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President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and the rise of socialist candidates within the Democratic Party have been two major news topics this year, which makes this finding from a new NBC poll all the more interesting: ICE is 86% more popular than socialism heading into the midterms.

The Sunday poll showed both are fairly unpopular with the American public. But socialism is really loathed, with only 21% of registered voters saying they have a “very positive” or “somewhat positive” view of Karl Marx’s ideology. ICE, for comparison, was viewed positively by 39% of Americans.

Looking at it from the opposite angle, 51% of voters said they had a negative view of ICE, and 52% said they had a negative view of socialism. ICE’s favorability is unchanged from October 2025 and up slightly from earlier this year, while socialism has gained 3 favorability points when compared to last fall and early ’26.

The results were based on a survey of 1,000 registered voters between Sept. 11-15.

NBC’s poll comes as several democratic socialists won primaries over the summer, leading to candidates like Melat Kiros (D) in Colorado, Angie Nixon (D) in Florida, and Claire Valdez (D) now aiming to win Congressional seats in November.

As socialist candidates have gained traction among the Dems, President Donald Trump has ramped up his criticism. He started off by sarcastically congratulated New York City Mayor and proud dem socialist Zohran Mamdani on getting “3 solid Communists” elected in NYC back in June, before getting a bit more serious about it.

He later warned the communists are starting to make “their move” in the USA, and he called socialism and communism  a “cancer” which must be dealt with ASAP during his Fourth of July address. Trump followed that up by saying it is really easy to understand: “With communism, everything turns to sh*t!”

Still, Trump and Mamdani are set to meet in NYC on Monday — right after the mayor sued the federal government for its push to remove illegal immigrants. Mamdani said the government has been waging a “campaign of violence and terror” since the president returned to Washington, D.C.

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Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett Sunday on exactly when gas prices were expected to come down “like a rocket ship in reverse,” as President Donald Trump claimed at a recent rally.

“The president knows in places where there are high prices, that can cause a problem for a president,” Doocy said. “But he is now starting to argue, with the midterms approaching, that he thinks the high prices are worth it because he thinks the Iran war is worth it.”

Doocy then rolled tape on Trump saying the Iran war is an “inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done.”

“Remember that,” Trump told the North Carolina crowd to sparse applause. “Even if, frankly, even if it was a lot more, but that’s going to come tumbling down. That’s going to be like a rocket ship in reverse,” Trump said.

“Prices down like a rocket ship in reverse!” exclaimed Doocy. “When?”

“Well, one of the things you’ve seen, first of all, is that how, I guess, out of control the Iranians and now the Houthis are,” Hassett said. “And, again, this whole thing started because the Iranians told us, like, ‘We don’t have to talk to you anymore because we’re two weeks from having a nuclear weapon.’ And you see that they’re shooting ships like crazy in the strait. The president had to act. And if you think about what would have happened if he hadn’t acted, it would be really, really bad for the global economy and for human civilization.”

Hassett continued:

While we’ve done that, what we’ve done with our incredible Navy is we’ve been bringing oil through the straits. It’s up to a billionaire barrels of oil have come through the straits with naval escorts to keep the price as low as it can possibly be, given the disruption. So President Trump will decide when enough is enough, but I can say that the U.S. Government has done everything we can to make the price effect way smaller than people expected. And so, people, when this started, they were saying we’re going to have $150, $200 oil, and we haven’t had that because President Trump organized everybody to get friendly oil out of the straits. Meanwhile, Iran isn’t getting any oil out of the straits, and they’re running out of money, they’re having hyper-inflation, and their economy’s totally on the ropes.

Watch the clip above via The Sunday Briefing on Fox News.

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White House Correspondents’ Association President Jacqui Heinrich urged President Donald Trump to immediately scrap his ban against CNN, Politico, and MS NOW, arguing it “violates” the First Amendment and hurts the American public.

Heinrich called on Trump to end the ban in a Saturday statement, one day after the president announced he was barring the three outlets from the White House. The Trump Admin followed through with the plan on Saturday morning by blocking the outlets from the White House grounds.

“Today’s action revoking access for journalists from CNN, POLITICO, and MSNOW violates the First Amendment,” Heinrich said in response. “The implications extend beyond these organizations: a standard used to exclude one news outlet because of its coverage could be applied to any outlet in the future. The American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favorably.”

She added, “That’s why courts have repeatedly held that once the White House provides access to journalists, it cannot deny that access arbitrarily or based on the content of their reporting. The WHCA calls on the administration to immediately restore our colleagues’ access.”

Heinrich is a senior White House correspondent for Fox News and co-hosts The Sunday Briefing on the channel along with Peter Doocy. She replaced CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang as WHCA head honcho in Mid-July, one week before the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner took place; the initial dinner in April was sabotaged by a shooter storming the Washington, D.C. venue and attempting to kill Trump and several members of his administration.

It’s worth pointing out Trump has bashed Heinrich a few times this year, like in March when he complained she was doing an “absolutely terrible” job. The president later said at the WHCD she was “so beautiful,” but also “so nasty” — which Heinrich responded to with a big shrug.

Heinrich called for Trump to end the press ban around the same time MS NOW chief national reporter Peter Alexander argued on air the president issued the ban to “rile up” his MAGA base and distract them from the many “failures” of his second term.

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Fox News host Aishah Hasnie didn’t buy it when one of her guests argued socialist streaming star Hasan Piker is merely a “shock jock” like Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh were back in their radio glory days.

Hasnie jumped in during Fox News Live on Saturday and said Piker’s slew of anti-America remarks — including his latest claim this week the USA is “pound for pound” worse than Al-Qaeda — go far beyond “shock jock” territory.

A moment earlier, left-wing radio host Leslie Marshall claimed Piker bashes America for attention, not because he means it.

“Back in the day, they were called shock jocks, okay. Howard Stern—” Marshall started to say, before Hasnie jumped in.

“You think he’s a shock jock?” Hasnie asked about Piker.

Marshall continued, “Rush Limbaugh [as well]. I did some shock jock talking, if you will, as a talk show host. And the reason you did it? To make the phones ring, to get ratings, to get attention, and Hasan Piker does that sometimes. I’m not excusing what he says—”

“Shock jock is one thing. But saying the US is worse than Al-Qaeda, I think that goes beyond shock,” Hasnie said.

Their back-and-forth on Piker comes a few days after his viral interview with Axios where he said the U.S. is worse than Al-Qaeda, at least in boxing terms. And he’s made plenty of similar claims in the past, like when he said the USA “deserved” the 9/11 terrorist attacks, declared he has “no patriotism” in his heart for America, and that he hates the nation, among other examples. Piker also prominently displays a framed newspaper showing the Twin Towers burning right behind him on his shows.

His remarks have forced Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) to distance himself from the streamer, right after Piker joined him on the campaign trail during the Democratic primary.

On Saturday, Hasnie’s other guest, ex-Bush Administration official Ashley Davis, added she wasn’t shrugging off his comments as shock jock talk, either.

“I wish Hasan Piker would leave our country if he hates it so bad,” Davis said.

Watch above via Fox News.

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CNN’s Dana Bash directly confronted Homeland Security Secretary Markwaye Mullin Friday about a Republican lawmaker’s claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement have “gone too far” with their arrests.

Bash played a clip of Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s (R-FL) campaign ad where she said:

Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far. In July, 50% of the 5,000 people that were detained had no criminal record. The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.

“She’s a Republican representing a district that is majority Hispanic in Florida, sounding the alarm about the policies of the department that you run,” Bash said. “What’s your response?”

Mullin answered that his department works to strictly “enforce our nation’s laws.”

“We don’t pick and choose which laws we enforce. We enforce the immigration policy that Congress passed and obligated Department of Homeland Security to enforce,” Mullin said.

“What [Salazar] is saying, and she’s using numbers that come from your department, that the [department’s] focus is way too much on non-criminals,” Bash said.

“Mr. Secretary, are you aggressively going after even people in the United States without criminal records because you are trying to reach a quota that is being set, a daily quota that’s being set by the White House?” Bash asked.

“I have never talked to anybody at the White House about any quota,” Mullin said.

“Just going back to the the crux of what Republican congresswoman Salazar is saying. She is citing numbers that were FOIA’d,” Bash said, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.

“I will say that’s actually not true,” Mullin said. “Every one of them was criminals because they broke their nation’s laws when they came across our borders illegally.”

“And when you broke the law and you came into this country illegally, you chose to become a criminal at that point, regardless,” Mullin said. “If you consider a criminal being a pedophile or not, a criminal is a criminal.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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Jon Stewart whipped out a pair of middle fingers for the Supreme Court after accusing them of leaving the country “unarmed in the face of a full frontal assault on democratic principle.”

On the latest episode of The Weekly Show, Stewart wrapped up the episode by taking viewer questions from his producers, one focusing on the Supreme Court.

“I think they would be so much better for this country if they were actually baseball umpires,” Stewart said after a viewer asked about Supreme Court Justices “calling balls and strikes.”

Stewart accused the Supreme Court of “redefining corruption” and took particular issue with the 2010 Citizens United decision, which reversed campaign-finance restrictions and allows corporations to pump unlimited amounts of money into elections.

“They have single-handedly made it impossible for us to reform and save our democracy. Decision after decision after decision by the Supreme Court has left us unarmed in the face of a full frontal assault on democratic principle,” Stewart said.

The law, he added, is “impossible to reform” and no incumbent lawmaker has any serious interest in reforming it because it benefits them.

“Do you know what I think it’s going to force us to do? I truly mean this. There has to be a process of amending the Constitution. This idea that Citizens United stands as the law of the land is the biggest bunch of sh*t. The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact and money is killing this country,” Stewart said.

He then blasted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and called his court “one of the worst things” to happen to the country.

“The Roberts court has been the worst thing to happen to this country in a long, long time. It’s the way that they made it so that agencies no longer have the ability to regulate anything. They’ve made everything in this country subject to ideological capture and financial corruption. Everything,” Stewart said.

“No, but Jon, they’re impartial because they struck down the tariffs,” producer Gillian Spear sarcastically said.

Stewart then threw up both of his middle fingers and danced them around for the camera.

“Here’s what I say to them,” he said.

Watch above via The Weekly Show.

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If you're planning on giving home entertainment gear as a gift this holiday, forget about traditional benchmarks like "biggest screen" or "most expensive speakers." Match the gear with the personality and needs of the person being entertained by that home entertainment system instead. Below are my best picks for everyone from college kids squeezed in a dorm room to legacy media snobs for whom streaming video isn't an option.

Best overall home entertainment gift of 2026: Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box 8K

You probably won't buy someone a new TV for the holidays, but you can give the media-hound on your list a gadget to make the TV they already own even better. Enhancing watching and gaming is the mission of the Philips Hue Play Sync Box. It’s a middleman between TVs and HDMI gear like consoles or streaming boxes that analyzes video signals in real time and tells the connected smart light strip (as well as other compatible smart lights) to match what's on screen. This is great for gaming immersion, but it also improves just watching TV. Projecting colors behind the set that complement the visuals gives the illusion of a bigger screen, and it's just cool.

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Best home entertainment gift for the legacy media snob: Magnetar UDP800 MKII

The Magnetar UDP800 isn't for casual media consumers, but if you're giving a present to the type of person who sneers at streaming and demands picture and sound at the highest possible quality, consider a Magnetar. This thing is monster. Magnetar laughs at the compression of Netflix by reading 4K video at bitrates up to 100 Mbp. It humiliates Spotify with lossless audio in formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. It's also a true universal player, handling everything from 4K UHD Blu-rays and standard DVDs to Kodak Picture CDs. Like the best niche gear, it's expensive, but I'm sure your purist is worth the cost.

Best home entertainment gift for the minimalist: Anker Nebula Cosmos 4K

Most take it as a given that a huge, semi-matte black rectangle will dominate every living room like the monolith from 2001, but some people don't buy into it. If there's someone like that on your list, the Anker Nebula Cosmos 4K projector is the perfect gift. It's small enough that they can put it in a closet to keep their decor pure and pretend they don't even know what a television is, and it still projects a crisp, 4K image on any flat wall so they can watch Love Island in high def when everyone else is asleep. The portability makes it perfect for a backyard film festival too.

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Best home entertainment gift for the student gamer: ROG Xbox Ally X20

If there's a college student who plays video games on your Secret Santa list (and every college student plays video games), send them back to the dorms with a ROG Xbox Ally X20. This versatile system functions as a portable game system for killing time between classes with either PC or Xbox games. It hooks right up to a cheap dorm TV for late-night gaming sessions, and it runs a full version of Windows 11 for actually doing work.

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Best home entertainment gift for new parents: Anker Soundcore Sleep A20 Earbuds

It's wild that there is a class of audio equipment designed for people to not listen to, but these earbuds solve a real problem, particularly for anyone with young children. Soundcore Sleep A20 Earbuds contain a noise-masking system designed to block out any unwanted sounds and improve your sleep. They're designed with the ergonomic needs of sleepers in mind, and they even track your "sleeping analytics" so you can make sure your slumber is up-to-par. If your giftee would rather not collapse into dreamless sleep through white noise, these can be used as normal Bluetooth earbuds too.

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Best home entertainment gift for empty nesters: Samsung S95H OLED TV

You ever see the movie All that Heaven Allows? Jane Wyman plays a widow who starts dating a much younger man, but her children don't approve of the soulful lumberjack, so they wreck their relationship, then give her a TV so she doesn't get lonely in her tomb of a home. You will not be creating the same energy by giving the empty nesters on your list a Samsung 95H: That lumberjack was sort of creepy, and having an empty nest is cool, actually. An ultra-thin, 77-inch 4K OLED TV is better than human connections anyway: This is a really nice television. The design is tasteful—thin metallic frame, matte display surface—and the picture is about as good as you can get in 2026.

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