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Is There No Crime Too Evil for Activist Judges to Let Illegals Walk Free? – RedState– redstate.com

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A convicted Cuban plane hijacker who terrorized a flight crew and forced a plane to divert to Florida in 2003 is back on the streets after a Bill Clinton-appointed federal judge ordered his release from ICE custody last week.

Miakel Guerra Morales, who served roughly 20 years in federal prison for aircraft piracy, had been detained by immigration authorities since December. He was awaiting deportation.

That is, until U.S. District Judge John E. Steele ruled on July 8th that he could no longer be held, despite the ongoing removal process.

A report from the magistrate judge in 2009 highlights some aspects of the brutality involved in the hijacking. The hijackers— Morales and a handful of co-defendants—wielded the plane’s emergency axes and several knives in an attempt to control the pilot and crew. Knives were, on multiple occasions, pressed against the throats of some individuals.

New York’s home-care fraud scandal exposes Medicaid’s rotten incentives– www.theblaze.com

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Medicaid is federally funded and state-run, but the program’s beneficiaries often have the least say in who provides their care and what that care costs.

That’s a built-in flaw. States have every incentive to maximize federal matching funds while federal taxpayers bear much of the cost. The result pits state bureaucrats against Washington’s need to control Medicaid spending — and against taxpayers’ interest in stopping providers, insurers, and contractors from cashing in on weak oversight.

New York’s home-care scandal is not merely a contracting failure. It is a warning about Medicaid’s overall design.

Ukraine Gets License to Produce French Missiles, Orders Rafale Fighter Jets– www.breitbart.com

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Ukraine will produce French-made cruise missiles, precision guided bombs, and air defense interceptor missiles through a license granted by Paris to Kyiv, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday.

Macron made the announcement during Monday’s “Coalition of the Willing” meeting in Paris that saw Macron, President Volodymyr Zelensky, and several other European heads of state reiterate their support of Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of its territory and reaffirm their calls for a ceasefire and direct negotiations between both sides.

At the meeting, Macron revealed that France has issued a license to Ukraine for the manufacturing of the missiles — marking the first time France has granted such a provision to Ukraine. The license contemplates the production of  AASM precision-guided air-to-ground bombs, Aster air-defense ‌interceptor ⁠missiles and SCALP, long-range air-launched cruise missiles.

The deal, Macron detailed, stems from a letter of intent signed between Paris and Kyiv in November 2025 that outlined Ukraine’s acquisition of 100 aircraft over the next ten years.

ICE confirms man shot and killed in Maine was illegal alien who had received order of deportation– www.theblaze.com

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson released more details about the lethal shooting of a Colombian man in Maine during an immigration operation.

Details were sparse about the lethal incident in the city of Biddeford early Monday, but in an email statement to Blaze News, ICE confirmed the man was an illegal alien.

‘Were officers threatened? Were the threats rising to the level that justified deadly force? That’s what this investigation is all about.’

Analysis Shows KBJ Is Most Partisan Justice– thefederalist.com

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A new Wall Street Journal analysis found that Ketanji Brown Jackson is the most partisan justice on the Supreme Court, voting against the Trump administration 98 percent of the time in 100 major cases. In those same cases, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas aligned with the administration 89 and 88 percent of the time, respectively.

The Wall Street Journal suggested in its article that Alito’s record was the real story behind this data: “In a term dominated by Trump-related disputes, [Alito] voted to uphold every significant Trump initiative that came before the court, and he wrote frequent, full-throated endorsements of some of Trump’s most brazen efforts to expand presidential power.”

Alito is certainly a consistent conservative justice, but Jackson sides against the Trump administration in almost every major case, according to the WSJ’s analysis. The real story this data tells is about Jackson’s radicalism, which sometimes even causes her to split with her left-wing counterparts on the court.

Iran Purposely Targets UAE Oil Tankers in Fatal Strike, Calls Ships ‘Non-Compliant’– www.westernjournal.com

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Iran attacked two tankers belonging to the United Arab Emirates on Monday as conflict reignited across the Middle East.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it attacked two “non-compliant” ships, according to The Hill.

The IRGC added that the “offending supertankers” were disabled in the Strait of Hormuz, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The IRGC claimed the ships ignored warnings and turned off their navigation systems as they sought to pass through the strait.

The statement said the U.S. was “inciting vessels to use an illegal route,” and that cooperation with an “aggressor enemy” would lead to damage and a delay in Iran allowing the strait to reopen.

The UAE said it may respond to the attack.

Gaining full control of Strait of Hormuz has proven exceptionally hard for U.S. Here’s why.– www.cbsnews.com

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Washington — President Trump has been trying to force Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz for months, turning to everything from airstrikes and naval blockades to negotiations and threats to destroy a “whole civilization.”

But restoring oil tanker traffic in the vital Middle East shipping corridor to prewar flows likely will require a much bigger armada of U.S. warships if not tens of thousands of American troops on Iranian soil, experts say. Despite on-and-off fighting, Iran can still target vessels in the slim Persian Gulf waterway with drones and missiles that have been hidden in a country a third the size of the continental United States.

“Iran has been preparing for this type of asymmetric conflict for decades now,” said Jason H. Campbell, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and a former Pentagon official. “I think they’re starting to demonstrate why no other U.S. president since Reagan has elected to engage at this level of conflict with Iran, because they have that ability to completely disrupt the Strait of Hormuz.”

The DSA’s tea party strategy– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.

Michael Harrington called it the left wing of the possible. Beneath the slogan lay a practical reality. American socialists had no viable alternative to the Democratic Party. The two-party system, ballot access laws, fundraising networks, and the institutional gravity of a party that had absorbed much of the Left all pointed in the same direction. Work within the Democrats or remain on the margins.

Harrington chose the Democrats and built the Democratic Socialists of America around that choice. He believed American socialism would accomplish more by influencing one of the nation’s two major parties than by creating a third marginal party. He spent the rest of his life defending that strategy.

For decades, DSA leaders described their approach as political realignment. Following Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) presidential campaigns, many activists embraced what became known as the dirty break: using Democratic ballot lines to build socialist power while envisioning an eventual independent workers’ party. As the organization grew and its elected officials multiplied, however, the promised break receded further into the future.

How US commerce secretary’s Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower– www.bbc.co.uk

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Four years earlier in Florida, Epstein had been sent to prison for two charges of soliciting prostitution – including one with a minor.

Andriesz suspected there was yet more to find in the Epstein files that could back up his claims – if only people knew where to look in the 3.5 million pages of documents.

“Everyone was searching ‘Lutnick’,” he says. He knew, though, that Cantor Fitzgerald executives preferred to use initials rather than full names in their emails.

Andriesz searched for “HWL” (Howard William Lutnick) and found emails sent to and from Epstein in 2018. Epstein had talked directly to Lutnick about a digital advertising company called Adfin, in which he and Lutnick’s firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, had both invested.

Andriesz spotted correspondence where Epstein had directly asked the HWL account: “what do you think the prospects for adfin are?”

Built to Endure: How Finland Built a Nation Ready for War, Helping to Make NATO Stronger– www.cbn.com

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HELSINKI, Finland — Given an 800-mile border with Russia and a history shaped by war, Finland has spent decades designing a culture to withstand crisis.

Beneath the streets of Helsinki, there’s an entire second city. Infrastructure currently used for daily life was built for the possibility of war. What, on the surface, may look like a metro station entrance actually leads to a bunker capable of housing thousands of people in case of emergency.

Until then, it’s put to use daily.

“People have learned to use also the underground premises and they know where the civil defense shelter in their own apartment building is, and people got used to it, so there is nothing traumatic about it,” explained Anna Lehtiranta, with the Helsinki City Rescue Department.

Finland is famous for the dual-use design of its emergency shelters. In peacetime, many operate as gyms, sports arenas, and even playgrounds.

“Preparedness is something that comes as a normal thing, it is in our genes, so we continue preparing ourselves for emergencies, even during the years of peacetime,” Lehtiranta told a CBN News team in Finland as a part of a recent media study tour sponsored by several NATO eastern flank countries.

Audit Shows Outlawed DEI Still Embedded In Indiana Schools– thefederalist.com

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The Indiana Family Institute (IFI) performed a comprehensive audit that details lingering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) frameworks still in place across the Indiana Public School system.

“Unfortunately, modern DEI practices undermine principles of true diversity, inclusion, and equality by emphasizing division, group identity, and unequal treatment in the name of equity and inclusion. Rather than fostering unity, DEI frameworks often encourage resentment, categorize individuals as oppressors or the oppressed, and shift focus away from merit, personal responsibility, and shared citizenship,” wrote IFI Executive Director Ryan McCann in the audit’s foreword.

ABC, NBC SILENT On Dem Suit to Block Paramount-WBD Deal– www.newsbusters.org

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The Elitist Media appear to circle the wagons as the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger approaches, terrified that CNN might face editorial standards approaching fairness. Perhaps this explains why news of the California-led Democrat lawsuit to block the deal was left off of the evening news on ABC and NBC.

The CBS Evening News did cover the lawsuit. Here is that brief in its entirety, as aired on Monday, July 13th, 2026:

TONY DOKOUPIL: Some news tonight concerning Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS News. 12 states filed an antitrust suit today aiming to block the roughly $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Brothers Discovery. The state attorneys general, all Democrats, said the deal would create a monopoly and undermine competition, violating a century-old law. Paramount Skydance argues the opposite, that the merger would increase jobs and increase consumer choice. Government regulators in several other countries have signed off and so has the U.S. Department of Justice.

There is more to the story than Dokoupil could cram into that brief towards the end of their A-block. Per NPR:

A dozen states, led by California, are suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation’s largest movie studios, television newsrooms, and other entertainment properties.

“The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement announcing the suit, which was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District.

Sweden COLLAPSED under socialism. What the country did next destroys the left’s argument.– www.theblaze.com

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For decades, socialists have held up Sweden as a model for the kind of government they want to build in the United States. But according to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, that argument falls apart the moment you look at what actually happened in Sweden.

“During the postwar decades, Sweden dramatically expanded government spending, the taxes, the regulation. By the 1970s and into the 1980s, economic growth slowed way down. Investments weakened; entrepreneurs left,” Glenn says.

“Some of Sweden’s most successful companies and business leaders moved. They just moved out of the country. IKEA relocated ownership to the Netherlands. Tetra Pak moved to Switzerland. Sweden’s relative standing among wealthy nations fell sharply for two decades,” he explains.

Instead of doubling down, Sweden then reversed course.

“Governments from both the left and the right reduced regulations. They reformed the pensions. These are things we’re not doing. They introduced private competition into education. … Today, more than 800 independent schools operate with public funding. Private companies run a substantial share of the Swedish primary health centers,” he says.

“Taxes were restructured. Markets were liberalized. The reforms were not a rejection of the welfare state. They were an acknowledgment that somebody first has to create the wealth to pay for it,” he continues.

How Radical Islamist Alliances Have Captured the Democratic Base– www.westernjournal.com

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The recent New York Democratic primary results reveal more than typical political turnover. They expose a dangerous realignment within the American Left. What we’re witnessing is the systematic mobilization of Islamist organizations forging strategic alliances with democratic socialists and far-left activists, creating a powerful coalition that threatens the party’s traditional center.

The deliberate targeting and defeat of Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar exemplifies this troubling trend. As a moderate Democrat and the first South Asian woman elected to the state legislature, Rajkumar embodied the pragmatic wing of her party.

Her loss wasn’t an isolated upset. It represents part of a coordinated effort to purge moderate voices from Democratic politics. Across New York, we’re seeing well-funded insurgent campaign machines systematically target and eliminate centrist Democrats, replacing them with candidates who embrace increasingly radical positions.

In this highly charged new political landscape, American Jewish and Hindu communities have been uniquely vilified, alienated, and targeted. Longstanding peaceful minority groups who have contributed immensely to the fabric of New York are being pushed to the margins as the radical left consolidates power.

Why Are There FBI Agents Outside of Lindsey Graham’s DC Residence?– townhall.com

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has passed away. He died suddenly last Saturday evening at age 71, with preliminary medical reports indicating he suffered an aortic dissection. Graham had just returned from Ukraine and was reportedly telling aides he was not feeling well. When urged to seek medical attention, he said he would after his appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.

FBI Director Kash Patel posted this when news of Graham’s passing was made public:

Senator Lindsey Graham was a devoted public servant, a fierce defender of our nation, and a true patriot who dedicated his life to the people of South Carolina and the United States.

Our prayers are with his family, loved ones, colleagues, and all those who knew him during this devastating time.

The FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available.

Iran shipped $6 billion worth of oil products before new blockade– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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In the 26 days between the signing of the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding and the reinstatement of the U.S. blockade, Tehran shipped over $6 billion worth of oil products to foreign buyers.

Iran shipped out over 80 million barrels of crude oil and refined products between June 18, when the first blockade was lifted, and when it was reimposed on July 13, according to TankerTrackers.com, a tanker-tracking research firm. The blockade, however, closed around Iran before Tehran was able to ship out all of its storage capacity, so around 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil were unable to embark.

TankerTrackers said over 60 million barrels of floating storage capacity remain available within the blockade perimeter, with the shipments and returned ships taken into account.

CNBC’s Woke ‘Worst States’ List Accidentally Makes Red America Look Great – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Listicles are a dime a dozen. They’re a quick, easy content option that can also provide clickbait headlines, which is why you see them on websites all the time. I remember a time here at PJ Media years ago under different leadership when we wrote an insane amount of listicle content.

One popular form of the listicle is those lists of great or bad places to live. All you have to do is determine your criteria and rank states in a way that proves your point. A search for “best states” or “worst states” will give you plenty of options.

And then there’s CNBC. The network released its list of the “10 worst states to live in for 2026” on Saturday, and you’ll notice a pattern:

‘Transgender’ university worker under investigation for cheering Catholic politician’s murder– www.lifesitenews.com

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The University of Aberdeen in Scotland is investigating a “transgender” employee who publicly celebrated the apparent murder of former British MP Ann Widdecombe.

As covered last week by LifeSiteNews, the 78-year-old Widdecombe was found dead in her Devon, England, home on July 9. Police have not yet announced a suspected motive, but Widdecombe’s death is now being investigated by “counter-terrorism” authorities.

A Catholic convert and pro-life politician who served from 1987 to 2010, Widdecombe endeared herself to Britons with her surprisingly popular appearances on television shows Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Big Brother. 

The Herald reports that, in since-deleted BlueSky posts, Aberdeen web developer “Heather” Herbert, a biological male who identifies as female, wrote, “Some good news for once. I hope it was an extremely painful death” and “I hope she was handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony.”

Lindsey Graham’s Final Net Worth Leaves Americans Stunned– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham spent more than three decades in Congress, but public financial disclosures show his estate was far smaller than that of many of his longtime colleagues on Capitol Hill.

Lindsey Graham’s final net worth was estimated at roughly $1.4 million when he died, based on financial disclosure forms he filed in May. Those records placed the low end of his estimated wealth at just over $600,000 and the high end at slightly more than $2.2 million.

Despite serving 31 years in Congress, Graham ranked just 294th in wealth among the 535 voting members of Congress, according to data compiled by Quiver Quantitative.