⚡️🚢 NEW - Hormuz traffic sends mixed signals

Iran appears to be pursuing a calibrated strategy in the Strait of Hormuz, using selective vessel passage as strategic signalling rather than imposing full disruption. According to Marine Traffic data, some activity may be resuming, with nine vessels having crossed since yesterday, including the Marivex, Jasmin, Bright Gold, Lenore, Jag Vasant, Pine Gas, Kiazand, Artman, and Levantes.

Some of these movements appear to be taking place outside the IMO traffic separation scheme, close to Qeshm Island, raising questions about route control, risk exposure, and whether this reflects a genuine resumption of activity or a more constrained traffic pattern.

⚡🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - US Marine veteran drops a massive truth bomb on live TV. He demands to know why Israel won't send its own soldiers to fight Iran, and exposes the brutal, cruel reality of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. "They are the true terrorists."

⚡🇩🇪🥞🤖 TECH - The German company Maus Robotics has developed a machine capable of making crepes in a fully automated process.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Wisconsin Sheriff Michael J. Bouchard confirmed that a man was arrested after distributing an offensive internet meme depicting him with a Jewish star on his forehead, calling it antisemitic.

The sheriff said the man was “trying to threaten and intimidate” him by posting the meme.

He said the First Amendment makes people “feel empowered, emboldened, and safe,” so he had to teach the public a lesson.

⚡️🗣️ NEW - “It looks like the Israelis are succeeding in everything that they’re doing, but history is funny that way,” Jeremy Scahill told Daniel Davis.

He warned Israel may have “overshot” in a very serious way with it’s military campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, and now Iran, adding, “I think we’ll look back years from now and see this as a huge historic crossroads in the history of the Middle East.”

But while Netanyahu believes he’s paving the path to a “Greater Israel,” Scahill said he could go down as the single most influential figure in initiating the destruction of the entire Zionist project.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - Ana Kasparian: “Do we really want to be allies with a country [Israel] that kidnaps young girls for r*pe, just so they can have dirt on American politicians and control our foreign policy?”

⚡️🇵🇸 NEW - Five months after the Gaza ceasefire entered what was designated as phase two, conditions for the besieged enclave's two million displaced Palestinian residents remain largely unchanged.

⚡️🇮🇱🇮🇷 NEW - Iranian missiles/fragments made impact in 7 different areas in Tel Aviv, Israel, this morning.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Trailer for Cool Story Bro: an upcoming indie multiplayer party game.

Two to four players create and present absurd short stories from random words, then vote on the best ones.

The player with the lowest rating gets cartoonishly shot and eliminated.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area.

"If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything."

"As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land."