President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable discussion at the White House with journalists impacted by violence from Antifa, a far-left group recently designated as a domestic terrorist organization by the president. The decentralized group is most known for instigating violence and chaos at major protests, including anti-ICE protests in Portland, Oregon, which led the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard to the city. Currently, that order is blocked by United States District Judge Karin J. Immergut at the time of this writing. “The epidemic of left-wing violence and Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade,” Trump said on Wednesday. “These are agitators, anarchists, and they’re paid,” he later added. Conservative journalists and personalities, including Andy Ngo, Nick Sortor, Katie Daviscourt, Julio Rosas, Brandi Kruse, Savanah Hernandez, and Jack Posobiec, joined the roundtable with Trump administration officials. “The Biden administration let them commit these crimes with total impunity for years,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said, adding that “weak Democrats have turned a blind eye to their actions.” Bondi vowed to “destroy the entire organization from top to bottom,” saying they will use a similar approach to how they crack down on drug cartels. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout! FBI Director Kash Patel said that “they are harming everyday citizens in every single one of our communities.” “We will arrest every single one of them,” Patel insisted, adding that “the American people deserve law and order.” Kruse, a Seattle-based reporter, said that one of the most significant issues the president addressed was “acknowledging that Antifa is a real thing.” “Once you take the mask off, they’re nothing,” Kruse said, later asking for a “full court press to dismantle Antifa once and for all.” She added that the investigators should look into the movement of potential criminals between Portland and Seattle. Ngo described numerous times where he was attacked by Antifa activists, including when he was severely choked, noting how the group is “decentralized, autonomous, and they operate on deception.” “I think the DOJ could look at federal conspiracy charges,” he added. Rosas said that “the American people deserve to know what’s happening in these situations.” “It’s a long time coming,” Daviscourt said regarding the terrorist group designation, saying that Antifa “believes that violence is justified by any means necessary.” Daviscourt recently suffered a black eye as a result of an assault while covering the group. On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said there are “undercover” efforts underway in the Lone Star State to take down “leftist terror cells.” “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” Paxton said in a news release. “The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming,” the attorney general concluded.

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For weeks now, Democrats have been demanding that Republicans negotiate an extension of expiring COVID-era premium health care tax credits in exchange for their votes to reopen the federal government. But most Republicans, many of whom would like to see further reforms to Obamacare, do not appear keen on extending the COVID-era policy. Prominent Senate Democrats have presented the extension of the health care cost assistance as an urgent matter, as insurance companies—which have received billions from the enhanced tax credits—are announcing potential premium increases if they expire. The expanded subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, at which they would return to pre-COVID levels. “Even a majority of Trump supporters by nearly 60% support an extension,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said last Friday. “People are learning about this issue, and they’re aghast that their premiums could go up so much.” But Republicans and conservatives in Washington tend not to speak of the tax break so glowingly, pointing to the fact that the credits often function as direct payments to insurance companies. “These are expanded Obamacare tax credits. And frankly, they’re not tax credits, really, at all. For the most part, they’re direct subsidies to insurance companies,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters shortly after Democrats first voted against stopgap funding of the government. “So it needs to be reformed.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Recipients of the premium tax credit can elect to have the credit advanced before filing their taxes, a process in which the subsidy actually flows directly to the insurance provider on behalf of the recipient. Even if Republican leadership in both chambers decided to throw Democrats a bone in the matter, many conservatives in the House are altogether opposed to extending what is an expansion of Obamacare—a law they abhor to begin with. Passing a clean extension of the tax credits would be difficult, giving the House’s large conservative Republican faction. “Look, they want to continue a COVID-era insurance company giveaway scheme,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., told The Daily Signal a day before Democrats voted against funding the government. “There’s no reason to [extend] it. COVID is over. The insurance companies have made billions of dollars off the enhanced tax credits. It’s about time to return to the pre-COVID level of tax credits with the original [Affordable Care Act] tax credits.” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) Within the conservative orbit, the expanded credits—which were passed in a 2021 Democrat budget bill that received zero Republican votes—have never been popular. The Heritage Foundation has argued that the Obamacare tax credits have increased federal spending by making it go up with increasing premiums. “As premiums rise, so do the subsidies,” reads a 2023 report urging a repeal of the tax subsidies. To be sure, it is entirely possible that Republicans could yet extend the tax credits, although it remains unclear what sort of reforms might be put in place, or how long an extension could be. A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives has proposed a clean, one-year extension of the subsidies to punt on the matter. Additionally, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has said he’s “willing to talk about” extending the tax credit, and is open to suggestions on how long the extension could be and whether or not to place an income cap on them. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., who has not ruled out a reformed extension of the credits, has said there are “535 members in the entire House and Senate, and there’s probably 400 different ideas on how to fix” the issue, so “vigorous, deliberate debates” are needed. But in general, Republicans appear to be seeking to restructure Obamacare, rather than double down on it. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., argues that to extend the subsidies would be to put more resources into a program that has not yielded results for Americans. “COVID is over, so it’s time to resume lower levels of spending,” she told reporters last week. “We probably should be looking at Obamacare on a more holistic basis, because it’s not a success, and it’s going to have to require expensive Band-Aids to hold it together. So, it’s probably time to take a more serious look at it.” Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) That’s a major reason why Republicans say they do not want to negotiate the subsidies in the midst of a shutdown—because, in their view, Obamacare is a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation. As such, they see little reason to rush into pumping more money into it as part of a deal to temporarily reopen the government. “The president says that he wants to make it better,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., an ally of Senate leadership, recently told reporters.  He added that Trump “wants to make health care affordable for everybody. Right now, we know Obamacare isn’t working. I mean, it’s skyrocketing prescription drugs, skyrocketing premiums. They have to have a premium tax to offset the cost of it. So, what the president is wanting to do is, ‘Let’s talk.‘ Let’s work it out. Let’s figure out how to get the free market going again and get it where it actually works for the American people.” Democrats and Republicans are on very different pages on the health care issue. While Democrats have presented an alternative funding bill that would repeal every cost-saving health care provision in the July budget reconciliation bill, top Republicans say they’re just getting started on their work on health care. “We have more reforms coming to try to fix Obamacare, which is not working for the people,” Johnson said last week. The post Most Republicans Aren’t Keen on Extending Obamacare Subsidies appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump is considering taking his fight against Antifa to the next level. The president held a roundtable discussion on Wednesday highlighting the stories of conservative influencers who have been assaulted by Antifa rioters across the country. He has already named Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. He told reporters after the roundtable he would like to designate it a foreign terrorist organization as well. Trump asked the influencers whether they would like to see Antifa designated as a foreign terrorist organization. “Would you like to see it done?” he asked. “Yes, Mr. President. They have foreign links all across Western Europe, Middle East,” said conservative influencer Jack Posobiec. “If you agree, I agree,” he said. “Let’s get it done.” President Trump opens the roundtable on Antifa violence. pic.twitter.com/NRxt3wFzIE— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) October 8, 2025 White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller agreed that Antifa has “extensive foreign ties.” “That’s a very valid step to take,” he said. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Americans have for years seen Antifa “beat journalists,” “attack courthouses,” “attack police stations,” and “dox and assault our law enforcement officers.” “Antifa feels empowered to operate in the open, because weak Democrats have turned a blind eye to their actions,” she said. “Their hatred for President Trump and for the law and order agenda fuels their violence.” But “Americans will no longer tolerate their unhinged violence,” she said. The panelists accused the mainstream media of being complicit in Antifa’s violence. “Much of the legacy media has been ignoring it or covering for Antifa,” said Nick Sortor, an influencer who was briefly arrested by Portland, Oregon, police last week while covering an Antifa riot. “The media [have] been demonizing us for so long,” said Savannah Hernandez, an employee of Turning Point USA. “Immediately after the brutal assassination of our founder, Charlie Kirk, our Turning Point USA chapters have seen an uptick in violence across the nation as Antifa chapters that are embedded in our universities go and target them,” she said. She begged the media to tell the truth about Antifa. “Everybody at this table, we simply see ourselves as American citizens who have an iPhone and the will to actually tell the truth,” Hernandez said. “So, please take your job seriously and tell the truth to the American people.” The post Trump Weighs Designating Antifa a Foreign Terrorist Organization appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump is successfully waging a counterrevolution against leftwing institutions using the bully pulpit and his rightful political authority. The academic Left thinks this amounts to war. That was the take by a series of academics in a lengthy article by New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall. In his piece titled, “Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller,” Edsall argued that in the past weeks following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Trump has “initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power in a nominal democracy and defang, decimate, and defund the opposition.” Ryan Enos, a political scientist at Harvard, wrote that Trump’s “attacks on his political opponents are purely authoritarian” and that “he sees the killing of Kirk as an opportunity to accomplish what he has been talking about since he entered politics: using the power of the state to punish those who defy him.” Enos compared the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination to the Reichstag fire—since the modern academy apparently can’t dredge up negative historical references outside of Nazism and slavery—in which the Third Reich used the pretext of the burning of the Reichstag by a communist to go after communists. Lilliana Mason, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins, wrote for the piece, “taking advantage of a violent event to advance the oppression of a disliked group is a classic technique of aspiring autocrats.” “Tell us about it,” say the countless Americans demonized, deplatformed, debanked or dumped into the D.C. prison dungeons after J6. Mason added that some “leaders are uniquely capable of calming violent attitudes in the public,” but that this administration has done the opposite. I can’t seem recall too many left-leaning academics saying the same after former President Joe Biden stood in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, awash in ominous red lighting, and blasted “MAGA Republicans”—basically anyone to the right of Liz Cheney these days—as a “threat to democracy.” The other comments from other political scientists in the piece mainly focused around how unfair it was that Trump connected the leftwing alleged shooter of Kirk to the broader Left. They lament how awful it is that various leftwing institutions are being defunded, and Trump is sending in the National Guard to Democrat-led states that have refused to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents under siege by leftist agitators. Edsall also wrote, apparently to buttress the argument that Trump is unleashing “weaponry” against the Left, that the Department of Energy is canceling “321 energy project awards totaling $7.5 billion” mostly intended to go to Democrat states and districts. Of course, almost all of these contracts are for various “green” projects that Trump and Republicans have been against for decades. Apparently not handing a blank check to Democrat causes and using force to uphold federal laws are examples of dictatorship according to Edsall and his email list of academic, totally not partisan, experts. Since I think this piece represents a large amount of “elite” opinion on the Left it deserves a broader response. First, if the assassination of Kirk was just an outlier incident widely and sincerely condemned by the Left then it would be unfair to tie the Kirk shooting to their political movement. But that’s not the case at all. Twice, an assassin tried to kill Trump on the campaign trail. There have been several other assassination attempts by deranged leftists too, some of which have ended up with extremely lenient punishments given the severity of their crime. And even that could possibly be set aside if countless people on the Left—whether hordes of white-collar professionals on TikTok, or talking heads in the media, or politicians in office—didn’t act like absolute ghouls in the wake of Kirk’s slaying. It’s hard to take the Left seriously about political violence when not a single member of the Virginia Democratic Party has called for attorney general candidate Jay Jones to back out of the race despite saying over text that he wanted a political opponent and his children to be murdered. The academics who contributed to the New York Times piece didn’t have much to say about assassination culture or the violence being perpetrated and celebrated by the Left. I guess we are just supposed to ignore that. Second, it’s rich that these academics are suddenly worried about a presidential administration using undue power and enacting retribution on political enemies. Apparently, our Ivory Tower Rip Van Winkels missed the last four years in which the Biden administration relentlessly went after Trump to put the former president and his allies in jail, silence his backers, and scare Americans who voted for him. Actually, they didn’t just use their power against Trump and his supporters, but all kinds of Americans who opposed the Left’s agenda. The previous administration used every political and institutional lever they could to target their domestic enemies. They used the pretext of what happened on Jan. 6 to hunt people down across the country. If you want a comparison to the Reichstag fire, that seems like a pretty good one, right? The academics suddenly sounding the alarm about civil war and tyranny were notably silent about authoritarianism in that era. The truth is that the Trump administration has been good at going after the institutional Left, but in ways it’s very much entitled to do. The Trump administration is well within its right to reduce and reform the administrative state, which has been eating out the substance of the American people far longer and more destructively than King George III. The Department of War is justified in suspending or releasing personnel who celebrate the murder of people who vote differently than they do. How can they be trusted to defend the nation, the whole nation, when duty calls? Higher education, the modern temple of the institutional Left, isn’t owed endless amounts of taxpayer money, especially given their illegal and persistent discrimination against categories of Americans. The fact is that the institutional Left is justly losing influence in America after acting completely unhinged during the Great Awokening. They’ve lost support from the American people and now must contend with a presidential administration that is willing to drain their power at the source. It’s a political revolution of a type that we’ve experienced several times in our history. The only people threatening civil war are Democrats and those on the Left who can’t accept that they no longer wholly control the federal policy and the direction of American culture. The post The Academic Left Thinks a Loss of Power Means War appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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What Should You Do During Treatment Keep your dog in the designated safe zone for the entire duration of pest control treatment plus the mandatory wait period afterward. Professional pest control companies typically require pets to stay away from treated areas for a minimum of 24 to 48 hours, though some chemicals need longer clearance times. Never allow your dog back into treated spaces until surfaces completely dry and the recommended wait period passes. The ASPCA reports that early re-entry to treated areas accounts for a significant percentage of pesticide cases in pets. Maintain constant supervision of your dog’s safe space and check for any signs of distress or unusual behavior that might indicate chemical exposure through air circulation systems. Ventilation Protocols That Actually Work Open all windows and doors in treated areas immediately after pest control technicians finish their work, but keep your dog’s safe zone sealed off from these areas. Run exhaust fans for at least 4 hours after treatment to remove airborne chemical particles. The EPA recommends thorough ventilation before pets return to treated spaces, as chemical vapors can cause respiratory problems in dogs. Turn off central air systems during treatment and for 2 hours afterward to prevent chemical distribution throughout your home. Test air quality in treated rooms before you allow your dog back by spending 10 minutes in each space yourself (if you experience any irritation or strong chemical odors, extend the wait period). Choose Safer Alternatives That Work Diatomaceous earth kills insects through dehydration and poses no toxicity risk to dogs when you use food-grade versions. Enclosed bait stations prevent dogs from access to harmful rodenticides while they maintain effectiveness against target pests. Botanical-based sprays made from plant extracts provide pest control without synthetic chemicals that harm pets. 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