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Scarborough Urges Democrats to Welcome Socialist Wing Ahead of Midterms– www.newsbusters.org

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Scarborough Urges Democrats to Welcome Socialist Wing Ahead of Midterms– www.newsbusters.org
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The Democratic Party has found itself in the midst of an internal rift just as the midterms are looming. Between revolutionary democratic socialists and establishment liberals, even the media has struggled to pick sides in the battle for the heart of the party. MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough, however, seems to have settled on a choice. On Monday’s Morning Joe, he urged the establishment to let the socialists waltz right on in.

Beginning the segment, Scarborough couldn’t seem to understand why party officials might not want to let socialists and communists into their party. Why can’t we all just get along?

I don’t understand it: this is a time Democrats should be coming together, and yet, every opinion piece I see, every social media post, it’s like about a division in the Democratic party that doesn’t even have to be.

Scarborough’s response to the party divide? Just welcome the socialists with open arms! And pretend they are the ones who will convert to the establishment.

I will say, as a former Republican, now an independent, who is for pro-democracy forces, my attitude has always been, we’re Baptists. We will play 16 hymns of ‘Just as I Am’, if that’s what it takes to bring new converts down. We will wait. And when those new converts come in, we hug them. 

U.S. Soldier Killed In Iraq While Conducting Controlled Detonation Of Iranian Drone Identified– wltreport.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

U.S. Soldier Killed In Iraq While Conducting Controlled Detonation Of Iranian Drone Identified– wltreport.com
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The third U.S. Service member who was killed in the Middle East last week has been identified.

Last week U.S. CENTCOM announced two U.S. Service members were killed in Jordan after Iran struck a base in Jordan where U.S. troops were stationed.

U.S. CENTCOM further revealed a third soldier was MIA but later revealed an unidentiefd body discovered in the aftermath of the attack is believed to be the third service member.

Around the same time a U.S. soldier was killed in Iraq while conducting a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone.

The soldier who was killed during the controlled detonation has now been identify as 30-year-old Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton.

CBS News provided further details on the death of the U.S. soldier and provided remarks from Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

A 30-year-old U.S. soldier was killed over the weekend in Iraq during what the U.S. military said was a controlled explosion to destroy an attack drone.

Newsom pushes California to crack down on sex trafficking — fast– www.latimes.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

Newsom pushes California to crack down on sex trafficking — fast– www.latimes.com
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SACRAMENTO — California has spent millions of dollars to combat sex trafficking, and yet it can still be found in every city and town, hiding in plain sight.

Whether it’s online, on places such as Figueroa Street in L.A. or Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, or even in the hotel rooms where our World Cup guests stayed, there are thousands of women and girls being sexually exploited in California right now, despite all that money and all the resources it has purchased.

“The reality is that few threats to a woman’s safety are as brutal or as overlooked as sex trafficking,” First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom said Monday, sitting with her husband, the governor, in a tiny second-floor dance studio built for survivors of trafficking.

Siebel Newsom was there to watch Newsom sign an executive order that was driven by her work as an advocate for survivors of trafficking. On its surface, the order may not sound like much and isn’t likely to make the news. It calls for most of the major state agencies to come up with a plan within 60 days to work together to curb trafficking and help survivors.

‘Everybody’s Quiet’: Van Jones Blasts Democrats After Mamdani ‘Stabbed’ Supporter ‘In The Back’– wltreport.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

‘Everybody’s Quiet’: Van Jones Blasts Democrats After Mamdani ‘Stabbed’ Supporter ‘In The Back’– wltreport.com
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As antisemitism and socialism gain a serious foothold within the Democrat Party ahead of this year’s midterm elections, even leftists like former Obama adviser and current CNN talking head Van Jones are feeling left out.

He’s been increasingly outspoken in his criticism of the party, including the widespread silence that followed what he described as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s betrayal of Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) by endorsing fellow socialist candidate Darializa Chevalier. 

As Breitbart reported:

He added, “I just want to say that there was a shockwave through this party when Mamdani, who everybody’s excited about, stabbed in the back, Espaillat, who…was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, beloved by everybody, who backed Mamdani. Mamdani said, I will back you. Then he turns around, stabs him in the back. And backed Chevalier, who has no credentials, except she’s known for having celebrated October 7 murders of Israelis on October 8, and never apologized. This sent a shockwave through the party. People said, hold on a second, why, of all the people in New York City, would Mamdani pick this person to betray someone? And then no one says anything. Everybody’s quiet.”

Here’s the viral clip:

Senators explore separate stopgap spending bill as House moves ahead– www.politico.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

Senators explore separate stopgap spending bill as House moves ahead– www.politico.com
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Senate Republicans are looking at going their own way on government funding, as House Republicans try to move a stopgap spending bill this week to fund the government until after the midterm elections.

GOP lawmakers in the Senate have had conversations with Democrats on moving a stopgap spending bill while also talking with the White House about anomalies, according to a person granted anonymity to disclose private discussions.

Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the top Democratic appropriator in the Senate, said she has had conversations with Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) about a Senate version of a stopgap spending bill along with potential “anomalies,” which are specific exceptions or exemptions to the flat funding of a continuing resolution usually noted to prevent disruptions to key services.

Murray wants to see if the House can get their legislation across the floor.

“Let’s see what happens in the House,” she said in an interview Monday.

Murray warned that chamber’s measure likely won’t have her support if it makes it through the House and over to the Senate.

“I understand there’s some real flaws with it. I am happy to look at a bipartisan CR, but I understand there’s some real problems on the House side,” she said.

Dems Went ‘Quiet’ After Mamdani Betrayed One of His Backers for Someone Who Celebrated October 7– www.breitbart.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

Dems Went ‘Quiet’ After Mamdani Betrayed One of His Backers for Someone Who Celebrated October 7– www.breitbart.com
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On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Senior Political Commentator Van Jones said that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) “stabbed in the back” outgoing Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) for “Chevalier, who has no credentials, except she’s known for having celebrated October 7 murders of Israelis on October 8, and never apologized. … And then no one says anything. Everybody’s quiet.”

Jones said, “I am happy that the young people are fighting for affordability, Medicare for all, all the good things. I’ve been waiting my whole life to see a youth movement do what it’s doing. But it’s being hijacked by people who are putting in nutty ideas, supporting terrorists, nutty ideas saying we don’t need cops and prisons, we can’t deport anybody, even if they rape somebody. Who said this? Chevalier.”

He added, “I just want to say that there was a shockwave through this party when Mamdani, who everybody’s excited about, stabbed in the back, Espaillat, who…was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, beloved by everybody, who backed Mamdani. Mamdani said, I will back you. Then he turns around, stabs him in the back. And backed Chevalier, who has no credentials, except she’s known for having celebrated October 7 murders of Israelis on October 8, and never apologized. This sent a shockwave through the party. People said, hold on a second, why, of all the people in New York City, would Mamdani pick this person to betray someone? And then no one says anything. Everybody’s quiet.”

Pentagon concealing true casualty numbers in Iran war – NYT — RT World News– www.rt.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

Pentagon concealing true casualty numbers in Iran war – NYT — RT World News– www.rt.com
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Dozens of soldiers were injured in previously unreported strikes last week, the New York Times says

The Pentagon has withheld information about dozens of service members injured during the war with Iran, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing US officials.

On Friday, Iran struck a US military site in Jordan, killing two soldiers, wounding four, and leaving one missing. According to the Times, however, dozens of service members were injured throughout the week in three other strikes against US forces in the country. Several helicopters were also reportedly damaged in the attacks.

An official told CNN that “it can take several days or even weeks” for an injury to be logged into the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS), an official database. A total of 427 service members have been injured in the war with Iran, the Times said, citing official figures.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell argued that “providing real-time information on non-fatal casualties to the media is the same as providing that information directly to our adversaries.”

Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested despite Mamdani threat– www.cnbc.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested despite Mamdani threat– www.cnbc.com
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a news conference in Jerusalem on June 15, 2026.

Ronen Zvulun | AFP | Getty Images

President Donald Trump said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “will not be arrested” when he visits New York in September, pushing back on a suggestion by Mayor Zohran Mamdani that such an arrest could happen.

Mamdani has said New York City’s legal department is discussing the possibility of arresting Netanyahu when the prime minister is in the city to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani told The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast that published Saturday.

“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years,” the mayor said.

Iran War Risk Pushes African Central Banks to Hold Rates Higher– financialpost.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

Iran War Risk Pushes African Central Banks to Hold Rates Higher– financialpost.com
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“It is very unlikely that the CBN would restart monetary easing as long as inflation expectations remain elevated,” said Gergely Ürmössy, emerging markets strategist at Societe Generale SA. “In the CBN’s latest inflation survey, over half of respondents expected inflation to accelerate over the next six months; in March, before domestic fuel and energy prices spiked, roughly 60% expected inflation to hold steady or decelerate.”

CBS Airs Most of Trump Speech Despite Backlash Over Election Integrity Coverage– www.newsbusters.org

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

CBS Airs Most of Trump Speech Despite Backlash Over Election Integrity Coverage– www.newsbusters.org
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When CBS made waves Thursday as the only broadcast network to not only carry (most of) President Trump’s address on election integrity, it was only a matter of time Status founder and deranged partisan Oliver Darcy would take to his newsletter site and cry about it. So, that missive came down on Monday as he whined it went against what they had told Democrats hours earlier and further “inject[ed] politics into the way people evaluate the network[.]”

Darcy was dripping with hate, right from the subhead: “The Bari Weiss-led network privately indicated it would snub Donald Trump’s primetime address last week, Status has learned, only to reverse course at the last minute and air the speech.”

Darcy began by pointing out Tony Dokoupil ended Thursday’s CBS Evening News by encouraging those wanting to hear the speech to check out their streaming platform, CBS News 24/7. Ostensibly, that would mean CBS itself wouldn’t be carrying it.

RINO Murkowski Can’t Bring Herself To SAVE America– thefederalist.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

RINO Murkowski Can’t Bring Herself To SAVE America– thefederalist.com
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At a rally earlier this month in Anchorage, President Donald Trump said what a lot of conservatives believe: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, “is worse than a Democrat.”

Trump was right. And Murkowski just proved him right again.

The Senate’s leading RINO over the weekend announced that she remains opposed to the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. She did so in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal so that a wider audience could read her purported reasons and to magnify just how much she despises Donald Trump.

In the self-serving piece, Murkowski claims she supports the bill’s “core tenets” but still opposes the bill.

“Why? Because it would have serious negative effects in Alaska, and the current text doesn’t allow for the time and resources needed for proper implementation,” wrote the four-term senator with designs on a fifth in 2028.

Japan raises safety concern over Chinese destroyer’s live-fire drills– abcnews.com

pgnewser July 22, 2026 0

Japan raises safety concern over Chinese destroyer’s live-fire drills– abcnews.com
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TOKYO — Japan expressed concern after a Chinese navy destroyer conducted live-fire drills off a remote Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday during its joint exercise with Russia, officials said Tuesday.

The Chinese Luyang III-class guided-missile destroyer conducted a live-fire exercise off Japan’s southernmost island of Okinotori, hours after the Japanese navy spotted it operating alongside two other Chinese warships and a Russian frigate, the Japanese Joint Staff said.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters Tuesday that his government conveyed concerns that the live-fire drills posed a potential safety threat to nearby vessels. He noted that ships near the area received a notice from the Chinese warships just before the drills started.

“We will continue to watch China-Russia operations around Japan with concern, while doing utmost for the warning and surveillance of the Japanese airspace and territorial waters,” Kihara said.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, in a speech Monday in Britain, said the action underscored “the deepening military cooperation between China and Russia,” as he also noted China’s ballistic missile launch from a submarine earlier this month, and at least 10 joint flights conducted by Chinese and Russian bombers around Japan.