The Iran war risks becoming the classic Washington trap: Trade concrete domestic wins for an open-ended foreign project, then discover the home front slipped away while everyone watched the fireworks.

Over the weekend, the United States joined Israel in the opening salvo of what looked like an increasingly inevitable fight with Iran. Plenty of ink has already spilled over whether Donald Trump should pursue regime change abroad. The larger stakes sit at home. Trump began his second term with an all-out assault on the left and the permanent bureaucracy. Agencies were closed, and budgets were slashed. The border was secured, and deportations began. The early blitz of executive orders stunned progressives, but activist judges soon started tying the administration down. That reality demanded legislative victories

A successful Iran campaign could reshape the region. A failed or prolonged one could reshape American politics by handing Democrats a narrative of chaos and betrayal.

Congress has not delivered. Rather than spend months trying to whip spineless Republicans into motion, the White House shifted toward what it could do without them. Foreign policy offers that outlet. The result includes some impressive operations, including the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. Iran, however, threatens to consume time, attention, and political capital that the domestic fight cannot spare.

Curtis Yarvin argues that the most valuable political win makes the next win easier. Power has momentum. Winning in the right order matters more than checking items off an ideological list. Trump’s best early moves fit that logic. They did not merely satisfy the base. They changed the battlefield.

The point is not isolation. America has enemies, and presidents sometimes must use force. The point is sequencing. Domestic consolidation makes foreign action cheaper and safer. A secure border, a disciplined bureaucracy, and election rules that prevent the left from gaming turnout strengthen deterrence.

They also insulate a president from war-party sabotage: leaks, lawsuits, and hearings meant to break public support. The same activists who file injunctions against deportations will file injunctions again against anything that smells like emergency authority. The same media class that demanded escalation yesterday will demand trials and timelines tomorrow. A president who has not locked down the home front fights with one hand tied, then gets blamed when the knot tightens.

Cutting the staff and budget of outfits like USAID and the Department of Education did more than signal hostility to the progressive project. It reduced the flow of money to Democratic patronage networks and throttled the institutions that launder liberal ideology into “expertise.” Closing the border and restarting deportations did more than satisfy a campaign promise. It slowed the importation of new dependents and future Democratic Party supporters. Even the executive order on birthright citizenship, whatever the courts decide, aims at the same long-term terrain: electoral math.

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Those moves carried moral clarity and tactical advantage. Each win reduced the opposition’s resources and increased the odds of winning the next fight.

That strategy always faced a limit. Flooding the zone with executive action could only last until the legal system and the administrative state regrouped. Trump is not a dictator, no matter what progressive media claims. He needs laws. Without legislation, judges can block him, bureaucrats can slow-walk him, and the next president can reverse him with a pen.

Once the domestic agenda hit those constraints, the administration pivoted abroad to keep momentum. The question becomes whether momentum abroad strengthens the home front or drains it.

War burns political capital. Trump already took hits from the Epstein files mess and sloppy messaging around deportations. Governing by polls is foolish, but political victories still require public attention and pressure. A president can spend capital only if he has it. People love a winner. They also sour on leaders who appear distracted, trapped, or inconsistent.

Iran poses a special risk because it collides with Trump’s signature advantage: his break with Republican foreign adventurism. He rose by mocking George W. Bush’s regime-change fantasies as disaster. That stance enraged conservative orthodoxies, then remade them. Many pundits who cheered the Iraq War now treat regime change as a punchline largely because Trump made it respectable to say so.

Now Trump bets that the problem was not regime change itself, only its execution. Maybe he wins that bet. He deserves credit for successful strikes and bold operations. Yet the odds do not favor quick, clean wars, and Iran has a long history of swallowing neat plans.

Meanwhile, the domestic agenda needs hard wins that only Congress can supply. The SAVE Act offers the perfect example of a victory that makes the next victory easier. Voter ID is moral and common sense. It enjoys broad support. It constrains the fraud Democrats exploit. It makes every future election easier for Republicans to win. Yet GOP legislators cannot push it across the finish line. The Senate wastes time on performative votes and pageant nonsense. Caligula’s horse starts to look like a personnel upgrade.

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This imbalance matters because foreign policy creates durable facts, while executive-only domestic wins remain reversible. A successful Iran campaign could reshape the region. A failed or prolonged one could reshape American politics by handing Democrats a narrative of chaos and betrayal. Either way, the clock keeps ticking at home.

If Democrats win the midterms, impeachment and investigations begin immediately. If progressives win the next presidential election, the border reopens, amnesty returns, and the Department of Education fills up again with ideological enforcers. Iran is a brutal regime, but its nuclear program took a major blow last summer. Breathing room existed. The administration should have used it to lock in domestic gains.

Now Trump is committed. That makes speed decisive. A timely victory abroad could preserve the president’s image as a winner while he pressures Congress to codify the domestic agenda. A drawn-out war will do the opposite: sap attention, fracture the coalition, and leave the home front legally vulnerable.

America First cannot survive as a permanent posture if domestic reforms remain temporary. The administration must stop letting foreign battles substitute for unfinished work at home. Win fast abroad if you must. Then come back, and finish the job in Washington.

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Republican lawmakers in West Virginia and Kentucky are working on making it easier for Americans to acquire fully automatic firearms — a move that might catch on in other red states.

Machine guns — defined by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives as a firearm that can fire “automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger” — are heavily regulated in the United States.

While such weapons can be privately owned, Americans are greatly limited in what they can buy and must jump through numerous hoops to seal the deal.

‘This is our constitutional right.’

Per the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act, civilians are barred from possessing a machine gun manufactured after May 19, 1986. Limited supply means a higher price — Silencer Central says that prospective buyers should expect to spend a minimum of $6,000 to $10,000.

Interested American buyers at least 21 years of age, neither a felon nor a fugitive, and living in a state without a machine gun ban must pass an AFT background check, pay a one-time $200 transfer tax, and get approval from the government in order to take possession. Once those hurdles are cleared, they can take the machine gun home but fire it only on closed target ranges.

In West Virginia, Republican state Sens. Chris Rose and Zack Maynard recently introduced legislation that would establish within the West Virginia State Police an office of public defense that would oversee the procurement and sale of machine guns to “qualified members of the public,” namely any citizen presently eligible to purchase and possess firearms under West Virginia and federal law.

The Cowboy State Daily reported that the new office would be authorized to transfer newer machine guns to state residents.

Blaze News has reached out to state Sen. Rose for clarification about whether out-of-state American citizens would be able to acquire a machine gun from the proposed authority.

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The preamble of the bill states both that “the Framers understood the Second Amendment to guarantee armament parity between the American citizen and government infantryman” and that “it is in the public interest of the State of West Virginia and its people that American citizens be armed and better able to assist in the defense of the State, and to resist tyranny, using bearable firearms commonly used in modern warfare.”

The legislation would ensure that machine guns made available to citizens in the state through the proposed office would “be the same as, or of like kind to, those machineguns currently in use by law enforcement or the United States Armed Forces, and shall include but not be limited to AR-15/M16-platform, M249-type, and MP5-type Machineguns.”

Kentucky state Rep. TJ Roberts (R) has introduced a nearly identical bill that would create a sub-office within the Kentucky State Police to acquire and transfer guns to qualified Kentuckians.

Roberts stated on X, “Law-abiding Kentuckians should be able to own any type of firearm they choose (including machine guns), as this is our constitutional right.”

The Kentucky version specifies that a “qualified person” is “a person who is eligible to purchase and possess firearms under Kentucky and federal law.” In Kentucky, out-of-state residents who are U.S. citizens have the right to purchase firearms.

Mark Jones, the national director of Gun Owners of America — the organization that authored the bill — told Cowboy State Daily that similar legislation is “doable in Wyoming” and that a Wyoming version of the bill might be introduced next year.

“Prior to the session, I had discussions about it with Wyoming legislators, but we didn’t have enough time to draft a bill,” Jones said. “We decided to focus on the four major (gun-related) bills that are now poised to pass in 2026 and reconsider the 1071 concept next year.”

While recognizing this legal approach as workable, George Mocsary, a law professor at the University of Wyoming and director of the school’s Firearms Research Center, told the Cowboy State Daily that Congress might intervene and overturn the proposed law if passed.

He noted, however, “If it works, I could totally see it catching on, particularly here in Wyoming, and with our northern neighbors in Montana.”

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This has probably happened to you at least once: You’re excited to upgrade your iPhone to a shiny new model. You get it all set up with your data and apps. Everything’s ready to go. Then you see it — that glaring red alert in your Settings app that says you’re out of storage. “How is that possible?” you wonder, and rightfully so. Your new phone shouldn’t already be out of storage! Should you buy more? It depends on what that alert actually means and what you can do about it. Let me explain.

iPhone storage explained

Your iPhone comes with two types of storage: local and cloud.

Local storage is the physical storage on your device that saves your apps, settings, data, and more. This is the option you choose when you purchase your phone, and once you walk out of the store, it can’t be changed. You’re stuck with it until the next time you upgrade your device. Most new iPhones come with 256GB or more, but if your device is a little older, it could have even less.

Apple wants you to buy more iCloud storage, even if you don’t necessarily need it.

Cloud storage, or more specifically iCloud storage, is the storage plan attached directly to your Apple account that backups and syncs your apps, settings, and data. All accounts come with 5GB of free storage, and unlike local storage, iCloud can be expanded, to anywhere from 50GB to 12TB, for a recurring monthly fee.

The only way your new iPhone can be out of storage is if you downgraded the storage capacity to an option less than your previous device (for instance, if your old iPhone was a 512GB model and your new one only has 256GB) and your apps no longer fit. Alternatively, iCloud will show an alert when it’s full. Eight times out of 10, the iCloud storage is the problem.

How to check storage levels on iPhone

To be certain, there’s an easy way to check the local storage in your iPhone, as well as the storage in your iCloud account.

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For local storage, open the Settings app. Tap “General,” then open “iPhone Storage.” It may take a few seconds to a minute for this screen to fully populate, so give it a moment. Once the chart shows up, you’ll see a complete breakdown of your iPhone’s local storage, including downloaded applications, music, photos, messages, and other system data. This is a great way to see which apps take up the most space on your device, and the recommendations section may also tell you which apps you can offload based on your usage habits. If you’re almost out of local storage, you can delete apps from this screen by tapping on an app and hitting the “Delete App” button.

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To check iCloud storage, head back to the beginning of the Settings app. Tap your name at the top of the screen, then “iCloud.” This page shows you a comprehensive breakdown of all the data synced to your iCloud account. To take an even closer look, tap on “Storage” at the top. From here, you can see capacity totals for your device backups, iCloud Drive files, photos, messages, and iCloud-connected apps. If you’re almost out of iCloud storage, you can either upgrade to a higher-tier storage plan, or you can delete old files from your iCloud account to make more room.

Before you do anything, though, there’s one last thing everyone with a new iPhone should do first.

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The real reason your iCloud storage is full

For those with a brand-new iPhone and a storage capacity alert, your iCloud storage is most likely full because a backup of your old iPhone is still saved on your account, taking up vital space that your new iPhone needs for its own backup.

From the main iCloud settings page, tap on “iCloud Backup” to see a complete list of your backed-up Apple devices. This should include your new iPhone, your old iPhone, and possibly an iPad (if you own one). Next, you need to delete the backup of your old phone to make room for your new device.

WARNING: After you delete the backup of your old phone, you will not have a current backup of any iPhone at all until you back up the new model. That means that if something happens to your new phone before you back it up, you will lose some data attached to the phone (like your home screen layout, app settings, and other local files). Other files you have synced to iCloud – like Notes, Messages, Photos, etc. — are not at risk of being lost or deleted. Still, this is why you should immediately run a backup of your new phone to make sure all your data is still safe and secure.

To delete the backup of your old iPhone, tap on your old device, and select “Turn Off and Delete from iCloud” to seal the deal. Lastly, from the same iCloud backup page, select “Back Up Now.” This will create a new backup file for your new device.

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You probably don’t need more storage

As you can see, local iPhone storage and cloud-based iCloud storage are connected to each other, and although you need both of them to keep your device synced and running properly, they’re not the same. The worst part is that Apple doesn’t make a clear enough distinction between the two when one runs out.

The truth is that Apple wants you to buy more iCloud storage, even if you don’t necessarily need it. This is why the company still provides only 5GB of free storage while competitors offer much more. Luckily, there are more ways you can free up storage on iPhone, both from the device and the cloud.

In some cases, iCloud storage upgrades are unavoidable, especially if you own multiple Apple devices backed up to the cloud. But if your old phone was backed up to iCloud without any storage warnings, your new phone will also likely fit after you make room.

Whatever you do, check your physical storage and iCloud storage capacities before you purchase more. There’s a high chance you don’t need an upgrade.

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Texas just had a primary election, and the message from voters could not have been clearer: A large share of Republicans are done with incumbent Senator John Cornyn.

After years of frustration with the longtime senator, voters forced a runoff between Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn may have finished with the largest vote total, but the numbers behind that result tell a more revealing story.

Cornyn will now have to defend his record directly to Republican voters who have grown skeptical of his leadership.

Cornyn received roughly 907,000 votes out of more than 2 million total votes cast in the Republican primary. That means over a million Texans showed up to vote for someone other than the incumbent senator. The difference between Cornyn and Paxton was only about 26,000 votes — a razor-thin margin in a state as big as Texas.

Then there is Wesley Hunt, who drew nearly 293,000 votes. Combine the Paxton and Hunt totals, and more than 1.1 million voters cast ballots against John Cornyn.

After all the money Cornyn poured into the race, that should have been the headline.

Cornyn and his allies reportedly spent close to $100 million between campaign spending and super PAC support. Nearly $100 million to hold on to a Senate seat — and the result was a runoff. Paxton spent a fraction of that amount, about $4 million, and still came within striking distance. Put another way, Cornyn spent $129 per vote against Paxton’s $3.79 per vote.

That is not the performance of a senator who commands overwhelming support in his own party. It looks like a political establishment trying to prop up a candidate who has worn out his welcome with grassroots voters.

Yet despite the message voters sent, Washington may be preparing to rescue Cornyn anyway.

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he would soon make an endorsement in the runoff and would ask the candidate he does not choose to drop out of the race immediately.

You would struggle to find many people who have been as outspoken in support of President Trump as I have. I have defended him when the media attacked him and stood by him through years of political backlash. But I still take offense at anyone in the federal government trying to manipulate a Texas election.

Texas has a runoff system for a reason. When no candidate receives a majority, the top two candidates go back to the voters. It forces candidates to earn a true majority rather than slide through a divided field.

Cutting that process short to protect an incumbent senator who just failed to win an outright majority defeats the entire purpose.

It also ignores a political reality that has fueled so much frustration: Cornyn has spent years drifting away from the conservative voters he is supposed to represent.

Cornyn has cultivated a reputation as a Washington dealmaker, working across the aisle and negotiating major legislation with Democrats. That may earn praise from Senate leadership and the political class in Washington, but it has increasingly alienated conservatives back home.

Cornyn’s relationship with Trump has also been anything but consistent. During the lead-up to the 2024 election, Cornyn questioned Trump’s ability to win a general election and suggested Republicans might need a different nominee. He said Trump’s “time has passed him by” and argued the party needed someone who could appeal beyond Trump’s base.

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Statements like that do not disappear just because campaign season arrives.

Ken Paxton’s record with Trump tells a different story. When the political establishment turned on the former president after the 2020 election, Paxton stood with him. He challenged election procedures in court and took enormous political heat for doing so. Paxton absorbed the backlash anyway.

That loyalty is one reason grassroots conservatives rallied behind him in the primary.

And it brings the conversation back to the runoff itself.

Primary night showed that a majority of Republican voters were willing to vote for someone other than John Cornyn. Even after nearly $100 million in support, the incumbent could not clear the threshold needed to avoid a second round.

That fact should make Washington pause before rushing in to protect him.

The runoff exists so voters can finish the conversation they started on primary night. Cornyn will now have to defend his record directly to Republican voters who have grown skeptical of his leadership. Paxton will argue, and rightly so, that Texas deserves a senator who fights the establishment rather than manages it.

Those arguments belong in Texas, in front of Texas voters.

Cornyn has had decades in Washington to prove himself. The primary results suggest a growing number of Texans think that time has passed him by.

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A man walking his dog near a field in Cleveland found a suitcase with human remains, which led to the discovery of another suitcase, Ohio police said.

The investigation into the gruesome discovery led to the arrest Wednesday of a 28-year-old woman, who was charged with aggravated murder and child endangering, according to police.

‘Investigations of this nature require patience, precision, and discretion. Unlike what is often portrayed on television, every detail cannot be shared publicly.’

The man called 911 immediately after his dog hit on the scent from the suitcase near a residential neighborhood, according to police.

An investigation determined that the remains of the two girls had been in the field for some time. The suitcases were both in a shallow grave in a location near a school.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office initially determined that the girls were half-siblings and then later identified them as 10-year-old Amor Wilson and 8-year-old Mila Chatman.

“This is a traumatic event for our officers, for the community,” Cleveland Police Chief Dorothy Todd said.

On Wednesday evening, a SWAT team and police performed a search warrant on a home only about 100 yards away from the location where the remains were found.

Police announced that they had identified and detained a person of interest. The suspect was arrested after questioning. Police also found a third child in the home and placed the child into the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services.

The woman was identified as Aliyah Henderson and was booked into the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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“These were two young lives with their entire futures ahead of them. Our detectives worked tirelessly and with great care to identify those responsible,” Todd said.

“Investigations of this nature require patience, precision, and discretion. Unlike what is often portrayed on television, every detail cannot be shared publicly,” she added. “Certain information must remain confidential to protect the integrity of the investigation and ensure justice for these victims. That careful and methodical work allowed our detectives to develop the evidence needed to make quick identification of a person of interest, ultimately resulting in an arrest.”

Community members have contributed to a memorial for the two girls with balloons, teddy bears, and flowers to honor their memory.

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Commentators keep treating President Trump’s moves against Venezuela and Iran as random, emotional, or “impulsive.” They aren’t. They read like strategic actions aimed at the real peer adversary — China — which now finds itself short roughly 20% of a key commodity that powers everything from industrial output to military operations: oil.

Orange Man Bad managed to hit another long-term communist adversary at the same time: Cuba.

Trump isn’t sending Marines to Havana. He’s squeezing the regime into an economic takeover.

After the Maduro snatch-and-bag operation — and after Washington threatened heavy tariffs on Mexico if it kept shipping petroleum products to Cuba — Havana’s fuel supply has reportedly fallen to roughly 35% of its monthly needs.

In 2025, Cuba imported about 13.7 million barrels of oil — roughly 112,000 barrels per day of crude and refined petroleum products — supplied primarily by Venezuela (about 61% of imports) and Mexico (about 25%), with Russia and Algeria covering most of the rest.

Trump’s executive order in late January authorized heavy tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba. Mexico suspended shipments to avoid U.S. retaliation. At the same time, a de facto maritime quarantine has targeted “ghost tankers” attempting to evade sanctions. Even Russian deliveries have run into trouble. Reports say the tanker Sea Horse, carrying roughly 200,000 barrels of Russian gas and oil, diverted in late February to avoid seizure or sanctions risk.

Cuba now faces a severe fuel crunch.

International observers — including U.N.-linked agencies — have described the situation as catastrophic. The island’s power grid has slid toward collapse, and the global fuel spike tied to U.S. action in Iran has only tightened the vise.

The petroleum deficit has reportedly cut national electricity generation capacity by about 65%. That leaves roughly one-third of needed power available at any given time. In Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, residents report blackouts lasting more than 20 hours a day. In Havana, scheduled cuts reportedly jumped from four hours to as many as 18 hours a day. Hospitals have reportedly performed surgeries by cellphone light. Water systems that rely on electric pumps have failed across large areas. Garbage collection in Havana has stalled because the trucks are out of gas.

The communist government has responded with wartime austerity measures. Major airports have suspended refueling for international flights. Airlines such as Air Canada and Air France have canceled or rerouted flights, gutting tourism — one of the regime’s few remaining sources of cash. State companies have shifted to reduced schedules to conserve power.

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Washington has offered one narrow escape valve. On February 25, the U.S. issued a limited license allowing American companies to sell oil to Cuba’s emerging private sector. Analysts have described it as “a drop in the bucket.” It isn’t enough to run the heavy thermoelectric plants the national grid needs.

Last week, Trump publicly floated the idea of a “friendly takeover” of Cuba. The phrase stays diplomatically vague, but the surrounding actions and rhetoric suggest a specific approach. Trump described Cuba as a failing nation because it has “no money. They have no anything right now.”

He isn’t going to send a Marine expeditionary force to Havana. He’s pressuring the regime to cut a deal that looks like gently coerced economic integration: end the communist monopoly over banking and energy, allow U.S. firms to buy and operate failing infrastructure (telecom, ports, the power grid), and expand the private sector until the Communist Party can’t enforce centralized control.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has echoed that direction. He has argued that Cuba needs a “different economic model” and said the U.S. would welcome reforms that open space for economic and political freedom. Reports also suggest back-channel contact, though the administration has not confirmed details.

Cuba’s current leader, Communist Party chief Miguel Díaz-Canel, now sits in the position of a man about to get a colonoscopy. He should pray Orange Man Bad feels generous with the sedation — or he’ll learn the hard way what “the art of the squeal” means.

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Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) was in front of the Oversight Committee this week when he was confronted by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) about fraud in his state — and his reaction did not make him look good.

“Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison, you have presided over one of the worst government fraud scandals in American history. This was money intended to feed hungry children, help kids with autism, provide food and shelter and health care to the needy, and more,” Mace began.

“You both allowed billions in these American taxpayer dollars to be pillaged and plundered by Somali pirates. You knew this was happening. You chose to do nothing about it. And in some cases, you even enabled it,” she continued.

“My questions this morning, my first go to Governor Walz. And I hope you learned some lessons from your last hearing with me on the Oversight Committee. Have you learned anything since then?” Mace asked.

“I did,” Walz responded angrily. “That if I didn’t speak up, two of my people would be dead, Congresswoman, and I warned you.”

“Governor Walz, what is a woman? Have you learned that lesson? Do you know what a woman is?” she asked, ignoring his previous response.

“I’m not here to be your prop for your obsession,” Walz said.

“If you can’t define what a woman is, you certainly can’t define what fraud is,” she responded, before asking Walz how much money was spent on autism in Minnesota in 2017.

“I don’t have those numbers in front of me,” he answered.

As Mace continued to question him on the fraud, Walz repeatedly answered that he wasn’t there to be Mace’s “prop.”

“Congresswoman Nancy Mace held him to account,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler comments.

“Of course, you remember his nickname, Tampon Tim. The reason that we call him Tampon Tim is not to be vulgar. It’s not because we’re petty and we’re hurling an ad hominem at him,” Wheeler says.

“It’s because Governor Tim Walz put tampons in boys’ bathrooms in Minnesota. Because he won’t answer the question, ‘What is a woman?’ Because he’s so captured by leftist ideology,” she adds.

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Actor Marlon Wayans says the latest iteration in the “Scary Movie” satirical franchise will “cancel the cancel culture.”

The Wayans brothers are returning to helm the franchise after they were kicked off the sequels to the first two blockbuster movies by the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.

‘What we’re trying to do is bring back laughter. … You have to cancel the cancel culture.’

After the trailer to ‘Scary Movie 6’ dropped, Wayans described the film in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

“What we’re trying to do is bring back laughter,” he said. “This is about bringing back comedy the way it used to be. And I think the only way to do it is you have to cancel the cancel culture.”

The movie satires are known for making mocking references to famous horror flicks, but Wayans said the newest version is trying to make a mark on the debate over censorship in art.

“We’re gonna do what we always do. We’re gonna make fun of everybody because we’re equal opportunity offenders,” he explained. “We have a recipe, we have a formula that you can’t mimic or copy. You could try, but it’s very specific. It’s how we grew up, and it’s how we see the world. It’s the household we were raised in with the sense of humor that we all were governed with, that we inherited from our mother.”

The film includes the return of many of the characters from earlier movies.

“We like to be fearless,” he added. “Yet still do things with kid gloves to let people laugh at themselves.”

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Wayans has previously decried the effect of cancel culture on comedy.

“It’s sad that society is in this place where we can’t laugh anymore. I ain’t listening to this damn generation. I ain’t listening to these folks: these scared-ass people, these scared executives,” he said during a 2022 interview.

“Y’all do what you want to do? Great. I’m still gonna tell my jokes the way I tell them,” he added. “And if you want to make some money, jump on board. And if not, then I’ll find a way to do it myself. I know my audience.”

‘Scary Movie 6’ will be released in theaters on June 5.

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As part of his affordability agenda, President Trump has been looking for ways to bring down housing costs.

He’s had some success. Mortgage rates are lower than at any point since his first term. The National Association of Realtors’ Housing Affordability Index has started ticking up again. And as Trump noted during his State of the Union address, the cost of buying a house has dropped about $5,000 since he took office.

Affordability is the target. A serious policy needs to increase the number of homes Americans can actually buy, not just score points against investors.

More work remains. Trump brought a guest to the State of the Union to make the point. Rachel Wiggins, a Houston mom of two, told a story many families recognize: She bid on 20 homes and “lost all of those bids to gigantic investment firms that bypassed inspection, paid all cash, and turned all those houses into rentals, stealing her American dream,” Trump said.

That experience explains the executive order Trump signed to curb large institutional investors from dominating the single-family market — driving up prices for buyers and renters alike while shrinking supply for both.

Trump’s order sets a clear policy: Large institutional investors should not buy single-family homes that families could otherwise purchase. It does that by restricting federal approval, insurance, guarantees, securitization, and other forms of facilitation for institutional purchases of single-family homes that could go to owner-occupants. It also limits the disposal of federal assets in ways that transfer single-family homes to large institutional investors.

The order goes farther. It directs the administration to promote sales to individual owner-occupants — people who actually live in the homes and care for the neighborhoods — through first-look policies, disclosure requirements, and anti-circumvention provisions. It also directs the legislative affairs office to produce legislation to codify the order.

The order includes narrow exceptions for build-to-rent projects planned, permitted, financed, and constructed as rental communities, as well as other tailored cases. It also directs the Treasury Department to tighten rules affecting housing acquisition and instructs the attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission chairman to review major acquisitions, especially serial purchases, and to prioritize antitrust enforcement as warranted.

Trump also directed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner to require owners and managing agents of single-family rentals participating in federal housing assistance programs to disclose indirect owners, managers, and affiliates and to report changes in ownership.

In other words, Trump offered a concrete proposal: prioritize owner-occupants, expand supply, and curb the worst market distortions without choking off lawful investment that supports construction and growth.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) offered something else.

Warren unveiled legislation last week before the Senate Banking Committee, where she serves as ranking member. Her approach targets the tax incentives that support housing investment. It would impose higher taxes on any person or entity that owns more than 50 single-family homes. It would also bar access to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac-backed mortgages and restrict purchases of foreclosed homes.

That is less a housing plan than a punishment plan. It aims to drive investors out, even though big investors have never owned more than about 4% of U.S. housing stock. The core problem is supply: The country does not have enough homes for a growing population. The answer is not to chase away capital that can help build housing. The answer is to align incentives so that families — owner-occupants — get first priority.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Warren’s co-sponsor, said he’s willing to work with anyone trying to bring down home prices. Trump should take him up on that offer and make the point directly: The goal is not to punish firms that operated lawfully. The goal is to create rules that prioritize families, encourage construction, and expand affordable supply.

Affordability is the target. A serious policy needs to increase the number of homes Americans can actually buy, not just score points against investors.

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