🇩🇪⚡️- Volkswagen plans to fire another 50,000 workers between 2031 and 2034. This announcement comes months after a first decision to fire 50,000 workers by 2030. The company explained they have been forced to double that number to due rising economic pressure and increased competition from Chinese manufacturers.

🇩🇪🇪🇺⚡️- German economists interpret the announcement as a worrying sign that the country's economy is heading into a death spiral.

Manufacturing accounts for nearly 20% of Germany's GDP, well above the 15% average across other EU nations.
Germany generates nearly a third of all European manufacturing, with the automotive industry making up the largest part of this sector. Since the first Q1 2026, the German manufacturing industry has been bleeding an average of 13,500 jobs per month.

🇸🇩⚡- The Rapid Support Forces have launched new offensives towards the al-Bukuri area and the town of Khandaru, Ad Damazin direction, southeast Sudan.

Clashes are still ongoing despite the initial wave of RSF attacks being repelled in al-Bukuri.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah forces are launching relentless waves of assaults against the al-Matahif heights, attempting to pass through the grey-zone, and breach the PLC's defensive lines - Hays direction, southwest Yemen.

Fighting has been ongoing across the entire Hays and Ta'izz fronts for over 40+ hours.

🇾🇪 - Situation update in the Ta'izz direction:

After nearly 24 hours of fighting, Ansarullah's offensive along the Ta'izz axis appears to have failed.

Ansarullah initially achieved tactical gains, capturing several positions around the Bani Bakari Heights overlooking al-Qash‘ah and Jabal Nu'man. Following the advances in the heights west of Bani Bakari, Ansarullah forces pushed towards Jabal al-Rawa in an attempt to reach the As Safi crossroads.

However, reinforcements from the Presidential Leadership Council, including the Giant Brigades and Homeland Shield Forces, launched a counteroffensive in the Bani Bakari sector, recapturing the lost positions and reversing all of Ansarullah's gains.

The objective of the Ansarullah operation was clear:

- Seize the Bani Bakari Heights and isolate Ta'izz from Jabal al-Rawa and As Safi. The Bani Bakari heights provided Ansarullah full fire control over the Ta'izz - As Safi road.

- The al-Houthi forces would then attack Jabal al-Rawa and its crossroad As Safi just south, and had the surrounding high grounds around fallen, the main supply route linking Ta'izz to Dhubab and the Bab el-Mandeb corridor would have been severed.

- The loss of the As Safi crossroad would have forced PLC forces to rely on the much longer coastal route from Aden to sustain Dhubab, the logistical hub for the National Resistance Forces operating along the Hays front. In turn, this would have placed the entire Hays direction at significant risk.

Map key:
Blue circle: Ta'izz.
Yellow circle: Bani Bakari.
Orange circle: As Safi.
Red circle: Dhubab.

🇺🇸🫏⚡- In the latest nationwide DSA obfuscation program, social media posts from Will Lawrence, the DSA-aligned candidate for MI-7, have been unearthed.

Lawrence deleted hundreds of social media posts, which included calls for the abolition of borders, prisons, police, capitalism, fossil fuels, and the Senate. Lawrence proceeded to say that the Hetero-Patriarchal nuclear family was a “violent way of organizing society”; he later argued that “Queer families” create material conditions for solidarity as opposed to normal people. He also said on Indigenous Peoples’ Day that he hopes the 21st century will begin an Indigenous Millennium, without the nation-state and capitalism.

This embodies the DSA’s obfuscation campaign, as Will Lawrence’s campaign website purports to focus on affordability and “ending the endless wars” while concealing his true ideological motivations for the literal abolition of America and civilization.

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- This is Will Lawrence, Abdulrahman Mohammed El-Sayed, and Hasan Piker at Michigan State University in April 2026, where Lawrence shamelessly begs Piker to stream with him.

Lawrence’s embarrassing display has still not resulted in him doing a live stream with the Turkish dog torturer.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The judge has declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case.

🇺🇸⚡️- The judge is giving the defense one hour to request an emergency stay from a higher court before it’s official.

🇾🇪⚡- Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council has advised all civilians to stay away from Ansarullah military positions in the al-Houthi controlled areas of the Hays and Ta'izz directions, southwest Yemen.

It's becoming increasingly likely the PLC will respond with a large-scale counteroffensive.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Several Israeli airstrikes on al-Mansouri, southern Lebanon.

🇾🇪⚡- Two Ansarullah ballistic missiles hit positions just south of al-Khawkhah, Hays direction, southwest Yemen.

🇾🇪 - Southern Transitional Council (STC) protests were held across southern Yemen today, with demonstrators opposing involvement in the Yemeni civil war, which participants described as a "Saudi-Iranian conflict" rather than a southern cause.

Protesters urged former STC fighters–estimated at between 75,000 and 100,000 personnel–not to join military operations against Ansarullah, arguing that the conflict in northern Yemen is neither their responsibility nor their concern.

The former STC's military formations include some of Yemen's most capable and well-trained forces, including:
- Security Belt Forces,
- Hadhrami Elite Forces,
- Storm Brigades.

Since the end of the PLC-STC conflict earlier this year, several former STC-aligned formations have pledged support to the Presidential Leadership Council, including:
- Abyan Emergency Forces,
- Shabwah Emergency Forces,
- Quick Rapid Forces,
- Division 22,
- Giant Brigades,
- Tareq Saleh's Brigades (Presidential Guards),
- Tihamah Brigades.

Note, several former STC groups are already participating in military operations against Ansarullah, including the Giant Brigades and Tihamah Brigades.

🇮🇷⚡- Anti-ship missile launches from Sirik, southern Iran, towards the Strait of Hormuz.

🇫🇷⚡️- Jordan Bardella has threatened to leave the National Rally following Le Pen's plan to re-incorporate her niece Marion Maréchal within the party. The political heir to Marine Le Pen has not been able to find his place within the party following Marine's presidential candidacy confirmation.

🇫🇷🇬🇧⚡️- Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally French party, signed a memorandum with Nigel Farage promising to return every immigrant intercepted in the English Channel back to France in case both candidates are elected.

This signature is interpreted as an utter humiliation for Jordan Bardella in the French political sphere, as he was even mocked by the ex-PM and center-leftist candidate Gabriel Attal.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- A Russian drone hit the SBU's headquarters in Kyiv today for the first time since 2022. According to local outlets, the SBU acting head's office was specifically targeted.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- "I have instructed [the head of the SBU] to respond adequately, concretely, and, if possible, symmetrically to the Russian strike when everything is ready." - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The Massachusetts Supreme Court has denied Lindsay Clancy’s appeal.

The judge will declare a mistrial, which the most likely result will be a new trial with a new prosecution team.

🇺🇸⚡- The mother, Corie Walsh, who killed her 2-year-old and then attempted suicide in Frankfurt, Illinois, has been charged with killing her child. It has also been confirmed that Walsh had been “actively discussing” the Lindsay Clancy case in a group chat with friends about three and a half hours before her child was discovered dead.

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN reporter describes the scene in the Lindsey Clancy courtroom when the judge declares a mistrial:

"There was one female juror that was nodding her head, 'Noooo…’ Another female juror clenching her hands into fists… One female juror would not even open her eyes."