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26 May 2025 07:51

🇹🇷 Turkish Intelligence (MIT) Chief Ibrahim Kalın:

Türkiye is no longer a bystander watching history unfold by the water’s edge — it is now a nation shaping the course of history itself.

🔗 Clash Report

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25 May 2025 19:29

🇺🇸 President Trump and his allies are planning primary challenges against Rep. Thomas Massie after he was one of just two Republicans to oppose the recent spending bill.

🔗 AF Post

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25 May 2025 18:14

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Massive attack on Russia and Crimea

🔗 Maks

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25 May 2025 16:14

🇸🇱🙈🦠 Sierra Leone reports more than 3,000 mpox cases, 14 deaths

The number of cases of mpox registered in Sierra Leone since the beginning of the year has hit 3,011, with 14 dead of the disease, according to new government data.

All of the regions in the west African country have now registered cases, according to the latest health ministry figures released late Friday.

The new figures mark a nearly 50-percent rise in registered cases since the previous update 10 days ago, on May 13, when 2,045 cases and 11 fatalities were registered since the start of the year.

https://insiderpaper.com/sierra-leone-reports-more-than-3000-mpox-cases-14-deaths/

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25 May 2025 15:14

🇮🇱🇵🇸 IDF says all standing army infantry, armored brigades have now been deployed to Gaza

In addition to the Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, a small number of reserve units are also in the Strip.

The IDF had previously announced that five divisions are operating in Gaza, amounting to tens of thousands of troops.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-all-standing-army-infantry-armored-brigades-have-now-been-deployed-to-gaza/

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25 May 2025 13:14

💸📈 Rising 10-30 year yields without changed Fed expectations tells you this is about deficits and eroding reserve status of $. The term premium (the statistical junkyard for stuff we can't explain) has shot up to 90 bp, from negative.

This is partly global. But US deficits are now such a huge part of developed market borrowing (67%) that it's clear the impulse from U.S. to other bond markets is stronger than vice versa.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/bond-market-yields-government-borrowing-4a78af80

🔗 Greg Ip

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25 May 2025 11:14

🇵🇭🇺🇸🇦🇺🇯🇵 Balikatan 2025 concluded on May 9th, with over 14,000 Filipino, U.S., Australian, and Japanese service members participating.

Image 2: Visualization of Philippine Radar Sites and coverage ranges, including the positions of Japanese-supplied FPS-3ME fixed radar systems

Image 3: Visualization of AFP’s Northern Luzon Command bases and deployments, including the recent deployment of the US-operated NMESIS platform

🔗 Taiwan Security Monitor

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25 May 2025 10:16

🍼 MoreBirths on X: The Economist points out the growing partisan divide in childbearing in the US.

Progressive pronatalism was normal in the past but is sorely lacking today, and this means that birthrates are crashing hardest in blue areas.

📝 EurocentricTuga: Isn't this probably because democratic counties were more Hispanic/Black, and since then Hispanics and Blacks have started to lose their fertility advantage?

Those counties were not necessarily pronatalist ( hispanic/blacks in Republican counties probably had higher fertility than those in Democratic counties they were just a much lower % of the counties).

🔗 MoreBirths

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25 May 2025 09:22

🇨🇳 Earlier today, CCTV 13 confirmed recent speculation that the PLAN's third aircraft carrier "Fujian" was participating in another round of sea-trials.

When commissioned, it will be the PLAN's most sophisticated carrier and their first to use CATOBAR/EMALS.

🔗 Taiwan Security Monitor

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24 May 2025 23:06

🦴 A rare Archaeopteryx fossil was kept from scientists for decades. Its first-ever analysis reveals ‘one wow after another’

Shown here is a reconstruction of Archaeopteryx, which had feathers indicating it could achieve powered flight, according to new research.

Their preparation — a process that took about 1,600 hours in all, O’Connor estimated — paid off. The researchers detected the first evidence in Archaeopteryx of a group of flight feathers called tertials, which grow along the humerus between the elbow and the body and are an important component of all powered flight in modern birds. Since the 1980s, scientists have hypothesized that Archaeopteryx had tertials due to the length of its humerus, O’Connor said. But this is the first time such feathers have been found in an Archaeopteryx fossil.

The discovery of tertials in particular “is an extraordinary finding because it suggests that Archaeopteryx could indeed fly,” said Dr. Susan Chapman, an associate professor in the department of biological sciences at Clemson University in South Carolina.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/science/archaeopteryx-fossil-includes-feathers

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24 May 2025 16:54

NARRATIVE SHIFT 🇺🇸💵

You’re watching in real-time the realization that our spending is out of control and will never be cut enough to make a meaningful difference to our current trajectory (bankruptcy)

Elon, Bessent now talking about accelerating GDP growth as the main priority to manage our debt situation

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/gencostocks/status/1926025778002608129

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24 May 2025 16:14

🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "We need this substantial permitting reform... because of this AI boom, we're becoming the AI superpower. Well, that's going to take a lot of electricity. So, you are going to need energy pipelines. You're going to need transmission."

🔗 Rapid Response 47

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24 May 2025 15:09

🇺🇸🏛 Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll or keep its international students.

U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs granted the temporary restraining order after the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday terminated the university’s international student certification. The move barred the school from not only admitting international students, but also ordering current foreign-born students to transfer or lose their legal status.

Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Friday, a day after the federal government said it would block the nation's oldest university's ability to enroll foreign students.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-sues-trump-administration-move-block-foreign-student-enrollmen-rcna208723

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24 May 2025 13:31

🇺🇸💸 "What is important is that the economy grows faster than the debt." -Sec. Bessent

Chart below shows that over past 60 yrs, the only times debt/GDP has fallen is via high inflation (1965-85 & 2020-23), or via asset bubbles (1995-99).

Either way, LT USTs must underperform.

🔗 Luke Gromen

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24 May 2025 09:52

🇺🇸🪖 Preparations for the massive military parade in Washington, D.C. for the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army on June 14th, which also happens to be the 79th birthday of President Donald J. Trump, are in full-swing this week at Fort Cavazos in Killeen, Texas. As soldiers with the 1st Cavalry Division, III Armored Corps were seen loading 28 M1126 Strykers, 28 M2A3 “Bradley” Infantry Fighting Vehicles, 28 M1A2 SEPv3 “Abrams” Main Battle Tanks, and 7 M109A7 “Paladin” Self-Propelled Howitzers onto railcars at Fort Cavazos, bound for Washington.

Next month’s parade in D.C. is expected to be the biggest and most expensive military parade in the nation’s capital city since the National Victory Celebration on June 8, 1991, which celebrated the conclusion of the Gulf War, with cost estimates for the parade placing it between $35-45 million according to officials at the Pentagon. The parade will also be the first to feature tracked-armored vehicles, like tanks, on the streets of Washington, D.C. in decades, with the Department of Defense pledging to place steel plates on roads while also equipping the vehicles with track-pads to prevent damage to roads and bridges along the parade route, one of the major concerns which was raised by city officials in both Washington and Arlington, Virginia.

🔗 OSINTdefender

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26 May 2025 07:18

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇸🇾 Tom Barrack, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Türkiye and Special Envoy for Syria: A century ago, the West imposed maps, mandates, penciled borders, and foreign rule. Sykes-Picot divided Syria and the broader region for imperial gain—not peace. That mistake cost generations. We will not make it again.

The era of Western interference is over. The future belongs to regional solutions, but partnerships, and a diplomacy grounded in respect. As President Trump emphasized in his May 13th address in Riyadh, ”Gone are the days when Western interventionalists would fly to the Middle East to give lectures on how to live, and how to govern your own affairs."

Syria’s tragedy was born in division. Its rebirth must come through dignity, unity, and investment in its people. That starts with truth, accountability—and working with the region, not around it.

We are standing with Türkiye, the Gulf, and Europe—this time not with troops and lectures, or imaginary boundaries, but shoulder-to-shoulder with the Syrian people themselves. With the fall of the Assad regime the door is open to peace—by eliminating sanctions we are enabling the Syrian people to finally open that door and discover a path to renewed prosperity and security.

🔗 Tom Barrack

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25 May 2025 18:29

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The situation in Kyiv metro amid intense Russian strikes on Ukraine.

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25 May 2025 17:44

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces conducted one of the largest combined drone and missile strikes of the war against Ukraine on the night of May 23 to 24, but used fewer missiles than in previous large-scale combined strikes.

Additional Key Takeaways:

Ukraine and Russia conducted a second round of prisoner-of-war (POW) exchanges on May 24 as part of a larger 1,000-for-1,000 exchange agreed upon during recent bilateral negotiations in Istanbul.

Russian officials will reportedly submit a draft document of their conditions for peace in Ukraine following the conclusion of the POW exchanges, although Russia's conditions are unlikely to be anything short of Ukraine's full surrender.

Russian forces have significantly expanded their salient southwest of Kostyantynivka in recent weeks and established sufficient positions to launch an offensive operation toward Kostyantynivka from the south or to support the envelopment of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad from the northeast in the coming weeks and months.

The Russian salient southwest of Kostyantynivka is likely sufficient to support a future Russian offensive operation toward Kostyantynivka or Pokrovsk, but Russian forces will have to make further advances from Chasiv Yar and Toretsk and west of Pokrovsk before Russian forces will pose a significant threat to either of these towns.

Russian forces recently advanced near Lyman, Toretsk, and Novopavlivka.

🔗 ISW

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25 May 2025 15:44

🇺🇸🛳 One of the last US Army's afloat prepositioning ships heading to Charleston for its final offload.

No longer will the Department of Defense, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. European Command have an afloat brigade ready to land.

Now it will have to be loaded and shipped from CONUS.

🔗 Sal Mercogliano

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25 May 2025 14:14

🇬🇧 We’re creating a movement of women who are fed up of mass immigration making our streets unsafe.

We’re working hard to make Britain safe again. Are you with us?

🔗 Women's Safety Initiative

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25 May 2025 12:14

🧬🛫 Emil Kirkegaard: Total Reconquista Victory. Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-025-03570-1

📝 BorealBaron: This study highlights something already established that could serve as a reference for a future remigration: the mass expulsion of the Moriscos (those with North African heritage who had converted to Christianity), beginning in 1609, not only removed lineages from the time of the Muslim invasion but also families with roots going back to the Visigothic and Roman periods, making the country less North African than it had been in millennia. Matter for consideration...

🔗 BorealBaron

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25 May 2025 10:44

🇺🇸 Kingsley Wilson has been promoted to Pentagon Press Secretary despite the ADL’s attacks against her for exposing Leo Frank and criticizing foreign aid to Israel.

🔗 AF Post

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25 May 2025 09:44

🇳🇬🌍 The last 36 hours in the Sahel and Nigeria were quite eventful, let's break everything down 🧵

https://fxtwitter.com/brantphilip1978/status/1926280420938629460

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25 May 2025 00:07

🇺🇸☢️ President Trump signed four (!) executive orders to make the U.S. the world’s leader in nuclear electricity.

Some of it is promising. Some of it might backfire. Let’s break it down.

Nuclear Executive Orders megathread

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/isabelleboemeke/status/1925999815512444987

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24 May 2025 21:57

🇷🇺🇺🇦 JPMorgan analysts believe the war in Ukraine is entering its final phase and expect fighting to freeze by the end of Q2 2025.

They see a 50% chance of a “Georgian scenario” — no foreign troops, weak support, stagnation, and Ukraine drifting into Russia’s sphere of influence.

Other scenarios:

• Israeli (20%) – Long-term Western military and economic aid, no foreign troops. Ukraine becomes a fortified buffer, but no peace deal.

• South Korean (15%) – Ukraine keeps 80% of its territory, develops as a stable democracy with U.S. protection, but doesn’t join NATO.

• Belarusian (15%) – Worst-case: U.S. pulls out, Europe falters, Ukraine capitulates and becomes a Russian vassal. Global order collapses.v

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24 May 2025 16:34

🇺🇸 Trump signs an executive order to speed up the approval and adoption process for specialized nuclear reactors.

🔗 Rapid Response 47

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24 May 2025 15:50

🇺🇸 Trump signs an Executive Order to restore Gold Standard Science as the cornerstone of federal scientific research.

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24 May 2025 14:19

🇨🇳🇮🇳 Is China already controlling the water that flows into India?

Satellite data shows a sharp decline — water flow in the Sutlej basin before it enters India has dropped by >75% in 5 years, from ~8000 GL to ~2000 GL.

Why the drop?

A. China has diverted/altered the water flow
B. Natural depletion — but with glaciers melting, shouldn’t the flow increase?

🔗 prof_nithiya

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24 May 2025 13:07

🇺🇸💸 In a way, President Trump may actually "want" a recession.

A recession achieves MOST of Trump's economic goals at once:

1. Lower US inflation
2. Lower treasury yields
3. Lower trade deficit (through tariffs)
4. Fed interest rate cuts
5. Lower oil prices

After the recent surge in Treasury Yields, the Trump Administration has realized the trade deal headlines won't work anymore.

A recession may be the "best" solution after years of inflation and "free" money.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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23 May 2025 20:28

🇩🇪⚡- BREAKING: A knife attack at the Hamburg Subway, Germany, injuring at least 12 people.