Robotspierre

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[Robotspierre @sacredrobe]

lolllll

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.

More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.

[Jennifer Parker @JAParker29]

Extraordinary.

No, this is not part of collision regulations.

“🇷🇺’s defence ministry said it fired the shots to divert the yacht that approached on a dangerous course in the English Channel’

🔗https://t.co/V0r37RCGbe

[Robotspierre @sacredrobe]

What a child

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Donald Trump will lift the Fifa World Cup trophy with the winning team, per TSN

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

It was an open secret in the U.K. national security community that Russia was responsible for the attacks on Keir Starmer’s old property; I discussed it with multiple colleagues at the time, debating if we could report it without prejudicing the trial. Ultimately we couldn’t.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Trump: "The current Iranian leadership are very rational people. They are nice to deal with, they are strong and smart people. They are not radicalized, and they are looking to help their country."

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Someone looked through an FPV drone camera, saw an elderly woman in a wheelchair, and decided to kill her.

An 87-year-old woman and her son were killed by a Russian FPV drone in Nikopol. Police are still working to identify a third victim.

[Robotspierre @sacredrobe]

Missed opportunity to sink the frigate

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

Not exactly a major crisis. “the small, motor-less yacht had drifted towards the warship in foggy conditions after setting off from the UK. The Russian vessel fired warning shots after sounding an audible warning to get the yacht to move out of its way.” https://t.co/ZzNNE3oHHP

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.

JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?

ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.

JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?

ZELENSKYY: I love you.

JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?

ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.

JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?

ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.

And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.

JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?

ZELENSKYY: No.

JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?

ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

[Robotspierre @sacredrobe]

Plenty, PLENTY of that is going into various pockets

[Jonathan O'Connell @jocwapo]

NEW on Trump White House ballroom:

Internal reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s ballroom project, with half from taxpayers w/@Blaskey_S

Estimate is $200 million more than Trump has said publicly

https://t.co/RBOiAcAFC8

[Michael O’Brien @DrOBrienMD]

Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…

Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?

[Jonathan O'Connell @jocwapo]

NEW on Trump White House ballroom:

Internal reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s ballroom project, with half from taxpayers w/@Blaskey_S

Estimate is $200 million more than Trump has said publicly

https://t.co/RBOiAcAFC8

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

The Nasdaq is outperforming bitcoin even over a 5-year time horizon again. Over a one-year horizon the spread is over 70 percentage points (Nasdaq + 35%, Bitcoin -38%)

[Oana Lungescu @LungescuOana]

Russia is increasingly recruiting proxies online to destabilise our democracies with increasingly brazen attacks, such as the arson targeting the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Important investigation by @BBCNews.

[Maria Popova 🇨🇦 @PopovaProf]

There’s no legitimate reason for Ru to insist on Zelensky coming to Moscow to negotiate. First, it requires unreasonable benefit of the doubt to accept they won’t kill/imprison him. Second, the Kremlin obviously wants to create the appearance that he’d travel to surrender.

[molly taft @mollytaft]

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xai in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security

lots of wild stuff in the filing, more here https://t.co/QWtspbtzU4

[Olesya Khromeychuk @OKhromeychuk]

As we grieve after yet another attack on cultural heritage, let us remember: Ukrainian culture—and its culture-makers—are targeted by Russia precisely because culture is a form of resistance. Preserving world cultural heritage, and punishing those who attack it, is our duty. 1/2

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025.

In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft.
https://t.co/0xpILXnURG

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

It also repeats the claim that Iran will only receive frozen assets "tied to performance", but nobody has said a word about what the metrics are going to be

Beyond that, a very revealing document. What did the war accomplish? The two main "achievements" cited here are reopening Hormuz (which was open before the war) and securing an Iranian promise, "in writing", not to build a nuclear bomb (which was literally in the first paragraph of the JCPOA)

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

State-backed proxy militias, as you find them in Sudan, Lebanon or Iraq