🇾🇪💥❗️ — Saudi outlet Al-Hadath reports a massive explosion at a Houthi weapons depot northeast of Sanaa.

Dozens were reportedly killed or injured in the blast.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 Various reports from Ukrainian sources indicate a large-scale buildup of Russian troops along the Belgorod-Kharkov international border, indicating a possible offensive in Kharkiv.

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸🪖🇰🇷 — The Trump administration is considering removing thousands of US troops from South Korea.

An option being developed by the Pentagon is to relocate approximately 4,500 service members to different areas within the Indo-Pacific region, including Guam.

— The Wall Street Journal

🇨🇭👁👁‍🗨📸Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US

In Switzerland, a country known for its love for secrecy, particularly when it comes to banking, the tides have turned: An update to the VÜPF surveillance law directly targets privacy and anonymity services such as VPNs as well as encrypted chat apps and email providers. As an encrypted email provider ourself, we at Tuta Mail call on Swiss politicians to revise this dangerous update!

The proposed update to Switzerland’s Ordinance on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (VÜPF: Verordnung über die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs) represents a significant expansion of state surveillance powers, worse than the surveillance powers of the USA. If enacted, it would have serious consequences for encrypted services such as Threema, an encrypted WhatsApp alternative and Proton Mail as well as VPN providers based in Switzerland.

While Swiss privacy has been overhyped, legislative rules in Switzerland are currently decent and comparable to German data protection laws. This update to the VÜPF, which could come into force by 2026, would change data protection legislation in Switzerland dramatically.

Why the update is dangerous

If the law passes in its current form,

➡️Swiss email and VPN providers with just 5,000 users are forced to log IP addresses and retain the data for six months - while data retention in Germany is illegal for email providers.
➡️ID or driver’s license, maybe a phone number, are required for the registration process of various services - rendering the anonymous usage impossible.
➡️Data must be delivered upon request in plain text, meaning providers must be able to decrypt user data on their end (except for end-to-end encrypted messages exchanged between users).

What is more, the law is not introduced by or via the Parliament, but instead the Swiss government, the Federal Council and the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP), want to massively expand internet surveillance by updating the VÜPF - without Parliament having a say. This comes as a shock in a country proud of its direct democracy with regular people’s decisions on all kinds of laws. However, in 2016 the Swiss actually voted for more surveillance, so direct democracy might not help here.

https://tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸🪙 No more pennies: In big change, Treasury will stop minting them

The Trump administration hopes to save big bucks by phasing out the penny.

The Treasury Department has placed its last order for blank pennies and plans to stop minting the one-cent coins as soon as that's exhausted.

Each penny costs nearly four cents to produce, so the move is expected to result in immediate savings of $56 million a year. A Treasury spokeswoman confirmed the decision, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump called for the phase-out back in February. Canada, New Zealand and Australia have also eliminated their one-cent coins.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5407493/no-more-pennies-one-cent-treasury-stop-minting

💸 So much currency is going to be printed over the next decade.

The $5 foot long passes into legend.

🔗 Battle Beagle

🇺🇸🏛 Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students

The Trump administration has barred Harvard University from enrolling international students, in a major escalation of its attacks on one of America’s most prestigious Ivy League schools.

Secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard on Thursday telling its administration that the university’s student and exchange visitor programme certification had been revoked, “effective immediately”.

The decision comes amid a deepening crackdown in recent months by US President Donald Trump on elite institutions which he accuses of promoting “woke” ideology and failing to tackle antisemitism.

https://www.ft.com/content/300e00a7-54e1-4902-a84f-ec9e4117ffc3

https://archive.is/wFGwc

💸📈 U.S. 30-year Treasury Yield soared to 5.15%, the highest level since 2007.

🔗 Barchart

🇺🇸📞🇮🇷❗️ — The fifth round of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks ends after three hours, source with knowledge says to Axios

🇮🇷☢️❌🇺🇸 — Iranian Regime Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned this would be the last round if US forced Iran to give up on Enrichment rights:

Set to travel to Rome for 5th round of indirect talks with the United States.

Figuring out the path to a deal is not rocket science:

Zero nuclear weapons = we DO have a deal.
Zero enrichment = we do NOT have a deal.

Time to decide...

🇺🇸📞🇮🇱🇮🇷 — US Chief Negotiator ⁣Witkoff had an individual meeting with the Mossad head David Barnea, two hours before the USA-Speed ​​session.

➡️ The meeting extended for 40 minutes, delaying its arrival and leaving Abbas Araghi, from Iran, waiting.

📞 Negotiations between Iran and the American delegation lasted only 2 hours and 20 minutes.

➡️ Witkoff left 15 to 20 minutes before the official end.

➡️ The remaining American delegation, without leadership, concluded the discussions just 20 minutes later.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/armillary/29094

🇩🇪🔪❗️ — Suspected terror attack in Hamburg, Germany.

12 people have been stabbed in a train. 6 are seriously wounded, with several in life-threatening condition

Suspect in custody