🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Some solid analysis one of our admins saw on Twitter concerning Russia's offensive in the DPR and Kharkov oblast.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Hunter Biden's plea deal falling apart.

Nick's take from his show earlier on why Musk is rebranding twitter as 'X' and working towards this concept of the 'everything app' made a lot of sense.

Basically Elon needs to integrate Twitter into a larger revenue generation infrastructure in order to liberate its business model from dependence upon advertisers - as of last year, 92% of twitter's revenue is from advertising.

So long as twitter retains this business model it is vulnerable to advertiser boycotts, if a free speech platform is ever going to become structurally viable as a business model it needs to expand beyond the limitations of just being a social media company. It instead needs to leverage social media use as customer engagement for other more profitable services.

Whether this 'X' app is successful and what it's moderation policies are remain to be seen of course, but structurally something like this appears to be the necessary evolution of the platform.

🇳🇪⚡️ - Niger's president Bazoum resigned, a junta is soon to be formed.

🇳🇪⚡️ - Some analysis concerning the above news - it will soon be confirmed which of the two is correct.

— A very interesting point: While on social medias, Burmese Pro-Democracy Rebels of the People's Defense Forces (PDF) and their allies declare their support for Ukraine, it seems that the Military Junta of Myanmar seems to have started selling ammunition to Russia

https://news.1rj.ru/str/war_noir/12689

🇮🇪 - Sinead O'Connor, an Irish singer known for tearing up a portrait of St John Paul II the Great, has died aged 56.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Nick Fuentes has withdrawn from the event, due to security concerns.

🇳🇪⚡️- President Bazoum has been removed from power in Niger - Coup plotters on TV.

🇺🇸🇳🇪⚡️- The United States has announced sanctions against Niger due to the coup attempt today.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - Ukraine has begun what the New York Times refers to as the "main thrust of its counteroffensive", south of Orekhov. The AFU aim to capture the town of Tokmak, planning to use that as a staging post to take the coast and cut the liberated territories in two.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Ukraine's efforts appear to be concentrated on the Zaporozhian village of Rabotino, part of Russia's line of defense. According to Russian channels, the situation there is "tense".

🇲🇱🇫🇷 - In a symbolic rejection of French neocolonialism, Mali has removed French as an official language.

🇷🇺🇨🇫 - Prigozhin seen with the Central African Republic's ambassador at the Russo-African summit in St Petersburg.

🇪🇬🇺🇸 - Travis Scott's concert in Egypt was canceled due to suspicions among Egyptian authorities that the rapper may have "Masonic thoughts".

The authorities' decision was likely connected to the death of 10 people in a crush at Scott's Astroworld festival in 2021, believed by some to have been part of a Satanic ritual.