This week’s feed is dominated by a deepening Iran confrontation that is rippling across global energy markets, shipping lanes, and high‑stakes diplomacy, while Washington scrambles to manage both military risk and economic fallout. At home, the Trump administration’s aggressive posture—from central bank pressure and crypto policy to high‑profile resignations, ethics scandals, and the extraordinary fraud indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center—signals a volatile realignment of institutions and power. Threaded through it all are anxieties about data, AI, and secrecy, from cyberattacks and health‑data leaks to mysterious scientist deaths and the unresolved legacies of covert programs old and new.