WarTranslated
Reportedly from Transnistria, Moldova. A massive fan of Putin. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/2053892885389476189/video/1
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Open Source Intel
60 Labour MPs are publicly calling for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign, PoliticsUK reports. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2053893929305591899/photo/1
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Visioner
🔥🇮🇶 Two tribal groups have reportedly begun armed clashes in Erbil, northern Iraq. It's unknown whether or not this is still ongoing. https://twitter.com/visionergeo/status/2053895302382252122/video/1
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Nuno Felix
RT @michaeldweiss: First it was the insistence that Ukraine would be conquered swiftly and the best we could hope for was partisan warfare.

Then it was fear of escalation. Recall Sullivan's comment, in response to the ATACMS question at the Munich Security Conference in 2022, about "heading down the road towards a third world war."

Then it was DoD making four excuses for denying four critical platforms, all of which were eventually provided to Kyiv: ATACMS, Patriots, F-16s and Abrams.

Excuse one: We don't have enough.
Excuse two: They don't need them.
Excuse three: They won't know how to use them.
Excuse four: They may not even work properly. (Some ATACMS technically expired in 1994!)

I heard this refrain after the Patriot was already in service in Ukraine, shooting down anything the Russians launched, including the state-of-the-art Kinzhal.

Then it was fear of escalation -- again. Recall the decision-making crisis over whether to allow Ukraine to fire GMLRS into Russian territory when Moscow was making another play for Kharkiv. This agonized debate occurred after Ukraine had long been striking deep into Russian territory with homemade munitions and conducting regular cross-border raids into Kursk with U.S.-made kit such as MaxxPro MRAPs. Neither of these phenomena were exactly mysteries to the Kremlin. But American missile debris being recovered in Belgorod was seen as too provocative to many in the Biden NSC. And when they finally got to "yes," Ukraine had to be given a strictly delimited radius of operations -- something the Russians are of course not bound by.

Where we are now? Today, Ukraine makes ample use of all of four of the critical systems the U.S. was reluctant to provide, although Russia had more time to adapt and diminish the effectiveness of these systems. Ukraine's homemade munitions are more plentiful, powerful, innovative, and longer-range and the U.S. even provides targeting assistance for strikes well inside Russian territory. Finally, Putin has to beg Trump to pressure Zelensky not to bomb Red Square on Victory Day.

Panetta is correct.

Former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta:

Biden should have been much tougher in providing the weapons that Ukraine needed. Frankly, we should have given them much more sophisticated weaponry that they were asking for in order to be able to go after Russia. https://twitter.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/2053214445304787297/video/1 - Kate from Kharkiv
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Open Source Intel
These 50-60 IRGC Navy fast boats are living their last few weeks in my opinion

Satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz on May 9, via Soar https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2053896792505213239/photo/1
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Open Source Intel
Multiple UK Cabinet ministers are preparing to ask Prime Minister Keir Starmer to step down tomorrow morning, according to Sky News and Bloomberg.

60 Labour MPs are publicly calling for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign, PoliticsUK reports. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2053893929305591899/photo/1 - Open Source Intel
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OSINTdefender
Citing two U.S. officials, Axios is also reporting that U.S. President Donald J. Trump is mulling conducting limited strikes against Iran in an effort to coerce them to accede to nuclear talks. Per one U.S. official, “he will tune them up a bit,” while another official said “I think we all know where this is going.”

Per the report, one option on the table is to strike 25% of the targets the U.S. has marked out but hasn’t hit yet.
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WarMonitor
That's what they said about COVID.

RFK JR on Hantavirus: We have it under control. We’re not worried about it. https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/2053872246830284954/video/1 - Acyn
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Visioner
🇬🇧 In the local elections held on May 7, against the backdrop of a total collapse of the Labour Party, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer may be counting the last hours of his rule.

Although Starmer denied leaving his position in the morning and accused his opponents of anti-British activities, and also announced that he intends to move closer to the European Union and return London to the heart of Europe, from the second half of the day, Starmer was rebelled against by his own party and members of the Prime Minister's office.

More than 60 Labour MPs in Parliament are demanding that Starmer leave his post, and at the same time, advisers in the Prime Minister's office are resigning one after another to force Starmer to leave the prime ministership.

Insiders in British politics write that the Cabinet is preparing to tell Starmer that the game is over and it is time to leave the post of Prime Minister.
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Visioner
🇺🇸🇨🇳 The White House is inviting top U.S. business leaders to accompany President Trump on his trip to China this week for a summit with Xi Jinping, according to Bloomberg.

Executives expected to join the delegation include Elon Musk of Tesla, Tim Cook of Apple, and Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, along with David Solomon, Stephen Schwarzman, Larry Fink, Jane Fraser, and Dina Powell McCormick.

Trump’s hopes to secure new business deals and purchase agreements with Beijing during the visit.
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Open Source Intel
PM Netanyahu: Some of these viral posts follow a pattern. Someone writes “I’m a red-blooded Texan who always supported Israel, but I cannot stand what they are doing anymore and I am turning against them.”

Then you find out it is just some random guy in a basement in Pakistan.
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Visioner
‼️🦠 Hantavirus already went global. With incubation period of 9 weeks, it is unknown how many people already contracted that and how many are infecting others.

Additionally, authorities claim that its transmission requires lasting physical contact for hours. However, there are recorded cases of transmission which either happened through sharing same spaces sitting meters apart or very very short indirect physical contact like that between a passenger and an attendant.
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Visioner
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Observers geolocated close to 3000 artillery, mortar and air strikes from February to May 2026 on a frontline going from the approaches to Orekhov in Zaporozhye Oblast to Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka and Slavyansk in the Donetsk Oblast.

The highest concentration of artillery, mortar and airstrikes are situated on two sectors, Orekhov in Zaporozhye and the sector immediately north of Pokrovsk, revealing Russia's plans for the 2026 summer offensives.

A closer look at the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka sector, shows the shift target shift. White dots show artillery and airstrikes geolocated between May and October 2025 while the Red dots show artillery and airstrikes geolocated between February and May 2026. If in 2025 Russia tried to drive a wedge between the cities of Dobropolye and Druzhkovka, in 2026 it will try to take Dobropolye from the southeast.

Despite the loss of Pokrovsk and Myrnograd, Ukrainian resistance in this area was largely successful as the frontline largely remained the same showing that Russia has been unable to capitalize on the conquest of both cities.
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Open Source Intel
Fire at the HF Sinclair refinery in west Tulsa, Oklahoma. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2053902466391966070/video/1
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