🚨 Chicago teachers are receiving professional development credit and additional pay to attend a year-long workshop series on Palestine. The workshops are hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union at its Quest Center. The 2026 series is titled "From the United States to Palestine: Reading the World, Reimagining a Future Rooted in Solidarity," and it runs from June of this year through June of next year, following a one-day workshop held last November. Teachers can earn professional development credits and additional compensation for the hours, even when they miss school to attend. The findings come from the North American Values Institute, which reviewed the materials. One workshop slide defines Zionism as "a form of nationalism predicated on European conquering ideology." The institute called that "a complete inversion of history and reality." And here is the part that matters most. According to the institute, the registration materials ask teachers how they plan to bring these concepts directly into their K-12 classrooms. This is not a seminar about the Middle East. It is a curriculum pipeline.

🚨 According to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian officials have privately warned regional governments and intermediaries that if the United States resumes strikes, Iran will launch ground incursions into neighboring countries. They have threatened attacks on American military assets and critical infrastructure across the Middle East, strikes on Saudi oil installations and other Gulf infrastructure, and intensified attacks on American military personnel, including attempts to sink United States warships and kill their crews.

🚨 Hackers broke into the refrigeration control systems at hundreds of French supermarkets and did something nobody had done before. They did not shut the coolers off. They turned them up. Overnight, refrigerators and freezers across France were driven to as high as 50 degrees Celsius, which is 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The damage spread across the French grocery industry. Fires broke out at several stores. One supermarket chain told its branches to throw out all fresh and frozen product, and its chief executive, Thierry Cotillard, put the losses at "tens of millions of euros nationwide in a single day."