Trump provides update on US strikes against Iran; Smithsonian Institution’s leadership target of blistering report: ‘Cannot be trusted to tell America’s story’; Guy who almost beat DeSantis in 2018 arrested on drug charges; Sunny Hostin taking flak for saying American flags make her feel ‘unsafe’; Trump administration set to award $1.73 billion to improve roads and bridges; DOJ to send election monitors to 3 Michigan cities – Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing; Little Sisters of the Poor continue 15-year battle to uphold teachings of the Church; Author notes black lives snuffed out across Africa, yet ‘Black Lives Matter’ never seems to care; Oslo bishop to open Sigrid Undset canonization cause; Catholics celebrate Feast of Sts. Aquila and Priscilla, close friends of St. Paul; and more —
Trump Says US-Iran Ceasefire Is Over, Will ‘Give A Little Warning: Going To Hit Them Hard Tonight’
After earlier saying from the NATO summit in Ankara that the Iran ceasefire is “over” – and amid fears of renewal of full-scale war given that Tehran has launched drone and missile attacks on nearby American allies Kuwait and Bahrain once again, President Trump said on Wednesday that he would “probably hit Iran tonight”.
He issued the major threat and warning during a press conference at the NATO summit: “I’ll give a little warning: We’re going to hit them hard tonight,” he told reporters just before his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He later lambasted Iran for “killing soldiers, killing people for 47 years,” and that because of that, the US has “a score to settle.”
“We may just do it without a deal,” he also added. He also sought to once again explain his view that it’s not about regime change, but about the nuclear issue.
Read more at ZeroHedge
Trump provides update on US strikes against Iran at NATO
Watch @WhiteHouse
Federal judge hands Trump big win, directs DHS to restore voter verification features of SAVE system
The SAVE system was enhanced under the Trump administration to better support state election integrity efforts, including maintenance of state voter rolls.
A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore some of the key features of its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.
The ruling overturns a D.C. judge’s ruling, who determined that the SAVE system’s features, including a feature that allowed workers to verify citizenship status through a resident’s social security number, violated the Social Security Act and Privacy Act by improperly aggregating and using Americans’ personal data.
The SAVE system was enhanced under the Trump administration to better support state election integrity efforts, including maintenance of state voter rolls.
U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ruled that the DHS violated a settlement with states, including Florida, by disabling the features. Wetherell approved the settlement last year and has maintained jurisdiction to enforce the settlement.
Read more at Just the News
The guy who almost beat DeSantis in 2018 arrested on drug charges
See @DC_Draino
Trump DOJ to Send Election Monitors Into Three Democrat-Run Michigan Cities [Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing]
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has informed Michigan officials that it plans to send election monitors to Detroit, Lansing, and East Lansing in the upcoming primary elections.
In a letter obtained by Detroit News, Timothy Mellett, deputy chief of the DOJ’s Voting Section, informed Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope of their plans.
“As part of our assessment of your administration of the federal primary election, we plan to have election monitors at your 2026 primary election,” he wrote.
“We will contact you a week prior to election monitoring to discuss the particulars of the monitoring effort.”
Read more at the Gateway Pundit; read more at The Detroit News
White House tears into ‘extreme political activism’ at National Museum of American History
The White House lashed out against the Smithsonian Institution’s leadership Monday, accusing the network that runs 21 museums of “extreme political activism” and failing to celebrate America.
In a blistering 162-page report ordered by President Trump last year, the White House Domestic Policy Council concluded that the institute’s current leadership “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”
“[National Museum of American History] NMAH, by the intention and at the direction of current Museum and Smithsonian leadership, has become subject to institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology that is fundamentally opposed to telling the noble, honest story of the great country we know and love,” the report said.
Critically, the report dropped on Independence Day, when Americans celebrated the country’s 250th birthday.
Read more at the New York Post
‘Saving America’s History’ – full report
See @KevinRobertsTX; watch also @RapidResponse47
Sunny Hostin taking flak for saying American flags make her feel ‘unsafe’
Watch @TVNewsNow
Trump administration set to award $1.73 billion to improve roads and bridges
See @RapidResponse47
Update from Jordan Peterson: Writing (‘thank God’), reading Paul Kengor’s ‘The Dark Side of Marxism’, asking what Mamdani knows of Marx
Read @jordanbpeterson
Trump during his Independence Day address: ‘Loyal to Marx or to America, not both‘
Watch @clashreport
Migrants Allowed To Pose as Minors Exposes Spain’s Immigration System Scam
In Madrid, 70% of ‘unaccompanied minors’ subjected to age tests in 2024 turned out to be adults as the cost per place turns reception into a lucrative public spending scheme.
According to bombshell figures released by the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office, a staggering 70% of those entering the Spanish capital’s child protection system as unaccompanied migrant minors are not minors at all.
In 2024, the Community of Madrid registered 470 archived files, 112 determinations of minority age, and 266 determinations of legal adulthood. In other words, among those who completed the test, seven out of ten turned out to be adults. The previous year, the number had been 88. The figure is not growing; it is exploding.
The Prosecutor’s Office adds another important data: of the 1,937 unaccompanied migrant minors (or unaccompanied alien children, UACs) registered in Madrid in 2024, 1,110 arrived through Barajas airport, mainly on flights from Casablanca and Egypt. The result was, in the words of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, a “real collapse” of airport infrastructure, first-reception resources, and the healthcare system, with delays of up to eight months in issuing radiological reports. Not to mention the obvious question: how does an alleged minor arrive by air if non-adults cannot fly unaccompanied?
Read more at The European Conservative
Trump slams Spain in particular at NATO
Watch @RapidResponse47
Little Sisters of the Poor continue 15-year battle to uphold teachings of the Church
See @cnalive
The Christian Slaughter the World Ignores
See @AlbertoMiguelF5
Oslo bishop to open Sigrid Undset canonization cause
‘She stood firm in the Catholic faith, challenged Nazism, and strove for Norwegian freedom’
Norway’s Bishop Fredrik Hansen announced Wednesday that he is taking the first steps toward opening the cause for canonization of Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset.
Hansen, the Bishop of Oslo, made the announcement July 8, while celebrating Mass during an annual pilgrimage to the island of Selja in honor of St. Sunniva, the 10th-century martyr revered as Norway’s first saint.
In his homily at the Mass — which coincided with the 100th anniversary of Undset’s visit to Selja, considered the cradle of Norwegian Christianity — Hansen said: “By the authority entrusted to me, I have therefore now initiated the work so that the cause for beatification may formally begin sometime this fall.”
If the cause reaches its conclusion, Undset would become Norway’s second female saint after Sunniva and the second Nobel Prize laureate to be canonized after Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Before taking the decision to pursue the cause, Hansen examined Undset’s life and concluded there were clear signs of a reputation for holiness and piety.
Read more at The Pillar
Novelist of Mercy: The Life and Writing of Sigrid Undset
Join IHE [Institute for Human Ecology] Fellow Amy Fahey and moderator Dr. Elizabeth Clemmons for a virtual conversation on the life, literature, and legacy of Norwegian novelist, Catholic convert, and Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset.
One hundred years ago, following on the success of her masterful trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, Undset published the first two volumes of The Master of Hestviken. In this tetralogy of medieval Norway, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) saw two worlds standing in opposition: “the gloomy, instinctive world of primordial chaos, and that of God’s spirit hovering over creation.”
From her rural homestead Bjerkebæk to the Hotel Margaret in Brooklyn, where she fled for several years after the Nazi invasion of Norway, Undset gracefully articulated the movements of that hovering Spirit in her fiction, in her literary friendships, and in her profound relationship with “God’s friends,” the saints.
Her final work, a biography of fellow Third Order Dominican Saint Catherine of Siena, stands as a testimony to Undset’s enduring faith in the highest aspirations of the human heart in a world where man is once again in danger of descending into “primordial chaos.”
Watch at The Gibbons Institute
Pope appoints proponent of same-sex blessings as bishop of German diocese
Pope Leo XIV today appointed Auxiliary Bishop Christian Würtz of Freiburg im Breisgau as the new bishop of Eichstätt. The diocese, though relatively small (nearly 400,000 Catholics), has been viewed as a bellwether because the Pontiff has a free hand in appointing the bishop there—unlike in those German dioceses whether the cathedral chapter chooses the bishop.
The 55-year-old prelate, who was ordained to the priesthood in 2006 and appointed an auxiliary bishop in 2019, succeeds Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke, O.S.B., who resigned last year at the age of 70.
Bishop Würtz and Bishop Hanke took opposing stances on controversial aspects of the German Synodal Way. Bishop Würtz supported, and Bishop Hanke opposed, the following resolution on the blessings of same-sex couples and couples who have remarried outside the Church:
Same-sex couples and remarried couples have frequently experienced exclusion and disparagement within our Church. The possibility of publicly placing their partnership under God’s blessing does not undo those experiences. However, it offers the Church an opportunity to show appreciation for the love present in these relationships and the values lived out within them, thereby making reconciliation possible.
Likewise, Bishop Würtz supported, and Bishop Hanke opposed, the Synodal Way’s call for a reevaluation of Catholic teaching on homosexuality:
Read more at Catholic Culture
Picture of Pope Leo’s new appointee, Christian Würtz
See @johnamonaco
Today is the Feast day of Sts. Aquila and Priscilla, friends of St. Paul
See @Friar_Mario
The Tentmakers: Aquila & Priscilla Story
In this visually stunning 3-minute journey, we explore the remarkable story of Aquila and Priscilla, two of the most influential but often unsung heroes of the early Christian church.
Expelled from Rome, this faithful couple settled in Corinth, where they met Paul and became more than just tentmakers—they became co-workers in the gospel. Their home became a hub for ministry, a refuge for believers, and a launching pad for discipleship. They stood beside Paul in Corinth, supported the church in Ephesus, and mentored Apollos, a powerful preacher who would go on to spread the gospel even further.
Watch at 3xM International
