⚡️🇮🇱🇨🇭 NEW - While Israel’s bobsleigh team was racing, the Swiss commentator reminded viewers of war crimes the pilot has supported. “Adam Edelman who self-defines as a Zionist…posted several messages on social media in favor of genocide in Gaza” Commentator Stefan Renna on Swiss public broadcaster RTS sparked controversy during Israeli captain AJ Edelman’s second bobsleigh run at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, bringing up Edelman’s past social media posts supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including one calling it “the most morally just war in history.” He compared the situation to the IOC’s restrictions on Russian and Belarusian athletes, and asked why similar neutrality standards were not being applied to Israel. Israel’s bobsleigh team, “Shul Runnings,” finished 26th out of 26 sleds, recording the slowest start and finish times in both heats, according to official results. Despite the ranking, pilot AJ Edelman stated, "We are victors, not victims.” Edelman holds dual Israeli and U.S. citizenship.

⚡🇨🇳🇳🇮 WATCH - China has given Nicaragua 2,280 new buses since 2023 - no conditions, no strings, no regime change demands. Ortega: "China is the exception among world powers."

⚡🇮🇳🇫🇷 NEW - French President Macron jogging in India's Mumbai.

⚡🔎 NEW - TRM Labs reports that Monero's on-chain transaction activity remained broadly stable in 2024-2025 and stayed above pre-2022 levels. This is despite delistings or restrictions on major platforms such as Binance and Coinbase. The report notes that ransomware groups still prefer to receive payments in XMR, but most real-world ransom payments are ultimately made in BTC.

⚡🇷🇺 WATCH - Vladimir Putin: “Russia is not going to attack Europe - it’s funny for us, it’s laughable” “Crooks are telling their populations that Russia are going to attack & we have to strengthen our defence” “Maybe they serve the military industrial complex or want to boost political ratings”

⚡🔴 NEW - YouTube is escalating its crackdown on ad blockers. Many users report that comment sections now appear as "turned off" on videos, and video descriptions are missing entirely. The issue stems from ad blocker detection; disabling the extension immediately restores both features. No reliable workaround exists yet beyond turning off ad blockers or subscribing to Premium.

⚡🇺🇸 WATCH - A Southern California Avocado farmer shows how impossible it is to run his business in California now “We picked 52,616 pounds of avocados, which has a retail value of $68,000.” Here’s the breakdown: Total Pounds: 526616 Gross Income: $68,252.19 Assessments: -$1,578.48 Pickers Cost: -$15,900.00 Net Income: $50,777.73 Water Cost: -$37,741.87 Management: -$33,235.35 Taxes: -$10,000.00 Profit: -$30,203.51 He says they’re going to likely have to sell off to one of the larger companies. Smaller farmers can’t make it

⚡🇯🇵 NEW - Metaplanet reports $1.4 billion in unrealized losses on its Bitcoin holdings. The Japanese company has accumulated 35,100 BTC, purchased at an average price of $107,000 per unit. Current value of the reserve: $2.4 billion for a total investment over 21 months of nearly $3.8 billion. The company has not announced any new Bitcoin purchases this year.

⚡💬 NEW - Vitalik Buterin stated that users should be free to use Ethereum even if they disagree with his views on application design, politics, DeFi, private payments, or AI. He emphasized that as a decentralized protocol, Ethereum should remain permissionless and censorship-resistant, while noting that this does not prevent individuals from making value judgments about applications and publicly criticizing them.

⚡💬 NEW - The buyer of Logan Paul's Pikachu Illustrator believes it will be worth $100,000,000 one day "It's a 1/1 card, it sits against the other icons like the 1952 Mickey Mantle and the T206 Honus Wagner. If those cards sold today I think they're worth $50M-$70M personally" "I think this cards a $100M card it just depends on how long you wanna wait. The currency is being fundamentally debased, any store of value assets like collectibles and gold, look at what's happening"

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Dan Bongino justifies the redactions, which shield the clients of Jeffrey Epstein. Bongino says he agrees that the FBI no longer has the evidence they once thought they had. He says there are no tapes of powerful men r*ping children, and there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list. "That's how it goes."

⚡🚨 NEW - Billionaire Tom Pritzker, the cousin of Governor JB Pritzker, has stepped down as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after being named in the Epstein files. Pritzker says he "deeply" regrets his ties with Epstein and says he "exercised terrible judgment." "Good stewardship also means protecting Hyatt, particularly in the context of my association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell which I deeply regret,” Pritzker said. "I exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner." The Epstein files revealed that Pritzker maintained close contact with Epstein and Maxwell for a decade after Epstein's solicitation charges. "The girl from Romania that you met at my house, is currently living in london, can we see if there is a starting position in any of the hotels," Epstein wrote in one email. Pritzker responded by asking Epstein to send him her resume.

⚡🇺🇸🇺🇦 NEW – Trump on tomorrow's Ukraine peace talks in Geneva: "Ukraine better come to the table fast."

⚡🇬🇧 NEW - Keir Starmer on Grok: Having the ability to instruct an AI bot to undress, particularly women, online is just so grotesque and disgusting that you'd think it wouldn't be allowed. You'd think that the platform provider, once they saw it, would say, “Take that down.” But that wasn't the case. We went into battle on Grok, and the platform provider—the first response was not “get rid of this disgusting feature,” it was “oh, we'll make it a premium service.” So you've got to pay for it. I tell you, and I'm not kidding you, that is the battle we're in, because the response was not “get rid of it,” the response was, “well, if we restrict access to it to people who can pay for it, is that good enough?” We said, “no, it's not good enough.”

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Kevin O’Leary says that institutions do not want to own more than 3% of Bitcoin in their portfolios because of the risk of quantum computing...

⚡🇺🇸🇮🇱 ICYMI - Thomas Massie: "I think Israel is influencing the Epstein File release. Israeli intelligence and our own CIA was wrapped up with Epstein"

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Adin Ross SHOCKS fans after announcing he’s quitting streaming says he’s heading to rehab immediately Claims things got out of control behind the scenes and admits he burned through nearly HALF of his $850,000 monthly earnings in just one month. Adin: “Shoutout to Kick for lowering my monthly earnings to $850,000… I spent half of that on drugs this month.”

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⚡🇪🇺 ICYMI - EU bans the destruction of unsold clothing, accessories and footwear for large companies from 19 July 2026 with medium-sized companies expected to follow in 2030, as part of the "Green Deal" to make companies "more sustainable."

⚡🚨 ALERT - You may be asked to authenticate yourself via selfie or ID on CHATGPT in order to access its AI. OpenAI has announced the rollout of an “age prediction” system, designed to “better protect young users” and tailor the experience accordingly. This should not be mandatory for all users at this stage. Gradual rollout. ➥ Rumors suggest that this could affect all users and become mandatory to use ChatGPT...