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Anti-Israel activist demands $20M from Trump administration

Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent anti-Israel activist, claims he was detained and deported as punishment for supporting the Palestinians. He demands $20 million in damages from the Trump administration.

 

By Or Shaked

 

Israel Hayom

Jul 11, 2025

 

 

 

Mahmoud Khalil is demanding $20 millionfrom the Trump administration.

Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student and prominent anti-Israel activist, is seeking $20 million in damages from the Trump administration over what he claims was politically motivated detention and deportation proceedings intended to punish him for supporting the Palestinians. 

The complaint, currently filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act - a procedural precursor to a full lawsuit - alleges that Khalil was arrested on March 8 and spent over 100 days in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. His attorney asserts that Khalil's arrest was part of a broader political campaign targeting students involved in pro-Palestinian protests.

Khalil played a leading role in the 2024 spring protests at Columbia University, negotiating with university leadership and serving as a spokesperson for the student demonstrators. He was among the first arrested in what he described as a government effort to silence Palestinian voices under the guise of combating antisemitism.

According to the claim, Khalil missed the birth of his son and his Columbia graduation due to his detention, during which he suffered from malnutrition, sleep deprivation, and significant weight loss. He also cited fear for his and his family's safety after senior administration officials publicly accused him of supporting terrorism and antisemitism.

Khalil said he would use the compensation to establish a support fund for other students allegedly harmed by similar policies. Alternatively, he said he would settle for an official apology and a reversal of policies he views as persecuting students for their political beliefs.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson dismissed the claim as "ridiculous," insisting the government acted within its legal authority. A senior State Department official added that the measures taken against Khalil were "lawful, necessary, and based on facts."

In a recent development, a federal judge in New Jersey issued a temporary injunction halting Khalil's deportation, ruling that the rare use of a foreign policy clause to justify his removal likely violated his Fifth Amendment rights. Khalil has since been released from detention in Louisiana.

THE TEACHERS' UNIONS HAVE BECOME, LIKE THE MOBS OF PRO-HAMAS STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, THE LYNCHPIN OF THE SURGE IN ANTI-ISRAEL AND ANTI-JEWISH HATRED THAT HAS SPREAD ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN RECENT YEARS

Why are America’s teachers’ unions at war with Israel?

The NEA’s decision to cut ties with the ADL illustrates how progressives who think Jews and the Jewish state are “white” oppressors have captured the education establishment. 

 

By Jonathan S. Tobin 

 

JNS

Jul 10, 2025

 

 

The teachers' unions are led by hard-left activists like Randi Weingarten of the AFT.

 

On the list of professions that inspire the most respect among Americans, teachers rank very high. According to Gallup, only nurses scored higher than educators in its annual poll concerning opinions about the professions. Unsurprisingly, only politicians and lobbyists rank lower than journalists, but most people love teachers for good reasons. After all, they perform one of society’s most important tasks, and yet are generally poorly compensated for their efforts.

That’s why it may have come as a surprise to most casual observers when they heard the news that the National Education Association—the nation’s largest teachers’ union—had cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League because of its insistence on opposing antisemitism. The same might have been true for a number of other instances in which such unions have taken stands that promote prejudiced curricula or opposed action against Jew-hatred.

Captured by the left

No one should be surprised.

America’s teachers’ unions—the national organizations like the NEA and its rival, the American Federation of Teachers—and most local associations that represent educators have long been captured by leftist ideologues. That has put them at the forefront of partisan politics, making them among the largest donors to Democratic Party candidates, as well as liberal and leftist advocacy groups. In addition to their role as a partisan interest group, these unions have become an integral part of the culture war roiling American society as so-called progressives have sought to topple the Western canon in the U.S. education system and replace it with a new woke secular faith based on a neo-Marxist obsession with race.

The unions have become, like the mobs of pro-Hamas students, teachers and administrators on college campuses, the lynchpin of the surge in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred that has spread across the country in recent years. Our attention has understandably been focused on those chanting for Jewish genocide (“From the river to the sea”) and terrorism against Jews everywhere (“Globalize the intifada”). That has led to a counter-attack from the Trump administration, which has sought to defund elite universities like Harvard and Columbia that tolerate and encourage antisemitism.

But operating largely without the sort of publicity and scrutiny that has zeroed in on the targeting of Jews in academia, teachers’ unions, whose members staff the nation’s K-12 school system, have played a key role in mainstreaming blood libels against Israel, falsely labeling Zionism as a form of racism, and denying Jewish peoplehood and history.

Why have teachers become the shock troops of the intersectional left?

Their unions are led by hard-left activists like Randi Weingarten of the AFT, and as a consequence, have done far more harm to the nation’s students than good. That was made abundantly apparent when the unions went all-out to keep schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic long after it was clear that young people weren’t at a high risk of catching the disease and that keeping them out of the classrooms was doing them enormous harm.

Toxic theories

But the context is a broader conflict about how Americans should think about their country and Western civilization. Most teachers—and their unions—are squarely in the progressive camp that has embraced the left-wing critique of the West. As a consequence, they have been indoctrinating a generation of young Americans to buy into the toxic myths of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism in which the United States is wrongly depicted as an irredeemably racist nation. These divisive doctrines label Jews and Israelis as “white” oppressors always in the wrong, and Palestinians as downtrodden “people of color,” who are in the right no matter what they do.

That’s a completely false understanding of the century-old war to oppose the Jewish presence in the land of Israel, which has nothing to do with race. Yet it has led to their believing that Israelis—the victims of the horrendous terrorism of Oct. 7, 2023, and a war waged against their existence by Iran and its Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi terrorist proxies—are the villains of the Middle East conflict. And that inevitably means that the Palestinian Arabs—the perpetrators of the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, led by groups bent on genocide—are the good guys.

That’s the context for the NEA’s break with the ADL.

That these two groups should be at odds with each other is not so much ironic as it is a sign of the radicalization of the unions.

Betrayed by their allies

In recent years, under the leadership of CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL has, like the unions and other liberal groups, moved to the left and often acted as a Jewish auxiliary for the Democratic Party rather than sticking to its mission of defending the Jews. It played partisan politics on some issues—and then not only endorsed the antisemitic Black Lives Matter movement but also incorporated some of the far-left’s woke ideology into its popular “No Place for Hate” curricula it markets to school districts.

After the post-Oct. 7 surge of antisemitism, however, Greenblatt and the ADL seem to have at least to some extent remembered why the group was founded and is still needed. They have responded to the crisis by returning to their roots, often calling out the antisemitism on college campuses and elsewhere. Yet, much to their discredit and showing that they still value partisan loyalties over their mission to defend the Jews, they have opposed President Donald Trump’s efforts to defund educational institutions that have mainstreamed Jew-hatred.

Nevertheless, the ADL has continued to advocate for the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism that rightly cites the sort of double standards, blood libels and opposition to the existence of one Jewish state on the planet that is now routine on the left. That and the ADL’s often less than spirited defense of Israel’s conduct of the war on Hamas and opposition to the false claims of a genocide going on in Gaza puts it at odds with the NEA, and others who engage in spreading and teaching these falsehoods.

It is hardly surprising that the ADL’s old allies have not merely turned on them, but now refer to them with the same rage as they do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel Defense Forces. In much the same manner as leftists target Jews on campuses, for them, the only good Jews are those on the far left who are willing to disavow their own people and oppose Israel’s existence and even support those, like Hamas, who seek Jewish genocide.

Since the ADL opposes those seeking to kill Jews and Israelis, the NEA believes that it’s wrong to allow the group to help it define or counter antisemitism. Indeed, as one such Hamas apologist/NEA activist put it, the unions regard a group like ADL, which supports Israel, as being akin to fossil-fuel companies they loudly insist are destroying the planet. Unsurprisingly, the openly antisemitic Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) endorsed their vote.

This is just one more in an increasingly lengthy list of actions in which the unions have aligned themselves against efforts to counter Jew-hatred. Just this week, the California Teachers Association opposed an effort to create a state office to combat antisemitism. Their reason left not much doubt about their motivation. The association feared that any such state program would impair its ability to spread misinformation about Israel and indoctrinate students to treat the Jewish state as an illegitimate entity that is not only committing heinous war crimes against Palestinian Arabs, but has no right to exist. In essence, they oppose any definition of antisemitism that won’t give them a pass to commit it.

‘Hamas tunnels’

To those who have been fighting against the spread of Jew-hatred in the schools, this is nothing new. Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director of The Deborah Project, a nonprofit legal defense organization that fights antisemitism across the United States by advising parents and teachers, in addition to taking school systems and colleges to court, says that a big part of the problem is the unions.

“What we’ve found in public K-12 schools is that the majority of the antisemitic materials used in the classrooms are shared and strongly encouraged by the leadership of the teachers’ unions,” says Marcus. “We refer to those unions as the Hamas tunnels; they are the delivery source through which the hate-inspiring materials are burrowed, largely undetected, to be used to poison the hearts and minds of students with Jew-hatred.”

This didn’t start on Oct. 7.

In California, a long-running debate about an ethnic-studies requirement in high school hinged on the way that the school curriculum was not just excluding Jews as a minority group worthy of being highlighted in any such program. Its teachings promoted an anti-Israel narrative in which Jewish history and rights are erased, and the Jewish state is delegitimized. 

More than that, as Marcus notes, students and families have often been targeted, shunned and harassed because of their Jewish identity while teachers and administrators look the other way. In some cases, they tacitly encourage it because they see it as merely instances of people venting their understandable hatred for anything they associate with Israel or Judaism.

“We’ve seen the malign influence of the teachers’ unions repeatedly,” says Marcus. “The unions are behind it, whether it’s launching a ‘Teach-In for Palestine’ instead of regular academic classes in Oakland in December 2023, or instructing teachers to teach about the settler colonialism and oppression of Israel and to hide what they are teaching in Los Angeles, or simple Jew-hatred, pure and simple, by the Massachusetts Teachers Union which is occurring now.”

Some of this might be ascribed to the natural tendency of any union to stand by its teachers, no matter what they do. Still, when educators are accused of using their positions to promote antisemitism and anti-Zionism, they often declare that there’s nothing wrong with stating their own personal opinions about the issues of the day. As Marcus notes, the unions are telling teachers that they “are entitled to express their own political opinions in their classrooms. But every court in the country that has addressed that issue says that is not so.”

The engine of antisemitism

As a group, teachers deserve our respect and support. The unfortunate truth, though, is that as much as we rightly complain about what is being taught in elite schools today, a generation of Americans has already been influenced by woke doctrines. And they are now in place teaching not just at Harvard and Columbia, but in elementary, middle and high schools across the country.

That is especially true among those who are union activists. The NEA, the AFT and many state and local teachers’ associations have become the engine of the normalization of antisemitism in the schools. They are doing everything they can to resist the pushback that they are finally getting from those who are doing all they can to turn back the antisemitic tide that has already swept over the education system.

So, what can we do about it?

For one, efforts like those of the Deborah Project and other nonprofits that are waging this struggle one district at a time need more support. A destructive partisanship has prevented major liberal Jewish groups like the ADL and the American Jewish Committee from supporting the Trump administration’s campaign to defund institutions that tolerate antisemitism. But if successful, that effort could go a long way toward forcing the schools and academia to disavow leftist doctrines, lest they too be stripped of federal aid.

What is also necessary is for families and communities to rise up, and make it clear to the unions and the teachers that they won’t tolerate their extremism any longer. Those teachers who dissent from this woke plague also need to be supported as they wage a difficult fight to change the unions from within. Until they do, there should be an end to any illusions that teachers’ unions should be regarded with the same affection that their profession still holds in the minds of the public. The NEA and AFT, and other similar organizations should be labeled for what they are: groups that are spreading hatred rather than knowledge.

THE WITCH HUNT JEWS ARE FACING

‘Dismantle Zionism’: These people aren’t fooling around

Fahad Ansari, an Islamist, and Franck Magennis, a Communist, have launched “Riverway to the Sea,” an organization that transforms their London-based law firm into a legal effort to eliminate Israel. 

 

By Ben Cohen

 

JNS

Jul 11, 2025  

Franck Magennis and Fahad Ansari of Riverway to the Sea, an organization working for the death of, as they themselves put it, “the failed, fascist experiment currently known as ‘Israel’.” 

 

Jews in the West are facing a gradually unfolding witch hunt, spurred by fanatics and zealots no less venomous than the Puritans who drove the Salem Witch Trials.

Let me make crystal clear the goals they are striving for.

They want Western publics to regard Israel as the greatest misfortune plaguing the world today.

They want Western publics to recognize Zionism as a political cancer as dangerous as fascism and racism (but not communism), as expressed in their slogan “Dismantle Zionism.”

They want Western publics to adopt the cause of Israel’s elimination as a noble aim that will advance human rights.

They want their governments to cut all diplomatic, commercial and cultural links with Israel and impose punishing sanctions in their place.

They want Western civil society—universities, unions, media outlets, organizations and campaigns pursuing social justice, religious groups, intellectuals, health workers, lawyers and a myriad of other sectors—to embrace a total boycott of Israel.

They want to criminalize Israeli citizens and Diaspora Jews who serve in the Israel Defense Forces.

They want to criminalize Israel’s political and military leaders.

They want to outlaw Zionist political and social organizations, youth groups and charities.

They want to strictly police Jewish communities in order to eliminate the presence of any Zionist affiliations—meaning that Jewish schools, synagogues and temples, community centers, kosher markets and restaurants would be prohibited from using or trading in Israeli products, displaying the Israeli flag, reciting the prayer for the State of Israel on Shabbat and during festivals, carrying out Zionist education programs, teaching the history of Israel and assisting with aliyah.

And make no mistake, any Jewish resistance to these measures would be met with a merciless response. Public condemnation. Media vilification. Fines. Arrests. Eventually, worse, if we let them.

Who are these witch-hunters? They have been on the margins of democratic societies for decades, coming to the fore on those occasions when the violent Palestinian objection to Israel’s existence comes back to the boil. Since the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023, they have never been as visible or as influential as they are now, crystallizing in and around the pro-Hamas solidarity movement that has made even the most assimilated, Israel-distant Jews wonder whether antisemitism might really be a permanent, irredeemable defect of the societies in which they live.

You will find them at the United Nations, from where the now-sanctioned Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Rights, Francesca Albanese, has been waging a campaign to boycott and sanction any company with ties to Israel. You will find them among academics who are far too numerous to mention by name. You will find them in the halls of Congress and in parliaments in Europe, Australia and Canada, among other places, again too numerous to mention individually. You will find them clustered around the mayoral campaign of the antisemite Zohran Mamdani in New York City. You will find them on social media, even if you’re not looking.

Were I to dip my arms elbow-deep into this sewer, I would extract as Exhibits “A” and “B” of this approaching witch hunt two U.K.-based individuals whom you’ve likely never heard of. I would do so because these two have embarked on an initiative quite unlike anything since the Cold War, when Jews in the Soviet Union, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and other Communist countries were viciously persecuted by the authorities in the name of “anti-Zionism.”

Their names are Fahad Ansari, an Islamist, and Franck Magennis, a Communist. This truly sinister pair (who remind me of Joseph Stalin’s hissing prosecutors) have just launched “Riverway to the Sea,” an organization that transforms their London-based law firm into a legal center working for the death of, as they themselves put it, “the failed, fascist experiment currently known as ‘Israel.’ ”

Ansari and Magennis made waves earlier this year when they launched a bid to remove the United Kingdom’s proscription of Hamas—an organization both of them revere—as a terrorist organization. Their new project, whose name synthesizes the name of their former law firm with the pro-Hamas chant “From the river to the sea,” aims to support, from the United Kingdom and eventually from other countries as well, Hamas’s blood-soaked campaign to eliminate Israel, using the law as their instrument. “‘Israel,’ Zionism and Zionists are,” they say, “vulnerable to challenge in a wide range of legal contexts.”

No ambiguity there: individuals as well as institutions will be targeted for the “crime,” in their eyes, of Zionism.

If you want to work for Ansari and Magennis, then you will need to be as hate-filled as they are. The first question on the application for the role of “Events, Training and Comms” at their new organization reads as follows: “How will you use the time and space created by this position to deal maximum damage to Zionism?”

What’s striking about these two is that despite their declared focus on the legal process to achieve their ends, their language indicates a proclivity for violence that goes beyond their legal pleas for Hamas and unconditional support for Palestine Action, a fiercely antisemitic grouping that the British government designated as a terrorist organization earlier this month.

Addressing a far-left group last week, Magennis said that the task of the audience when it came to Zionism was to “kick it to death.” On social media, one pictures him frothing as he stabs his keyboard: “Zionism is crumbling. The reckoning is here … Tear down the world that did this to Palestinians. Escalate! Escalate now!” (Amusingly, Magennis—yet another Irishman in thrall to Palestinian eliminationism—suddenly became very sensitive about anti-Irish tropes when a respondent made a joke about him going to bed clutching a bottle of whiskey.) Ansari, meanwhile, continues in a similar vein, hailing the “unique opportunity to do real damage to Zionism” he believes his organization embodies.

“Real damage” means advocating for and implementing the measures I described above, whose impact will be felt primarily by British Jews, not the Israeli government. This is not an accident; in the multifront war launched by Hamas nearly two years ago, the role of its international solidarity movement is to make life as unpleasant as possible for the vast majority of Jews who identify as Zionists. In that regard, the handful of Jewish anti-Zionists in their ranks provides some convenient cover, much as the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party did when the Bolsheviks banned Zionist organizations and cracked down on Hebrew and Jewish education.

With the exceptions of the present U.S. administration and the current German government, no other Western government has understood, let alone acted upon, the grave threat these groups and individuals represent. As a first priority, the welcome U.S. sanctions on Albanese—rooted in the same executive order applied to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for its pursuit of American citizens and allies of the United States like Israel—should now be expanded to all groups dedicated to waging lawfare against Israel and Jewish communities outside Israel. We don’t want you here, and you should entertain no illusions: We will defeat you.

SOMETIMES IT JUST HITS YOU IN THE FACE

By Bob Walsh

 

Some things that have a huge effect on history and on the way the country or the world work sort of sneak up on you.  Sometimes they run up and smack you in the face.

This coming Sunday is the one year anniversary of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA.  That was, IMHO, in many ways a tipping point.

When I saw that still of Donald Trump, bleeding down the side of his face, surrounded by Secret Service agents, holding up his fist and shouting FIGHT, I said, "The election is over.  Trump has it.  That photograph will do it."  Obviously there were other issues involved too (like Harris' manifest incompetence as a candidate) but I firmly believe that was the tipping point.  That sealed the deal.

What if it had gone the other way?  Had Trump been killed would Biden have tried to muscle his way back in?  Could Harris have actually won against whoever the Republicans pushed forward?  (Maybe Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis?)  Had whatever Democrat won there is no doubt in my mind that the invasion of illegal aliens would have continued, there would have been increasing pressure to "legitimize" the ones here already and the balance of power might very well have tipped to the Democrat-Socialist side for the foreseeable future.  

Would the US have turned into Cuba or Venezuela?  Maybe, but probably not.  Would it have turned into semi-socialist Great Britain or Sweden?  Very possibly.  Would Americans have a better life?  IMHO absolutely NOT.  The nanny state would have continued to extract more and more from an increasingly small taxpayer class and use it to bribe non-taxpayers to keep it in power.  This would continue until the system collapsed in on itself due to net tax payers fleeing, either physically or economically while the net takers continued to take and take and take in the firm belief that they were entitled to do so.  Schools would continue to turn out a worse and worse and worse "product" and the power grid would continue to fail.  It might not be Mad Max but it could easily turn into North Korea where the only reliable 24/7/365 electrical power in the country is the spot lights that are required by law to illuminate the statues of the Maximum Leader at night.

Not only did Trump dodge a bullet (mostly) but so did the US as a collective entity.  We are safe from social collapse for another three years.  Maybe another eleven years if we are lucky.  That might manage to embed some actual values in the voting public to keep us above water for another 250 years.  It would sure as hell be nice.      

FIGHT.  FIGHT.  FIGHT SOME MORE.

ANGELANN WINS TWO, LOSES ONE

By Bob Walsh

 

 

AngelAnn Flores was formerly the head of the Stockton Unified School District Board.  She was tried for three felonies.  Filing a false insurance claim, embezzlement and misuse of public funds.  Her trial just ended.   She was in fact found guilty of filing a false insurance claim but found not guilty of embezzlement and misuse of public funds.  Her lawyer, Tori Verber Salazar, was the former San Joaquin County District Attorney.

The false insurance claim asserts that she filed a claim on a policy for an accident that took place BEFORE the effective date of the policy.  She bought a six-month policy from Sentry Insurance the same day as the crash and reported it three days later.  The insurance company paid out $2,010.68 on the accident to the girlfriend of one of Ms. Flores' coworkers, who at the time of the wreck owned the car.  Both the California Dept. of Insurance and the National Insurance Crime Bureau declined to pursue charges relating to the crash.  

The other charges related to routine shenanigans commonly indulged in by elected officials with "company" credit cards.  

Ms. Flores will be sentenced on September 22.  She has announced her intent to appeal.  There are allegedly some issues with a search warrant that might very well give her a leg to stand on in this issue.

HOUSTON'S DA JUST PLAIN SCREWED UP

Harris County Murder Suspect Gets PR Bond After District Attorney Fails to File Indictment on Time

Prosecutors must file indictments within 90 days of an arrest.

 

ByHollyHansen 

 

The Texan

Jul 10, 2025

 

Masiullah Sahil 

 

A suspect charged in the murder of a war hero who served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan had his bond reduced from $750,000 to a $100,000 personal recognizance (PR) bond Thursday, after prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office (HCDAO) failed to file an indictment on time. 

Abdul Niazi was stabbed to death at his office in West Houston on March 26, and police arrested and charged Masiullah Sahil the next day. A relative told the media that immediately after the stabbing, Sahil answered Niazi's phone and told the dead man’s wife and son that Niazi had been sent to the “afterlife.”  

Under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedures, if a grand jury indictment is not filed within 90 days of an arrest, the presiding judge must give the defendant a PR bond — which requires no payment prior to release. 

HCDAO prosecutors filed new charges against Sahil on Thursday before the man could be released. For felony charges of Tampering/Fabricating Physical Evidence with intent to conceal, Judge Emily Detoto of the 177th District Court set bond at $25,000.

A note on Sahil’s docket entered July 10, 2025 reads, “The State, today, after failing to timely indict the Defendant on the underlying Murder offense within the 90 day timeline, filed this current charge of tampering, said charges having arisen out of the same transaction.”

In another note, Detoto added that the court had asked why the defendant was not indicted within 90 days but that “The State could not provide the Court with any valid reason.”

“The State simply informed the Court, “it just didn’t get done.” The Court took judicial notice of the fact that at any given time there are five grand juries sworn in, per term, and the state of Texas has hundred[s] of prosecutors and support staff.”

As of the time of publication, Sahil was still in custody in the Harris County Jail. 

In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson told The Texan that the “District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the situation with the prosecutors handling the case.”

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare was elected last year after defeating incumbent Kim Ogg in the Democratic primary and now-Judge Dan Simons in the general election. Teare’s tenure had a rocky beginning after revelations that his law license had been suspended over a failure to pay administrative fees and required Minimum Continuing Legal Education requirements. 

Teare has also faced public criticism after his office dropped felony charges against former Harris County Public Health Director Barbie Robinson. 

According to Niazi’s family, he was a war hero who lost both of his legs in combat, but had worked to assist Afghan immigrants adjust to life in Houston. He had also reportedly assisted Sahil prior to the murder. 

Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza came under fire earlier this year for the release of several murder suspects after his office also failed to file indictments within 90 days of their arrests.

WHY WE NEED MORE DRONES ... RUSSIA BOMBED THE UKRAINE WITH A SWARM OF 700 DRONES YESTERDAY

Pete Hegseth issues sweeping order to US forces that will trigger new arms race with China and Russia

 

By Brittany Chain 

 

Daily Mail

Jul 10, 2025

 

 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a shock new order to fast track the production and deployment of drones, sparking fears of an arms race with Russia and China 

 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a shock new order to fast track the production and deployment of drones, sparking fears of an arms race with Russia and China.

Hegseth issued two memos seen by Fox News which rescinded a long held policy the restricting the usage of drones which he argued were limiting innovation.

'The Department's bureaucratic gloves are coming off,' Hegseth wrote. 

'Lethality will not be hindered by self-imposed restrictions... Our major risk is risk-avoidance.' 

Hegseth acknowledged that America's adversaries - namely Russia and China - have a 'head start' on the use of unmanned aircraft systems.

'Our adversaries collectively produce millions of cheap drones each year,' Hegseth wrote.

'While global military drone production skyrocketed over the last three years, the previous administration deployed red tape. US units are not outfitted with the lethal small drones the modern battlefield requires.'

He said the Department of Defense had historically 'failed to field UAS [unmanned aircraft system] at scale and speed.'

 

A USAF RQ-4 Global Hawk drone. Hegseth hopes his new policy will help America to establish dominance in the drone sphere by the end of 2027

 

'Small UAS are such critical force enablers that they must be prioritized at the same level as major weapons systems.'

He hopes his new policy will help America to establish dominance in the drone sphere by the end of 2027. 

'We will accomplish this urgent goal by combining the Nation’s best qualities, including risk-taking,' he wrote.

'Senior officers must set the tone. Accelerating this critical battlefield technology requires a Department of War culture.'

Under Hegseth's new rules, commanders who hold a ranking of colonel or captain will be able to independently obtain and test drones.

This includes 3D-printed prototypes and off-the-shelf drones bought commercially. They will have to meet a certain criteria to quality.

These drones will be able to be operated immediately.

Hegseth's workaround sees small drones redefined from durable military assets - which required tracking systems - to consumables, which do not require such intense vetting processes. 

 

Hegseth acknowledged that America's adversaries - namely Russia and China - have a 'head start' on the use of unmanned aircraft systems

 

'Next year I expect to see this capability integrated into all relevant combat training, including force-on-force drone wars,' Hegseth said. 

He vowed to expand training ranges by implementing at least three new UAS testing sites within the next 90 days.

All drone arming requests must receive a response within 30 days, while battery certifications will take no more than seven days.

The Pentagon will look to make advance purchase commitments within 30 days, favoring US companies as per the Trump administration's pledge to reinvest in American businesses.

The decision comes just weeks after Israel relied heavily on drone strikes during its bombing of Iran.

Iran hit back with drones of its own. Drones have also become a key part of the Russia-Ukraine war.

IF KEN PAXTON IS HER REPUBLICAN OPPONENT SHE COULD WIN, BUT IF IT'S CORNYN, SHE'S BLACK TOAST

Outspoken progressive takes the lead in crucial Senate race according to shock poll

 

By Virginia Churchill 

 

Daily Mail

Jul 10, 2025

 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, questions the witnesses during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee hearing on government efficiency on Capitol Hill, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington

 

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett may be looking for a new job in Washington.

The headline-making Texas Democrat appears to be considering a run for higher office - potentially the U.S Senate in the 2026 midterm elections.

In a new interview with liberal comedian and media personality Hasan Minhaj, Crockett noted that she already has her 'expiration date in mind for the House,' adding that she already has 'been eyeing people to replace' her. 

Polling released by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) this week shows Crockett leads a hypothetical Democratic primary with 35 percent of likely voters, followed by former Rep. Colin Allred at 20 percent.

Failed Democrat candidate for both U.S. President and U.S. Senate Beto O’Rourke, and Rep. Joaquin Castro tied at 13 percent. 

Only 18 percent remain undecided about who should challenge Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who is seeking a fifth term. 

Crockett has made headlines in recent months as a key critic of the Trump administration. 

Just last month, Crockett called Trump supporters 'mentally ill' to which White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded that it was 'incredibly derogatory.' 

She noted that the comment was made of about 80 million Americans, adding that Crockett 'couldn't dream' of winning over such a significant number of supporters as Trump did.

Leavitt also noted that for the sake of Republicans, she hopes Crockett continues to be a rising star among Democrats.  

Representative Jasmine Crockett speaks onstage during the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 04, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana

 

Just this week, Crockett posted a video addressing the Texas floods that took over 100 lives over the weekend, including dozens of young girls at a Christian summer camp. 

All was going well until she selfishly drew attention to herself instead of flood victims as, editing the caption of the post to respond to commenters who had made remarks about her bob haircut. 

In 2024, Crockett became a viral social media sensation after calling Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene a 'bleach blond bad built butch body.'

 

Representative Colin Allred, a Democrat from Texas and US Senate candidate, speaks during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024

Joaquin Castro attends the Axios After Hours Presented By Live Nation at National Building Museum on April 28, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks during the 2020 Gun Safety Forum hosted by gun control activist groups Giffords and March for Our Lives at Enclave on October 2, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada

 

If nominated, Crockett would face the winner of the Republican primary who is yet to be determined.

Incumbent Senator John Cornyn is locked in a bitter primary battle with fellow GOPer Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

 

John Cornyn participates in a news conference to provide an update on the ongoing response to severe flooding impacting Kerr County on July 5th, 2025

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, center, arrives at the Collin County Courthouse with his wife Angela, right, and attorney Phillip Hilder for his pretrial hearing Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in McKinney, Texas

 

Paxton has been embroiled in a number of scandals of his own. He was impeached in 2023 over claims he hired a woman he'd had an affair him. 

Paxton's wife, Texas State Senator Angela Paxton announced Thursday that she was filing for divorce from her husband, and that 'in light of recent discoveries' is was not within the best interests of their family for her to remain in the marriage. 

Although she attended her then-husband's trial, Angela did not vote on the outcome. He was acquitted by the senate.

On top of infidelity in his marriage, Paxton has also been accused of corruption on several occasions. He has never been convicted of a crime. 

IF LEGAL TEAMS HAD NOT KEPT APPEALING THE CASE FOR 30-PLUS YEARS, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED LONG BEFORE HE BECAME AFFLICTED WITH DEMENTIA

Killer with DEMENTIA is set to be executed by firing squad as lawyers look to spare his life

 

By James Cirrone 

 

Daily Mail

Jul 10, 2025

 

 

Convicted murderer Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed on September 5, a judge ruled. That's despite him having advanced dementia, according to his defense team (Pictured: Menzies appears in court on November 18, 2024) 

 

A man who murdered a mother-of-three nearly 40 years ago has an official execution date, despite him now having dementia.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, will be killed by a firing squad on September 5 for abducting and killing Utah woman Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.

Menzies selected the firing squad as the method of his execution after he was sentenced to death in 1988.

But his lawyers are now questioning the state's decision to go ahead with ending his life. They say his deteriorating mental condition constitutes a reason to spare him.

Judge Matthew Bates, who signed Menzies' death warrant, ruled in early June that he 'consistently and rationally' understands why he faces execution despite his cognitive decline.

'Menzies has not shown by a preponderance of the evidence that his understanding of his specific crime and punishment has fluctuated or declined in a way that offends the Eighth Amendment,' Bates said on June 6.

Lawyers for Menzies have petitioned the court for a reassessment, but Bates said Wednesday that alone couldn't stop him from setting an execution date.

The defense team scored a partial win, however, as Bates did schedule a hearing on July 23 to evaluate their competency petition.

 

In February 1986, Menzies kidnapped and murdered 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker (pictured), who was a mother of three

 

Menzies' dementia has gotten so bad that he uses a wheelchair, uses oxygen and cannot understand the case against him, his lawyers argued.

'We remain hopeful that the courts or the clemency board will recognize the profound inhumanity of executing a man who is experiencing steep cognitive decline and significant memory loss,' said Lindsey Layer, an attorney for Menzies.

'Taking the life of someone with a terminal illness who is no longer a threat to anyone and whose mind and identity have been overtaken by dementia serves neither justice nor human decency,' she added.

The Utah Attorney General's Office has 'full confidence' in the judge's decision, said Assistant Attorney General Daniel Boyer.

There is precedent for sparing death row inmates from execution if they have severe enough dementia.

In 2018, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of Vernon Madison, who back in 1985 shot Alabama police officer Julius Schulte twice in the back of the head.

His lawyers argued that Madison suffered multiple strokes throughout his time in prison, which led to dementia serious enough that he didn't even remember the crime he committed.

A majority of the justices agreed, saying that if a defendant can't understand why they are being put to death, then an execution is no longer the retribution society is looking for.

 

Vernon Madison (left) was set to be executed for murdering an Alabama police officer in 1985 before it was blocked by the Supreme Court in 2018 because of his dementia. Menzies (right) has a chance of avoiding the same fate for the same reason

 

Menzies, too, could be spared on this basis, which angers Hunsaker's adult son Matt. He was just 10 years old when she was killed.

'You issue the warrant today, you start a process for our family,' he told the judge Wednesday. 'It puts everybody on the clock. We've now introduced another generation of my mom, and we still don't have justice served.'

Hunsaker, 26, was kidnapped by Menzies in February 1986 while she was at work at a convenience store in Kearns, a suburb of Salt Lake City.

Two days after her abduction she was found strangled with her throat cut about 16 miles away at a picnic area in Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Menzies was caught on unrelated burglary charges a day before her body was found. Police found her wallet in his possession, along with other belongings of hers.

Over the last four decades, Menzies filed numerous appeals that delayed his death sentence, which has been previously scheduled two other times.

He and other Utah death row inmates convicted before 2004 were given the choice between lethal injection and firing squad.

If he's executed on September 5 as planned, he will be the first person in the state to die by a firing squad since 2010.

South Carolina killed two men this year using this method. Idaho, Mississippi and Oklahoma are the only other states that allow firing squads.

RESISTANCE TO ICE ARRESTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BORDERS ON AN INSURRECTION

ICE protester opens fire on agents in wild clash during raid at California cannabis farm

 

By James Gordon 

 

Daily Mail

Jul 10, 2025

 

 

An ICE protestor could be seen firing a gun directly towards federal agents on Thursday morning, dangerously escalating an already volatile standoff at a California cannabis farm 

 

(QUESTION: Were ICE agents resisted because they were arresting illegal immigrants or because the were raiding a marijuana farm? - ed.) 

 

An ICE protestor could be seen firing a gun directly towards federal agents on Thursday morning as a volatile standoff escalated at a California cannabis farm.

The moment was captured from above as a news helicopter surveyed the scene while chaos erupted down below outside Glass House Farms in Ventura County. 

Just seconds after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fired smoke canisters into a crowd of demonstrators near Laguna Road, one individual could be clearly seen raising a firearm and appeared to discharge it in the agents' direction.

The raid was part of the broad federal crackdown on undocumented workers in Southern California - but it quickly spiraled into bedlam. 

Agents blocked off roads and stormed the facility in what witnesses described as a sudden and aggressive operation. 

Tear gas choked the air, smoke bombs were thrown and projectiles flew. 

Protesters, farmworkers, and family members scattered through the fields, many screaming, some hit, with others pouring milk over their faces to soothe burning eyes.

At least three people were taken to hospital while dozens more were detained.  

 

Several federal immigration agents were seen clashing with protesters during a raid at a agricultural farm in Ventura County Thursday morning 

A protester gestures as federal agents block the road during the standoff on Thursday morning

 

Within minutes, smoke filled the air as stunned onlookers scrambled for safety.

Video and photos from the scene showed ICE agents clashing with a crowd of more than 100 people - many of them farmworkers or their family members - who had initially formed a human blockade along the road.

Federal agents responded with force as they deployed smoke canisters and what appeared to be less-lethal munitions. 

The raid by ICE in Ventura County seemed to come as a complete surprise.

The sprawling cannabis operation, one of the largest in the state, was quickly sealed off with yellow crime scene tape marked 'U.S. Border Patrol.'

The standoff was tense and at times violent standoff surrounded by fields lined with crops.

On one side of the road dozens of armed and masked federal agents could be seen lining up in tactical gear. 

On the other, more than 100 protesters, including farmworkers, community members, and family members of those believed to be targeted.

 

ICE agents were seen with non-lethal weapons including wooden batons  

Oshkosh armored trucks are seen waiting to take migrants away close to the farm 

Migrants could be seen scrambling away from the ICE agents after smoke bombs were hurled

Tear gas was used to disperse protesters, in Camarillo, California

Suddenly smoke grenades were seen being thrown by ICE agents leading to white smoke to fill the air around where the standoff was taking place

 

Footage posted by the 805 Immigrant Coalition showed agents forming a blockade while demonstrators shouted expletives and refused to back down. 

Suddenly, plumes of green and white smoke erupted over the fields. 

Smoke grenades were thrown though with witnesses saying it was ICE agents who started the conflict.

'There was just smoke everywhere. People were running. It looked like war,' said Adrian Garcia, 25, a former worker at the farm who raced to the site after hearing his cousin was inside to the VC Star.

'I've never seen anything like this on a farm.'

 

Federal agents block a road leading to the farm where ICE conducted an operation as tear gas was used to disperse protesters, in Camarillo, California

The protest was initially peaceful but once ICE agents lined the road the atmosphere changed

Some protestors tried approaching the ICE agents on their own to make their points known

Many of the protestors could be seen filming on their cellphones 

The ICE agents could be seen holding smoke canisters aloft warning protesters not to come any closer

 

Agents fired projectiles into the crowd, striking at least one person in the face, according to eyewitness accounts. Others were hit in the torso and legs. 

Tear gas canisters were stomped out by protesters as others poured milk on their faces to try and calm the effects.

First responders declared a mass casualty incident. Fire and medical crews from Oxnard and Ventura County treated several people and transported three to nearby hospitals.

Ventura County Fire spokesperson Andrew Dowd confirmed emergency personnel were dispatched solely for medical aid and had no involvement in the federal operation.

Among the crowd were relatives of undocumented workers caught in the chaos.

Jessica Lopez said she received a call from her husband around 9:30am.

'He told me ICE was inside. He said he was hiding,' she said. 'He hasn't broken any laws. He just works here to support us.'

Dalia Perez of Oxnard said her undocumented mother has worked at Glass House for more than 30 years. 

'Upset. Helpless,' she said, describing her emotions. 'She hasn't done anything wrong. She's a mother. She's a worker.'

By 2pm, a white ICE bus escorted by what appeared to be a National Guard vehicle rolled down Laguna Road, believed to be transporting detainees. 

 

A protester gestures as ICE agents block the road leading to the farm

Some of the protestors could be seen hiding out in adjoining greenhouses 

Border patrol agents wearing gas masks were seen were seen holding smoke canisters 

 

The Department of Homeland Security has not yet confirmed the number of people taken into custody.

Ventura County Democratic Party Chair Steve Auclair condemned the operation in harsh terms. His mother, who was present at the scene, was struck by a gas canister and hit by a projectile.

'This was a military attack on our community,' Auclair said. 'First they came for the farmworkers. Now they're coming for all of us.'

United Farm Workers president Teresa Romero echoed such concerns.

'There's no good reason to do this to agricultural areas,' she said. 'These workers are living in panic every single day. And now they're under siege.'

 

Federal agents stand guard in a field next to a road leading to the farm

 

Glass House Farms, which purchased the Ventura County facility in 2021, has not commented on the raid. It remains unclear what prompted Thursday's operation, and ICE has not released a statement on the incident.

As of Thursday evening, protesters remained outside the gates of the farm. Some held signs. Others simply waited for any word of those detained.

'We just want to know if our families are safe,' said Dalia Perez. 'That's all we want. Safety. Dignity. And some kind of peace.'

The raid comes amid a wave of federal immigration enforcement operations targeting agricultural sites across Southern California. 

President Donald Trump, who returned to office in January, had initially signaled a shift in tone, promising to protect farmworkers even if undocumented.

'They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great,' Trump said in a June 12 statement. 

'We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back… We're going to have an order on that pretty soon.'

 

One protestor shows a wound suffered as a result of being hit by a rubber bullet

It remains unclear what prompted Thursday’s operation, and ICE has not released a statement on the incident

 

But that apparent pivot has not slowed enforcement. Raids have been reported in multiple counties since June.

Meanwhile, cities and counties across the state are pushing back. 

This week, Los Angeles County and eight other municipalities joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that the tactics used by federal agents are unconstitutional. 

The suit names Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi among others, accusing them of racial profiling, unlawful detentions, and violations of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

THINGS TO SEE IN SEATTLE ... THE SPACE NEEDLE, SPACED OUT DRUG ADDICTS, AND THE HOMELESS

Terrified European family reveal Dem-run city they visited where they'd 'never felt so unsafe'

 

By Alyssa Guzman 

 

Daily Mail

Jul 10, 2025 

 

Seattle

 

A European family who were terrified on a visit to a Democrat-run city on vacation say they've 'never felt so unsafe.'

An unidentified Redditor and their family stayed in a Downtown Seattle hotel during a recent visit to the Emerald City.

They shared details of their nightmare stay, saying the city was full of homeless people and drug-addicts. 

'The number of junkies in the street is insane, they are screaming and catcalling you,' they wrote on Reddit. 'There are more homeless than tourists.'

While finding a place to eat after dropping their bags off, they were horrified to encounter a man who was talking on the phone while unsteadily walking down the path with a 'huge hunting knife.' 

'Wtfff??' the vacationer wrote. 'Definitely coming back with an Uber to the hotel.

'For the perspective, I went to many US cities on the East Coast and this is the first time I have ever felt so unsafe.' 

Many of the commenters believed the family may have ended up on the bad side of town.

'Seattle has tons of great neighborhoods, but not there,' one wrote. 

 

An unidentified Redditor and their family stayed in a Downtown Seattle hotel during a recent visit to the Emerald City and said it was the most unsafe they have ever felt due to the homelessness problem (pictured: a homeless encampment in Seattle in 2022) 

'The number of junkies in the street is insane, they are screaming and catcalling you,' they wrote on Reddit . 'There are more homeless than tourists' (pictured: a homeless encampment in Seattle in 2022)

While finding a place to eat after dropping their bags off, they were horrified to encounter a man who was talking on the phone while unsteadily walking down the path with a 'huge hunting knife' 

 

'As soon as they said downtown Seattle, I was like oh no, you done f**ked up,' another wrote.  

A third replied: 'Plenty of people walk around downtown. They just carry big knives, mentally unstable or stoned beyond belief.' 

King County, which includes Seattle, has 16,000 homeless people - the largest number ever reported in the county and city. 

In 2022, there was 13,300 people experiencing homeless, meaning the number spiked 23 percent in two years, data from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development showed. 

Seattle has already had 2,387 incidents of violent crime this year, including 671 robberies, 1,527 aggravated assaults, and 173 rapes. 

Homeless people have been pictured slumped over in the streets of Seattle and openly shooting up drugs, after the city's officials chose not to make public drug use illegal.

In August 2023, the Seattle City Council voted not to pass legislation that would have allowed the City Attorney's Office to prosecute public drug use cases. 

Almost instantly, the streets were filled with people openly shooting up drugs.

 

King County, which includes Seattle, has 16,000 homeless people - the largest number ever reported in the county and city (pictured: a bowl of used needles in Seattle) 

Many commenters said there were good parts to the city, but to avoid downtown 

Seattle has many goods parts too and is known for its rugged Pacific beauty 

It has plenty of ocean access, mountains, and greenery to enjoy outside of the drug-infested areas 

 

The city's new $800million mega project to revitalize the city has already descended into squalor and despair with a new fountain turned into a bubble bath for homeless people earlier this month. 

Seattle launched the $806million Waterfront Seattle Program in 2010 to reconnect the city to its waterfront along Puget Sound - a large saltwater inlet of the Pacific Ocean. 

It recently opened the Joshua S. Green Sr. Fountain to the Columbia Street waterfront, now set amid new public art added as part of the revitalization.

But despite the extensive efforts - and the hundreds of millions invested - the city’s homelessness crisis continues unabated.

Some believe officials are ignoring the city’s most urgent problems, choosing instead to focus on crafting the illusion of a perfect city through cosmetic renovations.