This means Lebanon. They insist that Israel cease its attacks on Lebanon, which ramped up over the weekend, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen.
President Trump has reportedly asked Israel not to respond to the Iranian attacks and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has reportedly agreed. But then they responded anyway by striking “military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran.”
Meanwhile, Israel will take it out on the people of Gaza. Israel has closed down crossings into the Gaza Strip, which will hamper the inflow of aid. But don’t worry about the aid. An Israeli statement said this:
“The substantial quantities of food that have entered the Strip since the beginning of the ceasefire significantly exceed the nutritional needs of the population, according to UN methodologies.”
In other words, they have enough.
It is too early to assess the damage of Operation True Promise 5 but early reports say that the target was Israel’s Ramat David airbase. Israel claims that it intercepted the missiles and did not report injuries but video evidence shows that this claim is false.
It is worth noting why this was called Operation True Promise 5.
Operation True Promise 1 started in April of 2024 after Israel struck an Iranian consulate in Damascus and killed Iranian officials. Iran retaliated with a missile strike in Israel.
Operation True Promise 2 began in October of 2024 after Israel targeted Iranian commander Abbas Nilforoushan and his family in their home inside Iran. Iran fired missiles back over Israel, aimed at military bases and infrastructure.
Operation True Promise 3 is also referred to as the 12-Day War. It began in June of 2025 after Israel struck Iranian military targets and the U.S. followed up with bombers. We were assured that Iran’s “nuclear program” was demolished and Iran responded with a barrage of missile attacks over Israel.
Operation True Promise 4 began on February 28 of this year after the U.S. and Israel struck a civilian school of young girls inside of Iran, killing at least 150 children.
Operation True Promise 5, well, you’re living through it. President Trump told NBC News that he intends for the conflict with Iran to be wrapped up very soon. It’s not even a war really, he said. “I call it a military exercise.”
Lead: AI Bots Make a DNA Vaccine
Photo credit: AI-generated image (ChatGPT/OpenAI)
The world’s first AI Covid DNA vaccine was tested on humans and researchers found it to be “safe and well tolerated.”
Those aren’t exactly the most reassuring words in medicine. “Safe and well tolerated” does not mean risk-free. It means the researchers did not identify safety problems serious enough to stop the trial.
What is an AI vaccine? It means that researchers used artificial intelligence and computer modeling to design a vaccine intended to protect against multiple members of the sarbecovirus family, including SARS-CoV-2, SARS, and related bat coronaviruses that scientists believe could potentially infect humans in the future.
Obvious question: why are scientists developing vaccines for hypothetical future spillover events? Did the AI identify a specific threat, or are researchers simply trying to build a broad-spectrum animal scenario vaccine before the next outbreak occurs?
The vaccine was tested on 39 people who had previously been vaccinated for Covid. Researchers can’t tell us it was “effective” against all of those possibilities because they have not occurred…we hope! All we know is that those 39 people were fine for at least six months after their two doses.
Well, we don’t even know that. The research paper says that Adverse Events were monitored but it doesn’t tell us what kind of Adverse Events they were. It assures us that none of them were serious so we just have to take their word for it.
And about that DNA part. This means that researchers injected a circular piece of DNA (a plasmid) that contains genetic instructions for making the vaccine antigen.
So AI is prepping to inject us with DNA for a wide variety of animal-virus breakouts. Great.
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Did you catch this video this weekend where we ask a question that would completely change the geopolitical landscape if the answer is yes:
Does Iran already have a nuclear weapon?
For weeks, strange signals have been coming out of Washington, Tehran, and Tel Aviv. President Trump has spoken about collecting Iran’s “nuclear dust.” Iran has suddenly hardened its position, declaring its nuclear program non-negotiable. And inside Israel, senior intelligence officials are being pushed out following what some are calling one of the biggest intelligence failures in modern history.
Are these disconnected events, or clues pointing to something much bigger? We break down the evidence, the intelligence chatter, and why some analysts believe the world may already be operating under a very different reality than the one being publicly discussed.
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Captain Mark Phillips is trending because he also attended the wedding. He rarely makes public appearances since divorcing Princess Anne but the groom was his son after all so he turned up.
Bryce Adair is trending. He was a part of the crew at CBS Sports and he died in a car accident last week. CBS Sports lead host Jim Nantz presented a touching tribute to the 31-year-old man on Sunday during the broadcast of the Memorial Tournament.
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