🇺🇸⚡️- At 9% reporting the Virginia gerrymandering referendum looks poised to pass.

The only county with 95% of its votes counted so far is Mathews County, which only shows a 3 point shift to the right from 2024. Not enough for "no" to win.

🇺🇸⚡️- At 16% reporting "Yes" retains its lead even as most of the DC area is yet to report votes.

Charlottesville is overwhelmingly in favor of "Yes"

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump crashes out at Wall Street Journal editor Elliot Kaufman for writing an article titled “The Iranians take Trump for a sucker.”

🇺🇸⚡️- At 36% of the votes in "No" is in the lead however most of the DC area is still not reporting its votes.

From the few votes we do have "Yes" is overperforming Kamala Harris's margin of victory in 2024.

🇺🇸⚡- A U.S. appeals court ruled in favor of Texas’s required display of the Ten Commandments in school today.

🇺🇸⚡️- At 58% reporting "No" is still in the lead. Much of the DC area is yet to finish counting however. Yes is still favored to pass.

🇺🇸⚡️- At 67% reporting its clear that as the votes from the DC area are counted that "Yes" will win.

Virginia's congressional delegation after the November elections will likely be 10 Democrats to 1 Republican. The most aggressive gerrymander in the entire country.

🇺🇸⚡️- Despite the GOP and President Trump's massive hoarding of money, they spent very little combatting this referendum while the Democrats spent over 65 million dollars.

This gerrymander single handily will switch control of the House over to Democrats come November.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!). They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to “save face.” People approached me four days ago, saying, “Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.” But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included! President DONALD J. TRUMP” - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- A US Navy MQ-4C has again been patrolling the borders of Cuba.

🇺🇸 - The US Navy is expected to award the contract for the production of its next-generation naval F/A-XX fighter program in August.

Boeing and Northrop Grumman are the two companies believed to be competing for the contract, which will replace the F/A-18 Super Hornets currently used by the Navy onboard their carriers.

Boeing has already been selected to complete the Air Force's next-generation fighter, the Boeing F-47.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - "U.S. Central Command forces remain ready..." - U.S. Central Command.

🇬🇧 - The United Kingdom Parliament has introduced a total ban on Tobacco and Vapes for anyone born after 2008.

"Prevention is better than cure – this reform will save lives, ease pressure on the NHS, and build a healthier Britain." - Wes Streeting, UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran is collapsing financially! They want the Strait of Hormuz opened immediately- Starving for cash! Losing 500 Million Dollars a day. Military and Police complaining that they are not getting paid. SOS!!!" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡️- BREAKING: An IRGC gunboat approached a container vessel 15 nautical miles northeast of Oman and fired at it, causing heavy damage, according to UKMTO.

🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: A cargo ship was fired upon several times by an IRGC gunboat 8 nautical miles west of Iran, marking the second such incident today, according to UKMTO.