A new study reveals how media in the United States and Europe simply parroted inaccurate information from the terrorist group Hamas and represented it as truthful. The Network Contagion and Research Institute released their comprehensive report, titled, “The 4th Estate Sale: How American and European Media Became an Uncritical Mouthpiece for a Designated Foreign Terror Organization.” The report started by illuminating how the media virtually unanimously purveyed a uniform narrative in which they lied about the efforts of the U.S. Department of State’s aid initiative, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was delivering meals and direct food assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza. “Within days of GHF’s first meal deliveries, it became the target of a deliberate narrative assault, driven less by verifiable facts than by the demands of a competing narrative,” the report states. “Reports and evidence of violence at aid sites began to surface, and international and U.S. media outlets, social media influencers, and NGOs started publishing articles that ascribed blame to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) or GHF for intentional violence against civilians, war crimes, and complicity in the crime of genocide. The reports quickly condensed into viral headlines, but the claim that the IDF was systematically murdering civilians was usually sourced from Hamas-run ministries or anonymous accounts, and often unverified. Moreover, evidence that Hamas could be responsible for violence around aid sites – evidence provided by non-Hamas Palestinian sources, by Hamas’s online communications, and by video that in some cases shows Hamas operatives deliberately firing on Palestinian civilians– was almost never suggested.” “A core failure of media coverage is the routine elevation of the Gaza Health Ministry, a Hamas-run agency, as a trusted source on culpability for violence. … many mainstream media outlets remain willing to rely on figures and ‘facts’ taken from the Gaza Health Ministry,” the report continues. “The media framed a narrative sourced unreflexively from Hamas affiliates – a narrative which aims to uproot any challenge that undermines the terrorist-designated entity’s governance over aid distribution in the Gaza Strip. This effort transformed reporting into narrative laundering: the process of circulating unverified or unreliable information and framing it as a legitimate window into truth.” “Our results suggest that the GHF was targeted and undermined by a collection of adversarial actors and institutional amplifiers acting synchronously and convergently,” the report continues. “Major media headlines cited Hamas-linked officials more than any other source – making a foreign terrorist organization one of the leading voices shaping news about GHF. Of the high-engagement news articles NCRI analyzed, Hamas-linked officials and organizations, such as the Gaza Health Ministry, were directly cited in headlines more than any other named source. In nearly three-quarters of those cases, it was not disclosed in the headline that the source was a Hamas affiliate.” One example from the report: “The Washington Post retracted early versions of a report that explicitly stated Israeli troops killed over 30 Palestinians near a U.S. aid site in Gaza. The original headline attributed to ‘health officials’ the claims about Israeli troops being responsible for the deaths, but the journalists failed to clarify that this attribution solely reflected a claim from the Gaza Health Ministry. This consequently gave readers a false impression that Israeli responsibility had been independently confirmed.” Another: “CNN corrected its report of a shooting near a Gaza aid site in which at least 31 Palestinians were allegedly killed. The original article uncritically reported the Gaza Health Ministry’s claim that the Israeli military was responsible without making clear that this accusation had not been independently verified.” “A particularly salient example of this occurred when Gazan pharmacist Omar Hamad introduced the conspiratorial narrative that the GHF intentionally laced bags of flour with the narcotic Oxycodone. This claim went viral on X, racking up over 25.7M views across just 21 posts,” the report noted. “While originating from traditional sources (NGOs, UN bodies, humanitarian advocates), these narratives are rapidly absorbed by future assassins like Elias Rodriguez or online networks that reframe them through radically different lenses on both the right and left,” the report opines. “The belief that Israel is intentionally starving children or deliberately targeting hospitals under the pretense of counterterrorism is not grounded in verifiable fact. These are not legitimate policy critiques; they are fabricated atrocity narratives that reframe Israel’s actions as genocidal, regardless of evidence to the contrary. What’s most alarming is the shift from political disagreement to dehumanizing conviction. The experimental results show that exposure to these narratives moves individuals to endorse conspiracy-level accusations and adopt a moral framework in which Israel is no longer a flawed actor, but a fundamentally evil one,” the report concludes.

Video has surfaced showing Zohran Mamdani, the socialist Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, calling for the “abolition of private property” during a previous campaign. In a clip that made the rounds on social media Thursday, Mamdani said, “Every single person should have housing.” “The system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what?” Mamdani said in the clip, which was from a 2020 podcast interview when he was a Democratic nominee for the New York State Assembly, a race he went on to win. Zohran Mamdani says he'd be in favor of the "abolition of private property" pic.twitter.com/WRs6JEG5tv — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2025 “If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now,” Mamdani said. “People try and play, like, gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it’s like look, I care more about whether somebody has a home,” he added. The New York state assemblyman representing parts of Queens won the Democratic primary last month in an upset that threw the New York City mayor’s race into chaos. Mamdani has described himself as a democratic socialist and has proposed controversial and expensive policies, including government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-subsidized housing, and deploying mental health professionals rather than police in crises. He wants to raise both income and corporate taxes. In another resurfaced clip, Mamdani talked about “seizing the means of production,” a key Marxist concept. “We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism,” he said in 2021 during a live-streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America. This is not terrible AI, it's a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades. "The end goal of seizing the means of production." I can't believe this is actually happening. pic.twitter.com/KNxQV2QCX7 — MAZE (@mazemoore) June 30, 2025 “There are also other issues that we firmly believe in … whether it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment,” he said. He posted something similar on social media in 2020. “If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production,” Mamdani posted on X. During the Young Democratic Socialists conference, Mamdani also referenced transgender ideology. “The ramifications of victory here is the difference between life and death for so many of our brothers, sisters, and family beyond the binary and across this borough of Queens,” Mamdani said. Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo are both Democrats running as independents, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa is running against all of them. Mamdani is currently statistically tied with Cuomo and Sliwa, according to a HarrisX poll this week. Mamdani leads at 26%, with Cuomo at 23% and Sliwa at 22%, all within the margin of error. Adams trails at 13%, while 15% of voters remain undecided, according to the poll.

This summer, gas prices have hit the lowest national average since 2021. Prices dropped to $3.155 per gallon since last week, the American Automobile Association (AAA) reported on Friday. “Prices at the pump keep dropping thanks to President Trump unleashing American energy,” White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire. “President Trump ended Joe Biden’s reckless war on American energy, and he’s making life more affordable for families as a result.” As of Friday, the nation’s highest gas prices are in California, where the average cost is at $4.499 per gallon. Hawaii and Washington were the only other states above $4 per gallon, averaging $4.475 and $4.386, respectively. Mississippi has the country’s cheapest gas, averaging $2.72 per gallon. “Summer gas prices are the cheapest they have been in four years thanks to consistently low crude oil prices this year,” AAA Spokesperson Kellan Howell told The Daily Wire. “Crude oil supply is currently outweighing demand.” In June 2022, midway through the Biden administration, AAA found that for the first time since it began tracking prices, the national average for a gallon of gas had reached $5.00. Fuel prices remained elevated for the remainder of former President Joe Biden’s term, well above the $2.39 figure that marked the start of his presidency. Gas prices ticked up 1% in June, according to the most recent Consumer Price Index report. But prices have remained low this summer, despite tensions in the Middle East. The Trump administration has taken steps to prioritize lower fuel costs. The recently passed “One Big, Beautiful Bill” encourages fossil fuel development and cuts tax credits and subsidies from green energy. The administration has said, “Having efficient, reliable, and affordable energy is the key to American security.” The Department of the Interior just announced plans to “[end] preferential treatment for unreliable, subsidy-dependent wind and solar energy.” The department will end subsidies for wind and solar energy to “[level] the playing field for … clean coal and domestic natural gas.” Wind and solar projects will now undergo “elevated review” before being approved. The Trump administration also announced plans to slash regulations and expedite leases for coal mining. A new coal mine in Tennessee was approved thanks to “expedited environmental review” procedures.

We received welcome and amusing news on Thursday: Stephen Colbert will be done in very short order — and the Left is going nuts. Colbert has not been funny for at least a decade. There was a time when he served as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and he was funny. Then he did The Colbert Report, which was him as a left-winger trying to mock and parody Bill O’Reilly. It was intermittently funny. Then they made him the late-night show host at CBS.  And he was abysmal.  Now, CBS is announcing that they are done with Stephen Colbert because of the cost of his show and because of his low ratings. CBS executives issued a statement: “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season. We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television.” By “irreplaceable,” do they mean “we will get rid of him and never replace him”? That is not what irreplaceable means. If I say that my wife is irreplaceable, what I mean is that I’m going to stay married to her forever. I don’t mean that I’m going to toss her to the side of the road and never get married again. “Remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television.” I don’t think so. In fact, I don’t think he’ll make the top ten.  Perhaps the top hundred (if there are even that many). CBS continued: “This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.” However, Variety speculated, “There has been growing speculation that both Colbert and Jon Stewart, who hosts one broadcast of Comedy Central’s ‘Daily Show’ each week, could be under growing scrutiny from executives at Skydance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central. David Ellison, who leads Skydance, has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump, who Colbert and Stewart routinely skewer in monologues and commentary.” So the blue sky Left is going crazy over this. They believe that Paramount is firing Colbert in order to help President Trump in some way, which is really an absurd contention given the fact that Stephen Colbert does not have ratings. His ratings are trash. He has terrible ratings, period. End of story.  When Greg Gutfeld is eating your lunch on a cable network, that proves that you’re not doing a very good job in late-night.  Colbert has not been funny for years and years and years.  I think we should all remember Stephen Colbert’s legacy together. Here are some sterling examples: “Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We’ve got our own on Capitol Hill!” “No one came to Trump’s big, stupid birthday parade.” “MAGA stands for Make America Grass Again.” “You attract more skinheads than free Rogaine.” “You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster.” What will we do without scintillating jokes like that? We will laugh a hell of a lot more, and life will be better because he was a terrible late-night host. Jimmy Kimmel of ABC  went on Instagram to write, “Love you, Stephen. F*** you and all your Sheldons, CBS.” There’s an opportunity for ABC to do the funniest thing ever.

'The future of our nation depends on it'

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'Textbook authoritarian rule'

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