⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: I believe that, with the new circumstances that have emerged, the security of the Persian Gulf and the security of the region must be reconsidered by all the countries of the region. We must reach a new framework that includes all the countries of the region and excludes the presence or interference of any country from outside the region.

⚡️⛏️ NEW - Bitcoin becomes more decentralized with first StratumV2 block mined. Users often ‘pool’ and share rewards for more consistent income, but give operators control over transactions. This open protocol lets miners keep the benefits while choosing transactions themselves.

⚡️🤖 NEW - Ford says one of its biggest mistakes was thinking AI could replace experienced engineers. The company had to hire, promote, and bring back more than 350 engineers after realizing AI couldn’t replace years of hands-on experience. Ford’s VP of Vehicle Hardware Engineering, Charles Poon, said AI is a great tool but only as good as the information it’s trained on. Those experienced engineers are now training younger employees, improving AI, and catching problems earlier before cars go into production.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bernie Sanders: After receiving the largest tax break in history from Trump, some 900 billionaires in our country became $2.2 trillion richer. One man, Elon Musk, a trillionaire... owns three times more wealth than the bottom 50% of American households.

⚡️☀️ NEW - The highest temperatures from this week’s record-breaking heatwave in Europe: 🇬🇧 37.3 C (99.1 F) in England 🇫🇷 44.3 C (111.7 F) in France 🇩🇪 41.5 C (106.7 F) in Germany 🇨🇿 40.7 C (105.4 F) in Czech Republic 🇳🇱 39.4 C (102.9 F) in the Netherlands 🇨🇭 38.7 C (101.8 F) in Switzerland 🇩🇰 36.6 C (97.9 F) in Denmark 🇧🇪 39.3 C (102.5 F) in Belgium

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu: There is no place for two states between the sea and the Jordan River.

⚡️🔎 ARCHIVE - On this day in history, 12 years ago, the Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper won all 29,657 bitcoin seized from the illegal Silk Road marketplace in a US Marshals Service government auction, paying approximately $19 million. The same bitcoins are now worth $1,785,256,201 today.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Jared Kushner says that any recognition of Palestinian statehood would automatically reward “an act of terror.” “I don’t think that’s a good idea.” “Recognizing a Palestinian state would be rewarding an act of terror.” Jared Kushner is pure evil.

⚡️🇫🇷 END OF DAY - Stunning footage shows moment Eiffel Tower in Paris struck by lightning tonight.

⚡️💬 NEW - JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the dollar as reserve currency: If the United States is not the preeminent military and the preeminent economy in 30 or 40 years, we will not be the preeminent reserve currency. Here’s an IQ test: If you can only invest all your money in one country, what country would it be? There's only one obvious answer. Someone was telling me they were taking their gold out of the vaults in the United States... because they're pissed off at us. I was like, 'Well, that's really great, except there are three armies who can come take your gold right now.' That is the world. People forget, it's a tough world.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - President Trump's social media strategist, Alex Bruesewitz, says he rejected an offer from an Israeli foundation that wanted to pay him to spread propaganda about Iran. Just two months later, another organization run by Brad Parscale registered under FARA to represent the Government of Israel for $1.5 million per month. According to the filing, the campaign aimed to target Gen Z audiences on platforms like TikTok and YouTube.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu: Anyone who is not learning Torah — the full weight of the law can be applied to him, including arrest.

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - BlackRock CEO Larry Fink complains that he does not have full access to the power grid in every state in the United States. Fink believes BlackRock should be given control of all the power grids. "We have not invested in our power grids as much as we need." "And in some states, we have too many restrictions."

⚡️🚨 NEW - Prominent US war hawk John Bolton has pled guilty to violating the Espionage Act after previously demanding execution for whistleblowers Edward Snowden & Chelsea Manning and 176 years in prison for publisher Julian Assange. As part of a plea agreement, Bolton admitted to unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information. He now faces up to 5 years in prison, up to 3 years of supervised release, a $2.25 million fine, forfeiture of his pension, and is due to be sentenced on 28 October.

⚡️👀 NEW - Mark Zuckerberg predicts AI glasses will be integrated into everyday life and used more than cell phones in the very near future.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Starting July 1, streaming services in California won’t be allowed to play ads louder than the show or movie you’re watching. The new law requires ads to stay at about the same volume as the content, so viewers won’t get blasted by suddenly loud commercials. The change follows years of complaints from people tired of loud ads interrupting their shows.

⚡️🔎 ARCHIVE - On this day in history, 16 years ago, Satoshi wrote their answer to quantum computing breaking Bitcoin: “I think we could come to some agreement about what the honest block chain was before the trouble started, lock that in and continue from there with a new hash function."

⚡️🇧🇫🇫🇷 NEW - Burkina Faso officially ends all diplomatic ties with France.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - President Trump's social media strategist, Alex Bruesewitz, tells the story of how he became good friends with Benjamin Netanyahu's son and invited him to his wedding. Tucker interrupts: "Is he fighting in Lebanon right now?"

⚡️💬 WATCH - Dave Chappelle says no one needs to think anymore because of AI: “Thinking is for poor people” “I was talking to a friend of mine and we were laughing about how no one really would know what to teach a kid now. What skill sets are going to matter 10 or 20 years from now as the world becomes automated” “We decided your character is your destiny. If you’re a good person that’s all you can ask from anybody and hope for the best” “I don’t know if anyone needs to think anymore. It’s AI, quantum computing, it seems like thinking is for poor people”