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🇩🇪 GERMANY’S HYDROGEN “MIRACLE” JUST BLEW UP - $9B A YEAR INTO THE VOID
Berlin’s green dream is eating itself alive.
The Federal Audit Office just torched Germany’s hydrogen strategy, calling it what it is: a black hole swallowing €8 to €9 billion a year - and producing almost nothing.
5 years in, the country’s “clean future fuel” adds up to a grand total of 0.16 gigawatts. That’s the output of a mid-tier wind farm.
This was supposed to be the next industrial revolution. Instead, it’s another central-planning hangover - the kind where taxpayers wake up holding the tab.
The auditors didn’t mince words: supply and demand don’t match, the infrastructure plan is fantasy, and the government has “created a financial risk for the taxpayer.”
Meaning: the money’s gone, and the market’s missing.
Private industry’s verdict? Nein, danke.
Companies like ArcelorMittal and RWE are walking away, even with billion-euro subsidies on the table. When business rejects free money, you know the corpse stinks.
Merz’s government now faces a choice: double down on failure or admit the green utopia is bleeding out.
Prediction? They’ll choose denial - until the bond markets intervene.
Germany wanted to lead the energy future... instead, it just financed its own obituary.
Source: Federal Audit Office, ZeroHedge
Media: DW
🇩🇪 BERLIN BUYS BIG: GERMANY LOADS UP ON ANTI-SUB WARPLANES
Berlin just welcomed its first P-8A Poseidón, and may order 4 more, bringing the total to 12 of these submarine-hunting beasts.
Boris says “at least” seven more are on the way, as Germany ditches its Cold War relics and gears up for Baltic patrols.
Armed with torpedoes, naval mines, and anti-ship missiles, the Poseidons aren’t here to make friends.
Merz scrapped the budget rules, now he's shopping for warplanes like it's Amazon Prime.
Source: Bloomberg, @Defence_Index
🇺🇸🇮🇹 SHUTDOWN STRIKES AGAIN: ITALIAN WORKERS AT U.S. MILITARY BASES STILL WAITING FOR PAY
Italian workers at U.S. military bases in Italy haven’t been paid since October.
About 2,000 staff members at Aviano and Vicenza bases are left hanging due to the U.S. government shutdown.
The twist? Workers at U.S. Navy bases in Italy did get paid, because the Navy plays by its own rules.
Italy’s FM is basically telling the U.S. to get it together. He wants them to use their own money to pay the workers.
The U.S. shutdown is already causing chaos, missed paychecks, frozen food aid, messed-up travel.
Meanwhile, the Italians are still wondering when their paycheck will show up.
Source: Reuters
🇺🇸 GOVERNORS CALL FOR END TO THE ENDLESS SHUTDOWN
The National Governors Association is fed up with the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
They sent a letter to Congress demanding action. Why? Because while the feds are on pause, states and local governments still have to keep things running.
From food programs to national security, the shutdown is wreaking havoc. But states don’t have the resources to pick up the slack.
The chaos is messing up everything from infrastructure to disaster response. And the unpredictability is making it impossible for local leaders to plan.
Governors are calling on Congress to stop the back-and-forth and fix this. Because the longer it goes, the worse it gets.
Source: Newsmax
🇺🇸 IS AI READY TO GIVE THE WORLD A PARENTING UPGRADE?
One mom has gone viral for using ChatGPT as her co-parent, and honestly? It’s doing a better job than some actual partners.
Lilian Schmidt says AI now handles her to-do lists, meal planning, bedtime meltdowns, and even bedtime stories, written in the style of famous authors, personalized with her daughter’s name and emotions from the day.
The story comes as a trend has been noticed where parents are asking AI to do everything from scheduling a 4th grader’s day to cooking for a picky eater with only chicken, rice, and whatever’s in the fridge.
Therapists say it’s not a replacement for real-life parenting support, but it can take the edge off the daily chaos.
Lilian justified her decision by saying, “They won’t remember what you crossed off your list; they’ll remember that you were there.”
Source: Business Insider
🇻🇪🇺🇸 MADURO: “LET THEM KEEP THEIR FADING EMPIRE”
"They think life is a bad Hollywood movie where they’re always the heroic Rambo-style winners and the rest of us - Latinos, Mexicans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Caribbeans, Africans - are the villains.
Let them keep their fading empire and their ugly story."
Source: @clashreport, @NicolasMaduro
🇺🇸 🇻🇪 SEN. RICK SCOTT: MADURO, GET THE HELL OUT OF DODGE
"If I was a drug trafficker anywhere in Latin America, I'd stop coming to the United States.
Your life expectancy has gone down quite a bit.
And if your name is Nicolas Maduro, I would get the hell out of Dodge.
I would get to Russia or China as quickly as possible."
Source: @SenRickScott
🇮🇱 ISRAEL'S DM KATZ: ISRAEL WILL OPERATE “UNTIL THE LAST TUNNEL”
"Until the return of all the hostages, the fallen, and until the last tunnel.
We will continue to operate with force to realize our goals in Gaza."
Source: @Israel_katz
🇮🇱 ISRAEL LIFTS EMERGENCY RESTRICTIONS IN SOUTH FOR FIRST TIME SINCE OCTOBER 7
Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Israel will lift its "special situation" emergency order in southern Israel for the first time since the October 7, 2023 attack.
The order expires tomorrow, ending over 2 years of active emergency status.
Katz:
"I have decided to adopt the IDF's recommendation and to remove, for the first time since October 7, the special situation on the home front.
The decision reflects the new security reality in the south of the country that was achieved thanks to the determined and powerful actions over the past two years of our heroic troops against the Hamas terror organization."
The emergency declaration allowed the military's Home Front Command to restrict gatherings and close off areas.
It was declared across the entire country on October 7, 2023, but has remained only in the south since then.
Source: Times of Israel
🇺🇸🇺🇦 INTERVIEW: “A FEW F-16s WON’T CHANGE THE WAR - UKRAINE NEEDS 100”
@CaptainDeny, Ukrainian Commentator & Former Airline Captain
“Ukraine’s young pilots are very talented. They can learn to fly A-10s or F-16s in just a few months. Training isn’t the problem.
The issue is numbers. Ukraine can’t stop Russia’s fighter bombers with only a few jets. We need around a hundred F-16s to really make a difference.
Russia’s glide bombs are destroying entire villages. Patriot systems helped, but several were destroyed, and Ukraine can’t afford to lose more.
To change the situation on the front lines, we need air power. Without that, everything on the ground remains vulnerable.”
🚨🇺🇦 INTERVIEW: THE FALL OF POKROVSK - UKRAINE’S BIGGEST LOSS OF THE WAR
Ukraine’s strongest fortress in the east is about to fall
In the meantime, Ukraine is running out of Patriot missiles, struggling to get Tomahawks, while Russia continues to incrementally gain territory
Will Trump and the EU turn things around?
@CaptainDeny, one of Ukraine’s most trusted military voices, doesn’t think so…
We discuss:
• How Russian glide bombs and drone swarms wiped out entire brigades
• Why Ukraine’s Patriot systems are nearly empty and running on scraps
• How U.S. Tomahawks can help but won’t turn the tide
• And what happens next if the West doesn’t escalate support immediately
Captain Deny warns the fall of Pokrovsk is a turning point, and the next few months will decide whether Ukraine stands or falls.
01:10 – Why glide bombs are changing the battlefield
01:32 – Pokrovsk’s fall could make Donbas indefensible
02:10 – Why Russia wants Ukraine as a pro-Russian puppet state
03:00 – The fight for Pokrovsk and what’s at stake
04:15 – 80% of Pokrovsk now infiltrated by Russian infantry
06:20 – Why Ukrainian evacuation came too late
07:35 – Special forces landed, but impact minimal
08:05 – Pokrovsk’s fall would cripple Ukraine’s economy and supply lines
09:30 – Ukraine counterattacking in the north, holding back collapse
10:15 – Why Putin won’t accept any U.S.-brokered peace deal
11:22 – Trump’s proposal for Ukraine to give up Donbas and freeze the war
12:25 – Why Ukraine refuses to surrender territory
13:10 – Could European peacekeepers change the equation
14:25 – The front line is too vast to control
15:10 – Ukraine’s limited resources and fading options
16:15 – Why Davydov says Ukraine can’t retake Crimea or Donbas
17:20 – “Only a Russian collapse can end this war”
18:05 – Casualties rising on both sides
19:00 – Ukraine now conscripting civilians from the streets
19:45 – Russia’s manpower advantage 8-to-1
20:05 – How Ukraine still holds despite being outnumbered
21:40 – Ukraine fighting to preserve identity, not just land
22:40 – Why surrender would erase Ukrainian culture
23:05 – Can Tomahawks or new U.S. weapons change the war
23:50 – Davydov says Tomahawks are “mostly political theater”
24:45 – Sanctions hurt but are short-lived without enforcement
25:25 – Flamingo vs Neptune: Ukraine’s missile problem
27:00 – Why Russia has no incentive to freeze the lines
28:10 – Keeping 800,000 soldiers busy keeps Putin’s regime stable
29:10 – War fatigue in Russia isn’t enough to stop the Kremlin
30:05 – Russia’s economy built to survive sanctions
31:35 – China and Turkey keeping Russia’s trade alive
33:05 – Trump’s new sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil
34:10 – Davydov warns sanctions will be bypassed within months
34:55 – “Cheap oil is financially addictive”
35:40 – What Ukraine needs now: guarantees, not promises
36:25 – The limits of Western aid and the illusion of support
37:45 – Why Europe still buys Russian energy
38:30 – Davydov says Ukraine’s only hope is time and attrition
39:55 – The Black Swan scenario: another Prigozhin moment
40:40 – Why Putin fears his soldiers returning home more than NATO
42:15 – Western societies value life, Russia values endurance
43:30 – The roots of the war: invasion, NATO, and broken promises
45:15 – Crimea was seized while Ukraine was neutral
47:00 – Why Davydov says NATO is weaker than people think
48:30 – NATO’s hesitation vs. Russia’s aggression
49:55 – “Putin used NATO as an excuse to attack”
50:35 – Russia’s justification: “protecting Donbas”
52:20 – Why Ukraine can never be neutral
53:05 – The Monroe Doctrine argument and U.S. hypocrisy
54:00 – Denys: NATO threat to Russia was zero
55:00 – Why Russia’s war is ideological, not defensive
56:45 – China says it will never let Russia lose
57:50 – Beijing’s fear of a U.S. victory
58:20 – Trump’s opportunity: make China and Russia compete
59:30 – The U.S. still holding back military power
01:00:25 – Europe funding both sides of the war
01:01:20 – How fast Ukraine can train F-16 and A-10 pilots
01:02:00 – Why Ukraine needs 300 fighter jets to win air superiority
01:03:00 – Patriot systems nearly depleted
01:04:45 – “Without air defense, every village can be erased”
01:06:20 – Closing thoughts: no peace without pressure, no survival without support
🚨🇺🇸 FEEDING OUR FUTURE: THE FRAUD THAT ATE MINNESOTA
The FBI’s camera didn’t just catch a parking lot - it caught a scam in real time.
Safari Restaurant, a supposed “community kitchen” in Minneapolis, claimed to feed 4,000–6,000 kids a day.
The footage? 40 people. On a good day.
That’s not logistics - that’s theater.
By the time agents rolled tape in late 2021, $12 million in child-meal reimbursements had already flowed through the place via Feeding Our Future, the non-profit now synonymous with COVID-era corruption.
Its boss, Amy Bach, allegedly turned pandemic aid into a personal buffet of kickbacks and fake rosters - complete with names pulled from random name generators.
FBI agents installed a dozen cameras at other “feeding sites.” One St. Paul deli claimed 1,800 meals a day.
The surveillance showed 23 humans - total.
And here’s the gut punch: Minnesota’s Department of Education saw the red flags. Meal counts that defied math, reimbursement spikes that screamed fraud - and they still signed off.
Now state auditors are confirming what everyone already knew - the rot starts high. Governor’s office sloppy, agencies asleep, millions gone.
Meanwhile, new frauds pop up like mushrooms after rain - autism service scams, ghost therapy sessions, recycled shell companies from the same network.
This isn’t just bad governance. It’s an ecosystem of fake altruism, engineered under the banner of helping kids - while adults cashed in.
When the trials end, Minnesota politics won’t be about left or right - it’ll be about who’s still standing after the subpoenas drop.
The welfare state turned into a buffet line.
And everyone got fed - except the kids.
Source: FOX 9
🚨🇺🇸 MINNESOTA MEDICAID FRAUD: $100M+ HOUSING PROGRAM LOOTED BY FAKE COMPANIES WITH STOCK PHOTOS
Anwar Adow, 25, just pleaded guilty to defrauding Minnesota's Housing Stabilization Services program for $1.2 million.
His company Liberty Plus LLC had a website built entirely from stock images with "Caregiver Name" as placeholders instead of real employees.
Julie Quiroz saw Liberty Plus ads in a gas station bathroom while homeless.
They promised housing help, took her info to bill Medicaid, forged her signature, then ghosted her.
She spent winter in her car with her dog.
Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson:
"Fraud has overtaken legitimate services. The level of fraud in these programs is staggering."
Feds raided the Adow brothers' Blaine home and found $88,000 cash under mattresses and in suitcases.
They bought a 2023 Mercedes with Medicaid funds meant for disabled Minnesotans.
115 HSS businesses banned. Program ends October 31st.
Source: KARE 11
🚨🇺🇸 TESLA’S ROBOTAXIS ARE COMING - AND ELON’S BETTING THE COMPANY ON IT
Elon has less than 2 months to turn science fiction into a side hustle.
Tesla is on a nationwide hiring spree - cleaning crews, fleet managers, crash-response teams - all part of the push to meet Elon’s end-of-year Robotaxi goal.
His plan? Get autonomous Teslas rolling in 8–10 metro areas by December.
So far, Austin and San Francisco are live.
But job postings hint at an empire in motion - Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, Tampa - even test fleets in Chicago and New York, under a secret internal program called Project Rodeo.
There’s just one problem: regulators.
California’s still demanding commercial permits, Florida and Nevada want proof of insurance, and Texas won’t authorize full driverless operation until 2026.
For now, Robotaxis still need humans in the passenger seat - which sounds less like the future and more like training wheels.
Elon doesn’t care. He told investors Tesla’s value depends on autonomy, and when it hits, it’ll “expand at a hyper-exponential rate.”
Source: Business Insider
TESLA ROBOTAXI: LUXURY SOUND, ZERO DRIVERS, NO JUDGMENT
This is the Robotaxi sound system, where every beat of your favorite song comes through with the crispness of a live show.
Tesla's vision? A ride experience so smooth you forget you're in a machine.
It’s 3AM, you're cruising down a street with Christmas lights after your co-worker get-together, and no one’s giving you a bad rating just because you looked like you might throw up.
Source: @WholeMarsBlog
🇸🇾🇺🇸 ASSAD’S HEIR PLAYS BALL
File this under “diplomacy, but make it surreal.”
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa - the man inheriting Bashar’s throne and Moscow’s muscle - just laced up for a pickup game with U.S. officials, including CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper.
It’s a visual too absurd to script: America’s Middle East war planner trading layups with the successor of a regime it once called untouchable.
Peace talks might start with free throws.
But nobody’s forgetting who controls the scoreboard.
Source: @clashreport
🇸🇾🇧🇷 SYRIA RETURNS FROM THE COLD - AND TALKS CLIMATE BEFORE TRUMP
In Belem, under the Amazon canopy, Syria just tried to rebrand itself.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa - the man who toppled Bashar al-Assad last year - stood at COP30 promising renewable dreams and “cooperation from the Amazon to the Euphrates.”
It’s a hell of a pivot for a country that’s spent fourteen years under air raids and sanctions.
But timing is everything: the UN Security Council just unfroze his assets, lifted the arms embargo, and greenlit his visit to Washington.
Yes, that Washington - where Trump now calls climate change the “world’s greatest con job.”
Al-Sharaa’s not naïve. The speech wasn’t about carbon - it was about legitimacy. Every handshake, every photo op with Lula, every mention of solar power is a message to the West: Syria’s back, deal with it.
Next stop: the White House. Expect Trump to skip the science talk and go straight for the leverage - oil, borders, and whoever controls the new Syria.
Reconstruction begins not with bulldozers, but with optics. And al-Sharaa just gave the world a very photogenic reset.
Source: Al Jazeera
🇨🇦🇮🇳 CANADA SAYS NO TO INDIAN APPLICANTS: YOU'RE JUST A SCAMMER
Canada rejected 74% of study permit applications from Indian students in August 2025.
That’s more than double the 32% rejection rate in 2023.
Meanwhile, the average rejection rate globally was just 40%, and for Chinese applicants, only 24%.
The number of Indian applicants also crashed from over 19,000 to just under 4,000 in two years.
Why the sudden cold shoulder? Canadian officials say they're swamped with fake acceptance letters, and most of them trace back to India.
In 2023 alone, they found over 1,500 fraudulent Indian-linked permits, and 14,000 sketchy letters system-wide.
Even the University of Waterloo, which brags about being "international," saw Indian enrollment drop by two-thirds.
When one of the most immigration-friendly countries on Earth is side-eyeing them for fraud, you know India must have a real problem.
Source: Reuters
🇷🇺🇺🇦 RUSSIA TURNS OUT UKRAINE’S LIGHTS - AGAIN
In the dead of night, Russia unleashed one of its largest air assaults of the war, wiping out 2 major Ukrainian power plants - Zmiivska and Trypilska - and plunging swathes of the country into blackout.
Centrenergo called it “the most massive strike on our plants since the beginning of the war.”
Ukraine’s grid is burning. Moscow fired 45 missiles and 458 drones across 5 regions.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs “far more” modern air defences.
Washington and Brussels know it - but political fatigue is slowing the flow.
Russia’s not just targeting infrastructure. It’s testing Western resolve through winter.
The colder Ukraine gets, the warmer the Kremlin’s confidence grows.
Source: Financial Times
🇺🇦 INTERVIEW: “PUTIN DIDN’T INVADE OVER NATO, HE DID IT BECAUSE HE COULD”
@CaptainDeny, Ukrainian Commentator & Former Airline Captain
“NATO today is not what it was during the Cold War. It’s weak. It doesn’t pose the kind of threat Russia claims. Look at how it reacts now. Drones fly into European airspace, and nothing happens.
Even before the war, Ukraine had a neutral status. That was written into law under Yanukovych. Then Russia invaded Crimea while Ukraine was leaderless and vulnerable. That was 2014, not 2022.
This was never about NATO expansion. It was about opportunity. Putin saw chaos and took advantage of it.”
AMAZON SUED - AI NOW ACCUSED OF DISCRIMINATING AGAINST DISABLED WORKERS
The world’s biggest retailer just got hit with a lawsuit that could redefine “machine learning.”
Nine Amazon employees - from warehouse floors to cloud servers - say the company’s new algorithmic overlord is doing HR’s dirty work:
Denying medical accommodations, pushing sick workers onto unpaid leave, and firing the ones who fight back.
The class-action, filed in Seattle, claims Amazon’s “A to Z” app - and possibly its AI systems - handle disability requests so badly it’s basically automated discrimination.
Imagine begging a chatbot for your job back.
One engineer says she was forced out after asking to work remotely for health reasons.
Another, injured in a car accident, was denied the same - then fired. Warehouse staff say hospitalization for mental health or seizures earned them pink slips, not compassion.
Amazon’s defense? It says the claims are “untrue and misleading.”
But leaked internal data shows the company receives 700+ accommodation requests a day - over a quarter-million a year.
The scale alone sounds like a system designed for efficiency, not empathy.
If the court certifies this class, Amazon could face tens of thousands of claims - and the first real test of whether AI can break civil rights law.
This isn’t just an HR case. It’s the opening shot in the age of algorithmic accountability.
Source: Yahoo Finance
🚨 AI TAKES THE BLAME FOR MASS LAYOFFS - BUT IS IT JUST A COVER STORY?
Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Salesforce, Meta, UPS - America’s biggest employers are slashing tens of thousands of jobs, all while praising artificial intelligence as a “productivity revolution.”
But the evidence suggests a different story.
14,000 jobs gone at Amazon, with executives crediting “AI-related efficiencies.” Yet hours later, another spokesperson admitted “AI is not the reason behind the vast majority of reductions.”
Instead, it’s about cost-cutting and restructuring, the kind of moves companies have always made when profits dip.
Across corporate America, “AI” has become the perfect scapegoat:
Walmart says it’s freezing headcount because of automation.
Goldman Sachs and Salesforce cite “AI efficiencies” while trimming thousands.
UPS cut 34,000 jobs, calling it “powered by automation.”
... But new data shows the math doesn’t add up.
A Boston Consulting Group survey found 60% of firms saw minimal cost savings from AI despite major investment.
Only 10% told Deloitte they’ve achieved significant ROI.
At Wharton, researchers concluded most AI gains are incremental - shaving “20 minutes off an email,” not transforming industries.
MIT economist, David Autor:
“It’s much easier for a company to say, ‘We’re realizing AI efficiencies’ than to admit to financial strain.”
Meanwhile, many of these same companies face sluggish growth and market pressure - Amazon’s shares are flat, Salesforce’s down nearly 30%, and Meta even cut staff in its own AI division for being “bloated.”
So is AI truly replacing workers - or just masking old-fashioned belt-tightening?
The tech may be new, but the corporate playbook looks very familiar.
Source: NBC News
🇺🇸 GOV. NEWSOM: CHECK OUT MY SOLD OUT PATRIOT STORE
"By the way, anyone checked out my Patriot store?
You've been seeing anything on X that we're sending out lately?
I'm just saying, if you haven't, you may want to check it out.
And word to the wise, we do have a signature series.
They're sold out at the moment.
The universities and all these law firms and members, certain media organizations.
I figured they can use these."
Source: @acyn
🇺🇸GOV. NEWSOM: LET'S STAND UP FOR OUR DEMOCRACY, FOR ALL OF US
"Let's restore... not just hope and optimism.
Let's also stand up as we take back the house.
Let's stand up to those that have been humiliated.
Those that are afraid and scared.
Let's stand up for a system of checks and balances.
Let's stand up for our democracy. For all of us."
Source: Fox
🇻🇪🇺🇸 AMERICA, AGAIN, EYES VENEZUELA
The Caribbean just got louder. Washington’s quietly mapping new outposts, inching closer to Venezuela under the banner of “regional stability.”
No invasion on paper - not yet - but the arsenal says otherwise: AC-130 gunships, F-35Bs, P-8 patrol planes, and warships flexing offshore.
Over 10,000 troops already in rotation. That’s not “monitoring.” That’s staging.
Officially, it’s about counter-narco ops, migration pressure, and “protecting democracy.”
Unofficially? The U.S. never deploys that much hardware without a playbook titled Regime Pressure, Vol. 2.
Venezuela’s oil is still sanctioned, Maduro’s still clinging to power, and elections are coming.
You don’t move this many pieces unless you’re ready to test the board.
Prediction: Expect “joint exercises” morphing into “limited containment zones.” Maybe even a “humanitarian corridor.”
The kind of euphemisms that precede airspace lockdowns.
The Pentagon says it’s routine.
So was Panama, 1989.
Source: @clashreport, TWZ
🇺🇸🇻🇪 TRUMP HAS 3 PLANS FOR MADURO - AND NONE INVOLVE TALKING IT OUT
The first involves good old-fashioned airstrikes. Officially, it’s about “narco infrastructure.” Unofficially, it’s about shaking the loyalty of Venezuela’s military by making them wonder who’s next.
Then there’s the Hollywood option: send in SEAL Team 6 or Delta Force to grab Maduro, or drop him, Soleimani-style.
And if subtlety really is off the table, there's the takeover plan: boots on the ground, U.S. forces seizing airstrips and oil fields “to fight terrorism,” but mostly to grab leverage.
With 10,000 troops already circling the Caribbean and the Gerald Ford carrier en route, one thing’s clear, Maduro’s not just on Washington’s radar. He’s on the list.
Source: El Debate, NY Times
🇺🇸GOV. NEWSOM: LET'S STAND UP FOR OUR DEMOCRACY, FOR ALL OF US
"Let's restore... not just hope and optimism.
Let's also stand up as we take back the house.
Let's stand up to those that have been humiliated.
Those that are afraid and scared.
Let's stand up for a system of checks and balances.
Let's stand up for our democracy. For all of us."
Source: Fox
🚨🇺🇸 NEWSOM: TRUMP DOES NOT BELIEVE IN FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS
“He said this election was rigged and he's moving to look for criminal prosecution and investigations at the Department of Justice.
He is not screwing around.
Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections, period and full stop.”
Source: @Acyn
🇬🇧 ENGLAND FACES ITS WORST DROUGHT IN DECADES
England is on track for what could be its worst drought in decades - with reservoirs and groundwater still dangerously low after months of record dryness.
Forecasters warn that another dry winter could push the country into crisis next year.
Water companies and the government are already preparing emergency restrictions, which could go beyond hosepipe bans to include limits on industrial and agricultural water use.
Experts say the situation underscores how climate change is reshaping Britain’s weather, turning what used to be “rare dry spells” into multi-year challenges.
If rains don’t return soon, 2026 could see water rationing, crop failures, and pressure on ecosystems already stretched thin.
Are we ready for a future where water becomes the UK’s next big scarcity?
Source: The Guardian
🇬🇧ENGLAND’S NORTH WEST DECLARES DROUGHT AS WATER WOES GROW
North West England has officially declared a drought, and the numbers are as grim as they sound.
The region had the third-lowest rainfall since 1871 from February to April.
Across England, it was the driest these months have been since 1929.
The Environment Agency stepped in on May 21, warning that rivers and reservoirs are running low.
England’s reservoirs were only 84 percent full in April, even worse than during the 2022 drought.
No one is being told to stop watering lawns just yet, but the agency says restrictions might come if rain stays away.
The government is also fast-tracking plans for 2 new reservoirs, the first in more than 30 years, to avoid a future of dusty lawns and thirsty gardens.
Meanwhile, the country has been basking in record sunshine.
Between March and May, the United Kingdom logged 630 hours of sun, the most since 1910.
Perfect for sunbathing, but rivers are not thrilled.
England’s farmers and fish are hoping for some real rain soon.
Without it, this summer might turn from sunny to scorched.
Source: Sky News
🇬🇧 BRITAIN’S GREAT ESCAPE - BY ACCIDENT
4 prisoners are still on the run - not after a riot, not a tunnel - just good old-fashioned government incompetence.
The Ministry of Justice confirmed that hundreds of inmates were released by mistake last year. 2 were recaptured this week after police manhunts made headlines.
But 4... still out there.
Among the chaos: a convicted sex offender walked free because of a paperwork glitch.
Another man serving nearly 4 years for fraud? Freed after someone typed “suspended sentence” into the wrong box.
This isn’t “Shawshank Redemption.” It’s Clerical Error: The Movie.
Since taking power, the new government’s plan to ease overcrowding by early releases has turned the prison system into a slot machine - some inmates get time off, others just get lost in the paperwork.
Justice Secretary David Lammy says he “inherited a crisis.”
If 4 prisoners can vanish because of typos, the question isn’t how did they escape - it’s who’s next?
Source: BBC News
🇬🇧 THE ESCAPED SEX OFFENDER WHO MADE BRITAIN BLUSH
Hadush Kebatu - an Ethiopian migrant convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl - was accidentally released from prison last week.
Yes, released. Not paroled. Not transferred. Just… handed freedom by “human error.”
The Home Office spent 2 days hunting him through Essex and London before finally arresting him near Finsbury Park.
He’s now been deported to Ethiopia with “no right to return,” according to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who called the blunder “unacceptable” and promised “immediate controls” in prisons.
In other words: panic mode.
A suspended prison officer, halted deportations from HMP Chelmsford, and a full-blown independent inquiry later - officials are scrambling to prove they can keep track of their own inmates.
Kebatu’s case has already become political TNT: a migrant offender, a system failure, and a government desperate to look in control of its borders.
He’s gone - but the scandal isn’t. Because Britain’s not asking how he escaped anymore.
It’s asking who else could.
Source: BBC
🚨🇺🇸 MTG SLAMS 50-YEAR MORTGAGES - “IN DEBT FOREVER, IN DEBT FOR LIFE!”
"I don’t like 50 year mortgages as the solution to the housing affordability crisis.
It will ultimately reward the banks, mortgage lenders, and home builders while people pay far more in interest over time and die before they ever pay off their home.
In debt forever, in debt for life!
Instead stop companies and asset managers from buying up single family homes, which has driven the price of homes and forced homebuyers to compete with corporations that turn thousands of homes into permanent rental homes.
PASS MY BILL - NO CAPITAL GAINS TAXES ON THE SALE OF YOUR PRIMARY HOME.
This will help people keep the equity they have earned owning their home for a very long time and likely allow them to lower the price of their home for sale since they won’t be paying taxes after they sell their home."
Source: @RepMTG
🚨🇺🇸 TRUMP FLOATS 50-YEAR MORTGAGES TO HELP YOUNG HOMEBUYERS
Trump compared the idea to FDR’s creation of the 30-year mortgage, which helped millions of Americans afford homes during the Great Depression.
A 50-year term could cut monthly payments and open the housing market to a new generation locked out by high prices and interest rates.
No formal policy has been announced yet, but the concept is already sparking debate.
If implemented, this would mark the biggest shift in U.S. mortgage lending since the 1930s - changing how Americans think about homeownership for decades to come.
Would you take a 50-year mortgage if it meant owning a home sooner?
Source: @EricLDaugh, @realDonaldTrump
🇺🇸 BIDEN: “THE PARTY’S BACK.” AMERICA: “ARE YA?”
Joe Biden, 82, stood under the soft lights of a Nebraska ballroom and declared, “The Democratic Party is back.”
The man once mocked for losing his fastball suddenly sounded like someone who remembered how to throw it.
Democrats just flipped two governorships and took City Hall in New York with a socialist.
The comeback tour has receipts.
And Biden - bandaged head, cancer scars, the weight of years on him - used it to swing one last time at Trump.
He accused him of “taking a wrecking ball to the country,” both literally (the East Wing is rubble) and figuratively (the Constitution’s not doing great either).
Then came the line that stopped the room:
“My son Beau should have been president, not me.”
It wasn’t politics. It was grief weaponized as legacy.
The old man knows history’s clock is ticking, and he’s still trying to outrun the ghost in his rearview.
Trump’s back in office, but Biden’s talking like a man who refuses to be erased.
If this was a farewell, it was a warning shot first.
Source: Fox News
🚨🇺🇸 BIDEN: TRUMP HAS TAKEN A WRECKING BALL TO THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE
“Anyone see what he’s done to the west and east wing of the People’s House, the White House?
It’s a perfect symbol of his presidency.
Trump has taken a wrecking ball not only to the People’s House, but to the Constitution, to the rule of law, to our very democracy.
And yet while doing this, Trump at the same time can provide, recently on his own account, a $40 billion line of credit to Argentina without even the government voting for it.”
Source: Fox
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: SHOOTER TARGETS BORDER PATROL IN CHICAGO
A shooter opened fire on Border Patrol agents in Chicago.
The shooting happened as agents were doing their thing near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue.
But wait, it gets weirder. Some agitators threw paint cans and bricks at Border Patrol vehicles. Yeah, really.
The cops showed up, cleared the scene, but the shooter? Still MIA.
DHS says this isn't a one-off. In fact, it's part of a bigger trend.
More assaults and obstacles popping up during federal law enforcement ops.
DHS also made it clear: This violence has to stop. Because if it doesn’t, things will only get worse.
Source: NY Post
🇺🇸 TOP BORDER CHIEF IN COURT OVER TEAR GAS USE IN CHICAGO CRACKDOWN
Gregory Bovino - Trump’s point man for “Operation Midway Blitz” - is about to trade his tactical vest for a witness stand.
A federal judge in Chicago has ordered the Border Patrol commander to appear in person after video surfaced showing him allegedly lobbing tear gas at protesters - a direct violation of a court order restricting chemical weapons.
Judge Sara Ellis had already told federal agents to give multiple warnings before deploying crowd control munitions.
The clip, filmed during an immigration raid on Chicago’s South Side, appears to show Bovino skipping that part.
DHS claims the crowd was violent - fireworks, rocks, chaos - and says Bovino acted lawfully after being hit in the head.
The department even doubled down, saying he’s “the best person to correct the judge’s misconceptions.”
Meaning: they’re not backing down.
Trump’s “Midway Blitz” has turned Chicago into a test case for federal muscle in America’s cities.
So far it’s produced arrests, protests, and 2 dueling court orders - one grounding National Guard deployments, another dragging DHS brass into court.
It’s law enforcement meets politics meets street theater - and this time, the man behind the mask has to face the judge.
Source: Reuters
