Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman recently slammed his own political party for refusing to condemn the violent riots plaguing Los Angeles in a candid X post -- which garnered over seven million views.

Texas Senator John Cornyn introduced a bill Tuesday that would end all federal funding for transgender procedures on both children and adults. The Stop Funding Genital Mutilation Act would ensure that no dollars from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) pay for transgender medical procedures, like removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys, or the administration of cross-sex hormones. “Texas taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for dangerous and often debilitating ‘gender transition’ procedures that are driven by radical ideology masquerading as health care,” Cornyn told The Daily Wire. The text of the proposal, also sponsored by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), follows the same lines as the “one, big, beautiful” bill passed by the House, which also ends all funding for transgender procedures.  Cornyn said that he would fight to ensure that the Senate’s version of the reconciliation spending bill would cut funding for transgender procedures like the House. His introduction of the bill comes as he faces a contentious primary challenge from Attorney General Ken Paxton, also a firm opponent of transgender procedures.  President Donald Trump made opposing transgender ideology a key plank of his 2024 platform, a position that proved popular with both Republicans and independents. In January, he signed an executive order slashing federal funding for entities that perform transgender procedures on minors.  A recent review by the Department of Health and Human Services found that the arguments for transgender procedures on minors were not backed by scientific evidence.  “The ‘gender-affirming’ model of care includes irreversible endocrine and surgical interventions on minors with no physical pathology,” the review summary said. “These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.” Over two dozen states, including Texas and Oklahoma, have enacted laws protecting kids from transgender procedures. “Before they can vote, drive, or get a tattoo, some children are pushed into irreversible gender-transition procedures with no proven long-term health benefit,” Lankford said. “These treatments can cause lasting harm, and taxpayers should not be forced to fund them.” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a similar bill last month that would also defund transgender procedures by amending the IRS code to no longer consider the life-altering procedures as health care.

For the past week, Americans have been glued to an ongoing social media exchange between Olympic legend Simone Biles and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines. The confrontation began when Gaines shared a photo of a Minnesota high school girls’ softball championship team whose star player was reportedly a boy, prompting Biles to attack Gaines on social media, calling her “truly sick” and a “sore loser” who was campaigning against transgender athletes simply because she had lost a race. Gaines fired back, “If Simone’s inclusive dream came true, she would have zero Olympic medals and no one would even know who she is.” The thread rocketed across timelines, not only because it was fiery, but because it issued a referendum on manhood. It asked every male coach, father, and teammate: Are you strong enough to sit this one out so women can compete, or will you weaponize your strength to win medals never meant for you? In a recent piece for The Daily Wire, I wrote about the left’s slow, hostile co-opting of the word “masculinity.” But it’s not enough to identify what went wrong. In order to help save American men — and American society — we need to ask ourselves: what should men get right? The Biles-Gaines saga gives us an opportunity to answer that question. Riley Gaines has fought valiantly to keep men out of women’s sports, as have many other brave female athletes. But this saga should cause all American men to ask themselves: Where were the men in this situation? Where were the fathers telling their sons, “However you identify, you may not line up in the girls’ starting blocks,” or telling their daughters, “If anyone tries to silence your voice, Dad’s voice will echo louder”? Perhaps the men were on the sidelines because for years, feminists and the left have told them that being aggressive in defense of what was right was “toxic.” Maybe they were worried that speaking out would make them seem dangerous — one of the worst things they can do. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be a man. True masculinity is a form of strength that heals instead of harms — dangerous on purpose, but disciplined by love. Healthy masculinity begins with a posture, not a press release — a posture that leans into risk so others can rest easy. Walk into any volunteer fire station at 3:00 a.m. and you’ll find fathers who left warm beds to chase a propane smell no one else noticed, just in case. They aren’t reckless —  they’re responsible. They understand what G.K. Chesterton meant when he wrote, “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” Translation: Real manhood is the antidote to cultural decay, not its cause. Or, as Crain & Co. co-host David Cone said recently on my podcast, We The People, “Toxic masculinity is a contradiction of terms. You can’t have the modifier of a word be the antithesis of the word.” True masculinity can never be toxic, because it’s covenantal: it binds itself to duties no government can assign and no ideology can erase. Scripture sketches the outline — husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the Church — and history fills in the colors, from St. Joseph guiding Mary into exile to Sgt. William Carney grabbing the colors at Fort Wagner and refusing to let them fall. Chesterton called it “The Romance of Orthodoxy” — the adventure of guarding what is good. That romance includes a listening ear. As psychologist Jordan Peterson notes, “a harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.” So, how do we ensure that men understand and inhabit this balance? We start at home. A 2024 meta-analysis in BMC Psychology found that children with engaged fathers show higher emotional resilience and academic grit. Yet engagement means more than hugs. It means clearly explaining to children the difference between right and wrong, and raising them to do what’s right. And of course, it means boldly, unapologetically modeling what choosing the right looks like. When dads speak with that mix of empathy and iron, cultural confusion suddenly looks more like noise than destiny. Sons who see their dads get up to feed a baby brother or sister so mom can sleep will grow up to be teenagers who step between a bully and a fellow classmate, and then men who shovel their widowed neighbor’s driveway without boasting about it on Instagram. Or perhaps even men who fight to protect women’s sports. Nothing can replace fathers, but they’re not the only ones who can inculcate real masculinity in young men. A high school athletic director can set policy that preserves female divisions without waiting on Congress. A pastor can preach Ephesians 5 (“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church…) and then host a father-daughter self-defense night in the fellowship hall. Each act is a brick in a wall that tells our daughters, you’re safe here. Notice what’s missing from that blueprint: self-flagellation. True masculinity doesn’t apologize for being strong; it apologizes for being selfish. It’s the difference between a freight train hauling relief supplies through the night and one that plows through a residential crossing because the engineer craves a thrill. Conservatives should celebrate the power while condemning the derailment. The Centre for Male Psychology calls this “pro-social masculinity,” but your grandpa called it being a gentleman. The same culture that coined “toxic masculinity” is starving for the genuine article. Simone Biles has earned her medals, and Riley Gaines has earned her scars. Now the question is, will American men earn back their reputation as protectors? If they do — if we do — the next generation of daughters won’t need to tweet for fairness. They’ll be too busy celebrating it on a podium their fathers kept level. 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.

​​What is the real reason we are seeing chaos in the streets of Los Angeles? One protester explained why exactly this is happening. If you want to know what drives the mindset of the rioters, then you really should take the time to listen to the people who are rioting, who are attempting to attack police officers and ICE agents. This protester was, of course, masked and wearing sunglasses. He bloviated, “Everybody has the same enemy. From L.A. to Africa to Palestine to Vietnam. We all have the same enemy. There’s one enemy. And it is not me, and it is not you, and it is not them. We are not the enemies of each other.” He pointed to the police, declaring, “They are the enemy. There’s only one enemy. And we all have to work together in unison to fight this one enemy.” Another protester interjected, “That’s right. Capitalism, imperialism, and Zionism.” “The faster we grow, the more we grow as a people, the quicker we can get to this revolution and overturn this motherf***er and have real people leading this country,” the first protester continued. They hate all the “isms,” like the free market that brought them all of their prosperity so they can waste their time in the middle of a day in Los Angeles, yelling at the police and “imperialism,” which is presumably the reason why they are standing on the soil of America because most American people were not originally native to America. He says “Zionism,” the belief that there ought to be a Jewish state in Israel. What the hell does that have to do with illegal immigration riots in Los Angeles? The answer is that for him and his ilk, they are all the same enemy: the “system.” Blame the “system” for all your problems and rip down the system. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show Another protester, apparently an illegal immigrant from Mexico, stated, “We do not agree with the term ‘illegal.’ We’re undocumented. We’ve been here for thousands of years before you guys showed up, screwed up everything. We think we should organize together with the U.S working class and fight together and create a better system. We’re anti-capitalist. We think socialism does work. Real socialism. Not Venezuela, not Cuba, not any of that crap that they are trying to sell us as socialism. And when we leave, it will be a more humane system that will take care of most of all people’s necessities.” This protester was asked for an example of what that system would look like. He said the first 40 years of the Soviet Union, which also just so happened to be the most brutal time of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin. All of this is the Omnicause, the scavenger Omnicause, as I write about in my book, “Lions and Scavengers.” It is about people who seek to tear down the institutions and systems that benefit them, the systems that have created whatever prosperity they enjoy as life’s losers. I call them “life’s losers” because the people who are out there protesting right now, the ones rioting or waving Mexican flags as they drive a motorcycle around a burning Waymo, are not life’s winners. These are not people destined for a long life of success and happiness. These are deeply unhappy human beings.  Some of them are professional agitators. And many of the groups that are sponsoring these protests — that are now turning into riots or burning cars or some violence against police and ICE agents — are unions, according to The Wall Street Journal, which wrote:  Unions, which have felt conflicted lately over how to deal with Trump, found an issue this past weekend over which to confront him: immigration. It came after the head of the state’s biggest union was arrested here for allegedly obstructing federal agents from conducting an immigration raid. The union says he was “peacefully observing.” David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California, appeared in court Monday afternoon. He was released on $50,000 bail.  Just a half mile away, his union, which represents a swath of working-class California, including nurses, janitors and security guards, organized a sprawling protest in downtown’s Grand Park. Other unions declared solidarity with the SEIU and with immigrants caught up in federal raids.  Think about this on a logical level. Why would unions be in favor of illegal immigration? Illegal immigration undercuts the labor base. Illegal immigrants, because they are not legal, are very often paid less than market wages or certainly less than union-negotiated wages. Why are unions standing up for illegal immigration? It doesn’t make any sense. They’re doing so at the expense of their own membership. What is the driving factor behind all of this? The Journal continues: Immigrants made up one-third of California’s labor force in 2023, according to census data, compared with 18% for the overall U.S. (The data doesn’t distinguish by legal status.) Some of unions’ biggest organizing wins recently have been in service workplaces where undocumented immigrants often make up an outsize share. “Whether you’re documented or not, you can be a member of a union, and those we represent, we vow to protect,” said Steve Smith, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO. What’s actually happening is that illegal immigrants are joining unions. Private sector union membership has been on the decline for decades in the United States because wages have not, in fact, stagnated; wages have risen on a real-world purchasing power parity basis. So what exactly are the unions going to do? What the unions have been doing is going into workplaces where people are being paid below the union wage and organizing illegal immigrants. That is the reason why they are now seemingly in favor of widespread illegal immigration in the United States. The National Education Association president, Rebecca Pringle, who gets paid $500,000 a year, was mobilizing the protesters, shouting, “We, the people, we, the people, we the people, all of us, all of us have that right to life, liberty and the pursuit of justice.” Why is the head of the National Education Association standing for illegal immigration? Are illegal immigrants allowed to teach our children in public schools? The last time I checked, the answer was no. Why is she out there screaming about this? The answer again is that it’s to rig the system on behalf of people who could not succeed in a free marketplace or a free marketplace of ideas. Shouting about democracy in favor of people who literally cannot vote in the democracy because they’re not here legally is crazy, but that is the coalition of forces that have aligned behind mass illegal immigration in the United States. And the Left can’t let go of it, because the same coalition is driving the Left’s efforts forward. For the Democrats, this is all about the conflict. When they say that it’s authoritarian for President Trump to activate the National Guard in order to quell violence in the streets, they’re actually saying it’s authoritarian for Trump to simply enforce the law. But it is their belief that is truly authoritarian. * * * Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%!

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said on Tuesday that she believes President Donald Trump’s troop deployment in response to the violent anti-ICE protests around Los Angeles is worthy of impeachment. In a press conference on Capitol Hill, a reporter asked whether the descriptors that Democrats have applied to Trump’s actions — specifically: “lawlessness, and unconstitutional, and a violation of human rights” — would “rise to the level of impeachment” and whether they are “impeachable offenses.” Clarke responded in the affirmative. “Well, you know, I believe it is. I definitely believe it is,” the influential Democrat said, “but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.” The president invoked the ire of Democrats for sending National Guardsmen and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles amid violent anti-ICE protests, leading to a legal standoff with California Governor Gavin Newsom, who sued the Trump administration and is trying to stop the deployment. “Look, if we didn’t get involved, right now, Los Angeles would be burning … Los Angeles right now would be on fire. And we have it in great shape. I am not playing around,” Trump said. Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! When asked about Clarke’s view on impeachment, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-CA) indicated his party is not ready to go there. “I’ve said before, from this podium, that House Democrats aren’t focused on impeachment today,” Aguilar said during another press conference. “We are focused on holding the president and House Republicans accountable for the policies that attack the basic needs, like health care and food assistance.” Some Democrats have tried pushing impeachment during this session of Congress, accusing Trump of “dastardly deeds” and other alleged offenses, but they have all fizzled out as the Republicans who are largely aligned with the president control the House. But Aguilar went on to suggest an inquiry could be a consideration in the future — if Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA) leads her party to seize back the House with the midterm elections in 2026. “There will be plenty of time, when Suzan DelBene guides us to the majority, for us to exercise oversight where we can ask some very difficult questions [about] the policies that the administration is going currently, but right now that isn’t our focus,” Aguilar said.

The emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) directed American Muslims to assassinate President Donald Trump, calling assassinations “the greatest form of jihad today” in a video released by AQAP over the weekend and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The leader, Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, also listed Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, and the U.S. Senate as targets, calling them “the scum of the earth.” The video showed photos and footage of American officials as al-Awlaki identified them. “Go after them and their families and all those who have any ties or are close to the politicians of the White House,” al-Awlaki said. “There are no red lines after all that has been happening to our people in Gaza.” Al-Awlaki pointed to non-Muslim violence, including the attempted assassination of Trump in July of 2024, as examples for Muslims to follow. “Do not consult anyone about killing infidel Americans,” al-Awlaki said. AQAP is an affiliate of the Sunni Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda, which was founded by Osama bin Laden, according to a Congressional Research Service report. The group primarily operates in Yemen. Al-Awlaki has led AQAP after the sudden death of its previous leader in March 2024, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The United States is offering a reward of up to $6 million for information about al-Awlaki due to previous calls for attacks against the United States. Al-Awlaki also told Muslims to attack U.S. military bases, as well as U.S. companies such as Microsoft and Tesla. He also directed Muslim hackers to “go after the American economy.” Al-Awlaki said American Muslims should “take revenge” against “those who support the war in Gaza” and concluded by calling for Muslims to attack Jews in the United States and Europe. Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! “Do not leave a single safe place for Jews, just as they have not left any homes, shelters, or respite for the Palestinians,” al-Awlaki said. The AQAP has weakened since its peak in the 2010s, according to FDD, but it remains “a significant threat to Yemen and further afield.” A United Nations report said AQAP has maintained connections with Al-Qaeda’s central leadership. The video comes after Trump recently banned travel from Yemen and other countries with inadequate “information-sharing and identity-management procedures,” The Daily Wire previously reported. The memorandum cited protecting American citizens from terrorist attacks as a reason for the ban. The most recent report to the United Nations Security Council said al-Awlaki has “consolidated control of” AQAP since becoming the terrorist group’s leader. “The media arm of AQAP, considered by many to be Al-Qaeda’s strongest, exploited conflicts, including the Gaza and Israel conflict, to recruit and incite lone actors to conduct attacks,” the report said.

Governor Gavin Newsom attempted to do battle with Vice President JD Vance over the ongoing riots in Los Angeles and President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy first National Guard troops and then U.S. Marines to put an end to the violence and destruction of property. The exchange began with Newsom, who shared a video of Trump taking questions outside the White House. When asked about a social media post in which Newsom had effectively dared Border Czar Tom Homan to detain him, Trump replied, “I would do it, if I was Tom” — and then said that Newsom had issued the challenge because he “likes the publicity.” “The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor,” Newsom claimed. “This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.” The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward… pic.twitter.com/tsTX1nrHAu — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 9, 2025 That was when Vance first entered the conversation, addressing Newsom’s post by saying, “Do your job. That’s all we’re asking.” Do your job. That’s all we’re asking. https://t.co/99Wqom5AbQ — JD Vance (@JDVance) June 9, 2025 Newsom pushed back, claiming that California was doing fine until Trump got involved. He did not mention the fact that California’s status as a sanctuary state was a violation of federal immigration laws or the fact that the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles had been violent for two days prior to Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! “Do YOUR job. We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. Rescind the order. Return control to California,” Newsom insisted. Do YOUR job. We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. Rescind the order. Return control to California. https://t.co/EUJ9GpK9Ms — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 9, 2025 That was when Vance unloaded on Newsom in a lengthy post shared to X. Gavin Newsom says he didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. Both of these photos were taken before the president authorized the national guard to go protect our border patrol in California. Does this look like “no problem”? Newsom and his stooge Karen Bass fomented… https://t.co/hLyB8LVqvl pic.twitter.com/oyItCsxrqF — JD Vance (@JDVance) June 10, 2025 “Gavin Newsom says he didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. Both of these photos were taken before the president authorized the national guard to go protect our border patrol in California. Does this look like ‘no problem’?” Vance asked, attaching photos of rioters damaging and burning law enforcement vehicles. “Newsom and his stooge Karen Bass fomented and encouraged the riots, because their entire political movement exists for one purpose: to promote mass migration into our country. It is their reason for being,” Vance continued. “Democratic leadership has no solution for the economy, for prosperity, or for security. They use their power when they’re in the majority to import millions of illegal immigrants and when they’re in opposition they do everything possible to prevent deportations.” Vance went on to note that California, under Newsom’s leadership, had opened Medicaid to illegals — meaning that there were fewer resources available for legal citizens in his state. “And now, everything is President Trump’s fault? Give me a break,” he added. “If you want to know why illegal aliens flocked to your state, stop accusing Donald Trump. Look in the mirror. If you want to know why border patrol fear for their lives over enforcing the law, look in the mirror.” “It was your policies that encouraged mass migration into California. Your policies that protected those migrants from common sense law enforcement. Your policies that offered massive welfare benefits to reward illegal immigrants. Your policies that allowed those illegal migrants (and their sympathizers) to assault our law enforcement. Your policies that allowed Los Angeles to turn into a war zone,” Vance concluded. “You sure as hell had a problem before President Trump came along. The problem is YOU.”

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