🇺🇸⚡️- Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie is trailing opponent and Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein, 53% to 45%, according to a new Quantus poll.

Massie leads Gallrein by a substantial margin among voters ages 17 to 55, while Gallrein leads Massie among Gen X and Boomer voters.

The exact polling numbers among age groups:

Age 17-25: Massie +25
Age 26-35: Massie +56
Age 36-45: Massie +38
Age 46-55: Massie +17
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Age 56-65: Gallrein +18
Age 66-75: Gallrein +35
Age 76+: Gallrein +33

🇸🇰🇺🇦⚡️- Slovakia has closed their border with Ukraine due to "security reasons".

🇺🇲⚡️- McDonalds will phase out self-serving soda fountains nationwide by 2032 due to "changing consumer habits."

🇺🇸⚡- "Yesterday, a senior counter-terrorism official flagged Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes when asked whether Washington DC is keeping tabs on "right-wing extremism." It is disgraceful for Sebastian Gorka, a foreign-born, PhD academic, to suggest that two of the most popular and consequential figures in American politics are extremists.

This is a blatant attempt to invite censorship, de-banking, and potentially even criminal prosecution against these two men and any American who agrees with them.

No one, on the right or the left, should ever be flagged, investigated, or prosecuted for constitutionally protected speech," - James Fishback, Republican candidate for Governor of Florida.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Senator Rand Paul’s son William interrupted an interview between Congressman Mike Lawler and NOTUS to inform Lawler that if Thomas Massie loses his race, it will be due to “his people,” incorrectly believing Lawler was Jewish.

William Paul then asserted that Jews are anti-American, place Israel's interests over America's, and that Paul Singer, a Jewish megadonor looking to unseat Massie, serves Israeli interests and not American ones. Paul later gave the finger to Lawler after Lawler called him antisemitic and didn't reciprocate his advice to “watch more Tucker Carlson.”

🇺🇸🧔🏻‍♂️⚡️- Video game journalist BeardsonBeardly has announced his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2028, becoming the first major candidate to announce his run.

🇺🇸⚡️- Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has announced a special legislative session to change election laws and draw new Congressional maps.

🇺🇸⚡️- This comes as Democrat House Leader Hakeem Jeffries has begun a new pressure campaign on blue states to gerrymander, all but threatening to campaign against incumbent Democrats.

🇺🇬🇪🇬⚡- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi travelled to Uganda's Entebbe to meet his counterpart Yoweri Museveni. The two discussed Sudan and the Nile challenges. Egypt's el-Sisi in return has invited Museveni to the African Union's 8th mid-year June summit in el-Alamein, Egypt.

Relations between Uganda and Egypt are currently at a low point, with Uganda backing Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, and heads the anti-Egyptian CFA 'alliance', which has led to a new Nile River Basin Commission, one without Cairo's veto power.

During the talks, a fight erupted between the bodyguards of both Presidents.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- The Biden Admin was allowing H1-B and other visa holders to access FHA housing loans with up to 100% financing when combined with local first time buyer and housing programs for non-Whites. Peaking in 2024 at almost 6% of all new mortgages in the country.

🇺🇸📚⚡️- New data from Stanford University shows a near universal collapse in reading scores across the United States in the last 10 years.

This decline has been attributed to the emergence of "EdTech" based curriculums alongside hangover policies from covid.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's Press Office claims the Israeli Prime Minister took a secret trip to UAE's Abu Dhabi, meeting President Mohamed bin Zayed. The visit occurred at the height of the war with Iran, and helped "lead to a historic breakthrough" in relations between the two countries.

The UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs surprisingly denies Netanyahu visiting the Emirati State.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- During the US-Iran war, China sold military weapons to the Gulf countries to help defend against Iranian attacks.

Beijing also assisted countries affected by Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Washington Post reports.

🇺🇸🇲🇦⚡️- U.S. AFRICOM announced the recovery of the body of the second soldier that went missing in Morocco, 19-year old Specialist Mariyah Collington.

Collington, along with 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr. whose body was recovered on May 9, went missing after falling into the ocean during a major training exercise earlier this month.

🇺🇸⚡- "US sells 30-year bonds at 5% yield for first time since 2007" - Financial Times.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- William H. Paul’s statement following the NOTUS article claiming he’s an antisemite.

🇺🇸⚡️- Emerson College poll of the Los Angeles Mayoral race has Republican Spencer Pratt within striking distance of Mayor Karen Bass:

Bass 30%
Pratt 22%
Raman 19%

🇺🇸⚡️- Spencer Pratt has gained significant momentum in the last week after a strong performance in the LA Mayoral debate and the stumbling of progressive challengers to Bass.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- Cuba’s Minister of Energy and Mines announced the country has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil amid the U.S. blockade of the island.

Many neighborhoods in Havana are currently facing blackouts lasting 20 to 22 hours per day.