Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett filed to run for U.S. Senate on Monday, shaking up the crowded race to unseat Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn. Crockett, a left-wing firebrand who is one of President Donald Trump’s loudest critics in Congress, is expected to announce her candidacy in an event touted as a “special announcement” later […]

News Pluribus Pluribus Episode 6 Had a Vince Gilligan Cameo You Probably Missed The moment is the first time Gilligan has appeared on-screen in one of his shows By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 8, 2025 Credit: Apple TV Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Apple TV Warning! This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of Pluribus, “HDP.” One of the big reveals in the sixth episode of Pluribus comes when Carol discovers that the hive mind is, among other things, eating human-derived protein (aka, human bodies smashed up into a slurry then put into milk cartons). Later on in “HDP,” the individual formerly called John Cena explains to Carol, the necessity behind it—they don’t like doing it, but if they don’t, they’ll starve because they can’t even pick apples from a tree for food, since that hurts the tree. Brief aside: Does it, though? Doesn’t the apple tree want animals to eat the apples, so their seeds spread and create more apple trees? Shouldn’t the hive mind see that and eagerly pick and eat the apples, since that would make the tree happy? But I digress… Carol discovers the hive is eating people by investigating a warehouse-sized freezer, where various body parts are wrapped in plastic for future slurry consumption. We get a glimpse of some of these body parts, specifically a decapitated head with its mouth open in (what Carol likely presumes) horror. That head is none other than show creator Vince Gilligan’s. In a conversation with Carol herself, Rhea Seehorn, he explained how the moment came to be. “I had never done the Hitchcockian cameo until episode six of Pluribus, where my severed frozen head appears on the show,” he said. Gilligan described the process of making that head “wonderfully noninvasive.” Special effects expert Joe Ulibarri simply captured his head using a LiDAR scanner to capture Gilligan’s likeness and then 3D printed it. Gilligan also got a smaller bust of the image for his own enjoyment. Fun! See if you can catch other Easter eggs when new episodes of Pluribus premiere on Apple TV on Fridays. In the meantime, check out Seehorn’s interview with Gilligan about his frozen head cameo below. [end-mark] The post <i>Pluribus</i> Episode 6 Had a Vince Gilligan Cameo You Probably Missed appeared first on Reactor.

Books book reviews Horizons Beyond Grief: Psychopomp and Circumstance by Eden Royce Jenny Hamilton reviews Eden Royce’s “beautiful, spooky, and deeply heartfelt” novella. By Jenny Hamilton | Published on December 8, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share In a magical version of America’s Reconstruction era, Phaedra St. Market is white-knuckling her way through the cotillions and marriage proposals her parents see as the only path to a safe and prosperous future. Phee wants to control her own life, perhaps working with her father at his distillery, or even hiring on with one of the funeral directors in New Charleston. Upon receiving word that her aunt Cleo has died, Phee insists that she will pomp for her beloved aunt, giving her the homegoing she deserves. Aunt Cleo left the family home in disgrace after Phee’s grandmother’s funeral, and Phee now deeply regrets not making more of an effort to spend time with Cleo while she was alive. In death, at least, she can extend the loving care and familial support that Aunt Cleo lacked in the final decade of her life. If Phee does the job well, maybe a local funeral home will take notice of her. Though Phee’s mother is hotly opposed to the idea—Phee has never planned a homegoing before! Cleo wronged the family and can never be forgiven!—Phee sets off alone for Horizon, the city Aunt Cleo founded and made her home. Psychopomp and Circumstance wears its speculative elements so lightly that it’s only when I reached the book’s end that I fully understood how much of a fantasy novel it is. Magic is woven through every part of Phee’s world—the carriages are drawn across water by hippocampi, the food can carry spells, and unearthly creatures abound in Horizon. Royce has created a rich world that’s full of possibility for future books, if she so chooses, but those elements all exist in service of the emotional story Royce wants to tell. When we first meet Phee, she’s been standing on the neutral ground of her own life for several years, neither progressing toward her desired independence nor acceding to her mother’s vision for her life (marriage; polite society; uplifting her people through prosperity). Her aunt’s death provides the catalyst for her to get off the sidelines and into the game. Her initial agreement to arrange Cleo’s funeral arises purely from a place of care for her aunt, and from the recognition that it’s the only thing she can do now in service of this relationship. This moment, Phee’s impulsive act of love, sets up the book’s two most prominent and, to my mind, loveliest themes: the discrepancy between intention and action, and the question of what we owe to each other, living and dead. In all the years since Aunt Cleo was cast out from Phee’s family, Phee never went to Horizon to visit her, a decision she deeply regrets now that Cleo has died. As a reader, I felt really defensive of Phee for this. She was only a child, and then a very young adult, and she was and remains dependent on the approval of the same people who sent Cleo away in the first place. But Royce’s point is that my excuses, or anyone’s excuses, cease to matter in the face of death. Phee’s opportunity to have a relationship with Cleo is gone now, and forever, and no excuses, however justified, are going to change that. The intention matters less, and the fact of Phee’s inaction more. It’s a theme that reverberates throughout the book. At Cleo’s funeral, Phee speaks to a family member who wronged Cleo in life, and wishes now that they had acted differently. But they were never willing, at the risk of losing face, to repair the breach while Cleo was alive, and they remain unwilling to take any action to atone for it now. Whatever they think about how they behaved, it’s ultimately their action—rather, the lack of action—that carries the most weight. Buy the Book Psychopomp & Circumstance Eden Royce Buy Book Psychopomp & Circumstance Eden Royce Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget Similarly, Phee has grown up with the weight of familial expectations on her shoulders. “This was her duty as a daughter of the Reconstruction. Find a suitable husband, have children, and raise them to carry on the family name and its legacy of enriching the city with wealth and knowledge.” As we learn, though, it’s really Cleo—the disgraced aunt, the thrown-away family member—who has done the work of caring for her people in the aftermath of Reconstruction. Her town of Horizon is a resting place and a waystation for both supernatural creatures and Black Americans in need of respite in the aftermath of slavery. Her legacy is care, and it’s that legacy that Phee enters into when she volunteers to manage Cleo’s homegoing. As she spends more time in Horizon, Phee comes to realize that it’s only the appearance that matters to her mother. One of the most moving scenes in the book occurs when Phee spends the morning with a funeral director her mother called “odd” and refused to patronize. Yet Phee sees a man of exceptional kindness, a man who feels deeply the weight of his responsibility to the living and the dead alike. Though Royce isn’t heavy-handed, the gulf between Phee’s mother—who refused reconciliation with her sister even after death—and the man she scorns as “odd” feels particularly wide. Here again, thoughts and intention can only carry us so far. It’s our actions that show our true character. Although they’re absent for most of the book, Phee’s parents are a presence deeply felt in their differences from Aunt Cleo; their choices make them strong foils for the life Cleo built for herself in Horizon. Where Phee was raised to care about appearance and reputation, Cleo showed tenderness to the vulnerable, strange, and outcast. Where Phee’s mother uses coercive control to get Phee to do what she wants, Cleo remained a steady, welcoming presence on the periphery of Phee’s life: steadfast in expressing her love for Phee, but never pushing Phee to go beyond what she was comfortable with. Royce ably navigates the contradictions of caring deeply about family while recognizing people’s flaws and pursuing a life that aligns first and foremost with your own core values. Though I’ve barely mentioned Aunt Cleo’s house (so much to think about in this slim novella!), Psychopomp and Circumstance is, at its core, a haunted house story. As so often in such stories, Phee is haunted by lost possibilities that look like ghosts. After a lifetime of being told what adulthood will look like for her, Phee grasps at the chance to take on the responsibility of planning a funeral—an act for adults, an act that closes off childhood. But her true coming-of-age is her burgeoning understanding of what it means to be accountable to family, to community, and to the dead. This is a beautiful, spooky, and deeply heartfelt read. I can’t wait to see what Royce does next.[end-mark] Psychopomp & Circumstance is available from Tordotcom Publishing.Read an excerpt. The post Horizons Beyond Grief: <i>Psychopomp and Circumstance</i> by Eden Royce appeared first on Reactor.

Alina Habba resigned Monday as the acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey. This comes after an appeals court ruling disqualified her from serving in the position. “While I was focused on delivering real results, judges in my state took advantage of a flawed blue slip tradition and became weapons for the politicized left,” Habba wrote in a statement. “For months, these judges stopped conducting trials and entering sentences, leaving violent criminals on the streets.” Habba, a former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, said her compliance with the ruling should not be viewed as surrender. “This decision will not weaken the Justice Department, and it will not weaken me,” she said. Habba will continue to work in the Justice Department as a senior adviser to the attorney general. Attorney General Pam Bondi said she accepted Habba’s resignation after the “flawed Third Circuit decision.” The DOJ hopes to overturn the decision, Bondi said. “The Justice Department will seek further review of this decision, and we are confident it will be reversed,” she said. “Alina intends to return to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the district of New Jersey if this occurs.” The post BREAKING: Top Trump Attorney Alina Habba Resigns appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said Sunday city police would not cooperate with a federal immigration enforcement operation launched in the wake of a growing fraud scandal in Minnesota. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is surging into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after revelations into at least $1 billion in fraud, some of which reportedly went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Frey claimed during the interview that ICE had launched a “chaotic operation” and that local authorities would not assist. WATCH: “Our police officers will not coordinate with ICE or any federal agency around immigration law enforcement work,” Frey said. “Now, we do work with federal agents around important criminal activity, narcotics, gun violence. We arrest perpetrators of violent crime, but we will not work with federal agents around immigration law enforcement. Why? Because we’ve seen the unconstitutionality of it, we’ve seen the chaotic nature that it creates, we know that it breaks apart families that make Minneapolis better, and we want nothing to do with it.” State employees accused Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota of engaging in “systemic” retaliation against whistleblowers who warned of the fraud schemes Sunday as the Justice Department is prosecuting multiple federal cases. Walz admitted during a Nov. 30 appearance on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the state “attracts criminals,” but demanded that Somali residents not be demonized. Trump announced he would end “Temporary Protected Status” for Somalis in Minneapolis in response to the allegations, and also said that the influx of refugees had “destroyed our country.” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara apologized at a Nov. 20 press conference after he earlier discussed crime by “groups of East African kids” during a Nov. 11 interview with local outlet WCCO. Democrat City Councilman Jamal Osman of Minneapolis was carjacked Nov. 10, days after winning reelection on a platform that included “restorative justice” and “violence prevention programs.” Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Minneapolis’ Democrat Mayor Says City Will Resist Trump Response to Somali Scammer Scandal appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The next generation of air dominance will be arriving soon, as the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase of the Next Generation Air Dominance program was awarded to Boeing in an announcement on March 21, 2025, by President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin.  The new aircraft being developed has been officially designated the F-47, and it is expected to replace the F-22A Raptor. The choice of the name F-47 pays homage to the World War II P-47 Thunderbolt.  NGAD seeks to construct a sixth-generation air superiority fighter, the first in the world, that has unmatched capabilities and can support the integration of future technologies, which is a cornerstone of the F-47. Boeing has been awarded a $20 billion contract for the fighter, which will cover the development and construction of prototype aircraft, and the possibility of limited initial production.  This new fighter jet’s propulsion systems will be developed by the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion program, and currently GE Aerospace’s XA102 and Pratt & Whitney’s XA103 are in competition. Both designs draw from the same program, the Adaptive Engine Transition Program and they both seek to deliver increased thrust, better fuel efficiency, and improved thermal management systems.  Allvin has explained that the F-47 will have a smaller radar signature and require less maintenance and logistical support compared to fifth-generation fighter jets, saying the F-47 “will be simpler to operate and deploy than the F-22A, with a higher level of mission readiness and reduced reliance on large support infrastructure.” Additionally, the F-47’s range is expected to exceed 1,000 nautical miles, making it capable of flying deep into enemy territory without needing as much aerial refueling support as other fighters, significantly expanding the U.S. Air Force’s operational capabilities  In Boeing’s preliminary graphics, all that is visible is the nose of the F-47, which includes canard foreplanes, implying potential trade-offs to increased maneuverability. Despite there being no confirmation, there is speculation that the F-47 will possess a tailless delta or lambda-wing layout with two engines that will use under-fuselage or under-wing intakes.  The F-47 is expected to not only be positioned for traditional air dominance, but to also integrate unmanned systems, electronic warfare assets, and space-based sensors that will allow it to operate in contested environments augmented by complementary autonomous platforms. These unmanned systems are projected to include the capability of the pilot to control and coordinate attacks from Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones from the aircraft.  Hegseth has emphasized the superiority of the F-47, saying, “We’re not just building another fighter jet—we’re shaping the future of warfare and sending a clear message to our adversaries. This platform will be the most advanced, lethal, and adaptable fighter ever created. It is being designed to outmaneuver and outmatch every known aircraft. The new F-47 will surpass any opponent daring to challenge our brave pilots.”  Due to national security concerns, no cost has been confirmed, but Allvin has stated the F-47 will be less expensive than the F-22A, and the U.S. Air Force expects to buy at least 185 aircraft. However, some estimates claim each unit may cost hundreds of millions, and others claim the cost could reach $300 million per aircraft, making the F-47 potentially more expensive than the F-22. There is also potential for a reduced-capability version of the F-47 that might be offered to some allied nations.  Although there is no specific operational date for the F-47, Allvin has revealed that production has begun, and the initial flight is projected for 2028. He revealed that Boeing’s teams quickly began production after their contract was announced in March.  As production continues, no one knows exactly what the F-47 will look like or be capable of, however, Trump, Hegseth, and Allvin are confident that the F-47 will be the most capable and superior aircraft in the world. As the initial flight comes closer, additional information is expected to be released regarding the F-47’s capabilities and design.  The post The F-47: Next Generation Air Dominance appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Jennifer Welch is the hot new pundette on the hard left. The New York Times posted an Amanda Hess valentine on how she’s hammering the Democrat establishment from the Left, and they’re here for it!  The headline: "Is This Former Bravo Star Democrats’ Toughest Critic?" Let's guess this means toughest from the "right direction." She's transformed from a Bravo reality-TV star to a trash-talking Trump-trasher with her "I've Had It" podcast with Angie "Pumps" Sullivan, her Bravo co-star. Hess, a cultural Critic At Large for the Times, hailed them: "They once railed against the kinds of people who clap when the airplane lands. Now they have had it with fascists, and the 'self-hating dweebs' they say power the Make America Great Again movement." The most recirculated quote is when Hess asked Welch “when her political instincts began to evolve.” Moving left is an “evolution.”  “I used to be a good MSNBC liberal that libbed out and bought into all of that,” Ms. Welch explained. But “when you lose a political race two times to a moron,” as she put it, referring to Mr. Trump, “you really have to go, ‘OK, what in the actual fuck is going on?’” Hess admires Welch’s current toehold on the political spectrum: All of this has made Ms. Welch into the rare figure who appeals to the mainstream liberal, angers the Fox News viewer and thrills the dirtbag left. As she challenges Democrats from a more progressive stance, a portrait of Kate Moss in the frame behind her, she provides the sensation of watching the Overton window shift in real time. The "dirtbag left" sounds negative, but it's a term of endearment for the Bernie Sanders socialist hardliners. How leftist is Walsh now that's she's "evolved"? Radical Muslim Hasan Piker, the man who supported the massacre of October 7 and claims America deserved 9-11 (and drew his own Times puff piece) is a Welch fan, which is allegedly a good thing:  But first, Ms. Welch took a detour to visit the leftist streamer Hasan Piker, spent an hour and a half chatting on his livestream and then joined his podcast to talk some more. Mr. Piker has been a fan for years, and he introduced Ms. Welch on his show as “one of the leaders of the radical wine mom brigade,” a lightly patronizing framing that nevertheless can work to Ms. Welch’s advantage. His audience, he wrote over email, has been “captivated by the juxtaposition of a tall blonde Anglo-Saxon woman from Oklahoma with seemingly endless empathy for the downtrodden.” Hess and the Times love how she rips the "centrists."  Then Mr. Trump won a second term. When Mr. [Rahm] Emanuel came on this spring, called the party’s advocacy for trans people “nuts,” then labored to land a prepared joke about Democrats focusing on “kitchen table issues” instead of “bathroom issues,” Ms. Welch felt a surge of adrenaline. “I just went bananas,” she said. “I physically felt what he was doing — how opportunistic it was, how inauthentic it was and how insincere it was. But most importantly, how dangerous it was.” Welch is hot enough that the "centrists" she's ripped -- Emanuel, Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries -- all claim to love her and her show. Kiley Josey, the 30-year-old producer of the podcast, said that even after Ms. Welch calls Democrats names, their teams remain in close touch, eager to brief her on their wins. “I don’t think anybody wants to be on our bad side,” she said. The New York Times should be on her good side after this puff piece.  (Image: New York Times photograph)

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View had their knickers in a bunch during Monday’s show because President Trump received a peace prize from FIFA last week. While mocking it as being “cringe” and meaningless, they sure had a lot to say about it; including that America didn’t feel safer under President Trump and that he needed to be investigated for corruption. “I don't know. I just feel like he's trying to hurt people's feelings to piss them off. That's not the way to do it,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg whined at the top of the segment, referring to Trump putting his name on buildings around Washington, D.C. and getting a peace prize from FIFA. Seemingly suggesting that Trump hadn’t earned a peace prize of any kind, Goldberg bloviated about how America didn’t feel safe to her at all: But I just want to say that, to me, it doesn't feel that much safer since we're blowing up boats in the Caribbean and ICE agents have arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records. It doesn't feel all that safe to me. Maybe – Maybe these are the moves he thinks that are going to make America great again [sic]. I mean, how much would Republicans have freaked out had Biden or Obama done any of those things?   Whoopi declares America "doesn't feel safe" because "we're blowing up boats in the Caribbean and ICE agents have arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records. It doesn't feel all that safe to me." "What have you done for us [America] lately," she demands to know. pic.twitter.com/EqasAKRAJx — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 8, 2025   The idea of deportation orders clearly alluded Goldberg’s mental comprehension. Which made sense since earlier in the year, she warned, “any one of us could find ourselves being deported” in reference to the cast. Meanwhile, they were all born or naturalized citizens. Since simple concepts like that were outside of Goldberg’s grasps, it was obvious that negotiating multilateral, international peace deals that untangled America’s web of interests that had the country focused on the Middle East for decades would be beyond her. That much was clear when she paraphrased singer Janet Jackson and demanded to know what Trump had done for America lately: GOLDBERG: I don't understand what the point is. Because what is he doing for us? Where’s that Janet Jackson song, what have you done for me, America? I'm saying as America. What have you done for us lately, except pick up phony prizes to make yourself feel better. HOSTIN: I like – You know, the thing about this peace award, this peace medal -- GOLDBERG: It’s a piece of metal, yeah. Goldberg was followed up by co-host Sunny Hostin who boasted about President Obama’s Nobel Prize. “I think the fact that President Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize is still living rent-free in this President's mind and he wants the Nobel Peace Prize,” she mocked. “I don't think he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, quite frankly.” Of course, no one on the set (including the purported “conservative,” Alyssa Farah Griffin) wanted to mention that Obama had done literally nothing to merit his Nobel.   Ignoring that Obama literally did nothing of merit to get his Nobel Peace Prize, Sunny Hostin mocks that he "is still living rent-free in [Trump's] mind" and "I don't think [Trump]'s worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, quite frankly." She then calls for Trump to be investigated for… pic.twitter.com/vMIY37M6kz — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 8, 2025   Hostin also demanded that Trump be investigated for corruption: So, this seems very much like a pay-for-play-type of situation for me, as a former prosecutor. And I think we need to look at that. If people can just buy this President by giving him a fake award, what else is happening that we don't know about? Building off Hostin’s corruption claims, fake Republican Ana Navarro quipped that FIFA, like many others, figured out how to appease Trump: [I]f you show up with a tchotchkes, preferably covered in gold and give it to the three-year-old in the Oval Office, he will be entertained and he will be happy. Tim Cook showed up with a glass and gold Apple thing. The guys from Switzerland showed up with like a gold Rolex. Qatar gave him a $400 million jet.   To mock Trump's peace prize medal from FIFA, Ana Navarro hands out fake medals to the rest of The View cast. pic.twitter.com/FZ8LH40ViG — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 8, 2025   In an effort “not to be outdone” Navarro then pulled out a bunch of fake medals and handed them out to the rest of the cast. “I do love a made up award because it’s probably the only kind I will ever get,” Farah Griffin joked, adding that the FIFA award “just feels too cringe to me.” Ignoring how detangling America’s obligations abroad was helpful to America, Farah Griffin bloviated about how Trump was too focused on international issues: I commend him on the deal in the Middle East. That made sense. I think it was smart policy. But what I keep hearing from his voters, people who count themselves as America first voters, is it seems like he's more distracted by what's happening around the world and not delivering back home, and that is what will mar his legacy. Goldberg ended the segment by proclaiming that if Trump didn’t change, his legacy was “going to disappear and you will just be a footnote like gas in the desert.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 8, 2025 11:05:16 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I don't know. I just feel like he's trying to hurt people's feelings to piss them off. That's not the way to do it. But I just want to say that, to me, it doesn't feel that much safer since we're blowing up boats in the Caribbean and ICE agents have arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records. It doesn't feel all that safe to me. Maybe -- maybe these are the moves he thinks that are going to make America great again [sic]. I mean, how much would Republicans have freaked out had Biden or Obama done any of those things? SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: And I just -- I don't understand what the point is. Because what is he doing for us? Where’s that Janet Jackson song, what have you done for me, America? I'm saying as America. What have you done for us lately, except pick up phony prizes to make yourself feel better. HOSTIN: I like – [Applause] You know, the thing about this peace award, this peace medal -- GOLDBERG: It’s a piece of metal, yeah. HOSTIN: It’s a piece of metal, correct. It just – I think we all know that Obama lives rent-free in Trump's head and he has for a really long time and I think the fact that President Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize is still living rent-free in this President's mind and he wants the Nobel Peace Prize. He's probably not going to get the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't think he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, quite frankly. [Applause] And so this is a made-up award for him, this FIFA award. Now, let's remember, you know, FIFA has a long and well-documented history of corruption scandals, if we're going to be honest about it. In 2015, the Department of Justice indicted over a dozen FIFA officials on racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering. And then in 2018, Russia won the award – ANA NAVARRO: The World Cup. HOSTIN: The FIFA World Cup. 2022 Qatar won the World Cup. And then -- NAVARRO: No, no. World Cup venue. HOSTIN: To host it. Then in 2020, the U.S. indicted them alleging that officials received bribes to host -- those countries to host. So, this seems very much like a pay-for-play-type of situation for me, as a former prosecutor. And I think we need to look at that. If people can just buy this President by giving him a fake award, what else is happening that we don't know about? (…) 11:08:37 a.m. Eastern NAVARRO: So, I think Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, has figured out what practically every other world leader, every other corporate leader has figured out: that if you show up with a tchotchkes, preferably covered in gold and give it to the three-year-old in the Oval Office, he will be entertained and he will be happy. Tim Cook showed up with a glass and gold Apple thing. The guys from Switzerland showed up with like a gold Rolex. Qatar gave him a $400 million jet. So, all I want to say is not to be outdone – [Pulls out fake medals] HOSTIN: Oh, you've got something? NAVARRO: You get a medal and you get a medal. [Cheers and applause] HOSTIN: Give me one! Give me one! NAVARRO: And you get a medal and you get a medal and I get a medal. HOSTIN: Thank you. [Cheers and applause] ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I do love a made up award because it’s probably the only kind I will ever get. But this just feels too cringe to me. Listen, the President Trump right now is focused heavily on his legacy. He wants to make sure that the history books can't dismiss him as a fluke; like ‘oh that was a weird thing that happened and we've moved on.’ So, that's why you hear him talking a lot about the Nobel Peace Prize. He wants this – I’m calling the arch de Trump but he want this, his own monument in Washington, D.C. He's putting his names on different things throughout the capital. And I think a lot of -- and I think he's had a heavy focus on the world stage, which that's always a job of presidents. I commend him on the deal in the Middle East. That made sense. I think it was smart policy. But what I keep hearing from his voters, people who count themselves as America first voters, is it seems like he's more distracted by what's happening around the world and not delivering back home, and that is what will mar his legacy. (…)

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has narrowly avoided a costly disaster.When Meta bought the rights to more land in Bellevue, Washington, in 2020, it brought the company's potential footprint in the area up to more than 3 million square feet. After five years of expansions, subleases, and plan changes, Zuckerberg's company had to decide if it wanted to dive fully into the expansion it was offered or stay with what it had.'The way for Washingtonians to fight back is to build a bolder Washington.'Newly released details about Meta's plans in Bellevue’s Spring District now confirm that the tech company has avoided disaster by about a month. As reported by Downtown Bellevue, Meta is returning the rights for several blocks in the district to developer Wright Runstad & Co., which is considered turning the land into apartment buildings, instead of offices.With Meta using only around 700,000 square feet of its current land leases, the relinquishment comes on the cusp of massive new corporate taxes that seem to be on the horizon from a state Democrat, who is openly socialist. State Rep. Shaun Scott (D) hopes to counteract tax cuts by the Trump administration by issuing a new corporate payroll tax that will affect the largest companies in the state, including Amazon, Microsoft, and, of course, Meta. Scott is a Democratic Socialist, according to a report by Axios, and is certainly living up to the "socialist" part of his title with the new 5% tax.His proposal would tax private companies where employees earn more than $125,000 per year, with the new tax applying to salaries above that threshold. Any company with more than 50 employees, a payroll in excess of $7 million, and gross receipts over $5 million will also be taxed.The tax would raise $5.5 billion over two years, according to Komo News.RELATED: The price tag on Mark Zuckerberg's bid for 'superintelligence' will blow your mind. Will the product? Photographer: Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images The tax reportedly comes in direct response to money lost from the Republicans' H.R.1, aka the Big Beautiful Bill Act, which claimed from the outset that it would "reduces taxes."Scott is, in effect, proving the bill to be true with his proposal."The way for Washingtonians to fight back is to build a bolder Washington: a Washington that defends the programs that people depend on, while the other Washington defunds them," he said, according to the Olympian.The bill would take effect on July 1, 2026.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!