Glucksmann hopes to be the Left’s candidate against favorite Le Pen.

The board is set, the pieces are moving: as we approach next year’s consequential French Presidential elections, a variety of candidates are making their play.

The election has a clear favorite: right-wing Marine Le Pen, from the RN party.

Ever since Jordan Bardella led the RN to a major victory in the June 2024 European elections, the RN ceased being just a competitive power alternative and became the clear leaders of the pack.

That’s over two years of undisputed leadership in the polls that has the left-wing parties and Macronist centrists scrambling to launch a variety of candidates, trying to capture the imagination of the French public.

And there are some ‘beauties’ in this group.

The odious MSM has gone overboard trying to paint right-wingers in France (and Europe) as ‘Putin’s puppets’ – but when facts are revealed, we rapidly find out who is who.

It turns out that a leftist (and wealthy) grandson of an infamous Soviet spy has thrown his hat in the ring to succeed failed Emmanuel Macron as the French Republic president.

The Telegraph reported:

“Raphael Glucksmann hopes to challenge Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the hard-Left firebrand, to become the leading candidate of the Left in the race for the Elysee Palace.

[…] Potential challengers from the political center and Left face an uphill battle to defeat [Le Pen] in a run-off, according to opinion polls.”

Like the absolute majority of leading leftists, Glucksmann is a ‘wealthy and well-connected member of the Parisian establishment’ – something that The Telegraph, for some reason, mentions in the most favorable light.

“His grandfather is Rubin Glucksmann, who emigrated to Palestine in the 1920s before becoming a communist and being recruited by the Comintern, the body set up to carry Bolshevism around the world.

He worked as a Soviet spy in France, Germany and in Britain, where he pretended to be a businessman.”

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America’s incredible Second Lady, Usha Vance, has responded perfectly to Michigan Democrat Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s nasty remark about her and Vice-President JD Vance.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, El-Sayed suggested over the weekend that Vance’s family would not welcome Usha because of her Indian ethnicity.

“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…” he wrote on X.

So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no… https://t.co/JApcsCW4kU

— Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) August 22, 2026

In other words, he was pulling out the race card to target Usha and JD.

El-Sayed’s post was in response to these remarks from JD Vance at an event in Middletown, Ohio, on Friday.

“I would love to go back in time and tell my papaw that there is a man who claims to stand for working people, who says not only should we have sharia law, but if you criticize it, you are a white supremacist,” the VP said.

On Tuesday, Usha Vance was asked during a Fox and Friends interview about El-Sayed’s cruel remark and gave the treatment it deserved: a laugh and dismissal.

Usha then went on to talk about how wonderful JD’s family was, especially noting the kindness they had shown her throughout.

“Someone showed it to me (El-Sayed’s remark), and I admit I kind of laughed,” the Second Lady said. “Because yes, I’ve never met JD’s mamaw and papaw.”

“But I do know and love the children that they raised,” she continued. “And they have never been anything but incredibly loving.”

“His aunt is like a second mother to me. I have to think that, if they raised children like that, they would’ve been loving as well.”

WATCH:

EXCLUSIVE: Second Lady Usha Vance responds after a DSA-backed Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed questioned how JD Vance’s grandfather might have viewed her.

“I have to admit I kind of laughed… I do know and love the children that they raised… and they have never been anything… pic.twitter.com/rQGwZRzHYJ

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) August 25, 2026

The Vice-President is not only lucky to have married an incredibly wonderful and intelligent woman like Usha, but also very fortunate to have her.

Should JD become President, Usha will make an incredible First Lady.

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Immigration arrests surged to nearly 50,000 in July, marking the highest monthly total of President Donald Trump’s second term as his administration continues ramping up its mass deportation campaign.

Latest government data show Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July, up 15 percent from 43,021 in June and roughly 70 percent from 29,241 in February.

The increase is particularly dramatic compared with the period immediately before Trump returned to office, when monthly ICE arrests hovered just above 8,000.

By December 2025, arrests had climbed above 40,000 before falling earlier this year. They rebounded sharply in June before reaching their new second-term high in July.

Texas and Florida have become major centers of the administration’s enforcement operation, accounting for nearly 20,000 arrests in July alone.

Both Republican-led states have expanded cooperation with ICE through 287(g) agreements, which allow participating state and local law enforcement agencies to carry out certain immigration enforcement functions.

JUST IN: ICE just confirmed a NEW RECORD HIGH ~50,000 arrests in July 2026 — AP

70% surge from FEB. 2026!

“The highest single monthly total…”

This comes as Stephen Miller has recently pushed to SURGE more and more arrests

This is a win — keep going.

WE VOTED FOR… pic.twitter.com/f33W5Or1mt

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 25, 2026

ICE has also dramatically expanded its manpower.

Following billions of dollars in additional funding from Congress last year, the agency has hired approximately 12,000 new deportation officers and investigative agents.

The latest figures represent another significant step toward Trump’s pledge to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.

ICE arrested more than 1,300 illegal aliens in a two-week operation across Maryland and Virginia, including about 400 with criminal convictions or pending criminal charges for crimes, including:

• A Salvadoran national with a murder warrant

• A Haitian national with a… pic.twitter.com/6GhzSWgS9n

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) August 24, 2026

The sheer scale of America’s illegal alien population, which sits in the tens of millions, means the administration will need to increase the pace considerably if it hopes to fulfill that promise.

Even if July’s record pace were sustained for an entire year, ICE would make approximately 595,000 arrests annually.

Over the past two weeks, ICE agents in Virginia and Maryland picked up 1,328 in a successful defiance of local “sanctuary city” policies.

ICE Quietly Nabs 1,328 Illegal Aliens in Just 14 Days in Democrat Sanctuary Suburbs Around D.C. in One of the Most Successful Operations in Agency History

Arrests also do not necessarily result in immediate deportation, with some cases proceeding through detention facilities, immigration courts, or other stages of the removal process.

Nevertheless, the administration has substantially expanded the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus since Trump returned to office.

ICE has widened its enforcement operations, dramatically increased staffing, and strengthened cooperation with state and local authorities.

Either way, the agency is moving considerably faster than it was just months ago.

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Is Beauty in the eye of the beholder?

In her seven years working as Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen has had to deal with financial crises, the fallout of the war in Ukraine, and even the threat of Greenland’s annexation by US President Donald J. Trump.

But now, Frederiksen is fed up with having to deal with social media trolls – and even good-natured, well-meaning people – suggesting that she is ugly, and offering ‘unsolicited beauty advice’.

These people think the Prime Minister could be easier on the eyes, and think they have just the solution for her case.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has hit back at an unidentified plastic surgeon who sent her unsolicited advice about her appearance. pic.twitter.com/WAj41hyO1L

— Firstpost (@firstpost) August 25, 2026

Associated Press reported:

“The 48-year-old wrote Monday on Instagram that she had just returned back home from a trip to Ukraine, where she was exposed to air raid sirens in the ongoing war, only to find a message by a plastic surgeon offering her to “fix that little spot on your nose.”

‘I’ve lost count of how many messages I’ve received over the years about my appearance’, Frederiksen wrote. ‘Especially that I have ugly teeth and thin hair. That I have an ugly ‘wart’ on my nose and well-meaning advice to get some Botox’.”

Mette Frederiksen has spoken out after being contacted by a male cosmetic surgeon who offered to “fix that little spot on your nose”.

Returning from a trip to Kyiv, Mette Frederiksen spoke about the countless messages she had received about her appearance.

… pic.twitter.com/ckms60Y2Yr

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 25, 2026

Frederiksen posted a screengrab of the plastic surgeon’s ‘offer’ on Instagram and her response.

“Oh no. I’m happy with my body — I really don’t need a male plastic surgeon to have an opinion about it!”

Read: Italy’s Meloni and Denmark’s Frederiksen Unite Against Illegal Immigration, Vow To Protect Europe’s Christian Cultural Heritage

But even if these ‘tips’ infuriate her, she decided to react with grace under pressure.

Vanity Fair France reported:

“The politician therefore decided to share a screenshot of the exchange on her Instagram account, without mincing her words. ‘I don’t meddle in what others do with their appearance. For my part, I adapt very well to my body. As it is, when you’re a woman and you’re approaching fifty’, she wrote in the caption.

While she says the last thing she heard when she left Kyiv was an air alert, the leader does not hide her annoyance at the message she received. ‘If you ever decide to write to me — and you are welcome — I hope you will devote your time to something more important. Not to my nose’, says the Dane.

With a touch of irony and a lot of benevolence, she concludes: ‘I will therefore decline this proposal. And today I address a particularly affectionate thought to all those who have to hear every day about these ‘perfect imperfections’ that we all carry within us’.”

Read more:

After Leading Her Party Into the Worst Electoral Results in a Hundred Years, Denmark’s Frederiksen Finally Scrapes a Coalition Agreement to Serve Her Third Term as Prime Minister

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The infant known as Baby Gabriel, who was born after his surrogate mother refused his biological parents’ demand that she abort him, is now in critical condition following open-heart surgery, according to court filings submitted by the California couple.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Alaska nurse and surrogate McKenna West rejected the biological parents’ order to abort the boy after a 20-week diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and fled to Texas to give birth under state laws recognizing her as the birth mother.

West has continued fighting for parental rights and guaranteed medical care while the couple, Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, obtained temporary custody and sued West for more than $100,000 for allegedly breaching their contract by refusing the abortion.

In new court documents obtained by TMZ, Gilkar and Ahmed state that the child, whom they are calling “Rumi,” underwent the Norwood Procedure, the first of a series of complex surgeries typically required for infants with the underdeveloped left side of the heart, and that serious medical developments have arisen in the last 24 hours.

TMZ reports:

They say in the last 24 hours, “Serious medical developments have arisen that impact the health and safety of the child. The child is in critical condition and being closely monitored at the hospital.”

The parents claim the child appears to be “suffering from potential complications from the Norwood, and last night, the child’s condition declined significantly, requiring re-intubation.”

The couple has asked the court to reschedule a temporary restraining order hearing in light of the medical emergency.

West, a 28-year-old cardiac nurse and mother of two who has publicly maintained that every life matters and that no woman should be forced to end the life of the child she is carrying, selected a Texas facility with a strong survival record for the Norwood Procedure to give the boy the best chance at life after the biological parents declined to commit to the treatment.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened with emergency orders to ensure life-sustaining care and prevent the infant’s removal from the state without medical necessity, while West’s legal team continues to challenge California and Alaska orders in an effort to secure custody under Texas law.

The biological parents have described the situation as a family tragedy and insisted their focus remains on the child’s health, even as they filed a lawsuit against the surrogate mother who carried him to term.

Pray for Baby Gabriel.

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