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  • Dems Fight Aid to Israel, Send Aid to Egypt Which Persecutes Christians

    07/21/2026 4:16:10 AM PDT · by texas booster · 5 replies
    FrontPage Magazine ^ | July 21 2026 | Daniel Greenfield
    Last year, a bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced H.Res.776: a resolution expressing concern about the persecution of Coptic Christians under Egypt’s Islamic regime. The resolution has only picked up 8 cosponsors and has yet to make it out of committee. By contrast, 103 House Democrats voted in favor of the Massie amendment to cut aid to Israel out of H. R. 8595 which also apportions $1.4 billion to Egypt and $1.6 billion to Jordan. Meanwhile an amendment to zero out the $1.4 billion in military aid to Egypt never even made it out of the House Rules Committee...
  • Nolte: DHS Encourages Springfield Haitians to Self-Deport (free $2,600 and airfare)

    07/21/2026 4:03:53 AM PDT · by dennisw · 10 replies
    breitbart ^ | 20 Jul 2026 | John Nolte
    And remember, that’s where these people are going: home. An earthquake brought them here. They knew the stay would be temporary (18 months). That turned into 16 years, and instead of complaining, protesting, and making things difficult for their very generous hosts, they should be grateful for the extra time and thank America on their way … home. Trump administration, backed by a recent Supreme Court decision, put the “temporary” back into “Temporary Protected Status (TPS),” the current focus is on Springfield, Ohio, a town of about 45,000 that saw its population explode when 15,000 Haitians with TPS moved in....
  • Britain Changes Prime Ministers. The Failed Agenda Stays the Same.

    07/20/2026 8:55:31 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Red State ^ | 07/20/2026 | Jennifer Van Laar
    Britain's seventh prime minister in ten years took office Monday, promising even more of the same failed policies in his first address to the public.Keir Starmer, who served as Prime Minister for just over two years, officially resigned Monday morning; back in June, he announced that he would resign as soon as his party chose a successor. That happened on July 16, when Andy Burnham was elected Leader of the Labour Party.BREAKING: Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street for the final time as Britain's prime minister after officially resigning.Following a farewell ceremony outside No. 10, Starmer leaves office as former...
  • How China Made and Shipped Fake Driver’s Licenses to Tamper With the 2020 Election

    07/20/2026 8:43:39 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 07/20/2026 | Tim O'Brien
    When President Donald Trump talked about some of the things China has done to literally steal our democracy by seeing to it that, in 2020, its Manchurian candidate was elected in the form of a semi-comatose Joe Biden, many of the things he mentioned had already been in the news, but they may not have been covered by the legacy media.Case in point: Trump mentioned in his July 16 address to the nation that China stole TikTok data to create fake U.S. driver’s licenses.If you follow conservative media, you may have known this. If you get your news from the...
  • Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, citing disputes over autos, alcohol and cheese

    07/20/2026 4:02:15 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 33 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 5:49 PM CDT, July 20, 2026 | JOSH BOAK
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products.The move could unleash a new wave of economic chaos, with risks of higher inflation and further fraying of relations between two nations that had been closely woven together before Trump’s return to the White House. The administration official previewing the action said that Canada was one of the only nations other than China that retaliated against Trump’s previous tariffs and must be held accountable.The official insisted on anonymity on a call with...
  • Iran: 2 oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz have exploded <— FAKE NEWS

    07/20/2026 11:16:02 AM PDT · by Mariner · 72 replies
    The Hill via Yahoo ^ | July 20th, 2026 | Ryan Mancini
    Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday said two "deviant" oil tankers exploded after passing through the Strait of Hormuz.The IRGC said the ships exploded after they tried to enter and exit the strait through an "unsafe route," according to the state-run Fars News Agency. The outlet added that the tankers were "instigated and forced by the United States" to enter the strait and violate the designated routes through the crucial waterway."If they break their oaths after their covenant and attack your religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief; indeed, they have no oaths; perhaps they will cease," the...
  • Trump Must Abandon His Dangerous Plan to Sell F-35s to Turkey

    07/20/2026 5:31:05 AM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 54 replies
    Gatestone Institute ^ | July 19, 2026 | Con Coughlin
    • Trump's willingness to even consider lifting the F-35 ban is being seen in the context of his charm offensive to forge closer ties with Erdogan, an initiative the American leader has undertaken despite the Turkish leader's well-documented support for radical Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. • Erdogan also seems to have initiated a charm offensive, most likely with at least a partial view to prying loose those F-35s. • According to the report published by Israel's i24News, Kurdish militias were preparing to launch an attack on Iran with the aim of instigating a nationwide rebellion...
  • Turkey arrests comedian for calling Erdogan ‘dictator’ and hurting Islam

    07/20/2026 3:58:09 AM PDT · by Milagros · 39 replies
    Hindustan ^ | 7.6.2026
    Deniz Goktas was detained by authorities at the Istanbul airport for his comments in a YouTube video which has now garnered over 9.6 million views.
  • ICE Has Only Seemed To Be Quieter

    07/19/2026 7:04:51 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 57 replies
    Washington Monthly ^ | July 19, 2026 | Anne Kim
    The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency. Arrests, detentions, and deportations have all increased under new DHS Director Markwayne Mullin. As a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin enjoyed a reputation for confrontation and theatricality. He often donned a cowboy hat on the Senate floor (a no-no for a body that prizes decorum) and strode the hallways of the Capitol bouncing a rubber stress ball. During a 2023 Senate hearing, the former mixed martial arts fighter challenged Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a fistfight, taunting him to “stand your butt up.” In a...
  • Globalism: A Concept to Understand Our Times. Is there a constructive way to define the term “globalism”?

    07/19/2026 6:53:43 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 61 replies
    The Globalist ^ | November 12, 2026 | Stefan Richter, Uwe Bott
    The definitional lines between globalization and globalism have long been blurred. For its part, globalization is best defined as a process or series of processes that integrate the world economically, politically and socially. Globalism’s critical role But what is globalism? Quite often, the term is used synonymously with the word “globalization,” as if the two words were interchangeable. To be sure, the word “globalist” has come to be a battle cry — primarily on the political right, but is also one on the political left. The “globalist” charge is alternatively (ab)used to describe either the creation of some imaginary and...
  • Israel’s $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion

    07/19/2026 1:51:35 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 18, 2026 9:00 pm ET | Maggie Severns , Josh Dawsey and Natalie Andrews
    The Israeli government is trying to shore up its U.S. reputation with help from influencers, Trump insiders and millions of AI-driven texts The text messages come from senders named Emma or Sarah, with a group called Friends for Peace. “How do you think the U.S. and Israel’s peace talks with Iran will impact global security?” they ask. Millions of similar texts have flooded American cellphones in recent months. They are written with artificial intelligence, pushed by a longtime Trump adviser’s firm—and paid for by the Israeli government. Some 60% of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according...
  • Social Media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate Arrested in Miami, US Marshals Service Tells AP

    07/18/2026 10:55:43 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 33 replies
    WKRN ^ | Jul 18, 2026 | ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
    Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities, were arrested Saturday in Miami as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges. The brothers were taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service on a sealed warrant, agency spokesperson Brady McCarron told The Associated Press, placing the United States at the center of an international legal saga that has stretched from Romania to Britain. British prosecutors announced Saturday that they were seeking the brothers’ extradition on charges alleging they...
  • UN Ambassador Bursts Mamdani's Bubble Over His Wish to Arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu in NYC

    07/18/2026 7:52:46 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    Red State ^ | 07/18/2026 | Becca Lower
    When will the members of the far-Left cabal learn? New York City, as the home of the United Nations headquarters, is hosting the U.N. General Assembly in the fall. And Democratic Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed during a recent interview with a New York Times interviewer that he's holding onto a deeply-held wish and campaign promise: to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested when the world leader arrives in his city to attend it.“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in the Hague,” Mr. Mamdani told Lulu Garcia-Navarro this week on “The Interview,” a New York Times show,...
  • Israeli Knocks Out "pro-palestinian" Attacker After Israelis Are Targeted For Speaking Hebrew In Cyprus.

    07/18/2026 6:59:57 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 14 replies
    siete_octubre. July 16, 2026. 🇺🇸 English. Israeli Knocks Out "pro-palestinian" Attacker After Israelis Are Targeted For Speaking Hebrew In Cyprus. A group of Israelis was attacked in Ayia Napa after being identified as Hebrew speakers. Witnesses say a group of pro-Palestinian activists confronted and assaulted them because they were Israeli. This time, one Israeli refused to back down. He fought back with a single punch, knocking one of the attackers unconscious.
  • Trump’s bridge strikes cut off city that keeps Iran alive

    07/18/2026 3:21:57 PM PDT · by Mariner · 144 replies
    The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | July 18th, 2026 | Benedict Smith
    Just before dawn, the bridges began to fall.One by one, American missiles reduced them to crumpled concrete, strewn across river beds and gorges.For a week, the US had bombed southern cities, cranking up the pressure on Iran to relinquish control of the Strait of Hormuz.But now the US military was going for the transport arteries connecting key southern ports to the rest of the country.The bombings leave Bandar Abbas, a city of 500,000 people where roughly half the country's trade comes ashore, almost completely isolated.
  • Iran threatens 'unforgettable lessons', as two US troops killed

    07/18/2026 12:26:29 PM PDT · by Mariner · 44 replies
    AFP via Yahoo ^ | July 18th, 2026 | AFP teams in Tehran, Washington and Dubai
    Iran's supreme leader vowed to teach the United States "unforgettable lessons" on Saturday, as Washington reported its first military deaths since renewing its hostilities with the Islamic republic.A month after the foes signed a now-abandoned preliminary deal aimed at ending their war, Tehran struck infrastructure around the Gulf in retaliation for a week of intensifying US attacks, which Iran said had hit an airport, a railway station and bridges.Iran hit an oil facility in Kuwait as well as a power and water plant, authorities in the Gulf state said, while in Bahrain the army said air defences repelled a wave...
  • US military says 2 troops are dead and 1 is missing after Iran attacks a base in Jordan

    07/18/2026 11:02:12 AM PDT · by thegagline · 56 replies
    APnews ^ | Jon Gambrell et al
    The U.S. military on Saturday announced the first U.S. troop deaths due to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war, saying two were killed and another was missing in an attack on a base in Jordan.They were killed Friday as the U.S. and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks, a statement said. Four other service members who were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals were later discharged. The dead were not identified. Since the war began, 16 U.S. service members have now been killed and over 430 wounded.Minutes earlier, Iran’s supreme leader had warned...
  • Egyptian terror group claimed responsibility for downing TWA Flight 800 off Long Island in 1996, new FBI records reveal

    07/18/2026 11:01:06 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 55 replies
    New York Post ^ | July 18, 2026 | Geoff Earle
    A terror group from Egypt told the FBI it was responsible for downing TWA Flight 800 and killing all 230 people aboard, according to newly surfaced FBI records featured in a new documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the tragedy. An explosive claim buried in a trove of newly obtained Freedom of Information Act documents is reviving decades-old questions about whether a missile or bomb brought down the Boeing 747-100 off Long Island on July 17, 1996. Among the records obtained by the transparency nonprofit Judicial Watch is a New York teletype dated two days after the crash, case file...
  • Francesca Hong, running for governor of Wisconsin, focuses campaign on affordability — and Israel

    07/18/2026 10:49:01 AM PDT · by mac_truck · 11 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 7/16/2026 | Joseph Strauss
    Francesca Hong is running for governor of Wisconsin, emphasizing affordability and opposition to US support for Israel. Her message is one the Republican Governors Association hopes to boost ahead of the Democratic primary next month: The opposing party unveiled an ad on Thursday dubbing her “too liberal” for Wisconsin. The ad is set to run in liberal parts of the state. The Republican calculus appears to be to make her appealing to a restive Democratic base that, in a number of races nationwide, has turned against the party establishment. That, in turn, could deliver the nomination to an unabashed left-winger...
  • 'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix

    07/18/2026 9:53:03 AM PDT · by jerod · 56 replies
    CBC News ^ | July 18, 2026 | Inayat Singh
    Firefighting efforts can help protect communities but can't tackle Canada's vast fire landscapeIt's another smoky summer in southern Ontario, and people breathing poor air in and around Toronto are once again asking what governments can do about wildfire smoke. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has defended the province's wildfire budget and has asked Ottawa for extra help. Some Republican lawmakers in the U.S. have also demanded Canada do more to stop smoke from drifting across the border. But experts say the politics can obscure a harder reality: fire is a natural part of Canada's forests, and a warming climate is making...