A Biden-appointed judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to the Chicago area amid widespread immigration enforcement operations.  U.S. District Judge April Perry issued a two-week temporary restraining order blocking the activation of the National Guard in Illinois. The Trump administration has said the National Guard is necessary to protect federal property, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Perry concluded at a hearing on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security had been citing “unreliable evidence” to justify the deployment.  Perry’s ruling said that the Trump administration was “temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois.” The judge said that allowing the National Guard to be deployed would “only add fuel to the fire that the defendants themselves have started,” according to NBC.  A follow-up ruling is scheduled for October 22, when Perry says she will determine whether to extend the injunction another two weeks. The Trump administration has appealed the order.  The ruling was celebrated by Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, who has likened the deployment to an “invasion.”  “The court confirmed what we all know: There is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago,” he said.  White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded by saying that Trump had “exercised his lawful authority to protect federal officers and assets” in the face of “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness, that local leaders like Pritzker have refused to step in to quell.” “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities and we expect to be vindicated by a higher court,” she added.  Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller ripped into the judge over the ruling. “A federal judge seems not to know that federal troops come from many different states. They are, again, federal troops on a federal protective mission,” he wrote on X.  There has been a significant federal presence in the Chicago area for the last few weeks as the Trump administration has been carrying out “Operation Midway Blitz” to crack down on illegal immigration. ICE agents have been targeted in multiple car rammings, according to DHS.

On the second anniversary of the Hamas October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1,200 people in Israel, a Greek member of the European Parliament offered a rousing defense of Israel, declaring, “If Israel falls, the gates of hell will open for all of us.” Afroditi Latinopoulou, founder and leader of the Voice of Reason party, made her comments before the European Union. “Today marks the anniversary of Hamas’ horrific crime, in which they murdered, kidnapped and abused thousands of Israeli citizens. And who opened the borders and brought Islamists into our home? The leftists. Who is targeting Israel? The leftists,” she stated. “Coincidence? I don’t think so,” she continued. “Today, the leftist propaganda is targeting Israel, which is fighting for its survival against Hamas’ terrorists. And media worldwide misinform and teach brainless people to hate Jews while Europeans are being murdered by fanatical Islamists. It is our sacred duty to help cleanse Gaza of Hamas. Israel is the only democratic Western state in the Middle East.” Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout! “If Israel falls, the gates of hell will open for all of us,” she declared. “If they want peace, let Hamas release the hostages and accept Trump’s plan. Otherwise, let them disappear. There is no Palestinian state.” October 7, 2023Never forget ? It is our sacred duty to help cleanse Gaza of Hamas. If Israel falls, the gates of hell will open for all of us. PALESTINIAN STATE DOES NOT EXIST. ????? pic.twitter.com/TE27KpCC1w — Latinopoulou (@latinopoulou) October 8, 2025 She added, “Illegal immigration is a well-orchestrated business for the orchestrators to make a fortune and to Islamize Europe. You have filled our countries with illegal migrants with the blessing of Germany and France. We pay Islam, which hates us, out of our savings, to turn our cities into ghettos, to rape and to murder before our eyes in the name of Allah.” Last May, she stated at CPAC Hungary 2025 in Budapest, “Hungary is fortunate to have a visionary leader, Viktor Orbán, who is guiding the nation on the path of virtue and freedom. A leader who did not hesitate to confront the EU elite to protect his country. That is why today you see a Hungary that is clean, without ghettos, without [the] woke agenda. You see a Hungary being Hungarian. Hungary chose sovereignty, and did so with courage. It’s sent a powerful message: The definition of who we are is ours to give. And in Europe, we need more Orbáns and fewer Macrons.” 

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'The deadliest place in the world to be a Christian'

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'Innovative and brave, peaceful and democratic'

'In possession of a loaded weapon'

Movies & TV Peacemaker Peacemaker Finds Its Way to Checkmate in Season Finale “Full Nelson” Move over, Peacemaker has a whole new entertainment universe to set up. By Emmet Asher-Perrin | Published on October 10, 2025 Image: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max Here’s hoping we don’t have to wait another three years for an end to that cliffhanger… Recap Image: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max One month previous, we see the hangout where Chris and Harcourt met for dinner, got drunk, and wound up on a rock cruise. They dance and it ends in a kiss. Harcourt panics and leaves. Presently, Chris is in prison and refusing all visitors because he believes he’s the angel of death. Harcourt and Economos are working at A.R.G.U.S., which is pulling in more and more of Luthor’s people to help with operations into the quantum realm; they’ve been instructed to find an unoccupied world with resources that can support human life. Many of these missions turn dangerous and people die in these other worlds, but the A.R.G.U.S. base crew seem unbothered. After hours, Economos points out to Harcourt that they don’t know why they’re looking for a place like this, and that their jobs classically don’t help people. Eagly is depressed with Chris gone, and Economos keep trying to figure out how to feed him. Adebayo goes to Adrian’s house and tells him that he needs to be nicer to his mother, and that he needs to use some of his “blood money” to hire Chris a better lawyer and help bail him out. When he won’t, she manipulates him by suggesting that she’s Chris’ better friend for being willing to take on a blood curse for him. They use the money to bail Chris out and he takes off, disappearing. A quantum realm team finally finds a verdant world that can support human life and doesn’t appear to have people on it. Flag takes a meeting at the Pentagon and tells everyone that this world is the perfect prison site of metahumans, and he calls it Salvation. Bordeaux is horrified and Harcourt asks if she’d be willing to meet. The two women go to the same place Harcourt ate with Chris before their boat debacle, and Bordeaux tells her everything about what the site will be used for. Harcourt points out that Bordeaux is also a metahuman; she could be courtmartialed for telling her this. Bordeaux says that she can’t stand working for a broken system anymore. Harcourt says that she’s got an idea, and wants Bordeaux to meet a friend of hers. They head back to her apartment, and Adebayo joins them, bringing in all her ideas for a better organization. Harcourt asks Bordeaux if she’s got clearance to track Chris. Adebayo goes to see Keeya, and tells her the truth—that she’ll always love her, but that their desires in life aren’t compatible, which is no foundation for a marriage. They both have to accept that it’s over, and cry in each other’s arms. At A.R.G.U.S., Harcourt and Bordeaux work to pinpoint Chris’ location on a computer, using Economos as a (terrible) distraction. They find the motel he’s holed up in and everyone confronts him at once. When he tries to escape, Adrian tackles and tazes him. Back in his room, Chris explains that he can’t be around any of them because he brings death. Adebayo points out that death only ever occurred around him when he didn’t listen to his inner voice, either doing what others told him to, or what he wanted to be true. She tells Chris that when he follows his own principles and desires, he shows nothing but love and care toward the people in his life. Everyone agrees, and they tell him that they have a plan they can’t execute without him. As they all make to leave, Chris asks Harcourt one more time if the boat incident meant anything. She finally admits that it meant everything to her. Chris is elated. The group reunites, using Adrian’s money pile to open up their own organization called Checkmate, bringing Bordeaux, Fluery, and Rip Jagger with them. Chris and Harcourt go on another rock cruise, this time for Foxy Shazam, who play the opening number for season two. They seem entirely happy together, Adrian hangs out with Fluery and talks about spiders, and Eagly befriends Economos. One evening, Chris is bagged and bound and brought back to A.R.G.U.S. Flag puts Chris in Salvation and tells him that he’s volunteered to be the first person to find out if it’s fit for human life. Chris is left alone on this unknown world and creatures howl in the distance. Commentary Image: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max This finale basically loaded up everything I wanted to be seeing all throughout the season and set it out as a buffet. It’s nice to finally have it, but I’m a little aggravated that it took eight whole episodes to get here. And that we finally got a full-length episode again, but only for the end. There are some beautiful emotional pieces in this finale, but they would have landed much harder if they’d gotten more build. Easiest way to do that? Stop writing half-hour episodes. Put some meat on the bones and let us watch people keep trying to work things out. This is mostly for Adebayo and Bordeaux, of course, but also for Fluery and Rip Jagger! We needed to see a bit more of Fluery warming up, get more of Rip’s backstory, spend a day finding out what Bordeaux’s deal was. My assumption that Bordeaux was going to be working for someone like Waller came from an expectation that the show was going to shorthand her turn on Flag. Which it did, but we only get a few reaction shots to indicate her growing unease before she u-turns out of her entire alignment. This complaint extends to Adebayo’s goodbye to her wife, which is arguably even more important because it’s so rare for queer couples on television to get complicated material like this. It’s well-written, beautifully acted, but it would have had such a searing impact if we’d spent more of the season watching Adebayo try to repair the relationship and failing for one reason or another. Literally two or three more scenes would have made all the difference. There was time for it! Having said that, Danielle Brooks is the MVP of this entire episode, and I can’t help but shrug a little at Chris and Harcourt finally working things out when Adebayo is the character who holds the show’s heart in her hands, every step of the way. This is not to diss any of Cena and Holland’s hard work, who both did a lovely job bringing these characters together over the season. I just wonder if some creators remember that central romantic entanglements between characters are optional parts of a story; they don’t belong there just because it’s what an audience expects. (They are also allowed more time to come to fruition! Most of us enjoy a slow burn, come on.) I am nearly always down for romantic subplots, but when friendship and support are the center of your concept, it seems weird to keep harping on it like it’s the entire point of the story? It’s very similar to the problems I had with the Guardians of the Galaxy crew under Gunn’s eye. Loved the all-woman brainstorming session at Harcourt’s place, by the way. It’s just rough when it’s pitched at the ending, and honestly worthless if the show doesn’t get more seasons where it centers this dynamic. It was annoying enough in 2019 when Avengers: Endgame acted like they could shoehorn in one short action sequence with all their female characters working hand in hand to make up for their never-more-than-two-girls-at-once team rosters. Adding to the good side of this episode, the music cues are completely over-the-top, but in a fun way—and getting the live rock performances in there was a real treat. (Foxy Shazam has the best wardrobe of anyone this season, aside from Adebayo.) The talk with Chris in the motel was genuinely moving, even if it did get a little undercut by going right back to the boat question with Harcourt again. The interchange between the dimension divers getting slaughtered while Flag and Luthor’s people sit around laughing was incredibly effective. Also the tiny murder gremlins in the candy world. I’m a sucker for cute evil. This cliffhanger seems particularly cruel when we have no idea how long it’s going to be before we find out how Chris has faired in Salvation. Guess Checkmate’s got their work cut out. Keeping the Peace (Thoughts and Asides) Image: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max When do we get to find out why the alien is disposing of rodents? Inquiring minds wanna know (and hang out with them more). There is nothing more satisfying than watching everyone try to convince Chris to stay and talk, and Adrian moving right in with the taser and no words at all.  Obviously, Checkmate is an organization from the comics. This is a great way of bringing it into the DCU and an equally great set of characters to start it up with. Wonder if they’ll use the chess piece codenames… It’s, shall we say, a little worrisome that they’ve basically used this season for the purpose of giving the U.S. government (and Lex Luthor) access to an even better prison dimension. Having said that, I hope that if they get a third season, the major arc doesn’t have to set up more stuff for movies. Let them do their own thing. Bets on where we’re likely to see Salvation next? See you next season, mayhaps…[end-mark] The post <i>Peacemaker</i> Finds Its Way to Checkmate in Season Finale “Full Nelson” appeared first on Reactor.

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. There’s been a lot of news lately about the efforts of the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, their efforts to round up illegal aliens. And they are prioritizing two groups: those who have criminal records and those who have already been processed for deportation and have evaded apprehension. But in many cities, in blue states, or at least in blue cities, there is organized resistance. Sometimes it’s very violent by Antifa. Sometimes it’s sponsored or encouraged by the Democratic Party: Gavin Newsom in California, our governor, or Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, openly calling for resistance, or Gov. JB Pritzker of Chicago. What’s really disturbing is we’re starting to see a new—I would call it—neo-Confederate successionist ideology in these cities. In these blue cities, the officials who run them, the mayors or the police chiefs, believe they are a law unto themselves. In other words, within the confines of Chicago or within the confines of Portland, they can nullify all federal laws, just in the way that South Carolina said it could on the eve of the Civil War: The Union does not apply to us. We are morally superior. I wanna remind everybody how that works out in reality. If you are an ICE agent and you’re in an ICE detention center, you may not be able to get in or out of work or you can’t fulfill your duties because there is a siege on of Antifa semi-terrorists and their sympathizers that surround you. And the Oregon police will not help you. In fact, in a recent demonstration, a reporter was arrested while reporting on the inaction of the Oregon police and the violence of the protesters. If you look at a recent suburb in Chicago, resisters to ICE actually did a blockade. They had 10 or so cars and they, by design, ambushed an ICE patrol and stopped the agents from being able to go forward or backward in their vehicles. One of them was armed with an automatic weapon. When ICE called for the Chicago police to lend assistance, because they were an extremist, the Chicago police did not. Gov. Pritzker sort of, basically, said that ICE lies. And so, we don’t really pay any attention to them. Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago didn’t help. In other words, we’re starting to see now organized resistance, not on the street by thugs and terrorists and resisters, but we’re starting to see, in neo-Confederate fashion, elected officials. And the premise that they’re using is, again: We are a law unto ourselves. I would like to remind them of two things: Not all Americans are Portlanders or Chicagoans. But everybody that’s a citizen in Chicago and everybody who is a citizen in Portland is, first and foremost, a U.S. citizen. And therefore, subject to the laws, the federal laws of the government. First and foremost. And what these elected officials are doing and what law enforcement is doing, at the municipal level, is no different than what caused the Civil War. They are actively encouraging resistance, and nearly armed resistance because these officers are law enforcement, to federal agents who are trying to dutifully fulfill their constitutional mandates to protect the border and ensure that people who come across do so legally. They’re just fulfilling the law—federal immigration law. And yet they’re being resisted by—I guess you would call it—neo-Confederates. Where is this going to lead if it’s not stopped now by mayors and governors in these blue jurisdictions? What’s on the horizon is not just blockading ICE cars and not just not rendering assistance. As it gets more and more extreme, you will start to see blue mayors and city officials actually use their powers within their jurisdictions to stop, physically stop, ICE. And when we get to that point, we’re really on the verge of civil insurrection and we’re back to something like 1861. I’d like to end with an example for our blue city mayors, especially in Portland and Chicago. In 1963, George Wallace said: Alabama is a world to itself. It has unique customs and traditions and history that the federal government does not understand. So, the federal government cannot come into our state and tell us that we have to give civil rights protections to African Americans who want to attend the University of Alabama. So I, Gov. Wallace, will stand in the door and force people who are black out. And what happened? The Kennedy administration said: No, this isn’t 1861, Gov. Wallace. I’m sorry. You do not have the right—the right, moral or actual—to refuse a federal mandate. And all men are created equal, and we’re gonna enforce that. And so, what President John F. Kennedy did, and Bobby Kennedy as attorney general, they federalized the Alabama National Guard and they brought in U.S. troops, and they forced George Wallace to step aside and to accept people according to the laws of the United States of America. So, I would like to remind the Left, you’re on the side of George Wallace, resisting federal law. And ICE, that you despise, is on the right side of history, trying to enforce laws that have been broken for the protection of all citizens, all citizens in this United States, including those in Chicago and including those in Portland who are having their civil rights endangered if they live next to an ICE facility or if they’re an ICE agent in general. They are endangered. And the federal government has a right to protect them. And so, I would urge you all to stop what you’re doing and get back to the right side of history. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Meet the ‘New Confederates’ in America’s Blue Cities appeared first on The Daily Signal.