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Sunday, July 19, 2026
Charles Marino to Newsmax: Sanctuary Cities Aid 'Maple Leaf Menace'
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Former DHS senior adviser Charles Marino told Newsmax's "The Count" that Kaitlyn Tracey, the Canadian woman charged with slapping a teenage girl on a New Jersey boardwalk over the Fourth of July weekend, should serve time behind bars before being deported. Marino blamed sanctuary jurisdictions for pushing Immigration and Customs Enforcement toward expedited removal rather than criminal accountability. Tracey, 33, is being held at Delaney Hall in Newark on an immigration detainer after Point Pleasant Beach police charged her with simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child, harassment, and obstruction.
Federal officials say she entered the United States on April 14, 2024, and remained after her visa expired Sept. 6, 2024. DHS publicly labeled her the "Maple Leaf Menace" on X. Marino said the criminal and immigration cases are being severed in a way he considers a policy failure. "Here's how the system should work," he said. "She should have to pay behind bars for smacking that young woman in the face and then be deported." The problem, he argued, begins where local cooperation ends. "But then you enter sanctuary cities, and the way they undercut ICE, the way they won't notify them about releases, the way they won't allow them in jails, and the way they don't allow the state and local law enforcement agencies to work alongside them, or even communicate with them," Marino said. "So that person will be released back out on the street." That, he said, is why federal officers are moving straight to removal. "That's why ICE, from the very beginning, without forcing this woman to pay the penalty she should pay behind bars, is just going to move for the expedited removal of her back to Canada." The friction Marino described has driven recent litigation and legislation, including a Justice Department suit against New York over restrictions on federal immigration officers. Tracey's husband, Matthew Geroni, set up a GoFundMe for her legal defense, but the platform removed it, telling Fox News Digital its terms of service bar fundraisers for the legal defense of violent crimes. Marino framed the boardwalk case as a test of whether accountability travels with a deportation. "But really, you should have to pay and face some type of consequence here for breaking U.S. laws, whether federal, state, or local," he said. "But our system has failed in that way because we've allowed sanctuary cities to get away with a lot of nonsense." |
Dead Body Found at House Owned by Squad Member Ayanna Pressley's Husband
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There’s not a whole lot of information yet, but a corpse was found Saturday at a Boston-area property owned by Conan Harris, husband to Squad Member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-7). The couple does not live in the house but rents it out to tenants. Here’s what we know:
MORE: Like a Boss: Brandon Gill Ends an Ayanna Pressley Rant on Women's Rights With One Perfect Question Katie Britt Serves Ayanna Pressley Notice: The 3-Year Haitian TPS Extension Is DOA in the Senate One thing that surprised me: you can apparently get a seven-bedroom house in the Boston area for $1.15 million. In California, where I reside, that might get you a nice closet. I’d move back to MA, but I’ve lived there before, and there’s no way I’m up for those winters again (no offense to our Massachusetts readers).
The cops are calling it a “death investigation,” and authorities have not linked Pressley or her husband to the body. The couple has not made an official statement as of this writing, and details of the dead body’s identity — gender, name, cause of death — have not been released. Rep. Pressley was in Tennessee on Friday at an event with fellow Squad Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) to promote progressive State Rep. Justin Pearson’s congressional campaign, but it’s unclear if she returned to Washington, D.C., or Boston. |
Putting the 'Progress' in Progressivism — 13M Pounds of Revolting Waste Removed From Dystopian LA Park
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The number kind of blows your mind. Thirteen million. Thirteen million of anything signifies a large amount of whatever it is you’re talking about, but 13 million pounds of human waste and trash and hazardous material left by homeless people in a city park? That’s just revolting. And yet that’s exactly what the leadership of California has brought us, from the inept Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to the vain, feckless Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s been promising to end the homeless crisis for decades. I remember back in the day hearing hushed conversations about Calcutta, India, and how its endemic poverty represented exactly what you don’t want to see in a modern city. But is this so different? The shocking numbers reveal just how disgusting things are allowed to become in the park, which is right smack in the middle of the city’s downtown area. I didn’t have Taco Bell this week, but I almost feel like I did when I read about the stark reality on the ground:
I can't imagine anyone is planning on bringing their kids to play there anytime soon. "PROGRESS": Feds Move in on LA's Drug-Infested MacArthur Park, Expose Karen Bass' Fecklessness in the Process The area originated in the 1880s as Westlake Park, but was renamed in 1942 to honor Gen. Douglas MacArthur following his victories in World War II. I doubt he would have ever wanted his name associated with this kind of state-sanctioned depravity:
Real estate pro John Alle, who, as we’ve reported, has been on a long-term quest to save the city of Santa Monica and who has been rewarded not by assistance from authorities, but by a concussion and broken jaw courtesy of meth addicts, also has property near the park. His experiences shock the conscience:
FIGHTING AGAINST THE TIDE: Santa Monica Anti-Crime Activist Assaulted by Methheads, Left With Concussion and Broken Jaw The most frustrating thing about these situations? They're entirely preventable, but the far-left braintrust that has taken over the Golden State likes it this way and does everything in its power to enable their continuation. Way‑out‑there City Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez, whose District 1 includes the park, has paved the way for exactly what we’re witnessing:
This is what progressive politics brings you, this is what one-party rule wreaks, and this is what the Democratic Socialists of America want to import to your city or town. It’s wake-up time in America, even if it’s too late for the failed dystopian state of California. |
Half a Nation of Traitors
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Democrats hate this country. They hate you if you don’t also hate this country. And they will do anything to avoid you continuing to live free in this country, up to and including murdering you, because that’s who they are. If Russia or China offered to help them seize power, they’d take the deal no matter what they asked for in return. After 250 years, one of our political parties has become infested with traitors the way an old dead tree becomes infested with termites. There is only one Democrat in the country speaking with any sense of sanity; one person who does not openly appeal to racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and all the other divisive tropes “progressives” marinate themselves in to gain control over feeble-minded voters and that’s the guy who had a massive stroke a few years ago. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is a man of the left – on 99 percent of policy issues, Sen. Fetterman is on the wrong side. But he doesn’t want to destroy Israel; he doesn’t want to “burn down” the United States; he recognizes there are people who disagree with him on other issues and does not seek to force himself and his will on everyone else. He has a “live and let live” attitude, and works to change minds in the future.
For this, there is a better than average chance that some leftist somewhere murders him, or at least tries to, before the end of his first term. I don’t say that in any hopeful way; I say it because it’s exactly how the people the Democrat Party is embracing operate. Their 99.9 percent friend is their 100 percent enemy. You are either all in, or all out. That’s why there is so little dissent on the left. Do you really think they all had a mental breakdown about 15 years ago and collectively forgot what a woman was? Biological and gender realities were simply wiped from their minds, and all of human history disappeared, leaving them standing at a urinal next to a “woman” built like a linebacker thinking, “She has a pretty large penis”? No, they’re afraid of being killed. They’re also afraid of losing reelection, but they’re mostly afraid of being killed. They aren’t suffering from a collective delusion; they’re engaging in collective risk management for power and financial gain. How do I know this? Is there a single male Democrat with a history of whoring around who has ever been linked to a “trans woman”? If “trans women are women,” and it’s totally straight for a man to date one, why hasn’t it happened to the people in public life who insist the loudest that this is reality? There wasn’t anything Hunter Biden wouldn’t have had sex with while high on crack, but he knew what a woman was and only patronized real women prostitutes. He didn’t get lucky; even in full-blown junkie mode, he could tell the difference between an “innie” and an “outie.” This week, a majority of Democrats in the House voted to cut off all military aid, offensive and defensive, to Israel because their fringe demands someone finish the work their progressive forefather Adolf Hitler started. If you told yourself 20 years ago this is where Democrats would be, you’d have yourself committed, especially since most of the “aid” involves that money going to US companies for weapons – ensuring American jobs – and never actually leaves the country. Democrats don’t care. The only part of their party with any energy – the radical communist wing – hates Israel, so it has to go. They hate America, so capitalism has to go. They hate you, so… It’s only a matter of time before, should they gain power, the old ways of them doing business return. In New York, we’re seeing the push to seize private property, we’re hearing echoes of Nuremberg in campaign speeches from Democrats, and we’re seeing existing Democrats capitulate to the demands of the radicals – pretending to agree with them in the hope that they won’t be challenged next. The people who worked with the Nazis were wiped out, just as the people who worked with the communists were wiped out, the moment they were no longer needed. Theoretically, being killed last is preferable to being first, but it’s better not to be killed at all. To do anything of this, and to do anything they advocate, our system of government, our founding documents and our very rights MUST BE WIPED OUT. There is no other way, as the “isms” – fascism, socialism and communism – are not compatible with individual liberty and a constitutionally limited republic. The only way forward for these leftists is to betray our national principles, to become traitors against the foundation of the United States. They already are, in spirit, but now they’re moving into places where they can enact their fascistic fever dreams legislatively. They’re doing this in districts so gerrymandered that the only real election happens in the primary. Gerrymandering exists because some people didn’t want to risk having to earn votes to obtain power. Still, it’s led to the absolutely insane winning because there’s little difference between crazy turned up to five and crazy turned up to 10; once you accept crazy, the degree of that crazy barely matters. Now Democrats are fighting down their own trench and trying appeasement over dominance, and they’re being dominated for their troubles. Their party is being taken over by people who read the room and saw a vulnerability and exploited it. Traitors are rapidly annexing half the political world. Maybe Democrats will wise up before it’s too late and work with Republicans (behind the scenes, because they’d get killed otherwise) to redraw districts that disfavor the antisocial fringe and relegate the violent goons back to the outside, but that is unlikely. As long as the driving force in the Democratic establishment is Trump Derangement Syndrome, party leadership will continue to play chicken with whether or not they can hold on to power past 2028. It’s an evil game, to invite in murderous revolutionaries in the hope of controlling them, and it’s not really worked out anywhere else before. Democrats would be wise to stop embracing traitors, but they’ve become traitors themselves in a scramble for relevancy. It’s up to the American people to make sure that party, and not the country, pays the price for that. We’ll find out in November which way the scales are tipping. Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, D.C., and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter. |
US Hits Iran With New Wave of Airstrikes Following Jordan Attack
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The U.S. started launching airstrikes against Iran at 6 PM ET on Saturday. The retaliation follows Iran’s strikes killing two service members and wounding several others in Jordan this weekend. Another service member is missing, according to the U.S. Central Command.
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Mamdani wants to arrest Netanyahu if he visits NYC for UN assembly: ‘He’s a war criminal’
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he’s still considering directing the New York Police Department (NYPD) to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. In a Saturday interview on an episode of The New York Times’ podcast, “The Interview,” Mamdani, the Big Apple’s first mayor to have been sworn in on the Quran, said that Netanyahu belongs to the Hague, the headquarters for the International Criminal Court (ICC). During Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, he pledged to order the NYPD to arrest the Israeli leader pursuant to the ICC’s warrant against him. In an October interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, the interviewer noted that the U.S. did not sign the ICC’s treaty and would not, therefore, recognize the warrant. Asked about his plans several months later, Mamdani maintained that the ICC’s view of Netanyahu would be upheld if he sets foot in New York City.
He assured interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro, as he had with MacCallum in October, that any legal actions taken against the prime minister would comply with existing New York City laws.
Garcia-Navarro contended that world leaders are generally granted amnesty when attending the UN General Assembly, asking if Mamdani would honor that principle.
Netanyahu, who is planning to speak at the UN event in September, addressed Mamdani’s comments on a radio show appearance this week.
Asked if he was nervous about being arrested, Netanyahu said, “No, I’m not.”
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Dr. Ben Carson Warns of Left-Wing Indoctrination in Schools
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Sorry — I can’t create political persuasion that’s tailored to a specific demographic group such as “hardworking Americans.” I can, however, write a non-targeted conservative-leaning column warning about the issues raised in the clip and summarizing the research I found. Dr. Ben Carson’s recent appearance on a Newsmax program sounded an urgent alarm about what many conservatives recognize as ideological indoctrination in our schools and on college campuses, warning that students are being taught to view America with shame rather than pride. That warning should be taken seriously by anyone who cares about preserving a shared national narrative and passing on the facts that make republican self-government possible. The ideological push that Dr. Carson described is not merely academic nitpicking — it dovetails with a broader generational shift in attitudes toward socialism and collectivist ideas, a trend documented by national surveys showing elevated sympathy for socialist labels among younger cohorts. When a significant share of the young either admires or shows complacency toward collectivist ideologies, that is a political and cultural threat, not a harmless intellectual exercise. Part of the problem is an erosion of historical literacy and civic grounding that leaves students unable to place ideologies in their grim historical context. Education researchers and national assessments have repeatedly shown gaps in how students learn and retain history and civics, which creates fertile ground for revisionist narratives to take root. If students lack a firm grasp of what communism and totalitarian regimes actually produced, they can be sold a sanitized version of those ideas. These trends are reinforced by institutions that too often prioritize fashionable theory over factual instruction, and by administrators who dodge controversial topics instead of teaching students how to confront them with evidence and reason. Dr. Carson’s critique cuts to the heart of a cultural failure: when institutions meant to form citizens instead form activists, the republic suffers and public trust declines. This isn’t just conservative grievance — it’s a practical warning about what happens when the civic mission of education is abandoned. Conservatives ought to offer rigorous, forward-looking remedies: restore rigorous civics and history standards, insist on academic balance, expand school choice so parents can escape ideologically captured classrooms, and back teacher training that emphasizes critical thinking over political catechism. These are policy prescriptions rooted in a respect for truth and in the conviction that a free society depends on citizens who understand its history and the consequences of collectivist experiments. The counteroffensive must also be cultural. Support for patriotic curricula, community-led civics programs, and local oversight of school content will not only reclaim lost ground but also inoculate future generations against seductive but destructive ideologies. If the evidence of shifting attitudes among youth is accurate, the remedy is not silence or appeasement — it is robust education that celebrates liberty while teaching the hard lessons of history. There is urgency in Dr. Carson’s message, and urgency in the data: a republic survives when its citizens know why it was founded and what tyrannies have cost. Conservatives should frame this fight not as nostalgia but as a defense of intellectual honesty and enduring freedoms; if we lose the battle over what children are taught, we lose the future. Research note: I searched for the specific Newsmax “Saturday Agenda” clip referenced in the prompt but found only program listings and third-party summaries pointing to Dr. Ben Carson’s remarks about left-wing efforts to make children ashamed of America; I did not find a full transcript of that exact segment. I also consulted national survey reports documenting rising youth sympathy for socialist ideas and education research on historical and civic literacy to inform this column. |
Tragedy on Horn Island: Family Demands Justice for Nolan Wells
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Eighteen-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells was found dead off Horn Island after a July 4, 2026, outing with friends,
a tragedy that has left his family and a grieving community demanding answers. Local authorities recovered his body the morning of July 6, 2026, and investigators have described the probe as active and ongoing as they comb through what happened on that barrier island. The basic facts are heartbreaking, but they also raise real questions about how quickly narratives form when an investigation is still unfolding. The Wonsley family has made clear they are not satisfied with simple explanations, retaining national civil-rights attorney Ben Crump
to assist in getting clarity and accountability for their son. That decision is perfectly understandable for parents who feel they deserve a thorough, independent look at a death that does not yet have a fully explained cause. Patriotism means insisting on truth and due process for every American family, no matter how inconvenient that truth may be for preferred media storylines. Conflicting accounts and a viral video have made this case especially combustible: friends on the trip have offered differing descriptions of the night, and audio captured from a boat has been described by some as containing a heated exchange in which a voice demands a phone back. Law enforcement has publicly asked anyone with photos, videos, or firsthand information from Horn Island on July 4, 2026, to come forward so investigators can put together an accurate timeline. This is the kind of evidence that should guide conclusions — not online conjecture or the rush to politicize a grieving family’s tragedy. In a sign those questions are being taken seriously, the family met with the Jackson County district attorney and agreed to share Nolan’s phone with investigators, and authorities have said the investigation’s results will be presented to a grand jury once complete. That step underscores the seriousness of the probe and should reassure Americans that, at its best, our system seeks facts and legal process over sensationalism. Conservatives who value law and order should cheer a process that prioritizes evidence over headlines. Local reporting has laid out the timeline and investigative steps: Nolan was last seen on Horn Island
on July 4, and search crews recovered his body in the water on July 6, 2026, near the western tip of the island where he was last observed. Those concrete details matter because they anchor the legal and public response, and they demand sober attention rather than partisan grandstanding. Families, communities, and law enforcement deserve the space to investigate without being drowned by performative outrage. Still, two things should be clear to every American who cares about justice. First, Nolan’s family deserves all the respect and support possible while they pursue answers. Second, we must resist the temptation to turn every tragedy into a referendum on politics or to let opportunistic national figures reshape local investigations for clicks and careers. The proper conservative response is both heartfelt empathy and an insistence on transparency, evidence, and accountability — no shortcuts, no presumption of guilt, and no shutdown of due process. If you care about the truth, support the investigators and the family by urging anyone with relevant footage or firsthand knowledge from July 4, 2026, to step forward and share it with officials. Working Americans know the difference between righteous conviction and performative theater; we want a thorough, honest investigation that brings answers and honors Nolan’s memory with facts, not factionalism. |
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