Mario Nawfal

🇺🇸 Trump says the Kennedy Center board has voted almost unanimously to close the building immediately over safety concerns and prepare it for reconstruction. But there’s a catch. Trump says the actual renovation won’t begin until the D.C. Circuit rules on the board’s disputed renaming of the center. If the administration ultimately loses that fight, he says the reconstruction won’t happen. Meanwhile, Trumays $17 million he raised has been deposited to keep the Kennedy Center afloat. So Washington has arrived at a peculiar place: The building is closing because the ceiling is falling down. And fixing the ceiling now depends on what the building is called. Source: @realDonaldTrump / Writer: Oliver

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just said social media should be restricted much more, then immediately shut down the free speech argument with “Don’t come at me with Free Speech. This has nothing to do with Free Speech.” He says the state still has to protect people from false information, which puts him right in the middle of Germany’s fight over how far government can go in policing what people see and say online. You do not have to understand German to know how condescending he is talking here. Writers: Daniyal, Oliver t.co/bziGGj86vq

🇺🇸 Juror in the Lindsay Clancy case is now getting his entire family dragged into the fallout, and it is getting ugly fast. The lone holdout who blocked Clancy's acquittal on a split 11 to 1 jury, has reportedly seen reporters descend on his relatives' homes after his identity leaked online this past weekend, even though the judge had sealed juror names. His brother says the family cannot leave the house anymore because of how relentless the media has been. A GiveSendGo fundraiser called "Stand With the Juror" has already pulled in more than 120,000 dollars, meant to cover security, legal costs and lost wages if things escalate further. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis publicly offered him asylum in his state if the harassment continues, slamming the coverage as a smear campaign. Meanwhile reporters have also dug up an old restraining order tied to a family dispute, a charge that was never actually proven and was eventually dismissed. So a man does his civil duty, votes his conscience on a triple murder case, and now his own mother cannot walk out her front door without a camera in her face. Is this what jury duty looks like now in America? Writer: Oliver t.co/Aqc8nhzckP

🇺🇸 AG Todd Blanche says 12 daycare fraud suspects were arrested in Southern California for allegedly siphoning more than $10 million meant to help low-income families pay for childcare. Stealing daycare money from poor families is one of those crimes that does not require much interpretation. The motive arrives with its own little name tag: “I’m an asshole.” Writer: Oliver t.co/Mdgk7ejsAI

🇺🇸 AG Todd Blanche: “Under Trump’s leadership, crime is the lowest it has been in modern history.” America has apparently been made safe again. Please continue locking your car though. Writer: Oliver t.co/skCKBFwLAQ

🇺🇸 Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth He's accusing him of illegally keeping U.S. military operations against Iran running without Congress ever signing off on it. This is a Republican going after a Republican administration's own Defense Secretary, which tells you how seriously some in the GOP are taking the war powers question. Democrats already filed their own impeachment articles against Hegseth back in April over the same war, so now the pressure is coming from both sides of the aisle. Writer: Oliver t.co/3IOkda8zZd

@ZachWarunek for a moment I thought that was AI, it's wild

@KettlebellDan MSM is continually being proven wrong. There's a reason some of the smartest people in the world echo the same sentiment: Don't bet against Elon.

Source: wfwitness on TG t.co/f32LnjvNgK

🇸🇾 Syria is calling for a Middle East completely free of nuclear weapons and other WMDs, with every facility in the region placed under full IAEA safeguards. The key phrase is “without exception.” That makes this more than a generic nonproliferation statement. It is a direct demand that the same rules apply to every state in the region, including those whose nuclear capabilities usually sit outside the conversation. Source: SANA, Al Jazeera / Writer: Oliver

Credit to Gamers Nexus on YouTube. You can find the video and their channel here: t.co/yM8jA4IMzK @GamersNexus

🇬🇧 British rockers MUSE, around since 1994, are NOT AMUSED by Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg. Zuck yanked the group’s @muse Instagram handle for a new AI product. The band is now tagged @museband. The same thing happened to them on X. As long as they keep their nearly 3 million followers… I guess they’ll have to live with it. Writer: Jamie

Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in. LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations. The evidence begs to differ. 216 million of these are sitting in living rooms. Where are the regulators? Writer: Daniel t.co/5LLdbXOK1s

@KettlebellDan 😆🎯

ANTISEMITISM IS BECOMING A VERY SERIOUS GLOBAL ISSUE

🇮🇱🇩🇪 An Israeli peace activist called out the Israeli ambassador during his speech in Leipzig. "Israel murders children every day!" t.co/71GztMJp16

🇬🇧 This was sent to a Holocaust survivor on their 95th birthday last September. In case you hadn’t noticed, the UK has quite an antisemitism problem… Source: Community Security Trust (CST) t.co/WdcGd23A7F

🇬🇧 Paramedics performing CPR on one of the stabbing victims at the scene in Golders Green, London. 2 Jewish men have been seriously wounded in stabbings in Golders Green, London. t.co/TMD0XN6aly

🇺🇸 Death Valley ain't so dead at the moment. A rare superbloom is turning the cracked desert floor into a sea of wildflowers. It happens roughly once a decade when the conditions line up just right. t.co/HAQkijp5Lh

🇬🇧 Footage of the attack. 2 Jewish men have been seriously wounded in stabbings in Golders Green, London. One was attacked outside a synagogue, the other outside a nearby shop. t.co/YD5I4WaMN4

So much going on here and none of it makes real sense t.co/bcajDg1R72

Nadav, you know my stance on Hezbollah: They have blood on their hands for what’s happening in Lebanon, and the country would be better off without them. Israel has every right to attack Hezbollah and do so until Hezbollah is no longer a threat. The Lebanese Government is standing up to Hezbollah, despite the risk of civil war, and has been cooperating with Israel and even met Israel for the first time since the 80s But when Katz says 20% of Lebanese people cannot return South even AFTER the war ends, or when the IDF levels not only Hezbollah infrastructure, but entire villages, that’s a red line crossed Hezbollah offered justification for Israel to defend itself, and Netanyahu is taking this opportunity to achieve objectives beyond the destructing of Hezbollah I remember in our interview you said you look forward for the day you can go to Lebanon and have a beer with Lebanese people, and many people in Lebanon share those wishes. But how do you expect that to happen after Israel levels entire Lebanese villages and expels civilians from their livelihood? I support Israel’s efforts to destroy hezbollah. I do not support Israel’s efforts to level entire villages. And I know you personally share this stance

🇮🇱 Netanyahu asked to shorten his corruption testimony by 3 hours today, again citing "security reasons." The court denied it this time. The security emergency turns out to be a meeting about how to intercept a 60-ship civilian flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, currently crossing the Mediterranean with participants from 100+ countries.

🇬🇧 More footage emerging of the suspect in the Golders Green stabbing of 2 Jewish men outside a synagogue in London. Some sources are describing the attacker as Islamist. Nothing confirmed yet. t.co/RV4dxO6gQi

Holly crap! Quite literally 😂 t.co/AC2dT4K2gM

🇩🇪🇮🇷 German Chancellor Merz: “We in Germany and in Europe are suffering considerably from the consequences [of this war]. This has direct effects on our energy supply and massive effects on our economic performance.” Perhaps Germany wouldn’t have an energy crisis on its hands had it not went from 17 nuclear reactors in 2011 to zero today.

🚨 BREAKING: 🇬🇧 2 Jewish men have been stabbed outside a synagogue in Golders Green, London. That’s a prominent Jewish neighborhood. The suspect probably went there knowing that. The suspect has been arrested. Source: Yedioth Ahronoth t.co/i523zF2geX

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Lebanon and Israel are holding direct talks in Washington. But are the terms peace or surrender? - The ceasefire lets Israel retain "self-defense" rights inside Lebanon while demanding Hezbollah disarm - No real withdrawal: Israel has seized more territory and is building what looks like a permanent security zone - 90% of Lebanese oppose recognizing Israel, making any normalization deal politically explosive - A deal imposed on those terms risks triggering civil strife and strengthening the resistance rather than ending it Source: Middle East Eye

INTERVIEW: The UAE was dragged into a war it never wanted, and despite being a close trading partner with Iran, it was attacked more than any other nation The outcome? Pulling out of OPEC, closer cooperation with the U.S. and Israel, and a visit by the Crown Prince to China UAE Prof Abdulkhaleq Abdulla also warned the war is not over: “There’s a 50% chance the war resumes” We discuss how a resumption of the war would look like, how the UAE is preparing for such an event, and most importantly: What the region will look like once the war ends @Abdulkhaleq_UAE - U.S. -Israel war, not UAE’s choice - Gulf’s history of wars and UAE resilience - UAE-U.S. relationship and self-defense strategy - Iran as UAE’s top security threat - Why Iran is viewed as an enemy of the UAE - Why UAE was attacked more than others - Dubai/UAE as a global hub and symbolic target - Blame for the war: Iran vs. U.S. - Was going to war the right decision? - Military results of the 40-day war - UAE defense diversification beyond the U.S. - China vs. America in UAE strategy - UAE-Iran trade relationship - UAE leaving OPEC and the “new UAE” - Risk of a second round of war with Iran