Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey went to war with Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham on X over a question that cuts to the bone of the immigration debate: Should American companies prioritize hiring Americans? Graham preached pure meritocracy—hire the "most qualified," citizenship be damned. Luckey fired back that American law should structurally advantage American citizens, called the H-1B program a "scam" he personally witnessed in Silicon Valley, and pointed out that only a tiny fraction of Anduril's roughly 10,000 employees are non-citizens (x.com). He accused investors like Graham of dressing up "traitorous ideas" in reasonable-sounding language (x.com).

The clash lands in the middle of a broader Trump administration push to reform H-1B: DHS has proposed hiking petition fees to price out abuse after courts blocked an earlier $100,000 fee executive action. As the Daily Caller's Mary Rooke documented, computer-related H-1B approvals have exploded since the mid-'90s, with Big Tech titans like Microsoft, Google, and Meta using the program to suppress domestic wages while pocketing the savings (dailycaller.com). Luckey is proving you can build a world-class defense company without selling out the American worker.

The man who once demanded ICE checkpoints for "on the spot" deportations just got deported himself. ICE arrested British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at New Orleans' airport on August 27, and DHS confirmed he was on a plane back to the U.K. the next day (usatoday.com). Yiannopoulos had entered legally in 2019 but overstayed his visa and blew off his immigration hearing. He'd also recently torched Trump on a podcast, calling the president "bought, paid for, owned and operated" on Israel—and right-wing figure Laura Loomer took credit for reporting his illegal status to authorities (npr.org).

Ben Shapiro frames this exactly right: immigration law applies to everyone, regardless of political tribe. You overstay your visa, you skip your hearing, you get removed—full stop. The fact that Yiannopoulos was once a MAGA darling makes the case a powerful proof of principle, not an embarrassment (nbcnews.com). The Trump administration even used the high-profile arrest to promote its voluntary self-deportation program, which offers undocumented immigrants $3,000 and a flight home (nbcnews.com).

Megyn Kelly and Jesse Kelly aren't buying the "relatable empty nester" spin. On the August 26 episode of her "IMO" podcast, Michelle Obama told Jon Stewart she flat-out doesn't miss having her adult daughters at home—"I don't miss 'em" and "I love my schedule"—while describing Barack as the one who actually cried when the girls left (instyle.com). The conservative internet took notice immediately (silive.com).

Fox News reported that Matt Walsh called the comments out as tone-deaf from a woman who had an army of staff and every resource imaginable during her years as a mother, while Meghan McCain also weighed in critically (foxnews.com). Conservative commentators see the remarks as part of a broader pattern—a former first lady who uses her platform for grievance rather than gratitude, and whose casual dismissal of motherhood reinforces the suspicion that progressive elites hold traditional family values in contempt (capitalisminstitute.org).

Matt Walsh is sounding the alarm on one of the most disturbing tech-enabled crimes imaginable: AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The numbers are staggering—reports of AI-generated CSAM skyrocketed from roughly 4,700 in 2023 to over 1.5 million by the end of 2025, and forty-six states have now rushed to criminalize it (enoughabuse.org). The federal Take It Down Act, which took effect in May 2026, already has its first conviction—an Ohio man who used AI to create explicit imagery of women and children (stackcyber.com).

But the legal fight is far from won. Prosecutors are overwhelmed by the sheer number of platforms enabling deepfake creation, courts are split on whether wholly synthetic images deserve the same penalties as real CSAM, and defense lawyers keep hiding behind the First Amendment (npr.org). Meanwhile, civil litigation is piling on—Tennessee teenagers filed a class action against Elon Musk's xAI in March, alleging Grok churned out millions of sexualized images of minors due to shoddy safeguards (americanbar.org). Walsh's message is simple: stop debating and start prosecuting.