🇩🇪 Germany's Chancellor Merz admitted his party might lose eastern Germany to the "far-right."
Merz warned of a "big bang" in September 2026 if the CDU doesn't perform well in 2 key eastern state elections, where the AfD currently leads the polls.
The establishment is running out of time in the East.
AfD has been winning the region vote by vote for years, and centrist parties have no credible answer yet.
Source: Bloomberg
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Hold these three facts in your head at the same time, because Washington apparently can't...
Fact one:
The Pentagon reportedly raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest designation that exists.
That's the tier reserved for top adversaries like China and Russia, rating Israel above every American ally and above some of America's actual enemies.
The White House calls the reporting "false" and Israel categorically denies it, but the accounts are sourced to multiple current and former U.S. officials across two major outlets.
Fact two:
Netanyahu sent a personal letter to Rep. Marlin Stutzman endorsing a resolution to phase out U.S. military aid over a decade and replace it with what he called, in his own words, "my plan": a shift from aid to joint defense partnership spanning missile defense, AI, drones, and cyber.
Fact three:
A separate but parallel measure, Section 224 of the defense bill, would mandate structural integration: joint weapons production, linked military systems, and shared data between the two countries.
Two distinct legislative tracks, one direction: permanent entanglement with the country the Pentagon just reportedly flagged as a critical espionage threat.
Any functioning political system would treat fact one as disqualifying for facts two and three.
You do not wire your military networks into a government your own intelligence agencies say is running an "unhinged" collection campaign against your officials.
Counterintelligence 101 forbids it.
If China's leader sent a personal letter to a congressman describing his plan for U.S.-China defense integration while the Pentagon caught Chinese spyware on American officials' phones, every name attached to the bill would be under investigation by Friday.
Israel does both in the same month and gets a committee markup.
That gap is the most precise measurement we have of how compromised the system actually is.
Source: NYT, Reuters
Writer: Daniel
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Pentagon espionage bombshell just got worse...
New reporting confirms Israel has been eavesdropping on the American peace negotiators themselves.
The targets named: Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator with Iran. Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's policy chief.
And Michael DiMino, who runs Middle East policy.
Israel wasn't just collecting on America generally.
It was listening to the specific men writing the deal Netanyahu opposes.
What's wild is the documented incidents read like operations against an enemy state.
American defense personnel in Israel discovered spyware surreptitiously installed on their phones.
In 2021, Israeli military intelligence officers were caught planting listening devices at DIA headquarters.
Last year, Shin Bet officers were discovered trying to bug a Secret Service vehicle.
A SECRET SERVICE VEHICLE.
One senior official described the Israeli collection effort against top U.S. officials as "unhinged."
And the rating in context: Israel's counterintelligence threat level is now higher than any other American ally and EVEN HIGHER than some adversaries.
Notice who got targeted.
Colby is the most prominent advocate of foreign policy restraint in the government.
DiMino runs Mideast policy. Witkoff writes the deal.
Israel's espionage maps perfectly onto the people standing between Netanyahu and the war he wants to continue. They bugged the peace.
All of this while Israeli officers sit inside CENTCOM with unprecedented access, while Congress moves Section 224 to link the two militaries' systems and data permanently, and while Huckabee negotiates the framework.
The Pentagon says the ally is spying at a critical level.
Washington's answer is to hand them the keys to the network. Please make it make sense...
Source: NYT
U.S. forces shot down Iranian missiles and drones aimed toward Gulf allies and the Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM says six of seven ballistic missiles were intercepted, a seventh missed its target, and four one-way attack drones were taken down before threatening maritime traffic.
U.S. forces then struck Iranian coastal radar sites to prevent further attacks. No U.S. personnel were harmed.
The Pentagon has raised its assessment of an Israeli espionage threat against the United States to its highest level, according to US media reports citing sources.
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🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.
As if this story couldn't get and wilder:
-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization
-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war
-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold
-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches
-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting
-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens
The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.
The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.
A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...
Source: Washington Post
🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷 The Financial Times reports Anthropic has embedded roughly 6 engineers inside the NSA to deploy its Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, targeting networks in China and Iran.
Mythos was withheld from public release specifically because of its ability to autonomously discover and exploit vulnerabilities. The NSA is now using exactly that capability.
Meanwhile Anthropic is simultaneously suing the Pentagon after the DoD labeled the company a supply chain risk (the first time a US company has received that designation) for refusing to allow its Claude models to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
🚨🇺🇸 YouTubers staking out Area 51 may have just caught the first wild footage of the F-47, America's sixth-generation fighter.
If real, this is the plane built to dominate skies for the next 40 years.
President Trump said he is considering taking a government stake in leading artificial intelligence companies.
Industry leaders will soon gather at the White House to discuss the idea, the president said. https://t.co/ukBvBQWCwM
US SPECIAL FORCES conduct Maduro kidnapping style raid training in California
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🇺🇸 Outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard is using her final weeks in office to declassify intelligence on COVID origins and Havana Syndrome before June 30, per an ODNI official.
The releases will come in weekly installments. A CIA whistleblower recently testified that Fauci and Biden's intel chief actively suppressed evidence pointing to a Wuhan lab leak. The CIA disputes it.
Gabbard's office has already released over 500,000 pages of previously classified documents during her tenure.
Source: The Daily Caller, @emilyakopp