The footage was striking: plumes of smoke rising over Iran’s nuclear facilities, the culmination of years of brinkmanship and intelligence coups. With one sweeping air campaign, the United States sent a message: the Islamic Republic will not be permitted to cross the nuclear threshold. Yet as the dust settles, it would be a profound mistake to assume the threat has been neutralized. If anything, Iran’s nuclear humiliation may accelerate a transition that has been quietly underway for years — from ambitions of atomic deterrence to mastery of digital disruption. Even as diplomats trumpet the ceasefire, cybersecurity professionals are aware of the dangers that still exist. In 2025, a nation doesn’t need fissile material to cripple its adversaries, it only needs a cadre of skilled operators, a menu of stolen exploits, and a willingness to play dirty in the world’s most critical networks. Iran’s embrace of cyber operations is hardly a new development. In a 2012 cyberattack U.S. intelligence attributed to Iran, the Shamoon virus wiped tens of thousands of computers inside Saudi Aramco, a major Saudi Arabian oil company, reducing corporate IT to smoking rubble — digitally speaking. Since then, Tehran’s capabilities have matured steadily. Today, Iran’s cyber forces are well-trained and highly motivated. And given the loss of their nuclear infrastructure, they now possess ample incentive to reassert influence through other means. Cyber warfare is attractive precisely because it offers an asymmetrical advantage: the power to disrupt, humiliate, and retaliate without risking a direct military clash. Recall how Russia, which has historically dominated the cybersphere, has waged its campaign in Ukraine. Moscow hasn’t relied solely on tanks and artillery. It has unleashed waves of digital attacks against Ukraine’s power grids, satellite networks, and banking systems. Behind these campaigns, notorious criminal groups — like Conti and BlackBasta — have operated with state blessing, extorting ransoms and leaking sensitive data. This blurred line between espionage, sabotage, and organized crime has become a model for authoritarian states under pressure. Iran, facing international isolation and domestic discontent, has every reason to follow it. The average person might imagine cyber warfare as a distant, abstract threat — some arcane business best left to IT departments. That illusion is exactly what adversaries count on. Consider Zero-Day vulnerabilities: flaws in software that even the developers don’t yet know exist. These hidden back doors can be sold on dark markets for astronomical sums. And once a hostile operator has them, no firewall or antivirus can offer much protection. Or take Remote Access Trojans, like Chaos RAT — a malicious tool that can lodge itself in a network and sit there, undetected, for months. The malware can exfiltrate sensitive data, delete backups, or simply wait for a signal to unleash chaos. Iran’s cyber units have both the motive and the skill to deploy such capabilities against Western targets — especially at a moment when the regime needs to prove it can still inflict pain. To understand the scale of the risk, look no further than China’s Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups, like Silver Fox. These teams excel at patient infiltration — building footholds in networks over years. While Iran does not yet possess the same breadth of resources or global reach as Beijing, the playbook is there for the taking. Iranian operators have already borrowed tools and techniques from Russian and Chinese counterparts. They can acquire Zero-Days from the same vendors. They can lease infrastructure from the same criminal marketplaces. In this sense, the global cyber threat landscape resembles a dark ecosystem: a place where alliances are fluid, tradecraft is shared, and almost anything is for sale. Much has been made of the recent ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Certainly, it has brought a measure of short-term calm. But it’s worth stating the obvious: no ceasefire agreement binds a nation’s hackers. Cyber operations are deniable by design. Tehran can escalate these attacks while maintaining plausible deniability. If a power grid goes down or a hospital network is encrypted, Iranian officials will simply shrug and claim ignorance — or suggest that Western companies should improve their “cyber hygiene.” Indeed, it’s likely that in the coming months, Iran will test the boundaries of what it can accomplish in cyberspace without provoking another round of airstrikes. And unless Western governments are prepared, these tests may prove costly. The United States remains unmatched in conventional military capability. But cyber defense has never been America’s comparative advantage. While agencies like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have made enormous progress, much of the nation’s critical infrastructure — power stations, water systems, hospitals — remains vulnerable. Decades of underinvestment, legacy software, and fragmented security practices have created an expansive attack surface. A determined adversary doesn’t need to destroy a city to sow panic. It just needs to flip a switch in the right control system — or quietly siphon data for blackmail and extortion. This paradox — dominance in kinetic warfare, vulnerability in cyber — demands a strategic recalibration. As Iran pivots further into digital conflict, the costs of ignoring this imbalance will only grow. America cannot afford to treat cybersecurity as an afterthought, an IT budget line item tucked behind more visible defense priorities. It must become a central pillar of national security strategy. That means investing in modern detection systems powered by artificial intelligence. It means developing real deterrence — making clear that cyber aggression will incur meaningful consequences. And it means supporting public-private partnerships to protect industries that have become part of the national nervous system. Iran’s nuclear setback is undeniably significant but no bomb can erase the knowledge Tehran has acquired about hacking adversaries. No missile strike can neutralize an ideology that prizes asymmetrical warfare. The coming months will test the West’s capacity for vigilance. Iran’s leaders face enormous pressure to prove they remain formidable. And while their nuclear ambitions are now smoldering ruins, their cyber capabilities remain intact — and perhaps emboldened. Policymakers should remember: the decisive battles of the 21st century may not begin with the roar of jets over a desert. They may start in the silent corridors of a server farm, where an invisible adversary is already laying traps. In that theater, the rules are different — and the consequences no less severe. * * * Julio Rivera is a business and political strategist, cybersecurity researcher, founder of ItFunk.Org, and a political commentator and columnist. His writing, which is focused on cybersecurity and politics, is regularly published by many of the largest news organizations in the world. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Anna is a travel blogger based in London. During a Mother’s Day trip to Kenya, she witnessed something many tourists will never see. While visiting the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, she got to see a mama and baby giraffe sharing a special moment. @nospaceinmypassport The fact that it was mother’s day as well This was day 1 and already such a big highlight. It was at Giraffe Centre in Nairobi. ____________ #kenya #wildlife #nairobi #kenyantiktok #kenyantrip #nairobi #nairobikenya #giraffes #giraffemanor #giraffesoftiktok #visitkenya #magicalkenya #babygiraffe #wildlifeencounters ♬ inside out theme – Santiago Melo The video opens with a baby giraffe wandering alone along a path. There is a sense that the baby is lost and looking for something. As it takes unsure steps forward, your heart cries out in anguish for this lonesome baby. Just then, the mama giraffe appears, peering over the foliage at her baby. As she approaches, you watch the scene unfold. The baby has stopped moving, waiting patiently for its mama. She extends her neck, lowering her face to meet her baby. The two animals nuzzle one another, and all is right with the world. Image from TikTok. This mama and baby giraffe are special. They are Rothschild’s Giraffes, a subspecies found only in the grasslands of East Africa. As they neared extinction, with only 130 animals left in the wild, conservationists stepped in to create safe environments for the giraffe. Since then, they have worked to increase the giraffe population. It is a slow road back, but there are now 300 giraffes. The touching moment Anna witnessed between the mama and baby giraffe in the wild melts hearts. In an environment where most animals are intent on survival, it is incredible to see this scene. For this one moment, this mother and her child are the only animals that exist. If you enjoy travel, check out Anna’s TikTok page. She shares a wide variety of travel videos, including travel tips, food, and this special moment with a mama and baby giraffe. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Tourist Witnesses “The Most Wholesome Moment” Between Mama & Baby Giraffe In Kenya appeared first on InspireMore.

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With Immigration and Customs Enforcement continuing nationwide arrests and deportations, the liberal media have hysterically cranked up the hysteria. On Tuesdays, CBS Mornings Plus, for example, they claimed some illegal immigrants are “avoiding health care” in fear of being arrested by ICE...as if that will suddenly stop ICE from upholding the law.  The left-wing media want people to put illegal immigrants first by being empathic to their struggles. Co-host Tony Dokoupil began, “Now hospitals are preparing employees on what to do if ICE agents show up in the middle of care.” Does CBS think that ICE agents will show up in the middle of a heart surgery, and take the illegal immigrant being operated away?     Dokoupil asked CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder if the raids in hospitals have started yet or if it is fear circulating rumors, to which she claimed:  As for official raids by ICE, that is still something we are waiting to see if we're going to have that happen. But we are seeing ICE agents in health care facilities. They are often bringing in people that they've detained for medical clearance. We see this often with law enforcement, but it is creating an atmosphere of fear. And my colleagues and I have had numerous patients tell us that they hesitated or waited too long to come in for health care. So, if you're talking about a heart attack, you're talking about heart muscle when you're delaying care. When you're talking about a stroke, you're talking about brain cells, when you're delaying care. So those delays really matter.  Long story short, Gounder confirmed that ICE agents have not shown up at the hospitals, but they are “creating an atmosphere of fear.” Obviously, no one should have to be in fear about getting necessary medical treatment, but the liberal media twist the narrative towards the illegal immigrants rather than applauding the ICE agents.   Another person who was covered in the segment was Hannah Janeway, an emergency medicine physician operating in different hospitals across Los Angeles, who stated:  Many times they're arriving with ski masks and looking very intimidating to the general patient who you might find in the emergency department. This is affecting the overall health of the community because it's creating an atmosphere of fear in the emergency department instead of an atmosphere of wellness.  Ironic that the person who advocated for “an atmosphere of wellness” goes by they/them pronouns and in 2018, co-founded Refugee Health Alliance at the U.S.-Mexico border, where the company believes in the "abolition of barriers” according to their website.   So yes, CBS Mornings Plus chose a person who is against ICE agents and worked with illegal immigrants to cover this segment on health. No bias at all here.   Gounder continued to empathically advocate for the illegal immigrants:  Well, if you think about who has come here as an immigrant, many of them have faced real trauma in their home countries. It could be physical violence, sexual assault, any number of things. And so, this kind of really what feels like militarization of an emergency room can be very retraumatizing cause some very real mental health impacts.  Again, why did CBS Morning Plus support the care of people who are in this country illegally rather than give respect to the ICE officers who put their lives on the line to protect the nation? Bring back news channels that tell the facts and do not twist the story to fit their narrative.   Click here for the transcripts. CBS Mornings Plus 7/8/25 9:34 a.m. Eastern TONY DOKOUPIL: All right, time for today's health watch. As the Trump administration continues its push to detain undocumented migrants, some of them say they are avoiding health care, even necessary health care, out of fears over ICE raids. Well, now hospitals are preparing employees on what to do if ICE agents show up in the middle of care. Here to explain is CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder. She's also the editor at Large for Public Health at KFF. And Doctor Gounder joins us now. Thank you very much for joining us. Is [sic] this happened yet or is this just fears of this happening kind of the raids while care is being provided at a hospital? CELINE GOUNDER: As for official raids by ICE, that is still something we are waiting to see if we're going to have that happen. But we are seeing ICE agents in health care facilities. They are often bringing in people that they've detained for medical clearance. We see this often with law enforcement, but it is creating an atmosphere of fear. And my colleagues and I have had numerous patients tell us that they hesitated or waited too long to come in for health care. So, if you're talking about a heart attack, you're talking about heart muscle when you're delaying care. When you're talking about a stroke, you're talking about brain cells, when you're delaying care. So those delays really matter. JO LING KENT: You spoke with an emergency physician in Los Angeles, where I live, where ICE agents are bringing in detainees who need medical care. Let's listen to that. [CLIP] HANNAH JANEWAY [they/them pronouns]: Many times they're arriving with ski masks and looking very intimidating to the general patient who you might find in the emergency department. This is affecting the overall health of the community because it's creating an atmosphere of fear in the emergency department instead of an atmosphere of wellness. [BACK TO LIVE] KENT: So how else are you hearing ICE impacting patient care in L.A.? GOUNDER: So that was Doctor Hannah Janeway. They are an emergency medicine physician working in a number of different hospitals in the Los Angeles area. Doctor Janeway told me that ICE agents have insisted on all kinds of, frankly, ethical violations. So not showing their identification, not identifying themselves, wearing a ski mask, along with green fatigues and a bulletproof vest in the E.R. while patients are being seen, not accommodating the need for patient privacy during an interview and examination, preventing doctors from contacting family for necessary medical information or preventing family from visiting, so these are really standard things that every patient should have the right to these kinds of provisions for good health care. KENT: In addition to the physical health. I mean, what is the medium to long term impact on mental health of these patients with this kind of fear? GOUNDER: Well, if you think about who has come here as an immigrant, many of them have faced real trauma in their home countries. It could be physical violence, sexual assault, any number of things. And so, this kind of really what feels like militarization of an emergency room can be very retraumatizing cause some very real mental health impacts. And we've heard of also even children and families being impacted by their older relatives not being able to seek care. DOKOUPIL: What are the obligations of patients when they show up at the hospital? Do they have to show an I.D.? Do they have to identify themselves? GOUNDER: No. So in fact, we have a quote, Jane Doe or John Doe on the emergency room board all the time. So, you know, if you pick up a homeless person on the street who needs medical care, they may not have an I.D. In fact, a lot of patients don't have an I.D. That's not who needs to be presenting I.D. It's if you're a law enforcement official coming into a hospital or health care facility, you need to be identifying yourself as such. You need to be showing your badge or your I.D., and that is -- you know, if you want to be going into patient, private patient areas. You also need to be showing a judicial warrant. And that is not being consistently done. KENT: Do you expect to see quickly, you know, any ,,,pushback in the courts on this? GOUNDER: Well, I think the problem is a lot of health care providers don't know what their rights are, and they need to be saying, you know, where's your I.D., where's your warrant, turning into risk management for advice in the hospital if they need that, and documenting thoroughly as we would in any complicated medical or legal situation, documenting those encounters thoroughly. KENT: Doctor Celine Gounder, thank you so much for your reporting. We appreciate it. 

On June 25, 33-year-old Democrat Zohran Mamdani became a new socialist sensation in the media when he won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. But when Republicans pounced on his radicalism, their journalistic instinct was to back away from the story. In the seven days after his victory, ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS combined for 56 minutes and 26 seconds of air time discussing Mamdani — but only 85 seconds on any of his woke policy prescriptions. NBC spent 85 seconds on just one idea, taxing “whiter” neighborhoods. Instead, they presented him as a “charming” political upstart with fresh economic ideas about “affordability,” as if there’s anything fresh about socialism. The surprise within the liberal media came on July 3, when The New York Times published a story revealing that when Mamdani was a high school senior in 2009, he applied to Columbia University and checked identity boxes for “Asian” – true, since his family is from India – and “Black,” which is a lie. Just like that Cherokee, Elizabeth Warren. When The Times asked him about it, Mamdani said he didn’t consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.” People have made this joke about South African-born Elon Musk, and in 2004, about John Kerry’s wife Teresa, born in Mozambique. But that’s not “black.” The Times even soft-pedaled the lie in their online subhead: “He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.” Hiding behind “complexity” is not something “fact-based” outlets should admire. Reporters Benjamin Ryan, Nicholas Fandos, and Dana Rubinstein played up the “complexity” argument: “Mr. Mamdani’s self-identification as both Black or African American and Asian on his application points to the heterogeneity of his background and upbringing as the child of Indian Ugandan and Indian American parents who brought him up in Uganda, South Africa and New York City.” Lying is excused by “heterogeneity.” Even The Times delayed putting this scoop in the paper until Sunday, July 6, and then put it on page A-24 under the bland headline “Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over College Application." To date, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS haven’t found a minute for this story, or even half a minute. NPR didn’t have it, but on All Things Considered on July 3 – the day of the Times scoop – anchor Juana Summers had an interview with Democrat Party chairman Ken Martin, suggesting the party elites got something wrong: “We just saw Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, win the New York mayoral primary over the establishment candidate, Andrew Cuomo. I'll just note that Mamdani did not have the Democratic Party's support. Does that win make you reconsider your strategy when it comes to backing establishment Democrats in the midterms?” Martin said no, “my strategy has always been to support whoever our Democratic nominee is, right? And Mamdani is our Democratic nominee, and we will support him.” Martin proclaimed admiration for Mamdani staying “on message” about affordability, and insisted any Democrat is better than a Republican. Whether those Democrats lie to get ahead on college admission forms isn’t an issue, according to taxpayer-funded “public” radio. The Times took so much heat from their leftist base that their “standards” editor Patrick Healy published a Twitter thread explaining how and why they reported what the Left called a “hit piece.” It underlined what the Left expects of their media outlets: blind partisan loyalty. Inconvenient truths about Democrats should be buried. Facts that help Republicans should be dismissed. Lies about race aren’t really lies, they’re just “complexity.” 

A Trump supporter in Seattle, Washington, believes her political stickers and flags led someone to fire gunshots at her window and vandalize her property.Police said they were called to the resident's home at about 3 a.m. on Sunday over gunshots being fired, and they saw bullet holes in the person's window.'I'm scared. I was shaking, and I think I'm going to move.'The resident of the home spoke to KOMO-TV but did not want to be publicly identified. She said that her residence had been vandalized two other times before the current incident. In addition to the pro-Trump signs, the resident had displayed signs supporting police as well as a Confederate flag. The Seattle Police Department said that the resident was "potentially targeted" because of "political and ideological signs in the window of the residence."She was asleep at the time of the gunshots and was not injured. Police said they were able to collect several shell casings at the scene. Images of the window showed four bullet holes. The homeowner also told KOMO that someone had put "Pride" rainbow stickers on her truck after breaking her two windows. RELATED: 20-year-old drove through a fence to vandalize a Trump 2020 sign — then got her car stuck Residents of the neighborhood told KOMO they were surprised by the incidents."Surprised it happened, but not super surprised that people are upset," neighbor Nadine Frehafer said. "Nobody deserves violence against them, obviously.""They always damage her window and car," Ewa Sporna, another neighbor, said. "I'm surprised. I thought once, twice, but a third time, no, a little too much."She said she had heard the gunshots."I heard the pops, like, pop, pop, pop, few times," Sporna added. "I'm scared. I was shaking, and I think I'm going to move."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Late Sunday night, the Department of Justice and FBI released a two‑page memo to Axios claiming they found no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list,” blackmailed powerful figures, or was murdered in his cell. The memo clings to the original narrative that Epstein died by suicide in 2019.To prop up that conclusion, the government published a three-page inventory of items seized from Epstein’s New York property: hard drives, tapes, sex toys, a false passport, and materials labeled with grotesque descriptions.The Epstein case isn’t over. It is the Rosetta stone of public corruption.Are we seriously supposed to accept that the case is suddenly closed? Attorney General Pam Bondi once told Fox News a “client list” was literally “sitting on [her] desk.” Now? Crickets. Influencers like Elon Musk are calling it “the final straw,” arguing that the memo is government theater to shield powerful elites. This newly released list information isn’t just damning — it’s clarifying. No matter what you believe about Epstein’s past, his connections, or the murky circumstances of his death, the physical material collected by law enforcement points to five unavoidable conclusions. Each one raises a deeper and more disturbing question about the integrity of our institutions. In short, the Epstein narrative is far from closed. 1. Epstein wasn’t a lone predatorThe new evidence released from the Justice Department reads like a logistics inventory: dozens of electronic devices, thousands of photos, labeled albums, surveillance tapes, foreign passports, and even blueprints. One man doesn’t accumulate this kind of material — not without help, not without infrastructure. This wasn’t just one depraved individual hiding a secret life. This was an operation. There were logistics. There was coordination. It was built to function and built to last. It was designed to serve a purpose — and to avoid detection.2. The digital footprint is too largeHundreds of hard drives, USBs, CDs, backup servers — some with sick labels such as "girl pics nude book 4.” Employee directories, flight logs, video archives. The kind of data capable of telling a full story — not just of crimes committed, but of the people who enabled them or turned a blind eye. And yet, the real scandal isn’t just the content of these files. It’s how little the public has been allowed to see. Where is the transparency? Why hasn’t this material been disclosed in full?3. Intel agency involvement is no longer a fringe theoryAn Austrian passport with Epstein’s face. Connections in multiple countries. A global footprint. Honeytrap-style setups. These aren’t signs of a rich playboy — they’re signatures of intelligence tradecraft. The precision, the longevity, the immunity from exposure for decades — none of it is accidental. None of it should be dismissed. To suggest that this might have had intelligence involvement isn’t conspiratorial. It’s logical.4. The system’s silence is tellingIf any ordinary citizen had even one-tenth of what was found in Epstein’s homes — underage photos, encrypted files, coded file names, international travel records — they would already be serving a life sentence. Yet here, we’re met with silence. No high-profile prosecutions. No public hearings. No accountability. The lack of consequence is the consequence. The silence of the system is itself a kind of answer — and it’s deafening.5. Every elite institution is on trialThis is no longer just about Epstein. It’s about what happens when justice is optional, when media chooses complicity over courage, when law enforcement protects the powerful rather than prosecutes them, when truth is buried because its exposure might be inconvenient for people in the right circles. Until this case is fully exposed, every elite institution in America carries a stench it cannot wash off. Public trust is hemorrhaging, and no press release can stop the bleeding.RELATED: Liz Wheeler unleashes fury: FIRE Pam Bondi over Epstein cover-up scandal! Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA civic reckoningTo dismiss public concern about Epstein as a “conspiracy theory” is to admit that we no longer believe in basic civic accountability. The demand for answers is not fueled by paranoia — it’s a moral and constitutional obligation. If we shrug off what those files contain, we declare that truth is now negotiable, justice is a luxury reserved for the unimportant, and power is a permanent shield for the perverse.The Epstein case isn’t over. It is the Rosetta stone of public corruption. And if we don’t get to the bottom of it — if we allow the truth to remain buried — we will never restore what’s already been lost.