🇾🇪🇸🇦 Houthis to Saudi: That blazing oil refinery you got? We did that!! In a statement, the Houthis said it targeted the Aramco oil facility in Jizan with drones and that the attack was in response to Saudi attacks on Yemen’s Saada and Hajjah provinces Saudi authorities announced a short while ago the blaze had been extinguished, but conveniently forgot to mention what had caused the fire in the first place Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Ian

🇮🇱 An Israeli Holocaust scholar received $250,000 after a university canceled him Raz Segal said that weaponizing antisemitism by treating every Jewish person as responsible for the actions of a state endangers Jews. The University of Minnesota withdrew his offer to lead their Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 2024. Now they’ve settled with him for a quarter of a million dollars. Writer: Val

🇺🇸This might be one of the wildest things to come out of Grokathon. A team connected Grok Voice to brain-sensing tech and built an app that lets someone talk… without ever opening their mouth. Imagine giving a real voice to people who physically can’t speak. Absolutely life-changing. Writer: Val

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Bessent just said the Strait of Hormuz is basically getting demoted from "world's most critical chokepoint" to "random body of water" within 2 years The plan: underground pipelines handling 50-70% of what currently moves through it, making Iran's favorite leverage play useless. Think about what Iran loses here. Their single biggest geopolitical trump card, gone. Source: CIG on TG / Writer: Oliver

🇺🇸 Vance unloaded on Michigan Dem. candidate Abdul El Sayed: the guy claims to fight for working people but opposed Trump’s moves that helped save the state’s auto industry. He also called him out for going personal against his family rather than debating solutions., labeling him (El Sayed) an odd guy whose vision is really about heavy taxes feeding Democratic interest groups, not rebuilding a strong middle class where families can thrive on solid manufacturing jobs. If your best campaign policy is being against the VP... not the best call. Writer: Lucas

🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Iran war is basically a gift to China right now. Fmr. Counterterrorism Chief Director Joe Kent said the U.S. is stuck in the Middle East while China burns no resources, buys the oil, and shifts deals to its currency. They’re learning exactly how we fight without spending a single bullet of their own. And the longer this drags on, the stronger their hand gets against America. Writer: Lucas

🇺🇸 The draft isn’t coming back tomorrow, but the machinery got a major upgrade. On July 22 the Selective Service System put out a formal request for contractors to build a full computer simulation of large-scale mobilization. They’re modeling every step: registration, lottery selection, notification, delivery to MEPS stations, medical classification, and even the alternative service track for conscientious objectors. The goal is to test how fast the system could actually move people under surge conditions and where it would bottleneck. At the same time, a law already signed takes effect December 19. From that date every eligible man aged 18–26 will be automatically registered using federal data the government already holds. No more self-reporting, the names get pulled out FOR them. These are two different moves: One is a readiness exercise, and the other is administrative automation. Neither is a draft, but turning registration into actual conscription still requires a separate act of Congress and a presidential order, the same high bar that has kept the all-volunteer force in place since 1973. Still, the combination is the clearest signal yet that the contingency plans are being taken out of the drawer and stress-tested. Source: Littoria (Telegram) / Writer: Val

🇮🇱 Israeli FM Gideon Sa'ar says antisemitism is all the rage these days, and blames two groups... "For a few decades after the Holocaust, antisemitism became less fashionable, but that has changed and it's now fashionable again... We see who is leading antisemitism today, it is mainly radical Muslims and the radical left." Israel released a report some months back denouncing the world's most "dangerous" antisemites, and most of the Top 10 were neither Muslim nor leftist... I think they just see it wherever they look 😂 Writer: Michael

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S military is officially out of ideas on how to tackle Iran According to CNN, the Pentagon sent out an email asking troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran That's CNN, not the Babylon Bee The bizarre request came from an officer in U.S Central Command’s intelligence branch, and when it hit the press, CENTCOM tried to explain it away: "U.S Central Command has a long history of thinking and working in innovative ways." Yeah, right Source: CNN / Writer: Ian

🇺🇸 Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "[RFK Jr.] may bankrupt the vaccine manufacturers & then NO ONE gets a vaccine." With the amount of tax incentives big pharma receives, the only thing being manufactured would be the bankruptcy of your cash cows, Sen. Warren. Writer: Claudio

🇺🇸 RFK Jr. says the government is reopening the VACCINE AUTISM question, because he believes major gaps were buried under decades of assurances. He confirmed Trump wants the issue investigated further, and argues existing research focused heavily on the MMR vaccine or specific ingredients. Other childhood vaccines were NEVER properly studied for a possible connection to autism... Writers: Sol, Michael

🇮🇹🇪🇸 Italian PM Meloni just drew a HARD line on Ceuta, Spain. The uncontrolled illegal immigration is a direct threat to Europe’s borders. She’s already talked to her Interior Minister. Italy is ready to hit the emergency button, including SUSPENDING Schengen with Spain if needed! Borders. Traffickers. Real repatriations. No more watching from the sidelines. Source: @GiorgiaMeloni / Writer: Claudio

🚨🇯🇵 Multiple people are reportedly trapped inside the Aeon Mall in Kumamoto after an explosion tore through the shopping center. Firefighters received reports of a blast, then white smoke rising from the mall. It hit shortly after the major earthquake struck the region, though it's not clear the two are linked. Sources: NHK, AFP / Writer: Julie

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "In Gaza, we destroy not only what is underground, but also all the houses. Today, nearly 70% of Gaza has been destroyed." Notice his pride in saying that. What a disturbing lack of humanity... Writer: Samuel

🇨🇳🇸🇰 Xi Jinping welcomed Slovak President Peter Pellegrini to Beijing today, for a state visit. He's hoping Slovakia will play an important role in promoting the growth of China-EU relations. Between tariffs, war strains, and Trump's own mercurial nature, China's leader sees an opening... Source: Reuters / Writer: Michael

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "The Southern Command chief told me, 'I don't see any houses, I see the seashore.' We destroyed Gaza." That's a pretty psychopathic thing to say. Then they wonder why Israel is viewed so negatively outside the country... Writer: Samuel

🇮🇱🇹🇷🇸🇾 Israeli Minister of Energy Cohen: "We will NOT accept Turkey's entrenchment in Syria. If Turkey establishes bases in Syria, we will also act to establish bases within Syria itself." Ahmed al-Sharaa has his work cut out for him... Both Israel and Turkey are competing to shape the power vacuum left post-Assad; Syria has become a key geopolitical battleground, whether it wants to be or not. Writer: Samuel

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin Aide Nikolai Patrushev: "We taught China how to do everything. We taught them. We shouldn't think that they will teach us something new." Back in the '50s, Stalin and Khrushchev sent thousands of engineers, scientists, and military advisors to help jumpstart China's industry and defense. So, he's not wrong. But hardliners in Russia seem to be having a hard time accepting their more junior role, relative to Beijing. Is that really even debatable at this point? Writer: Michael

🇮🇱🇹🇷 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Turkey: "We are not the collapsing Christian empire. Jerusalem is not Constantinople, which you conquered when you built the Ottoman Empire. We are here forever. Jerusalem is ours forever. We know how to defend ourselves, and we are strong. Don't mess with us. My advice to Erdogan is not to mess with us and not to put himself in the position that Iran put itself in." Erdoğan often denounces Israeli actions in Gaza and elsewhere, accusing them of destabilizing the region. That doesn't mean he's trying to "conquer" you... 😂 Writer: Michael

🇮🇱🇹🇷🇸🇾 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: "We will not allow Erdogan to strengthen Syria against us. We know how to defend Israel's interests. There's no direct military confrontation between Israel and Turkey at the moment, we've no desire to enter one. But Erdogan should also make sure he has no such ambition, because our strength is with us. We are not intimidated." Writer: Michael