🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Minecraft has announced its long awaited "Safety Council" to begin drafting policy for aggressive moderation of online servers public and private. The council members who will be directing policy are the following, half of which have previous connections to the Anti Defamation League.

Alex Holmes, a gay mixed race 'British' anti bullying activist with an overt focus on LGBT youth, racism and child abuse. (No mention of grooming gangs could be found on his social medias.)

Kimberly Voll, the architect of League of Legends Honor system and co-founder of the Fair Play Alliance, an organization who is partnered with the ADL to "combat hate and harassment in video games"

Maria Oliveira Tamellini, CEO of GamerSafer, another organization partnered with the ADL who helped authored this ADL piece advocating for universal hate speech guidelines in Minecraft back in 2022.

Nathan Sawatzky, a Disney alumni who was involved in Club Penguin. Sawatzky has also worked for Facebook and is currently the Player Care team leader at the studio behind Clash of Clans and Clash Royale.

Vernon Jones, the Head of Safety and Support at MoveStarPlanet. Jones designed the parental safety features of the studios games.

Minecraft remains one of the most played games in the world only behind Roblox and Fortnite. Minecraft historically has had extremely lax guidelines even after its purchase by Microsoft.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING : US-Iran talks planned this Friday have been cancelled according to Axios, citing US officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We told them [the Iranians] it is this [Friday talks] or nothing, and they said, 'Ok, then nothing,'" - A US official tells Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We want to reach a real deal quickly or people [President Trump] will look at other [military] options," - A US official tells Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡- US Envoy Witkoff and Kushner are planning to travel to Doha tomorrow to discuss the Iranian file with the Qataris.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The US rejected Iran's request to move the talks from Istanbul to Muscat, and limit the discussions to just the nuclear file, excluding the ballistic missile and proxy network files, Axios reports.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Netanyahu's Press Office announces a security cabinet meeting for tomorrow.

Topic: Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The US-Iran talks collapsed – it's a gap that cannot be bridged," - Amichai Stein of israeli Channel 15.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We will not allow the raising of demands outside the framework of the nuclear issue in negotiations with Washington.

Iran is still ready to negotiate. Iran is more prepared militarily than diplomatically, and its finger is on the trigger," - An Iranian source tells al-Mayadeen.

🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈⚡️- The American Medical Association is backtracking on its support for transgender surgeries on minors no longer considering them "medically necessary care".

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Spangdahlem Air Base, southwest Germany, will now be operating on a 24/7 schedule amid the US-Iran tensions.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The Supreme Leader Khamenei should be very worried." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Tehran is ready to negotiate within a framework based on mutual respect on nuclear issues," - Mehr News, Iranian outlet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We have changed our military doctrine from defense to offense; we are adopting a policy of asymmetric warfare." - Iranian Chief of Staff Abdolrahim Mousavi.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: An Iranian source tells Saudi outlet al-Hadath that "reports about the cancellation of US-Iran talks are not accurate."

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - An Iranian source had earlier told Lebanese outlet al-Mayadeen the opposite, that US-Iran talks on Friday were cancelled.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: "Nuclear talks with the United States are scheduled to be held in Muscat on about 10 am Friday.

I'm grateful to our Omani brothers for making all necessary arrangements." - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- A White House Official confirms that talks will take place on Friday in Oman. - NewsNation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - It should be noted that the Iranian foreign minister specifically says “nuclear talks,” indicating that U.S. demands to negotiate on additional topics were likely dropped.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Axios confirms that the talks in Oman on Friday will be bilateral and focused solely on the nuclear issue.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The United States has asked Israel to refrain from military action against Iran while negotiations are underway.