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Thank you to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, X, and Truth Social).
Without any further ado, the results have been tabulated and the winner for the Worst Media Quote of Week is…
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The continuing drip release of court documents relating to the murder of Henry Nowak has revealed that some of the British teen’s final words to his killer were “I’m not racist”.
Vickrum Digwa, 23, was convicted of murdering student Henry Nowak in May with a ceremonial Sikh knife in Southampton in December of last year. When police reached the scene, Digwa falsely told officers that he had been racially abused by Nowak, prompting officers to arrest and handcuff the dying teen as he was bleeding out on the ground, ignoring his pleas that he had been stabbed and could not breathe.
According to court transcripts obtained by the Sunday Times, a nearby resident told the court that he had heard multiple men “arguing loudly” outside his window, and that one of the men, later identified as Nowak, had said “I’m not racist”, as he lay dying on the ground.
Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC told the jury that as Digwa’s brother, Gurpreet, had phoned police and claimed that Nowak had “verbally attacked my brother racially,” Nowak could be heard in the background of the emergency call pleading: “No, I didn’t”.
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BRUSSELS: The European Union and Britain targeted Russia on Monday (Jul 13) with coordinated sanctions over cyber attacks in Europe, accusing Moscow’s FSB intelligence agency over involvement in digital strikes.
The move comes as Western officials warn Russia has stepped up its “hybrid” campaign to destabilise Europe over four years into the war on Ukraine.
Brussels said it was imposing sanctions on nine people and four entities, while London said it was adding 24 names to its blacklist.
The British government said the sanctions – the first joint cyber package with the EU – “target the Russian state’s persistent and increasingly reckless attempts to sow chaos and division across Europe”.
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Like his fellow Democrats Zohran Mamdani and Kamala Harris, U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico wants us to know he’s very upset that illegal alien Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed after he tried to run over ICE agents with his vehicle.
It’s another example of how, once again, Democrats are on the side of criminal illegal aliens and not the American people.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE.
His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook.
Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice. pic.twitter.com/KFLRZ9ZVEq
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The Palmetto State will let primary voters nominate Graham’s successor. Maine, on the other hand, is letting a party convention pick Graham Platner’s replacement.
(Michelle Liu / AP)
The sudden death of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a onetime Republican “maverick” who abandoned most of his pretenses toward independent political thinking in the service of Donald Trump’s presidency, has upended the politics of the state and nation that he served for 32 years in state and federal office.
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Senior Iranian official Ahmad Alamolhoda:
“The fatwa to kill the American dog Trump must be implemented through an organized mechanism, so it is not left unfulfilled like in the Rushdie case. Our revenge will continue until America collapses like the USSR.”
Enough is enough.
Senior Iranian official Ahmad Alamolhoda:
“The fatwa to kill the American dog Trump must be implemented through an organized mechanism, so it is not left unfulfilled like in the Rushdie case. Our revenge will continue until America collapses like the USSR.” pic.twitter.com/Lncf9oV1fB
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 12, 2026
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Elementary school students might memorize their times tables for single-digit numbers, but memorization won’t cut it when the teacher asks for three-digit multiplication. This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number by each digit of the top one. For millennia, mathematicians believed this to be the fastest multiplication method, until a 23-year-old made a shocking discovery in 1960, which led to a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.
This mystery is critical to anyone who partakes in the digital world because multiplication is a foundational operation for computers. Encryption, robotics, artificial intelligence, audio processing and pretty much everything else we task silicon chips with involves multiplication, sometimes of huge numbers many times over. At this scale, even a simple operation becomes a bottleneck, and any extra efficiency has global economic consequences.
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Pathologic altruism (P.A.) may be defined as an intervention which is intended to allay the plight of others, but which instead enables their harmful or self-destructive behavior. Providing addicts with opiates. Its practice may also be detrimental to those perpetuating it. Open borders.
P.A.is a powerful tool of the radical left insurgency. Leftist policy enables homelessness, drug legalization, illegal immigration, gender dysphoria, shoplifting, “peaceful protests,” defunding the police, participation prizes, permissive parenting, grade inflation, DEI. All such measures are of no help or detrimental to the recipient of such largesse, as well as to the society at large.
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Rashida Tlaib Delivers Speech Claiming U.S. Political Structures Built on Slavery, Genocide, and Oppression
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “The political structures that we are surrounded by were built on slavery and genocide and oppression. Look at this room, motherf*kers. We aren’t going anywhere. Now we’re in Congress and every corner of the United States.”
As Leonard Cohen wrote, ‘I’ve seen the future brother, it is murder.’
We warned you this was coming and we were brutally punished for doing so.
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The Laotian illegal alien child rapist who was pardoned by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D.) last month has been deported from the United States after Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped in to facilitate his removal.
Tou Lue Vang, a Laotian national, was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota between 2002 and 2004.
During police interviews, Vang had attempted to justify his actions by citing cultural norms and even suggested the victim was partly at fault. He had also offered the victim $10 to remain silent. Vang pleaded guilty in a plea deal that spared him from prison. His legal status was revoked after his conviction, and a federal immigration judge issued a final order of removal in 2006.
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The white supremacist group Patriot Front brazenly marched in Washington, D.C., on Independence Day. Their faces covered in white ski masks and their eyes obscured by sunglasses, the identically dressed group of men celebrated our country’s 250th anniversary by waving the pro-slavery Confederate flag, chanting about wanting to “reclaim America,” and carrying signs and banners promoting their pro-white racist ideology.
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has spent much of her career making Republicans uncomfortable. She speaks too bluntly, fights too publicly, and rarely waits for permission.
Those habits may have hurt her campaign for governor, but they also make her worth considering for Lindsey Graham’s open Senate seat.
“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in…” pic.twitter.com/1AzRMPAEuc
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 12, 2026
Mace says she’s strongly considering the race, and why not?
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will appoint a temporary replacement, and Republican candidates are preparing for an accelerated contest ahead of the November election.
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The death toll from the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 has risen to 4,333, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez told reporters on Saturday, announcing that the distribution of housing to those affected will begin next week.
Rodríguez said 315 of the dead have not yet been identified.
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Friday, on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the Tyler Robinson trial.
Marlow said, “Candace, who has spent the last 10 months smearing Erika Kirk trying to destroy Turning Point USA, all — everything that she’s been telling her audience has been incorrect.”
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts coast to coast on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern on the Salem Radio Network stations. You can listen to the radio show online here. The show also airs at 9 p.m. Eastern on the Salem TV news channel. Marlow’s podcast, The Alex Marlow Show Presented by Breitbart News, is released weekdays at 9 p.m. Eastern.
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A senior official in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration attempted to sidestep the federal government by scheduling a meeting with Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations. The meeting was ultimately canceled following intervention by the U.S. State Department.
Ana María Archila, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, was listed on a calendar invitation to meet Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, on July 7, according to a report from City Journal.
Two other senior officials from the mayor’s Office for International Affairs were also scheduled to attend. Details on the meeting and its agenda were not made publicly available by the mayor’s office.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her administration will take legal action against the U.S. after the lethal shooting of a Mexican national who had lived in Texas for decades.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in a “targeted enforcement operation” in Houston on Tuesday.
‘There’s no reason for them to be in detention centers or for violence to be used. So, we’re preparing legal measures — obviously, more significant ones.’
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Meta announced Monday that its Louisiana data center investment has grown from $10 billion to $50 billion and that it expects to generate substantial local tax revenues as it pursues artificial superintelligence.
The Richland Parish Data Center, nicknamed “Hyperion,” will be a nearly 10 million-square-foot, five-gigawatt facility, equivalent to a power plant capable of supplying enough electricity to power roughly 4 million average U.S. homes simultaneously. Altogether, that is about as much energy as New York City uses on a winter day.
“We’re delivering real economic impact alongside the AI infrastructure that will power the future,” Meta Vice President of Data Centers Rachel Peterson said in a statement.
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There are threats, and then there are $30 billion threats.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta seems to have the magic wand that could remedy the situation, but the decision is not exactly a case of right and wrong.
‘The proposed transaction will increase output, expand theatrical releases, and enhance competition.’
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Notably, amid changes to the network programming, the promotion heavily featured the nighttime duo of Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow, two hosts who have showcased some unhinged moments in the age of Trump and whose programming was anything but impartial.
Broken up with short soundbites from O’Donnell and Maddow, the advertisement’s narrator read:
Celebrating 30 years… Delivering journalism that informs, empowers, and strengthens our democracy.
MS NOW has a new ad celebrating its 30th anniversary:
“Celebrating 30 years … Delivering journalism that informs, empowers, and strengthens our democracy.” pic.twitter.com/V3m8ptDFor— Nick (@nspin310) July 13, 2026
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Writing in May for Above the Law, Ken Crutchfield observed that “over the past year, we’ve seen a steady stream of headlines about AI hallucinations where fake cases, fabricated quotes, and misstated facts made it through a review process and into court filings.” The predicament isn’t just that GenAI tools invent non-existent cases that some short-cut-taking attorneys cite without verifying; it’s that the tools also produce difficult-to-discover false claims and quotations that masquerade as truth in pleadings and motions. Indeed, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit explained in February that the “problem now often manifests as false quotes or statements of law attributed to real cases, rather than the more easily recognizable fake cases.”
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David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, has reportedly been backing a bill for a federal film tax incentive that has bipartisan support.
Multiple sources confirmed to Variety that that Ellison has spent at “least six months in exploratory meetings for the proposed legislation.” Ellison also met with Republican leaders in Washington, D.C., on Monday to discuss the legislation.
A federal film tax incentive would provide significant financial relief to content producers fleeing the U.S. for rebates around the world. A federal program would also sweeten the deal in Hollywood’s home state of California, whose AG Rob Bonta is leading the charge on the searing antitrust lawsuit waged today against Ellison over Warner Bros.
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The Trump Justice Department has secured roughly two dozen non-citizens voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months, with another nearly 90 more cases under investigation.
Just the News reports that the wave of prosecutions represents a growing number of individuals charged in the last year with illegally voting in U.S. federal elections as foreigners.
Department of Justice (DOJ) officials say all 50 states were sent notices this month that election officials can and will be prosecuted too if they allow non-citizens to vote.