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The U.S. Senate adjourned Wednesday until after the November elections, allowing those facing re-election to go home and campaign.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie Jalon Daniels will make the first start of his career on Sunday as he goes under center for an injured Baker Mayfield.Now, before we get to that, let’s remember that the NFL world is filled with cliches. Players and coaches love saying, “We gotta take it one quarter at a time,” “Each week is a season,” “We’re trying to go 1-0 each week” – well, you get the picture.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!Well, the former Kansas Jayhawks star dropped a new one on Wednesday as he talked to reporters ahead of the Buccaneers’ Week 4 game against the Green Bay Packers. He was asked if he was going to be able to stay calm when it’s his turn to take the field.”Absolutely. I think that one thing I learned in college was, you can’t be the thermometer, you have to be the thermostat,” he said. “You have to be someone who comes in and is able to set the temperature of the room, not test the room and try to be able to blend in with it. If a team is low, I have to be able to pick it up to be able to make sure that they’re even.”If we’re high, then I have to be able to be low to be able to make sure that we’re even. I try to be as even-keel as possible. I think that being able to go out there and have that even-keeled feel, the team around you feels that.”Love it when a new cliché drops, especially one you can use randomly in everyday life.But there’s another cliché to use when it comes to the Buccaneers’ Week 4 game – “must win.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEIt’s usually reserved for a team that is vying for a playoff spot. However, for Tampa Bay, it’s used here to save the season. The Buccaneers face the stark reality of dropping to 0-4 and a Mount Everest-type climb to get back into contention with Mayfield out for the next three weeks at least with a dislocated right thumb.Daniels will get a real shot to show what he’s made of against the Packers.”For us, it’s just trying to get a win,” coach Todd Bowles said when asked about trying to get a win. “(Jalon Daniels) is not playing by himself. Everybody has to do their job. We’ve got to coach it the right way on both sides of the ball, including special teams. He’s got to play and just do his job.”We’ve got 21 other guys that (are) going to be out there playing with him, so he’s not by himself. It’s (a) nervous (feeling) but it’s exciting at the same time because you get to see somebody play. No matter where you come from, your first NFL game has to come at some point, whether you’re a first-round pick or whether you’re a free agent. You’ve got to touch the field for the first time at some point, and then you’ve got to play. He’s just got to play.”Of course, Daniels tapped Mayfield for some advice before the pivotal matchup.”He simply put it as: you’ve been dreaming of this opportunity, just stay composed, play as yourself,” Daniels said. “Don’t try to be anybody else besides you, and go out there and just go make football plays.”The way the Bucs look this season – it’s easier said than done.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the “Ruthless Podcast” that 2,210 terrorists have been apprehended under the Trump administration’s aggressive approach to solving illegal immigration.”Underneath President Trump, we’ve arrested, so far as my numbers walking into here, 2,210 terrorists in this country,” Mullin said in an exclusive interview released Thursday morning. “Most of them came over and claimed asylum, gave a fake name. Some of them we caught, but a lot of them came in and … the Biden administration was just cutting them loose.”Mullin said that under the Biden administration, 97% of individuals DHS encountered were released within 27 hours.Earlier this month, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, DHS had announced that it had detained 2,150 known or suspected terrorists.TRUMP ADMIN MARKS 15 STRAIGHT MONTHS WITH ZERO BORDER RELEASES AS APPREHENSIONS PLUNGE 94%Mullin noted that these individuals were classified as terrorists. “There’s a difference between a suspected terrorist and a terrorist watch list,” the secretary explained to the co-hosts. “These were terrorists.”Mullin said the arrests resulted from a new administration-wide approach to illegal immigration.”One directive we had is we’re no longer just playing defense,” Mullin told the hosts. “We’re on the offense. President Trump has given us the authority to go on the offensive. For instance, cybersecurity. We’re no longer sitting there and just protecting as you try to attack us. We’re swimming upstream now. We’re going after the people that are coming after us. We’re aggressively going after individuals. I want to put you on offense.”Mullin rose quickly to the Cabinet post. He served in the House before winning election to the Senate in 2022. President Donald Trump nominated him to lead DHS in March, and the Senate confirmed him 54-45 on March 23.TRUMP REAFFIRMS ICE ARREST POLICY AFTER CONFUSING GUIDANCE SPARKS ALARM AMONG AGENTS”I thought I was busy as a Senator,” Mullin said of his move to DHS. “I haven’t slept through the night. I’m not joking when I say this. I haven’t slept through the night in six months,” the Oklahoman added.With just over a month to go until the November midterm elections, podcast co-host Josh Holmes commended the secretary for his job performance as immigration remains a polarizing political issue.”You also inherited a department that the reason it was shut down is that Democrats have demagogued everything to do with border security and ICE in particular,” Holmes told Mullin. “Under the previous DHS administration, there was some kind of prioritization of the lowest-hanging fruit of deportations rather than what you’re talking about, which is that people need to get the hell out of here as fast as possible.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE

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In yet another unhinged attack on President Donald J. Trump, an activist federal appeals panel on Tuesday sided with a lower court judge who claimed that President Trump “colluded” with his own Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in bringing and subsequently dismissing a major damages lawsuit over the illegal leaking of his tax records.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied a motion filed by President Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the Trump Organization, and their attorneys seeking a stay of post-judgment sanction proceedings pending appeal.
As previously reported by The Gateway Pundit, President Trump originally filed suit in January 2026 seeking $10 billion in damages against the IRS and the Department of the Treasury after rogue IRS operatives illegally accessed and leaked private Trump family tax documents to the mainstream media.
They alleged a former IRS contractor illegally accessed and disclosed their confidential tax returns, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 6103 and § 7431 and the Privacy Act. They sought at least $10 billion.
That contractor was Charles Littlejohn. He stole and leaked Trump’s returns to the New York Times and ProPublica. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
As The Gateway Pundit reported in May, Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization did not pocket a personal payout. The May settlement, announced by the Department of Justice, created a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, drawn from the federal Judgment Fund, to compensate Americans targeted by prior government lawfare. Unused money reverts to the Treasury. Future tax returns remain subject to ordinary IRS examination.
The corporate media still calls it a slush fund. Democrat governors tried to tax the payouts at 100 percent. The Gateway Pundit reported that California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to confiscate every dime paid to California residents and dismissed the fund as a “slush fund.”
Then the former judges showed up
After Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice under Rule 41, the case closed the same day. Then 35 former federal judges moved to set the dismissal aside. They told Williams the settlement was “a product of collusion and [wa]s itself a fraud on the [c]ourt.”
The Gateway Pundit reported that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in the Southern District of Florida, the Obama appointee, launched the inquiry. She later concluded the lack of adversity was “so obvious and so insurmountable” that the suit was filed for the improper purpose of legitimating “a ‘settlement’ that had no viable basis in law or fact.”
The Department of Justice has rejected that. As quoted by the Financial Times after the July order: “There was no collusion in this case, and the partisan judge who speculated otherwise has disregarded decades of precedent. This case was brought by President Trump in his personal capacity, as well as by several members of his family, who were all victims of admitted violations of law.”
On Tuesday, the three-judge panel denied an emergency request by Trump, his attorneys, and other appellants seeking to stay portions of U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ sanctions order while their appeal moves forward.
According to The Hill, the ruling backed Williams’ earlier determination that Trump’s lawsuit and the subsequent agreement involving his administration were collusive. Reuters similarly reported that the Eleventh Circuit refused to pause the sanctions.
But there is an important distinction: Tuesday’s ruling was not a final decision affirming Williams’ collusion finding on the merits.
The appellate panel was considering whether the sanctions should be suspended while the larger appeal continues. The court specifically noted that its decision as a stay panel does not bind the judges who will ultimately decide the merits of the appeal.
Still, the panel concluded that Trump and the other appellants failed, at this stage, to make the strong showing required to demonstrate that Williams clearly erred when she found collusion and bad faith.
The appeals court wrote that Trump’s side “did not submit or offer any evidence” explaining the litigation conduct or demonstrating that the lawsuit and settlement were not collusive.

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