UN Stats Show Gaza As Well Fed as Germany and the UK

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WNBA task force to convene after former NBA players declare eligibility for women's league

 The WNBA is set to discuss its eligibility requirements after two former NBA players declared themselves eligible for the WNBA draft, saying they are doing so in compliance with the league rules. 

On Friday, in a memo first reported by ESPN and The Associated Press, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said a task force of team presidents and general managers will discuss the topic of transgender-identified players at a previously scheduled meeting.

“I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women's basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention,” the memo reportedly stated. “I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who have responded to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism.”

It’s unclear whether the memo went out in response to the announcement by former Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter declaring himself as a “WNBA prospect” after reviewing the all-female league’s current eligibility guidelines. A similar announcement was made by former Utah Jazz forward and U.S. Senate nominee Royce White.

Listening sessions will be held for team executives.

WNBA to convene after former NBA players declare for draft | Sports

Senate committee votes to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress

 The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted Thursday morning to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress following their hearing last week on the COVID-19 pandemic response and related issues.

The committee chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted 8-5 along party lines regarding the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, who invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times during his tense, three-hour testimony on July 29.

Paul said in his opening statement that the contempt vote was not concerned with Fauci's past policies or opinions, but rather whether a pardoned witness could refuse a committee order to provide testimony.

"We are voting on whether a witness who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence," Paul said.

Paul also acknowledged the irreparable professional, educational and spiritual damage that the government's COVID-19 response and vaccine mandates had on many people.

Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress | Politics

Before Mamdani... There was John Reed

 John Reed was one of the foremost left-wing leaders during America’s early 20th-century Progressive Era and had much in common with today’s Democratic Socialists.

John Silas “Jack” Reed was a Zohran Mamdani of his era. Both rose in left-wing American politics in their late twenties and early thirties, embraced socialism, and framed politics through class struggle and oppressor/oppressed themes. Both believed America’s political and capitalist systems had to be radically transformed -- or dismantled -- for working-class liberation. Were he alive today, Reed would likely see eye to eye with the NYC mayor.

Reed and his contemporary comrades might view today’s street demonstrators and DSA as their progeny -- the great, great-grandchildren of their own cadre of anarcho-socialist rabblerousers. They would be impressed with the “black bloc” street takeover approach Antifa and aligned groups have used, fomenting revolutionary change through performative street demonstrations, defacing monuments, and clashing with police. They would have been pleasantly stunned by the reach and effectiveness of social media to organize and spread revolutionary propaganda. They would have viewed ICE with the same contempt they held for the Secret Service, who jailed and deported many of them for espousing the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Jack Reed’s life was greatly romanticized even during his own time. In an introduction to a collection of his writings, he is characterized as “[an] adventurer, playboy, Bohemian, lover, radical, anti-war activist, revolutionary agitator.” Indeed, Reed can be looked upon as a godfather of modern American radical socialism, whose views and fervent activism would be embraced by today’s DSA. Class distinctions and conflict (today add in race and gender identity) defined everything. It was an authoritarian ideology that imposed greater controls over private property, as Mamdani has proposed with rent freezes and policies to remove property owners from controlling what they own. As Mamdani once revealingly opined, such policies might even lead to “seizing the means of production,” a Marxist concept found in the Communist Manifesto and Capital that Jack Reed knew well.

Before Mamdani... There was John Reed - American Thinker

Why I Changed My Mind About Marijuana

Liz reflects on how Alex Berenson’s research and book on the harms of marijuana changed her perspective on cannabis.

Anthony Fauci basks in media attention in unearthed diary entries: 'I am the most famous'

 Dr. Anthony Fauci raised eyebrows over the weekend for his recently released pandemic-era diary entries, some of which included reflections on his own newfound fame, his interactions with influential media figures and a picture of a prayer necklace featuring himself as a saint.

Released Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ahead of Fauci's scheduled testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week, the thousands of pages of diary entries recounted Fauci's daily reflections as he interacted with political leaders and became the public face of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

"I have said for years that Anthony Fauci cared more about his own image than the truth, and now his own diary proves it," Paul posted to X on Monday afternoon.

1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.
What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.

Today I'm releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022. ???? pic.twitter.com/58LvmeYkCN

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026

Various entries show Fauci appeared to bask in the media attention and widespread adulation he was receiving during the early days of the pandemic.

"The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person [sic] in the world," Fauci wrote in his diary on May 21, 2020, noting there had been a "very flattering" front-page article about him in The Washington Post.

"Press is going wild with me," he wrote on March 22, 2020. "Front page in Washington Post yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic."

"I am trying in several articles and on TV to clarify that the POTUS is tsalking [sic] about hope for therapies although there are no good data, while I must stick to the science and so fundamentally we are approaching this from different, but not conflicting standpoints."

On May 23, 2020, Fauci suggested that President Donald Trump and the White House were growing jealous of the attention he was receiving.

"Apparently the WH is very upset that I am being profiled and it looks like I am putting down the POTUS and becoming a star that outshines him. The press is playing into this as is the tweet storm. Very stressful!!" he wrote.

In other entries, Fauci also mentioned his interactions with various celebrities who fawned over him, such as Barbra Streisand, Julia Roberts and Steph Curry. In February 2021, he took note that comedian Kate McKinnon played him on "Saturday Night Live," and included a photo from X of a prayer necklace that depicted him as a saint and read: "Doctor Fauci, Patron Saint of Public Health."

Dr. Fauci Diary Entry of a Photo of a Prayer Medal Depicting Himself Reposted by the “Dr. Anthony Fauci Fan Club”

Is there anyone in the world who loves themselves more than Fauci? ???? pic.twitter.com/EeDvUWCJ6K

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 27, 2026

Fauci also made note of the many fans he was amassing, highlighting an article headlined "Fauci socks, Fauci doughnuts, Fauci fan art: The coronavirus expert attracts a cult following."

CRINGE: Dr. Fauci’s Diary He Kept During COVID Was Just Released

He saved clippings of articles that say “America is Thirsty” for him, pictures of donuts with his face on them and fawned over posts of people saying they “have a crush” on him.

He also bragged about his… pic.twitter.com/x2UryA5b62

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 27, 2026

The diary also revealed Fauci was highly attentive to media coverage of himself and exhibited unusually close relationships with left-leaning media figures such as CNN anchor Jake Tapper, whose Washington, D.C., home he visited for dinner.

Fauci wrote that Tapper had reached out to him privately to ensure that an interview he had done with CNN had not caused friction with the White House. When The Atlantic's Peter Nicholas suggested Fauci was "humiliated" when Tapper canceled an interview, he wrote: "F— you, Peter."

After Fauci's clash with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in 2021, CNN's Dana Bash texted him that he was "a better man" and relayed Wolf Blitzer's joke that no one would blame Fauci for telling Jordan to "go f— yourself." She later shared a Vanity Fair headline mocking Jordan.

Fauci's diary entries end in December 2022 as his reputation was waning with large swaths of the public, with his final entry reading: "It is clear (I have not been reporting it every day) that the far, extreme right and Qanon literally hate me."

Paul, a longtime Fauci critic who subpoenaed him to testify this week, highlighted other selections from Fauci's diary in an X thread, arguing that the private writings of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases often differed from his public statements.

Regarding the origins of COVID-19 and discussions of the lab leak hypothesis, Paul highlighted an entry from Jan. 26, 2020, that showed the wet market theory was privately already discounted very early in the pandemic when Fauci wrote, "Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier."

Paul's X account has routinely trolled Fauci, with his pinned tweet as of Monday depicting Fauci's famous 2020 "InStyle" cover photo that showed him decked out in sunglasses and star-studded socks by the pool.

"See you in 2 days," Paul wrote Monday along with the photo.

Anthony Fauci basks in media attention in unearthed diary entries | Politics

The 'Red Jihad': How far-left and jihadist extremism are merging

 For nearly a quarter century, Western counterterrorism was built around the jihadist threat. That focus was understandable. September 11 changed the world, and the rise of al-Qaeda and ISIS forced the United States and its allies to build intelligence, law enforcement, and military systems capable of stopping large-scale attacks.

At the recent international conference on political terrorism, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the threat environment has changed. Rubio argued that the West developed a dangerous blind spot toward far-Left terrorism. Bessent stated that “old ideological boundaries are now giving way to new operational alliances,” especially between international Marxism and radical Islamic movements that may not share the same ultimate vision but do share the same immediate enemy: free and self-governing societies.

That convergence is what I call the “Red Jihad.”

The Red Jihad is not a single organization. It is a cross-ideological threat coalition made up of actors who may identify as Marxist, anarchist, Islamist, Satanist, neo-Nazi or something even more obscure. They do not need to agree on what should replace the West. They only need to agree that the existing Western social order should be destabilized and ultimately destroyed.

This is why our current debate over “nihilistic violent extremism” is so important.

The FBI describes nihilistic violent extremists as individuals who engage in criminal conduct in furtherance of political, social or religious goals that grow out of hatred for society and a desire to bring about its collapse through chaos, destruction and social instability. These actors are often young, highly networked online and involved in communities such as 764, the Order of Nine Angles, Maniacs Murder Cult and related ecosystems.

Some researchers insist that these networks have no real ideology. They say the violence is merely “violence for violence’s sake,” driven by misanthropy, online status, notoriety, or sadism.

In my opinion, that description is woefully incomplete.

Belonging, notoriety and social status may explain why an individual joins a network. They do not tell us what the network teaches, rewards or seeks to accomplish. A young person may enter ISIS seeking purpose or brotherhood, yet no serious analyst would conclude that ISIS therefore has no ideology. A recruit may join a revolutionary movement for excitement or identity, but that does not erase the movement’s larger goals.

The 'Red Jihad': How far-left and jihadist extremism are merging