Rising, 07/13/26
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar reflecting on the career of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who died on Saturday at the age of 71.” (07/13/26)
Trump’s Health Is … Complicated
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“He isn’t as decrepit as Democrats pretend. But Republicans are slowly imagining a post-Trump world.” (07/13/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/trump-is-old-but-senile-probably
Congressional Ratification of President Trump’s Corporatism
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul
“Despite regularly denouncing the rising socialist menace, President Trump has been pursuing a policy arguably just as, if not more, dangerous to liberty and prosperity as anything proposed by Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders: using government funds to purchase partial ownership of private companies. The Trump administration has obtained ownership interests of approximately 27 billion dollars in 30 companies since January of 2025. While President Trump and his defenders claim making these ‘investments’ will benefit the American people, the truth is this policy will harm most Americans.” (07/13/26)
Lindsey Graham’s Legacy? It’s About One Thing Only, and It Isn’t Good
Source: The New Republic
by Michael Tomasky
“He alone had the moral authority within the Republican Party to try to stop Donald Trump, especially after January 6. He chose not to. That’s what we must remember today.” (07/13/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/212980/lindsey-graham-legacy-trump-enabler
Guinea-Bissau: Junta Court Orders Opposition Leader Back to Jail
Source: US News & World Report
“Guinea-Bissau opposition leader and former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira was moved back to prison last Friday following a decision by the West African country’s military court, his family told Reuters. The junta that seized power in Guinea-Bissau in a coup last year released Pereira, the leader of the revolutionary PAIGC party, in February in an apparent attempt to appease the West African regional bloc ECOWAS. He had remained under house arrest on suspicion of economic crimes. … Pereira was previously detained on November 26 when a group of army officers seized power before the planned announcement of presidential election results.” (07/13/26)
Radio Atlantic, 07/13/26
Source: The Atlantic
“The War Trump Can’t Control.” (07/13/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/07/ra-iran-reescalation/687849/
DEI“A” Directive Denied
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Daymon Johnson has been fighting to speak freely. A professor at Bakersfield College, a community college in California, Johnson has for years been bucking a mandate that he parrot the state’s ‘DEI’ and ‘anti-racist’ ideology — well, DEIA now: ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ — lest he face disciplinary action or receive the boot. Community colleges, remember, are creations of the state, and Professor Johnson was being forced, by state directive, to mouth specific bureaucratic verbiage as if he were a mere functionary under a central planning board. … this imperfect ruling paves the way for further vindications.” (07/13/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/13/deia-directive-denied/
The Democratic Socialists Aren’t Fringe Anymore
Source: Town Hall
by Jay Rogers
“I spend my days reading growth curves. A pension fund’s unfunded liability, a private equity fund’s internal rate of return, a hedge fund’s drawdown. You learn to read a line on a chart the way a doctor reads one on a different kind of monitor. Most political organizations produce a flat line for decades, a small bump around an election, then flat again. The Democratic Socialists of America just produced a line that would get flagged in any diligence memo I’ve written in 30 years. An organization with 6,000 members in 2015 crossed 100,000 in February 2026, and by this July had passed the old high-water mark for American socialism: the roughly 113,000 members the Socialist Party of America claimed at its 1912 peak under Eugene Debs. DSA now calls itself, correctly, the largest socialist organization in American history.” (07/13/26)
Trump regulators move to curtail lending to immigrants without Very Special Important Permission Slips
Source: Politico
“Federal regulators on Monday directed banks and credit unions to more closely scrutinize the loans they make to immigrants who are in the country illegally [sic], as part of the Trump administration’s broader immigration crackdown. In new guidance, regulators said that undocumented immigrants may present an ‘elevated credit risk’ and warned banks to account for the risk that they may lose their job or be deported as they underwrite new loans. Financial institutions, the guidance says, should take into account that a customer’s status as an unauthorized immigrant may pose a risk to their ability to repay credit cards, mortgages, auto loans or other loans.” (07/13/26)
Colombia: Petro blocks military inauguration for successor
Source: United Press International
“Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro has barred President-elect Abelardo De la Espriella from holding his inauguration at a military base, triggering an unprecedented institutional dispute that has clouded the transfer of power and underscored the country’s deep political polarization. Citing his authority as commander-in-chief of the armed forces until Aug. 7, the leftist president blocked De la Espriella’s plan to take the oath of office before military personnel. The incoming government had sought to use the ceremony to signal a sharp break with the outgoing administration’s security policies.” (07/13/26)