🇺🇸 xAI on X: Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers

We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners

1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense

2) our products being available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products

📝 Apple Lamps: The U.S. Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has awarded contracts (up to $200M each) to frontier AI companies Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI to develop advanced AI workflows for national security missions.

This aims to leverage cutting-edge AI tech and talent to enhance warfighter support, intelligence, and enterprise systems, while accelerating DoD's commercial-first AI adoption.

🔗 xAI

🇺🇸❌🇷🇺❗️ — US President Donald Trump issues an 50 day ultimatum for Russian leader Vladimir Putin reach a deal or face consequences:

"We are very, very unhappy with [Russia], and we're going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🌐🤝🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte agrees with Trump's proposal to make EU buy weaponry from US to send to Ukraine:

"You want Ukraine [to have] what it needs ... but you want the Europeans to pay for it — which is totally logical."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸🤝🪖🇪🇺🇺🇦 — US President Donald Trump on the deal with EU and NATO to buy weaponry to Ukraine:

"We make the best equipment, the best missiles...
The European nations know that...
We've made a deal today where we're going to be sending them weapons and they're going to be paying for them.

The United States will NOT be having any payment made."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸🤝🇪🇺 — US President Donald Trump on the deal with EU and NATO to buy weaponry to Ukraine:

"Just so you know, [Europe is] paying for everything.
We're not paying anymore.
We have an ocean separating us...

We make the best stuff, but we can't keep doing this — and Biden should've done this years ago."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇷 Pence says isolationists losing sway with Trump as he praises moves on Ukraine, Iran

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he thinks isolationists “may have lost some of their footing” in President Donald Trump’s administration, as he praised Trump’s tougher talk toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin and his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities.

Pence, since his split with Trump after the 2020 election, has often criticized the president’s approach to Russia and his tepid support for Ukraine.

But he told CNN’s Kate Bolduan in an interview Thursday he hopes Trump is “starting to recognize” that Putin is not interested in a negotiated end to the war he started in Ukraine. And he praised Trump’s decision this week to reverse his administration’s pause on some weapons shipments to Ukraine, including air defense missiles.

Pence said that Trump “is not an isolationist.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/10/politics/pence-trump-ukraine-iran

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Putin indicated to Trump in a phone call on July 3rd that he would make a renewed push over the next 60 days to occupy the entire Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts, according to Axios.

https://axios.com/2025/07/14/trump-ukraine-weapons-missiles-russia

🔗 Faytuks News

🇺🇸💡 Omar Fateh is running for Minneapolis mayor with plans to raise the minimum wage by over $4 over the next few years, freeze rent, and “Trump-proof” the city from ICE.

🔗 AF Post

🇸🇴 Al Shabaab recaptured another district capital in central Somalia and is threatening to expand its control beyond the pre-2022 status quo.

Al Shabaab’s gains are a strategic setback and set conditions for the group to increase pressure along the Ethiopian border.

Al Shabaab captured Moqokori on July 7, a district capital that sits on a network of roads connecting several areas within central Somalia.

Somali forces captured Moqokori and several other district capitals in 2022 as part of a landmark Somali-led, US-backed offensive.

Al Shabaab has reversed these gains throughout 2025 and will likely target Mahas in the coming days and weeks if it holds Moqokori.

Mahas would be the first major town that al Shabaab has captured in central Somalia in 2025 that it did not control before 2022.

The group’s gains have relinked al Shabaab–controlled territory in central & southern Somalia.

The gains also set conditions to increase the frequency and severity of attacks on major government-controlled towns across central Somalia, including along the Ethiopian border.

Increased al Shabaab activity on the Ethiopian border poses a direct threat to Ethiopia. Al Shabaab invaded Ethiopia from central Somalia in early 2022 as part of its first-ever offensive into Ethiopia.

The Somali Federal Government’s losses are a strategic setback.

The reversal of the 2022 offensive undermines domestic trust in the SFG and the SFG's international credibility.

🔗 Critical Threats

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇸 A French court decided that Palestinian refugees from Gaza cannot be refused asylum opening the doors for the expulsion of Gazans from their homes to Europe

4 NGOs: ELENA France, Ligue des droits de l’homme, La Cimade défense des droits des étrangers en France and GISTI, Groupe d'information et de soutien des immigrés sued the French state after a decision to deny asylum to a Gazan woman and her child last year.

Yesterday the National Court for the Right to Asylum (CNDA) with its 9 judges struck down the decision to reject the asylum claims and granted asylum rights to the woman and her child.

4 NGOs and 9 judges is all it took to open the gates for Israel to deport ~1.5 million Palestinians still left alive in Gaza and soon enough, these remainder ~4 million other Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank.

Once they receive French IDs thanks to the Schengen Area free travel association and EU customs union, these 1.5 million Gazans will be free to move and settle in any country within the European Union of their liking.

Not only that, due to the EU’s regulations of equality of citizenship, with French IDs, these Palestinians will be allowed to run for office not just in France but in other European countries. They could for example, run for mayor in Germany with a French ID card and it would be perfectly legal.

🔗 Le Réveil d’Atlas

🇧🇪 Foreigners move into our countries and then vote to give themselves more of our money.

As the population of immigrants and descendants grows, this will become an increasingly unstoppable political force in our democratic nations.

Below is a figure of Brussels, where we can see that the socialist vote overlaps with where immigrants from Turkey and Africa live.

🔗 Jonathan Pallesen

🇺🇸📚 Trump on the Supreme Court ruling regarding Department of Education, which allows returning its functions 'back to the states'.

🔗 The Spectator Index

🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺 China boosts support for Russia after Trump’s trade threats

Beijing and Moscow are drawing closer amid ultimatums, The Telegraph reports.

After President Trump warned of possible 100% tariffs on Russia’s trade partners unless Moscow makes concessions, China signaled it would not abandon its support for the Kremlin.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, during a meeting with Lavrov, said that trust between the two countries has “deepened” and that they are “building a new type of international relations” in which they must “strengthen mutual support.”

The Kremlin did not ignore Trump’s statement. Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said that if the West does not respond to Russia’s “readiness to negotiate,” Moscow will continue pursuing its goals through the “special military operation.”

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov went even further, claiming sanctions mean nothing to Russia.

“There are already an unprecedented number of sanctions against us — we’re managing. I have no doubt we’ll continue to cope. Knowing our partners, I don’t see how they could abandon their independent policy. They have commitments,” Lavrov said.

@CIG_telegram

🇲🇲 Myanmar (Burma): Anti-Junta Fightets Ambushed and Killed Junta soldiers in Ye-U District, #Sagaing.

Fighters are armed with China-made 🇨🇳 Type 56-1 assault rifles, Kachin-made K-09 rifles and MA-15 (locally-made MG3 copy) machine gun.

🔗 War Noir