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+15 Nicole Hardy Scary how these hybrid attacks keep testing the line just short of open war. Germany's right to call it out publicly instead of staying quiet.IJR EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s EPA Wants More Plastic Turned Into New Products, And The Paper Lobby Is Fighting It Simon August · 4 min · 1h
On X · @nicksortor Protesters Rally Outside Kennedy Center Against Trump Renovation Plans Conservative reporter Nick Sortor posted video of demonstrators protesting Trump’s private-funded renovation of the aging Kennedy Center, calling the protest pathetic and claiming protesters want the venue to collapse. The post trended with high engagement amid partisan debate over funding, naming, and board decisions. Reactions heavily favored Sortor’s anti-protester framing. 850 likes · 9m ED attaches 1,906 crore assets in gaming probe x/india — Jul 24, 2026 The Enforcement Directorate provisionally attached assets totaling ₹1,906 crore of Gameskraft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and related entities in a money-laundering probe linked to online real-money rummy platforms, including RummyCulture, RummyPrime, Playship, and RummyTime, citing a user base of about 3 crore and the alleged use of bots and aggressive incentives. The agency says proceeds were laundered through dividends, share buy-backs, and layered investments, with the investigation rooted in Telangana FIRs and ongoing searches; online real-money gaming had been banned in 2025. +2 D Daily Caller News Foundation EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s EPA Wants More Plastic Turned Into New Products, And The Paper Lobby Is Fighting It A conservative group is pressing six paper giants to rein in their lobbying against a Trump administration-backed push to recycle more plastic. 1h IJR Italy Scrambles Warships Toward Red Sea As Houthis Close In On Global Shipping Chokepoint Francis Kapper · 6 min · 3h On X · @slayyyter Pop artist Slayyyter posts photo with director Richard Linklater using song-lyric pun Singer-songwriter Slayyyter (@slayyyter) shared a backstage photo with filmmaker Richard Linklater after her Austin show, captioned “richard we should linklater.” The line is a direct callback to a lyric in her music (“he wanna fuck slayyyter / richard, we should link later”), which has long been a fan meme tying her work to Linklater (director of *Dazed and Confused*, the film that inspired her stage name). It is circulating as light fan celebration of the real-life meetup fulfilling the pun. 945 likes · 10m