Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)

🇦🇷🇪🇸 Messi stopped his training session just to hug an old friend and former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol. Years after their Barça days, the respect between Messi and the man who helped guide his rise is still clear. Writer: Monica

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The worst case for this war now has a number: $250 oil and 11% inflation by the fall Edward Dowd ran money at BlackRock and now models exactly this kind of shock, and his May call, $125 oil peaking then rolling over, played out in print. The new worst case: Gulf energy infrastructure starts coming apart, oil runs toward $250 FAST, and his model puts inflation between 8 and 11 percent by early fall. The mercy in the math: prices that high destroy demand so quickly they cannot hold, and the spike itself tips the world into recession. Which means Sunday night is the thing to watch. Markets have learned this war's rhythm, escalation talk on weekends, then a headline about Iran wanting a deal before futures open. The first weekend that pattern breaks, this becomes a different market. The home fuse is credit. The AI buildout leaned on private credit for its financing, and that market has gone cold, withdrawals frozen and early bankruptcies landing. Credit ends every party; stocks find out last. His compass has one needle: "Watch the price of oil and it'll tell you how the war is going." The baseline stays a painful but ordinary recession, on one condition. Oil under $100. But it is climbing. @DowdEdward

🇸🇾🇮🇷🇱🇧 Here's footage of the massive weapons cache that was hidden inside an oil tanker by Iran and bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Until Syria intercepted it along the way. Inside were hundreds of drones, missiles, and components... Writer: Michael

🇺🇸 INSANE fight breaks out in NYC, and a skateboard smashes a Mercedes' windshield. As far as road rage in America goes, could have been far worse (no one had a gun). Writer: Michael

🇳🇴🇮🇹 Erling Haaland showed up at the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria show in Sicily, Italy. Looked sharp with his girlfriend Isabel by his side. The Norwegian star has been a longtime ambassador for the brand. Writer: Sol

A guy swam Niagara Falls, went over the 170-FOOT drop, and walked out alive. The rainbow watching the whole thing is nature's "I can't believe that worked" face😂 The falls kill basically everyone who tries this. Except him. Somehow.

Babies hit the edge of a glass cliff and freeze. No training needed. The terror of the drop is wired in. Depth perception isn’t learned... it’s installed at launch. Nature doesn’t negotiate with gravity. Writer: Oliver

SpaceX is building a giant air separation plant next to Starbase. Buying rocket propellant ingredients by the truckload gets old when you plan to launch all the time. The plant will make liquid oxygen and nitrogen on-site. Less tanker traffic. Less waiting. More Starship operations. Classic SpaceX: Build the rocket. Then build the factory next door that boosts launches. @SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

Disney charges hundreds of dollars to see a fake castle and eat mid food at fine-dining prices. @SpaceX lets you park next to the largest flying object in HUMAN HISTORY for free. Choose wisely.

🇫🇷🇲🇦 FIFA has handed France vs Morocco, a World Cup quarter-final, to an all-Argentine officiating crew. That's the problem, because FIFA usually ships in referees from a neutral confederation to keep a match like this clean. This time it picked 5 officials from a country still trying to win the whole thing. Argentina's Facundo Tello leads the lot tomorrow. Referee, both assistants, fourth official, reserve. It's the first match at this World Cup run start to finish by a single nation. The optics are rough. Egypt's coach spent yesterday insisting the tournament was being bent to keep Argentina and Messi alive, and FIFA's answer, deliberate or not, was to staff a rival's quarter-final entirely with Argentine whistles. Source: Goal / Writer: Julie

Hollywood is so terrified of its own audience that it’s now locking comments and hiding replies on major trailers, because the woke remake is getting absolutely torched. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey second trailer is getting demolished with an 87% dislike ratio and hundreds of thousands of downvotes. The official accounts immediately started locking comments and burying criticism. This isn’t smart marketing. It’s panic. They know audiences are rejecting the race-swapping rewrite of Western classics and don’t want the receipts visible. Hollywood keeps forcing “modern” updates that trash source material, shove in diversity quotas, and then acts shocked when people tune out. Hiding comments just proves they know the product is toxic. If even a prestige project with Nolan and a stacked cast can’t escape the backlash, it’s clear the era of woke blockbusters is hitting a wall. Audiences are voting with their wallets and dislikes. Studios treating fans like enemies to silence only makes the revolt louder. Source: / Writer: Samuel

🇨🇳 China is out here building the future in real-time 🤯 This rooftop misting system in Shanxi creates "artificial rain" that drops outdoor temperatures by 5–8°C in just minutes. Europeans could sure use this right now. Writer: Michael

xAI’s model calendar is aggressive. Grok 4.5 is already in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla. The 1.5T model is expected in July. 2T is expected in August. The 2T model gets bigger data scope, more scale, and a stronger training recipe across every area. The jump should show up in the answers, not only the parameter count. At this pace, yesterday’s AI rankings may need expiry dates. Annoyingly fast. Very useful. @Grok @xAI / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

🇺🇸 A glimpse into 2028? Reporter: "JD Vance thinks you'll be the leading Democrat in 2028." AOC: "I hope he is." Reporter: "You hope he's the Republican nominee?" AOC: "Yeah." Writer: Daniel

🇨🇦 Peak World Cup energy in Toronto. Some guy dressed as a referee pulls over a car and hands it a yellow card. Another driver says "tell him you want a VAR review" 😂 Writer: Sol

Tesla Semi’s 2025 report is a no-brainer for fleet owners. Over 95% uptime. 75% of service visits resolved in under 24 hours. Now the redesigned 2026 Semi is already in production and out there, with aerodynamic and weight improvements built in. The 2025 report may end up looking like the warm-up lap. 2026 numbers should be very interesting. @Tesla / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné