Democratic lawmakers are proposing new legislation to “drastically scale back” the detention of illegal immigrants across the country, which would also result in the release of any illegal immigrants who claim to be LGBTQ. The “Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act” would end detention that is considered mandatory for many illegal immigrants, including members of the LGBTQ community, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal announced Wednesday. And Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources told The Daily Wire it will create a gaping loophole allowing for the release of illegal immigrants en masse. One ICE source quipped that “almost every” illegal immigrant detainee will now say they’re gay or transgender “just to get released.” “It would spread like wildfire,” the source said. Another agency source called the move a “f*cking joke,” adding that, “It’s gonna turn into bail reform like New York. Criminals just released because their feelings are hurt.” NEW: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is set to introduce “The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act,” which would DESTROY the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to arrest and hold dangerous illegal aliens. The bill already has 123 Democrat co-sponsors. “This bill brings… pic.twitter.com/7o8B3PONIz — RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) December 3, 2025 In Jayapal’s own words, the proposed legislation “overhauls the detention system,” and “drastically scales back the use of detention.” The bill has the “unprecedented” backing of 123 Democratic cosponsors, Jayapal said. 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. The bill would also end ICE’s use of privately-run detention centers, which hold thousands of the agency’s detainees, while preventing it from detaining children and families. Along with the LGBTQ community, anyone who is above 60 years old or has a “serious” mental or physical illness, or is a pregnant woman, can be released from detention under the bill. “This bill brings dignity, justice, oversight, and accountability to the detention system by repealing mandatory detention, prohibiting the detention of families and children in family detention, phasing out the use of private detention facilities and jails, and requiring DHS to establish civil detention standards,” Jayapal told reporters during a press conference Wednesday while joined by anti-Israel activist and former ICE detainee Mahmoud Khalil. “The bill creates a presumption of release and imposes a higher burden of proof to detain primary caregivers and vulnerable populations. The bill also mandates the DHS Inspector General to conduct unannounced inspections and requires DHS to admit Members of Congress to detention facilities for unannounced inspections,” she said.

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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. Ukraine is in the news again. There’s been some peace proposals submitted by U.S. President Donald Trump to the international community, apparently. A lot of hysteria, a lot of controversy, whether they were too lax, too strong, too punitive, not punitive enough vis-a-vis Russia. But I thought it would be wise just to review some basic questions, maybe offer a few answers, how we got in this mess in the first place. So, why did Russian President Vladimir Putin invade? Why did he invade Ukraine? Well, he invaded Ukraine because of two reasons. One, there was no deterrence. He had invaded Ossetia in 2008 during the weakened lame-duck Bush administration and Georgia. In 2014, he felt that President Barack Obama, especially after the hot mic exchange in Seoul, South Korea, in 2012, wouldn’t do anything. And he was right. So, he took Crimea and he took the Donbas. And then in 2022, on Feb. 24, he invaded again. Why? Because there was still that lack of deterrence. President Joe Biden said his reaction would depend on whether it was a major or minor invasion. He’d been very weak on hacking. He said, if you’re gonna hack, do not hack particular humanitarian sites. So, Putin, again, correctly thought that the United States and the West in general would not attack. Next question: Why does he keep fighting? This has been going on for four years. We don’t know what the dead, wounded, and missing—that is, the total casualties—are. It could be over 1.5 million. Russia may have lost a million dead and wounded alone. So, why is he doing this? He’s doing this because he feels that there is a magical DMZ line somewhere where the battlefront is today that he has to get beyond. Because if he doesn’t—and every dictator doesn’t have sole power, he has to report to certain constituencies, public opinion. But in Putin’s case, the Russian military and the Russian oligarchic class. And if he says to them, “I lost 1.2, 1.3 million Russians, wounded or dead. I destroyed the reputation of the Russian military, and I crashed the Russian economy. And all I got was 60 or 70 miles westward of where we were before Feb. 24, 2022,” that’s not enough. So, he’s trying to push westward. Most of the peace negotiations and the outlines are clear. We all know what they are. Putin can tell the Russians, his constituencies, “I institutionalized my theft of Crimea and Donbas. I moved westward somewhat. I ensured that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians would not be in NATO.” And Zelenskyy is going to say, “I’m a hero. He wanted the whole country. He only got 10% more than he did when he invaded in 2022. We stopped him, and we’re gonna be in the EU. We may not be in NATO, but we stopped him, and he suffered four times the amount of casualties that we did.” So, they each think they can win. And what is the dispute left about? Ukraine’s not gonna be in NATO. Putin knows that. All it is, where is the DMZ? Does Putin get to push areas westward that Ukraine, Ukrainians are currently in and fighting successfully and he can’t dislodge, or not? So, that’s what the dispute is over, and the security guarantees. If Ukraine is not in NATO, how can it defend the next invasion from Russia? Well, it’s the greatest military in Europe right now. It’s battle-hardened. It’s got a huge army. It’s well supplied. Will that continue? Will the EU or NATO continue to arm it? Will the United States back them up in extremis? That’s all. That’s the only two issues: security guarantees and where we draw the DMZ line. Why does NATO or the West not supply Ukraine to win the war? “I mean, give them Tomahawk missiles,” we’re told. “Give them F-16s. Russia’s on the ropes.” And the reason is that Putin engages in nuclear blusters. He has 6,000 nuclear weapons. So, from time to time, a Russian oligarch, a Russian media host, Putin’s inner circle say, “We’re gonna use a nuclear weapon if you do this or that.” And we recoil. No Tomahawks are willing to use a nuclear weapon. Ninety-eight percent of that is bluff. Two percent may not be a nuclear poker. You can’t take those odds. So, that is one reason why we have restricted. The other is the MAGA brand. I mean, there’s a base of Donald Trump’s support that says, “We don’t want forever wars. Don’t get involved. We don’t want advisers. We don’t want anything. We’ve given $170 billion. That’s enough.” There’s realists who say, “We have to think of the geostrategic consequences. We want to play Russia off against China. We don’t want them to join. We want to go back to history, Henry Kissinger’s paradigm. No better friend are we to Russia than we are to China and vice versa.” There’s a lot of people in the United States that may be pro-Putin. They feel, “Wow, you know, he’s Christian, he’s fighting for the West, no DEI, no trans. He’s no more corrupt than Zelenskyy is.” So, I don’t know if that is—there is a more sizable constituency, which says that the borders always change over there. This was all part of the Soviet Union. Ukraine was created in 1939, when Josef Stalin ganged up against the West with Adolf Hitler and got what is now Western Ukraine, which used to be, for a thousand years, Christian, Polish-speaking Poland. And it was ethnically cleansed during World War II, and the Soviets never gave it up, and the postwar agreements gave Poland parts of Pomerania and East Prussia in compensation. As far as the Donbas area, that was an anti-Soviet jurisdictional matter. We’ll let Ukraine be semi-autonomous on this border, so they don’t have a national liberationist front or something. Crimea—it’s been Russian since 1783. So, a lot of Americans say, “We don’t want countries coming in here and discussing our changing borders with Mexico. So, we don’t want to get involved at all.” I think that’s why NATO hasn’t used its full powers to defeat Russia, which it could vis-a-vis this proxy. Why do we support Ukraine? A lot of people say we should support Russia. Well, Ukraine was invaded. Russia wasn’t invaded. Russia was the aggressor. We like to support the underdog and Europe. Ukraine is quasi-European. It’s corrupt, but it’s quasi-European and quasi-Western. Putin is not. Ukraine, if it wins the war, it doesn’t want any more territory. If Putin wins the war, he wants to continue going. And Ukraine also is a very capable ally. We don’t have any friends in the world that are militarily competent—maybe Israel, maybe Ukraine—outside of some NATO country. So, when we see a country that’s defending itself and fighting heroically against enormous odds, like Israel, we tend to feel we should continue to support it. Another question, isn’t this amoral, feeding Verdun, feeding Stalingrad? There’s, you know, are we gonna go all the way to 2 million? The only politician who says it is is Donald Trump. He’s complained that it’s amoral. He’s talked about it in human terms. It is. So, one side has to win and one side has to lose to stop the carnage, if you can’t have a peace. So, what will stop the war? The war will stop if Putin, if we pull out or NATO pulls support from Ukraine, Putin will bury Ukraine and take it all, or it’ll take a large swath. That would end the war. Or, if we continue to give aid to Ukraine and Putin, at some magical point, feels he can’t win, and he’s removed from office or his autocratic successor feels that they can’t win, they might have a negotiation. Or, as I said at the beginning, if Putin feels that he gets a little bit more westward than the current battle line, and they agree on the other terms, which we reviewed, then he’ll probably say, “For now, I got a lot for Russia and we’re beyond where the fighting is now. We’re westward of that.” All in all, it’s a mess, and it’s a reminder that when you lose deterrence, wars follow. If you want peace, the Romans said, prepare for war. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post What Will Finally End the Russia-Ukraine War? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson introduced a bill Wednesday which, if signed into law, would move the headquarters of the United Nations out of New York City. “This bill sends a clear message: America is done propping up a city that rejects our values while claiming to represent our nation on the world stage,” Jackson said in a statement to The Daily Signal. “Under President [Donald] Trump, strength and security are back, and when the U.N. gathers in America, they should see a city that reflects that strength, not the chaos and weakness we see in New York today.” In November, New York City elected self-identified Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as its mayor. The bill would direct the Secretary of State to formulate a plan to move the United Nation’s headquarters from New York City, where it has resided since construction was completed in 1952. Specifically, the secretary would seek to negotiate a new headquarters with the United Nations and submit a list of relocation options to the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees. Jackson, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has represented the Texas panhandle area since 2021. The post Texas Rep. Jackson Introduces Bill to Move UN HQ Out of New York appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The Democrat-controlled Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to ban the use of masks by federal officials, and the Justice Dept. responded immediately with a fiery statement.All of the Democrats on the board voted 4-0 in favor of the ordinance on Tuesday, with the lone Republican member abstaining. A second vote on Dec. 9 is needed to pass it. If that happens, law enforcement officers will be required to wear visible identification and agency affiliation.'We will not expose our brave men and women to personal attacks by allowing agitators to dox them and their families through facial recognition tools.'Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, responded immediately to the vote."Let me be very clear: the county has no jurisdiction over federal agents, and we will not comply with any state or local laws restricting federal law enforcement," he posted in a statement on social media."Our agents are under unprecedented assault in Los Angeles, largely due to reckless narratives and rhetoric advanced by the media and local politicians," he added. "We will not expose our brave men and women to personal attacks by allowing agitators to dox them and their families through facial recognition tools."In a statement about the vote, Supervisor Janice Hahn accused ICE of behaving like an "authoritarian secret police" force."This is how authoritarian secret police behaves — not legitimate law enforcement in a democracy," Hahn said."ICE agents are violating our residents' rights every day they are on our streets. These agents hide their faces. They refuse to wear badges," she continued. "They pull people into unmarked vans at gunpoint and wonder why people resist arrest. We are declaring in no uncertain terms that in L.A. County, police do not hide their faces. That is our expectation, and this ordinance will now make it our law."RELATED: DHS slams Newsom over illegal alien accused in death of 11-year-old boy on Thanksgiving If approved in the second vote, the mask ban will go into effect 30 days after that vote.Hahn added that the board expects the Trump administration to challenge the ban in court, and it is prepared to take on the court battle.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The left is attempting to paint Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a war criminal — and it’s backfiring miserably.Hegseth is being accused of ordering a second strike on 11 Tren de Aragua terrorists who were running a drug-trafficking boat, while the left is attempting to spin it into an evil, unthinkable act.“Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all,” a Washington Post headline reads. The subhead follows, “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.”“Am I supposed to feel bad for the drug runners? Am I supposed to feel bad for the narco-terrorists? I don’t feel bad for the narco-terrorists. Who I feel bad for are all of the families in this country who had to bury their loved ones due to the importation of these drugs from these narco-terrorists,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments.“So, I don’t know, Washington Post, I don’t really feel bad for these two men clinging to a stricken burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6,” she continues.Now, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is claiming that what Hegseth allegedly did crossed a line that he should “never step over.”“If what has been reported is accurate, I’ve got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over,” Kelly said in a segment on CNN.“This was the same guy who was just, like, last week telling the military to basically commit treason, telling the military to be insubordinate when it comes to the commander in chief and when it comes to orders that they are being given. So, it’s really, really rich,” Gonzales says.But Kelly isn’t the only one who went after Hegseth, with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) telling ABC, “It’s very possible there was a war crime committed.”“Of course, for it to be a war crime, you have to accept the Trump administration’s whole construct here, which is, we’re in armed conflict at war with this particular, with the drug gangs. Of course, they’ve never presented the public with the information they’ve got here. But it could be worse than that,” Van Hollen said.“If that theory is wrong, then it’s plain murder. But even if you accept their legal theory, that it is a war crime. And so, I do believe that the secretary of defense should be held accountable for giving those kinds of orders,” he added.“You’re going to be shocked to hear,” Gonzales comments, “that it turns out, all of this was total bulls**t because Pete Hegseth, according to the White House, was not even in charge when the second strike was ordered.”“Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated,” she adds.Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Halil İbrahim Sincar/AAThe mosaic was found while workers were cleaning and restoring a disused mill. A 1,500-year-old mosaic was recently discovered beneath the floor of an historic mill in southeastern Turkey. This stunning find is the first mosaic to be uncovered in the country’s Midyat–Nusaybin corridor. The mill sits on private land in the Çağ Çağ Stream Valley, an area that is no stranger to ancient forts and caravanserais. What began as a project to clean and restore the abandoned mill swiftly turned into an archaeological excavation. After workers uncovered the mosaic under the floor of the old mill, the owners notified the Mardin Museum, which quickly launched an official salvage excavation. This process aims to document and preserve archaeological remains that are discovered during modern construction projects. The Stunning Byzantine Mosaic Found Under An Old Mill In Turkey’s Midyat District Halil İbrahim Sincar/AAArchaeologists have uncovered about 430 square feet of the mosaic so far. According to Türkiye Today, the archaeological team has found about 430 square feet of the patterned tile floor, which spans across two areas inside the historic mill. Archaeologists believe the remains may extend to other nearby parcels of the site, indicating that the mosaic was once part of a larger complex. The mosaic primarily features geometric motifs, including squares, rectangles, circles and triangles. The design is tied together through wave, cross, and infinity patterns in the main panels, which are connected with knot-shaped medallions. The excavation team also uncovered a clue as to who may have owned or commissioned the 1,500-year-old mosaic: In one section, the floor tiles spelled out “Tittos Domestikos.” “Tittos appears to be a personal name, while Domestikos is known in Byzantine sources as a military or clerical title,” Idris Akgül, the leader of the excavation, told Anatolian Archaeology. “This suggests the building may have belonged to a local administrator or official.” Now, the mosaic could help researchers uncover more of the building’s history. It will surely also provide crucial information concerning the history of the region, as it is one of the first archaeological sites to be directly investigated in its immediate area. Planned Future Tourism Of The Mosaic And The Mill In Beyazsu Halil İbrahim Sincar/AAThe landowners of the mill are hoping to preserve the mosaic and turn the site into a tourist attraction. Archaeologists will know more about the site once conservation of the mosaic is complete and more in-depth study of the remains can commence. From there, the owners of the land on which the mill sits are looking forward to eventually opening the site to the public. Before the mosaic was discovered, the landowners had already begun to clean up the disused mill because they were interested in restoring this 19th-century site for tourism purposes. After workers first uncovered the history sitting right beneath the mill’s floor, they stopped their efforts immediately in order to prevent any potential damage to this important find. “We expected a 100- or 150-year-old structure, but the ground revealed something far older — nearly 1,500 years. Such heritage deserves to be protected and shared with the public,” property owner Reşit Coşkun told Anatolian Archaeology. Now, Coşkun wants to work with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in order to convert the mill and the 1,500-year-old mosaic beneath it into a tourism site for visitors from far and wide. After reading about the 1,500-year-old mosaic found beneath a mill floor in Turkey, check out the story of a Turkish farmer who stumbled upon a Roman mosaic while planting trees. Then, learn about the 2,700-year-old tomb discovered in Turkey that may belong to a member of King Midas’ family. The post Byzantine Mosaic Dating Back 1,500 Years Found By Accident Underneath An Abandoned Mill In Turkey appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Antiquity (2025)Some of the shells that were seemingly modified so that they could produce sound. It’s said that when you hold a conch shell to your ear, you can hear the roar of the ocean. Now, researchers have proposed that Neolithic people in Spain used conchs to hear each other — by modifying the shells to make them into effective communication devices. By studying the shells and testing their capability as sound-producing instruments, the researchers believe they’ve proven that the conchs were once used to communicate. Such a practice indeed existed in prehistoric times, and it continued into the modern era. The Conch Shells ‘Trumpets’ Used By Neolithic People In Modern-Day Spain According to a new study in Antiquity, the Neolithic shells were collected from an area near Spain’s Llobregat River and date back to between the late fifth and early fourth millennia B.C.E. Antiquity (2025)One of the 12 conch shells that were discovered at Neolithic sites in Spain. “[I]t was known that several Charonia lampas shells had been discovered in a relatively small area of Catalonia, specifically in the lower reaches of the Llobregat River and in the pre-coastal depression of the Penedès region, east of the city of Barcelona,” study co-author Margarita Díaz-Andreu explained in a University of Barcelona statement. She added: “The apex [the shell’s sharp tip] had been removed, leading some researchers to suggest that they may have been used as musical instruments.” What’s more, the shells had seemingly been collected after the sea snails inside them died, suggesting that Neolithic people had not sought them out as a food source. Díaz-Andreu and her co-author, Miquel López Garcia — a doctoral student at the University of Barcelona and a trumpet player — set out to explore if they had been used to make sounds. To do so, they “played” the shells. “We had the extraordinary opportunity to carefully play the original instruments,” the researchers explained in their study, “under the strict supervision of museum curators.” Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Miquel López-GarciaMiquel López-Garcia playing one of the shell “trumpets.” They found that the shells could indeed produce sounds when “played.” What’s more, these sounds could be modulated, raising the question of how prehistoric people might have used them. While Neolithic residents of Catalonia may have used the shells as communication devices, it’s also possible that they were used to make music. “Conch shells are capable of producing high-intensity sounds and would have been very effective for long-distance communication,” López-Garcia explained. “However, they are also capable of producing melodies by modulating the tone, so we cannot rule out the possibility that these shells were also used as musical instruments for expressive purposes.” The Role Of Conch Shell Trumpets In The Prehistoric World How did prehistoric people use conch shells? Though their exact purpose may remain a mystery, researchers have some ideas about how they were used to communicate. Such shells have been found at Neolithic sites separated by miles, suggesting that shell trumpets “may have played an important role in communication and coordination within and between communities.” They also possibly helped support coordination when it came to working in nearby mines, “where the valuable mineral variscite was extracted for the production of highly traded prestige items such as beads and pendants.” University of BarcelonaResearchers examining one of the conch shells. Indeed, not only have modified conchs from the late fifth and early fourth millennia B.C.E. been found across Catalonia, but such shells were also used to produce sound even into the modern era. While more study of shells in the region is needed, the researchers believe that they have shed some light on the use of conch shells by Neolithic people, who may have used them for communication and music. “Our study reveals that Neolithic communities used seashells not only as musical instruments, but also as powerful communication tools,” they stated, “which changes our understanding of sound, space and social relations in early prehistoric communities.” After reading about the Neolithic conch shells that may have been used as communication devices, discover the history of Tyrian purple, the dye made from sea snails that was sought after by elites in antiquity. Or, learn the sad story of Ming the Clam, the 500-year-old mollusk that was the oldest-recorded animal on earth before scientists accidentally killed it. The post These Trumpet-Like Conch Shells Found In Spain May Have Been Used For Communication 6,000 Years Ago appeared first on All That's Interesting.