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July 30, 2026

Ukraine Drones Reach All the Way to the Caspian Sea to Destroy Two Sanctioned Russian Ships Delivering Iranian Military Equipment to Russia

—Disinformation Expert Ace

There's a lot of whining from the Russians and Iranians and the hard left, but the rules are clear, ships transporting arms and military gear are fair targets in war.

And Russia is meanwhile sinking Ukranian ships delivering grain to foreign buyers. So, fair is fair.

Ukraine struck an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea, claiming it was transporting drone and missile components to Russia, marking the first direct military link between the wars in Ukraine and Iran.

Well... it is also reported that Russia is providing Iran with the targeting data it uses to hit our bases with missiles, including the deadly attack on a base in Jordan a couple of weeks ago.

Iran vowed retaliation, accusing Kyiv of violating international law, while Ukraine defended the strike as part of its campaign to disrupt Russia's military supply chains and its partnership with Tehran.

The attack carries broader geopolitical implications, potentially deepening coordination between Russia and Iran while signaling closer strategic alignment between Ukraine and the U.S. amid the expanding regional conflict.

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While details of the July 25 incident are murky, Ukraine's intelligence agency the SBU said its drones hit an oil platform in the Caspian Sea along with a Russian missile boat and "cargo ships that are under international sanctions."

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday announced that Ukrainian forces had achieved "very good results" in long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea, including against vessels used to transport military cargo linked to Iran.

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Thousands of Africans Flood Past Weak Fencing to Enter Spanish City of Ceuta, Saying "Goodbye Morocco, Hello Spain;"
The Socialist, Open Borders Government Refuses to Halt the Mass Illegal Migration

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Democrats have a plan for America. This is that plan.

I think this town is on the African side of Gibraltar.

Hundreds of migrants swim to Spain's Ceuta territory from Morocco

Ceuta (Spain) (AFP) -- Hundreds of migrants entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta on Thursday, AFP reporters saw, many of them having swum by sea around the frontier fence.

Migration from Morocco into Spain's two north African territories, Ceuta and Melilla, has long been a politically sensitive issue between the two countries, as thousands cross the border at times.

AFP reporters saw a stream of adults and children, most of them wet, entering the town. Discarded flotation rings and clothes had been left on the shore near where the frontier barrier meets the sea.

The president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, said Wednesday that 1,500 migrants had come to Ceuta by sea in the past few days.

"We are in a situation of total humanitarian and social emergency," he said in comments broadcast Thursday by Spanish television.

Earlier, he had said that the reception centres were saturated as the number of people entering was more than 200 a day.

"There is no more room for anyone," he said.

Officials could not immediately be reached on Thursday to give more recent figures.
Gathering in Morocco

Migrants walked cheerfully through the streets of Ceuta, thanking the Spanish police and calling out: "Bye bye, Morocco, hello Spain."

Police and Civil Guards in Ceuta appeared to do little to intervene, though some officers attempted to direct the arrivals to the local migrant reception centre.

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On the Moroccan side of the border, an AFP reporter on Thursday afternoon saw hundreds of people including children gathered near the border between Ceuta and the local town of Fnideq, waiting to cross into the Spanish territory.

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Sanchez's right-wing political rivals immediately pressured him on Thursday over the migrant arrivals.

"The government cannot look the other way regarding its duties because we are facing a national security crisis," said opposition Popular Party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo on X.

Far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal on X blamed Sanchez personally for the migrant influx in Ceuta.

Ceuta and Melilla have Europe's only two land borders with Africa.

Fox News @FoxNews

Thousands of migrants from Morocco poured over the country's border with Spain and into the country's African enclave of Ceuta after swimming around border barriers to reach the territory.

The latest wave comes after more than 1,500 migrants arrived in Ceuta by sea over the past week, according to regional authorities.

Ceuta's leader is now urging Spain's national government to declare an emergency as the enclave faces another major surge at the European Union's only land border with Africa.

This border breach comes at the same time as President Trump sounds the alarm about the rising number of migrants coming from Africa and other parts of the world who he says are "invading" European countries.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24


BREAKING:

🇪🇸 An "absolute migratory emergency" has been declared in Spain's enclave of Ceuta after a massive surge of illegal migrants.

Hundreds of Moroccan and Algerian migrants who flooded the Spanish enclave yesterday breached the border fence today without control.

In recent days, more than 1,500 migrants, including adults and minors, reached Ceuta by sea, swimming from Morocco and overwhelming border security.

Today they completely overwhelmed local forces, leaving reception and juvenile centers fully saturated.

With resources exhausted, Ceuta's government demanded that Spain declare a national emergency and send the military to suppress the crisis.

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The Gay Communists of the WNBA Micro-Fandom Harass, Threaten Two Teenage Girls for Supporting Sophie Cunningham and All-Female Sports

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Just disgraceful. They're animals.

WNBA Team Co-Owner Fined, Suspended for Harassing Teen Fans over Opposition to Men in Women's Sports


The Seattle Storm apologized after the team's co-owner Celeste Keaton harassed two teenage fans during a home game over their opposition to trans-identifying males participating in women's sports.

Keaton was fined by the WNBA and suspended from the Storm's next five home games for berating two teenage girls at Tuesday's game against the Indiana Fever. The girls were wearing "XX XY Athletics" shirts and holding signs expressing support for Sophie Cunningham, a Fever guard who has spoken out in support of fairness in women's and girls' sports.

"We apologize that this happened," the Seattle Storm said in a statement. "Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect."

The girls' signs read, "Thank you, Sophie #8, for speaking up for girls!"

"Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe," Cunningham posted on X. "You'll be hearing from me soon."

In an interview after the game, the teenage girls told podcaster Brandi Kruse that Keaton swore at them until one of them broke down in tears.

"This older lady comes up to us and she asks, 'What are you guys doing?'" one of the girls told Kruse. "And she's like, 'Oh I hope Jesus can forgive you for what sin you've done.'" Then the woman called the girls "F***ing insane" and pointed to her head. One of the girls started sobbing.

"I've never been yelled at like that. I've had people hate on me on the internet, but it doesn't really affect me as much," she said. "That just took me by surprise because I thought she was going to be nice, and she just started screaming at us and cussing at us."

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When the girls later learned that the woman who swore at them was a co-owner of the Storm, they were shocked and disappointed. They said the rest of the game was difficult to sit through.

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When the group entered the stadium, they were heckled by fans who continued to boo Cunningham each time she touched the ball. Fans would also boo the girls when they took pictures before the game as well as between quarters.


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The Thursday Morning Rant

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Yes, the CBD 'Journey Into Subconsciousness' continues.

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—CBD

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The Morning Report — 7/ 30 /26

—J.J. Sefton

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So Anthony the Mini-Mengele Fauci pleaded the Fifth more than Joe Valachi. Well he certainly has more victims than Valachi and the entire mafia in its bloody history combined. As commenter Paul G. wrote over at CJN yesterday:

As I currently watch the Dr. Fauci’stein hearings, I cannot help but think that this could be one of the largest crimes of humanity in history. I know that’s a long, far out analysis, but the breadth of outright lying by Dr. Fauci’stein, his funding of gain of function research outside the country, and then the cover up to shut down the world priming the U.S. CDC and NIH to be put under U.N. WHO control, thus surpassing our own Constitution. Fauci’stein’s personality, mental make-up, ability to outright lie to the world, let alone the American people and to become some kind of Hero of Science deliberately resulting in the death of millions. The murderer’s at the Nuremberg Trials I feel were more truthful than Dr. Fauci’stein. I don’t know where this leaves us, but a known mass killer will surely walk free and receive accolades and monetary awards for being one the Globalist’s flying monkey’s.

All too true, sir. given the corruption of our courts and the horribly effective propaganda machine of the media, Fauci will likely exit stage left, at least until another Democrat is elected or is otherwise installed into the White House as happened in 2020 and he will be brought back under much pomp and circumstance.

What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.

In the history of Congress, only a couple of mob bosses have invoked the privilege more.

“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights, under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,”

the Machiavellian career bureaucrat said over and over in the nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

But Fauci’s silence rendered him a villain more powerfully than his usual sly deceptions.

Shameful, too, were the Democrats and their media handmaidens who continue to run cover for Fauci, singing his praises, and denying their flock the truth about a man who filled his pandemic ­diary with self-praise and celebrity worship while remaining callously aloof from the human suffering he had caused. . . What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.

If there were any true justice in this world, his final chapter would end with him strapped into a gurney in the death house of a federal prison, and a doctor declaring him dead after being given a lethal injection.

Alas, this is America 2026 and as we all know too well, real justice from a judicial system that has been thoroughly corrupted as a weapon of political repression against any opponent of Leftism/Socialism/Globalism and the Democrat agenda is nigh impossible to get. What the future holds in that regard, whether we see a reversal of that in our lifetimes or at least the lifetime of those who have much of their lives in front of them is to be seen.


Elsewhere we have the ramping up of operations and the President's rhetoric against the Iranian regime. Well, you don't have to be Victor Davis Hanson to see this, as I've been screaming this the whole time, but he's more eloquent than I am for sure.

We know the tired Iranian strategy by now. We might call it “theocratic rope-a-dope.” For the theocrats and their terrorist proxies, survival means outlasting Trump, waiting for the next cash-laden Democrat administration, and using “moderates” to play good cop while haggling away months. The mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps feign indifference even as their half-century, half-trillion-dollar investments in what is now essentially a vaporized military-industrial-nuclear complex continue to be destroyed.

The war has finally revealed the full extent of Iran’s vast conventional arsenal, nuclear program, and missile and drone industry.


It's why after reading this item, I thought something stinks to high Heaven.

The ship that Ukraine struck in the Caspian Sea on Saturday [July 25] contained components for drones and missiles on their way to Iran, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said in an interview with N12 on Sunday.

Iran claimed the ship was carrying civilian goods when it was attacked by Ukraine and accused Ukraine of seeking to expand the Russia-Ukraine war….

This stinks because yes for sure the Russians are in bed with the Iranians but also because it provides a mighty convenient excuse for those who have President Trump's ear to give military aid and assistance to Ukraine , which thankfully he has been loathe to do so far.

And worse than that with the situation with the Mullahs at an impasse, this item hints at potential American boots on the ground, which would be an unmitigated disaster for all the reasons I and others here and elsewhere have shrieked since the beginning.

The United States and Israel are considering some form of a land blockade to crank up the economic pressure on Iran as the war against the Islamic Republic enters its sixth month, the Washington Free Beacon can report. The land blockade would complement the sea blockade that's been in effect for some time.

"What if you just block the land? Suppose Iran can't bring anything in, cannot take anything out," a senior Israeli official told the Free Beacon—raising one possibility the two countries have been discussing.

Great, Ho Chi Minh Trail 2, let's drag in the Chi-Coms boogaloo! (who as was reported last week were supplying Iran


Have a good day,


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Daily Tech News 30 July 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • The United States government just banned Roombas. (The Verge)

    Well, it didn't, and wouldn't have at all if it hadn't previously blocked the acquisition of US company iRobot by US company Amazon leaving the market to Chinese competitors. And they're only being blocked over well-founded fears of being used for surveillance just like every other thing in our lives these days with more functional purpose than a Chia Pet.

    If you like your Roomba you can keep your Roomba, and existing models of Roomba can continue to be imported, but new models of Roomba - and of any other imported robot - will need to be certified.

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Wednesday Night ONT - July 29, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. No Dr. Pepper. Sorry. But each patron gets a free restroom token as compensation.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Everyone probably needs a cleanse from Fifth Amendment Fauci, so let's stipulate that he is an evil, narcissistic fraud and avoid letting his existence burn any more of our brain cells.

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Wednesday Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Village of Tissington in the Peak District
@peaklass1

Puppy is having a nightmare so an adult dog comes over.

Fashionably furry bag.

Senior dog is full of love.

This puppy is too cute.

Bringing home the new puppy.

Cat Action Photography!


Mom needs some meow-time.

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Department of Education Investigates Minnesota's Use of "Trans Dolls" with Swappable Genitalia to Promote Transgenderism to Young Children

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I think it's time to simply eject Minnesota from the United States. It's a diseased appendage that must be cut off to save the rest of the body.

It just gets worse and worse every single day.

The Department of Education is investigating the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) over the potential use of transgender dolls in schools. The investigation was launched Wednesday in response to complaints about "MyGender Dolls," a product designed to encourage transgenderism through the use of toy dolls.

Earlier this week, controversy erupted after multiple outlets reported that transgender dolls with interchangeable genitalia would be debuting in Minnesota classrooms this fall, funded by taxpayer dollars. The dolls reportedly originated as a University of Minnesota project through its medical school, which receives $15 million in state funding. An undisclosed amount is also dispersed to its Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, which has a total budget of $1.4 million. The dolls became a marketable product, called MyGender Dolls, marketed to "professionals who support trans and gender diverse children in clinical and educational settings."

The Department of Education is investigating to ensure the MDE is in compliance with the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), which restricts federal funding for schools that force students to engage in activities forcing them "to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation" on their "sex behavior or attitudes." The amendment is targeted at preventing schools from hiding name and pronoun changes from parents, as well as transition plans. A complaint filed by parents through Defending Education prompted the federal investigation by highlighting potential violations of multiple federal policies.

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[Secretary of Education Linda] McMahon continued, saying, "No four-year-old should be exposed to such material -- especially without a parent's knowledge or consent. ED will enforce the law to its fullest extent, putting parents and families firmly in the driver's seat of their child's education."

Emily Buss, the Communications Director for Minnesota's Department of Education, disputes the claim about the dolls being used in schools, calling it "patently false." "The paper-cutout dolls will not be implemented in Minnesota K-12 public schools. They are intended for use by licensed professionals and clinicians. This is a University of Minnesota-led initiative, and the Minnesota Department of Education is not involved," she said.

That's a lie. Adult "clinicians" do not play with paper dolls in order to understand sex change operations. The paper dolls are designed to be used to show to children.

And the MyGender Dolls website admits this:

The MyGender Dolls website explicitly states that the dolls are a "first-of-their-kind therapeutic play approach designed for gender diverse children ages 4--10."

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"Trans" Man Beats Mother to Death With Hammer

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Coming to a girls locker room near you.

But how could you keep him out of a women's locker room? As you can see from the photos that run with that story, he looks exactly like a woman. It's uncanny!


The only way to check his gender would be to forcibly reach down his pants, AOC tells me. You can't tell from his masculine ugly face nor from his five o'clock shadown nor from from his male-pattern obesity. No only invasive "genital checks" could possibly reveal his actual sex.



A transitioning son accused of killing his mother inside a Laguna Beach home bludgeoned her to death with a hammer -- with the alleged murderer's grandmother discovering the bloody aftermath, authorities said.

Police responded to the rental home of Safford James Wolfson, 36, around 11 a.m. on July 20 after Wolfson's grandma entered the residence and found blood-spattered floors and smashed furniture, prosecutors revealed.

Investigators said Wolfson's grandmother first found Wolfson lying on the floor covered in blood before discovering the body of Angela Caprioli, 61, in a bedroom with severe blunt-force injuries to her head and face.


Wolfson's grandmother called 911, with cops and medics arriving and taking Wolfson to the hospital with self-inflicted injuries to his neck.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Wolfson faces murder charges as well as a felony enhancement for using a deadly weapon.

"It is heartbreaking to think that someone could so violently end the life of the very person who gave them life," Spitzer said.

Wolfson is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bail. His arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 1 in Orange County.

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Neighbor Dustin Pettit told The California Post that he witnessed Wolfson and Caprioli involved in a tense argument at the home before the alleged killing.

"I saw her outside talking with him and it seemed like a pretty hostile conversation," he said.

"She turned around and went inside and slammed the door, like she was fed up with whatever was going on. I was like, 'What the hell is going on here?'"

I don't understand -- I was insistently informed that "gender affirming care" cured the myriad mental illnesses that "trans" people have. And yet... they seem to get worse, not better.

It's a real mystery no one can solve because No One Is Allowed to Solve It.

Resercher/reporter Andy Ngo did a book about the Zizian Trans Murder Cult and finds that parricide is alarmingly common in people supposedly cured of mental illness through the Miracle of "gender affirming medicine.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo

Parricide--the killing of one's parents--is a recurring theme I found in my years of reporting on trans violence.

Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Zizian trans death cult, where it was elevated to a religious-like tenet. Members believed it was righteous--even a duty--to take revenge against "transphobic" parents.

Pre-order my true-crime investigation here: https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-ng
o/the-zizians/9780316599030/


Last year, Collin "Mia" Bailey was convicted of m--rdering his parents in Utah. He is one of many, many trans people who have killed their parents.

Bailey blamed his mother for allegedly interfering with his planned trans surgery. He believed she contacted the hospital to warn staff that he had serious issues requiring attention. As revenge, he decided to kill his entire family--even though he admitted his father had supported him.

After fatally shooting his mother and father, Bailey also fired into his brother's bedroom but narrowly missed.

On social media, trans activists praised Bailey and called for his release. "Free Mia," they wrote.

For trans radicals, parricide is not merely excused--it is socially validated. They encourage one another to stockpile firearms, "bash back," and kill "transphobes."

Their ideology casts biological family as an obstacle to be replaced with a new "family" of fellow "dolls." http://ngocomment.com


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Coalition of Immigrant-Owned Grocery Stores Will Sue Communist Terrorist Zohran Mamdani for Using State Money to Subsidize Their Competitors

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The state-run grocery stores, if they ever come to be, will not have to pay taxes and will not have to pay rent.

They will drive private enterprise stores out of business. Which is the whole point. Socialism and communism destroy functioning systems so that they can present themselves as the solution to all of the problems they themselves have caused.

An immigrant-led business group is gearing up to sue New York City over Mayor Zohran Mamdani's controversial plan to open five taxpayer-funded supermarkets -- claiming the $70 million project will create unfair competition for nearby stores, The Post has learned.

As the far-left mayor announced new details of his plan this week -- including a 30% discount on basic items like produce, meat, milk, cheese and bread -- the Multicultural Business Coalition's board voted to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the pricey initiative, the group's chairman Frank Garcia told The Post.

"The mayor doesn't seem to want to sit down with us," Garcia said, adding that Mamdani "won't be able to bully these lawyers we are going to bring in."


The mayor's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

MBC -- formed earlier this year to create a unified front against Mamdani's grocery policy -- includes 50 chambers of commerce representing Asian, African, Caribbean, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Jewish-owned businesses in New York.


The nonprofit MBC plans to raise $1 million to fight some of the mayor's initiatives, Garcia said, adding that the suit "should be a non-partisan initiative." The group plans to send a letter in the coming days notifying Mamdani's office of its plans to take legal action.

The funds will go toward the lawsuit and efforts to raise awareness about the plight of its mom-and-pop shop members, many of whom struggle to secure capital, fend off shoplifters and keep up with rising costs including rent and taxes.

Meanwhile, longtime NYC residents are complaining that the communist terrorist has put them on a list of people whose properties will be taxed at sky-high rates -- unless they can prove to the city's socialist satisfaction that they live in their homes.

New Yorkers were seething Tuesday after Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration alerted them they'd be on the hook for the state's new pied-a-terre tax -- which was explicitly sold as a levy targeting wealthy owners of luxury second homes.

Longtime residents -- some who have called the Big Apple home for decades and own a single abode in the city -- told The Post they were shocked to get hit with five-figure tax bills they believe were mistakenly mailed out, and are now being forced to navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth to prove it.

"Whoever's behind this, who I can only assume is the mayor, didn't take the 30 seconds to research," said Karen Young, president and founder of New York and Paris-based beauty marketing company The Young Group, who has lived in New York since 1972.

Why would you assume this gayboy Destroyer of Civilization wasn't behind it?

You voted for him, didn't you, Dummy?



She was stunned when she received a letter from the city Department of Finance asking for $43,000 in pied-a-terre tax on her West 95th Street brownstone, which she's lived in with her husband for 30 years.

"Is this a witch hunt?" she asked, exasperated.

Mamdani not only gloats about 'taxing the rich,' he lies as well

"I just sort of line up all of these things and think 'why are you picking on us?'" Young said.

"As a faithful New Yorker since 1972, I find it not only insulting but painful," she fumed, "Is anybody paying any attention, or any thinking, or two minutes of research. Just look me up!"

Young said she went to the DOF's website to attempt to prove her permanent residency -- but quickly hit a brick wall.

"It's a cumbersome process to prove that I'm a primary resident, which just seems absurd. My jury summons come here, I pay my taxes from here, my utilities," she said.

Despite the department telling her the process to appeal or challenge the bill was as easy as uploading a driver's license, Young said she was forced to pay her estate lawyer to get the proper documentation after spending three fruitless hours on the website trying to do it herself.

"Apparently they haven't checked their own website. And I'm tech-savvy!" she insisted.

Yes, the communists say that you can avoid having your property confiscated through ruinous taxation if you jump through their bureaucratic hurdles -- but they're the ones who decide how onerous those hurdles will be, and they profit from citizens failing to run their commie gauntlet.

So, enjoy.

There must be NO BAILOUTS for New York City or Seattle or Boston or any of the other communist cities after they destroy themselves. The stupid and corrupt will have no other teacher than their self-inflicted misery. They must be made to learn.

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Iran Threatens Lives of First Lady and Barron Trump; Trump Says He'll Kick the Sh** Out of Them

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Iran is calling upon its foreign agents to kill Trump's wife and youngest son.

First lady Melania Trump and son Barron are the latest targets of Iran's sick anti-US propaganda.

A new video out of Iran is encouraging supporters of the Islamic regime to assassinate President Trump's wife.

Entitled "How to Kill Melania Trump," the video shows images of the first lady in the motorcade and in some locations around New York City, even naming some of the designer stores that she shops.

The shopping excursions could be "suitable for operations by global freedom fighters," the video noted. It also suggested using a nerve agent to poison any clothes the first lady might purchase.

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At the end of the video, Barron Trump, 20, is also threatened.

"This is just the beginning. Barron Trump, wait for us."

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The president's family has been repeatedly targeted since the war with Iran began.

Last week, billboards appeared around Tehran demanding the death of President Trump and his relatives, including Melania and all his children: Don Jr, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron.

"Blood for blood," it read.

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[President Trump] told The Post that he "left instructions" should Iran succeed in their plots to assassinate him -- and there'll be hell to pay.

"I've been on their list for a long time. That's what we're dealing with," he said. "... The only thing is, I've left instructions -- if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they've never seen before."


Iran just launched five missiles at US bases. The missiles were all intercepted, but Trump vows vengeance.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned that the U.S. is going to "beat the f*cking sh*t" out of Iran following its attack on U.S. forces in Jordan.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on Tuesday that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces attempted to conduct a "surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East."

"All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. U.S. forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness," CENTCOM said.

In response to that, President Donald Trump told Fox News, "We're going to beat the f*cking sh*t out of them."

Trump added that Iran is "going to get a beating."


Trump explained why he hasn't yet bombed Iran's bridges and power plants. It's simple: He's thinking about the day after the collapse of the regime. The freed people of Iran will desperately need to start making money, and that will be difficult with all of the bridges and power plants destroyed. Trump explains that bridges can take up to ten years to build and power plants are the most expensive piece of infrastructure to rebuild.

I watched a video last week explaining that's why Trump has not bombed Kharg Island down to ground, too. It turns out that despite Iran's long coast on the Strait, they have only one deep water port, and that's Kharg Island. The rest of the coastal waters are shallow and piled with silt which prevents ocean-going tankers from pulling up to take on oil.

This is also why you only hear of plans to use Marines to seize Kharg Island, as opposed to dropping massive ordnance penetrators on it and just destroying the port entirely.

So again, he's contemplating the post-war economy of Iran and deciding not to bomb key infrastructure that the Iranians will desperately need.

That all makes sense. Here's what doesn't: Repeatedly threatening to bomb things you've already decided not to bomb.

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MS NOW "National Security Reporter" Took a Luxury All-Expenses Paid Junket Paid for by Communist China's Intelligence Services, Then Wrote Articles Trashing Trump for Criticzing China

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I wrote about Natalie Winters' expose of "journalists" receiving valuable all-expenses paid travel to China and then immediately acting as China's propaganda agents yesterday.

Just the News writes about one of these agents of Red China, a former Reuters fake reporter now serving as MS NOW's fake national security reporter.

An MS Now reporter who criticized President Trump's speech about Chinese influence previously traveled to the country with the help of a Chinese Communist Party-linked organization and failed to tell readers he was the guest of a CCP-linked outfit.

David Rohde, MS NOW's senior national security reporter, who traveled to China when he was with Reuters, was listed as one of many mainstream journalists who traveled to China as part of Chinese influence operations, as revealed by journalist Natalie Winters, who co-hosts the War Room podcast and video stream with Steve Bannon.

Rohde himself announced he was taking the trip back in 2011 in a column titled, "Will 'Made in America' sell in China?" In the column, which no longer bears his name but did in a previous archived version visited by Just the News on Tuesday, Rohde says that he and other journalists "are visiting China this week on a trip organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a non-profit group run by businessmen with close ties to the Chinese government."

Paid for a viewpoint?

Since that visit, Rohde has written numerous columns favorable to China, including one shortly after Trump's speech claiming the president was trying to "undermine trust in the midterm elections by claiming that China had a role in his losing the presidency in 2020."

During Trump's speech earlier this month, the president alleged that China attempted to allegedly influence American public opinion by offering money to journalists to write negative stories about him.

"The Chinese government sought to identify US journalists who had reported negatively on the US president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him," Trump said during his speech.

While Just the News could not find evidence of such a clear monetary exchange, journalists like Rohde, who were hosted in China, did have their trip organized and paid for by the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), whose founder, Tung Chee-hwa, is a Hong Kong businessman who served as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from 2005 to 2023.

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Most news organizations focused on reporters' ethics eschew hiding the fact that the reporter's trip was paid for by the subject he or she is covering. For example, the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Conduct explicitly states that journalists should "Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and avoid political and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality, or may damage credibility."

Another commentator on journalistic ethics, Zan Romanoff, put it more bluntly: "In theory, journalistic ethics are simple: writers shouldn't pay for access to subjects or sources, or be paid by those subjects and sources to write about them; outlays should be provided by the publication, and limited to the bare-bone requirements of reporting, such as food."

CUSEF is registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law designed to make foreign influence transparent.
The CPPCC is part of China's "United Front" work, a Soviet-era strategy used to influence Chinese communities overseas, foreign governments, and others to support the policies preferred by Beijing.

Part of that effort includes bringing Western journalists to China. Rohde in particular has written positively about China -- and negatively about Trump -- since his trip in 2011. In his 2011 column for Reuters, Rohde derided America while praising China.

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Media Can't Stop Boo-Hoo Whinin' and Cryin' That Trump Is Deporting The Democrats' Best Voters

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Axios: Trump has ramped up self-deportation.


President Trump's controversial "self-deportation" program, which pays unauthorized immigrants to leave the U.S., is on pace to account for more than 200,000 departures, according to internal data shared with Axios.

How is it "controversial" to pay illegal aliens to voluntarily leave the country? It's only controversial if you are devoted to the idea that all foreigners not only have a right to be present in America, but must be encouraged to exercise this non-existent right.

For the voting.

Why it matters: Launched last year alongside a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, the initiative is virtually the only carrot in an aggressive immigration crackdown that has been long on sticks.

Through July 16, the nearly $600 million program -- dubbed Project Homecoming by the Department of Homeland Security -- has helped about 132,000 people exit the U.S.

Roughly 70,000 more have signed up and are on track to leave, according to the data.

About half of the self-deportations have involved immigrants held in detention, under an effort that accelerated the departures and began when a DOGE staffer brought Project Homecoming into ICE facilities.

The big picture: The self-deportation program is a key part of the administration's push to remove 1 million unauthorized immigrants from the U.S. each year.

The idea was that unauthorized immigrants would be so fearful of being arrested and detained by ICE or Customs and Border Protection that they'd voluntarily leave the U.S., with the promise of free travel and a stipend of $1,000, paid once they had left.

The stipend has increased to $2,600 and was briefly $3,000 last Christmas.

Border czar Tom Homan said in May that encouraging self-deportations was "part of the plan from the very beginning."


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Zoom in: Project Homecoming started slowly, attracting about 24,000 immigrants in its first six months as staffers arranged deportees' travel documents and flights out of the U.S.

The White House then pressured DHS officials to move faster.

"The push was daily calls from the White House and weekly principal level calls [with Deputy White House Chief of Staff] Stephen Miller directly," one source said.

"They wanted like thousands pushed through on a daily basis, and we were putting through like dozens."

...

Case managers for the self-deportation program are now in 40 ICE detention sites, and about half of its 200,000-plus cases have involved immigrants in detention.

People in detention opting to leave the U.S. through the initiative now spend an average of 17 days in detention detained compared the typical 50 days, according to ICE data. That's begun to free up bed space in some detention centers.


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"For the first time, someone walks in and goes, 'Hey, who here just wants to go home?' And everybody's like, 'I want to go home,'" one source said. "It's an immediate jump" in detainees seeking deportation.

By the numbers: Each self-deportation is costing the government about $2,500, plus the stipend paid to the deportee, DHS says. Removing an immigrant who doesn't volunteer for deportation costs about $18,245, the agency said.

The New York Times complains that the US is, get this, turning away foreigners just for having expired -- void -- visas.

You know, like the law says is supposed to happen!

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Deep State Mafia Boss Anthony "Little Bones" Fauci Pleads the Fifth

—Disinformation Expert Ace

This is what I thought he would do.

But now I wonder if he has any legal right to invoke the Fifth.

He was pardoned for all crimes he committed for a ten (or eleven?) year period, 2014 to 2024. Therefore, speaking about his activities then does not incriminate him as he cannot be prosecuted. He could admit the broke every law in America, but that's not self-incrimination, because he can't be prosecuted for what he says.

He could be prosecuted for crimes since then, but not for crimes between 2014 - 2024.

When a court or Congress wants testimony from someone invoking the Fifth, they will grant immunity for that testimony, meaning it cannot be used in any other body in the future for purposes of punishing the testifier. Then testimony can be compelled, as there is no Fifth Amendment right just to keep a secret because you want to keep it a secret.

But Congress doesn't even have to immunize Fauci -- Biden's Magic Autopen already did.

So he should be compelled to testify, or be held physically in contempt until he agrees to talk. (I see now other people are talking about this.)

But I doubt the GOP has the balls to do this.

Update: Rand Paul wants to hold "Little Bones" Fauci in contempt:

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

BREAKING: Sen Rand Paul says the committee scheduled a vote on holding Fauci in CONTEMPT after Fauci invoked the Fifth amendment over EIGHTY TIMES

Update: Elric the Blade points out that Fauci can say he is invoking his right not to incriminate himself for state crimes. His pardon only covers federal crimes.

He can also say that his pardon hasn't been accepted by a court as effective.

Meanwhile, Senators are roasting this criminal pig and mass murderer.

KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat · 32m 🚨Hawley GRILLS Fauci: You illegally used 8 federal employees to solicit $1,000,000 in cash prizes for yourself -- while Americans were dying from COVID-19 in the winter of 2020.

"You turned your staff into a full-time application machine."

"You used eight separate federal employees on federal time using federal resources to solicit cash awards."

"This is your chief of staff using federal email to pressure the agency's own ethics people so that you could get money, so that you could get rich. And it violated the law, didn't it, Dr. Fauci?"

"You cannot use federal resources, federal dollars, federal employees, federal offices, federal email, federal time to solicit cash awards, and you did all of it."

"The worst part is, thousands of people were dying while you were doing it. You were supposed to be the nation's doctor, and you were playing one on TV. But this is what you were doing with your time. Isn't that true?"

Fauci's answer, every time: "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment."

@HawleyMO response: "Yeah, yeah, I can see why."

Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge

FAUCI TAKES THE FIFTH TO @SenRandPaul QUESTIONS

-- @senrandpaul responded that he will have to consider the consequences "it is against the law"

FAUCI LAWYER REMOVED FOR DISRUPTING HEARING

SENATOR PAUL QUESTIONS:

- Did CIA Transfer Funds to NIH ?
- Was Fauci "read in" to Sensitive, Classified Programs called "Compartmented Intelligence"
- Knowledge of Wuhan Lab Gain-of-Function Research (made virus more infectious, dangerous)
- Research Monkey Pox

NOTE: The decision by Fauci to assert his Fifth Amendment rights likely opens the door to the viability of the Biden preemptive Pardon

NOTE2: According to Senator Paul, Fauci has about half dozen lawyers remaining.

CIA whistleblower indicated US intelligence community was more deeply involved in gain of function research than previously disclosed. 👇

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Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to Dr. Fauci:

"Who the F**! do you think you are?"

"...your 50 year career ends in total and complete disgrace"

"Will you apologize to the people you harmed through your actions, do you have the dignity to say you are sorry?"

Fauci: Asserts His Fifth Amendment right

At one point, members of the public and government employees stood. They say they were retaliated against for objecting to the COVID-19 vaccine


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Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

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This week, PJ Media published an article about the DSA and its clearly-stated plans for revolutionary overthrow of American institutions. The article is typical of those like it. It highlights some of the more radical attitudes and ambitions that are mainstream in the DSA and calls it out for what it is - that is, mostly old-school communism with some contemporary post-modern progressive flair. It also laments the state of the youth and speculates as to the appetite for this kind of revolutionary communism in American popular politics.

As is normal for these kinds of articles, the author calls out how the new resurgence of revolutionary ideology on the Left is not well-loved by various older/traditional players on the Left. Many of the traditional hatchet-men and current marginalized politicians on the Left are worried, as they well should be:

Give credit to more sensible Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman and old Clinton hand James Carville who see the DSA slipping into the DNC like a skinsuit, and recognize the danger...
The danger isn't hard to recognize. It has a great big red flashing arrow reading "DANGER" pointing right at it. What is astounding is that many seem to be surprised by it.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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Henri Fantin-Latour

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The Morning Report — 7/ 29 /26

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. Lots of news to unpack this morning, especially the thoroughly unsurprising yet utterly disgusting revelations about Anthony Fauci courtesy of his little red book, that is his diary. It is not hyperbole to state that he has the blood of tens if not hundreds of thousands of people on his hands because of his direct actions in creating the COVID-19 virus for the Red Chinese and then unleashing it on the world in a lab that was in whole or in part funded by our taxpayer dollars. This horrid bastard will for sure be roasting in Hell one day, but likely will be untouched by our justice system, such as it is.


As it turns out, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is good for something after all. 

Just to recap, Paul obtained and released more than 1,100 pages of the private diaries Fauci kept between 2019 and 2022 as part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. You've probably seen by now that they contained a lot of Fauci fawning over himself and tracking his own celebrity, awards, and media coverage, as well as him saying some not so nice things about his critics.. . Then-Sen. Rubio was quite critical of many of Fauci's statements back then, particularly saying that there was no need for people to go around wearing masks. He also accused Fauci of distorting the percentage of the population that would require vaccinations to reach herd immunity.  Fauci's response? He said he was being a "real a*****e."

Speaking of Marco Rubio, Democrat election thievery as well as Democrat-fomented assassination attempts and political terrrorism notwithstanding, I think Marco Rubio stands a pretty good chance at becoming POTUS if not in this go round then perhaps 2032 or afterwards. His tenure as Secretary of State has been outstanding, the situation in Iran notwithstanding, although that situation really is on President Trump, and it is his to resolve despite the fact that he's dealing with dark age savages intent on unleashing armageddon on the world as the precursor to total Islamic conquest of the planet,

But as for Rubio, under the aegis of Trump, he is on the cutting edge of helping transform the perpetually socialist Latin America into free-market America friendly nations. And as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast (linked here and in the sidebar)

Cuba might at long last be on the verge of if not at the very least have a shot at liberating itself as the tropical paradise caribbean gulag that it has been condemned to suffer for 67 years. It seems that Rubio and Trump are making the moves to see that come to fruition.

The truth is it's a complicated process. This isn't Venezuela. We likely won't have a clean and tidy(-ish) ending to the regime. You can't just take out one guy, neutralize his cronies, cut off their revenue stream, and start over with Marco Rubio in charge. The Cuban regime is older, more decentralized, and designed to withstand such moves. The power lies within the Communist Party, the military’s economic empire (GAESA), and a deep security apparatus.

There's also the media problem. The number of MSM fake news stories from anonymous sources about Cuba is exhausting, and it drives me insane how many prominent people report on them or share them as if they are fact.  For example, for a while, there was this idea that the Trump administration's goal for liberating Cuba was the end of this year. It was fun to buy into, and I didn't find it all that outlandish pre-Iran, but Rubio put a stop to that kind of talk last week when speaking to the press.

Well, as the President himself is wont to say, we'll just have to wait and see. Look how far we've come from "Little Marco" to perhaps being his most trusted and effective ally.

As for Iran, this just underscores who and what we're dealing with.

Both men were convicted on charges stemming from clashes that Iranian authorities say resulted in the deaths of four security officers. Human rights groups say the men were sentenced after proceedings marred by allegations of torture, forced confessions, and closed-door trials. 

The executions stem from the nationwide uprising that began in late December after a currency collapse, soaring inflation, and worsening living conditions sparked protests across Iran. Iranian regime forces responded with a sweeping crackdown that included internet shutdowns, mass arrests, and the widespread use of lethal force. . . Videos shared by Iran International showed residents gathering overnight in hopes of stopping the executions before authorities dispersed the crowd. 

We've long hoped and prayed that something might ignite the spark that at long last lets the Iranian people take to the streets and directly take on the regime, or gives those within the security services the ability to turn on their overlords and join the people.

At this point, it's a pipe dream but that's what the Ceaucescus thought as they were hoisted up on a lamp post not all that long ago.

And who knew that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were Mullahs (here they whip the women round about midnight)...


¡Cuba Libre, Iran Libre!

And most importantly AMERICA LIBRE!!!!!!


You’d think socialism’s 100-plus-year record of failure would be enough to dissuade people from embracing tenets that led to the horrors of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc. But hope springs eternal, apparently.

(And, just for the record, despite what Bernie Sanders says, the Nordic countries are not socialist. Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway come in seventh, eighth, 10th, and 11th, respectively, in the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. Switzerland comes in second place. The U.S. ranks 22nd.)

What’s even more unfathomable is why Democrats have such a positive view of the DSA when they reject many of its central positions.


Have a good day,

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Daily Tech News 29 July 2026

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • So how are things going a year into the DRAM Apocalypse? (Tom's Hardware)

    I'm glad you asked.

    Actually, no I'm not.

    But anyway, you remember when DDR5 memory was brand new and people preferred DDR4 because it was much cheaper?

    Yeah. DDR5 costs twice as much now as it did back then when it was too expensive to be worthwhile.


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