Graham’s last known photograph

Senator Lindsey Graham Dead

July 12, 2026 | Sundance

It will be interesting to discover where Lindsey Graham was located when he experienced this “sudden illness” that killed him.His last known public location(hours before his death announcement)was in Kiev, Ukraine, visiting a drone factory.

Hours before Lindsey Graham died, he was visiting a drone factory in Kiev.(he supposedly flew 12 hours back to DC, so it wasn’t possible)

On July 10th he met with Zelenskyy {CITATION}

On July 11th he visited a drone factory in Kiev {CITATION}

On July 12th – announcement at 02:02 PT he’s dead {CITATION}

(You know I thought Trump’s announcement of Lindsey Graham being “dead” was kind of harsh sounding instead of Graham passed away does to sickness. Usually an announcement like that should be a bit more sympathetic. He did make up for it with other glowing comments, I totally missed this, Russia blew up the drone factory yesterday afternoon)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/12/senator-lindsey-graham-dead/

Inside Lindsey Graham's final push for Saudi-Israel peace

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died suddenly Saturday,spent his final weeks laying the groundwork for an ambitious new push to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, he told me in multiple conversations over the past several weeks.

Why it matters:Graham was one of Washington's most influential and energetic foreign policy figures. He spent decades trying to shape America's role in the world and was still pursuing some of his biggest diplomatic ambitions in the final hours of his life.

Zoom in:Graham saw Saudi-Israel normalization as the defining prize of a broader postwar settlement in the Middle East — one that could outlast the military campaign against Iran and fundamentally reshape the region.

He had worked on the issue for years, including with the Biden administration, and believed the opening created by Iran's weakening could give President Trump a rare chance to broker a historic agreement.

Graham's plan was to begin an intensive diplomatic push after Israel's October elections and the U.S. midterms, with thegoal of reaching a deal before the new Congress was sworn in January.

Yes, but:Graham believed the war with Iran first had to be brought under control, especially the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.

He had urged Trump to authorize a short, overwhelming military operation to reopen the strait if diplomacy failed.

Zoom out:Graham was one of the key figures outside of the administration that Trump consulted with on foreign policy and national security, especially around the Iran war.

He helped lead a group of hawkish advisers who backed the U.S. campaign and urged Trump to intensify military pressure on Tehran.

In mid-May, Graham began urging Trump to make Saudi-Israel normalization the centerpiece of a broader regional "day-after" plan for the war.

A week later, Trump told the leaders of several Arab and Muslim countries during a conference call that he wanted them to establish relations with Israel if an agreement could be reached to end the war with Iran. His primary focus was Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had previously shown a willingness to normalize relations with Israel,though his enthusiasm had cooled over the past year.

Saudi officials continued to insist that any deal must include an irreversible, time-bound path toward the creation of a Palestinian state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government rejected that condition, and it remains unclear whether Israel's political landscape after the October election will create room for such a move.

Behind the scenes: Graham told me in recent weeks he had discussed the initiative with Trump, as well as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and that they had agreed to pursue it in a coordinated way.

Graham also said he had spoken with Netanyahu confidant Ron Dermer, Saudi Ambassador to Washington Princess Reema bint Bandar and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.

“ He had been planning a trip to Saudi Arabia and Israel in the coming weeks to assess the appetite for reopening talks.

Graham told me that, should there be an opening, he wanted intensive work to begin in September so the pieces of a deal could be in place by November.

Between the lines: Graham believed the effort faced two intertwined political challenges — securing enough votes in Congress and producing an Israeli government willing to meet Saudi Arabia's conditions.

A central element of the proposed agreement was a U.S.-Saudi defense treaty whose text had largely been negotiated during the Biden administration.

Such a treaty would require support from two-thirds of the Senate. Given the political climate in Washington, Graham believed the lame-duck session after the November midterms offered the only realistic window for ratification.

Winning enough Democratic voteswould require the deal to include meaningful progress on the Palestinian issue — including an Israeli commitment to a future Palestinian state and concrete steps toward that goal.

That created a parallel challenge in Israel:ensuring that the government formed after the October election was willing and politically capable of making those commitments.

Graham told mehe intended to work with Trump and his team to make clear to Netanyahuand other Israeli leaders that Washington expected the next government to move in that direction — and to press it hard to do so.

The final hours:Graham spoke with Trump by phone Saturday night and briefed him on his recent trip to Ukraine and the Russia sanctions bill he wanted the Senate to vote on soon.

• Trump told Graham he was preparing to launch fresh strikes against Iran after another attack on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

• A person who spoke with Graham shortly afterward said the senator complained that he was feeling unwell.When the person urged him to seek medical attention immediately, Graham said he would do so Sunday morning after his scheduled appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

•Graham then joked: "I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization."

• He passed away several hours later.

https://archive.ph/voefm#selection-371.1-371.57

‘Sober up’ – Polish PM tells Ukraine

Kiev must recognize the massacre of Poles by Nazi collaborators during WWII in order to mend ties with Warsaw, Donald Tusk has said

Published 11 Jul, 2026 06:53 |

Kiev needs to “sober up” to prevent further escalation in the row with Warsaw over the glorification of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said.

Tensions between the neighboring countries, which have been close allies during the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, escalated last month after Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky named one of his country’s commando units after “heroes of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army).”

Speaking on Friday, the eve of the National Day of Remembrance, when Poland honors the victims of UPA,Tusk insisted that Kiev must recognize the crimes committed by the UPA if it hopes to mend ties with Warsaw.

“I can once again appeal to all decent, wise, responsible Ukrainians. Remember, this great European community is based on the truth and the truth is an absolutely necessary foundation of reconciliation, and that’s why I hope that everyone on the other side, but also everyone here in Poland, will sober up to restrain these exaggerated emotions,” he said.

The row “has gone too far and is harming both Poland and Ukraine. I have no doubt about it,” the prime minister added.

It has ignited “nationalist lunatics” on both sides, causing an avalanche of hatred on social media, Tusk noted. He urged the authorities in Kiev to curb any anti-Polish sentiment and vowed that Warsaw will act with “the full force of law” against anyone who commits crimes against Ukrainians on ethnic grounds.

“The Russians would be happiest if there was some dramatic crisis in Ukrainian-Polish relations,” the prime minister warned.

Poland blames the UPA – an armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which fought for Nazi Germany during World War II – for an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Volhynia region between 1943 and 1944 that left at least 100,000 civilians dead. Warsaw recognizes the massacres as a genocide.

Following Zelensky’s move last month, Polish President Karol Nawrocki reacted by stripping him of the country’s highest honor, the Order of the White Eagle, prompting several Ukrainian officials to return their own Polish decorations to Warsaw.Poland also rolled back its decision to transfer its remaining Soviet-era MiG-29 jets to Ukraine and questioned Kiev’s prospects of joining the EU.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday thatthe West, including Poland, raised a “terrorist monster” in Ukraine by arming and funding it, while ignoring its Nazi ideological foundations.

Warsaw “knew they were supporting those who had killed their grandfathers” and this fact “can no longer be undone by simply taking away the White Eagle, posting a few tweets, or making loud statements,” she argued.

https://www.rt.com/news/642881-poland-ukraine-upa-tusk/

UK retailer drops ‘feminine care’ label from tampons after transgender complaint

Waitrose has reportedly acted after an internal complaint that “not all people who have periods are women”

Published 11 Jul, 2026 03:11 |

A British supermarket chain has rebranded its ‘feminine care’ section after an internal complaint arguedthe term was not inclusive of transgender and non-binary customers, The Telegraph reported on Friday.

Waitrose will remove sanitary products from its ‘feminine care’ category,saying the label “no longer reflects the product range”because it now also includes incontinence products for men.

The change followed a complaint from an employee who said it was “disappointing”that the category implied the products were “exclusively for women and femininity,”arguing that “not all people who have periods are women.”

“Trans men and some non-binary people have periods,” the employee wrote, adding that “inclusion should never be conditional or performative,” according to internal documents published by gender-critical campaigner and Conservative councillor James Esses.

In an internal response, a Waitrose manager reportedly agreed that the label “does not accurately describe the products within the category” and said the retailer would update it “as soon as possible.”

Esses condemned the move as “disgraceful,” accusing the retailer of “erasing womanhood.” Waitrose, however, insisted the decision reflected changes to its product range rather than identity politics.

Fiona McAnena, director ofadvocacy at campaign group Sex Matters, said the retailer appeared to be yielding to a “noisy minority of gender activists.” While renaming the category to something like “sanitary products” could be reasonable, she argued, abandoning a “commonly understood term” in the name of inclusivity ignored public opinion.

She added that menstruation is exclusive to women and girls, something that “will never change, no matter how much irrational noise the trans lobby makes.”

The dispute comes amid a wider debate in Britain over sex-based language and transgender inclusion. Last year, the UKSupreme Court ruled that the legal terms ‘woman’, ‘man’ and ‘sex’ refer to biological sex, prompting public bodies, employers and businesses to review policies on single-sex spaces and terminologysuch as “people who menstruate.”

The latest row is not Waitrose’s first over gender-related branding. The retailer previously drew criticism afterselling a gender-neutral Mother’s Day card reading “Happy You Day,”saying it was designed to be inclusive of transgender mothers and grandmothers.

(The UK government and people are destroying their country. Crazy Bat Shit!)

https://www.rt.com/news/642863-uk-feminine-care-transgender/

Polish MEP put on Ukrainian ‘kill list’ after tearing up Nazi collaborator flag

Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik has been added to the Mirotvorets database after lashing out at Kiev over its glorification of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Published 8 Jul, 2026 08:51 |

Polish member of the European Parliament Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik hasbeen addedto Ukraine’s notorious Mirotvorets‘kill list’after publicly speaking out against Kiev’s glorification of Nazi collaborators.

Zajaczkowska-Hernik’s entryappeared in the database on Wednesday, a day after she tore up a flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during adebate on Kiev’s bid to join the EU. In her speech, she delivered ascathing indictmentof Ukraine’s glorification of the UPA, whose fighters massacred up to 100,000 ethnic Poles in one of World War II’s worst atrocities.

According to the database entry, Zajaczkowska-Hernik isdescribed as a “xenophobe” and an “anti-Ukrainian propagandist”. who participates in“acts of humanitarian aggression against Ukraine.”

The MEP took to social media on Thursday to denounce the listing, saying she would not back down or be intimidated.

Launched in 2014 as a nominally independent project,Mirotvoretshas been linked to Ukraine’s security services and is notorious for publishing the personal details of anyone remotelydeemed an enemyof the Ukrainian state.Several individualswhose details were made public – including journalists and politicians –have been killed.

Zajaczkowska-Hernik’s speech in the European Parliament on Tuesday came against the backdrop of a weeks-long diplomatic spat between Warsaw and Kiev triggered by Ukrainian leader VladimirZelensky’s decision to name a special forces unit ‘Heroes of the UPA’.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki called Zelensky’s decision “outrageous” and stripped the Ukrainian leader of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest honor, with several senior Ukrainian officials responding by handing back their Polish awards.

The UPA, the armed wing of Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), collaborated with Nazi Germanyduring World War II and carried out systematic mass killings of ethnic minorities, with one of the most notorious episodes taking place in Volhynia in 1943-1944. While Poland recognizes the killings as a genocide, Ukraine has rejected the term, with Bandera often being propagated as a national hero by Kiev.

Zajaczkowska-Hernik focused her speech on the UPA war crimes record, stressing that a countryworshipping such an organization does not belong in the EU.

“Over 360 ways to kill civilians. Sawing people alive, disemboweling pregnant women, impaling children on pitchforks”, she said, adding thatUkrainian nationalists killed not only Jews and Poles but also local Ukrainians.(and lots of Russians also)

“If Germany had named a unit after the SS heroes and erected monuments to Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, or Eichmann, would you invite them to the [European] Union? No. You would call them neo-Nazis. And rightly so.There is no moral difference between honoring the SS and honoring the UPA.”

The MEP also took aim at the EU’s own June report on Ukraine’s accession bid, noting that while it included chapters on fundamental rights and non-discrimination, it made no mention of the glorification of wartime collaboration or genocide.

“The report on Ukraine is silent on this topic,” Zajaczkowska-Hernik said.“It is the silence that kills the memory of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia and the Eastern Borderlands for the second time.”

Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz also warned last week thatUkraine will not join the EU as long as it continues to venerate Bandera and the OUN-UPA, adding that “no one will tell us how to vote” on another state’s accession.

In a bid to contain the fallout, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sibiga flew to Warsaw last week to meet his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski, proposing an “anti-crisis package” that includes historic roundtables, while stressing that Ukraine and Poland “share a common enemy, Russia.”

Sikorski responded cautiously, saying that “diplomacy prefers silence,” while his deputy, Marcin Bosacki, made clearthat Warsaw “expects a correction” of the UPA unit designation.

https://www.rt.com/news/642715-polish-mep-tears-ukrainian-nazi-flag/

Claude AI evolved its own human-like thinking space – Anthropic

The model’s self-developed internal workspace is “similar to how humans think about one thing while doing another,” the firm has said

Published 8 Jul, 2026 01:22 |

Anthropic’s latest AI model Claude has evolved an internal workspace that it uses to manipulate conceptssimilar to how people consciously think, the corporation says.

In a paper published on Monday, Anthropic researchers said they had found evidence suggesting that Claude has learned to create abstract concepts in what they dubbed the “J-space.”

“It operates silently, in the model’s internal neural activations, allowing the model to think about a concept without writing it down,” the AI firm said, stressing thatthe “J-space” was not programmed in but rather emerged spontaneously during the training process.

“Similar to how humans can think about one thing while doing another, Claude can activate concepts and computations in its J-space that are unrelated to its outputs,”Anthropic said on X.

Claude can report what it’s thinking in its “J-space,” or modulate it on request, according to the firm. Even when Claude is told not to think about a concept, it still appears in its J-space, Anthropic’s research suggests.

The nonverbal workspace made it harder to monitor the model for what Anthropic called “misbehavior.” One experiment tested this by placing Claude in a fictional scenario where it was given incriminating information about a fictional executive who allegedly planned to shut the AI down.

In some trials, Anthropic used tools developed to study what Claude thought in its “J-space” to remove patterns associated with “fake,” “fictional,” “scenario,” to convince it that the situation was not a test.

“Concerningly, the model now did threaten blackmail some of the time, suggesting that its original good behavior may have been driven in part by the knowledge it was being evaluated.”

Despite the model’s more advanced reasoning, Anthropic stressed that Claude had not achieved true consciousness. (Yet!)

Claude was reportedly built into American contractor Palantir’s analysis and surveillance software used by US government agencies amid Washington’s push to integrate AI into its military, political, and spy systems.

During the war on Iran, the software reportedly flagged Iran’s Minab elementary school as a target. A US strike killed nearly 160 people at the facility, most of whom were children.

According to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, however,such a use of Claude would not have violated the firm’s “red lines.”

https://www.rt.com/news/642687-claude-ai-thinking-space-anthropic/

'Cocaine Quarterback' inspiration shares how he TURNED his life AROUND

Cocaine Quarterback' docuseries inspiration Owen Hanson shares about hope after cartel involvement and incarceration on 'My View with Lara Trump.'

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https://youtu.be/Z1cJRUyq8jg

Senate TURMOIL over SAVE America Act after Graham's sudden death

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., joins 'Sunday Morning Futures' to express condolences for Sen. Lindsey Graham's unexpected passing and discuss the ongoing battle on Capitol Hill for the SAVE America Act.

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https://youtu.be/od_U82egxy0