Rep. Jared Moskowitz has become the first Democrat to join the Congressional "Delivering Outstanding Government Efficiency" (DOGE) Caucus, a Republican-led caucus under President-elect Donald Trump that will work in tandem with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s "Department of Government Efficiency."

The violent illegal migrant who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has asked a judge for a new trial after being sentenced to life in prison last month for his heinous crimes. 

President Joe Biden was seemingly caught on video resting his eyes at a summit with African leaders in Lobito, Angola, in a moment that has now garnered online virality.

Speaking at CPAC Argentina Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro argued that the country and its president, Javier Milei, have offered the world a vision for economic success. “Argentina, the eyes of the world are on you. If you succeed, the rest of the world is going to follow you and I believe that you will succeed,” Shapiro said. “If you remain courageous and honest, liberty will succeed, because liberty must succeed.” Join me today in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to break down the difference between free markets and socialism—right in the heart of a country leading the way toward a new dawn of capitalism. https://t.co/Ckm5gUncsG — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 4, 2024 Shapiro called Argentina’s economic revival “perhaps the most important political development on planet Earth at this very moment.” “Thats thanks to the people of this country who have finally stood up and they’ve said ‘enough,’” Shapiro said. “Enough to socialist evil, enough to the impoverishment, enough to the lies, enough to the bulls***. It’s time to take a chainsaw to all of it.” Shapiro touted Milei’s record of cutting the number of government ministries from 18 to eight, downsizing the bloated public sector, and slashing the budget by 32%, leading to Argentina reporting surpluses. He also pointed out that inflation is declining in Argentina as the stock market is skyrocketing because of Milei’s actions. “President Milei is now leading the world forward to a new golden age of liberty,” Shapiro said. “He’s doing so with extraordinary audacity and courage.” Shapiro’s speech was a fierce defense of free markets against socialism that destroyed the Argentine economy. “Free markets are moral and they are just,” Shapiro said. “They reward merit. They reward hard work and solid decision making. The assumption by socialists very often is that people who succeed in society are sort of leeches, that they are the people who work the least. That isn’t true.” Shapiro stated that socialism, at its core, stems from envy. “Socialism encourages revolutionaries who produce literally nothing and destroy everything that they touch. It encourages laziness. It encourages stupidity and it encourages dishonesty at scale,” Shapiro went on. “Socialism is just evil,” he added. “Socialism is the philosophy of the thief. It is the philosophy of the man who would prefer to burn everything down rather than to build anything up.” Shapiro praised Millei for subscribing to the Austrian school of economics, which teaches that individual actions are motivated by self interest. “President Milei is intelligent, unlike most of our political class,” Shapiro quipped. “Argentina is a perfect example of how all of these bad ideas, when implemented, cost people their lives, cost people their livelihoods and destroy entire civilizations.” Shapiro noted that in the early 20th century, Argentina was among the richest countries in the world. But its failure to fully develop free markets and inclusive economic institutions, coupled with decades of tyranny and corruption, set the country on a downward spiral. That downward trajectory persisted until Milei assumed leadership and addressed these long-standing issues. “Until the rise of President Milei the government was able to basically expropriate property rights at will with impunity and the result was radical impoverishment,” Shapiro said. “If you look at the record of Argentina from 1980 to 2023, it is one of the rare countries in the West where it actually got harder to live here. In fact it took more time to work to buy basic goods in 2023 than it did in 1980.” Milei, a supporter of strengthening relations between Argentina and the United States, told Shapiro on his podcast in April that he believed his citizens needed to embrace the values of freedom that are values in the United States though they are under attack. Shapiro said, however, he believes that Milei is leading the freedom movement in the world. “Javier Milei, Argentina, you are leading the West back on to the right path,” Shapiro said.

Proponents of transgender procedures on children made three stunning admissions on Wednesday as they argued against a Tennessee law protecting children from the irreversible procedures before the Supreme Court.  The admissions — that cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, that people regret the procedures, and that transgender procedures aren’t associated with lower suicide rates — undercut leftist activists’ core arguments that the procedures are necessary and lifesaving.  These revelations were made as justices heard oral arguments in the case brought by the Biden administration and the ACLU against Tennessee for a law that shields children from transgender procedures like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.  The outcome of the case could have nationwide implications and affect the over two dozen states that passed similar laws. The ACLU and the Biden administration argue that Tennessee’s law is a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.  During arguments, Justice Brett Kavanaugh pressed Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar about the side effects of putting children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.  “I want to acknowledge gender-affirming care with respect to hormones can have some impacts on fertility,” Prelogar said in response to Kavanaugh. “With respect to hormone use, there are effects on fertility.”  She then claimed that a lower court “found” that “many individuals who are transgender” can maintain their fertility.  “There are measures they can undertake and they have to be counseled on those risks. As I said before, I can understand that could be a hard tradeoff but it’s not unique to this care,” she asserted.  Cross-sex hormones have been shown to cause infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions. Later, during arguments, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, a woman who identifies as a man, admitted that the data on suicide and transgender procedures wasn’t as clear as pro-transgender activists have previously claimed. Proponents of transgender ideology have claimed that so-called “gender-affirming care” is life-saving, and told parents that they can either have a living child with the treatments or a dead child without.  This claim was referenced by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, but Justice Samuel Alito pressed Strangio on the link to suicide and what the available data showed.  Strangio first claimed that it was “clearly established in the science” that the medications reduced the risk of suicide.  In response, Alito pointed to research from the Cass Review produced by the NHS in the United Kingdom that said that “there is no evidence that gender-affirming treatments reduce suicide.” Strangio replied by saying that “there is no evidence in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide” but claimed that the procedures would reduce suicidal thoughts. Recent research has shown that, contrary to these claims, transgender procedures can actually increase the likelihood that minors will attempt suicide. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE During oral arguments, both Strangio and Prelogar admitted that there are people who regret undergoing transgender procedures. They both claimed that this was a “smaller” number of people than “those who benefit and find it medically necessary.”  This would contradict a growing movement of “detransitioners” who have come out and opposed transgender procedures on children.  Chloe Cole, who was put on cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and had a double mastectomy as a teenager, has become one of the most outspoken advocates against transgender procedures on women.  “This case really means everything to me,” Cole told The Daily Wire before the case, “because if a law like this were in place in my state while I was growing up, if this were just federally banned across the board when I was going through this, this never would have happened to me.”  After the arguments wrapped, analysts predicted that the Court would likely not overturn Tennessee’s protections.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor drew a wave of backlash when she dismissed concerns about risks associated with gender transition surgeries — particularly among patients who are minors — by arguing that all medical treatments, even aspirin, can have side effects. The Court heard arguments on Wednesday in the Tennessee-based case United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, which deals with the state’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children, and when Tennessee Solicitor General Matthew Rice raised the question of harm to patients, Sotomayor interrupted to voice her objection. “How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits?" Justice Sotomayor: Taking aspirin has risks too. Unreal pic.twitter.com/Jav7uexplc — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 4, 2024 Noting that there was always the chance that some would choose to reverse course, or de-transition, Rice posited, “So it becomes a pure exercise of weighing benefits versus risk and the question of how many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits is one that is best left for —” “I’m sorry, counselor,” Sotomayor interrupted then, her tone exaggerated. “Every medical treatment has a risk. Even taking aspirin.” Sotomayor continued down that same path, going on to argue that with “any medical treatment,” there would be some who were adversely impacted. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Critics were not impressed with the liberal Justice’s comparison, however, and said so via X. “No joke, Sotomayor should simply be impeached for this statement,” Will Chamberlain posted. “Cavalierly dismissing the butchering of children by saying ‘well aspirin has side effects too’ is beneath the dignity of the highest court in the land.” No joke, Sotomayor should simply be impeached for this statement Cavalierly dismissing the butchering of children by saying “well aspirin has side effects too” is beneath the dignity of the highest court in the land pic.twitter.com/TjhWE7ZaMZ — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) December 4, 2024 “Listen to Sotomayor’s voice as she patronizingly begins, ‘I’m sorry counselor, every medical treatment has its risks. Even taking aspirin.’ As if removing kids’ body parts and sterilizing them for life is remotely comparable to taking aspirin. This is abhorrent reasoning,” Fox Business host David Asman added. Listen to Sotomayor's voice as she patronizingly begins,"I'm sorry counselor, every medical treatment has its risks. Even taking aspirin."As if removing kids' body parts and sterilizing them for life is remotely comparable to taking aspirin. This is abhorrent reasoning. https://t.co/CajQ2kfCLp — David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) December 4, 2024 “Taking a Tylenol is significantly less risky than surgically removing a child’s penis and installing a ‘neo-vagina’ in its place. This should be … obvious?”Christopher Rufo said. Taking a Tylenol is significantly less risky than surgically removing a child's penis and installing a "neo-vagina" in its place. This should be … obvious? https://t.co/Lw5DOzcDDo — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 4, 2024 “Sotomayor’s response seems laughable until you realize that it’s the default view of millions of progressives, including those who run institutions, the entire education system, corporations and government funded NPO’s,” Ian Miller said, adding, “Then it becomes actively dangerous.” Sotomayor’s response seems laughable until you realize that it’s the default view of millions of progressives, including those who run institutions, the entire education system, corporations and government funded NPO’s Then it becomes actively dangerous https://t.co/nwJ5lbyfBu — Ian Miller (@ianmSC) December 4, 2024 A number of others noted that, much like the Tennessee law that specifically targets the medical gender transition of minors, doctors also do not recommend giving aspirin to children.