Happy Wednesday Everyone! Today’s newsletter: 918 words…3.4 mins

🗞 Today’s Edition: K-Pop Psyops, Flying Cars, Turkey’s Top Gun moment …& much more!

🚨 Watch For: US Army’s 250th Birthday Parade - Saturday, June 14th

Geopolitics Decoded In 3 Moves

🇮🇩 🇹🇷 Indonesia Bets Big on Turkey’s Warplanes

🤑 Jakarta just dropped $10B on 48 Kaan fighter jets—Turkey’s biggest arms deal ever.

💲 Wall Street: Lockheed’s sweating—this undercuts F-35 sales in the Global South.

🔥 ROAST: "When your Tinder date says they’re ‘basically a pilot’…"

📣 South Korea Hits Mute on Border Psyops

Seoul just yanked its border loudspeakers—no more blasting propaganda or K-pop at Kim Jong Un’s morning calisthenics.

🎤 The peace pivot comes after the election of President Lee Jae-myung, who’s betting on diplomacy over decibels.

🔥 ROAST: “When your neighbor stops playing ‘Dynamite’ on repeat… but you kinda miss it.”

💥 IAEA Censures Iran In Landmark Vote, Crisis Escalates

🧪The 35-nation nuclear watchdog - IAEA - declares Iran’s in violation of non-proliferation rules.

🇮🇷 Iran responded with threats: new enrichment sites, upgraded centrifuges, and possible NPT withdrawal if sanctions follow.

⚠️ With Israel reportedly preparing for military action and nuclear talks stalling, this marks a major flashpoint in the showdown over Iran’s nuclear program.

🗽THE EMPIRE FILES

Political Drama From DC To NYC

🚁 Trump’s Jetson’s Era

President Trump just signed a sweeping EO package to launch flying car pilot programs, supercharge U.S. drone production, and beef up counter-drone defenses ahead of global events.

🚕5 pilot programs (EMS, air taxis, cargo, defense)

💥 FAA gets AI tools and is ordered to “go faster”

🛸 Supersonic flight makes a comeback

🇺🇸 America aims to lead the air—no China, all Jetsons.

🔓 CIA Drops Chilling RFK Files: "KENNEDY MUST FALL"

🗃 The Drop:

👀 Key Revelations:

🚨 Why It Matters: Files confirm Sirhan acted alone.

Tech Wars, Crypto Chaos, and AI’s Black Mirror Moments

💰 CHIME'S BIG RING: Fintech's $11.6B Coming-Out Party

💸 Fintech darling Chime (CHYM) opened at $43 in its Nasdaq debut—well above its $27 IPO price. The digital bank raised $700M,

⚡ Valuation Reset: $11.6B today, a big drop from its $25B peak during the 2021 VC frenzy.

💡 Why it matters: First major fintech IPO since rate hikes—8.6M users banking on fee-free model. The pop signals IPO thawing in fintech after years of chill. Investors are watching closely.

🎮 GameStop’s Wild Card

📉 GameStop tanked 23% after announcing a $1.75B convertible debt offering to fund bitcoin buys and a pivot to trading cards.

🪙 New Strategy: The retailer now holds 4,710 BTC and is betting big on Pokémon and collectibles.

💵 Wall Street’s not sold—analysts call it “greater fool” economics with little upside beyond meme magic.

One killer insight to stash in your back pocket

🛫 Air India Crash: One Survivor, Global Fallout

💥 India’s worst air disaster in over a decade: An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner (AI171) crashed into a residential block in Ahmedabad after issuing a Mayday, killing 241 of the 242 people aboard. Only one passenger survived.

💸 Boeing shares plunged 7.8%, reigniting safety fears. This is the first fatal 787 crash ever—and a reputational nightmare for the U.S. aerospace giant.

🌍 Geopolitical ripples:

⚠️ Bigger picture: The crash doesn't just hit Boeing’s stock—it hits U.S. industrial prestige, global trade routes, and the future of aviation safety diplomacy. This isn’t just a tragedy. It’s a stress test for trust in Boeing.

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Because World Leaders Beg To Be Dragged

🔌 Power Plug: "The UN is just a group chat where everyone reads the messages but nobody replies." - @NewzHawk