The former Hills star — who has never pretended his reality TV past didn’t happen — leaned into the thing that first made him famous: knowing how to command a camera. But this time, the stakes weren’t pre-scripted personal drama. Pratt used the stage to hammer Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman over homelessness, crime, public disorder, illegal immigration and the failures surrounding the devastating Palisades Fire.

In one viral exchange, Pratt challenged Raman’s approach to homelessness, offering to go “below the freeway” with her to find the people she wants to “offer treatment” to — before bluntly warning, “She’s going to get stabbed in the neck.” The point? LA’s leaders sell sanitized policy “solutions” while residents live with the dangerous reality.

In one of the debate’s sharpest moments, Pratt confronted Bass over her administration’s wildfire response, accusing the city of leaving firefighters without the resources they needed as parts of LA burned.

He was just as direct when asked whether non-citizens should vote in U.S. elections. Pratt was the only person to give a clear “no,” while Bass and Raman gave waffling, mealy-mouthed answers.

Pratt’s viral campaign ads have turned his personal loss from the Palisades Fire into a broader indictment of LA’s political class. Even mainstream media outlets had to admit he had a breakout moment. Vanity Fair noted that Pratt needed to prove he could do more than “farm outrage online” — and, “for stretches” of the debate, did exactly that.

For Bass and Raman, the debate was supposed to expose Pratt as a celebrity sideshow.

Instead, Pratt turned the cameras back on them.

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Reeves said Mississippi is juggling three redistricting fights: Supreme Court districts, congressional districts and state legislative districts.

“In Mississippi, it’s a little bit more complicated,” Reeves said, noting the state is already in a Section 2 Voting Rights Act case.

The most immediate issue is Mississippi’s state Supreme Court map. Reeves has called a special session to address those districts if a federal judge forces lawmakers to redraw them.

But he made clear he can expand that call to “other redistricting matters.”

Translation: congressional and legislative maps could also be on the table.

Mississippi currently has one majority-minority congressional district, represented by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson. Reeves said lawmakers are likely to revisit whether that map still passes muster after Callais.

“We know that Mississippi’s majority-minority district was drawn race-consciously,” Reeves said. “I anticipate that the Mississippi Legislature certainly will reevaluate our state’s congressional map at the earliest opportunity that they have.”

The timing is a bit messy. Unlike other Southern states, Mississippi already held its 2026 party primaries, so officials are weighing whether any new congressional map would apply in 2026 or 2028.

Reeves also accused the ACLU, NAACP and Southern Poverty Law Center of using racial gerrymandering to boost Democrats in the South.

“100%,” he said. “I absolutely believe that that has been their goal: to grow the power of the Democrat Party.”

Now Mississippi may become the next state to test just how far Callais goes.

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Assistant Chief LaShay Makal and Second District Commander Tatjana Savoy were placed on administrative leave due to a possible connection with crime statistics investigations led by the city, the Department of Justice, and Republicans in Congress, the Washington Post reported.

Former Third District commander Michael Pulliam, who was previously placed on administrative leave over the crime statistics issue, also faces termination, the outlet reported.

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was accused of misclassifying crime or changing crime classifications to reduce the city’s violent crime rates.The city’s allegedly artificially lowered crime rates were used to argue against President Donald Trump’s decision to send in the National Guard to help make the city safer.

The Daily Caller exclusively reported in October 2025 how D.C. police were manipulating data. Sources told the Caller that directives to reduce crime numbers were “pervasive from the top, all the way down.” One method was that responding officers were required to call supervisors on scene to be able to charge someone with a violent crime, the sources said. Officers were sometimes berated in front of their colleagues when violent crime numbers in their area were considered too high, they explained.

However, the wave of actions ostensibly taken against crime statistics manipulation Tuesday may be little more than CYA, a source familiar told the Caller …

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Commander Pulliam, the source said, was “literally the only police official in DC that actually cared about solving crime.”

“Chief Smith used the stats as a pretense to terminate [Commander Pulliam],” the source explained. “As I understand it, a complete power move by Smith to shut down dissent in the ranks. [Pulliam had] risen incredibly quickly on leading successful proactive policing initiatives as Captain and Inspector.”

The source added, “Unfortunately the union just wants scalps so they’re cheering everything even if it’s a whitewash.”

Smith also reassigned Captain Rachel Pulliam, Commander Pulliam’s wife, from the Youth Division to a midnight shift last April.

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Pritzker has given six and seven-figure sums to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and also appears to be throwing his financial weight around key Democrats in what would be early primary states for a presidential contest.

“It is notable that almost all of the House Democrats being financially backed by Pritzker either hold vulnerable seats in red states, are key allies of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, or are senior lawmakers in early Democratic Party presidential primary states,” Daily Caller Senior Politics Editor Will Upton reported.

The major donations, political strategists told the Caller, suggest Pritzker is trying to buy early support from Democratic leadership before he squares off against potential primary opponents like Govs. Gavin Newsom of California, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania.

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The UAE is one of OPEC’s top producers, and its departure damages the organization’s aura of control. Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s de facto leader, will now have a weaker hand in managing global oil prices as the UAE signals it wants more freedom to increase production — a move that could eventually push prices lower outside the cartel’s grip.

Bigger picture, the move suggests the UAE may be positioning itself even more firmly alongside the United States and other anti-Iran powers in the region. One side effect of Trump’s confrontation with Iran is that it could reorder the Middle East, with U.S.-aligned states breaking away from old regional arrangements and lining up more openly against Tehran. That would mark a major strategic shift: instead of the Middle East being defined primarily by old oil-cartel loyalties or cautious neutrality, it could increasingly be divided between countries willing to work with Washington and countries tied to Iran, China, or Russia.

And with Maduro ousted in Venezuela and Washington asserting extraordinary influence over the country’s oil sector, Trump could be laying the groundwork for a new global oil order — one that weakens China’s energy leverage and shifts power back toward the United States. Put together, Trump may be doing something bigger than winning a war: he may be cornering the global oil market and prying it out of China’s hands.

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Cole Allen has been charged with the transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, and attempt to assassinate the U.S. president.

The assassination attempt charge carries a potential life sentence.

Allen was stripped upon capture at the Washington Hilton, which sources tell me is standard protocol with shooters who target high-profile individuals to ensure they don’t have explosives on their person. Allen was seen in photographs lying on the floor covered in an emergency blanket.

Mike Solana, editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires, quipped, “Every would-be assassin should be wrapped in aluminum foil and positioned for photos like a gay baked potato. they should tour him around the country so we can all come see the gay baked potato before his public floggings, and throw vegetables.”

Another interesting tidbit from the affidavit: the Secret Service officer who was shot in the chest plate may have been the only officer to return fire on Allen.

“U.S. Secret Service Officer V.G. was shot once in the chest; Officer V.G. was wearing a ballistic vest at the time,” the affidavit says. “Officer V.G. drew his service weapon and fired multiple times at ALLEN, who fell to the ground and suffered minor injuries but was not shot. ALLEN was subsequently arrested.”

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No one anticipated that DC’s so-called “Nerd Prom” would end with shots fired in the lobby of the hotel as a gunman rushed past security in search of Trump administration officials to kill.

It was just after 8:30 PM when dinner attendees heard loud pops and the Secret Service ushered the president and his cabinet off the stage. Early reports of what exactly happened were filtered through short video clips uploaded to X from journalists hiding under tables and eyewitness accounts shared over cellphones with spotty service.

Eventually, we learned the suspect shot a Secret Service agent in the chest plate before being taken into custody.

Cole Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California, ran through magnetometers at the security perimeter with a shotgun, pistol, and several knives. He had booked a room at the Washington Hilton the day prior to the event.

Allen reportedly sent a manifesto to his family shortly before attempting to take out Trump officials. In it, he called the president “a pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” adding, “I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”

Allen also had a BlueSky account where he referred to Trump as a “sociopathic mob boss” and a “known traitor.”

The alleged gunman’s vendetta against the president led to the dinner ending in chaos: some journalists swiping bottles of wine off tables, others sprinting to the White House for a presser with Trump in the briefing room, and Erika Kirk leaving the venue sobbing — just about six months after her husband was assassinated on a live stream.

And about 30 minutes after the shots rang out, my husband and I were in an Uber headed downtown…

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The proposed new map, which ostensibly gives Democrats a 10-1 advantage for congressional seats compared to the current 6-5 advantage, passed by a roughly three-point margin after all the votes were tallied.

However, the ten new blue-leaning seats are not guaranteed for Democrats. Patrick Ruffini, the pollster for Echelon Insights, noted that the “lobster district” — which I wrote about in yesterday’s newsletter — only voted in favor of the ballot initiative by 0.3 points. The newly drawn district voted seven points in favor of former Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.

“Dummymander incoming?” Ruffini wondered.

Matt Whitlock, a Republican strategist and communicator, pointed out that Republicans got three of the newly drawn districts to vote against the gerrymandered map, even though they were expected to only win one. In addition to the deep red 9th district, Republicans also managed to win the 2nd and 6th districts.

“This is pretty amazing,” Whitlock wrote. “Democrats leaned so heavily on Fairfax to drive the entire referendum, but Republicans actually drove enough turnout to win 3 of the new districts, got ‘The Lobster’ within 0.3, and 2 others blue districts within 5.”

It could be that the proposed new map was just so obviously unfair that a bunch of moderates or center-left voters in those districts voted against it. Or GOP voters were motivated to turn out. It could also be a sign that the Democrat brand is incredibly damaged in Virginia … just five months after Governor Abigail Spanberger defeated her Republican opponent by 15 points.

All that being said, this gerrymander is going to face a long battle in the courts. Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli laid out potential areas for legal challenges and in a tweet Wednesday said that the Tazewell Circuit Court rendered the referendum unconstitutional. The election cannot be certified, which means the map can’t go into effect — although Cuccinelli said he expects an appeal. I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up at the Virginia Supreme Court.

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Swalwell ended his bid for California governor and announced he is resigning from Congress after a former staffer accused him of engaging in sexual activity with her when she was too drunk to consent. He claims the allegations are false but didn’t want to be a distraction in Congress.

In 2018, though, Swalwell repeatedly demanded his Republican colleagues believe Christine Blasey Ford, who accused then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were in high school.

“What rang of truth from Dr. Ford? A lot of it,” Swalwell tweeted in October 2018. “But her description of #Kavanaugh struggling to take her clothes off because she had a one-piece bathing suit on — that is clearly burned in her memory. And a fact only a survivor would remember. #BelieveSurvivors”

“Support survivors. Believe survivors. We are with you,” he tweeted in November 2018.

Swalwell also said that subsequent Kavanaugh accusers deserved to have their stories heard.

Few Democrats publicly called on Swalwell to resign, but Rep. Andy Ogles suggested Monday that there may have been a deal in the works to trade two Republican expulsions for Swalwell and another Democrat.

“I think Swalwell is almost certain to happen,” Ogles told Benny Johnson before Swalwell resigned, adding that the House could also remove Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who is accused of breaking campaign finance laws, alongside Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills, who is accused of assaulting a woman, and Republican Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, who allegedly had an affair with a member of his staff before she died by self-immolation.

Mills allegedly previously refused to vote to censure Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar because he was worried Democrats would turn around and censure him. Yet again, Mills and Cherfilus-McCormick were spared. Gonzales announced he was resigning from Congress shortly after Swalwell.

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In a lengthy post, Trump said Pope Leo is “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” and accused him of not caring when Churches were shut down during the pandemic.

Trump’s attack came amid Pope Leo’s public opposition to the war with Iran and calls for world peace.

Pope Leo responded to the president’s post, stating, “I will not enter into debate. The things that I say are certainly not meant as attacks on anyone. The message of the Gospel is very clear: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’”

He added, “I will not shy away from announcing the message of the Gospel and inviting all people to look for ways of building bridges of peace and reconciliation, and looking for ways to avoid war any time that’s possible.”

Trump added fuel to the fire by reposting what appeared to be an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ healing the sick.

The president’s post about Pope Leo and depiction of himself as Jesus lead to condemnation from Christians.

Women’s sports activist Riley Gaines wrote on X, “I cannot understand why he’d post this … God shall not be mocked.”

Conservative Christian activist Sean Feucht said, “This should be deleted immediately. There’s no context where this is acceptable.”

The post also follows a story from The Free Press that claimed Trump officials tacitly threatened and bullied Pope Leo’s former ambassador to the U.S. in a February meeting. The Pentagon and the Vatican both released statements claiming that the details of the meeting were fabrications. The statements, which were released in relatively short succession, seemed to quell rumors that the Trump administration was feuding with the Vatican, however, Trump’s attack on Pope Leo has complicated that picture.

There are also questions surrounding the potential political ramifications of Trump’s comments. The president won the majority of Catholic voters in 2024 after losing them to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Working class Catholics were an especially important part of Trump’s winning coalition.

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According to the report, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, then Pope Leo’s ambassador to the U.S. The admin was reportedly upset that in January the Pope had in his State of the World address perhaps taken a shot at the U.S. by urging nations not to violate other nations’ borders. Colby allegedly warned Cardinal Pierre that the U.S. had the military power to do whatever it wanted and that the Catholic Church better get on board.

The meeting supposedly intensified, and one U.S. official allegedly invoked the Avignon Papacy, when a series of popes were under the influence of the French Crown.

The Vatican Embassy confirmed the meeting took place but did not offer any details on its tone. The Pentagon described The Free Press’ account as “highly exaggerated and distorted.” Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, said he had not read the report but had met Cardinal Pierre before and would like to talk to him about what may have happened.

As the story made the rounds though, there were signs that it may have indeed been “exaggerated.” JD Flynn, the editor of The Pillar, a well respected Catholic media outlet, said his team had been unable to confirm that the meeting occurred as The Free Press described it.

“That shouldn’t lead anyone to a conclusion of any kind,” Flynn wrote. “Except that your pals down at the pillar haven’t confirmed this report.”

Then Brian Burch, the ambassador to the Holy See, said Thursday afternoon that he spoke directly with Cardinal Pierre.

“As expected, he confirmed that recent media characterizations of his meeting with Undersecretary Colby are ‘fabrications’ that were ‘just invented,’” Burch wrote. “Given the intelligence and seriousness of Mr. Colby, I was likewise not surprised when His Eminence acknowledged there were no threats of any kind in the meeting.”

Burch added that Cardinal Pierre described the meeting as “frank and cordial” and that a threat of Avignon never occurred.

Jonathan Liedl, the managing editor of the National Catholic Register, raised some further red flags in The Free Press’ report.

“None of the sources upon which the story is based were apparently even at the meeting. They were ‘briefed’ on it. So we get little floating nuggets like ‘the Avignon papacy was invoked!’ without needed context,” he wrote in a X thread.

“To confirm dramatic characterizations of the meeting and some alleged reference to Avignon, you certainly should [speak to someone who was there]. If you don’t, it runs the risk of looking like gossip,” he added.

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Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who helped broker the deal, released a statement on X begging multiple parties to actually adhere to the agreement. Iran reportedly struck Israel minutes after President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire Tuesday night and continued to target the United Arab Emirates. Iran, meanwhile, has accused Israel of violating the ceasefire by continuing its war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Despite the seeming continued chaos, the Trump administration contends that they’ve achieved a “historic and overwhelming victory” in the war with Iran and has suggested the war is over.

White House Correspondent Reagan Reese asked Secretary of War Pete Hegseth during a Wednesday morning Pentagon briefing if Trump really intended to wipe out Iran’s “civilization” if they did not reach a deal before the deadline. Hegseth said the president was referring to critical infrastructure, adding, “They can’t defend it, and so Iran ultimately understood their ability, their future to produce, to generate power, to fuel their terrorist regime was in our hands, was in President Trump’s hands. That’s why they came to the table.”

Iran claims that the U.S. backed down by agreeing to a ceasefire and promising to start negotiations from Iran’s 10-point peace plan.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited Washington numerous times leading up to the dropping of bombs, made his grand pitch to the president on Feb. 11.

During that meeting, Netanyahu and Israeli intelligence officials told Trump that current conditions in Iran would make for a quick and decisive victory:

“Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks,” Israeli officials reportedly claimed. “The regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz, and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against U.S. interests in neighboring countries was assessed as minimal.”

Mossad also told U.S. officials that a bombing campaign would create the conditions for Iranian protesters to once again take to the streets and topple the regime.

The war is now in its sixth week and those assessments have aged incredibly poorly. The ballistic missile program is damaged but still operational. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Iran and its proxies have continued to hit U.S. interests in neighboring countries. And there’s no clear second wave of mass protests against the regime.

Trump’s advisors warned him at the time that Israeli intelligence had a pattern of overselling to garner U.S. support for its military projects. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the Israeli assessment “farcical.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it was “bullshit.” General Dan Caine expressed skepticism. Vice President JD Vance listed off at least a half dozen reasons why the war was a bad idea.

Nevertheless, Trump persisted.

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The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) is dropping an initial $342 million ad buy across eight Senate races, the group with ties to Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Monday.

Here’s the list of races they’re targeting (and the candidate they’ll likely be backing):

• Ohio — Sen. Jon Husted: $79 million

• North Carolina — Former RNC Chair Michael Whatley: $71 million

• Michigan — Former Rep. Mike Rogers: $45 million

• Georgia — Ongoing competitive primary with Rep. Mike Collins leading: $44 million

• Maine — Sen. Susan Collins: $42 million

• Iowa — Rep. Ashley Hinson: $29 million

• New Hampshire — Former Sen. John Sununu: $17 million

• Alaska — Sen. Dan Sullivan: $15 million

This is SLF’s largest investment ever in Michigan and Georgia and the largest since 2016 in New Hampshire. It’s also notable that this is the first time SLF has spent on offense in three swing states held by Democrats (Georgia, Michigan, and New Hampshire).

The ad buy comes amid positive polling signs from CNN’s data analyst, Harry Enten. Enten said Monday that Republicans are overperforming historic midterm trends.

In 2018, the last time a Republican president was in office during a midterm cycle, Democrats held an eight-point lead on the generic congressional ballot. In 2006, they held an 11-point lead.

This time around, Democrats only lead by five points on the generic ballot.

“You’d make the argument Democrats should be way ahead, and they’re just only sort of slightly ahead … I think five points is enough to take back the House, but in the Senate, five points is almost certainly not enough if you apply it to the Senate map,” Enten explained.

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“WE GOT HIM!”

The second crew member on the F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran last week was recovered “safe and sound.”

Early reports on the rescue mission to save the weapons systems officer from the Iranian mountains sound like something out of a movie.

The colonel was reportedly wounded after ejecting from the downed jet but was able to make contact with the U.S. His first words were, “God is good.”

The CIA bought time by launching a deception campaign, ensuring Iran was fed false intel that the U.S. had already found him and was preparing extrication.

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The case in question centered on Trump’s executive order effectively banning birthright citizenship, which automatically grants the children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens U.S. citizenship.

The policy has gained renewed scrutiny in recent years amid the open border policies of the Biden administration and the rising birth tourism industry. The Trump administration argues that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause — which states, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” — was meant to more narrowly apply to the children of slaves.

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The playbook, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily Caller, features 21 recommendations, including enhanced worksite enforcement, debanking illegal aliens, identifying and targeting visa overstays, and reforming and substantially limiting asylum.

President Donald Trump has expressed hesitancy in the past to enforce illegal immigration in a way that harms business interests, noting that the agricultural and hospitality industries rely on cheap, illegal labor.

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• His meeting with top administration officials before stepping down

• The FBI’s investigation into Kent and his alleged classified leak

• Kash Patel’s push to stop digging into the Charlie Kirk assassination

• Plus foreign policy concerns between the US, Iran, and Israel

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After days of threatening strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, Trump abruptly announced Monday that the U.S. had held “very good and productive conversations” with Tehran and would postpone any planned attacks.

Markets rallied in response: oil prices fell, stocks surged, and analysts assumed the worst was over.

The truth may be more complicated.

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What’s happening in my state is unmistakable: political leaders are failing in their most basic duty to protect citizens, punishing the people who try to protect themselves, and then consolidating power to shield themselves from accountability.

In just the past few weeks, there have been several high-profile stories of illegal immigrant crime in Fairfax County.

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