🇺🇸🍕🏳️‍🌈 — High pizza orders at pizza restaurants near the Pentagon. Freddie's Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon, has less traffic than normal.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - US intelligence assesses that the Iranian nuclear program was largely undamaged through the Ramadan war of 2026.

Iran's nuclear breakout time, according to the US estimate, is one year, unchanged since operation Midnight Hammer. The White House claims that the primary target of operation Epic Fury was Iran's conventional forces, which are "leveraged as a protective shield around their pursuit of a nuclear weapon".

🇺🇸 — Two areas of USAF refueling aircraft activity in the Middle East. Nine tankers are currently flying at refueling altitude above Israel and Jordan, and nine are flying at refueling altitude around the Strait of Hormuz.

Of these tankers, six in Israel/Jordan and seven in the Strait of Hormuz are conducting refueling maneuvers. The biggest specific hotspots are four tankers above northeastern Jordan, three tankers in southern UAE, and two in the Persian Gulf immediately west of Dubai; these groups of tankers are flying very similar refueling maneuvers in the same area of each other, supporting large military aircraft concentrations.

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❗️🇺🇸🛥 - Shipping firm Maersk announces that one of its vessels, the US-flagged vehicle carrier Alliance Fairfax safely transited the Strait of Hormuz under the US protection.

The vessel was trapped in the Persian Gulf since February 28.

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🇺🇸 — We cannot verify circulating reports of USAF tanker activity above Iraq, reportedly operating with transponders disabled.

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🇺🇸 — For the first time in a good while, no USAF transport aircrafts have been visibly flying from Europe to the Middle East for the past few hours.

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🇺🇸 — Local FOX/ABC-affiliated media WSVN reports John Andrew Spillman, a U.S. Secret Service agent part of President Trump's perimeter security detail at Trump National Doral Miami, has been arrested and charged with indecent exposure for following a woman while masturbating at a hallway of the sixth floor of DoubleTree by Hilton Grand Hotel, forcing her to flee to her room for her safety. The agent was reportedly off-duty when the incident occured.

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🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 - China instructs its companies to defy the US sanction targeting refiners over import of Iranian crude oil.

Chinese firms have always enjoyed the government's tacit approval busting US sanction against Chinese allies such as Russia and Iran. Small and medium firms operating within the Chinese banking systems are largely out of reach of the US Treasury. Beijing, however, has stopped short of banning it's companies from complying with the US sanction.

The unprecedented move came as Beijing felt the need to forcefully respond against what it perceived as increasingly expansive and severe economic warfare from Washington, involving secondary sanction, export bans and tariff...

It is still unclear what specific measures China would take to support it's companies against the US sanction, but China is widely expected to retaliate if the US enforce secondary sanction on Chinese companies for noncompliance.

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🇲🇽 — A Mexican Naval Aviation Mi-17 helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff due to an engine failure at the Fourth Naval Base, Mazatlán, Sinaloa.

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❗️🇮🇳 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party BJP extends its post-2024 win streak in the 2026 state level election.

The BJP and its coalition partners gained seats in all 4 of the states up for election this year. West Bengal, long an opposition stronghold, delivered a stunning victory. BJP, which never won the state, scored at least 201 out of 294 seats in the state legislature.

The BJP's core ideology is Hindu nationalism and it tends to do poorly in states with large population of Muslims, Christians or non-Hindi speakers.

Edit: The victory in West Bengal is shrouded in controversy. Nine million voters, most of whom Muslim, were allegedly disenfranchised. The government claimed it was a crackdown against illegal votes by Bangladeshi immigrants.

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❗️🇺🇸💊 - The US force carried out another strike on suspected drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing two 'narco-terrorists'.

The extrajudicial killings, once eliciting international outcry, has become another routine for the Trump administration.

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