🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸The US was genuinely afraid of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, since Iran had loaded sea mines onto ships in the Persian Gulf after the first Israeli missile strike on June 13, Reuters reported, citing sources.

A blockade of one of the world's most important shipping routes could have dealt a significant blow to global trade and increased energy prices, since about 20% of all global oil and gas supplies pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Although the US admits that this was simply a trick by Iran.

🇺🇸🔒❗️ — African-American rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs found guilty on 2 of 5 charges in sex trafficking trial

🇺🇸⚖️❗️ — Sean 'Diddy' Combs was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges, convicted of prostitution offense.

🇫🇷 French president, Emmanuel Macron, slams EU countries for not buying European and giving contracts to American and South Korean defense companies!

However, Macron has an ulterior motive: France has had a budget deficit of between 6-7% constantly for the past 5 years and it is struggling to cut state spending and at the same time, increase taxes enough as to not cause civil unrest or another motion of no-confidence which would topple Macron's fragile coalition and the Bayrou cabinet.

The French PM, François Bayrou, is hoping to end the year with a 5.4% deficit and that by 2029, France will have a budget deficit of under 3% as per EU regulations.

Buying from French defense companies would bring much needed funds to Macron's administration. Instead of deporting the millions of third world migrants France houses and gives welfare to, Emmanuel Macron would rather extract wealth from other European countries than fix the financial black holes of his country.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 An Iranian-linked hacker group, going by the alias “Robert,” is threatening to release around 100 GB of emails from Trump’s inner circle, including communications involving Susie Wiles, Roger Stone, Lindsey Halligan, and even Stormy Daniels.

🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/iran-trump-aides-email-hack-threat

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💻 Microsoft is laying off 9,000 Americans while simultaneously seeking approval for 14,181 new H-1B visa hires in 2025.

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#BREAKING

💰🚀📈 Bitcoin hit a new All-Time-High around $111990 on all major exchanges!

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🇺🇸💰💥🇧🇷 — To date, the 50% tariff imposed on Brazil by US President Donald Trump is the highest on the planet.

🇺🇸⛽️🤝🇩🇪 — In Victory for Atlanticism, Germany AGREES to import more liquefied natural gas from the Gulf of America, and the United States is now officially Germany's largest supplier of LNG.

➡️ US President Trump agreed with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Germany would buy more. And they bought more.

🔗 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh)

✍️🆗🌐 — [Off] Apparently, translation feature is back to Telegram.

🇪🇺🗳 Vote of no-confidence against Ursula von der Leyen fails!

360 MEPs voted against the motion, with 175 in favor and 18 abstaining. Out of 720 MEPs, 553 showed up to cast a ballot. The motion would have needed 357 votes to pass.

Despite having the support of her own European People’s Party as well as the Socialists, the liberals of Renew, and the Greens, some MEPs from these groups did not show up to vote.

Gheorghe Piperea, a Romanian lawmaker from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), who brought the motion against von der Leyen, told POLITICO that he expected the motion to fail, but that the exercise was healthy for the EU. He added that he expects the move to “open Pandora’s box” by showing that “it is possible” to challenge the Commission president.

Von der Leyen should brace for “several” more censure efforts, Piperea said.

The EPP disagrees. “The day we return from holidays, we would almost have forgotten about this,” predicted EPP vice-chair Siegfried Mureșan.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-wins-vote-no-confidence-european-parliament/

🇪🇺❌📱 EU to open an investigation into X/Twitter over Grok's recent antisemitic and racist comments

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski wrote in the letter addressed to EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen that Grok’s “offensive remarks” and “erratic and full of expletive-laden rants” on social media X could be a “major infringement” of the bloc's content moderation rulebook, the Digital Services Act.

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