🇯🇵🇹🇼 In March, the Japanese government announced plans to evacuate up to 120,000 civilians from the Sakishima Islands, part of Okinawa Prefecture, in the event of a Taiwan contingency.

Below is TSM's visualization of those plans, showing the impacted islands and evacuation routes.

🔗 Taiwan Monitor

🇺🇸/🇨🇳 The CIA released two videos in Mandarin aimed at recruiting Chinese officials to help United States

CIA Director John Ratcliffe: "One of the primary roles of the CIA is to collect intelligence…by recruiting assets that can help us steal secrets."

🔗 CIA

🇩🇪 The AfD is a right-wing extremist group, German intelligence agency says

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has officially classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “proven right-wing extremist organization,” marking the most serious step yet in Berlin’s efforts to contain the rising political force.

The move, announced Friday by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), means that the AfD is no longer merely under suspicion. The agency says it now has definitive evidence that the party works against Germany’s democratic system.

This is the first time in modern German history that the party with nationwide representation in parliament has been formally designated as extremist. Some state-level AfD branches — like those in the eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia — had already received that label.

The new classification doesn’t ban the party, but it allows German authorities to intensify surveillance, including the use of undercover informants and monitoring communications, under judicial oversight.

https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-officially-right-wing-extremist-group-germanys-intel-agency-says/

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️ The US will no longer mediate in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia – White House

"We will continue to help, but we will no longer fly around the world as mediators at meetings. Now it is a matter for the two sides, the time has come for them to present and develop concrete ideas on how to end this conflict. It will be up to them."

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Coinbase predicts the U.S. could soon buy $100 billion in #Bitcoin!


❤️ @CryptoWorldNews

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Dr Snekotron on X:

"So Ukraine got an even better deal than the terms were originally. Neither party has a voting advantage, and there won't be profit sharing for the first 10 years, with all the money for Ukraine's rebuilding.

Zelensky has his ways."

🔗 snekotron

🇩🇪❌🇩🇪 — AfD has been designated an extremist entity by German intelligence.

The move is seen as a prelude to ban the party

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)