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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ICE Deports More than 100 Illegal Aliens to Haiti, Including Convicted Pedophiles, Domestic Abusers
[Breitbart] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently deported more than 100 illegal aliens to Haiti, including those convicted of child sex crimes and domestic violence.

On Monday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials announced the successful deportation of more than 100 illegal alien Haitians on July 16, including the likes of Styv Charles and Timothe Matel, both convicted of sex crimes against children.

Likewise, Marc James Guerrier Pinard, Fito Almanor, and Franck Descollines were among those deported. Pinard has been convicted of armed carjacking, while Almanor was convicted of domestic violence and false imprisonment, and Descollines was convicted of felony hit-and-run.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2026 08:19 || Comments || Link || [158 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Hat tip to ICE Director Homan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2026 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  They should feel right at home.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2026 8:52 Comments || Top||


Teacher of the Year arrested for sexual intercourse with student
I wonder what the student got...

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

[Regnum] In the US state of Mississippi, Teacher of the Year Olivia Marie Smith, an elementary school assistant principal, was arrested for sexual assault against a student. This was reported by the New York Post.

The investigation began on June 20th, when police received a report that the teacher had previously engaged in sexual relations with a student while working at the middle school. Police are not disclosing the child's age.

The woman was named Teacher of the Year in 2022 and was later promoted to deputy principal of the elementary school.

Smith, 34, has been charged with sexual assault and soliciting a child to meet for the purpose of committing a sexual offense. The teacher faces up to 30 years in prison.

The investigation is ongoing.

In the United States, scandalous cases of exposure in schools are not uncommon. For example, in Wisconsin, 23-year-old teacher Nadia Horn seduced and raped three 16-year-old students. Her colleagues became suspicious of the teacher's behavior and reported her to the police, accusing Horn of sexually assaulting students.

In the US state of Ohio, 28-year-old teacher Jamela Daboubi molested a 15-year-old student for several months until the boy's aunt caught them red-handed. Daboubi was suspended from school. She pleaded guilty and reached a plea bargain with prosecutors, which will allow her to avoid prison time.

Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [645 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IMO, female teacher having sex with a male student is NOT the same thing as male teacher having sex with a female student. But that do I know?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2026 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Who, how, why, under which circumstances ... all these issues COULD be investigated. Sensitively. Dispassionately. Ethically. Intelligently.
Confidentially.

Prospectively.
Retrospectively.
Cross-culturally.
Whatever.

The original justification for the very existence of the U.S. National Institutes of Health was to get answers to exactly these sorts of questions -- important, but unlikely to be funded in the private sector.

The National Institute of Mental Health was founded in 1949.

So, it's been 77 years ago, and ... crickets.


Posted by: Paco Paco || 07/21/2026 2:29 Comments || Top||

#3 
Having just read a small handful of mostly cloned/copied news articles on this.

No where do any of them indicated the SEX or AGE of the student(s).

Because for me, when the media clearly avoids basic anonymous details like this, it does raise the question ....

Is the media protecting the NEA & LGBTP? agenda again, or what?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2026 5:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Not including Grom's experience,
I'm projecting hysteria.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2026 8:15 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder what the student got...

An STD
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2026 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  If I were going to have sex with one of my teachers, I'd pick one without a mustache.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2026 9:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Instapundit runs a link to Teaching women not to rape. Its far more prevalent than Catholic priests, but is buried like anything that reflects badly upon the usual Donk constituency.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2026 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  I guess teacher of the year was a student vote.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/21/2026 11:07 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^ snark 'o the day right there
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2026 11:13 Comments || Top||

#10  That tracks.
Posted by: Hellfish || 07/21/2026 21:16 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A magnetic storm will begin on Earth on July 22 due to a coronal hole on the Sun.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] A magnetic storm will begin on Earth on July 22 due to a coronal hole on the Sun. This was announced on July 20 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to scientists, solar activity will begin on the night of July 21-22 and last for about 24 hours. Storms of G1-G2 intensity may form at their peak. The probability of strong storms of G3 intensity and higher is about 5%.

"Amidst the unusually low geomagnetic activity this summer, some 'entertainment' is expected in two days: another solar coronal hole is approaching Earth, with a stream of fast winds expected to reach the planet on July 22," the institution's Telegram channel stated.

On July 7, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced the end of one of the strongest solar activity outbursts of 2026. It followed a mild scenario, with only two flares receiving the maximum rating.

On the night of June 11-12, a weak magnetic storm occurred on Earth. The disturbances were caused by a stream of high-speed solar wind from a coronal hole on the Sun.

According to the forecast of laboratory director Sergei Bogachev, solar activity will continue to decline, but the number of magnetic storms will remain significant over the next two years. They should cease completely by 2028–2031.

Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [190 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
51st State? Oxfordshire Village Looks to Secede From United Kingdom over Planned Asylum Seeker Centre
[Breitbart] A small village in Oxfordshire, England, has drawn inspiration from the United States and has voted in favour of holding a referendum to secede from the United Kingdom over government plans to dump over a thousand supposed asylum seekers in their midst.

The leafy Oxfordshire village of Piddington has found itself at the epicentre of the battle against the Westminster establishment’s open borders ethos after the Home Office recently announced that it would be converting a former Ministry of Defence storage facility on the outskirts of town into an asylum seeker accommodation that is set to house some 1,250 "single adult males", many of whom likely arrived in the country illegally on small boats across the English Channel before claiming asylum once on British soil.

While many other similar sites selected by the government to house migrants have seen locals rise up in protest, the parish council of Piddington has come up with a novel way to push back, holding a referendum on whether the village should secede from the country. Earlier this month, a meeting was held on the Fourth of July — on the 250th anniversary of America’s independence — to decide whether to hold a referendum. By a margin of 178 to 7, the residents backed the idea of holding such a vote.

According to a Daily Mail report, residents are currently debating whether to seek independence as a principality or petition the U.S. to become the 51st state.

Piddington Parish Council leader Tim McNally told the paper: ‘The MP held a meeting where lots of people said they are not happy about all this. But no one is coming up with a plan… So we have come up with one ourselves.”
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2026 08:12 || Comments || Link || [133 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukraine's Zelenskiy meets commanders as street protests mount
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2026 04:11 || Comments || Link || [206 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  "Over the past week, thousands in Kyiv and other cities have taken to the streets to protest against Fedorov's removal and demand the dismissal of Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine's armed forces.

Army veteran Dmytro Koziatynskyi said in a social media post that if Syrskyi is not dismissed by Friday and Federov reinstated, "we will begin an open-ended nationwide protest".

No protests are scheduled before then, and Ukraine is waiting, anxiously, for a resolution. Over the weekend, Ukrainian media reported that Zelensky was consulting ministers and generals in an effort to resolve the crisis."


-BBC
Posted by: mossomo || 07/21/2026 11:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump Admin Launches ‘Largest Denaturalization Effort Ever' Against Child Molesters And Scammers
[Daily Caller] The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that it had begun the process of ending the citizenship of 10 foreign-born individuals accused of serious offenses ranging from sexual abuse of a child to fraud.

This effort, deemed by the DOJ as the "largest denaturalization effort" in U.S. history, consisted of 10 denaturalization actions filed in courts across the U.S. over the last 30 days, the DOJ statement said.

The department cited the Immigration and Nationality Act, which says that a naturalized U.S. citizen’s citizenship can be revoked, and a certificate of naturalization canceled, if it was illegally obtained by concealing a material fact or through willful misrepresentation.

"These 10 criminal aliens — including child sex abusers, a $900,000 Medicare fraudster and a cocaine trafficker — lied their way into U.S. citizenship," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in the statement. "Each of these individuals lacked the good moral character required by law and procured citizenship through willful misrepresentations and concealment of their crimes. Under President Trump’s leadership, this Department of Justice will continue to aggressively pursue denaturalization to restore integrity to America’s naturalization process."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2026 07:56 || Comments || Link || [189 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ten. Should have done this from day one with a massive effort.
Posted by: Clyde Thaviling6482 || 07/21/2026 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  This is the first step of the result of the massive effort that began on Day 1. It took several passes through the courts, up to the US Supreme Court, to get them to surrender the point that the DOJ is Constitutionally permitted to do this as part of their regular responsibilities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/21/2026 11:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India's youth-led 'cockroach movement' clashes with police in New Delhi
[Reuters] The months-old movement ‌and the protest are seen as the biggest public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, drawing millions of supporters on social media before broadening its appeal to opposition parties.
Lots of photos with captions about the Cockroach Janta Party, demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over exam paper leaks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2026 04:06 || Comments || Link || [397 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Those batons look like they could really hurt.

Many good pictures at the link but no clue about why these people are demonstrating. Whatever it is, those crowds are huge. That many people are bound to have some kind of influence.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/21/2026 12:23 Comments || Top||

#2  India student protests give opposition a rare opening against Modi

From Roto-rooters, the students are upset about the education department leaking exam papers. The details are sketchy but another complaint seems to be about a lack of jobs.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/21/2026 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ....we've been closing down too many scam call centers?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2026 15:12 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2026-07-21
  Somalia says strike kills one of founding Al-Shabaab leaders
Mon 2026-07-20
  Iran's Defense Minister killed in US attacks on Iranian military base, 3 airbases
Sun 2026-07-19
  UN Official: Al-Qaeda Still Maintains a Presence in Afghanistan
Sat 2026-07-18
  US strikes Iran for the seventh consecutive night
Fri 2026-07-17
  US strikes Iran for sixth consecutive night, as deescalation chances appear to fade
Thu 2026-07-16
  US military has launched its second wave of strikes on Iran in a day
Thu 2026-07-16
  US military has launched its second wave of strikes on Iran
Wed 2026-07-15
  US targeting IRGC training sites, renews Strait of Hormuz naval blockade
Wed 2026-07-15
  US has renewed its naval blockade of Iran
Tue 2026-07-14
  America vs. Iran round-up July 13, 2026: US continues to degrade Iran’s war stuff, reinstates naval blockade since Iran won’t comply with MOU they signed
Mon 2026-07-13
  IDF bombed a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza City
Sun 2026-07-12
  Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died of a brief and sudden illness, his office says. He was 71.
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  Mali: Situation report as of 07/10, the day after the clashes between the FLA/JNIM coalition and the Africa Corps/FAMa convoy
Fri 2026-07-10
  Mali:Russian African Corps abandoned some of its armored vehicles amid fierce strikes by the Azawad Liberation Front
Thu 2026-07-09
  Pentagon confirmed the resumption of strikes on Iran
Wed 2026-07-08
  IDF fire said to kill 7 in Gaza, including terror operative, aid worker and child
Wed 2026-07-08
  US announced the beginning of a series of powerful strikes on Iran, hit over 80 targets; IRGC claims they hit 85
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