Source: New York Post
“A driver was shot dead Monday while [supposedly] trying to mow down Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [gang members] in Maine, according to authorities. Graphic footage on social media shows a man lying by the side of the road near a car, with a bullet hole visible through the driver’s side of the front windshield following the incident in Biddeford just after 7:15 a.m., the Portland Press Herald reported. The unidentified driver reportedly accelerated at ICE [gang members] at an intersection in the small town before the officers shot him dead, eyewitnesses said. … Details on the fatal shooting are still coming through, although locals reported seeing an increase in ICE [gang] activity in Biddeford in recent weeks.” (07/13/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/13/us-news/ice-fatally-shoots-driver-in-maine-after-he-tried-to-mow-down-agents-authorities/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Samuel Gregg
“Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (MH), seeks to inject wisdom into a discussion often dominated by two extremes. The first is a wild-eyed techno-utopianism that would drag us into what the Cambridge literary critic F. R. Leavis called a ‘technologico-Benthamite civilization.’ The second is a techno-catastrophism inclined to see every technological development as an existential threat to humanity. In many ways, MH is an impressive document. … There is, however, one matter that has been passed over too lightly. This concerns MH’s commentary on economic questions.” (07/13/26)
https://lawliberty.org/magnificent-humanity-poor-economics/
Source: US News & World Report
“A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40 million more to prevent future accidents. The agreement would resolve allegations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Kansas that South Bow, based in Canada, violated U.S. and state clean water laws. The rupture dumped nearly 13,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a creek running through a rural pasture in Washington County, Kansas, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) northwest of Kansas City.” (07/12/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kansas/articles/2026-07-12/keystone-pipeline-systems-operator-agrees-to-pay-a-26-9m-penalty-over-a-major-kansas-oil-spill
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Harpole v. Owens – Mass Recusal of Judges and TWITTER SLOP.” (07/12/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WygztWJrQ9M
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
“Ultimately, Lindsey Graham will go down as an inconsequential figure in American history, a bloodthirsty cheerleader for some of the nation’s most disastrous wars who lacked the courage to stand up for the few convictions he once held. To paraphrase Henry Kissinger on Bill Clinton being called a war criminal, ‘Lindsey Graham doesn’t have the moral fortitude to be consigned to the 9th Circle of Hell with the A-listers.’ He’ll have to settle for some more obscure region of eternal torment, where nobody will even recall his name.” (07/13/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/13/graham-crackers-the-words-of-a-professional-warmonger/
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Beware: The Chinese Communist Party is plainly exploiting the opaque ownership structure of multinational tech companies to fund far-left political subversion across America. Shanghai-based Maoist tech millionaire Neville Roy Singham is a notorious funder of outfits like the crypto-communist People’s Forum, which organizes radical protest-riots in support of Hamas terrorism and protecting the butchers who control Iran; his wife co-leads extremist Code Pink while his niece is a big player in the Democratic Socialists of America and a prominent adviser to Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The Singhams got crazy-rich in the tech industry, but you have to wonder if Beijing staged their success to ‘wash’ a vast fortune that could then undermine the United States, the chief barrier to CCP world domination.” (07/13/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/13/opinion/is-china-funding-the-democratic-socialist-wave-in-us-politics/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Every weekday morning, Shilpi Chotrani rides her bicycle from her home in the Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción to Gibraltar. It’s a short journey but it means crossing an international border. A British Overseas Territory of around 40,000 inhabitants, Gibraltar has a border control for those entering and leaving. That means that during the morning and afternoon rush hours, when around 15,000 Spaniards who work in the territory cross the frontier, there can be long, time-consuming queues. … But from 15 July, it is scheduled to see a new development – the removal of the border, allowing freedom of movement between Spain and Gibraltar.” (07/13/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydz60j3eno
Source: Antiwar.com
by Brian Hudson
“The easiest mistake in war is to confuse the ability to strike again with proof that the previous strike worked. Donald Trump is making that mistake in Iran. The latest U.S. attacks may destroy more military assets and infrastructure, but they do not answer the political question that has haunted this war from the beginning: what outcome is all this destruction supposed to produce?” (07/13/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/brian_hudson/2026/07/12/trumps-new-iran-strikes-are-turning-failure-into-a-wider-disaster/
Source: Politico
“The European Union will [pretend it has the ability to] impose a minimum age for young internet users to access social media without parental supervision, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday. … Von der Leyen said the bloc would consider age restrictions for other online services too, and will start work on determining which platforms are harmful [sic] to minors.” (07/13/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/vdl-announces-age-restrictions-for-social-media-and-other-platforms/
Source: Antiwar.com
“Iran Says Hormuz Closed as US Continues Strikes, Lindsey Graham Dies at 71, and More.” (07/12/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1oSTSBscgA
