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Just shut up and take my money Writer: Ian t.co/YMeG9mQanL

🇺🇸 Scott Bessent is calling for major World Bank reforms, including lifting restrictions on financing oil and gas extraction projects. Bessent argues that countries should be allowed to develop their energy resources without the bank automatically excluding fossil fuel projects. He also wants the World Bank to support deep-sea mining for critical minerals and expand investment in nuclear energy. Other demands include limiting borrowing by wealthier countries such as China and Poland and reforming procurement rules to encourage competition. Bessent also urged the IMF to take a tougher stance against economic policies that distort global trade in an apparent reference to China. The proposals reflect the Trump administration's push to reshape international financial institutions around its energy and economic priorities. Source: The State / Writer: Mhedi

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Zelensky says Ukraine kept its hands off Russia’s refineries for 3 days to respect the energy ceasefire, and Russia spent all 3 hitting Ukraine anyway. “I said to my military people that during the energy ceasefire, we would not attack Russian refineries, or anything connected with diesel. Because even if we are right, and we are right, somebody will say that we broke the energy ceasefire. I don't want to play this game. That's why, for three days, we didn't attack any of Russia's energy or diesel infrastructure. And for three days, they attacked us.” Kyiv kept its promise, and Moscow kept firing. Guess which one Washington is pressuring. Writer: Julie t.co/UPeAgTeQKw

Bro did more damage to himself than the other wrestler 😬 Writer: Ian t.co/bnXFBQVxdh

🇹🇷 Massive torrential downpours turned Istanbul into Venice This is wild Writer: Ian t.co/yrDosxbCa5

🇬🇧 Just another day in the UK Writer: Ian t.co/x1GHzUjmkx

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 The U.S. pitched Europe on unfreezing some of Russia's frozen assets to lure Putin back to peace talks. Witkoff and Kushner suggested the money could go into a special vehicle overseen by Washington, which raised more than a few eyebrows. They floated the idea in Miami last week with officials from Ukraine, France, Germany, the UK, the EU and NATO in the room. A person briefed on the meeting said they were, unsurprisingly, told it was "simply not going to happen." Western allies froze about €260B of Russian state assets in 2022, most of it sitting in the EU. Releasing a single euro would need all 27 EU members to agree, which is about as far-fetched as Moscow paying war reparations. The Kremlin, meanwhile, says it will chase its “stolen” assets through the courts. Europe has sat on that vault for 4 years, and somehow someone thought it would just slide the key across the table 😆 Source: FT / Writer: Julie

🇹🇷 The scenes from Turkey looked apocalyptic Shopkeepers desperately tried to save their businesses after torrential downpours dumped up to 242 mm of rain on Istanbul To put that in context 1 mm of rain = 1 litre per m² Writer: Ian t.co/ndgg83pybm

Older cars aren't supposed to get better at driving. Yet here we are. Tesla is bringing FSD Supervised v14 Lite to older Intel-equipped Model S and X vehicles, squeezing newer driving intelligence into their existing HW3 computers. Smoother merges, better pedestrian handling and improved parking. The kind of stuff you actually notice in everyday driving. Getting more out of the car you already paid for? That's a pretty impressive way to make a software update feel like a car upgrade. @Tesla / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

There's relaxing by the beach, sipping margaritas... Then there's this Writer: Ian t.co/BIPrD9NrBF

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 Von der Leyen can’t catch a break 🤣 The U.S. wants Europe to hand over part of Russia’s FROZEN ASSETS to a fund controlled by Washington. Witkoff and Kushner floated the idea in Miami to restart Ukraine talks. Europe rejected it, refusing to surrender control or return the money to Moscow. Around €260B in Russian state assets remain frozen, mostly in Europe. The interest already funds Ukraine loans. Touching the principal is another battle, and Europe isn’t handing Washington the keys. Source: Reuters / Writer: Lucas

Even the timing of the Roadster reveal is having a bit of fun with the idea of flying cars. The SpaceX thruster package has been teased with ridiculous acceleration and the possibility of getting the car off the ground. Who wouldn't want to see a Tesla casually put some daylight between its tyres and the road? If that's where we're going, I can see why they're having so much fun with the countdown. @Tesla @SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

🇨🇦 Canada could FORCE Cleveland-Cliffs to sell its Canadian steel assets over planned cuts of up to 500 Ontario jobs. Minister Mélanie Joly says the 2024 Stelco deal required 5 years of job protection. The company blames Trump’s 50% steel tariffs. Ottawa warns of penalties or a forced sale under the Investment Canada Act. Cleveland-Cliffs denies any breach and is ready to fight in court. Layoffs have begun, and Ottawa is reviewing its options. Source: Bloomberg / Writer: Lucas

All Iran has to do is make it look like they're planning an attack before the midterms, and Trump may be forced into a preemptive strike Then they can play the victim, retaliate against Gulf nations, and then Trump's efforts to win the midterms go up in smoke Writer: Ian

More than 85,000 homes just behaved like ONE giant power plant. Tesla Powerwalls across California pushed more than 600 MW back into the grid right when demand was peaking. That’s the kind of output you’d expect from a proper power station, except it came from batteries already sitting in people’s houses. Less than a month after the last record, they’ve already beaten it AGAIN. Very Tesla, really. Build something useful for one person, then scale the hell out of it. @Tesla @TeslaEnergy / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

Extremely polite. Extremely quiet. Couldn’t shut the fridge door for shit. But what an absolute masterclass in midnight snacking. I don’t think this is his first heist…🧸 Writer: Bri t.co/oxkWl8UVGu

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran spent 30 years digging missile cities under its mountains, and that's why seven months of bombing never ended this war By late March, after a month of round-the-clock strikes, five people familiar with US intelligence told Reuters that Washington could confirm destroying only about a third of Iran's missiles. Another third was buried and unknowable. The rest sat untouched. Residents in Kermanshah told the Irish Times that missiles flew from the same mountains within hours of a strike, because a collapsed tunnel mouth gets dug out in a day and the weapons behind it were never hit. By June, US estimates had Iran keeping around 70% of its launchers and stockpile. Now Israel is warning that Pickaxe Mountain, the enrichment site Iran carved deeper than any bunker buster reaches, is coming online too. That's the whole war in one engineering fact: American bombs can shut a door, they can't reach what's behind it. Seven months bought time. The arsenal is waiting for a ceasefire to come out. Source: Reuters, Irish Times, Axios / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump on Iran: "And the Iran war will end very soon. It’s going to end very soon. As soon as I want it to end, it’ll end." So 7 months is exactly how long the government wants it to last 🤷🏻‍♂️ Writer: Lucas t.co/Cieacsdncc

🇺🇸 Trump says how exhausting it may be to do every rally: "It’s not easy work, you know, doing these rallies. You can’t walk in and do 15 minutes. You have to do a long time. And then they’re screaming, 'More, more!' I hope your people are enjoying it" Every moment, pure gold 😂 Writer: Lucas t.co/F1UKXROJx3

🇺🇸 People along the Florida coast woke up to a GLOWING JELLYFISH floating across the sky from a SpaceX launch 🤩 The Falcon 9 went up before dawn from Cape Canaveral on a cargo run to the space station. The exhaust expanded high up and caught the sunlight while the ground was still dark, forming that glowing blob with trailing streaks. It’s a known effect on early or late launches, but this one was bright enough to light up skies from Florida to Virginia. Amazing! @SpaceX / Writer: Lucas t.co/3OBzSfQU5B

🇺🇸 Michelle Obama's brother says there is NO WAY she runs for president Craig Robinson told a reporter at the airport that nothing changes her mind, not even if the world gets completely crazy. He said it is time for younger people to have their chance. He also said she would have made "a damn good president," though he admits he is biased. The family has already done its time in the White House, and nobody in it is asking for another turn. Writer: Lucas t.co/QYZ5K7tTVz

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW: Trump's "wait until you see what we do to Iran" is the mother of all bombs... a fireworks show reportedly meant to be the final bookend on this war CNN reports the new packages target "a lot of energy infrastructure" plus nuclear sites including Pickaxe, with the 21,600-pound MOAB written in. One source said the strikes would come "prior to US retrograde," meaning hit, declare victory, pull out. The problem is physics. The MOAB is an air-blast weapon that flattens nine city blocks on the surface, and the officials pushing back say it was built for psychological operations, "definitely not designed as a deep penetration warhead." Pickaxe is under layers of GRANITE. One planner called it "a massive information operation type weapon that is great for huge area clearance but not much else." A fourth source called the options a "fireworks show" to give Trump an off-ramp, and another said the president "is almost compelled to do something." Without the ammunition to reach what matters, "you have to look at psychological effects." Earlier this week Trump told rallies to "wait until you see what we do to Iran." This is what: the biggest bang available, aimed at a mountain it can’t crack, timed to look like an ending. The scary part, and the sad part, is that it completely TRACKS with how this war has been conducted from day one. At this point, though, I think most people would agree that if letting Trump have his spectacle and take a curtain call is what it costs to end this conflict, it’s a price worth paying. Source: CNN / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇷🇺 Just ONE WEEK after slapping fresh sanctions on Iran's shadow fleet, the US is already considering loosening them… The Trump administration claims the move is needed to lower sky high global freight rates and get more oil flowing. This U-turn comes right after Trump announced he would lift sanctions on Russian diesel fuel, throwing Ukraine completely under the bus and drawing fierce backlash from European allies and Zelensky. Slap sanctions on one week, backtrack the next. Total political whiplash. Source: Reuters / Writer: Bri

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump claims Iran's main ask in peace talks is "will you please allow us to live?" At his second rally of the day, in Montana, Trump told the crowd Iran’s army is “decimated” and its leaders are “gone,” then repeated the regret he aired at his previous stop: “I should have probably left the leaders alone because I don’t know who the hell we’re negotiating with.” I think it’s safe to say Trump is taking some creative liberties with his interpretation of what the Iranians’ main ask is... because after everything we’ve seen over the last 7 months, the last thing anyone should expect Iran to do is beg. What does warrant attention is Trump repeating his regret about killing Iran’s leadership and the confusion that has followed in negotiations with the regime. It’s a problem that’s been echoed for months now. The left hand doesn’t know, or agree with, what the right hand is doing, so how could any terms possibly be agreed to when you don’t even know whose hand to shake? Writer: Daniel t.co/sk6CKrGtun

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 Is this the Discombobulator? Space Force shows off the jammers that blinded Maduro’s guards and left Venezuela’s missiles “pressing buttons” that did nothing The Journal got inside the Space Force’s electromagnetic warfare compound in Colorado and saw how it was done. A ground jammer called Meadowlands screams radio noise at an enemy satellite until it can’t talk to earth, so the cameras, radios and GPS watching over Maduro went dark while the helicopters came in. No explosion, no debris, and the satellite wakes back up when the jamming stops, which is why Venezuela’s Russian and Chinese missiles never got a shot off. Its partner, Bounty Hunter, plays defense: it listens for anyone trying to jam American satellites, pins down where the signal is coming from, and hands the spot to a commander for a strike. One blinds them, the other catches them trying it on us. So is this the famous Discombobulator Trump keeps teasing but is “not allowed to talk about”? Nobody outside the Pentagon knows, and experts suspect the name covers several systems working together rather than one wonder weapon. Either way, the same crews had 72 hours to pack it all up for Iran. Source: Wall Street Journal, US Space Force / Writer: Daniel

🇸🇦 🇾🇪 Shipping one barrel of oil across the world now costs $30... and it has shattered the global oil market. Rory Johnston says the Houthis hit Riyadh's airport on the very day oil's top leaders were flying in for the World Petroleum Congress, and now every refinery and loading terminal on the Saudi Red Sea coast sits square in the bull's eye. Moving a barrel used to cost a couple of bucks: "Now that same journey is $30 a barrel, and you've effectively shattered the global oil market into a dozen regional oil markets." Until shipping gets cheap again, one region drowns in oil while the next one runs dry. @Rory_Johnston

🇧🇷Have you EVER seen momentum like this at a rally? Crowds turned out in hordes for Flávio to close out the night as he edges ahead of Lula heading into this tight runoff. I feel the political tide changing and everyone is lining up for a fresh start. Writer: Bri t.co/B2UxTmPOWM

Trump is bragging that welfare is at its lowest level in decades, and on paper he’s right, as SNAP enrollment has fallen by nearly 6 million people since he took office Credit where it’s due… He’s not wrong that the system needed cleaning up, and the the crackdown on waste and fraud in these programs was long overdue The problem is timing Prices haven’t come down since he took office, so a lot of those families didn’t move up, they just lost help right when a week of groceries got more expensive Ask any food bank how the last six months have gone… That’s the storm that could help turn the midterms into a BLOODBATH for Republicans, followed by two VERY hard years for Trump

🚨Bitcoin CRASHED below $81K and Ethereum below $2,400, wiping out $350M in longs in just 10 minutes Leveraged longs got flushed. These dumps keep hitting when inflation runs hot and leverage piles up. One liquidation wave can drag the entire market lower in minutes. Dip buyers finally got their chance. Source: The Block / Writer: Lucas