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Susie Wiles was concerned that aides were telling Trump what he wanted to hear rather than what he needed to hear, creating an overly optimistic picture of the war in Iran. Trump has reportedly been starting many mornings watching curated video clips from military officials highlighting battlefield successes in the conflict. Source: TIME



🇮🇱🇮🇷 Why Israeli air defenses keep failing against Iranian missiles... Three layers. Iron Dome for rockets. David's Sling for missiles. Arrow for ballistic threats in space. Sounds impenetrable until Iran's glide vehicles start zigzagging mid-flight, confusing every tier simultaneously. Iran spends $200 million on an attack. Israel spends $1 billion defending against it. Five weeks of that math and the interceptors run out before the missiles do. Source: Ai Telly

🇬🇧 BBC series The Capture has sparked controversy for an episode focused on anti-migrant terrorism, featuring a character aiming a sniper rifle at migrant children on a boat. In the plot of the show, counter-terrorism officers become aware of the character through monitoring his online activity. The team discovers a 4Chan account where he posted videos accusing the government of concealing statistics on undocumented migrants. Freedom of Information requests are depicted as a sign of extremism during the episode: one officer alerts her superiors that the man had obtained documents relating to immigration statistics through nine separate freedom of information requests, which is treated as a sign of his impending terrorism. Follow: @europa





Poor sleep really does let waste build up. Boston University study shows the process - during deep non-REM sleep, cerebrospinal fluid flows between neurons in waves, removing metabolic waste, "refreshing the system" for next day’s thinking and learning















