25 JUN 26 SITREP

• The Senate voted late at night, reversing its position from earlier in the week, choosing not to rebuke the Trump administration over its military conflict with Iran, after political tensions erupted between President Trump and multiple Republican senators over executive war powers.
• Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy accused President Trump of not being forthcoming with the American people about the Iran war, prompting Trump to enter into a heated confrontation with Cassidy, which Cassidy characterized as intense and described as a shouting match.
• President Trump met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to shore up allied support, reaffirming his commitment to NATO defensive lines while pressing allies to increase their defense spending to equalize with U.S. levels.
• In addition, Trump publicly announced a major investigation into oil companies, stating that despite 19 million barrels of oil entering the market in a single day, gasoline prices had not dropped commensurately, with Trump asserting prices should be at $2.25 per gallon but remain higher.

• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration may officially end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians living in the United States, including those resettled in Springfield, Ohio, a decision celebrated in private local Facebook groups by Springfield residents who called it their liberation.
• Author Joshua Lisec, who conducted approximately 10 weeks of on the ground research in Springfield, Ohio, reported that the official count of Haitian migrants stood at 10,000 to 15,000, while Springfield residents operating an open source intelligence network compiled evidence suggesting the actual number at peak influx reached between 32,200 and 34,000.
• Springfield minister Kenneth Seelig Jr. posted publicly following the ruling that it represented a good day for the rule of law, stating that residents had been raising concerns about unchecked immigration and federal policies for years and were prevented from voicing those concerns without being labeled as racist by city leaders, community organizations, and the NGO administrative complex in Clark County, Ohio.
• Joshua Lisec's forthcoming book, Haitians of Springfield, documents resident accounts of missing animals, unreported accidents, housing pressures, increased healthcare burdens, and other disruptions that Lisec argued were systematically denied by local officials and dismissed by mainstream media as debunked hoaxes.

• The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota indicted 15 members of Direct Action Minnesota, a group with links to Antifa, charging them with stalking ICE officers during Operation Metro Surge by following agents to their homes, assaulting them in at least 1 case, damaging their vehicles, and establishing blockades around the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis to obstruct ICE operations.
• Among the 15 individuals indicted was a state employee, a wildlife manager employed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and charges detailed that the group underwent organized training in surveillance techniques and the construction and use of homemade shields, with an ongoing federal investigation into the funding sources behind the protest network noted.
• To boot, the documentary Minnesota Mao features a source who traveled to China with Governor Tim Walz decades ago and alleged that Walz collected copies of Mao's Little Red Book, with the documentary drawing parallels between Maoist cultural revolution tactics and Walz's policies on COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates, radical education changes, transgender policies, and immigration, while Walz himself told a press conference that license plates of ICE agents should be tracked for future prosecution.
• Additional subjects featured in Minnesota Mao include a former college professor fired for refusing the COVID vaccine, the mother of a child present during the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota attributed to a transgender male, and a former Minneapolis police officer named Tao, released from prison just days before filming, who stated on camera that communism had taken hold in Minnesota and called for citizens to push back.