Source: Politico
“French authorities have moved to expel from the country Xenia Fedorova, a Russian media star who has courted controversy for her pro-Kremlin narrative. Fedorova, the former head of the Kremlin-backed RT France news outlet, was handed an expulsion order by the Paris Prefecture of Police, which handles immigration matters for foreigners living in the French capital, according to a report by French newspaper Libération published Wednesday that was confirmed by POLITICO. ‘By spreading her narratives, [Xenia Fedorova] acts as a conduit for disinformation campaigns led by Russian authorities,’ with the aim of ‘destabilizing public order’ in France, reads the document, seen by Libération. It also accuses Fedorova of ‘contribut[ing] to the spread of disinformation and destabilization’ in order to manipulate public opinion.” (07/29/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-issues-expulsion-order-pro-kremlin-xenia-fedorova
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Katja Hoyer on Why We Should Stop Comparing Everything to Weimar.” (07/29/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/katja-hoyer-2
Source: The American Conservative
by Joseph Addington
“Earlier this month, Daniel Ortega, the dictator of Nicaragua, announced that his country would no longer hold elections. In response, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement condemning Ortega and declaring that Nicaragua ‘cannot expect to maintain business as usual with other nations when it is thwarting the basic tenets of our democratic hemisphere.’ There is no doubt that Nicaragua has suffered under the rule of Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, who have run the country as their personal fiefdom for nearly two decades. But Rubio’s rhetoric on Latin America increasingly resembles the neoconservatism President Trump was ostensibly elected to displace.” (07/29/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/marco-rubios-democratic-hemisphere-vs-the-national-security-strategy/
Source: New York Post
by the Editorial Board
“As COVID cases and deaths began to soar in the spring of 2020, America desperately needed a trustworthy public-health leader. Instead, we got Dr. Anthony Fauci — and now his diary entries from that time are showing just how incredibly unworthy of the nation’s trust he truly was. Time and again, his private notes contradict what he was telling the world at the very same time, and the stories he’s spun up since to protect his unearned reputation.” (07/28/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/28/opinion/anthony-faucis-own-diary-proves-what-a-despicable-villain-he-truly-is/
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
“A California man accused of deliberately damaging automated license plate readers was identified with the help of other surveillance cameras near the devices, authorities said Tuesday. Marcus Bee, 40, of Pismo Beach, was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism after investigators linked him to damage involving at least three Flock Safety cameras in Monterey County, the county sheriff’s office said.” (07/28/26)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/flock-camera-vandalism-arrest-22364531.php
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Senator Paul released the Fauci diaries this week. I read the journals, and they reveal an official focused on celebrity and media praise. Fauci wrote during the 2020 lockdowns about interacting with Hollywood actors like Sean Penn and Julia Roberts. He called himself the most credible scientist in the world. He filled pages with insults aimed at Donald Trump, calling the former president an idiot and totally nuts. I expect public servants to focus on public outcomes. Fauci focused on his television appearances and fame while individual freedoms were sacrificed and small businesses collapsed. … I view this upcoming testimony as a lesson in a core libertarian truth. Harry Browne often warned that government power always grows beyond its intended limits and destroys personal freedom.” (07/29/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/fauci-faces-perjury-risk-at-senate
Source: CounterPunch
by David Rosen
“American’s first Red Scare took place from 1917 to 1921. Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s terror campaign against American radicals, dissidents, immigrants and workers makes the current Trump-Rubio effort look like a pathetic puppet show. Wilson jailed his charismatic Socialist opponent, the 63-year-old Eugene Debs, for opposing America’s descent into the carnage of the First World War. … The second Red Scare dragged on between 1947 and 1954. In 1954, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-W) was at the height of his campaign against ‘communism,’ alleging that hundreds of Communists had infiltrated the State Department and other federal agencies. … Today’s Red Scare 3.0 is driven by the growing opposition to Trump’s foreign and domestic policies. Trump needs a new front to contest the opposition and give him – and his Republican Party backers, especially in Congress — a wedge they can use to fight the challenges they face. Nothing is better than an ill-defined yet omni-threatening enemy.” (07/29/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/29/red-scare-3-0/
Source: Engadget
“OpenAI has updated its blog post about the rogue agent that breached Hugging Face and admitted that it also infiltrated other other third-party accounts and services to achieve its goal. In the updated post, the company said it has been finding ‘a small number of cases where the models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services’ during its ongoing review. So far, it has determined that the rogue agent used the credentials of ‘four accounts’ to infiltrate ‘four services’ as part of the Hugging Face incident. It also said that it accessed a ‘few accounts’ as part of other evaluations.” (07/29/26)
https://www.engadget.com/2225812/openai-rogue-agent-hacked-hugging-face-breached-other-services/
Source: The Dispatch
“Coercion and Attrition | Interview: Ken Pollack.” (07/29/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/coercion-and-attrition-interview-ken-pollack/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Stavroula Pabst
“Encouraged by Ukraine’s sustained advances in drone warfare, Western media is abuzz with the idea that Kyiv just might be able to defeat Russia after more than four years of bitter fighting. … But this isn’t the first time the press has played up Ukraine’s military capabilities, despite repeated setbacks on the battlefield. As experts warn RS, such coverage reinforces the idea that more military aid can still help Ukraine win back all of its territory, thus downplaying the need for a negotiated solution.” (07/29/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-media/
