Cdl. Pizzaballa ‘not sure’ Gaza parish strike was ‘mistake’; Holy Mass carries on at Gaza Church despite death and injuries; Rescissions package slashing $9B heads to President Trump’s desk; Poll shows majority of Americans support preventing illegal immigrants from government benefits; Hegseth apologizes for Army calling pro-lifers “terrorists” during Biden era; Polish government lodges Vatican protest over bishops’ [anti-]migration remarks; and more —
House passes public media, foreign aid clawbacks after Epstein scramble
Six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, Congress finally codified a small piece of the hundreds of billions of dollars his Department of Government Efficiency pinpointed as “waste.”
House Republicans gave final approval just after midnight Friday to Trump’s proposal to claw back $9 billion in public media and foreign assistance, greenlighting the Senate’s changes to the measure that will bake in proposed DOGE cuts to public media and foreign aid. The package now heads to the president’s desk.
Read more at Politico
House Republicans Pushing New Amnesty Bill Have Stabbed Conservatives In The Back
Conservatives supported the Big Beautiful Bill on the promise that it would kick deportations and border enforcement into overdrive, and less than two weeks later Republicans have stabbed them in the back with an amnesty bill.
On Tuesday, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., reintroduced the DIGNITY Act alongside a cadre of fellow Republicans as well as Democrats. Her office couched the legislation in words like “dignity” and “opportunity,” saying it will allow “certain long-term undocumented immigrants to earn legal status, without amnesty or a path to citizenship.”
Read more at The Federalist
(POLL) Majority say keeping illegal immigrants off benefits is important
A strong majority of voters say it’s important to keep illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded programs like Medicaid and food stamps.
According to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, 72% of likely voters say they believe preventing illegal immigrants from receiving government benefits is important, including 48% who say it’s very important. Only 25% say it isn’t important.
The White House recently announced efforts to remove illegal immigrants from benefit rolls. Still, only 45% of voters say they believe the government is doing enough. Thirty-seven percent say the government is not doing enough, and 18% are unsure.
Read more at Sharyl Attkisson
Undocumented California woman charged with faking her own kidnapping
An undocumented woman is facing charges of allegedly faking her own kidnapping at the hands of ICE in order to raise money on GoFundMe.
Watch at Fox 11 Los Angeles
Trump to sue WSJ and Rupert Murdoch after ‘defamatory’ story on Epstein birthday letter
President Donald Trump said he will sue the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for publishing a story about the president, who wrote a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, saying they have “certain things in common.”
Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that Murdoch said he would “take care” of the story, which described a letter the president allegedly wrote to Epstein, who would later be convicted of sex trafficking, inside a drawing of a nude woman, “but, obviously, did not have the power to do so.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner
Doctor: Trump Has ‘Chronic Venous Insufficiency’
President Donald Trump’s recent medical exam sought to provide answers for the reportedly noticeable swelling in his ankles and bruising on his hand in recent days.
Trump has been diagnosed with a benign “chronic venous insufficiency,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday. …
“Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease,” she said.
Read more at Newsmax
Trump says Coca-Cola will be made with real sugar
Donald Trump has announced Coca-Cola has agreed to start using cane sugar in its American-made drinks, replacing the high fructose corn syrup that has sweetened the beverage for decades.
In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Mr Trump wrote: “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so.
Read more at The Telegraph
Hegseth Apologizes for Army Calling Pro-Life Americans “Terrorists” During Biden Era
After the outrageous revelation that Army trainees at Fort Bragg (then Fort Liberty) were instructed that pro-life Americans were domestic terrorists, and that our client Operation Rescue was expressly named and its logo pictured prominently on a “TERROR AWARENESS” training slide presentation under the title “TERRORIST GROUPS,” we went to work.
After months of effort, we are pleased to announce that President Trump’s new leadership of America’s mighty military has done what the Biden Administration refused to do: condemn the training, acknowledge that it caused harm, apologize for it, and assure us that it will not happen again under their watch.
Read more at Life News
Cdl. Pizzaballa ‘not sure’ Gaza parish strike was ‘mistake’
Pope Leo XIV and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem have strongly condemned the shelling Thursday of the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza.
While the Israeli government has said that tank fire on the Gaza parish on July 17 was not deliberate, Cardinal Pierrebattista Pizzaballa has expressed doubts. …
Read more at The Pillar; see Cdl. Pizzaballa’s official statement here
Netanyahu calls Pope Leo XIV after deadly Israeli strike on Gazan church
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo XIV on Friday after Israel’s deadly attack on the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza that killed three people and wounded 10 others, according to the Vatican.
“During the meeting, the Holy Father renewed his appeals for renewed impetus to negotiations and for a ceasefire and an end to the war. He reiterated his concern for the dramatic humanitarian situation of the population in Gaza, whose excruciating price is being paid especially by children, the elderly, and the sick,” the Vatican said in a statement to ABC News.
Read more at ABC News; see also Vatican Press Release
EU, US bishops lament attack on Gaza parish
The presidents of COMECE (the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union) and the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) issued statements mourning the Israeli military attack on Gaza’s sole Catholic parish.
On a visit to Ukraine, Bishop Mariano Crociata of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno (Italy), the president of COMECE, said that “we do not yet know exactly what happened, but I can say that such acts renew our sorrow at the spread of violence and compel us to reaffirm, with strength, our firm opposition to every form of war and armed conflict.”
Read more at Catholic Culture
GAZA Fr. Gabriel Romanelli IVE celebrated Mass this evening despite being injured this morning at Holy Family Church
Catholics for Catholics weigh in on Gaza strike of Catholic Church
Some Bishops in America have removed the obligation for illegal migrants to fulfill the 3rd Commandment and attend Sunday Mass for fear of ICE performing their just duties … It may be good to consider the following: In the face of death, the local ordinary in Gaza still requires the faithful to attend Sunday Mass as he correctly understands the need for his flock to be fed spiritually from the Eucharist …
See @Catholic for Catholics on X; see also @Michael Kelly ن on X
Chip Gaines Smears ‘Modern American Christians’ as Judgmental, Close-Minded, Hateful
HGTV star Chip Gaines is pushing back against a backlash after he and his wife Joanna featured a same-sex couple on their new series, Back to the Frontier.
Chip and his wife have created a TV empire by presenting themselves as devout Christians and built an audience of faith-based fans, but the inclusion of the gay couple in their new series has shocked that fan base. And many have expressed their dismay in social media posts.
Read more at Breitbart
Surrogacy Scandal Puts 21 Children and Infants in Danger
Over 20 children removed from a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia were the latest victims of IVF and surrogate reproductive technologies in a case now being investigated by the FBI. The legal guardians of the 21 children, Siliva Zhang and Guojun Xuan, have been arrested on charges of child abuse and neglect, and are allegedly under investigation for a large-scale crime ring. The consequences of their twisted surrogacy practices are still unclear.
Arcadia police were alerted to the potential crimes when a 2-month-old baby was brought into the hospital for severe injuries and seizures. Afterwards, police obtained a search warrant; via security footage, they discovered that 15 children were emotionally and physically abused by six different nannies at the house, which was set up as a school.
Read more at The Spectator; see also NBC News
Popular social influencer weighs in on Stephen Colbert’s cancelation
To celebrate Colbert getting fired I think we should bring this up. On August 1, 2012, Stephen Colbert did a comedy skit on his late-night show where he portrayed sacrificing a newborn baby to a demonic entity.
Watch @Dom Lucre on X
Victor Davis Hanson: The Illegal, Democrat-Linked Pot Farm the Left Wants You to Ignore
“ This raid typified or exemplified or was emblematic of all the strange things that are going on with illegal immigration. First of all, this was a very liberal owner. He was a campaign donor to Gavin Newsom. Gave him over $10,000. He’s given to the DNC. And yet, ICE went out there because they had news that not only were there over 350 people there who were illegally openly working in violation of immigration law, but there were minors. And yet, the Left thinks that this is going to be a legitimate protest movement with popularity or favorability among the California or, indeed, the United States public. I don’t think that’s going to happen.”
Watch at The Daily Signal
China Steps Up Persecution of Christians As Pope Leo Sticks with Secret Vatican Deal
Communist China is intensifying its crackdown on Chinese Catholics who conscientiously object to a pact between Rome and Beijing. Meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV shows no signs of ending the clandestine deal Pope Francis struck with China in 2018.
The conscientious objectors are part of the underground Catholic Church, which remains loyal to the Vatican despite its concordat with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Critics have slammed that as a betrayal of faithful Catholics and an appeasement of the Communist regime.
Read more at The Stream
Polish government lodges Vatican protest over bishops’ [anti-]migration remarks
Adam Kwiatkowski, Poland’s ambassador to the Holy See, delivered a diplomatic note July 15 to Msgr. Javier Domingo Fernández González, the Vatican Secretariat of State’s head of protocol. The Vatican has not commented publicly on the development.
The note expressed “deep outrage” at recent comments by retired bishops Antoni Długosz and Wiesław Mering, amid tensions following neighboring Germany’s decision to adopt a stricter migration policy and return a significant number of undocumented migrants to Poland each month.
Poland’s government formally complained to the Vatican Tuesday over two bishops’ comments on migration, plunging Polish Church-state relations to their lowest level for years.
Read more at The Pillar
Poland’s Border Crisis Escalates: Over 110 Illegal Migrant Crossings in One Day
The Polish people are protesting against everything negative that is happening both on the western Polish German border and on the Polish Bellarussian border. On the eastern border of Poland that border guard officers and soldiers patrolling the area along the barrier were again pelted with stones by migrants. A molotov cocktail was also thrown at them. On one day, there were 110 attempts to illegally cross the Polish Belarussian border. Meanwhile, on the Polish Lithuanian border …
Watch more at Poland Daily Live
Media blasted for lying about Spain riots following violent migrant gang attacks
Broadcaster and commentator Carmine Sabia has accused the media of playing a “horrible role” in their reporting of the riots in Spain. Violent clashes continue to escalate in Torre Pacheco between far-right groups and North African migrants, leaving local residents afraid.
The small town in south-east Spain has been subjected to unrest since Saturday, after videos posted on social media showed men dressed in clothes bearing far-right symbols and migrants carrying Moroccan flags hurling objects at each other.
Watch at Sky News Australia; see also Redacted
Chaos at Greek refugee camp as asylum seekers wreak havoc, demanding to be sent to the UK
Greek refugee camps are in chaos this summer as the small nation struggles to cope with the influx of asylum seekers arriving on boats from the Middle East using it as an entry ticket into the EU.
Watch at Sky News Australia
Anti-migration protests erupt outside migrant hotel in Essex
Violence has erupted outside of a migrant hotel in Essex. Protestors have been filmed climbing vehicles and chanting ‘protect our kids’.
Watch at GBNews
‘Little girls shouldn’t be exposed to male genitals,’ says lawyer in trans activist vs. pageant case
Rebel News’ Drea Humphrey interviews constitutional lawyer Allison Pejovic, breaking down Canada Galaxy Pageants’ legal fight in an Ontario human rights case launched by Jessica Simpson, formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv.
Watch at Rebel News
Saskatchewan and Alberta Just Made a Huge SEPARATION Announcement!
Premier Scott Moe of Saskatchewan has consistently stated that his government does not support separation from Canada. However, he has also voiced strong frustration with federal policies that he believes unfairly target Saskatchewan and western Canada.
Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta has stated her personal support for a “sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” and not for outright separation, but her government has taken steps to make it easier for citizens to call for a referendum on separation.
Watch at Dr. Steve Turley
