPnrYGD — Loomer Unleashed (@LoomerUnleashed) October 29, 2025 Himes conveniently ignored that President Barack Obama oversaw a 2011 drone attack killing Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of Al Qaeda but also an American citizen, as well as his 16-year-old son. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. In early October, Himes joined other Democrats to send a letter to President Trump “demanding he provide the list of designated terrorist organizations (DTOs) he has unilaterally declared as such and provide evidence for his justifications used in several recent lethal U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean Sea,” the Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee reported. Himes’ office did not respond to a request to comment.

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re starting to see a neo-Confederate nullification movement among the contemporary Left in general, in particular the Democratic Party. In other words, there are governors, like Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, or Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, or Gov. Tina Kotek in Oregon, who openly, literally, candidly say that federal immigration law shall not be enforced in their jurisdictions, their state, county, and local municipal jurisdiction. They haven’t read Article VI of the Constitution. It says explicitly that in matters of the enforcement of federal authority and jurisdiction, which is the United States, it supersedes local law enforcement. And they’re completely ignorant of history and where nullification of federal law leads to. We saw it under the Eisenhower administration when Little Rock refused to follow a court order to integrate its school system. The governor, Orval Faubus, defied the federal government. President Dwight Eisenhower had to nationalize the Arkansas National Guard and forcibly stop him. The same thing happened in Mississippi under Gov. Ross Barnett, 1961. 1963, George Wallace stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and said, “I will not allow federal troops to desegregate this university.” And they forced him to do that. From 1855 to 1859, there was something called Bleeding Kansas. And that meant that groups that were pro-Southern or pro-Union sent settlers into the territory of Kansas to change the demography so each side would be able to force the United States to either admit it as a free or a slave state. But the point was that federal law died. Each side nullified it. And they began to carry on violence against one another. John Brown, the infamous killer at Harpers Ferry, he executed five people in a raid on a Southern community. And there was tit-for-tat violence on both sides. What we’re seeing now is open street violence in Portland. Antifa-like, or Antifa themselves, protesters pelt Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. They point lasers at their eyes. They try to rush the facilities. And then, in extremis, they run over to the other side of the street for the sanctuary of local policemen. In the Chicago area, when ICE agents are besieged and blockaded by cars and under threat, local police do not come to their aid. And it’s almost as if these governors and these mayors, it’s not almost if, it is that they are nullifying federal law in the best spirit of the neo-Confederacy. They are saying that Los Angeles or California, or Chicago, or Illinois have their own unique cultures. And we do not want the federal government coming onto federal property, their own property, and enforcing federal law among us. So, they are the successors to Jefferson Davis or John Calhoun, the segregationist, states’ rightist that tried to nullify the federal government. And there’s a little twist to this story. They’re also very hypocritical. If someone were to follow their prompt in a red state or a red county or a red city and say, “Federal gun registration law does not apply here. Endangered species lists don’t apply here,” you know what the Left would do? They would go crazy: “You are Confederate nullificationists. Federal law will force you to register guns in a county in Utah.” You can see what they would say if President Donald Trump said, “Well, this federal judge, he’s just a district judge. He’s not a circuit judge. He’s not a Supreme Court judge. He’s a political activist. He’s making up laws as he is going. He’s just trying to delay and hamstring my administration. I’m not gonna follow a federal writ.” He couldn’t do that. He’s doing that. The Left would go crazy. And yet, that is what they’re doing. So, the next stage is even scarier because we’re not just seeing street thuggery, we are seeing officials, as in Los Angeles, that are helping to dox and identify ICE agents electronically and making apps and trying to help the illegal alien or the person, who is a criminal illegal alien, escape deportation efforts of ICE. And remember, contrary to what the Left says, the statistics show that about 80% or more of the people that ICE is arresting either have criminal records, they’re part of the 500,000 that the Biden administration let in, or they have preexisting deportation orders they’ve ignored. And yet our own state, local, and city officials are helping people who are breaking federal law and opposing, sometimes quasi-violently, or condoning the violence of federal enforcements, agents who are trying to enforce federal law. This has a neo-Confederate pedigree. And we know where Bleeding Kansas led to. Once you nullify federal law and once you glorify violence—and by the way, the Left has glorified almost every major left-wing assassin, whether it was James Hodgkinson that tried to take out the House leadership, or Tyler Robinson, who took out Charlie Kirk, or Luigi Mangione, who killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, or Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh, who tried to kill Donald Trump on two occasions. When you have glorification of that type of violence and political assassination, we know where it’s going to lead. It leads from Bleeding Kansas to Harpers Ferry to Fort Sumter. And they’re playing with fire. And it’s very dangerous for the republic. And it’s time for the Left to stop. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Left Goes Neo-Confederate on Immigration appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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It is easy to know exactly what is on the mind of New Yorker writer Jill Lepore 24/7. Orange Man Bad. And, oh, does she let us know why she just can't stop thinking about him which comes in the form of a bizarre extended stream of consciousness rant disguised as a story on Monday in "Trump and the Presidency That Wouldn’t Shut Up." Her fixation on Trump begins with the first paragraph and then continues without letup as she focuses on the fact that he just won't SHUT UP and it is driving her NUTS! The list of figures in American history with whom Donald J. Trump has been compared since he announced his bid for the Presidency a decade ago is longer than his trademark necktie, as red as a gash. It’s taller than Trump Tower, gleaming like a blade. It has a higher turnover than his beleaguered first Cabinet. It includes even more goons, toadies, and peacocks than his current Administration. And yet the comparisons keep coming, in the daily papers, in the nightly podcasts, online, online, online. Is Trump more of a liar than Joseph McCarthy; is he slicker than Huey Long? Is he as mean-spirited as Father Charles Coughlin, more sinister than George Wallace? Is he as much of a fraud as P. T. Barnum, even more of an isolationist than Charles Lindbergh? He is trickier than Richard (Tricky Dick) Nixon, but to what degree? After several more paragraphs of whining about Trump, Lepore then shifts into channeling a Margaret Dumont level of outrage over an AI video about miracle "medbeds": Take out your flashlight and ask the inevitable question: Is there any precedent for a President of the United States doing such a thing? Is American history any guide to understanding why Trump, or someone on his staff, posted (and soon afterward deleted) a fake video about a nonexistent news report concerning a fictional miracle cure, an episode whose political significance strikes me as asymptotically approaching zero? Lepore then conjures up the Constitution and a panoply of Presidents to make her case that Trump talks too much and how it should be somehow unconstitutional for him to do so in a more perfect world.: And now for one more (but hardly the last) stream of consciousness inadvertent comedy outburst by Lepore against Trump and his talk, talk, talking that is beat, beat, beating against her poor brain. Historians will need to account for Trump when, as Gerald Ford said when he succeeded Nixon, “our long national nightmare is over.” Analogies won’t help them. Because nothing in American history anticipates or explains the way Trump speaks to his supporters at his rallies—or his use of Twitter, between 2015 and 2021, and Truth Social, beginning in 2022. He riffs; he cusses; he dodges; he weaves; he raises money; he spreads lies. He is lurid and profane. He targets his political opponents, threatening them with prosecution, prison, and execution. He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous. He posts day and night, about everything from taco bowls to possible ceasefires. He is getting worse. In his second term, he has posted three times as often as he did during his first. Tonally, nearly everything he posts is unhinged, even when it’s a simple endorsement or amplification of a policy, like tariffs... GASP! He...he "targets his political opponents, threatening them with prosecution, prison, and execution?" That has never ever happened in a previous administration. Well, except for the during Joe Biden's administration when the FBI's Arctic Frost investigated over 150 Republicans and hit Trump with 2 simultaneous federal indictments as well as two more White House influenced state indictments. As for "our long national nightmare is over," that was already pompously declared by Jake Tapper followed shortly afterwards by millions of illegals flooding across our borders, an ignominious departure from Afghanistan, high inflation, Covid censorship based on misinformation (based on disinformation), Ukraine War quagmire, oh, and lots of lots of lawfare against Trump  and many connected with him. Oh, and think of the epic meltdown if President Trump should target Jill Lepore, not with lawfare but with the mere mockery she richly deserves. It really shouldn't be done since that would be sure to drive her over the edge. And that would be wrong. But it would also be fun!