July 13, 2026

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than Xi.

When the power cut out and his signal dropped, TJ knew something was wrong.

Seconds later, the banging started on his front door. Terrified, he stood as still as possible with his wife and three-year-old daughter, hoping they wouldn’t be noticed.

But the Chinese police officers broke down the door, shoved his wife and child into a separate room and began to question TJ.

“They grabbed my clothes and grabbed my hands so I couldn’t move. I could hear my daughter crying so much in the room next door but I couldn’t go to her, I couldn’t hug my wife,” he told The Telegraph.

TJ knew what his family’s crime was: being Christian and worshipping a God that was not Xi Jinping. In China, following a church that is not state-controlled is punishable.

The Chinese leader is intensifying Beijing’s crackdown on Christians amid a wider purge of top officials, showing signs of an increasingly paranoid leader.

This will probably get even less press attention than Muslims slaughtering the Christians of the Sahel.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

I’M NOT LAUGHING:

From the replies: “They aren’t dodging a virus. They’re dodging facial recognition.”

Posted at 10:22 am by Stephen Green

CLEVER: Russian hackers breached cameras on NATO logistics routes to track weapons shipments.

Russian state-backed hackers have been systematically compromising internet-connected civilian IP cameras in NATO countries across Europe in an effort to monitor the transfer of military equipment and weapons to Ukraine.

Source: joint statement by the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD)

Details: According to the intelligence agencies, the large-scale Russian operation targeted cameras located along military logistics routes in Europe, including in the Netherlands. The hackers were attempting to identify what types of weapons were being sent to Ukraine.

During the joint investigation, the agencies found that a small number of cameras located directly on military logistics routes in the Netherlands had been compromised. The organisations that own these devices have since been notified and are taking appropriate security measures.

I don’t trust security cameras like Ring that rely entirely on somebody else’s offsite storage.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Lindsey Graham — A Man of Many Surprises Right Until the End. “Lindsey Graham is the man who launched a thousand opinions. Nobody was neutral when it came to Graham, which I think is one of the highest compliments that anyone can receive. You could find the full gamut of opinions among just Republicans. He could be infuriating at times, then he could be the GOP pitbull that you needed to send after the Democrats.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

JUSTICE:

Posted at 9:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

SINCE LOCAL AUTHORITIES SEEM UNINTERESTED IN STOPPING THE FRAUD, MUCH LESS PUNISHING IT, YOU HAVE TO ASSUME THEY’RE COMPLICIT:

Posted at 8:49 am by Stephen Green

UGH: Iran Paper Names Trump, 12 Others as Targets for Revenge.

The move escalated rhetoric from Iran’s ruling establishment as new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei used his first public message in weeks to vow retaliation.

As of Sunday, however, the newspaper’s list has not been formally endorsed by the Iranian state.

The Hamshahri daily, owned by the Tehran municipality, posted the graphic online late Saturday, pairing photographs of 13 foreign officials with a statement from Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father after Ali Khamenei was killed on Feb. 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli air campaign against Iran.

The image did not run in the paper’s Sunday print edition.

Along with Trump and Netanyahu, the infographic named British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Reporting from JFeed identified additional figures pictured, including Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper.

Meanwhile:

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

YES:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green

ALEX BERENSON: A gonorrhea vaccine fails – and reveals a much bigger problem with the studies health bureaucrats use to push flu and Covid jabs.

Though not fatal, gonorrhea is unpleasant and increases risk for HIV. Like other sexually transmitted diseases, it is far more common in gay men. English authorities offered the vaccine, originally designed for meningitis, after studies showed it cut infections by about 40 percent. The shot could have a “huge impact,” England’s top vaccine regulator told the BBC.

Or not.

Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published results from a trial of the vaccine in gay men in Australia. It failed to prevent gonorrhea — and some men who received it reported serious side effects.

The media has buried the trial’s results. Not one mainstream American news outlet reported the vaccine’s failure. And, after giving over 30,000 men the jab, English authorities are so far still recommending it despite the new results.

Keep this up and people will stop trusting the public health establishment.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds