🇺🇦🇷🇺 Fiber optic wires for guided drones.

🔗 War Path

🇺🇸 WikiLeaks on X: Palantir is engaged in a major expansion of the American surveillance state

Spyware company Palantir is engaged in large-scale data collection on American citizens, having taken on multiple contracts across Federal Government agencies with large holdings of private information.

A March 2025 Executive Order signed by Trump mandated all Federal Agencies to remove all barriers to intra- and inter-agency sharing of unclassified records. At the same time, the Administration is committing hundreds of millions of dollars to Palantir, a major intelligence contractor whose CEO Alex Karp told an investor call in February 2025: “Palantir is here to disrupt... and, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them.”

Palantir's data analytics product 'Foundry' is already installed within four Federal agencies including the Health and Human Services Department and the Department of Homeland Security, with talks under way with other agencies including the IRS. Widespread deployment would give the Administration unprecedented warrantless access to the private records of everyone in the United States, whether they are suspects in a criminal investigation or not.

🔗 WikiLeaks

#BREAKING

🇺🇸🛂❗️ — US President Donald Trump has banned entry into the United States for citizens of 12 countries and imposed partial restrictions on residents of seven more, CBS White House correspondent Jennifer Jacobs reported.

A complete ban will apply to citizens of:

🇦🇫 Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇮🇷 Islamic Republic of Iran
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇱🇾 Libya
🇲🇲 Myanmar
🇨🇬 Congo-Brazzavile
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇹🇩 Chad
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
🇪🇷 Eritrea

Partial restrictions will apply to citizens of:

🇧🇮 Burundi
🇻🇪 Chavista Venezuela
🇨🇺 Communist Cuba
🇱🇦 Socialist Republic of Laos
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
🇹🇬 Togo
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan

🇩🇰 BBC Journalist asks Danish Politician how Denmark is able to maintain trust in its Democracy - “Give voters what they want. If they want lower immigration lower it”

🔗 kunley_drukpa

🌖 Andrew McCarthy on X: On Monday I captured 225,000 photos of the moon to create this 500 gigabyte composite showing more detail and color depth than usually possible through a telescope. Here's a thread about how it was captured, but make sure to load in 4k and zoom in first!

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1930328740149768427

🇺🇸🇺🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸 US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza

The text, co-sponsored by Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia – collectively known as the E-10 – received 14 votes in favour, with the US casting the lone vote against.

As one of the council’s five permanent members, the US holds veto power – a negative vote that automatically blocks any resolution from going forward.

Had it been adopted, the draft would have demanded “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza” to be respected by all parties.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164056

🇮🇷Iran has announced the complete completion of its nuclear fuel cycle.

"Iran has succeeded in creating a complete nuclear fuel cycle. Therefore, today we are able to produce nuclear fuel from the mine to the power plant. The number of countries in the world that have achieved a complete nuclear fuel cycle is probably less than the number of fingers on two human hands. Iranian youth and scientists have achieved this," Supreme Leader Khamenei said.

He criticized the US, saying "they don't want Iran to have a nuclear industry at all, they want you to depend on them for radiopharmaceuticals, energy, desalination equipment and dozens of other critical sectors."

📉 A recent YouGov EuroTrack survey found that support for Israel has collapsed across Western Europe, with net favourability at record lows: Spain (-55%), Denmark (-54%), Italy (-52%), France (-48%), the UK (-46%), and Germany (-44%).

Every Western European country polled is more sympathetic to the Palestinian than Israeli cause.

🔗 AF Post

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Tatarigami on X: This may be difficult to accept, but when I first raised concerns about Ukraine’s offensive operations in the Kursk region, I correctly anticipated that it could ultimately lead to Russian forces retaking Kursk and then advancing gradually into Sumy Oblast, and eventually toward Dnipro.

In hindsight, the offensive has proven far more costly than a limited incursion or a strategic defense would have been. A short-term operation, lasting two to four weeks, aimed at creating a modest buffer zone inside Kursk might have preserved resources. Instead, the campaign has resulted in significantly higher losses in both personnel and equipment.

As of May 2025, Ukraine had lost 994 confirmed vehicles in Kursk Oblast, compared with 791 on the Russian side. To put that in perspective, on the Avdiivka–Pokrovsk front, Ukrainian losses stood at 679 vehicles versus 2,352 for Russia.

With Western military aid dwindling- U.S. support reduced for political reasons and Europe unable to supply adequate materiel, and Ukrainian forces struggling to replenish personnel, the scale of losses sustained in Kursk is nothing but a serious operational-strategic misjudgment at the senior level.

As I have pointed from the outset, Russia was ultimately able to concentrate sufficient forces to retake Kursk without significantly weakening its positions in Pokrovsk. Only very limited Russian units were redeployed from the Pokrovsk direction, while Ukraine shifted tens of thousands of troops, leaving that front undermanned and accelerating Russia’s gains there.

Unless the loss ratio begins to shift decisively in Ukraine’s favor, Russian forces are likely to continue advancing, both into Sumy Oblast and, gradually, toward Dnipro. Yet the Ukrainian military and political leadership at times appears more focused on performative media operations than on articulating a long-term strategic vision for the battlefield beyond few months

https://x.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1930386333706359094

🇻🇪🇻🇪💥🇺🇸 — Diosdado Cabello, Nicolás Maduro's right-hand man, responded to Donald Trump's travel restrictions toward several countries, including Venezuela, by saying that being in the U.S. "is a risk for anyone." He mockingly added, "if you're really dumb, go to the United States."