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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The rescue of the downed Apache pilots may be a first in the history of warfare.

No helicopter, no warship.

With the threat of more Iranian drones lurking, the U.S. sent an unmanned drone boat on a two-hour run across the strait.

The pilots climbed aboard, rode it out of the kill zone, and were winched up safely.

A robot saved two American lives where no manned rescue dared to fly.

Source: @MalcolmNance / NYP / Writer: Daniel

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇦🇺 The U.S. Navy just stood up a permanent base in Perth, Australia.

Naval Support Activity Stirling went official on May 30th, built specifically to anchor the Submarine Rotational Force-West under the AUKUS framework.

This is the U.S. planting roots in the Indo-Pacific, not just rotating ships through. A permanent facility means sustained submarine presence, sustained logistics, and a sustained message to Beijing that the alliance isn't going anywhere.

Australia just became a frontline platform for American sea power in the Pacific.

Source: U.S. Navy, @sentdefender / Writers: Daniyal , Oliver

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The world spent $119 billion on nuclear weapons in 2025.

The U.S. alone spent $69.2 billion of that. More than every other nuclear power on Earth combined.

That's a 22% jump in a single year.

China up 7%. Russia up 6%. Britain just overtook Russia as the #3 spender at $12.6 billion.

Every major power is spending more. But the U.S. is accelerating faster than all of them.

Two ways to read this: either Washington sees a threat serious enough to justify the biggest nuclear buildup in years, or it's signaling dominance so hard that Beijing and Moscow feel forced to respond in kind.

Source: Reuters / Writer: Sol

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺🇨🇳 The European Union's share of the global economy has fallen from 30% to 17% in just 17 years.

That's roughly the same relative decline China experienced during the Qing Dynasty.

The difference?

China took about 50 years.

Europe did it in 17.

For decades, Europe helped shape the global economy, global institutions, and the rules of the international order.

Now it's increasingly adapting to a world being shaped by others.

The real question is whether Europe still knows how to stop it.

Source: legrandcontinent, Counter Intelligence Global (Telegram)

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 ROLLS-ROYCE JUST RAN A JET ENGINE ON 100% HYDROGEN AND IT REACHED FULL TAKE-OFF POWER.

In a landmark test, a Rolls-Royce jet engine successfully operated at full thrust using only hydrogen fuel for the first time in history.

The engine was tested across a complete simulated flight cycle, including fault scenarios, proving that hydrogen can not only burn inside a modern aero gas turbine but can deliver the power needed for real commercial flight.

Why this matters:
• Aviation is one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize
• Hydrogen produces zero CO₂ when burned — only water
• This test validates that hydrogen combustion, fuel systems, and engine controls can work together at full power
• It moves hydrogen aviation from theory into practical engineering reality

The deeper implication is huge:
We are now seeing the first real proof that large commercial aircraft could one day fly on hydrogen instead of kerosene.

While many challenges remain (especially hydrogen storage and airport infrastructure), this test removes one of the biggest technical doubts: whether a jet engine can actually deliver full power on hydrogen.

The race toward zero-emission flight just took a major step forward.

What do you think will hydrogen or battery-electric eventually power most commercial flights?

Follow for more frontier energy and sustainable technology.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING

🇪🇺 FINALLY! The EU has woken up.

After years of open borders, chaos and crime, Brussels just approved “RETURN HUBS” in third countries to deport rejected migrants.

Longer detentions, home raids and real consequences.

The illegal migration party is over.

Europe is starting to defend itself.

Orbán was right all along.

They called him a racist and isolated him. Now the entire EU is copying what his gov. warned about from day one.

No one listened… and now they’re paying the price.

Source: France 24

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The U.S. Army just ran a massive hackathon called Operation Jailbreak.

Engineers from Boeing, Palantir, Anduril and others flew to Fort Carson to solve something that has plagued the army for years: American weapons can't talk to each other.

In days, five companies built a machine-gun robot networked into drones and counter-drones, controlled from a single screen.

The Army Secretary wants solutions deployed to CENTCOM within 30 days to counter Iranian drones.

It only took a war, a hackathon, and probably tons of energy drinks to get there.

Source: Financial Times

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Bessent on Iran: “We have seized about $1 billion of Iran’s crypto. We just outright grabbed the wallets.”

“Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize their wallet has been grabbed.”

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 SEC. SCOTT BESSENT SAYS IT PERFECTLY: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs, gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others."

"That is a DANGEROUS dependency for any country. It is an unacceptable one for the United States of America." 🇺🇸

"The truth is that for too long, America had been asleep. We mistook comfort for strength. We substituted efficiency for resilience and consumption as a measure of prosperity."'

"We told ourselves that so long as goods were cheaper overseas, it did not matter whether factories went dark in Michigan, Ohio, or Pennsylvania."

"We assumed that supply chains would always function smoothly, and adversaries would always behave responsibly, and the invisible hand would correct vulnerabilities that too few in public life had the courage to confront. And while we reassured ourselves with those assumptions, risk accumulated all around us."

"Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of a foundational principle that previous generations understood instinctively."

🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

THE HUMAN BODY

1: Number of bones: 206
2: Number of bones of a newborn baby: 306
3: Number of muscles: 639
4: Number of kidneys: 2
5: Number of baby teeth: 20
6: Number of adult teeth: 32
7: Number of ribs: 24
8: Number of heart chambers: 4
9: Largest artery: aorta
10: Normal blood pressure: 120/80 Mm hg
11: Blood pH: 7.4
12: Number of vertebrae in the spine: 33
13: Number of neck vertebrae: 7
14: Number of bones in the middle ear: 6
15: Number of face bones: 14
16: Number of skull bones: 22
17: Number of chest bones: 25
18: Number of arm’s bones: 6
19: Number of arm’s muscles: 72
20: Smaller muscle: stapedius (6 mm)
21: Largest and most resistant bone: femur
22: Number of foot bones: 33
23: Number of bones in each wrist: 8
24: Number of bones in each hand: 27
25: Largest organ: skin
26: Heaviest internal organ and largest gland: liver
27: Largest cell: egg cell
28: Smallest cell: spermatozoon
29: Smallest bone: ossicle of the middle ear
30: Average length of the small intestine: 7 m
31: Average length of the large intestine: 1.5 m
32: Average heartbeat frequency: 72 bpm
33: Normal average body temperature: 37°C (98.4°F)
34: Average blood volume: 4.5 / 5.5 liters
35: Average life span of a red blood cell: 120 days
36: Average life span of a white blood cell: 10/15 days
37: Average life span of a platelet: 5/9 days
38: Average gestation period: 280 days (40 weeks)
39: Largest endocrine cell: thyroid
40: Largest lymphatic organ: spleen
41: Number of chromosomes: 46
42: Averagle blood viscosity: 3.5 / 5.5 cP
43: Universal donor blood type: O
44: Universal recipient blood type: AB
45: Largest white blood cell: monocyte
46: Smallest white blood cell: lymfocite
47: Number of cranial nerves: 12 pairs
48: Number of spinal nerves: 31 pairs
49: Approximate number of cells: ~ 30 trillions
50: Average number of neurons: ~ 86 billions

The human body is an amazing machine, but don’t forget that nature wants 5 of your 7 children dead. It wants you dead by 40. Everything better than that is brought to you by science.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇨🇳 A China bill might take out a German icon

Mercedes-Benz could get locked out of the U.S. market, banned from making or selling cars here, not for anything it built, but for who owns a slice of it.

A bipartisan bill, the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026, would bar any automaker with "any direct or indirect equity interest by a foreign-adversary government" from selling in the U.S. Aimed at China.

The snag is Mercedes' biggest single shareholder, China's state-owned BAIC at 9.98%. Add Geely's Li Shufu and Chinese hands hold nearly 20%.

Sources who've read the text say it could ban Mercedes outright, even though analysts call it a far smaller risk than an actual Chinese brand. A stray bullet, not a targeted shot.

The fix is easy on paper, tweak the bill or BAIC sells down. Whether Washington bothers before a German giant gets caught is the open question.

Source: CNBC

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

The United States Government will not tolerate any effort to impose a tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz. Oman, in particular, should know that the U.S. Treasury will aggressively target any actors involved - directly or indirectly - in facilitating tolls for the Strait and any willing partners will be penalized. All nations should reject outright any efforts by Iran to disrupt the free flow of commerce. Tehran’s days of terrorizing the region and the world are over.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Your gut is full of plastic right now.
You can't see it. You can't feel it. But nanoplastics are slipping past your intestinal walls and lodging into your brain, kidneys, and bloodstream.
Now scientists think they've found something that fights back.
Kimchi.
Yes, the spicy fermented cabbage sitting in Korean fridges for centuries.
Researchers at the World Institute of Kimchi isolated a specific lactic acid bacterium from the dish called Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656.
What it does is wild.
The bacterium grabs onto nanoplastic particles inside your intestine, clings to them, and helps your body flush them out through waste.
In lab tests, it bound to polystyrene nanoplastics with an 87% success rate. Even inside conditions designed to mimic the human gut, it held strong at 57%.
Then came the mice.
Mice given the kimchi bacterium passed more than double the nanoplastics in their feces compared to mice that didn't get it.
Translation: the plastic was leaving the body instead of building up inside it.
This matters because nanoplastics are smaller than one micrometer. Tiny enough to cross the gut barrier. Tiny enough to settle into organs you can't reach.
A side dish might be doing what science couldn't crack.
Source: Bioresource Technology, World Institute of Kimchi (Lee et al., 2026)

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Marco Rubio announces that as a DIRECT result of President Trump stopping the Armenia-Azerbaijan war, we have secured another CRITICAL MINERALS agreement

China can't believe it!

"Armenia. This is a key linchpin of the peace deal that you were able to achieve between Armenia and Azerbaijan."

"And in addition to that, we also signed a critical minerals, MOU with them and a strategic engagement one as well."

"So just a reminder of another war you helped settle, Mr. President. But from that has now we are seeing the emergence of a great new relationship with Armenia that really had grown stagnant for a very long period of time."

LFG!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WOW! Marco Rubio reveals the US has now secured deportation agreements with 20 third-party countries to deport our illegals to

And DHS is using that as LEVERAGE to get illegals to stop putting up fights to go back to their home countries

If you tell them they're going to Cameroon, for example, they'll give up and say "just send me home to El Salvador instead" 😆

"We've gotten 20 countries now around the world who have signed agreements that allow us to deport people to those places."

"What often happens when you go to the person who's here unlawfully and say, 'we're going to send you to this third country' is all of a sudden they decide they'd rather go back to their home country instead."

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Sydney Crime Boss Shot Dead in Saigon. Samoan Hitmen Caught Hiding in Sihanoukville.

Lorenzo Laemalu, 24, was shot dead outside the Cee'f restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City's Ben Thanh Ward on May 21. Another Australian, Sauni Sam, was critically wounded. Laemalu was a senior figure in Sydney's Coconut Cartel, whose leadership had been running operations from Southeast Asia since fleeing Australia. He was previously tied to the Alameddine crime network through Proper 60, a Merrylands street gang whose name he had tattooed across his stomach.

Vaa Vaa and Tafia Steve flew into Vietnam on May 14 using fake Vietnamese-Australian passports in the names Lang Kenny Trong Minh Do and Justin John White. They watched the victims for a week before opening fire with military-grade weapons. Eight Vietnamese have been detained for allegedly helping them flee, including a driver who works the route to the Cambodian border.

The shooters made it across Cambodia to Sihanoukville. Cambodian police arrested them at a rental house in Sangkat 2 on May 24, acting on a request from Vietnam's Criminal Police Department. Vietnamese police described the arrest as "near the Vietnam-Cambodia border." Messages purportedly from the Alameddine network claimed credit for the killing.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Today, @DrSJaishankar and I signed a bilateral Critical Minerals Framework, marking a milestone in the strategic partnership between the U.S. and India.

This sets us on a path toward reliable & resilient mineral supply chains, reinforcing key objectives established by @POTUS.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 NASA IS GOING BACK TO THE MOON TO STAY, Building a Permanent Base on the Lunar South Pole!

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman just laid it out: “We are going back to the moon to stay… We’re building a moon base.”

Uncrewed robotic landings starting this summer, crewed missions soon after, and rovers driving around the lunar surface. This is President Trump’s vision in action, not just planting flags and footprints, but creating real infrastructure, scientific breakthroughs, and economic value.

We’re leveraging American innovation and commercial power to beat China in the new space race and inspire the next generation.

This is what American greatness and exploration look like. The sky is not the limit — it’s just the beginning.

Mars is next.

Let’s go, America!

@foxandfriends

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

You've seen this scar on older people's arms. That weird little starburst on the shoulder.

It's not from a normal shot.

The smallpox vaccine wasn't injected like a regular jab. They used a bifurcated needle - basically a tiny fork with two prongs. Invented in 1965 by a guy named Benjamin Rubin, who ground down the eye of a sewing machine needle to make it.

Here's the wild part. You dip the needle in the vaccine and one drop gets caught between the prongs. That's the whole dose. Then you jab the arm 15 times, fast. Quick shallow pricks, just deep enough to draw a bit of blood and slip the weakened virus into the skin.

Your immune system does the rest. Red bump. Blister. Pus. Scab. Falls off. Scar for life.

The mark isn't from the needle. It's from your body fighting the virus. And the reason it looks like a starburst instead of a dot? Those 15 rapid punctures.

That scar is basically a receipt. Proof you survived one of the deadliest diseases in human history before we wiped it off the planet.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Under President Trump, we have ushered in a new golden age for U.S.-Japan relations that upholds a free and open Indo-Pacific and brings peace and prosperity to the region. I met with Japanese Foreign Minister @Moteging today to talk about keeping the momentum as we work together bilaterally and through the Quad.