🚨 BREAKING: The skirmishes in Lebanon continue amidst & potentially jeopardize the finalization of the MOU between the U.S. & Iran, expected to be signed on Friday. IDF says Hezbollah attacks on troops in Lebanon continuing; 4 strikes on operatives conducted today. The IDF also confirms striking Hezbollah operatives who “posed a threat” to forces in southern Lebanon today. Follow @warstrike88

🇬🇧 Children under the age of 16 will be banned from social media platforms in the UK, under new measures announced by prime minister Keir Starmer on Monday. “The need for action could not be clearer. Social media is making our children unhappy and unsafe,” said Starmer, in an X post. “Our children deserve better.” 🚫 Under-16s will lose access to social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, while the minimum age for chatbots that imitate romantic interactions will be raised to 18. The ban does not apply to messaging services WhatsApp and Signal. ⭕️ Under the new measures, expected to come into force in spring  2027, the UK government will also ban livestreaming features and the ability for strangers to contact children under the age of 16 across all platforms. Follow @warstrike88

✡️ A dozen Israeli company stands were shut down Monday at a major international defence and security exhibition held outside Paris, sparking outrage from authorities in Israel. 🇫🇷 🇮🇱 France has banned the display of Israeli offensive weapons at the 2026 edition of the exhibition and restricted the display of Israeli companies "to equipment and products exclusively related to air defence and ballistic missile defence capabilities", Charles Beaudouin, head of Coges Events, said in the statement. Follow @warstrike88

⬇️⬇️ Trump's approval rating among rural Americans dropped in June to a new low of 50%, ​according to the June 3-8 Reuters/Ipsos poll. That compares with 60% approval in February 2025 shortly after Trump took office. ⭕️ Rural disapproval of Trump rises, driven by concerns over cost of living and economy ⭕️ Poll shows only 31% of rural respondents approve Trump's handling of economic issues 🌽 🐄 Farmers face higher fuel, fertilizer costs and low crop prices, impacting rural support Follow @warstrike88

⛽️ Surging gasoline prices have erased more than a year of Americans’ wage gains. The hole got deeper in May, when consumer prices rose 4.2% from a year ago, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. That was significantly higher than the 3.4% gain in average hourly earnings registered in the May jobs report. That inflation-adjusted gap—average-hourly earnings falling 0.7% below their year-earlier level—is the biggest since February 2023. 📈 May marked the second month in a row that inflation topped year-over-year growth in earnings, hurt mainly by a surge in prices at fuel pumps after the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran at the end of February. Another factor: Wage growth has been trending lower, making it harder for workers to keep up with higher prices. Follow @warstrike88

⭕️ There are more than a dozen other cases from around the country where the story is much the same; a police officer stalks their partner or an ex for months before ultimately getting caught and fired or arrested. These cases repeatedly show that, because there are few limits on what police can use Flock for, they are often able to abuse the system for months or years before being caught. ⭕️ Many of the known cases of police abuse were only discovered after the victim reported being stalked or after data crunching by journalists or local government transparency groups; many of the cases of abuse happened over the course of months. ⭕️ “The fundamental problem with these systems is that they place private information about people’s movements over time in the hands of every officer,” Michael Soyfer, an Institute for Justice attorney, said in the organization’s report. “Without the constitutional safeguard of a warrant requirement, that predictably allows officers to abuse their access to these systems for things like stalking romantic partners.” Follow @warstrike88

⭕️ The Justice Department on Tuesday accused the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of violating federal civil rights laws by issuing guidelines that effectively pressured employers to make race-based considerations in hiring and promotions. ⭕️ A new legal opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel claimed that "disparate impact" — a legal theory of discrimination that holds employers liable for discrimination for policies that disproportionately harm protected groups based on race, ethnicity or gender — is unconstitutional. ⭕️ Although the opinion does not hold the same legal weight as a court ruling, it will likely make it more challenging for employees who file employment discrimination claims with the EEOC to prevail. Follow @warstrike88

🇮🇱 🇺🇲 Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance intelligence sharing with the Government of Israel” on a list of subjects that encompasses almost every topic of intelligence interest in the Middle East. ⭕️ The bill, put forward by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, would prohibit any suspension, reduction, or limitation of such sharing “except on the basis of a specific and identifiable national security concern determined by the President.” Follow @warstrike88

🇺🇲 🇮🇷 As new revelations continue to break regarding US military losses during its war on Iran, Tehran has publicly announced the results of a widespread crackdown on agents working on behalf of foreign intelligence agencies. Thousands have been detained in the latest wave of arrests. ☠️ 🇮🇱 ☠️ The Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s Law Enforcement Command (FARAJA), Ahmadreza Radan, announced earlier this week that the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus had arrested upwards of 6,500 agents since the beginning of the latest US-Israeli attacks; that the official described as “The Third War”. Follow @warstrike88

⭕️ American cotton farmers are getting a lifeline from the Trump administration after years of devastating losses. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the "Great American Cotton Plant" initiative last Thursday, a comprehensive program designed to revive an industry that's been hemorrhaging market share since 2018. 🇺🇲 🇨🇳 🇧🇷 U.S. cotton growers controlled 39% of global exports in 2016, but that dominance crumbled when China imposed 25% retaliatory tariffs during the first Trump trade war. Chinese buyers quickly shifted to Brazil, whose cotton exports to China exploded from $130 million in 2017 to over $1 billion by 2020. Brazil has since overtaken the United States as the world's leading cotton exporter. Follow @warstrike88