In the Trump era, MSNBC’s Deadline: White House has served as the hotbed of apocalyptic, deranged rhetoric and almost encouraging defining your mental health on our politics. Monday’s show opened with host Nicolle Wallace by saying America’s in “a uniquely alarming moment” with Trump using “an unfolding situation as a political opportunity, one for him to advance his goal of strengthening and fortifying his grip on power.” Moments later in the show we unofficially dub the Rich, White, Liberal, Wine Mom Story Hour, longtime illegal immigration advocate/NBC journalist Jacob Soboroff decried deportations as having pierced the heart of Los Angeles given ten percent of its population are illegal and thus “part of the fabric of the city” as “our neighbors, our coworkers, our classmates, our friends, our parishioners.”     Wallace — whose daily hysteria must have some sort of psychological impact on her possibly hobby-less viewers — began in hushed tones:  We are in the midst of a uniquely alarming moment, right? A moment where a President of the United States an unfolding situation as a political opportunity, one for him to advance his goal of strengthening and fortifying his grip on power because what’s happening in Los Angeles is not just about immigration. We all know that. President Barack Obama carried out more deportations in his eight years in any administration at a pace quicker than even Donald. Trump’s first term. Do you remember ICE raids in the middle of cities by men wearing paramilitary gear, and then Obama sending in the National Guard over the objections of governors? Yeah, neither do I. Because that never happened. Do you know why it never happened? It never happened because carrying out a legal and orderly and effective immigration. She went on by saying “[p]olicy isn’t at all what Trump is doing,” but rather “producing theater and maybe it’s to distract...from talking about Elon Musk’s tweet with his unsubstantiated allegations about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein,” “his plunging approval ratings on the economy, trade, inflation, even immigration,” “his stalled agenda in Congress,” or “the debacle of a trade war he started.” Quoting a Biden ICE official lashing out at Trump deportations as having destroyed “constitutional protections,” Wallace said this weekend was “Donald Trump’s Rubicon crossing moment this weekend” by calling up the California National Guard. For good measure, she quoted extensively from The New York Times’s coverage of the Los Angeles riots, which we at NewsBusters pointed out as having been comically stupid. Wallace made sure to tie in January 6, kvetching he referred to the violent rioters as “insurrectionists” and using the case as a false flag to then “us[e] the military against the ‘enemy within.’” This eventually went into Soboroff outside his own Home Depot, which was allegedly the site of one raid. Soboroff predictably hailed Wallace’s fear-mongering as “really wonderful because I think what it sets up so perfectly is how unusual and how unprecedented the size and the scale and the scope of the immigration enforcement operations that took place in Los Angeles, starting with right here at this Home Depot in Cypress Park at 7:00, 7:15, 7:30 on Friday morning[.]”     Soboroff moved into his rant waxing poetic about the beauty of illegal immigrants as “part of the fabric” of the region: The big picture is Los Angeles is a so-called majority minority city in a majority minority state. There are more people of color that live in Los Angeles than white people at this point and many of those people are undocumented. Some by some counts, 10% of the population of LA County, one of the largest counties — the largest county by population in the United States — is undocumented. Maybe as many as a million people. Those people are our neighbors, our coworkers, our classmates, our friends, our parishioners, fellow parishioners, and churches. They are part of the fabric of the city of Los Angeles[.] As our Nick Fondacaro tweeted in reference to this, you know what else has been part of the city’s “fabric”? Unsavory people like Harvey Weinstein and criminal behavior such as casting couches. But moving on with Soboroff, he lamented the region hasn’t seen “the type of immigration enforcement we saw play out on the streets of Los Angeles on Friday, and that struck fear into the heart of not just the undocumented community here, but of many U.S. citizen family members of undocumented people, and many U.S. citizens who know those people, because that is removing people from this community who have been here, if not their entire life, virtually their entire lives” with some “mixed status families.” After a nod to the “family separation of the first Trump administration in 2018 was a deliberate ripping apart of parents and children at the border to separate those families and inflict pain” (which he wrote a book about), he conceded this was all predictable as a key Trump campaign plank. “And so, now we’re seeing it effectuated on...the largest undocumented population in America, where those people interact — I say those people — we — we all interact on a daily basis here. And it has terrified so many people...[A] largely peaceful protest, two, actually, that converged...to say this is not acceptable to...everyone who knows how important that community is to the fabric of this one” he added. Before interviewing a fellow advocate standing next to him, Soboroff decried raids of day laborers as a necessary part of the workforce (in essence, a but-who-will-pick-the-cotton bit) (click “expand”): WALLACE: Jacob, what is the current understanding of who’s being targeted by Trump and ICE? SOBOROFF: Well, Tom Homan told me it’s no longer just the worst of the worst. I talked to Tom Homan on Saturday night. I met him after some of those enforcement operations that unfolded. And you know, what’s in the press today is that he and Gavin Newsom are going back and forth about the potential arrest of government officials, you know, Democrats here in California, which he said he would only do, you know, I want to make clear, if they got in between an ICE operation and blocked it. But the other thing that he said to me is that those types of operations are going to unfold every day, and they’re not just going to be the most violent offenders. They’re not just going to be the “so-called worst of the worst.” They’re going to be the people that stand on corners like this, which is which brings me to being at Home Depot. So, let me explain to you what — what you’re looking at. This is a neighborhood called Cypress Park in Los Angeles. Obviously, this is a Home Depot. On corners, just like this, Nicolle, every single day and I drive — this is not far from where I live, actually — day laborers stand on corners just like this and they look for work. They look for work in people’s homes, in places of work all across Los Angeles to do tasks mean — menial and important, to get a good day’s, a decent day’s wage. What happened on Monday morning at 7:00, 7:30 was reportedly around 10, 20, 30, maybe more ICE agents or federal agents with masks on came from around the back corner of this Home Depot and walked to a basically a place where many of the day laborers wait in order to get picked up for work. They chased those day laborers. Some of them ran across the street here, which is Figueroa, a main thoroughfare, across the street to that McDonald’s, and did everything they could to get away from that enforcement operation by ice. They were terrified. To see the relevant MSNBC transcript from June 9, click here.

Sportscaster Bob Costas’s tendency to wax poetic in a gratuitous manner is so well known, it has become a meme. During a Monday speech at Syracuse University’s Mirror Awards, Costas was at it again, invoking Thomas Jefferson to compare supporting President Donald Trump to disbelieving in a round earth and telling anyone who objects to such insults that he doesn’t care what you think and, in fact, considers your criticism to be a “badge of honor.” In cellphone video captured by liberal writer Rachel Sklar, Costas declared, “Thomas Jefferson once said, if I should be able, I’m paraphrasing here, if I should be able to retain only one of the amendments of the Constitution, it’s the first one, the right to a free press, because that’s the safeguard of democracy, and which does not mean we are without fault. It does not mean that the legacy or mainstream media doesn’t screw up from time to time or have blind spots or misplaced narratives, but if the answer to that is MAGA media, if the answer to that is Donald Trump’s view of the world, which is only through a prism of what benefits him, there are no higher ideals, there are no principles at work other than what benefits him. I’ll stay with where we are without correction if the correction is what Donald Trump represents.”     Not only does Costas not like Trump, but he also does not like that people who disagree with him are allowed to be on TV, “And what has also happened here is that because he is the president, to a certain extent, who he is and what he does, and what is done in his name has been normalized so that responsible journalists have to pretend there’s always two sides of this. There really isn’t two sides to much of what Donald Trump represents. If someone says, and the idea that you have to find, you have to find somebody who will not just defend Donald Trump, but valorize it, even on CNN or wherever else just in the name of being balanced.” According to Costas, “If someone is contending that the earth is flat. In order to appear objective, you are not required to say, 'Well, maybe it might be oblong.' No it’s not. Certain things are just true, and regrettably, something that’s true in America right now is that the president of the United States has absolutely no regard, and in fact, has contempt for basic American principles and basic common decency.” This is why it was hard to take Costas’s claims that the media is not above criticism seriously. The media, which has low trust ratings to begin with, takes half of the voters in this country and lumps them in with round earth deniers and then wonders why nobody trusts them. As for Costas, he continued, “And if, and I’ve heard this on occasion, ‘I used to love Bob Costas, but then when he turned political,’ and of course when I did that. every good thing I did for 40 years was washed away. Now, I suck, you know what. If that’s what you think and that’s how you think, and you think it in defense of that guy, I wear that as a badge of honor. Of course, Costas’s degeneration into a political commentator predates Trump, most notably in his deranged takes on Second Amendment defenders, but pointing that out ruins Costas’s phony tough guy act. Here is a transcript for the June 9 speech: 2025 Mirror Awards 6/9/2025 BOB COSTAS: Thomas Jefferson once said, if I should be able, I’m paraphrasing here, if I should be able to retain only one of the amendments of the Constitution, it’s the first one, the right to a free press, because that’s the safeguard of democracy, and which does not mean we are without fault. It does not mean that the legacy or mainstream media doesn’t screw up from time to time or have blind spots or misplaced narratives, but if the answer to that is MAGA media, if the answer to that is Donald Trump’s view of the world, which is only through a prism of what benefits him, there are no higher ideals, there are no principles at work other than what benefits him. I’ll stay with where we are without correction if the correction is what Donald Trump represents. And what has also happened here is that because he is the president, to a certain extent, who he is and what he does, and what is done in his name has been normalized so that responsible journalists have to pretend there’s always two sides of this. There really isn’t two sides to much of what Donald Trump represents. If someone says, and the idea that you have to find, you have to find somebody who will not just defend Donald Trump, but valorize it, even on CNN or wherever else just in the name of being balanced. Look, if someone is contending that the earth is flat. In order to appear objective, you are not required to say, “Well, maybe it might be oblong.” No it’s not. Certain things are just, true and regrettably, something that’s true in America right now is that the president of the United States has absolutely no regard, and in fact, has contempt for basic American principles and basic common decency. And if, and I’ve heard this on occasion, “I used to love Bob Costas, but then when he turned political” and of course when I did that, every good thing I did for 40 years was washed away. Now, I suck, you know what. If that’s what you think, and that’s how you think and you think it in defense of that guy, I wear that as a badge of honor.

In response to widespread rioting and domestic disorder in Los Angeles, President Trump ordered the deployment of National Guard units. More than 700 U.S. Marines from the Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms were also mobilized on Monday to protect federal property around the city.As expected, critics pounced. They claim Trump’s orders violate American tradition — calling them anti-constitutional, anti-federal, and an authoritarian misuse of executive power. They say Trump is turning the military into a domestic police force.In moments like this, the republic must defend itself.But that argument isn’t just wrong — it’s nonsense on stilts.The U.S. Army Historical Center has published three comprehensive volumes documenting the repeated and lawful use of federal military forces in domestic affairs since the founding of the republic. From the Whiskey Rebellion to civil rights enforcement, history shows that federal troops have long been a constitutional backstop when local authorities fail to maintain order.Certainly, the use of military forces within U.S. borders must be limited and considered carefully. But the Constitution explicitly grants this authority. Article IV, Section 4 states: “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.”That clause isn’t a suggestion — it’s a command. A republican government exists to safeguard life, liberty, and property. The First Amendment protects the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government, but it does not shield acts of arson, looting, or assault. When rioters threaten the public, federal intervention becomes not just permissible but, in this instance, necessary.Article II empowers the president, as commander in chief of the Army, Navy, and National Guard (when called into federal service), to act decisively against both foreign and domestic threats. That includes quelling insurrections when state leaders fail to uphold public order.The National Guard is not the “militia” the founders discussed. That distinction was settled with the passage of the Dick Act in 1903, which clarified the Guard’s federal identity in relation to state control. Since then, the Guard has operated under dual federal and state authority — with federal control taking precedence when activated. Once federalized, the National Guard becomes an extension of the U.S. military.Congress codified this authority in 1807 with the Insurrection Act. It authorizes the president to use military force when ordinary judicial proceedings fail. This provision enabled presidents throughout history to deploy troops against domestic unrest. During the 1950s and ’60s, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy used it to enforce desegregation orders in the South.In 1992, President George H.W. Bush relied on the same statute to deploy Army and Marine forces alongside the California National Guard during the L.A. riots following the Rodney King trial verdict. That was done without sparking cries of dictatorship.RELATED: Why Trump had to do what Gavin Newsom refused to do Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThose accusing Trump of violating norms by acting over a governor’s objection should revisit 1957. After Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus (D) defied federal orders to desegregate Little Rock Central High School, President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in the 101st Airborne Division. Democratic Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia decried the move, comparing the troops to Hitler’s storm troopers — a reminder that hysterical analogies are nothing new.Americans have sought to limit military involvement in domestic life. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was designed to do just that — restrict the use of federal troops in civil law enforcement without explicit authorization. But even that law has historical nuance.The concept of “posse comitatus” comes from English common law. It refers to the authority of sheriffs to summon local citizens to restore order. In early American history, federal troops often supported U.S. Marshals. They enforced the Fugitive Slave Act, stanched the bleeding in Kansas, and helped capture John Brown at Harpers Ferry.After the Civil War, the Army played a key role in enforcing Reconstruction and suppressing the Ku Klux Klan under the Force Acts. Southern Democrats opposed this use of federal power. But by the 1870s, even Northern lawmakers grew uneasy when soldiers were ordered to suppress railroad strikes under direction of state and local officials.The Army eventually welcomed Posse Comitatus. Being placed under local political control compromised military professionalism and exposed troops to partisan misuse. Officers feared that domestic policing would corrupt the armed forces.I’ve long argued for restraint in using military power within U.S. borders. That principle still matters. But lawlessness, when left unchecked, can and will destroy republican government. And when local leaders fail to act — or worse, encourage disorder — the federal government must step in.President Trump has both the constitutional and statutory authority to deploy troops in response to the violence unfolding in Los Angeles. Whether he should do so depends on prudence and necessity. But the idea that such action is unprecedented or somehow illegal has no basis in law or history.If mayors and governors abdicate their duty, Washington must not. The defense of law-abiding citizens cannot hinge on the whims of ideologues or the cowardice of local officials. And in moments like this, the republic must defend itself.

Today marks the fifth day of Los Angeles’ anti-ICE riots. The media continues to orchestrate a BLM Summer of Rage 2.0 cover-up campaign by painting a picture of “mostly peaceful” grassroots-led protests. Video footage of violence and fiery terror at the hands of organized rioters with professionally printed signs, however, tells a vastly different story.The truth is that these riots were funded and meticulously calculated. On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz breaks down seven potential people and groups behind the L.A. riots. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — a “political warlord” who served as a “top-ranking official” in the National Endowment for Democracy, a USAID-funded NGO with a stated mission of “fomenting color revolutions abroad” — “might be one of the leaders” behind the violent riots, “at least in a political sense,” Liz speculates.But these riots, Liz explains, “take cash,” so who’s funneling the money?Citing an investigative X thread from DataRepublican, Liz says that of a "number of NGOs [that] have been implicated, foremost is Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights [of Los Angeles], or CHIRLA.” According to DataRepublican, “$34 million of [CHIRLA’s] reported $45 million in revenue are from government grants,” meaning taxpayer dollars are being used to pay the people who are setting fire to cop cars and hurling concrete slabs at federal agents.During the Biden administration specifically, CHIRLA’s revenue “jumped from $12 million to $34 million in government grants.”“The Joe Biden administration knew exactly who they wanted to give money to in order to set up situations like these riots in California,” says Liz.Further, the group that printed and paid for several of the rioters’ signs is the "Party for Socialism and Liberation,” “a communist political party in the United States” that advocates for a socialist revolution to dismantle capitalism and establish a socialist system. PSL has close organizational and financial ties to the ANSWER Coalition, a “United States-based protest umbrella group of many anti-war and civil rights organizations.”In other words, ANSWER is essentially a group that offers “protesters for hire,” says Liz.DataRepublican also pointed to a New York Post article claiming that the PSL and ANSWER are both funded by “socialist multi-millionaire Neville Singham,” who “became a billionaire by pushing Chinese propaganda worldwide.”Other organizations involved include the Service Employees International Union California — whose president, David Huerta, was arrested on June 6 during the L.A. protests for deliberately obstructing federal agents — as well as the Million Voters Project, which aims to mobilize a million new and infrequent voters to strengthen democracy and advocate for equity and inclusion.“So these are not organic [protests]. This is not real,” says Liz. “It's being paid for by communists, operated by communists.”To hear more about the dark underbelly of the riots in Los Angeles, watch the episode above.Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

One would be inclined to consider a kindergarten graduation ceremony a joyful and fun occasion — the polar opposite of dangerous, in fact.But in Philadelphia on Monday, one such ceremony at John Wister Elementary Mastery Charter School in the city's Germantown neighborhood was anything but.'There was a carjacking in the neighborhood for which police were called separately.'Police responded to the charter school after 10:15 a.m. over a disturbance involving seating arrangements between two parents, WPVI-TV reported.Police told the station one of the parents allegedly struck the other parent — a 31-year-old pregnant woman — in the head several times and slammed her into a wall.Witnesses told WPVI they saw the victim bleeding.RELATED: 30-year-old thug accused of shooting Philly cop amid brawls near HS: 'You're a damn adult. You're supposed to know better.' Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty ImagesMedical personnel took the pregnant woman in an ambulance to a hospital where she was treated for her injuries, the station said, citing police.Police said the attacker — a female wearing a gray hoodie and black pants — took off from the scene and hadn't been arrested, WPVI reported.However, WTXF-TV reported that a letter from the principal was sent to the school community about "an altercation between two of our parents" that indicated police "arrived quickly to remove the parents from the scene. Contrary to online rumors, the only injuries were between the two parents involved, and no weapons were drawn or involved in the incident."In addition, the letter added that "there was a carjacking in the neighborhood for which police were called separately. This incident did not involve anyone in the Wister community, and the suspect was apprehended."Blaze News on Tuesday spoke to an employee of a business near the school who said the incident didn't faze him because such violence "happens quite a bit." The employee added to Blaze News that "there are some really rough areas in Germantown" and that the neighborhood his business shares with the school is "semi-rough but getting better" — however, it's "not somewhere I'd send my kids to school."RELATED: Fistfight between 2 boys ends when 45-year-old relative of one boy shoots the other kid — a 13-year-old — and runs away: Cops WPVI said Northwest Detectives are heading up an investigation into the matter and that those with information should contact them at 215-685-3353.WPVI's video report Monday evening indicated that the school wouldn't make any other statements about the incident and that the victim — according to her family — was still hospitalized.Police on Tuesday didn't immediately respond to Blaze News' inquiries regarding if the the female parent accused of carrying out the attack had been arrested or identified, if there was any word on the condition of the pregnant victim, or if there is video of the attack.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A 23-year-old homeless man found dead in his tent was shot to death by two teenagers, according to New Mexico police.Christopher Sturluson was living in an arroyo in Albuquerque before workers at the Albuquerque Community Safety Department found his body on the morning of May 1.'We have two teenagers accused of killing a homeless person. The frustration level, quite frankly, is at a boiling point.'Albuquerque Police Department officers responded after ShotSpotter alerts indicated that about 10 gunshots were fired around 9 p.m. April 30. Police talked to Sturluson, who told them that people had fired in his direction.Later that same night, the ShotSpotter picked up another six gunshots in the same area between 10:15 and 11:50 p.m.RELATED: 10 people charged in connection with alleged murder of homeless man reportedly kidnapped from encampment in New York Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Police identified two suspects through surveillance video and later arrested 18-year-old Joshua Curtis as well as a 17-year-old. Police said they were able to recover bullet casings from the scene. Police also found photographs the pair allegedly had taken of themselves with a gun, according to a KOB-TV report.The 17-year-old suspect turned out to be on juvenile probation after he was caught with a gun at Sandia High School in 2022. He was expelled from that school. The 18-year-old suspect has a criminal history that includes a pending case for assault on an officer.Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said the fatality is clear evidence that the system is broken.RELATED: Shocking video: Boys, just 7 and 9 years old, wrestle for loaded gun — and 1 points it at deputies during tense standoff “We have two teenagers accused of killing a homeless person," said Bregman. "The frustration level, quite frankly, is at a boiling point. This will be, I believe, the 47th juvenile that we’ve charged with murder in this office since I’ve been district attorney."Bregman has been calling for greater consequences for juvenile criminals.“If we don’t start doing something, we will continue to see this kind of result. We’re not teaching our kids anything when we’re not giving them consequences,” Bregman added.Bregman also said that "if convicted, this juvenile is facing the rest of his life in prison. We didn't do any justice for the poor homeless person that's dead, and we certainly didn't do any justice for the kid that's now charged with murder because we didn't teach him anything when we had the chance."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The concert by Tom Petty's "other" band allowed these remarkable musicians to showcase their talents. They were joined by none other than Roger McGuinn. The post Mudcrutch 2016 NYC Concert: ‘This is Far Out’—Review appeared first on Best Classic Bands.

Civilization 7 hasn't got off to a great start. The latest entry to the long-running strategy series seeks to reinvigorate the design of past Civ games by introducing bold new systems. The most controversial of these is Ages, which looks to both set Civ 7 apart from its past while also offering the kind of shot in the arm necessary to keep it competitive with other recent history-focused RTS games like Ara History Untold, Age of Empires 4, and Total War: Pharaoh. Unfortunately, as welcome as Ages' uniqueness may be, it hasn't landed well with large swathes of the game's audience. Continue reading Civilization 7 will get new maps, as Firaxis responds to Ages system controversy MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Civilization 7 review, Civilization 7 leaders, Civilization 7 Ages

A lot goes into setting up and maintaining transport infrastructure. It only makes sense, then, that the incredible detail involved with modeling government systems in grand strategy games like Crusader Kings 3 or Europa Universalis 4 would eventually be translated into the present day logistics seen in projects like Microsoft Flight Simulator and Train Sim World. That's the approach taken by Worldwide Rush, an ambitious upcoming global transport simulator that you can check out for yourself thanks to the launch of a new demo on Steam. Continue reading Mixing Flight Sim and 4X strategy, ultra-detailed logistics game is playable now MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best grand strategy games, Best simulation games, Best strategy games

And even if he is convicted, the Trump administration’s core problem remains: He cannot lawfully be deported to El Salvador unless a 2019 order is reversed.