Social media star Montana Tucker told Ben Shapiro how she went from singing, dancing, and acting to being one of the fiercest pro-Israel voices following Hamas’ October 7 attack. “That was a really big risk for my platforms because people were not following me to see me cry and to see me talk about something so serious,” Tucker told Shapiro on the Sunday Special. “They were following me to see me dance on the streets and sing.” Tucker, who has more than 14 million followers across all platforms, said she lost hundreds of thousands of followers and received death threats after she became outspoken. “But I also gained a whole new following of people who truly share my morals, values, and mission,” she said. She noted that many of her original followers, who might not have been exposed to her perspective on the war in Israel, stayed with her. “I now have a diverse audience — people of all races, religions, and walks of life — who are not only being educated about this, but are also beginning to truly understand what’s happening.” Tucker expressed disappointment in how TikTok — her largest platform — became increasingly hateful after October 7, a stark contrast to the welcoming space she once knew. “It used to be a place that I felt was so loving and accepting of everyone. Like it didn’t matter what you looked like, where you’re from, anyone had the opportunity to go viral,” Tucker said. “I feel like now, it’s turned into like such a hateful place.” Tucker, 31, said her career shift was deeply personal and followed in the path of her two of her Holocaust survivor grandparents who spoke about Jewish suffering around the world. “I just knew that I had to now take over their legacy and their goal and their mission,” Tucker said. “When October 7th happened specifically, something came over me that it was like, okay, this is now my time.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Tucker made headlines in February when she wore a dress to the Grammy’s with a large yellow ribbon and the words “Bring Them Home,” referring to the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Tucker, who is from Boca Raton, Florida, said her last time being in Israel before October 7 was for a birthright trip 11 years ago. But after Hamas’ attack, she said she’s been back several times to create different projects. One of her most notable projects was a viral video featuring survivors of the Nova massacre and Lilach Friedman’s Dance Ensemble, filmed at the site of the Nova festival. The tribute, titled “We CAN Dance Again,” honored the 364 festival goers who were killed. Tucker also released her “How To: Never Forget” docuseries in January where she traveled to Poland to learn more about the history of the Holocaust. In December, Tucker will release her latest documentary about the child survivors of Hamas’ attack, titled “The Children of October 7th.” Tucker told Shapiro about one of the chilling interviews she had with a child while filming. “I interviewed a kid who Hamas kill both of his parents right in front of him, and then he had to hide under his mother’s dead body for a few hours so that Hamas would think that he was dead as well,” she said. “Can you imagine living under your mother’s dead body just to survive?” “The lifetime of trauma that these kids are going to have to deal with, they’re never going to be the same ever,” she added. You can watch the full interview on DailyWire+. 

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) slammed Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-IL) attack on former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) over the weekend, calling her smear “outright dangerous.” Mullin made the remark during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” while responding to Duckworth’s attacks on Gabbard — whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be his Director of National Intelligence — just moments prior on the same show. Duckworth claimed that Gabbard, who is now a Republican, was “compromised” and potentially someone who “will not have America’s best interests at heart.” When asked to respond to Duckworth’s attacks, Mullin said he thought they were “ridiculous and outright dangerous words.” “You have got to keep in mind that Tulsi Gabbard is still a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army,” he said. “She commands a Reserve unit here in Oklahoma and Missouri. If she was compromised, if she wasn’t able to pass a background check, if she wasn’t able to do her job, she still wouldn’t be in the Army.” “And so Tammy is absolutely dead wrong on this, and she should retract those words,” he continued. “That’s the most dangerous thing she could say, is that a United States lieutenant colonel in the United States Army is compromised and is an asset of Russia.” He said Duckworth’s attack could be motivated by her being upset that Gabbard left the party. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE ?NEW: Splitscreen of Sen. Tammy Duckworth slandering Tulsi Gabbard as “compromised” — and Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s immediate response BLASTING Duckworth: “Tammy is absolutely dead wrong on this, and she should retract those words. She’s upset that Tulsi Gabbard left the Democrat… pic.twitter.com/ceDUcabQbD — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 24, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could set its sights on government-funded media programs like National Public Radio (NPR), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Sunday. Greene, who has been tasked with heading a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with DOGE leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, mentioned the network while discussing how she believes wasteful spending is happening all over the U.S. government during a “Sunday Morning Futures” interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “We will be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda,” Greene said, adding: “We will be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don’t help the American people.” .@RepMTG says one of the things DOGE will look at is “government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda.” pic.twitter.com/2ni9GkQypS — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 24, 2024 She continued: “I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can’t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit, but not just that, Maria. I’d like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they’re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities.” In his first term, Trump proposed reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. Earlier this year, while back on the campaign trail, Trump demanded that funding be cut from NPR after one of its editors accused the network of espousing left-wing bias. That editor, Uri Berliner, resigned a short time later. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP.’ THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!” Trump said in a post to Truth Social. When NPR ditched Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network insisted it “receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.” Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is “essential” and that ending it “would result in fewer programs, less journalism — especially local journalism — and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.” In her Fox interview, Greene went on to say: “We’re going to look in every single aspect. And we don’t care about people’s feelings. We’re going to be searching for the facts, and we’re going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American people’s hard-earned tax dollars on.”

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) defended former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, this week after she promised to remove anti-Trump individuals from the department. Lankford made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash when asked about whether Bondi would weaponize the department to go after Trump’s political opponents. “[Trump] wants to make sure that the people that are around him in the Cabinet are at least directionally the right direction,” he said. “This has been a question, quite frankly, since the Kennedy administration, when President Kennedy put his brother in as attorney general.” Bash then played a clip of remarks that Bondi made in the past on Fox News: BONDI: The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated, because the deep state, last term for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows. But now they have a spotlight on them. And they can all be investigated. And the house needs to be cleaned out. Lankford said that he did not agree with the notion that Bondi’s comments were indicative of her pursuing “retribution” for Trump. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “I think it’s trying to be able to get us back to neutral and to balance on that,” he said, adding that in the past, there were “individuals within the FBI, and that was very well — known after President Trump came on in 2016 — that there were members of the FBI that hated him that were in senior leadership that were working to be able to undercut him, Peter Strzok, multiple others that were actively working to try to undercut the president.” “I think it’s entirely appropriate for Pam Bondi to step in and to say, or whoever that is as attorney general, to be able to step in and say, we’re not going to allow someone to try to undercut the President of the United States in this Department of Justice,” he continued. “You have got to actually be balanced and about justice, not about attacking the president.” He said anyone trying to undercut the president at the department “should be gone” immediately. “I don’t see any evidence of that kind of retribution.”@SenatorLankford downplays Trump’s threats of payback at DOJ but tells @DanaBashCNN “if someone is in the Department of Justice right now that is actively trying to undercut the president, they should be gone.” pic.twitter.com/6HbEwvSGv2 — State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) November 24, 2024

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These cute pictures show a rare giant anteater pup riding on its mother’s back, after being born at a UK wildlife park last week. Named Antony, it was born to a mating pair of anteaters at Cotswold Wildlife Park in West Oxfordshire, England—and is the third breeding success for the parents since their arrival in […] The post Photos Capture Rare Giant Anteater Pup Born in UK Park Riding on Mom’s Back appeared first on Good News Network.

Camille Kampouris says she and her husband have long carried with them a desire “to raise up men and women, old and young, to be like [Dietrich] Bonhoeffer, to speak out when there’s evil.”  Bonhoeffer was a German theologian, a pastor, an anti-Nazi dissident, and a spy who took part in an assassination plot against Adolf Hitler. About 14 years ago, Kampouris read Eric Metaxas’ book on the life of Bonhoeffer, and she and her husband, Emmanuel Kampouris, were so moved that they set out to make a film about Bonhoeffer with the famous last words, “How hard could it be?” More than a decade later, the film is hitting theaters ahead of Thanksgiving.  Bonhoeffer, an author himself, has had many books written about his life, but now, Angel Studios is bringing the incredible story of Bonhoeffer to life on the big screen beginning Nov. 22. “The beauty of Bonhoeffer’s story is that it shows what a real Christian should be like, and it shows a failed church, so you see both,” Kampouris, who served as one of the film’s producers, told “The Daily Signal Podcast.” Because of this duality, Kampouris says the film should appeal “to everyone.”  Camille and Emmanuel Kampouris join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share about the long, and sometimes harrowing, journey of making the film, and what they hope audiences take from it.  Listen to the podcast below, or watch the interview above. The post Over a Decade in the Making, ‘Bonhoeffer’ Finally Hits Big Screen appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Americans spend over $500 billion per year defending themselves against the IRS. That’s spitting distance from the $800 billion the Defense Department spends protecting us against foreigners—well, failing to protect, in the case of the border. So, forget Ukraine. Forget ISIS. The calls are coming from inside the house. The number comes from my based colleague Richard Stern, who reports on a new Tax Foundation study that the income tax costs Americans $546 billion per year in compliance alone. Compared toour national defense budget of $849 billion, which is supposed to protect the American peopleyet completely fails to protect us from the IRS. Note this $546 billion is on top of the $4.9 trillion the IRS actually took from us in taxes. And, of course, it’s separate from the economic impact of taxes, which might add another $15 trillion in lost income. Breaking it down, the $546 billion is made up of 7.9 billion hours Americans spent complying withthe tax code. Which, at 10 million words, is the length of 21 “Lord of the Rings” trilogies. Of course, nobody actually understands the tax code—that’s why big corporations hire $500-an-hour tax lawyers. But regular Americans—many of whom cannot name a state, thanks to government schools—are assumed to have complete mastery of the entire 10 million words of legalese, or the IRS willthrow you in a cage. For perspective, an entire lifetime of work is 86,000 hours—40 hours times 48 weeks times 45years. So, tax compliance entirely consumes almost a million lifetimes of work. Every single year. Put differently, that’s equivalent to nearly 4 million Americans working full time and without paydoing nothing but tax paperwork. That’s the population of Los Angeles. It’s also 46 times the workforce of the IRS. Meaning for every tax bureaucrat we pay to steal from us, another 46 Americans have to spendtheir evenings and weekends helping the IRS steal instead of playing with their kids. On top of the hours, Americans spend another $133 billion a year out-of-pocket on things like taxsoftware—about $1,000 per year per household. So, you could have bought groceries; instead, you bought TurboTax. Note, $546 billion doesn’t begin to estimate the cost of the IRS. In previous videos, I’ve mentioned studies estimating that we lose $3 in production for every dollar taken in taxes, since taxes discourage production. Why work? Why build or expand a business if the government just takes it? That suggests the $4.9 trillion in taxes the IRS takes actually cost us roughly $15 trillion inlost output. So, $546 billion in compliance, $4.9 trillion in lost taxes, and $15 trillion in lost output. Rarely have so few taken so much from so many. For perspective, that comes to roughly eight times what Americans spend on housing. It’s 10 times what we spend on food. So what’s next? A constant theme in our administrative state is spending trillions protecting us from threats that aren’t real—Ukraine, climate, transphobia. While it ignores the threats that are very real, from inflation to street crime to predatory taxation, that forces us to run on a treadmill until we’re 70. Between Donald Trump’s promised tax cuts, Elon Musk’s spending cuts, and slashing the administrative state that strangles the economy, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. But there’s a lot of special interests—from uniparty politicians to millions of parasitic bureaucrats—who desperately want it to keep going. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post IRS Compliance Costs $546 Billion Per Year appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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