How Do I Get Out of Here? People are Leaving the US in Record Numbers, Causing a Negative Net Migration for the First Time Since the Depression: In 2025 More People Left the Country than Moved Into It
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Iran’s Reported Deal for Up to 400 Chinese QW-12 and FN-16 MANPADS Could Complicate US-Israeli Air Operations
/Iran is reportedly preparing to receive an initial shipment within weeks from a contract covering 300 to 400 Chinese QW-12 and FN-16 man-portable air-defence systems, potentially creating a dispersed low-altitude threat across a battlespace penetrated since February 2026.
According to Reuters, the reported US$60 million to US$70 million agreement would represent one of Tehran’s largest short-range air-defence procurements since American and Israeli attacks exposed weaknesses protecting fixed missile, drone, radar, and military infrastructure.
Three anonymous sources familiar with the arrangement described a signed contract, but no authenticated documents, shipment manifests, Chinese export licences, serial numbers, or imagery have emerged, leaving the procurement credible as reporting yet unverified as completed military delivery. [MORE]
White Austin Cops Say they Faced Immediate, Deadly Harm from a Black Teen who Had a Bottle of Water in His Waist Band -as Another Black Person is Fatally Shot by Cops in a City Controlled by Liberals
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Police officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old in Northeast Austin on Friday morning in what Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis characterized as “potentially a suicide by police.”
The Austin Police Department responded to a 911 call at 3:51 a.m. Friday about a teen in a parking lot possibly brandishing a gun. Officers responded to the scene and found the 17-year-old, a Black male, on the playground at a community park in the 10100 block of Baden Lane, Davis said at a press conference on Friday afternoon. Police don’t hear 911 calls.
Body cam footage released by APD on Friday shows officers approaching the playground and telling the teen to keep his hands up repeatedly. Shortly after, the teen appears to lift his shirt and reach for his waistband, and officers immediately fire multiple times, causing him to fall to the ground. Officers shoot again in response to the teen apparently moving on the ground.
After securing the scene, Davis said, the officers rendered aid until Austin-Travis County EMS arrived. The teen died on the scene at 4:25 a.m.
APD said it will release the teen’s name after identification from the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Officers didn’t find a gun on the scene. A water bottle was in the teen’s waistband, Davis said. [MORE] and [MORE]
Is the Supreme Court’s ‘Common Use’ 2nd Amendment Test Really Originalist?
/The Supreme Court’s “common use” test has become one of the strongest weapons available to Americans challenging bans on AR-15s, standard-capacity magazines, and other widely owned firearms. It may also rest on a surprisingly weak originalist foundation.
That is the theory recently advanced by Second Amendment plaintiff Charles Nichols, who argues that the Constitution does not protect an arm because enough Americans already own it. The Second Amendment protects arms because the text says the people’s right to keep and bear them “shall not be infringed.”
Nichols’ criticism deserves serious consideration as the Supreme Court prepares to decideViramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins, the consolidated cases asking whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to possess AR-15-style and similar semiautomatic rifles. The Court granted review on June 30, 2026.
The challengers have an overwhelming argument under existing precedent: AR-15s are bearable arms, are commonly possessed for lawful purposes, and cannot plausibly be classified as both “dangerous and unusual.” Nichols, however, is asking a more fundamental question. [MORE]
Homicides in Chicago Stay at Low Levels for 5th Straight Year as Racists Seek Other ways to Prove Their Vaunted Self-worth, Assumed Innate Superior Moral Standing and Justify Their Punitive Policies
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Racists are obsessed with crime statistics in Black communities. Liberal and conservative media BOTH feed THIER AUDIENCES with crime data to help otherize Blacks and support a posture already taken and projected; as these white simpletons believe crime stats are proof of the fantastic myth that Blacks are inherently criminal. Based on this unstated belief, white liberals IN LOCAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA FOR INSTANCE, go on using crime to justify treating Black people criminally in liberal cities, freely imposing punitive policies and socially distancing themselves from Blacks. It should go without saying but White republican prosecutors and judges aren’t THE ONES filling the jails with Black people in diverse, liberal cities like ATLANTA, NYC, MINNEAPOLIS or Chicago.
DR. AMOS Wilson explains, "Alleged Black criminality, while evoking White American fear and loathing, reassures them of their vaunted self-worth, their assumed innately superior moral standing, of their self-congratulatory self-constraint in contrast with presumed Black American unworthiness, innate inferior moral standing, inherent criminality, lack of self-constraint and self-control.” “Black criminals function as a negative reference group vital to maintaining the White American self-image. [MORE]
statistics – opinions dressed as facts. 2) the disembodied abstraction of numerical signifiers and graphic ghosts that are conjured up in an attempt to support a political posture already taken. 3) a pseudo-scientific system used to manipulate physical reality. Statistics is a weak model. Statistics is like a bikini—what they reveal are suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. With statistics, there is only modeling of the distribution of events. Also, with statistics, you always have the luxury of having high trends in low spaces to dissemble, portend or otherwise pretend. Anyone who cites a statistic has an investment in the statistic cited—statistics don’t just show up uninvited. Statistics generate opinions, but more often, opinions generate statistics. Figures lie and liars figure their way out of lies—so it figures. Dogma and statistics are kissing-cousins. We do not believe what we prove with statistics, we prove what we believe. Statistics are a snap-shot in time of what has been. If you want to be a has-been, believe in statistics. (See: Dogma, Opinions, Beliefs & ICE)
Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a death by Chicago police.
The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.
Chicago began to see a decline in homicides in 2022. Homicide and nonfatal shooting totals fell again in 2023, but the city was roiled by robbery and carjacking crews responsible for an overall uptick in violence. Then 2024 was the third consecutive year of decreasing homicides in Chicago, and 2025 was the fourth.
Data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through July 24, 2026. [MORE]
A Majority of Americans say War Criminal Netanyahu Should be Arrested While on US Soil
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an accused war criminal, to be arrested on US soil sparked outrage among Trump administration officials and his believers.
However the demand that the US execute the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Netanyahu is broadly supported by the public.
A poll taken by The Economist/YouGov between July 25-27 found that 49% of Americans believe the US should arrest Netanyahu, who arrived in Washington, DC on Monday to meet with President Donald Trump and attend the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) funeral.
Just 27% of respondents said the US should not execute the warrant, while 23% were unsure, according to the poll released Tuesday. [MORE]
Report Warns Gaza’s Mothers Face ‘Reproductive Violence’ under Israeli Genocide
/A new report has warned that Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip is inflicting catastrophic harm on pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and newborns, leaving pregnancy increasingly dependent on “luck rather than care.”
Published by the UK-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), the report, Pregnancy Under Fire: Reproductive Violence and the Destruction of Maternal Life in Gaza, draws on data from United Nations agencies and international humanitarian and medical organizations to document what it describes as the systematic destruction of maternal healthcare in the besieged enclave.
According to the report, the consequences of the genocide will extend far beyond the current military assault, with malnutrition, forced displacement, and psychological trauma likely to shape the health and development of an entire generation of Palestinian children.
A War that Begins before Birth
The report argues that the impact of Israel’s military campaign reaches into the earliest stages of life, affecting children before they are even born.
Thousands of pregnant women, it says, are carrying pregnancies under conditions of repeated displacement, bombardment, hunger, and the near-total collapse of healthcare services. [MORE]
Jonathan Cook: How Israel planned the Gaza Genocide decades ago
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In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration
The truth slowly comes to light: Israel‘s genocide in Gaza was planned decades ago.
Listen to the testimonies of four Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza.
Soldier 1: “Human lives didn’t matter. You could kill, there was no law. No one would say a word to you. But it’s not a good feeling. It mainly kills your humanity.”
Soldier 2: “At first I wasn’t willing to execute Arabs who weren’t resisting [that is, civilians]. Then we came to the conclusion that we had to kill. We went through the process of ceasing to see them as human beings.”
Soldier 3: “We caught guys, lined them up and eliminated them. In retrospect, it looks like murder.”
Soldier 4: “We would roam through refugee camps in Gaza and carry out purges… Every soldier who was there created a ‘concentration camp’, and they didn’t hesitate to kill people who caused a slight disturbance.”
No, these testimonies are not new. The whistleblowers did not serve in Gaza during the current, ongoing genocide there. These accounts are nearly 60 years old, published last week by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz under the headline “We were ordered to kill”. [MORE]
Massa Media and Authorities Continue to MythCount the Number of Defenseless People Murdered by Israel: The Remains of “99” Palestinians Recovered from Beneath a Single Gaza Home
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It is being reported that Rescue teams recovered the remains of [exactly] “99 Palestinians” from one home in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood. [Is this part of the official Mythcount?]
The house was struck in multiple Israeli air raids between October 2023 and June 2025.
Officials say around 8,000 Palestinians remain trapped beneath rubble across Gaza.
Recovery efforts continue to be hampered by widespread destruction and a severe shortage of equipment.
Palestinian rescue teams have recovered the remains of 99 Palestinians from beneath the rubble of a single home in Gaza City, highlighting both the devastating human toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide and the thousands who remain buried beneath collapsed buildings across the Strip.
The remains were recovered on Monday from a house belonging to the Abu Sharia and Al-Hassayna families in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
According to rescue crews, the home was destroyed in a series of Israeli airstrikes carried out at different stages of the genocide, including one attack in October 2023 and another on June 7, 2025.
The repeated bombardments killed dozens of members of the two families, while many victims remained trapped beneath the collapsed building until recovery teams were finally able to retrieve their remains.
Rescue workers said search and recovery operations continue under extremely difficult conditions, citing the vast scale of destruction and the severe shortage of heavy machinery and specialized equipment needed to remove debris safely.
Entire neighborhoods across Gaza remain reduced to rubble, leaving many destroyed buildings inaccessible months—and in some cases years—after they were struck.
Emergency crews said the lack of resources has significantly slowed efforts to recover victims and provide answers to families still searching for missing relatives. [MORE]
[more MythMatics for the mind control of American "Sitizens"] Pentagon Cuts Iran War Death Toll amid Questions over Casualty Reporting
/The Pentagon has lowered the number of American service members officially listed as having been killed in the war with Iran, changing the toll from 18 to 14 amid growing questions over how the Trump administration is reporting military casualties.
According to a report published in the New York Times, on Wednesday, the Defense Department’s casualty website listed 18 US service members as having died during the war.
By Thursday morning, the figure had been reduced to 14, with the number classified as killed in hostile action falling from 11 to seven. [MORE]
While Massa Media Conceals Reality and TrumpStein Lies to His Believers, the Unlawful Iran War may go Down as the US’ Worst Ever Defeat
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While the US president continues to lie to his people about imagined victories over Iran in West Asia, the arguments fall flat amongst the vast majority of Americans who see through his tired rhetoric. Unlike past military blunders, Washington has not and will not be able to pull the wool over its people's eyes.
Some analysts have attempted to compare Donald Trump’s failure to effectively combat Iran with defeats and strategic mistakes that ruined the reputations of past presidents; this one is very different.
To go through all US wars of aggression is simply too steep a task to take on in a single article, but there are a few different comparisons that are going around which deserve to be analyzed: they are the Iraq War, the Vietnam War, and even Operation Eagle Claw.
All the above-noted comparisons are very much different in their nature from the large-scale air campaign, turned stop-start battles that the Trump administration has engaged in. If we first look at the Vietnam War comparison, this is often said as a figure of speech - “it is so and so’s Vietnam” - which is the way in which some analysts have chosen to apply Vietnam to what we see today.
Although there is something to be said about how the US is being bogged down in the Iran War, it is a totally different ball game to what occurred in Vietnam. At the beginning stages of the escalation, in October of 1965, a Gallup poll recorded a 64% public approval rating of US intervention in Vietnam, which by 1970 had shifted to around 55% of the US public stating that they sought a return of the troops. [MORE]
Video Shows Puppetician Lindsey Graham and Grinning White Staffer Celebrating Start of Iran War. Says Trump said, 'It's the Best Thing Ive Ever Done,' in Reference to Unlawful War, Murdering Civilians
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Footage from an unreleased documentary about the late Lindsey Graham shows the notoriously hawkish senator celebrating the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran just days after the bombing campaign started.
“Look what we’ve done here. I almost cried. How long have we been pushing this?” a laughing Graham is heard saying in the footage, released by Alex Holder, a filmmaker granted extensive access to the South Carolina senator in the years leading up to his death.
Graham goes on to say that he spoke with President Trump, who he said was also very happy about the war. “I talked to Trump this morning, he’s jacked, he said, ‘best thing I have ever done.’ He loves blowing stuff up,” he said.
Graham then appeared to take credit for helping convince Trump to launch the war. “There are a lot of people inside who didn’t want to do it, so I had my challenges,” he said, adding that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were like “Roosevelt and Churchill.” [MORE]
Golden Retriever Hakeem Jeffries Opposes Amendment to End US Military Aid to Israel; Provides ‘Step & Fetchit’ Service for Genocide While Ignoring the Emergency Needs of His Mostly Black District
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From [HERE] With a key amendment to a 2027 spending bill expected to come up for a vote in the US House of Representatives in the coming days, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had what one organizer called “a real opportunity... to show he’s listening” to the Democratic Party’s base and its growing disapproval of US military aid for Israel.
But on Tuesday, progressive advocates said Jeffries (D-NY) had squandered that opportunity by announcing in a Dear Colleague letter that he would oppose the amendment put forward by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), which would eliminate the $3.3 billion the US provides to Israel’s military annually.
Last month, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)—who was detained by armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank this week—urged his colleagues to back the amendment, calling US support for Israel “the moral test of our time” as he stood in front of a memorial for 20,000 children killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.
In the letter and at a caucus meeting Tuesday morning, Jeffries claimed the amendment was “overly broad” and could limit funds for humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, and other operations.
He also asserted that the funding cut would restrict the United States’ ability to “confront Hamas.”
The US government, under both the Biden and Trump administrations, has relentlessly claimed that Israel’s US-backed assault on Gaza that began in 2023 has targeted Hamas, even as refugee camps, schools, hospitals, residential buildings, aid workers, and children have been targeted by the Israel Defense Forces and as Israel has concurrently ramped up violent efforts to annex the West Bank.
A ceasefire in Gaza was reached in October 2025, but more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the deal was signed. In all, more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed.
As the US has continued to give material and political support to Israel, approval of the military aid and the Israeli government has plummeted among the American public.
More than half of Democratic voters said in an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll last week that they believed the US-backed military operation amounted to a genocide.
A Quinnipiac University poll found last August that three-quarters of Democratic voters and 60% of all voters supported suspending US weapons aid to Israel. [MORE]
With the Approval of Israeli Authorities Waves of Settler Attacks Target Defenseless Palestinian, Mosques, Homes and Businesses Across West Bank
/From [HERE] Israeli settlers on Sunday launched a series of widespread attacks across the West Bank, setting on fire two mosques in Nablus and Tulkarm and damaging heavy equipment at an industrial facility near Ramallah.
Eyewitnesses told Middle East Eye that settlers also raided several towns and villages, attacked homes, destroyed vehicles and fired live ammunition to terrorise residents.
The attacks targeted communities in the governorates of Nablus, Tulkarm, Ramallah, Hebron, Salfit, Qalqilya, Jericho and Jerusalem, according to Palestinian officials who said settlers were acting under the protection of Israeli forces.
In the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, Israeli settlers burned large parts of the al-Rahma mosque and spray-painted racist slogans in Hebrew on its walls.
Activist Abdul-Azim Wadi, from the village, told MEE that he received a call at 2:30 am informing him that settlers had burned the mosque, located in the southwestern part of the village.
Wadi said that he, along with several other residents, went to the scene to extinguish the flames.
The mosque was scheduled to open in the coming days. The residents of Qusra had painted its walls and carpeted it the previous day, but the fire caused extensive damage, including partial collapse of some of its walls, he said.
Wadi said that slogans such as "Israel will be established with blood" and "Mosques will not frighten us" were written on the walls, in addition to messages that indicated that the arson was in revenge for the settlers killed in Tell.
“Neighbours of the mosque saw the settlers leaving the area before the residents arrived to extinguish the fire. We also found three slogans they had written on the outer walls," the activist said. [MORE]
Can Disarmed People Defend Themselves Against a Barbaric Government? Israeli Attacks Leave More Palestinians Martyred in Gaza, No Transport for Medics
/Many were killed, and hundreds were injured by Israeli occupation fire and transferred to hospitals across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, Gaza's Health Ministry reported, as the genocide of Palestinians continues unabated.
In an Israeli occupation drone strike near the bridge of al-Qarara town, north of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, several people were injured, some of them reportedly in critical condition. The Israeli occupation also shelled areas south of Khan Younis.
The attacks come as the Israeli occupation continues its assaults on the Gaza Strip in violation of the "ceasefire" agreement reached in October 2025. The ongoing violations have resulted in the martyrdom of 1,203 Palestinians and the injury of 3,900 others.
Systemic targeting of Gaza's healthcare sector
Amid the continued aggression and siege, Gaza's Health Ministry warned that the countdown has begun for the suspension of transport buses carrying medical staff and patients, which could occur within days due to a severe depletion of essential operating supplies.
The ministry cautioned that the suspension of transport services would bring medical personnel's access to hospitals to a complete standstill, while preventing patients from reaching the care they urgently need. [MORE]
MD Judge Rules Slum Lord Jared Kushner's Rental Company Owes (mostly Black, Poor) Tenants over $4M
/From [HERE] A Baltimore judge entered a $4.17 million judgment Tuesday in favor of a class of over tenants who were charged illegal fees by the property management wing of Kushner Cos., the development group co-owned by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
Partially granting the class’s motion for summary judgment, Circuit Judge Paul J. Cucuzzella found the firm, Westminster Management, was liable for violating Maryland’s cap on late rent payment fees and breaching the terms of its leases.
The parties are still slated to go to trial over a few relatively small issues, such as the exact amount of interest owed. But Tuesday’s ruling resolved the “vast majority” of the dispute after nearly nine years in court, and the plaintiffs’ legal team is looking forward to getting those funds back in the hands of the tenants, said Matt Hill, a managing attorney at the Public Justice Center and co-counsel for the class.
Spokespeople for Kushner Cos. did not immediately return a request for comment.
The real estate business’ ownership split between its founder, family patriarch and current United States Ambassador to France and Monaco Charles Kushner, his wife, and their four children. The eldest, Jared, is married to Ivanka Trump and has held various official and informal roles in the White House roles during her father’s presidencies, currently as a special peace envoy. He was the CEO of the family real estate business for about a decade.
The plaintiffs had accused Westminster Management of engaging in a scheme in which the firm charged tenants at 17 Maryland apartment complexes late fees in excess of the 5% limit set by state law. It designated those fees as “rent” in its leases and misapplied tenants’ payments to claim that rent was still due, obtain a faster eviction and pressure tenants to pay, the class said.
In a statement, lead plaintiff Tenae Smith called Tuesday’s ruling a “monumental step” in the lengthy span of litigation. The class plaintiffs are represented in court by attorneys from Baltimore law firm Brown Goldstein & Levy LLP; Timonium-based Santoni, Vocci & Ortega LLC; and the nonprofit Public Justice Center. The defendants have been represented by lawyers from national law firms including Baker Donelson and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. [MORE]
