🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: David Zini has been appointed as the new Shin Bet Chief, replacing Ronen Bar.

🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu said during the cabinet meeting that Strategic Minister Ron Dermer [one of Netanyahu's long-time and closest political allies], who is responsible for the [Trump-Gaza peace] negotiations, will soon leave the government," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇳🇴⚡- Drone sightings reported at Brønnøysund Airport, Norway.

🇮🇷🇧🇾⚡️- Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, flew to Minsk, the capital of Belarus in what was an unexpected visit to the country. The Iranian plane is on its way back from Belarus less than 8 hours after it landed in Minsk.

Belarus has been on record providing Iran with air defense weapons systems.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike against al-Sabra, south of Gaza City.

🇬🇧⚡- A British Rivet Joint makes a very rare deployment to the Middle East, currently arriving over Israeli airspace.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Very unusual statement from Waleed Gadban, a political counselor who serves on the Israeli Permanent Representative team to the United Nations:

"They are coming, and with them, comes
a better tomorrow," - Waleed Gadban.

The message is also repeated in Persian.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reports Prime Minister Netanyahu assured Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir that the Palestinian Authority will not rule the Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸⚡- B-1 Bomber has just gone airborne from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, heading in an westwards direction.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We are in a state of high alert as our fleet approaches 10 nautical miles from the high danger zone," - Global Sumud Flotilla.

🇺🇸⚡️- Despite President Trump's approval rating slipping down due to the economy remaining horrible, the public still supports his immigration agenda.

🇺🇸⚡️- Federal Government will shut down at midnight as the Senate fails to pass the stopgap funding bill. Vote was 55-45 with only 3 Democrats joining the GOP to vote for it.

🇺🇸⚡️- Despite the fanfare in DC media, the public is less interested in this shutdown than every single previous shutdown battle since 2013 when they became common.

Reporters and Party officials on the ground in New Jersey and Virginia, sites of the two major state wide elections this November, confirm the public simply does not care and it will not affect their vote intentions.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- BREAKING: "An Israeli naval vessel is one mile away from one of the ships of the Global Steadfastness Flotilla." - Al jazeera.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The USS Gerald R. Ford is set to pass the Strait of Gibraltar in the coming hours, despite previous assertions that the vessel would be deploying to northern Europe.

Rerum Novarum believes the USS Gerald R. Ford will either deploy to the Red Sea or the Arabian Sea in the coming days, relocating to the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AoR.) This correlates with the massive deployment of numerous US aircraft and related assets to the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The ADL is retiring its notorious Glossary of Extremism which listed mundane hand symbols and memes as neo-nazi dog whistles and organizations such as TPUSA as a hate group.

🇺🇸⚡️- Some anonymous leaks from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's staff suggest that Hegseth is laying the groundwork for a Presidential run in 2028 to seriously challenge JD Vance.

🇺🇸⚡️- Recent polls of the statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia show a much less dominant Democratic performance than expected in an off year election with a GOP President.

Virginia's Governor race stands with Democrat nominee Representative Spanberger only winning by around 4 points while the New Jersey race only shows a slight 2 point advantage for Democrat Representative Sherrill.

🇺🇸⚡️- One reason for this is that the GOP has gotten a lot better at post 2020 election norms, this graph shows the early vote in GOP areas turning out at a higher rate than Democratic ones.

🇩🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Multiple explosions are reported in Munich, Germany. Large police and fire squad presence in the area, there were also gunshots heard in the area.

🇩🇪⚡️- "A huge cloud of smoke can be seen from a great distance." - BILD.