🇺🇸🇮🇷 The country Trump bombed is now collecting a billion dollars a week while dictating the terms. Geopolitical Analyst Robert Pape just laid it all out. "The people who will determine this are the shippers themselves and what they're saying is that they demand a clearer statement from Iran that their security will be guaranteed by Iran, not by the United States." Iran wants $12 billion up front, another $12 billion at 60 days, and a billion every week in between. Trump is negotiating against himself. @ProfessorPape

"I want his life to be ruined!" Fox News' Emily Compagno, 46, demands 19-year-old college student Austin Franco have his life ruined for saying in a private email that he's "not interested in working for a Jew." Cancel culture is back—Fox News & Palantir are leading the charge.

🇺🇸 Dave Portnoy is calling on Trump to denounce the UFC fighter who claimed Michelle Obama is a man at the White House." “I don’t care what you think about the Obamas or anything. That has to be an immediate denounce. These guys are lunatics.” Portnoy says he has no issue with the event itself and that the crowd seemed to love it, but some statements went too far. Writer: Sol x.com/jackunheard/status/206…

Trump told Iranians that “help is on the way.” Then he bombed Iran (making their lives worse), made a deal with a regime that massacred thousands, cut funding for rights and internet freedom groups, and deported asylum seekers. In my @MSNOWNews piece, I ask whether the US supports the Iranian people at all. ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-wa…

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The leaked text of this deal could become a political bomb for Trump before the ink is even dry. Geopolitics expert Brandon Weichert says the agreement gives Iran a major win while leaving Washington exposed. “The Iranians are getting a conditional surrender from the United States.” Now Israel holds the match. The only question is whether they light it. @WeTheBrandon

🇬🇧 Britain just banned social media for under-16s. Starmer announced the move today. Enforcing an age limit means platforms will need to verify users' ages, which in practice means more people proving who they are online. Starmer: "We're going further than any country in the world by banning social media for under-16s..." The stated goal is child safety, and there is a legitimate case for it. The impact of social media on children has become a major concern, and many parents have been calling for action for years. The flip side is that Britain already arrests roughly 12,000 people a year over online posts. To many, a system that links accounts to verified identities looks less like child protection and more like a reduction in online anonymity. Whether this remains focused on protecting children or gradually expands beyond that will depend on how those age-verification systems are built. That part has yet to be written. Source: BBC / Writers: Daniyal, Oliver

🇬🇧 Starmer's turning the UK into an authoritarian dictatorship, where people are too scared to speak out Its planned social media ban is being sold as child protection. Look closer and it affects every adult too. To keep under-16s off X, TikTok, YouTube and the rest, everyone has to prove they're over 16. That means tying your ID to your accounts. We've seen where this leads. Under the existing Online Safety Act, sites like Imgur and several adult platforms simply blocked all UK users rather than handle the verification. Civil liberties groups like the Open Rights Group are already warning about who holds that data and how it's protected. Set that against a country with a track record of arresting people over online posts, and the worry writes itself. When your name is attached to everything you say, you start watching what you say. It's the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook, the same instinct that kept people quiet under every communist regime of the last century. Starmer calls it protecting children. Funny how the protection always seems to involve knowing exactly who said what. And the people who do speak out and stand up, like Tommy Robinson? He was arrested under the Terrorism Act so police could seize his devices and see who he's been communicating with. The UK is slipping into tyranny, and the voices that can speak out will soon be silenced. Sources: NPR, The Register, @TRobinsonNewEra / Writers: Julie, Ian