Briefing

The Iran war stalled because America ran out of missiles. The escalation hit a wall that had nothing to do with strategy: the Pentagon ran out of air defense interceptors it cannot replace fast enough, and Waltz contradicted himself on the depleted stockpiles while threatening to jail whoever reported it. Trump's public account unmoored from reality entirely, fabricating regime collapses and inventing quotes from dead soldiers. Fox News picked Iranian power plants to bomb on air like a game. Iran called the bluff, and China backed Tehran openly.

Congress voted to fuse the US and Israeli militaries. The House passed a $1.15 trillion defense bill that merges American and Israeli military structures, with Jake Sherman naming the Democrats who signed on. Netanyahu celebrated a US promise to destroy the ICC, the court investigating him. Almost half of American voters now want him arrested on US soil, and 46 percent call him a war criminal outright.

Trump is running for a fourth term and openly says so. He announced a fourth-term bid ignoring the Constitution, pitched a sequel and trilogy at the correspondents' dinner, and his wealth in office has outpaced 60 years of prior fortune. His rally act is now explaining the same old-man sex joke three times.

The Pentagon erased its own dead. The military deleted soldier deaths to fake a successful ceasefire, and it bombed a school it had surveilled for 40 years knowing children were inside. The FBI leaked a false drug claim after an ICE killing.

Corporations bought their way past food safety. Taylor Farms paid $2M to delay a recall mid-outbreak by calling the White House, while the FDA retracted a test as a false positive. Palantir planted a consultant inside a campaign, and a GOP account lied that a Maine Democrat was a socialist.