Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on Fox and Friends this morning to discuss his recent schooling of Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren in a letter where he savaged her with a happy ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ message.

In more than 100 letters to Bessent, Warren has been hurling accusations at Bessent and demanding information about the Trump Administration’s monetary policy.

Bessent shared his response to one of Warren’s letters on Saturday, slamming her incompetence and obviously politically motivated “letter-writing crusade,” while offering her a “Foreign Exchange for Dummies” course.

Then, he savaged the fake Indian Senator, handwriting at the bottom of his letter, “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day in advance to you and your family.”

Scott Bessent Goes Scorched Earth on Elizabeth Warren – Ends Epic Letter with “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day”

They don't teach monetary policy on the reservation.

Bessent and the Fox and Friends hosts had a field day trolling Warren on Sunday.

"Senator Warren loves to write letters. More than writing the letters, she loves to leak them to the press that I read about the letter on Bloomberg and Politico before we receive it, and a lot of these letters are embarrassing," Bessent said of his pen pal relationship with Warren.

Slamming her as "economically illiterate," Bessent continued, "she is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, and she is on Senate Finance. So, like this level of illiteracy, whether it's her or her staff, is woeful."

"I wish her Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to her, to her and her family, given some of the past claims she's made," he added.

"Maybe the problem is that you keep trying to exchange letters with her, and you should be doing smoke signals, and then she would be able to understand it," Fox and Friends co-host Charlie Hurt joked.

"Well, I'll tell you the other shocking thing: not a single legacy media outlet has called her out on this. No one has said like what what is going on in the senior senator from Massachusetts’ office?" Bessent added. "What do they do all day? Do they like sit around and like you know sip herbal tea and think about raising taxes?"

Of his handwritten note, Bessent said he always adds a handwritten note at the end of a letter and described the green ink as "treasury green."

Bessent further trolled her fake Indian claims and past statements about her family having "high cheekbones like all of the Indians do."

"I've got high cheekbones; all three of you got high cheekbones. It doesn’t make us indigenous people, but that somehow became the Warren family legacy."

WATCH:

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We now know where James Talarico really was when he disappeared for two weeks from the campaign trail.

His excuse was that he was suffering from the flu, but it appears he was suffering from a breakdown of sorts.

Talarico just vanished out of thin air after a September 28 fundraiser with TDS-infected actor Robert DeNiro and allies of NYC Mayor Zohran Mandani in New York. He was also raising money from the gay Human Rights Campaign in New York.

Talarico finally resurfaced on Friday, October 9, at the ACL music festival in Austin, Texas, the Gateway Pundit reported. His team tried to gaslight the country. “Hate to disappoint the conspiracy theorists, but James is still alive and meeting with voters at ACL today,” a Talarico spokesperson said as if it’s totally normal to disappear for two weeks in the heat of an election.

Trump called BS on his so-called flu last night while speaking at a rally in Clarksville, Tennessee.

(VIDEO) Trump Calls BS on Talarico’s Flu Excuse – “TalaFreako Had the Longest Flu Ever Recorded… I Don’t Think it Was the Flu.”

Trump previously said that “bad rumors are coming out” as Talarico remained in hiding. Many speculated a mental health crisis or that he had fallen ill with a disease much worse than the flu.

It turns out he had a mental health crisis and was holed up at the Lindner Center of HOPE, an inpatient mental health treatment facility and psychiatric hospital in Mason, Ohio.

In a phone call placed by political strategist Rhein Amacher and journalist Nick Sortor to the Lindner Center, an employee confirms that Talarico had been "just discharged" from the facility on Saturday. He was seemingly discharged the day before, on Friday, but his discharge was likely not processed or finalized immediately. She did, however, confirm that he was at the facility.

LISTEN:

Nick Sortor broke the news on X after he and Amacher called the facility.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week

The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE

Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.

While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.

The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful.

And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.

I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on.

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 11, 2026

Due to HIPAA privacy laws, it is unclear whether the employee's disclosure of Talarico's name being in the Lindner Center system was legal.

As previously noted by GOP fundraiser Caroline Wren on Saturday, Talarico appeared to have taken a private plane from Hamilton, Ohio, back to Austin, Texas, on Friday morning, just before he emerged at the music festival. Wren also pointed out that this is the same facility where Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo stayed for nearly two months during an episode back in 2023.

And the facility hosts drag shows, which is an added bonus for Talarico. Maybe his favorite drag queen was there.

What are the chances that a private plane took off from Austin and flew to tiny Hamilton airport in Ohio which is 20 mins from the Lindner Center, a private inpatient mental health treatment facility, and then turned around and flew back to Austin landing yesterday morning at… pic.twitter.com/ICSqp9sIG6

— Caroline Wren (@CarolineWren) October 10, 2026

Former Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt also sounded the alarm on Friday, noting that while Talarico deserves "empathy," he also deserves people to "savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors" for lying to the people of Texas and trying to hide this.

"Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it. You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work," Pratt wrote.

My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico. We should, of course, savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors, by all means...and while yes, of course, this would be disqualifying for Talarico's aspirations to be a Texas Senator, we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis. Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it. You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work.

I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health.

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) October 9, 2026

We have contacted the Talarico campaign to ask for confirmation of this story and a statement. We will update this story when we hear back.

This is a developing story.

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President Trump on Sunday announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

“Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump said on Sunday.

Later Sunday morning, Zelensky responded and said Ukraine supports the ceasefire.

“I just spoke with Mark Carney, @alexstubb, and @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte. We discussed the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump,” Zelensky said.

“Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important that Russia support it as well. We are awaiting details from the American side. For our part, Ukraine always FULLY supports steps toward de-escalation, the protection of lives, and the decisions needed to end the war and guarantee lasting peace. Thank you!” he said.

I just spoke with @MarkJCarney, @alexstubb, and @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte. We discussed the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump. Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important that Russia support it as well. We are awaiting details from the American side. For our part, Ukraine always FULLY supports steps toward de-escalation, the protection of lives, and the decisions needed to end the war and guarantee lasting peace. Thank you!

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 11, 2026

The energy ceasefire comes after President Trump announced a historic diesel deal with Russia.

Trump said the US will now be importing diesel fuel from Russia.

The President secured several million tons of Russian diesel ahead of the midterm elections in addition to his executive order to slash prices.

Trump went off on Zelensky after announcing a deal with Russia to sell diesel to the US.

While speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump blasted the Ukrainian President’s refusal to make peace and blamed him for the continuation of the war with Russia after Ukraine’s latest attack on a Russian oil export hub.

“I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” Trump said, blaming Zelensky for high oil and diesel prices.

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As an able-bodied Christian, it’s actually quite easy for me to say that I’m opposed to assisted suicide.

God made us in His image, giving us dignity and beauty. Why would I ever want to see that snuffed out early — or more alarmingly, why would I ever want the government to decide when to snuff us out early?

But, again, I’m relatively healthy, a few extra pounds around the waist notwithstanding. Assisted suicide laws are something of an abstraction to me.

There is nothing abstract about those laws for Jason J. McGuire, president and CEO of the Christian and conservative New York Families Foundation and New York Families Action.

McGuire is battling Stage IV colorectal cancer, and it does not look great for the Christian leader.

In an article for World News Group, entitled, “Why I will quietly decline,” McGuire opened up about coming to grips with his mortality — and why he’ll still never accept the indignity of assisted suicide.

“My prognosis places me among those eligible under New York’s assisted-suicide law,” McGuire wrote. “After spending more than a decade opposing the law in Albany, I now understand this debate in a way I never wanted to.”

“Cancer has also taught me about suffering,” McGuire continued. “I do not romanticize it. There is nothing beautiful about pain, exhaustion, bowel obstructions, hospital stays, or frightening conversations with physicians. I have earnestly prayed for healing and asked God for more years — many more, if He is willing.”

“But my Christian faith has never promised me a life free from suffering. It has given me something better: the assurance that suffering need not be meaningless.”

And that is the beautiful heart of the matter.

There’s also one major reality McGuire says he has learned from cancer.

“Cancer has also confronted me with the limits of autonomy,” McGuire wrote. “Our culture prizes control — over our bodies, our circumstances, and, increasingly, the timing and manner of our deaths. I understand the appeal better than I once did.”

“There is very little about advanced cancer that feels within my control. I cannot command my cancer to stop growing. I cannot guarantee that treatment will succeed. I cannot guarantee tomorrow.”

“But losing control has not meant losing dignity,” he added.

“Dependence is not indignity. Weakness does not erase purpose.”

“My worth does not rise when I am strong or diminish when I am sick. It is not measured by what I produce, how independently I live, or by how many healthy days remain.”

“My life has value because God gave it to me. And a gift does not cease to be a gift merely because it becomes difficult to carry.”

“I don’t know where this road will lead. Perhaps treatment will give me more time. Perhaps my earthly life is much closer to its end than I want it to be.”

This is how he ended his beautiful piece, which is well worth a read for any Christian: “Tomorrow belongs to God.”

“So, when New York offers me the opportunity to hasten death, I will quietly decline.”

“And if tomorrow comes, I will receive it as the gift it is.”

There’s something profoundly humbling about a man facing his own mortality with this sort of clarity.

McGuire isn’t speaking about suffering from the comfort of a hypothetical debate. He’s living it, enduring the physical pain and emotional anguish that come with a devastating diagnosis.

And yet, even as cancer strips away so much of what he once took for granted, McGuire refuses to surrender the one thing his disease cannot touch — his God-given dignity.

That’s also what makes his testimony such a powerful challenge to the arguments surrounding assisted suicide.

When society begins treating death as a solution to suffering, it risks sending a troubling message to the sick, elderly, and disabled: That lives marked by dependence are somehow less worth living. That needing help makes someone a burden rather than a blessing.

To be clear, compassion for those suffering through terminal illnesses is certainly commendable. Nobody should be expected to celebrate excruciating pain or endure it without proper medical care.

But there’s a world of difference between alleviating suffering through compassionate treatment and deliberately ending the life of the person who is suffering.

I pray that McGuire gets the healing and additional years for which he’s asking God.

But whatever tomorrow holds for him, his testimony offers a reminder that transcends this particular political debate: Human dignity is not something we earn through strength, health, or independence.

It is something we possess simply because we are created in God’s image. And no diagnosis, no disability, and certainly no government can take that away.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A South Carolina Democrat state lawmaker was arrested on Friday for presenting and pointing a handgun at a Democrat polling location on primary day.

On June 9, State Rep. Michael Rivers (D-St. Helena Island) retrieved a handgun from the glove compartment in his vehicle and pointed it at a relative of his opponent.

Michael Rivers engaged in a “brief verbal altercation” over the political campaign for his seat. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the felony pointing charge.

Rivers lost his primary to Shannon DeLocach.

An attorney for Rivers said his client is innocent.

“Representative Rivers is asserting his innocence to this accusation levied against him by a political opponent. Michael has served admirably in the State Legislature and he is a retired member United States military. He has been an upstanding citizen for nearly seven decades. We ask for the public to withhold judgment until the facts come to light and this matter is resolved in a Court of law,” the attorney, Seth Rose, said in a statement to WIS.

Rivers was released on a $15,000 bond.

The Post and Courier reported:

State Rep. Michael Rivers was formally charged with pointing and presenting a firearm after a June incident in which he allegedly brought out the weapon at a Democratic primary polling place.

Rivers, D-St. Helena Island, was booked into the Colleton County Detention Center Oct. 9 before being released on bond, according to court and jail records.

Rivers said he is innocent and that the accusation, which stems from an altercation at a Colleton County polling location during the June 9 primary, was from a political opponent.

He is alleged to have displayed a handgun at the Green Pond Community Center shortly before 2 p.m. on primary day. An incident report from the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office at the time didn’t provide any details on the alleged confrontation, according to The Post and Courier’s reporting at the time.

According to a State Law Enforcement Division affidavit attached to his arrest warrant, Rivers and another person, whose name is redacted, had a “brief verbal altercation” over the campaign for Rivers’ House District 121 seat.

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McDonald’s was sued in federal court in Chicago over claims that an artificial intelligence pricing system lets the company and its franchisees set menu prices together, and that customers pay more because of it.

Michael Thomas, of DeKalb, Illinois, filed the proposed class action lawsuit on Oct. 2 against McDonald’s Corp. and McDonald’s USA. He wants to represent customers who bought food at the chain.

The complaint says he regularly bought the same items at different restaurants and paid different prices.

McDonald’s hit with lawsuit alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing https://t.co/bTA38Sf7VU https://t.co/fO1Zk4Zh0v

— New York Post (@nypost) October 5, 2026

The suit said about 95 percent of the roughly 14,000 U.S. McDonald’s restaurants are owned by independent franchisees, who are supposed to set their own prices and compete with one another.

It added that since at least 2019, the company has run a machine-learning “pricing engine” that takes in sales data from millions of daily transactions, including franchisees’ confidential figures, and recommends a price for each restaurant.

That engine, the complaint said, does more than cover costs.

It estimates what a restaurant’s customers will pay, uses other McDonald’s locations’ non-public data to gauge price sensitivity, and ties one store’s increases to whether other stores have already raised the same item.

“Independent businesses must set their prices independently,” the filing said.

McDonald’s has been accused of using artificial intelligence to help push up the price of your Big Mac in a bombshell new lawsuit https://t.co/X6EeT10CtW https://t.co/KMM6C6LOfO

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) October 6, 2026

The complaint added that McDonald’s pressured franchisees to use the tool and, starting in January 2026, required them to use the company’s approved pricing consultant and tools.

It said the company tracks stores that stray from the recommendations and has told investors that “pricing non-compliance” can affect whether a franchisee is considered for renewal or more stores.

Franchisees who fall out of favor risk the investment in their restaurants, the suit alleged.

McDonald’s gains either way, according to the filing, because the company takes the sales at company-owned stores and a royalty on franchise revenue.

A May 29, 2024, company fact sheet was cited for a claim that average menu prices rose about 40 percent from 2019 to 2024. The 2022 and 2023 annual reports are cited as crediting “strategic menu price increases” for the revenue hikes.

The claims for relief are under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, the Illinois Antitrust Act, and the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.

Thomas is seeking treble damages, an injunction, and attorneys’ fees.

One section of the complaint is headed “An $18 Burger.”

Reuters, which reported on the filing Monday, said the suit cites a Sept. 29 Reuters story on the McDonald’s pricing engine, and on other chains using AI for prices and operations.

Similar class action lawsuits have been filed in recent years over hotel rooms and apartment rents, Reuters reported.

McDonald’s called the claims speculative and uninformed. “AI does not set the price of a Big Mac or any other menu item,” the company said.

It insisted that franchisees set their own prices and that recommendation tools are common across numerous industries.

Lark Turner, a lawyer for Thomas, meanwhile said that McDonald’s was “leveraging its troves of data and its franchised system to nickel-and-dime consumers down to the last French fry.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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