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Thousands of French firefighters are tackling intense wildfires approaching the city of Bordeaux on Monday as tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the surrounding Gironde department.
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump Mail-In Voting Order In 23 Democrat-Led States, Setting Up SCOTUS Fight

Via American Greatness,

A federal appeals court sided with 23 Democrat-led states and blocked the Trump administration from enforcing key pieces of the president’s election integrity order, setting up a likely showdown at the Supreme Court just months before the midterms.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to deny the Justice Department’s request to pause a lower court injunction while the administration’s appeal moves forward, leaving in place a ruling that stripped federal agencies of the power to enforce several provisions of President Donald Trump’s order in those states through the Nov. 3 elections.

The Justice Department has signaled it may now turn to the Supreme Court for emergency relief, a path the administration flagged earlier in the litigation should it fail to prevail at the appellate level.

Trump signed Executive Order 14399 in March, directing the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of confirmed citizens eligible to vote and hand them to states, ordering the U.S. Postal Service to set new handling standards for mail-in ballots, and instructing the Justice Department to prioritize investigations of state and local officials who send federal ballots to people who should not receive them.

The measures represent one of the most significant pushes yet from the administration to shore up confidence in an election system Republicans have long argued is vulnerable to fraud and error, particularly through loosely regulated mail voting.

The administration argued the lawsuit was filed too soon, since federal agencies had not yet finalized the rules needed to carry out the order. The panel’s majority rejected that argument, finding the states already faced fast-approaching deadlines tied to the order and had no choice but to begin preparing for compliance.

“As the district court reasoned, the (executive order) lays out a clear set of rapidly approaching deadlines by which states must coordinate with federal officials and comply with new voting procedures,” the majority wrote.

“The Plaintiff States have no practical choice but to respond to the (order) now.”

The lawsuit, led by California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Washington, was joined by 19 other states and the District of Columbia, all governed by Democrats who have resisted the administration’s election security efforts from the start.

The states claim the Constitution gives them, not the president, primary authority over administering federal elections, an argument U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani accepted in June when she ruled several provisions likely exceeded Trump’s authority.

Saturday’s decision does not settle the underlying dispute over presidential power but keeps Talwani’s injunction intact while the case winds through the courts, a delay that could push final resolution dangerously close to the midterms.

Critics of the ruling argue that leaving basic safeguards, like verifying citizenship and tightening mail-ballot standards, in legal limbo only benefits officials in blue states with a history of loose election administration.

Tyler Durden
Mon, 07/27/2026 – 09:40

Tourists continue to prove they have no idea how to behave in nature.Anyone who reads this site knows that there is a shocking number of people who visit national parks without an ounce of common sense.They seem to think wild animals behave like they’re in a children’s movie. That’s simply not the case, and when they feel threatened, all bets are off.WOMAN RISKS BEING GORED BY BISON FOR A SELFIE AT BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK IN SHOCKING FOOTAGEEnter a truly mind-boggling nature video.The popular Instagram page @touronsofnationalparks posted a video a couple days ago that needs to be seen to be believed.Two adults thought it was a wise idea to get incredibly close to a large bison that appeared to simply be resting.HIDDEN DANGER AT POPULAR US NATIONAL PARK FORCES TRAIL CLOSURES AS BEAR SIGHTINGS CLIMBThe shockingly dumb incident occurred in Yellowstone National Park, according to the video’s caption.You can watch the moment it all unfolded below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.One person in the comments wrote, “Can’t cure stupid.”TERRIFIED HIKERS FACE NIGHTMARE SURVIVAL SCENARIO AFTER HEART-POUNDING GRIZZLY BEAR ENCOUNTERFact check: true.Another person added, “Every day some idiot somewhere learns a very painful if not final lesson that you cannot predict the behavior of wild animals.”I have no doubt these videos will continue to go viral because people simply can’t get enough of them. Let’s use some more common sense and not end up in the ER. Let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.

The Trump Administration Has Faced Over 900 Lawsuits Challenging President Trump’s Executive Actions, with Most in Districts Full of Obama and Biden Judges.
The Record: Lawsuits and Rulings Against the Administration
The volume and speed of the legal assault of this Tramp Administration were extraordinary from the outset. By February 20, 2025 — less than one month after inauguration — reporting based on the Just Security tracker documented that 75 lawsuits challenging the new administration’s executive actions had already been filed. These early cases concentrated on birthright citizenship, immigration enforcement, personnel, and DOGE-related actions, and gender-related policies. The pattern reflected a coordinated effort to bog down the administration with litigation and prevent the implementation of the agenda the American people had just endorsed. The same public tracker that cataloged the cases notably omitted systematic identification of the appointing presidents of the judges issuing the early blocks.
Major public litigation trackers, most notably Just Security’s ongoing Litigation Tracker, have since documented well over 800 lawsuits involving the Trump Administration — approaching or exceeding 906 cases as of today.  On final merits rulings from district courts, a New York Times analysis of public data has shown plaintiffs winning the large majority of decided cases. When preliminary rulings are included, district judges ruled in favor of the Trump agenda only about 25 percent of the time in 2025.

The administration’s record appears somewhat better, however, if you look more broadly at the number of times Mr. Trump’s policies have been halted. Out of 509 active cases, the administration’s policies have been halted 149 times — about 30 percent of the time.”

Appeals courts treated the administration more favorably overall — closer to 51 percent in its favor in 2025 in available analyses — with a significant portion of that support coming from judges appointed by President Trump during his first term.
Peter Baker’s January 11, 2026, post stated it cleanly:

The higher the court, the likelier Trump was to win rulings in 2025:
District courts: 25%
Appeals courts: 51%
Supreme Court: 88% pic.twitter.com/y71IMxXxl1
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 11, 2026

After the Supreme Court’s June 2025 decision in Trump v. CASA limiting nationwide injunctions, challengers increasingly turned to class-action certification to achieve similar practical breadth of relief. Congressional Research Service reports have catalogued dozens of nationwide or universal injunctions issued in the early months of the second term.
Where the Cases Are Filed — and Who Sits on Those Courts
A review of a representative sample of 126 case listings drawn from the Just Security tracker performed by this author reveals a striking geographic concentration. Nearly half of the cases in the sample — approximately 44 percent — were filed in a single court: the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Roughly two-thirds of the sampled cases were filed in just four districts: the District of Columbia, the District of Maryland, the District of Massachusetts, and the District of Minnesota. Maryland, Massachusetts, and Minnesota together accounted for about 23 percent of the sample.
This concentration is not accidental. Plaintiffs — particularly advocacy organizations and Democratic-led state attorneys general — have systematically chosen venues they regard as most favorable. The result is a practical form of forum shopping that allows a small number of district courts, and the judges who sit on them, to exercise outsized influence over national policy.
The composition of the active judges on these four key courts further illuminates the pattern. In the District of Columbia, of the 15 active Article III judges, approximately 11 were appointed by Democratic presidents (Barack Obama or Joe Biden) and only four by Republican presidents. In the District of Maryland, the imbalance is even more pronounced: roughly nine of the ten active judges were appointed by Democratic presidents, with only one appointed by a Republican. The District of Massachusetts has a significant contingent of Obama and Biden appointees, including recent additions such as Judge Brian E. Murphy (Biden), who, along with Judge Patti B. Saris (Clinton), issued the July 2026 administrative stays on Temporary Protected Status terminations that DHS counsel characterized as open defiance of the Supreme Court. The District of Minnesota is more historically mixed, yet still contains a substantial number of Democratic appointees among its active judges.
None of this proves that every ruling issued by these judges is partisan. It does, however, explain why plaintiffs concentrate their cases in these particular districts and why the pattern of early, aggressive temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions has been so consistent.
When the courts that receive the largest share of challenges to a Republican administration’s policies are themselves staffed predominantly by judges appointed by Democratic presidents, the appearance of a one-sided judicial resistance becomes difficult to dismiss.
Who Appointed the Judges?
Analyses of the judges who issued the most consequential adverse rulings reveal a clear and politically skewed pattern. In one mid-2025 review of lower-court judges who blocked Trump administration actions, the large majority were appointed by Democratic presidents — especially Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Key findings from that mid-2025 review:

Of 61 lower-court judges who had ruled against Trump administration actions (as of early June 2025), 49 were appointed by Democrats.
Breakdown of the Democratic appointees: – Obama: 21 – Biden: 19 – Clinton: 9 – Carter: 1
Republican appointees: 12 (including 5 appointed by Trump himself).

That produces the “large majority” / roughly 3-to-1 ratio of Democratic-appointed judges among those who issued blocking rulings.
This does not mean every Democratic-appointed judge rules against the administration in every case, nor that every Republican-appointed judge rules for it. It does mean the pattern of resistance is heavily concentrated among judges selected by the political opponents of the current administration.
Concrete examples have included Biden-appointed judges ordering the restoration of DEI funding; an Obama-appointed judge issuing orders that exposed DOGE employees to public identification; multiple injunctions against immigration enforcement measures, personnel actions, and core executive orders; and Clinton- and Obama-appointed judges issuing orders that appear to defy or circumvent recent Supreme Court guidance.
Many of these injunctions were later stayed, narrowed, or reversed at the appellate level or by the Supreme Court — but only after the administration had been forced to pause or reverse course, and only after lower courts had established dangerous precedents. As Stephen Miller observed, under the logic now being applied by some district judges, a single judge in one district could attempt to enjoin troop movements overseas. Judges have no constitutional authority to administer the executive branch or to nullify the results of a national election.

 

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(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Donita Burks)
As President Donald Trump continues his effort to drain the swamp of Deep State officials, his acting director of national intelligence announced a fresh round of firings Sunday night.
“Since becoming Acting Director of National Intelligence, our team has been smartly, and carefully, reducing the size of ODNI, re-focusing ODNI on national security, the law, and the statute,” Bill Pulte said on X.
“As of this evening, we just finished a 4th round of thoughtful, measured layoffs. Thank you!”

Since becoming Acting Director of National Intelligence, our team has been smartly, and carefully, reducing the size of ODNI, re-focusing ODNI on national security, the law, and the statute. As of this evening, we just finished a 4th round of thoughtful, measured layoffs. Thank…
— DNI Pulte (@DNIPulte) July 27, 2026

Last month, Trump nominated Pulte to head DNI, asking him “to execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies. At the same time, I am looking for a permanent ODNI Nominee with experience in National Security.”
“Just like they did on Border Funding, the Radical Left Dumocrats are trying to take our National Security hostage because of unrelated issues. They should stop playing politics with the safety of our Great Country.”
President Donald J. Trump attends Game 3 of the NBA finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, Monday, June 8, 2026, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)
Trump has since nominated U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to serve as director of National Intelligence once confirmed by the Senate.
In the meantime, Pulte is publicizing success concerning declassification of sensitive government materials.
He praised Trump on X, saying the president “has been amazing on DECLASSIFICATIONS!”
Pulte added: “While it has only been a few weeks since he made me Acting Director of National Intelligence, President Trump has moved at lightning speed to protect our country from foreign influence and give transparency through DECLASSIFICATIONS!”

While it has only been a few weeks since he made me Acting Director of National Intelligence, President Trump has moved at lightning speed to protect our country from foreign influence and give transparency through DECLASSIFICATIONS!
— DNI Pulte (@DNIPulte) July 27, 2026

Pulte then posted a handful of the declassifications, including:

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— DNI Pulte (@DNIPulte) July 27, 2026

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— DNI Pulte (@DNIPulte) July 27, 2026

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— DNI Pulte (@DNIPulte) July 27, 2026

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham was due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a base training Ukrainian forces in maritime warfare.

FIRST ON FOX: One Ivy League institution has taken in more money from foreign countries, including China, than any other university in the country.The U.S. Department of Education has, for years, compiled a list of federally funded universities that have taken in funding from abroad. The Trump administration sought to revamp the agency’s online reporting portal, and, in doing so, it has shown that one institution, Harvard University, has scored more foreign funding than any other college in the country.Harvard is in the crosshairs of Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., for its ties to China and other foreign nations because of the reams of outside cash the university has taken in. And the Senate Republican, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants Education Secretary Linda McMahon to open an investigation into China’s cash flow into higher education.REPUBLICANS TARGET TRUMP’S CRYPTO EMPIRE WITH NEW PLAN, DEMS SAY IT FALLS SHORT”I remain concerned that millions in additional transactions with sanctioned Chinese entities may not have been reported,” Cotton wrote. “Therefore, I encourage additional scrutiny of financial ties between American universities and Communist China.”Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Cotton noted that since the portal was relaunched in January, reporting data has shown that federally funded universities accepted more than $6.8 billion from “Communist China — including more than $300 million from sanctioned entities.””Harvard, for instance, has received more than $630 million from Chinese entities,” Cotton wrote. “This includes roughly $418,000 from organizations participating in foreign talent programs and nearly $420,000 from entities allegedly supporting unauthorized military advancements.”KHANNA DEMANDS ANSWERS FROM CCP-LINKED COMPANY ACCUSED OF UNDERCUTTING US MANUFACTURERSMore money from foreign countries flows to Harvard than any other college on the Education Department’s list, to the tune of nearly $4.5 billion across 7,089 transactions.Of that, $634 million is from countries of concern.Notably, China is not the only country of concern that has sent money to Harvard. A country of concern is one that the federal government designates as engaging in conduct that is detrimental to U.S. national security, foreign policy, or the safety of U.S. citizens. Venezuela and Russia have also both sent money to the university, with $3.3 million and over $750,000, respectively, flowing to the Ivy League institution.CALIFORNIA MAYOR ACCUSED OF SECRETLY WORKING FOR CHINA, SPREADING PROPAGANDA WHILE IN OFFICE: FEDSChina’s alleged influence doesn’t stop at Harvard, either.Broken further down, there are four Chinese entities in the top five funders on U.S. watch lists that have provided a total of about $119 million to universities across the country. That list includes the Beijing Institute of Tech, Air China, Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., and Ocean University of China.The Education Department late last year announced that it would be revamping the portal and charged that the Biden administration had neglected the system.”After years of neglect by the Biden Administration, the new portal will assist our institutions of higher education in fulfilling their statutory responsibilities and enable us to protect our national security by facilitating improved compliance,” McMahon said in a statement at the time.”America’s taxpayer-funded colleges and universities have both a moral and legal obligation to be fully transparent with the U.S. government and the American people about their foreign financial relationships,” she continued.

On Saturday a suspect believed to be tied to Berlin’s “Islamist scene” plowed through the Berlin Gay Pride Parade killing at least one person and injuring 16 others. The Berlin Christopher Street Parade is one of the largest annual LGBT events in Europe.
The killer rammed his car into revelers at the annual Christopher Street Day celebration.
The Sun reported that the suspect then left the vehicle with a bladed weapon and attacked people in the park near the end of the parade route.
According to Bild.de, the man, was known to be a member of the Islamist scene. He is believed to be Abdul Ballout, 21. Police admitted Abdul Ballout was linked to Islamist groups and was on the authorities’ radar.
Ballout was killed on Sunday when Berlin police surrounded a garden plot before moving in and killed the Islamist who drove through the gay pride parade on Saturday.
According to Bild.de the terrorist attacked police with a “bladed weapon” before he was killed at 6:34 PM German Time.
This is not the first deadly Islamist attack in Germany.
In 2016 Islamic extremists murdered 22 people in Germany in seven different attacks.

Now there is a map of all of the rapes, homicides, assaults, terror attacks, swimming pool assaults, robberies by migrants to Germany in 2016.
Purple balloons: Sexual assaults
Pink balloons: Rape and attempted rape
Red balloons: Robbery and theft
Green balloons: Riots and intimidation
Blue balloons: Criminal assault
Red flames: Arson
Yellow triangle: Terrorist attacks
Black balloons: Homicide and attempted homicide
Green rectangle: Sexual assaults in public swimming pools

Democrats want to bring that to the United States.
Following the brutal murder by Islamist Abdul Ballout, mourners held a Berlin memorial on Sunday.
One crazy liberal woman (translated from German) told the crowd when she heard about the Islamist attack she hoped that the killer was a “white Christian person.”
Crazy Liberal Woman: “When I heard the news that a car had plowed into the CSD (Christian Street Parade) — a man in a car — and what was also shocking to me was that the first thing I thought was, “I hope it’s not some foreigner; I hope it’s a white Christian person,” but it wasn’t. And that’s where intersectionality comes into play again. We don’t all fight the same battles, but we’re there for each other in moments like these. And then it’s beautiful.”
Yes, sooo beautiful.
What a complete brainwashed lunatic.
Via Drew Pavlou:

Vigil for the victims of the Berlin Pride parade attack.
Leftist says that when she heard about the attack she had hoped the attacker was not Muslim but instead a white Christian man.
Crazy. Just utterly nuts. pic.twitter.com/KKPtmJmqIv
— Drew Pavlou (@DrewPavlou) July 26, 2026

Gay Pride Parade organizers say they hope the Islamist attack at their annual parade will not be politicized.
That’s not all…
The organizers of the gay pride parade said they hoped that the Islamist attack will not be politicized.
Tell me you’re a dhimmi without telling me you’re a dhimmi.
It appears Germany, like Great Britain has already been conquered by Islam.
Via Andy Ngo:

Organizers of the Berlin Pride that was targeted in a deadly attack by a Muslim Arab man read off a speech saying that the Islamic terror incident shouldn’t be politicised.
The problem is with cowards like this.
They want to stand in the way of those who seek to address…
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 26, 2026

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is urging protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming UN visit, highlighting his longstanding anti-Israel positions and raising questions about incitement, constitutional authority, and conflict with established U.S. foreign policy.
 
After publicly acknowledging that he has no authority to carry out his promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now urging New Yorkers to protest Netanyahu ahead of his expected visit to the city in September for the UN General Assembly.
Mamdani made the comment during a City Hall press conference on July 22, telling reporters, “If anyone feels a level of frustration or opposition, protest is something that we will always respect.” A spokesperson for Mamdani declined to say whether the mayor himself plans to protest Netanyahu’s arrival.
The remarks followed a video Mamdani released the night before in which he admitted that he did not have the authority to arrest Netanyahu. During his 2025 mayoral campaign, however, Mamdani had pledged to order the NYPD to enforce the International Criminal Court arrest warrant himself. In the recording, he called Netanyahu “the architect of a horrific genocide” and a “war criminal,” and urged the federal government to enforce the ICC warrant against him. The video has been viewed nearly 90 million times.
One day before the video was released, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that Netanyahu “will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.”
Irrespective of critics claiming the opposite, U.S. support for Israel, including protection for visiting Israeli leaders, reflects a longstanding bipartisan feature of American foreign policy that predates and extends beyond any single administration. It has been sustained across both Republican and Democratic presidencies since Israel’s founding.
Furthermore, foreign policy authority, including how the federal government treats a visiting head of state, rests constitutionally with the president and the executive branch, not with city government.
Mamdani’s continued calls regarding Netanyahu have prompted criticism from Jewish organizations and from far-right U.S. politicians. The UJA-Federation of New York said in a statement, “New Yorkers elected a mayor to lead this city, not to make Israel the centerpiece of your political grandstanding,” accusing Mamdani of antisemitism.
The comments reflect a consistent pattern in Mamdani’s public record that goes beyond criticism of specific Israeli government policies to questioning the legitimacy of the Israeli state itself. As a state assemblyman in May 2021, Mamdani led a rally where participants chanted “BDS, BDS” and criticized officials’ “incomprehensible fealty to the Israeli state.”
At an October 8, 2023, Times Square rally, two days after the Hamas attack on Israel, local members of the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani’s own party, celebrated Hamas. Mamdani condemned the rally two days later, telling Politico that his support for Palestinian liberation “should never be confused for a celebration of the loss of civilian life.” He has also declined to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, called Israel an “apartheid state,” and declined to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada.”
In April 2024, Mamdani wrote on social media that Columbia University students arrested at the campus “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” were arrested “for the crime of peacefully protesting against genocide.” The encampment, which Columbia’s president cited in calling in the NYPD to clear it, has been extensively documented as including antisemitic conduct.
The Anti-Defamation League recorded chants including “we don’t want no Zionists here,” and protesters telling Jewish students to “go back to Poland.” The Times of Israel reported that protesters blocked campus access to those they perceived as “Zionists,” violating the rights of Jewish students. The publication also reported that Jewish students faced near-daily chants of “Globalize the Intifada” and, on one occasion, students chanting in support of “10,000 October 7ths.”
Twenty-one members of Congress, led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Dan Goldman, wrote that the “from the river to the sea” chants used at the encampment constituted a call to eliminate Israel and all Jews within its borders. They also argued that Columbia’s shift to hybrid classes tacitly acknowledged a hostile environment for Jewish students and appeared to violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian and lead organizer with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, became a lawful permanent resident in November 2024 through marriage to a U.S. citizen. In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that Khalil’s activities, including organizing Columbia’s protest encampment, carried “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act. ICE arrested him at his Columbia-owned apartment on that basis.
Mamdani, then a mayoral candidate, called the arrest “a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump,” and later that month tried to push past security to confront then-border czar Tom Homan at the New York State Capitol in Albany, shouting “Do you believe in the First Amendment?” and “How many more New Yorkers will you detain?” Homan did not respond beyond what Mamdani later described as a “smirk.” Mamdani separately hosted Khalil for an iftar dinner.
Mamdani was introduced at a Staten Island mosque event by organizer Abdullah Akl, who has a documented record of chanting “Strike, strike Tel Aviv, Abu Obeida, our beloved” in 2024 and calling for Palestine “from the river to sea” at a December 2023 convention.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, a Queens synagogue, on the night of January 8, 2026, chanting “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here” during a protest of a synagogue event promoting real estate investment in Israel and the West Bank.
By noon the next day, as the video spread widely, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and several other city and state officials had already condemned the chants, while Mamdani’s office remained silent. He issued a statement Friday evening calling the rhetoric “wrong and have no place in our city,” without naming Hamas, then followed up about an hour later on X, “Chants in support of a terrorist organization have no place in our city,” after facing criticism for the omission. Critics noted the roughly 24-hour delay was slower than both Hochul’s response and that of his predecessor, Eric Adams.
Under the 1947 Headquarters Agreement, the United States is obligated to ensure the functioning of the UN headquarters district and to provide accredited delegations with the privileges and immunities required under the agreement. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations says it is committed to protecting UN Headquarters, accredited missions, and the diplomatic community, coordinating with the NYPD, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, the Secret Service, and the FBI.
A 1951 State Department legal memorandum addressing a similar dispute involving picketing outside the Soviet mission found that the U.S. obligation to protect foreign delegations from demonstrations was governed by Section 15 of the Headquarters Agreement. That provision entitles delegations to the same privileges and immunities the United States generally accords to diplomatic envoys.

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Let’s get the final Monday of July 2026 rolling with a fresh edition of Monday Screencaps where we cook up some content before football season gets cranked up. Guys, I’m disappearing for a few days after this column to get some family vacation time in before the kids dive into school sports and the school year starts in two weeks.It’s that time of the year. It’s now or never for those final family getaways, which means SeanJo will be with you the rest of the week.IDAHO TEEN UMPIRE DELIVERS ULTIMATE REALITY CHECK TO COACH COMPLAINING ABOUT WALK-UP MUSICTONY ROMO’S BRUTAL GOLF SCORE BEFORE GETTING ARRESTED PAINTS A NIGHTMARISH PICTUREImagine going out in public looking like this. And we’re supposed to listen to what this woman has to say about America from her living room in Ireland?– Jeff E. emails: If you took all the soccer I’d watched in my life and compared it to FIFA in US it’s not even close.  Maybe watched four or five games – even watched some that were not USMT. Here’s the top and bottom three list for soccer:Top-Fan commitment to their team-Athletic prowess with feet-Visitor reaction to USBottom-Red Card (often over prescriptive – someone should tell them how hockey does it)-Time keeping (added time, lack of precision, lack of communication to those watching)-Flopping, the worst thing about soccer (many had taken LeBron James master class)– Marty in Idaho always sends in cool content: Some readers are having squirrel problems in their back yard. I get that squirrels can be annoying but let’s add some perspective. In late June a buck deer died in the tall grass in my back yard from an antler injury we think. Not much I could do so I just put a game camera on it to see what happened. Mountain lions (mama and three cubs) found it within the hour and spent most of the next two nights feeding on it. If you watch the video, our house is about 75 yards to the left. I let the neighbors know so nobody would go out for a moonlight stroll.– Loyal reader Ricky A. is spending his summer in Japan:– Robert R. on how to get to Wisconsin while avoiding Chicago: I lived in FL 35 years and moved to TN in 2019.  I’m from WI originally, my oldest lives near Green Bay and since 1997 I have been making the trip to visit at least once a year .  I solved the Chicago problem about 10 years ago.  I now leave I 57 and head west to Bloomington about 40 miles before Chicago, use I 72. At Bloomington head north to Rockford and then at Janesville you can take 43 to Milwaukee or go to Madison and use 51 north to Fond du Lac.  Adds about an hour or a little more but: less traffic, only 1 toll (at Rockford) for about $2 .  I hate going through Chicago, my daughter in-law used to call and ask where I was and my response was always “the 7th ring of Hell”.– John in Milford, MI advises me to take up smoking: It will take commitment on your part, but I have a solution to your problem with your neighbor’s cigarette smoke that I guarantee will work. I smoked long ago when I was young, and I can tell you that the urge to run out and pick up a carton of Winstons never goes away. I still find the smell of cigarette smoke enchanting. All you need to do is start smoking yourself, huff a pack a day for a few years, then quit cold turkey.  I promise that you will look forward to being downwind from your neighbor and catching a whiff of tobacco smoke after that. Problem solved.– Jim in East Peoria, IL has a simple solution: LEAF BLOWER!!! Hell yes!!! Dumbass me should have thought of that. And a real f–king loud and big and annoying one would be in order methinks.Also, those Miami girls are definitely going to give the Dallas team a run for their money!!!Kinsey: I did have my leaf blower next to me on the patio Saturday afternoon. I’ll have to try this next time the neighbor lights up the cigs.This went down over the weekend in Madison, WI. Very simple solution. Pepper spray water cannons. Clear the whole area. If they want to come back. Blast them again. Clear the way for red-blooded Americans who want to suck down a beer or whiskey on a Saturday night while maybe chasing some skirts.###################That is it this morning. SeanJo will have you until Saturday morning when I will be back. Send him emails. Send him your deep thoughts. And keep Respecting Summer while I’m out.Have a great week.