Trump bails on Blanche to save his own ass
President Donald Trump is officially turning against his own party. On Thursday, he went off on a pair of GOP senators, attacking them for refusing to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general unless Trump gives up his corrupt “settlement” with the Internal Revenue Service that would shield him and his family from any audits or prosecutions. “Todd Blanche is a STAR, and everyone knows it!
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Fetterman Helps Republicans Block Effort to End Trump’s Iran War
Senate Republicans Thursday blocked a resolution directing President Trump to end the war in Iran. Again.
Only three Republicans—Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul of Kentucky—crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats to advance the measure. Again. Mitch McConnell didn’t show. Again. And Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted with Republicans against the measure.
Again.
The final vote was 49–50 to vanquish a resolution out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that would have instructed the president to withdraw U.S. troops from Iran, blocking him from military action in Iran without congressional approval. The resolution only needed a simple majority to pass, but Fetterman tanked it.
Although Fetterman initially ran his 2022 campaign for a Senate seat with a progressive mask, his M.O. since entering office has been the exact opposite. He is one of the most outspoken supporters of Israel in Congress, he supports the deadly and expensive campaigns against Iran and Lebanon, he voted with Republicans to confirm Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and he has become increasingly aligned with President Trump on a host of other issues.
The House of Representatives has now passed two separate war powers resolutions, and for a moment there it looked like the upper chamber might join them, but the Senate (and one senator, in particular) continues to hold out. This was its thirteenth vote on a resolution to end the Iran war this year.
These resolutions are only growing in importance as the war spreads, with the U.S. resuming airstrikes and Iran launching missiles at targets across the Middle East. Just Wednesday night, U.S. Central Command struck dozens of Iranian targets for the first time in days, following Iran’s attacks on American military sites earlier this week.
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Tall, Dark, and Woven, WICKER Trailer is Absurd, Spicy Fun
- Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, and Peter Dinklage star in the absurdly funny fantasy that is WICKER, based on a story by Ursula Wills.
The beauty-and-the-beast trope has had irreversible effects on our generation —how else would Ice Planet Barbarians exist? Romance stories centered on “spicy” interactions between a human-ish girl and a magical-beast-ish man are all the rage, and Wicker is riding the trend’s coattails. Bending the definition of “beast” a little bit, the movie follows a woman who commissions the local basket maker to make her sexed-out woven man to marry.
The trailer came out on July 30; take a look below.
Olivia Colman stars as an unmarried, charismatic fisherwoman. Alexander Skarsgård plays the aforementioned wicker man, wearing an elaborate, stiff-looking woven suit and makeup. Peter Dinklage plays his maker, the magic basket-weaver who breathes life into inanimate objects.
All of a sudden, once the shunned fisherwoman gets married, the entire village becomes jealous. Her new husband is polite and loving, and all of the women envy her. She gains confidence and becomes all the more attractive to the men of the community. Hijinks ensue.
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The absurdist comedy is based on a short story called The Wicker Husband by U.K. author Ursula Wills. Before the movie, it was also adapted into a musical by Rhys Jenning and had elaborate onstage puppetry.
Wicker appears to have the charm and whimsy of a children’s fable, with deep irony and sexual tones creating a deeper, more complex story. The movie’s fantasy aspects and “spicy” romance, known in the world of books as “romantasy,” will undoubtedly bring a crowd of readers of the genre to the theatres.
The movie will have a limited theatrical release starting on October 23 and will expand nationwide a week later on October 30. Only proceed if you can stomach the creaky, crackly sound effects of wicker for an hour and a half. After all, “a hard man is good to find.”
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Trump Suffers Back-to-Back Losses in Less Than Four Hours Over ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mass immigration detention policy was struck down twice in a single day on Thursday, in a brutal loss for President Donald Trump.
Two separate federal appeals courts rejected the Trump administration’s bid to detain immigrants—many of whom have lived in the U.S. for years without a criminal record—without a hearing. The rulings mark the administration’s fifth and sixth consecutive losses on the case.
In a 2–1 ruling by the Wisconsin-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the majority found that the government could not refuse bond hearings to undocumented immigrants who were already living in the U.S. In executing its mass detention policy, the government had been improperly applying a rule meant to apply to immigrants “seeking admission” at the U.S. border.
Earlier Thursday, there was a 2–1 ruling by the California-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which similarly found that the government had misconstrued decades-old immigration laws to justify its actions. The majority opinion was written by Trump appointee Judge Daniel Bress.
These rulings follow the same logic as decisions from the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit, the New York–based Second Circuit, the Colorado-based Tenth Circuit, and the Ohio-based Sixth Circuit. Only two federal appeals courts have sided with the Trump administration’s mass detention policy as it inevitably makes its way to the Supreme Court.
Mass detention isn’t merely a step along the way to achieving Trump’s goal of mass deportation: It’s also the goal.
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What Gianni Infantino Learned From Donald Trump
Fresh off what was, in spite of everything and largely with no thanks to himself, the tremendous success of the 2026 World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino was always going to find a way to turn that success into a monument to his own vanity and greed. What is surprising is just how quickly he managed to squander whatever undeserved goodwill he had generated during the tournament. On Tuesday, just eight days after Spain won the World Cup for the second time, Infantino and FIFA announced a plan to create a $20 billion subsidiary to run the World Cup and its other events, offering stakes to private investors worth up to 20 percent. The World Cup was for sale, in other words—and, to make matters even more ridiculous, that sale was going to be overseen by Josh Kushner, the brother of President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Where we go from here is anyone’s guess. UEFA, which oversees European soccer, has already unanimously voted to boycott all subsequent FIFA tournaments if the measure passes. Those tournaments very much include the 2030 World Cup, which is set to partially be hosted in Portugal and Spain—and would mean 11 of the top 20–ranked nations in the world would miss out on FIFA’s premier competition. CONCACAF, which oversees soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean, voted to “reject” the sell-off hours later. If the backlash grows, Infantino’s presidency—or even FIFA—could be destroyed.
How we got here is much clearer, however. The 2026 World Cup, hosted primarily in the United States, was a lesson in avarice for the already power- and money-hungry Infantino. Hobnobbing at every opportunity with the president and his cronies, Infantino came away with a clear lesson: Though he is plenty corrupt and greedy, he wasn’t being corrupt and greedy enough. Modeling both his public persona and his leadership of FIFA increasingly on Trump, Infantino is now making a move that could remake the centerpiece tournament of global soccer—and make him and his allies fabulously wealthy.
FIFA, not Trump or America, may have been fully responsible for the 2026 World Cup’s most irritating quirks: the commercial breaks disguised as pauses for “hydration”; the championship rings; the god-awful halftime show; and, of course, the insanely inflated cost of everything. Infantino may be an evangelist for soccer’s power as a force for harmony, togetherness, and collective prosperity, but in practice everything always comes back to the bottom line. For FIFA and its bald president, the United States was an unmissable opportunity to line pockets, and no potential source for revenue was missed. Even the grass on the pitch for the final was sold by the square.
There were howls of outrage at Infantino’s brazen profit seeking throughout the tournament. FIFA is ostensibly a nonprofit, but Infantino holds onto power by distributing its revenue to its 211 member nations—many of which are allowed to spend it with minimal, or even nonexistent, oversight. For Infantino, the 2026 World Cup was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver the goods for his clients, as the World Cup is never held in a nation this wealthy and hypercapitalistic. But it also was an opportunity to put his own spin on the World Cup. For Infantino, the World Cup is a luxury experience, one available only to oligarchs and autocrats. It seems clear Infantino increasingly sees himself as the latter—the god emperor of global soccer.
For all the deserved grousing about that Americanization—and about Infantino’s cozy, obsequious relationship with Trump—the World Cup was largely a success, at least from Infantino’s perspective. His refusal to speak out when teams were harassed and a Somali referee was literally prevented from entering the U.S. may have been pathetic, while FIFA’s decision to reverse a red card for U.S. striker Folarin Balogun was astonishingly corrupt, even by the organization’s standards. But the outcry that followed those incidents never fully subsumed the competition, which was largely excellent and was, by financial metrics, the most successful (i.e., profitable) in history.
One way to read Infantino’s decision to partner with Kushner to quite literally sell the World Cup is that he now feels untouchable. His critics hit him hard and repeatedly during the tournament, but it did not change the fact the World Cup is bigger than any controversy or criticism. Recognizing this, Infantino decided that no one can lay a glove on him because he—not FIFA—owns the World Cup. He is behaving like a king, even more so than usual.
Another, however, is that Infantino is tired of his critics and wants to cement his status as the god emperor of global soccer. On Monday, a day before the announcement that he planned to sell a portion of the World Cup to private investors, he released an extraordinarily petulant 15-slide statement on Instagram aimed at his detractors.
“Sorry that the matches are now over and sorry that you missed all that joy and togetherness. Sorry that you were so consumed by hate and criticism that you missed it all,” the FIFA president posted on Instagram. “To those behind their pens and papers, behind their screens spreading hate and false rumours, I want to say that while you are sitting behind, we at FIFA are on the frontlines organising, working hard, and delivering the best show in the world.” Infantino is a wealthy and powerful adult, but this is the pose of a 15-year-old who overheard their supposed “friends” picking on them at a school dance. Of course, it also sounds like Trump, who increasingly appears to be Infantino’s hero, idol, and model.
The backlash from UEFA—which has waged a proxy war against Infantino for years—should have been predictable. The argument against privatizing the World Cup is obvious and simple: It makes no long-term strategic or financial sense. Owning the World Cup, all of it, is what gives FIFA power. Trading that to investors for a one-time windfall makes no sense at all, especially if those investors respond by depreciating its value by staging more competitions (which seems likely). FIFA, moreover, does not need the money. The 2026 World Cup made at least $15 billion, which is more than enough for it to live off. The only argument for selling off a chunk of the tournament is that it will make the leaders of corrupt federations—and likely Infantino himself—a sizable chunk of change now.
Ultimately, that’s how we got here. Infantino spent June and July jetting around the U.S., rubbing shoulders with every member of the Trump administration he could. The lesson he took was not just that he was leaving money on the table by not being more venal, but that there would be no consequences for engaging in more blatant corruption. After all, Trump has turned America into his personal piggybank, and no one is stopping him. How hard could it be for Infantino to do the same thing with the World Cup?
Felicia Day Announces CONLUDO Board Game Series With Wil Wheaton
- Felicia Day of The Guild is leading the Kickstarter for the group’s feature-length movie. Now, fans have unlocked a board game series called Conludo.
Felicia Day’s Kickstarter for a feature-length film based on The Guild has the kind of success that most creators can only dream of. In just 10 days, The Guild: Ren Faire’d campaign surpassed its $1.5 million goal with over $4 million pledged as of July 2026. With over 26,000 people backing the project, Felicia Day has announced a new board game series called Conludo. It is part of the fan-unlocked content from this Kickstarter.
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Hosted by Day and Wil Wheaton, the series will have a very free-flowing format. Conludo will begin with a conversation between the two, before they decide on a board game to play based on their conversation. They will also invite friends to play along, which could mean guest cameos from other Guild stars.
The title is Latin for “play together.” In a press release, Felicia Day said that “Conludo is truly a celebration of all the wonderfully nerdy things that inspire us, the creative people behind them, and of course the thing we love most: sitting down together and playing games with our friends!”
As for the feature-length movie The Guild: Ren Faire’d, Day wrote and created it herself. The original Guild cast will star alongside two new cast members: Nathan Fillion (Superman, Lanterns) and Misha Collins (Supernatural). We know it will take place at a Ren Faire, but Day has managed to keep all other plot details under wraps.
The Guild made history as one of the earliest hit shows on YouTube, and its effects can still be felt within the RPG community. And, Conludo is certainly a surprise worthy of the fans’ continued support. Fans will unlock the first episode of Conludo by reaching the $4.6 million stretch goal. Every additional $100,000 will unlock another episode, of which there are ten total.
With the Kickstarter closing on August 22, it seems very likely that loyal fans will unlock the Conludo episodes and get into this board game series.
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Todd Blanche finds slimy way to give your tax dollars to extremists
While acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is trying to shore up support for his flagging nomination to drop the “acting” from his title, he’s also busy shoveling your taxpayer dollars out the door for the poor victims of weaponization by the Department of Justice. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that you just gave seven figures to Paul Vaughn, an anti-choice activist who was…
Can Opposing Data Centers Help Progressives Win?
When Donald Trump came to Michigan last week to speak at a General Motors vehicle-testing facility, he likely expected to find a friendly crowd.
That wasn’t entirely the case. A group of protesters holding yellow signs that read “stop data centers” interrupted the president, chanting, “Data centers no, people pay the bill,” until they were removed by security.
Will Lawrence, a progressive Democratic candidate in Michigan’s seventh congressional district—where that General Motors plant is located—was unsurprised by the protesters’ fury. “That’s what we’re tapping into,” he posted on social media.
People across Michigan have pushed back on data center proposals in recent months, raising concerns about the facilities’ energy demands. In response, Lawrence, a climate activist turned politician, has made opposition to hyperscale data centers central to his campaign. And he’s betting that standing up to data centers will help him get votes from across the aisle, too.
“Since I declared my candidacy last August, we’ve had four major data centers, including three hyperscalers, proposed in the district in Lansing, in Mason, in Howell Township, and in Lyon Township,” Lawrence said at a panel discussion earlier this month. He has been attending township meetings as Michiganders try to stop the often-secretive data center permitting process in its tracks. MAGA Republicans and true-blue Democrats all stood up to protest, Lawrence said. “It became very clearly obvious to me that this is a totally cross-partisan rebellion that’s happening from the bottom up.”
America’s data center backlash refuses to stick cleanly to partisan boundaries, with opposition to data center buildout nearly as high among Republicans as it is among Democrats. In his first major TV ad, Lawrence took aim at “tech billionaires” who he said want to turn Michigan’s farms into data centers that will “jack up our energy bills and ruin our home values.”
Lawrence is just one of a growing crop of progressive candidates who see, in opposing AI data center buildout—and condemning the tech oligarchs behind it—a path to victory.
“Fights all over the country about AI data centers and AI more broadly are shifting the usual political lines,” said Saul Levin, a Michigan community organizer who runs a podcast about data centers called The Hum. That political shift is happening in battleground states like Michigan, but also in more clearly Democratic states like Colorado.
Melat Kiros, who recently won Denver’s Democratic congressional primary, credits her win in part to her ability to vocalize constituents’ anger about the data center permitting process, which can operate in near-total secrecy: companies often ask municipal decisionmakers to sign non-disclosure agreements, which can mean that people don’t find out a data center is moving into their neighborhood until the process is half-complete.
That secrecy and anger can translate to votes. “There’s a lot of candidates that are making this a front and center issue and are winning as a result of it,” Kiros said.
In Memphis, Tennessee State Representative Justin J. Pearson has made opposition to Elon Musk’s xAI data center, and its associated neighborhood-polluting gas turbines, a core part of his campaign for Congress. In his district, voters are worried about becoming sick thanks to Musk’s data centers—which Trump’s Justice Department has thrown its weight behind.
The Department of Justice intervened in a lawsuit against xAI, saying they should not have to conform to the Clean Air Act—because Grok, which xAI powers, is being used to bomb Iran. “That’s the logic,” Pearson said. “Violate the Clean Air Act, allow the pollution to kill American citizens because we’re killing people overseas with this technology.” And even in communities less directly affected by data centers than Memphis, populist opposition to their construction is gaining strength.
Candidates for governor in at least 12 states are running on data center moratoria, per Newsweek. Centrist Democrats, meanwhile, are more likely than ever to experience voter pushback when they’re perceived to be overly friendly to data center developers. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer appeared onstage with OpenAI’s Sam Altman earlier this year, and was roundly condemned for doing so by Democratic and Republican constituents alike.
Some, like Lawrence, blame the governor in part for bringing the data centers to Michigan. “Here in Michigan, the reason why this all started to arrive in late 2025 is because in late 2024 the state passed a set of tax breaks for data center development, and that was passed through the state legislature on a bipartisan basis and signed by our Democratic governor.”
“I think people see that the ruling class is united behind this plan to push data centers in our communities,” Lawrence said. “That’s a place that you can fight from.”
ABC Accuses Trump’s FCC of Trying to Censor the Whole Media Industry
ABC accused the Federal Communications Commission Thursday of “attempted censorship” and a clear “retaliation” effort meant to send a message to every other media company in the country.
“The Administration has openly and repeatedly called for the revocation of ABC’s licenses, because it dislikes the content and viewpoints expressed on ABC network programs,” ABC wrote in a fiery 119-page regulatory filing to the agency.
The filing is the latest in a legal battle between the television network and the FCC, which abruptly moved to review the licenses of eight ABC-owned television stations in April. The agency initially claimed that the review was related to ABC’s diversity and inclusion hiring policies, though it came shortly after Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about President Trump that Trump didn’t like. The federal government had never before demanded such a vast review of a major television network’s licenses.
ABC’s latest filing called out FCC Chair Brendan Carr by name and made clear that this fight isn’t just about the Disney-owned network: “The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price.”
“Across the government, regulatory and contracting carrots and sticks have been trained on other disfavored speakers,” the filing continued. “The tools vary; the objective does not: a media industry too fearful of official reprisal to report the news freely.”
Carr has rejected accusations of censorship, despite the sledgehammer he’s taken to the free press since the start of Trump’s second term.
“Look at the results so far,” Carr bragged at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March. “PBS, defunded. NPR, defunded. Joy Reid, gone from MSNBC. Sleepy-eyes Chuck Todd, gone. Jim Acosta, gone. John Dickerson, gone. Stephen Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough, CNN is going to have new ownership, as well.”
Still, despite it all, Carr claims he doesn’t view the FCC as “the speech police.”
Luckily, as ABC outlined in its filing, the network has received a massive outpouring of support from viewers, current and former FCC officials, advocacy groups, and political leaders on both sides of the aisle—including warnings from conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Senator Ted Cruz. The FCC’s website has been buried in public comments supporting ABC and offering passionate defenses of the First Amendment and local television.
This latest filing may not change Carr’s approach, but it could rally the rest of the industry—and the public—before the FCC makes its next move.
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CLUELESS Sequel Series Finds New Home at Paramount+
- After Peacock passed on it, the revival of the iconic 1990s comedy Clueless as a streaming series has a new home at Paramount+, and Alicia Silverstone will star in it.
Despite the odds, it appears that Cher Horowitz is returning to our screens after all. It wasn’t that long ago that we reported that Peacock had passed on greenlighting a Clueless sequel series, starring Alicia Silverstone as her iconic character from the ’90s comedy classic. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, the Clueless sequel series has now found a home at Paramount+. This is a bit of a homecoming, since Paramount produced the original Amy Heckerling Clueless movie back in 1995. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (creators of The O.C. and Gossip Girl) will write and executive produce the series.
Paramount+ head of original programming released this statement about the upcoming Clueless series:
Clueless is coming home. Thirty-one years ago, Alicia Silverstone’s Cher Horowitz captivated audiences with her signature chic style, sharp wit and relentless optimism, helping make Clueless a box office hit and instant pop culture classic. We’re especially proud to be filming this much-anticipated series in Los Angeles, honoring its starring role in the original film while investing in the city’s exceptional talent and crews.”
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In the show, Cher will now be a successful business owner, raising her own daughter who is about to enter high school. We don’t know who her kid’s dad is yet. But we have a strong feeling it’s not her stepbrother Josh, played famously by Paul Rudd in the original film. Although we sincerely hope he makes some kind of cameo appearance. He owes his whole career to the original Clueless film, after all.
Dan Hedaya, who played Cher’s gruff lawyer father, is 86 years old now. But he’s still acting, so maybe we’ll get to see him show up. Now, if only someone with brains would save the proposed Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot Hulu canceled. If another streamer saved Cher, maybe fellow 1990s icon Buffy Summers is next. We live in hope.
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WONDER MAN Season 2 Canceled at Disney+
- Despite a season two renewal announcement just months ago, Disney is pulling a wild move and cancelling Wonder Man.
Wonder Man brought a fresh storytelling method to Marvel’s television shows with a buddy adventure. Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery’s journey to securing roles in a Wonder Man film was full of laughs, drama, and some emotionally resonant moments. Wonder Man’s season one left off with the duo heading to parts unknown, so fans were delighted when Disney renewed it for a second season back in March. Now, months later, Variety reports that Wonder Man season two is cancelled at Disney+.
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WONDER MAN Season 2 Will Keep Its Quirky Tone and Bromance VibesThis is shocking not only because of its recent renewal. Wonder Man also gained a big Emmy nomination for Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. It was a show that many critics loved to their surprise, too. And we barely got to see Simon start to come into his own as a hero.
He only wore the suit for a few brief minutes, and made the very bold choice to basically tank the career he’d always wanted to break Trevor out of prison. In a Marvel world where everything feels like intense homework and in need of many explainers, Wonder Man was just a chill funny show with good characters and an unlikely bromance. There were already clearly plans for what would come next, and now we will not get that anymore.
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Right now, it is not clear exactly why Disney decided to cancel Wonder Man season two, but it doesn’t mean that we will never see these characters again. It is quite plausible for Simon and Trevor to appear elsewhere in the MCU in the future.
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16-year-old rookie lifeguard describes moment he ran into rough surf to save drowning boy at Seabright
When a 10-year-old boy was swept off his feet by heavy crashing waves at Seabright State Beach, 16-year-old rookie lifeguard Ryder Williams sprinted into the water and held onto him until help arrived. Though a viral video of the rescue drew national praise — including a White House invite from Donald Trump — the teen said in a statement he was just doing the job he was trained to do.
Trump Hates Immigrants So Much He’s Going to Make Roads More Dangerous
The White House formally announced a program to have veterans skip certain certifications to get commercial drivers’ licenses and become truck drivers.
The program is called “Freedom Haulers” and promises to cover training costs and offer signing bonuses to veterans who sign up. In a post on X Thursday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that trucking jobs paid up to six figures, leading with “🚨ILLEGALS OUT, VETERANS IN🚨” and a flashy patriotic video.
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Veterans who recently drove large military vehicles as part of their duties can skip the normally required skills test for a commercial driver’s license. Others who are still on active duty can attend a commercial driving school for their final six months of service. The GI Bill will also fully cover commercial driver’s license training, and will even pay for a housing allowance during this training in some cases.
Trump spoke about the plan two weeks ago at a Pennsylvania rally, railing against “illegal alien truck drivers who are just killing a lot of people—they can’t read signs, a lot of them are on drugs or alcohol, and they shouldn’t be driving these things.”
About 20 percent of all truck drivers in the U.S. are immigrants, according to the AP, but only 5 percent, or 200,000, have what are called non-domiciled licenses, which are issued by states to people who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. but do not have a permanent legal residence or domicile in that state.
Roughly 200,000 immigrants had their commercial licenses revoked in March, preventing them from driving semi-trucks, buses, and tractor-trailers despite passing tests and meeting the legal requirements to drive. Immigrant groups believe that many truck drivers are being targeted because of their ethnic backgrounds, such as Sikhs, who often wear turbans as part of their faith and make up a large portion of the trucking industry.
Meanwhile, operating a military vehicle is different from operating a commercial vehicle, and some veterans may breeze to a CDL job without having the necessary skills, posing a danger on the road.
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MAGA Candidate Flees When Asked About White Supremacist Relative
MAGA Senate candidate Mike Collins fled his own press conference Thursday when faced with a question about his son-in-law’s social media posts promoting white nationalism.
During the outdoor event, Collins was asked to respond to reports that David Alan Scheer II, his son-in-law, has shared Nazi and antisemitic material online, including posts from the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front.
“You know, we’ve fully addressed that,” Collins said. “But Jon Ossoff refuses to disavow these Democrat socialist movements in our country—as a matter of fact he embraces them.”
Collins launched into a rant about all the things he felt Ossoff needed to answer for, without holding himself to the same standard. The Republican representative indicated he would take another question, but then abruptly excused himself.
“Listen, thank you. I appreciate y’all’s time. I appreciate you coming out this morning. Thank you very much,” Collins said, before he quickly departed.
Mike Collins abruptly wrapped up a press conference instead of answering questions about his close ties with a prominent neo-Nazi propagandist pic.twitter.com/tYEGzxBnq3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2026Although Collins claims to have “fully addressed” his son-in-law’s actions, his prior response was far from a condemnation. “Nobody speaks for me, and I don’t speak for anybody else,” Collins told reporters last week. He also removed a photograph featuring Scheer from his campaign’s website.
Speaking of Collins’s website, the candidate found himself in hot water earlier this year after he published fake endorsements from several local officials.