At a US Border Patrol checkpoint in southern Texas, federal authorities arrested Luke David Brader (80) and Susan Brader (74) after discovering more than 345 pounds of cocaine inside a trailer they were towing.
Life imitates art
In Memphis TN, TBI agents are investigating the shooting death of Tyrin Johnson (20) by two soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard assigned to the Memphis Safe Task Force.
Bringing the warzone home
According to the UN, the loathsome Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the deaths of over 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague issued an arrest warrant for him. Similarly, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor announced that a local court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and thirty-six other alleged Israeli war criminals. The Israeli PM has threatened to befoul the US again with his presence and his El Al plane will land in IAD Virginia later this week and JFKIA in NYC for UNGA in September. Under the legal principle of "universal jurisdiction," the governors of Virginia and New York, Abigail Spanberger (D) and Kathy Hochul (D), may order their respective state police departments to arrest the international fugitive from justice when he steps foot into either of their jurisdictions. Why is NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) the only elected American leader calling for Netanyahu's rightful arrest?
ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin gave Dummkopf Trumpf his instructions by telephone ahead of the 7-8 July NATO Summit in Ankara Turkiye under the pretext of congratulating him for America's 250th Independence Day celebrations.
"Got it, Vlad, no sweat. Just keep the kompromat close hold." "Of course, Donald, as always. "
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Behind all of the smoke and mirrors for all these years, the BLUF is Israel does not want Turkiye to have the F35 Stealth fighter.
On Monday ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu begged Dummkopf Trumpf on "Fox & Fiends" not to give this technology to a Muslim country opposed to the Gaza genocide (+75,000 Muslims massacred by the IDF). Netanyahu did not mention the Russian SAM controversy.
Moreover, Turkish strongman Tayyip Erdogan said he had done some [unpublicized] favors for the Trumpf junta during the past several years in the Middle East and expects payback.
Those favors were probably allowing Russian supplies into Iran during the illegal war and other things, probably intelligence-related. The MIT is quite competent and has access to sources A to Z, from Palestinian resistance fighters to Syrian guerillas, Kurdish groups, Turkic peoples in the Middle East and Central Asia, and North African tribes.
French President Macron thanked Erdogan for providing valuable intelligence before the Paris 2024 Olympiad and the Surete made some arrests ahead of the games.
Moreover, US companies want this lucrative F35 contract with Turkiye to go through.
For decades, the US and Turkiye have had a special organization called the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) for contracts and NATO industrial standards compliance.
Turkish taxi drivers to this day still refer to ODC by its 1960s name: "JUSMAG."
Link: www.cnbc.com
In all of the Army National Guard deployments to "restore order" or quash the civil rights movement in the 1960s, I couldn't find any reports of fatalities from either the angry citizens or the Soldiers.
And not one Ohio Army National Guardsman who opened fire on the unarmed Kent State students on 4 May 1970 was ever brought to justice for the massacre (four students killed, nine wounded).
One plank for a winning POTUS 2028 platform: "I will never deploy the Army National Guard onto America's streets. Ever."
A slice of ARNG history: www.youtube.com
*** NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) Assists Venezuelan Food Bank/Aid Center ***
As a NYS assemblyman for Astoria, in Oct 2021 Zohran Mamdani (D) went on a 15-day hunger strike in front of City Hall in support of striking taxi drivers while Andrew Cuomo was stuffing his face with calzones and getting kicked out of office for sexual peccadillos AND lying about COVID deaths in NYS nursing homes.
Last week NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani went to a Venezuelan relief/aid center in Brooklyn and personally loaded items for the earthquake victims. He also asked that the TPS status for Venezuelans be restored.
Photos: www.flickr.com

Discounted due to age, infirmity, and a lifetime of blasphemy which has corrupted his sinews and organs.
*** American Taxpayer Dollars Funding Torture and Horrors in Gaza ***
An IDF soldier from the "Netzah Yehuda Battalion" proudly posted this photo of an unnamed Palestinian they took hostage recently in Gaza.

Source: IDF are terrorists, torturers, and serial killers
Since 1948 under both Democratic and Republican Party administrations, the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer has sent the Labor and Likud governments of Israel, a prosperous and nuclear-armed country, over $317.9bn, the most US economic aid given to any nation in the world.
Israel is a country with world class universal healthcare while an average 630,000 Americans declare medical bankruptcy every year.
In 2025 alone, the US sent Israel $12 billion which could have instead paid for 3,443,348 children's free or low-cost healthcare in the US.
US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.
*** Rightwing Republican Calls for Investigation of the Patriot Front. What? ***
"Rightwing MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) called for an investigation into the Patriot Front white nationalist group after its Independence Day rally and march across Washington, DC.
Inferior Secretary Doug Burgum said he doesn't agree with what Patriot Front stands for, but he defended the group's First Amendment right to free speech.
Luna whined that the Biden administration never investigated the Patriot Front."
Source: Only Israeli ethnic cleansers are OK, not white Christian ethnic cleansers. Got it.








"...more American Jews approve of Zohran Mamdani (D) than of Benjamin Netanyahu (D and R-USA)."
"To be a Jew is to always side with the oppressed, never the oppressor."
I know someone who got jammed up. I did my best with an email to the Manhattan ADA, but interfering with the justice system is a felony, so my entreaty merely became a datapoint for the NYC Probation Dept which wrote the PSI.
Ultimately my friend received probation for the "offense."