⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling out “QAnon” as a psychological operation that behaves like a cult, specifically targeting people who are already distrustful of the government and steering them in the wrong direction. She says it works by taking a small amount of truth, then twisting it into a false narrative that people get pulled into over and over again. According to her, Q is one of the most effective psychological operations she’s ever seen. “This is a bunch of bullshit.”

⚡️🇨🇳🇹🇼 NEW - Chinese Foreign Ministry: Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. It is never a country, not in the past and never in the future. Taiwan independence and cross-strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water.

⚡️💬 NEW - Elon Musk: I'm a huge admirer of the innovation coming out of Israel. I think, objectively, that Israel punches far above its weight for its population. I’d say that, in terms of innovation per capita, Israel must be number one in the world by far.

⚡️👀 NEW - The World Health Organization Director announced that they successfully conducted a global pandemic simulation similar to Event 201. The exercise simulated the international spread of a fictional new bacterium and tested global emergency response systems ahead of a potential real-world crisis. Around 600 health emergency experts, 25 partner organizations, and participants from 26 countries and territories took part in the simulation.

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Bloomberg reports that Iran started a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies wanting to transit the Strait of Hormuz It could reportedly generate more than $10 BILLION in revenue

⚡️🇳🇴🇮🇳 NEW - Norway's PM says Norway and India are strengthening their cooperation in health, there is "a lot to learn from India," and will sign an MOU on developing "high-tech quality health services, closer cooperation on digital health, AI, research and health technology."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - On March 23, more than $800 million was staked on the chance of oil prices dropping. Fifteen minutes later, an announcement from the president sent the price of oil plummeting by more than 10%. It has not been determined if the trade was made with inside information or if the trader was in the U.S.

⚡️👀 NEW - X has updated its rate limits for unverified accounts: - Unverified accounts (non-Premium) are now limited to 50 original posts and 200 replies per day. - Direct messages are capped at 500 per day. - There is also a technical follow limit of around 400 accounts per day. - Once an account reaches 5,000 followed accounts, further following is restricted based on account-specific ratios. These changes are designed to reduce spam, bots, and abusive behavior on the platform. (As a reminder, there are no such limits on Nostr)

⚡️🤖 NEW - Figure AI launches a live 10-hour "Man vs. Machine" package sorting challenge, with the intern currently in the lead.

⚡️👀 END OF DAY - US National Debt is approaching $40T fast. Insane…

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Two US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets collided mid-air while performing at an air show in Idaho. All pilots ejected and were seen descending safely under parachutes.

⚡️📉 NEW - The Swatch x AP was $4,387 yesterday morning. Now they’re selling for $1,200. Thats a 72% crash in 24 hours. People camped 8 days and fought in the streets for these. Once Swatch confirmed they’re producing millions, the prices started tanking.

⚡️💻️ TECH - A Brazilian YouTuber killed the Photoshop subscription. It's called PhotoGIMP. It takes GIMP, the free image editor, and makes it look and feel exactly like Photoshop. Same toolbar. Same panel layout. Same keyboard shortcuts. Your hands already know how to use it. Photoshop vs PhotoGIMP: - Price: $275.88 a year → $0 - Account: Adobe login required → No login, ever - Files: Saved to Adobe cloud → Saved on your computer - Updates: Forced when Adobe says → Only when you want - Works on: Windows and Mac → Windows, Mac, and Linux No Adobe account. No cloud upload. No AI trained on your photos. How small is the patch? Tiny. → Nine settings files. That's it. → Copy them into one folder. Done. → Open GIMP. It now looks like Photoshop. → Don't like it? Delete the folder. GIMP goes back to normal. Three steps to install. One command to uninstall. 8,751 stars. 272 forks. 30+ people from around the world helping translate it. One honest note: the license is GPL-3.0. Free for everything. Personal work, paid client work, your own edits. No "Pro" tier hiding behind it. Dionatan Simioni runs the biggest Linux YouTube channel in Brazil. He built this from Marau, a small town in Rio Grande do Sul. No VC. No team. No fundraise. This is what Photoshop should have been from the start.

⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 NEW - Israel continues its campaign of destruction in southern Lebanon.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - EU's Kaja Kallas: My favorite quote that I'm using very often is of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian prime minister, who said that there are only two types of countries in Europe: the small countries and those who haven't realized that they are small countries. And that is so true.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - Trump warns Iran that the "Clock is Ticking."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Massie: 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. That's why the president's losing sleep and tweeting about this. That's why AIPAC has dumped another $3 million into my race this weekend…

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 NEW - Senator Graham: We’ll be putting sanctions on China if they invade Taiwan. I want China to know: if you try to take Taiwan by force, here’s what happens to your economy — the full weight and measure of sanctions and tariffs from the United States will kick in on day one.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - This indie dev is making a hide-and-seek game where you literally paint your own body to blend into the environment - Your artistic skills are key to survival - Pose to blend in - Up to 10 players in public or private matches Would you play this? It's called MECCHA CHAMELEON.

⚡️🇺🇦 NEW - Zelensky: Today we are operating on a very large scale against Moscow. The distance to the targets this time is more than 500 km. The war is quite predictably returning to its ‘native harbor,’ and this is a clear signal that one should not mess with Ukraine.