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🇸🇦 Philip Pilkington thinks Saudi Arabia has backed itself into a very dangerous financial corner. The kingdom has roughly $420 billion in reserves against about $520 billion in external debt. His biggest concern is the currency peg. As long as creditors believe the riyal will stay fixed to the dollar, they can remain relatively calm. But if confidence in that peg starts to crack, capital could leave fast. “The peg is the key.” Under normal circumstances, Saudi Arabia could respond with tax rises, spending cuts and other painful adjustments. But wars have a habit of overruling economic logic. Pilkington’s warning is that Riyadh may now be trying to defend its currency, finance a war and reassure creditors at the same time. That is an ugly tightrope. @philippilk

Kick is now allowing people to stream from prison. The creator economy has officially reached the point where “going live” no longer implies being free. Somewhere at Twitch, someone is trying to figure out how to compete with a captive audience. Writer: Oliver t.co/RZLINXeVU0

🇷🇺🇪🇺 The Kremlin has ordered operatives to assassinate European defense company CEOs, with drone manufacturers specifically in their crosshairs. This is happening because the battlefield is deadlocked and Russia is running out of clean options. "With progress on the battlefield deadlocked in Ukraine and Russia's economy struggling, the Kremlin has ordered an expansion of sabotage and hybrid operations in Europe as it seeks to fatally weaken support for Kyiv in the coming months." If you run a defense company right now, you need more than a bodyguard. @WeTheBrandon

🇫🇷 WTF HAPPENED IN FRANCE?! An absolutely INSANE flash of light appeared above the clouds, looking like some giant alien creature lighting up the night sky. It's believed to be a rare atmospheric phenomenon called a SPRITE, a massive electrical discharge that occurs high above thunderstorms and lasts just milliseconds. These things can stretch for TENS OF KILOMETERS across the sky. Writer: Sol t.co/irZMbf5lOS

🇰🇵🇯🇵 North Korea fired MULTIPLE BALLISTIC MISSILES, triggering an emergency alert from Japan. South Korea says the missiles traveled more than 900 KM, while Japan detected at least two launches that apparently landed in the sea outside its territorial economic zone. This is Pyongyang's FOURTH missile test in roughly a month. Kim Jong Un is keeping the region on edge, and Japan is preparing for the possibility of more launches. Source: PM's Office of Japan / Writer: Sol

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇾🇪 Trump is thinking about joining Saudi Arabia's fight against the Houthis, but that could open another can of worms. Saudi Arabia has faced more attacks, including a deadly strike on Riyadh's main airport that killed an American. Trump says the U.S. might join the fight. But there's a catch. Trump already has a ceasefire with the Houthis, and bombing them again could end it, putting American ships back in their sights. The Houthis could also threaten Red Sea shipping, creating another choke point while Hormuz is already in trouble. So Washington might end up with another war on its hands. Writer: Daniyal t.co/GSOPQlO6jF

🇮🇷 The chaos in Africa, the Red Sea, all of it connects to a single war most people aren't paying attention to. Brandon Weichert says the ripple effects are spreading fast, and the seeds were planted earlier than anyone admits. "The origins, the immediate origins of the war in Iran, you can see the seeds being planted not by Donald Trump, but by Joe Biden and his advisors in Gaza in 2023, in 2024." Conflict is a contagion, and no one is mapping where it spreads next. @WeTheBrandon

🇬🇹 A 15-year-old girl in Guatemala WOKE UP INSIDE HER OWN COFFIN Yuleidy Ixcotoyac had collapsed with severe chest pain, and her father believed she was dead after finding no pulse or breathing. The family brought her home, bought a coffin, and started the wake. Then she suddenly MOVED, opened her eyes, SAT UP, and asked for water. Ok, too much internet for one day... Writer: Sol t.co/mFZRJvWgve

🇵🇰 The Houthis just expanded their target list to include a NUCLEAR-ARMED country. Brandon Weichert believes U.S. forces massing in the region aren't headed for Yemen at all. "I think he is marshaling everything for the strikes on Iran, which I think are still coming." The map is getting bigger and the stakes just went nuclear. @WeTheBrandon

Wearing this and filming people's reactions sounds like a great plan 🤣 Writer: Sol t.co/9Z8y9ZZRqz

🇬🇧 Britain has 3,369 neighbourhoods where a majority of working-age adults claim out-of-work benefits. But who lives in these areas, and what's driving the numbers? Take Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East in Birmingham, one of the areas examined by The Telegraph. The 2021 Census puts its population at 47% Pakistani, 12% Bangladeshi and just 9.5% White. Now look at the national employment figures. A third of working-age Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were economically inactive in 2022, compared with 21% of White British people. Among women, the difference was 48% versus 24%. That's a significant demographic disparity, particularly among women, and it deserves serious investigation. But these are population and economic inactivity figures, not a breakdown of actual benefit claimants in those streets. The missing question is how much of the local welfare concentration is explained by longstanding differences in employment patterns, health, household circumstances and access to work. That's the breakdown Britain needs to see. Source: Gov .UK, Office for National Statistics, censusdata / Writer: Oliver

🇵🇱 Poland says it may have STOPPED AN ASSASSINATION PLOT against PM Tusk and DM Kosiniak-Kamysz Police detained a man in his 60s in Lower Silesia after analyzing online material. Officials say the threat was serious enough to trigger an emergency counterterrorism meeting, and investigators are also checking for possible foreign-state involvement. Poland is NOT treating this as another anonymous threat. They moved fast because they believed someone might actually try to carry it out. Source: UBH / Writer: Oliver

Elon wants to meet his Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma. 😂 He's not entirely convinced the guy is real, but with 1.4 billion people in China, someone MUST look almost exactly like him. Now he wants to invite his lookalike onstage. Two Elons in one room. Let's make it happen! Anybody know a guy? 👏 Writer: Oliver t.co/95kvzDprho

🇮🇱🇺🇸 WATCH this dude screaming and rambling about Trump and the Epstein files and Israel First, while Shapiro tries his best to argue reasonably against him Only to later just tell him to "shut the f*ck up" 😂 Honestly, "read a book, get a job and do something useful with your life" is serious advice for the guy. Writer: Oliver t.co/Vy1n9h4DJx

🇺🇸 How laughably performative! James Talarico has just discovered that capitalism, white supremacy and climate change are ALL PART of the same problem. One very convenient villain, isn't it. I'm surprised he hasn't blamed capitalism for his 12-day flu recently... Writer: Oliver t.co/zJ6a6ympyN

🇺🇸🇵🇦 The U.S. military has been making some pretty big deliveries to earthquake-hit Panama. After Friday's 7.7 quake damaged roads and bridges, getting supplies to some communities hasn't been easy. So U.S. Chinook helicopters have been flying in with water, food, and medical tents, working alongside Panamanian troops. And they've moved quite a lot already. More than 54,000 cases of water and 50,000 cans of food. The helicopters land wherever there's room, troops unload everything by hand, and then they're off to get the next load. Writer: Daniyal t.co/1DCjGbjKVT

Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang says @ElonMusk taught him something that helped shape Meta's AI strategy You don't necessarily need thousands of engineers to move fast. You need a small group of exceptionally talented people, very little hierarchy, and the freedom to get things done. Wang says he brought that idea to Mark Zuckerberg, who embraced it as a central part of their approach to AI. Meta, a company with enormous resources, is now deliberately borrowing from the way Elon builds small, highly technical teams. At some point, adding more people stops making you faster. And in AI, where the technology can change dramatically in a matter of months, the speed of a decision can matter as much as the resources behind it. Source: @davidsenra / Writer: Oliver

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. could strike Iran again, but what comes after? We had an interesting conversation with former CIA operations officer Charles Finfrock, who thinks Washington may be preparing another major round of strikes against Iran. And unlike some of my other guests, Charles believes a concentrated 72-hour campaign could do serious damage, especially if coordinated with Israel. He wants the U.S. to target Iran's leadership, military command structure, missile capabilities and the security forces keeping the regime in power. But our disagreement really began when we talked about what happens afterward. Charles believes removing the regime could give Iranians a chance to determine their own future. Yet he also acknowledged that Iran could end up looking like Libya, with prolonged instability and no functioning democracy emerging anytime soon. That admission stuck. We've already seen what happened in Iraq and Libya. Removing a government is one thing. Building something better is quite another. Charles argues that Iran's nuclear ambitions make the risk worth confronting. But Brandon worries that another war could leave us with a fractured country, dangerous weapons in uncertain hands and yet another American commitment we can't easily escape. And perhaps the most revealing part of our conversation was that neither of us could confidently describe what a stable postwar Iran would actually look like. @WeTheBrandon @finfrockcharles

🇸🇦🇾🇪 This man barely survived the Houthi attack on Riyadh’s airport. He says he was with his brother when the missile hit, and the blast threw his brother into the air before he came down right in front of him. No one should ever have to watch that happen to their own brother. Now he’s asking the world to step in, and he wants justice for everyone who was hurt or killed that day. His wounds may heal with time, but what he saw that day might never leave him. Source: Al Arabiya YT / Writer: Daniyal

🇵🇦 Panama is still shaking after a powerful 7.7 earthquake hit on Friday. More than 200 aftershocks have followed, though they’re getting weaker. Nearly 900 homes and at least 14 bridges were damaged, and 27 people were hurt. The government has declared a national emergency, and the U.S. is sending $5 million and a rescue team. The good news is that nobody has died so far, and the Panama Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes, is still running as normal. For a quake that powerful, the fact that no lives have been lost so far is a huge relief. Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniyal

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Larry Johnson: The U.S. is preparing for another war, but may not be ready to fight it Something strange is happening in the skies over the Middle East. U.S. refueling aircraft are reportedly moving in numbers reminiscent of the buildup before the last war with Iran. Israeli fighter jets have also reportedly been active near Syrian and Iraqi airspace. So we asked former CIA analyst Larry Johnson whether we're watching the preparations for another attack. His answer surprised us. Johnson thinks renewed strikes are entirely possible, but says the U.S. military isn't showing the level of command mobilization he'd expect before a sustained campaign. And he sees a much bigger problem: America may no longer have the weapons stockpiles to fight the kind of war its leaders are contemplating. Iran, meanwhile, has had months to rebuild its defenses, expand its underground missile capabilities and prepare for another confrontation. Johnson believes even a short American bombing campaign could accomplish very little while inviting a far more damaging Iranian response. That's what's worrying about this buildup. Washington might still have the ability to start another war with Iran. But starting one and controlling what happens afterward are two very different things. @WeTheBrandon @NewSonof

🇮🇱🇮🇷 A student asked Ben Shapiro whether bombing Iran's oil fields would have triggered retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, potentially devastating their energy infrastructure. Shapiro didn't dispute it. “Yes. That is called the cost of war.” Easy enough to say when the bill would be paid by countries that didn't make the decision. Writer: Oliver t.co/2EPjSfwlIc

🇮🇱 Ben Shapiro tells TPUSA students that believing Jews control American politics is both false and “immoral.” Which is a fascinating standard for conspiracy theories. Usually they just have to be wrong. This one apparently also goes on your permanent record. Writer: Oliver t.co/3HKaRMXCZb

Seriously, WHAT is happening in the Strait of Hormuz right now?? The U.S. has struck a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman for trying to break its blockade of Iranian ports. And Iran is threatening tankers that refuse to play by its rules for a long time. Just think about what that means. We're talking about one of the MOST IMPORTANT shipping routes on the planet, and both sides are now using MILITARY FORCE to decide who gets through and who doesn't... These are commercial ships carrying goods the rest of the world depends on. What really worries me is how quickly we're getting used to this. As if warships deciding who gets to trade with whom is just how the world works now. Is the U.S. growing increasingly desperate?! Writer: Oliver

🇮🇱 Ben Shapiro says Bernie Sanders is a Jew, but not Jewish, because of his opposition to Israel. “He is a Jew, he's not Jewish.” Bernie has apparently been demoted to the free version of Judaism. 😶 Writer: Oliver t.co/8vSiow8pzn

🇯🇴🇾🇪🇮🇷 Former Jordanian Information Minister Samih Al-Maaytah wants the world to get tougher on the Houthis. He wants countries to act fast and officially label the group a terrorist organization. But his concerns go beyond Yemen. He believes Iran is using sectarian divisions to spread its influence, with Saudi Arabia and other stable countries in its sights. For him, the Houthis are just one part of a much bigger problem. Writer: Daniyal t.co/7xKwgICRlz

🇺🇸 Journalist Welker REALLY wanted to know if America was ready for a Muslim president, even though El-Sayed is running for SENATE. She asked TWICE, and he kept bringing the conversation back to the race he's actually running. “That's not a question I'm asking,” he replied the first time. When she insisted, he shut it down again: “That's irrelevant.” And when she pushed even further, he had to explain that he has ZERO intention of ever running for president. Sorry, but this feels like junk journalism. Writer: Sol t.co/mMuMZlePgR

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Those people are owning land for GENERATIONS, only to wake up one day and find 20 Israeli settlers camping in your backyard, acting like EVERYTHING belongs to them. Hassan Faraj says that settlers established an outpost on his family's property, blocked access to a relative's home, and began stealing water and electricity. He also says entire houses are now ABANDONED because residents are being pushed out. Writers: Sol, Oliver t.co/hiO3DxugMv

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia's energy minister delivered a pretty DEFIANT message to anyone betting against the Kingdom. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman declared that NOTHING will break Saudi Arabia's determination to keep moving forward, no matter what hits it. “We are like a Phoenix. We come out of the ashes all the time and every time.” He then crowned Riyadh “the capital of energy security,” insisting the Kingdom will keep honoring its commitments to the world. Writer: Sol t.co/P59jQAVmjJ

🇺🇸 Remember BIG BALLS from DOGE? He's now 20 and helping build America. gov, Trump's attempt to make dealing with the federal government considerably less miserable. Edward Coristine says Americans currently have to navigate some 29,000 government websites just to find what they need. His plan is to put everything in one place, using AI to guide people through government services. And the next big step is actually pretty useful: applying for your first passport entirely online, including taking your photo at home. No post office appointment and no bouncing between government websites. It's still a plan, not a service that's available yet. But if Big Balls can make American bureaucracy less painful, that's quite a second act. Source: Fox News / Writer: Oliver