⚡️‼️🇪🇺 NEW - The European Commission has allowed a citizens' initiative demanding EU law keep digital ID and age verification voluntary, privacy-preserving and non-discriminatory for accessing online services. The initiative called 'Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification' now needs 1 million signatures across at least 7 member states within 12 months. Once the target is hit, Brussels must formally answer, right as it rolls out the EU Digital Identity Wallet and pilots its age-verification app.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says Americans are not against the war in Iran, according to a new poll he saw. "Americans don't want high gasoline prices, but they are not against the war." Trump believes most Americans support the war in Iran and trust his plan.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump wants to nominate FIFA boss Gianni Infantino for UN secretary-general following World Cup It all makes much more sense now…

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French model scout Daniel Siad, who introduced numerous young women to Jeffrey Epstein over more than a decade, was found dead at his home near Paris on Monday. His name appears thousands of times in the DOJ's Epstein files, and he was also facing a separate rape accusation, which he denied. Authorities are investigating the cause of death, with an autopsy pending.

⚡️🤖 NEW - Claude Code on desktop now works with the iOS simulator. Build and run your iOS app, and the simulator opens in a panel right next to your conversation. Available today in public beta.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - GIllibrand: So essentially you're asking for literally $1.5 trillion for a war that President Trump said he already won?

⚡️🚗 ICYMI - Volkswagen has blocked its app from working on phones running custom Android ROMs like GrapheneOS, LineageOS, and /e/OS. According to Volkswagen, the app now depends on Google’s Play Integrity API and supports only certified Android devices. Users with custom ROMs are logged out and cannot sign back in, losing access to connected car features like remote locking, climate control, charging management, and vehicle status. Volkswagen says these operating systems are outside its supported environment because the app relies on certified Android security standards.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - Ian Carroll: They called me crazy when I said Epstein worked for Israel on Rogan. A year later the vice president came on and said all the same things.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEWS - According to River more Americans own Bitcoin (18.6%), than Gold (10.8%) Bitcoin is growing.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani "Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal."

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The EU’s highest court has ruled that VPNs are legal tools, and VPN companies cannot be blamed simply because users employ them to bypass geo-blocks. The ruling stems from a copyright case involving Anne Frank’s writings. A Belgian website published some of her manuscripts online but blocked visitors from the Netherlands, where parts of the work remain protected by copyright until 2037. Anne Frank’s rights holders argued the site was still breaking the law because users could bypass the block with a VPN. The court disagreed and ruled that a website using effective geo-blocking cannot be held responsible if some users circumvent it with a VPN. The judges also affirmed that VPNs are legitimate privacy tools.

⚡️👨‍💻 JOB - If I ever have the chance to put together a team of journalists or investigators for Flash, I’d prioritize hiring people from Nostr. If I can’t find a job, being able to create one or more myself would be incredibly satisfying.

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - Senator Rand Paul says there’s a Deep State within the Deep State. “There’s only 8 people in Congress who have any idea what the CIA and FBI are doing.” “Everyone else is kept in the dark.” “When you talk about a Deep State, there’s a Deep State within the Deep State.” “They’re the elite eight.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - RFK Jr. comes out in favor of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, saying there is no genocide taking place against Palestinians despite the number of deaths. He says Israel is doing the "opposite of a genocide." "If Israel wanted to commit a genocide against Palestinians, they could do it in a minute."

⚡️👀 NEW - Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram: « This summer will see the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history. Instant zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion users are about to become reality. We're bringing a native non-custodial Gram wallet to every Telegram app! »

⚡️👀 NEW - Crypto Fear and Greed Index climbs to 33, moving out of "Extreme Fear" territory.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - HEGSETH: We had US boats that surrendered to Iranian ships during the Biden administration-- REED: Listen -- we're talking about the war you started. Not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, there was no conflict, we weren't losing personnel. So your fallback to the Biden administration is just a very very obvious excuse for what I think is gross negligence.