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🇩🇪 A German man called Olaf Scholz a bastard on Twitter because his Fortnite update was going at 173KB/s

The German state responded with a formal written criminal accusation under defamation law.

The tweet had 503 views.

The man had downloaded 102MB of a 37.9GB file.

He had 37,800MB left to go. The police got there before the download did.

🚨🇺🇸 The Thomas Massie primary tomorrow is the most consequential election in America before 2028...

Massie has been the lone Republican consistently voting against Israel aid, foreign wars, and Trump's biggest spending bills.

Trump just posted a TikTok from the Oval Office calling him "the worst congressman in the history of our country" and urging Kentucky voters to "put him out of business tomorrow."

The money tells the rest.

AIPAC's super PAC dropped $2.6 million against him, the Republican Jewish Coalition $4 million, and a Trump-aligned super PAC backed by Paul Singer, John Paulson, and a group linked to Miriam Adelson added another $2 million.

Total spending has crossed $34 million, the most expensive House primary in U.S. history.

If Massie wins anyway, the message is undeniable: MAGA voters do not automatically follow Trump on foreign policy, AIPAC's leverage has a ceiling, and the 2028 primary just got a lot more interesting...

Source: Al Jazeera, Axios

🇺🇸 The Secretary of War just showed up to a House primary race.

Pete Hegseth flew to Kentucky on official duty, awarded Purple Hearts, swore in soldiers, then walked straight into a campaign rally against Thomas Massie the day before his primary. The Pentagon calls that "personal capacity."

Massie's crime was independence. He voted against Trump's tax bill, pushed back on the war in Iran, and stood with 2 other Republicans who tried to pull U.S. forces out of hostilities with Tehran.

So Trump posted at midnight yesterday calling him "the worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country," then woke up and sent his Defense Secretary to finish the job.

$25.6 million spent, the most expensive House primary in U.S. history, 3 billionaires from outside Kentucky funneling money in, and they still needed Hegseth to physically show up.

This was never just about Kentucky. When you send this much firepower after one congressman, you're sending a message to every Republican who still thinks for themselves.

Massie read it perfectly. "You can tell that I'm ahead in the polls and they're desperate. That's why they're sending the secretary of War to my district tomorrow."

Source: THE HILL

All The World's Births in 2025 🤱

1. 🇮🇳 India - 23.07 Million
2. 🇨🇳 China - 8.71 Million
3. 🇳🇬 Nigeria - 7.64 Million
4. 🇵🇰 Pakistan - 6.91 Million
5. 🇨🇩 DR Congo - 4.56 Million
6. 🇮🇩 Indonesia - 4.44 Million
7. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia - 4.18 Million
8. 🇺🇸 United States - 3.66 Million
9. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 3.44 Million
10. 🇧🇷 Brazil - 2.53 Million
11. 🇪🇬 Egypt - 2.45 Million
12. 🇹🇿 Tanzania - 2.42 Million
13. 🇲🇽 Mexico - 2.00 Million
14. 🇵🇭 Philippines - 1.85 Million
15. 🇺🇬 Uganda - 1.73 Million
16. 🇸🇩 Sudan - 1.66 Million
17. 🇰🇪 Kenya - 1.54 Million
18. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan - 1.51 Million
19. 🇦🇴 Angola - 1.43 Million
20. 🇾🇪 Yemen - 1.40 Million
21. 🇻🇳 Vietnam - 1.33 Million
22. 🇲🇿 Mozambique - 1.30 Million
23. 🇷🇺 Russia - 1.24 Million
24. 🇮🇶 Iraq - 1.19 Million
25. 🇿🇦 South Africa - 1.18 Million
26. 🇳🇪 Niger - 1.14 Million
27. 🇮🇷 Iran - 1.13 Million
28. 🇹🇷 Türkiye - 1.05 Million
29. 🇲🇬 Madagascar - 1.02 Million
30. 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire - 1.02 Million
31. 🇲🇱 Mali - 987K
32. 🇨🇲 Cameroon - 981K
33. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 911K
34. 🇹🇩 Chad - 907K
35. 🇬🇭 Ghana - 898K
36. 🇲🇲 Myanmar - 888K
37. 🇩🇿 Algeria - 855K
38. 🇸🇴 Somalia - 822K
39. 🇯🇵 Japan - 748K
40. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso - 742K
41. 🇿🇲 Zambia - 709K
42. 🇩🇪 Germany - 708K
43. 🇨🇴 Colombia - 693K
44. 🇲🇼 Malawi - 685K
45. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 680K
46. 🇫🇷 France - 635K
47. 🇲🇦 Morocco - 619K
48. 🇸🇾 Syria - 601K
49. 🇹🇭 Thailand - 572K
50. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 565K
51. 🇳🇵 Nepal - 552K
52. 🇸🇳 Senegal - 548K
53. 🇵🇪 Peru - 536K
54. 🇦🇷 Argentina - 508K
55. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - 501K
56. 🇬🇳 Guinea - 495K
57. 🇧🇯 Benin - 490K
58. 🇧🇮 Burundi - 469K
59. 🇲🇾 Malaysia - 440K
60. 🇻🇪 Venezuela - 436K
61. 🇷🇼 Rwanda - 404K
62. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - 395K
63. 🇮🇹 Italy - 383K
64. 🇬🇹 Guatemala - 380K
65. 🇨🇦 Canada - 361K
66. 🇸🇸 South Sudan - 358K
67. 🇰🇭 Cambodia - 355K
68. 🇰🇵 North Korea - 335K
69. 🇪🇸 Spain - 330K
70. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka - 318K
71. 🇦🇺 Australia - 304K
72. 🇵🇱 Poland - 297K
73. 🇹🇬 Togo - 296K
74. 🇪🇨 Ecuador - 268K
75. 🇹🇯 Tajikistan - 265K
76. 🇧🇴 Bolivia - 261K
77. 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone - 260K
78. 🇭🇹 Haiti - 257K
79. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel is demolishing east Khan Younis in broad daylight.

The Israeli army is carrying out a large-scale demolition operation east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

A ceasefire has technically been in effect since October 2025. The demolitions are continuing anyway.

Source: Al Jazeera

TRUMP-XI JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF WHAT THEY AGREED ON ABOUT IRAN AND HORMUZ

Not vague summaries. Not "productive talks." NAMED COMMITMENTS. SPECIFIC POINTS. Item by item.

🇺🇸 US companies get expanded access to Chinese markets — signed off in Beijing, May 14
🇨🇳 China increases investment into the United States
🇺🇸 China cracks down harder on fentanyl flowing into America
🌾 China buys more American agricultural products
🛢 Hormuz Strait must stay open — both sides committed in writing
⚓ China explicitly opposes militarization of the Strait of Hormuz
⛽ China opposes anyone charging tolls to pass through Hormuz
🛳 China will buy MORE American oil specifically to reduce its own dependence on the Hormuz route
☢️ Both sides agree: Iran cannot have nuclear weapons

💀 9 named commitments
💀 ZERO quantitative targets in the readout
💀 ZERO new enforcement board created
💀 100% of the Hormuz points exist because Iran nearly shut the world's oil supply in February 2026

Every point on this list exists because Brent crude hit $113 a barrel after US-Israel strikes on Iran triggered the largest oil disruption in modern history. Not diplomacy for its own sake. CRISIS MANAGEMENT.

China is Iran's top oil buyer. China just publicly told Tehran that a closed Hormuz is bad for Beijing too.

The 2020 Phase One deal had the same structure. China missed almost every agricultural target in that deal. This readout has no numbers and no referee.

I'll share more details shortly so turn on notifications, this is VERY important.

🚨 THE NEXT 72 HOURS. DAY BY DAY. BOOKMARK THIS.

📅 TODAY — May 13
→ Air Force One lands in Beijing with 12+ named CEOs aboard — Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, BlackRock, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, GE, Qualcomm, Micron, Blackstone, Cargill
→ Jensen Huang boarded during the Alaska refueling stop — last-minute addition
→ Trump confirms "many other" undisclosed CEOs also on the plane
→ The largest corporate delegation ever to accompany a sitting U.S. president touches down in China

📅 MAY 14 — Day 1 of Summit
→ Trump and Xi sit down for formal talks
→ The ask: Xi opens China's market to U.S. business — directly, officially, on camera
→ 12+ of the most powerful CEOs in the world are in the room or the building
→ Combined market cap of companies represented: over $10,000,000,000,000

📅 MAY 15 — Day 2 / Outcomes
→ Deal announcements expected — or silence that speaks louder
→ Every CEO on that plane needs something specific from Beijing: chip licenses, manufacturing access, supply chain agreements, financial market entry
→ If Xi says yes to even half of it, the trade war framework changes overnight
→ If Xi says no, 12 CEOs flew to China for nothing — and markets will price that immediately

72 hours. Every step has precedent. Every prediction has math.

Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of U.S.-China relations.

The outcome of this trip will move markets more than any Fed meeting this year.

Bookmark this. Come back May 15.

if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The classified intelligence on Iran's military just leaked, and it directly contradicts everything Trump and Hegseth have been telling the country...

Reports citing classified U.S. intelligence assessments from early this month show Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz.

Only three remain inaccessible.

The remaining sites contain mobile launchers that can be moved and missiles that can be fired directly from the facilities.

Nationwide, Iran retains roughly 70% of its mobile launchers and 70% of its prewar missile stockpile.

About 90% of underground missile storage and launch facilities are now assessed as partially or fully operational.

Satellite imagery and multiple intelligence collection streams confirm the assessments.

Compare that with what Americans have been told.

Trump on CBS News, March 9: Iran's "missiles are down to a scatter" and the country has "nothing left in a military sense."

Hegseth at his Pentagon news conference April 8: Operation Epic Fury "decimated Iran's military and rendered it combat-ineffective for years to come."

The intelligence describing Iran's current capabilities is dated less than a month after that briefing.

For Trump heading to Beijing tonight, this is brutal context.

He arrives at the summit with the war on "massive life support," American gas prices climbing, $29 billion already spent, munitions stockpiles depleted, and now reports that the central military objective of Operation Epic Fury was largely not achieved.

Xi will be reading the same intelligence assessments.

The leverage Beijing brings to the table just expanded again.

Source: NYT