Relaxing Rhythms Channel

BREAKING: Four U.S. service members have died after a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, according to CENTCOM.

Officials said there are no signs that the crash was caused by enemy fire, and the exact cause of the incident is still being investigated.

SYNAGOGUE ATTACK: Michigan state and federal authorities are looking into an incident at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township.

According to the Oakland County Sheriff, a man drove a truck into the building and went down one of the hallways. A security guard then fired shots. The vehicle later caught fire and the suspect died. The security guard was hit by the truck and taken to the hospital. No injuries have been reported among the congregants or staff.

"Send your son, Donald Trump. If you want war, send your own people to the front line. We in Spain want our children, our daughters, and our loved ones at home, safe. We don't want war. Those who want war should send their own children." That was Irene Montero, a Spanish Member of the European Parliament, speaking directly to Donald Trump from the floor of the European Parliament last week.

Thousands of miles away, in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) shared a very similar message: "I rise on behalf of the grieving families of the service members killed. I rise on behalf of little girls in Iran killed by bombs raining down on their schools." Pressley spoke the emotions many parents feel while watching these events: "My heart breaks for the United States service members killed. My heart breaks for the innocent Iranian schoolgirls killed. Every child is a parent's entire universe."

Two women. Two continents. The same message. And the man they were speaking to was reportedly golfing at his club in Miami, while describing a conflict that has already taken nearly 2,000 lives as a "little excursion."

Yesterday, U.S. Senators came out of a classified briefing about the war looking deeply concerned. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) shared a video online and spoke very clearly: "It is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried. The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation."

She then explained the cost in a way many Americans understand: "Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me: He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran."

The Republican budget bill Trump approved last year cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next ten years — the biggest health care reduction in U.S. history. Around 15 million people are expected to lose coverage. There seems to be no funding to protect that care. But spending roughly a billion dollars each day on military strikes in a country with no clear strategy, no final goal, and no exit plan? That funding appeared immediately.

Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) spoke even more directly: "This war is costing a billion dollars a day. In one month we will spend more over there than we needed to save healthcare for more than 2 million Americans. They literally are taking away your food and your healthcare for this regime change war of choice."

One Tomahawk cruise missile costs around $2.2 million. That same amount could provide Medicaid coverage for about 775 children for a year. In just the first two days of this war, the Pentagon used over $5 billion worth of weapons. Reports said the first week alone cost roughly $6 billion. Now the administration is preparing to ask Congress for another $50 billion to replace used weapons — on top of the Pentagon’s already record-setting $1 trillion yearly budget.

This administration campaigned on ending endless wars, promising to focus on American priorities and support working families. Instead, billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on another Middle East war — money that could help schools, restore health care programs, repair aging infrastructure, or lower taxes for everyday Americans. Yet this military action continues without a clear plan, goal, or exit strategy.

Trump has also given mixed statements about the war’s status. Within just 24 hours this week, he told CBS News, "I think the war is very complete, pretty much," told House Republicans "we've already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough," and then said at a press conference that "we'll not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated." At the same time, the Defense Department posted online: "We have only just begun to fight."

When a reporter asked how the war could be almost finished while his own Defense Secretary says it is just starting, Trump replied: "You could say both." He also described the conflict as "just an excursion into something that had to be done."

A "short-term excursion." A "little pause" for the economy. But after twelve days, the numbers show something much more serious: more than 1,200 people killed in Iran — including over 168 children at one girls' school — and about 570 killed in Lebanon. Seven American service members have died, and 140 U.S. troops have been injured, eight of them badly.

Meanwhile, global oil prices have climbed above $100 per barrel after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, a route where about 20% of the world’s oil passes. Americans are already noticing higher gas prices, and experts warn food and other daily goods could become more expensive as transportation costs rise.

The administration has also been unclear about whether U.S. ground troops could enter Iran. Trump told the New York Post he doesn’t have the "yips with respect to boots on the ground," treating the decision like a show of confidence rather than a life-or-death matter. NBC News reported he has privately shown "serious interest" in sending ground forces.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about ground troops and even the possibility of a draft. Her response: "all options are on the table." After the classified briefing yesterday, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told reporters he is "more fearful than ever" that the U.S. may be "on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran."

The main reason given for this war — preventing a nuclear-armed Iran — has also raised many questions. Last June, Trump ordered strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities and said the program had been "obliterated." His press secretary repeated that claim just before the current war started. But then Trump envoy Steve Witkoff told reporters Iran was "a week away" from building a bomb.

As Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) asked: "Is Donald Trump confused about why he's starting this war? Maybe he needs to have his memory checked. Less than a year ago he told us Iran's nuclear program had been 'obliterated.' Now he says we need more strikes. Was he lying then? Or is he lying now?"

The Defense Intelligence Agency previously estimated that Iran might develop a long-range missile capable of reaching the United States by 2035 — about a decade away — and only if it chose to pursue that path. Three U.S. officials with intelligence knowledge told the New York Times that the immediacy of the threat had been overstated.

The executive director of the Arms Control Association stated clearly that there "was and is no imminent Iranian nuclear threat" that would justify starting this war. Even more striking — diplomatic talks were still ongoing. Just 36 hours before the bombing began, Iran’s negotiators shared a new proposal through Omani mediators. Oman’s foreign minister confirmed that "significant progress" had been made in the talks.

Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 — an agreement many experts said was working — then bombed Iranian facilities last year, restarted negotiations, and later ordered strikes again during those same negotiations while citing a threat that intelligence agencies say may be a decade away.

If this pattern sounds familiar, it’s because it resembles the old weapons-of-mass-destruction argument used before the Iraq War. But this time there is a major difference. As one security analyst told Al Jazeera: the nuclear threat appears to be exaggerated again, but unlike 2003, intelligence reports now openly contradict the administration’s claims rather than support them.

Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) left the classified briefing and told reporters: "What I heard is not just concerning. It is disturbing. I'm not sure what the endgame is or what their plans are. He's not shown us any plans for what he wants to do for the day after."

Representative Katherine Clark (D-MA), the second-highest ranking Democrat in the House, voiced concerns shared by many families: "Families do not want another war. They want a reasonable cost of living. They want health care they can afford. They want an end to ICE's terror in their neighborhoods. And they do not want their sons and daughters placed in harm's way by a reckless President."

However, when Democrats tried to challenge the administration through Congress, Republicans stopped the effort. Last week the Senate voted 47-53 against a War Powers Resolution that would have required Congress to approve continued military action — only one Republican, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), supported moving it forward. The House rejected a similar resolution the following day by a vote of 212-219.

Now Senate Democrats are calling for public hearings, asking the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense to testify under oath so Americans can understand what their government is doing in their name, with their money, and potentially with their children’s lives. Warren has clearly said: "No more money" for this war until those questions are answered. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned: "We shouldn't be acting like this is business as usual. This is war and peace."

Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) understands the human cost of war. She lost both of her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was struck by a rocket-propelled gr***de in Iraq — during the last Middle East conflict that was promised to be quick and simple. She explained: "I ran for Congress so that when the drums of war started beating once again, I'd be in a position to make sure that our elected officials fully considered the true cost of the war -- not just in dollars and cents but in human lives."

From Madrid to Massachusetts, from the European Parliament to the U.S. Senate, voices are rising with the same concern: this war appears to lack a clear plan, clear justification, or a defined end. It has already cost billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and put American service members in danger — while programs supporting health care, child care, and food assistance at home face cuts and rising costs.

If Trump wants another long conflict in the Middle East, critics say he should send his own children and grandchildren — not the children of American families.

This must not become another endless war fought without clear accountability, without approval from Congress, and without the support of the American people. Congress has the authority to demand explanations — and to refuse funding for a war that has no clear plan or justification.

--> Call your Senators at (202) 224-3121 and demand they hold public hearings on the war in Iran, with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense testifying under oath. Demand they pass the War Powers Resolution to reassert Congress's constitutional authority over matters of war and peace. And demand they reject the administration's $50 billion supplemental funding request until the American people get answers about why this war was started, what it's meant to achieve, and how and when it ends.

BREAKING: Shocking new report shows that Trump started war with Iran because Jared Kushner told him to … because Jared was too stupid to understand what the Iranians were offering!

Donald Trump has openly admitted that his main source on Iran's intentions wasn't the many intelligence agencies available to him – it was his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

"Based on what Jared told me, I thought Iran would attack us," Trump said.

This is how a nuclear-armed superpower launched an illegal war under Trump. Not based on careful briefings from experienced analysts who spend their lives studying enemy capabilities, but on Jared Kushner's personal guess.

Normal presidents rely on the National Security Council, daily briefings, and expert reports. Trump relies on family dinner-table opinions. Maybe Eric can help on the Epstein scandal (doubt it).

The real picture, according to senior officials briefing reporters since Saturday, was that they told Trump they could possibly get a stronger Iran nuclear deal than the last one, but it would take time.

They also pointed out Kushner and his team's many misunderstandings of the issues, their failure to bring U.S. government nuclear or Iranian experts to recent talks, and their simultaneous negotiations on Ukraine/Russia.

Why the rush? Trump pushed them to decide quickly whether a deal was possible or if the effort should be dropped to support Bibi Netanyahu's fixed timetable for the attack.

The outcome: the whole world in chaos, dead troops, rising gas prices, falling stocks – all because of Kushner's gut feeling. This isn't a strategy, it's incompetence combined with nepotism, rushed diplomacy, and war-by-family-feel.

If Trump basing his Iran war on Jared Kushner's gut instinct instead of actual intelligence, has you furious, like and share to expose the foolish recklessness.

Her message was clear: "We will not allow grocery chains to close stores at will”…. 👀

On Monday, a federal jury in Manhattan found Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander guilty on every charge they faced in a long-running scheme to traffic girls and women for s*x. The case showed that even extremely rich and powerful men can be held responsible for crimes against women when authorities are willing to take action. The verdict was clear: ten charges, three brothers, all guilty. Their sentencing is scheduled for August 6th, and each of them could face life in prison.

"We commend the victims for their courage in coming forward and testifying at the trial," U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement after the verdict. "They bravely overcame the pain of reliving the abuses inflicted upon them and, as a result, prevented others from becoming victims."

Tal Alexander, 39, and his brother Oren, 38, were among the most successful luxury real estate agents in the United States. Known in the industry as "The A Team," they handled multimillion-dollar property deals for celebrities and billionaires in cities like New York, Miami, and Aspen. On social media, they promoted a glamorous lifestyle as polished as the luxury penthouses they sold. Their brother Alon, 38—Oren’s twin—managed the family’s private security company, which had high-profile clients including world leaders.

Together, the brothers moved in elite social circles with the confidence of men who believed they could not be touched. During his closing statement, federal prosecutor Andrew Jones told jurors that the brothers followed "a playbook"—attracting women with exclusive parties, yachts, and luxury trips so they could assault them using force, drugs, or both. According to Jones, they had "masqueraded as party boys when really they were predators" who committed an "array of federal s*x offenses," and once the women were in their control, "the defendants assaulted them."

During the five-week trial, jurors heard emotional and often disturbing testimony from 11 women who accused one or more of the brothers of r**e or s*xual assault. More than 30 witnesses testified. One of the most shocking moments came when jurors watched a video showing Oren Alexander ra**ng a drugged 17-year-old girl—recorded by Oren himself after placing his laptop to capture the attack. "When you saw him pick up her limp legs and climb on top of her lifeless body," Jones told the jury, "you knew what you were seeing."

Instead of hiding their actions, prosecutors said the brothers often celebrated them. They reportedly bragged in text messages about their s*xual encounters, coordinated bringing drugs—referred to as "party favors"—onto a cruise ship, and even wrote blog posts with titles such as "It's not r**e if she secretly wants it." Jones also reminded jurors that the large number of victims supported the accusations. These women did not know each other and lived in different cities, yet they shared what he described as "one horrific thing in common: they were r**ed by these men," and they "described near identical experiences of their assaults."

Jones told the jury that the evidence showed the brothers committed these crimes "not only without remorse," but also "with callousness and a perverse sense of pride." After one assault at a Hamptons mansion, a witness wrote the word "RA**ST" on a bedroom door using her eyeliner. "A lot of the evidence at this long trial was hard to see and hear," Jones said. "A lot of it was brutal. That's because the defendants' crimes were brutal."

The defense argued that the brothers were simply womanizers who made bad decisions. Their lawyers suggested the accusers were a group of women motivated by embarrassment, regret, and money, claiming their memories had been influenced by media reports and civil lawyers seeking settlements.

Prosecutors also pointed out that the defense hired a private investigator who pretended to be an insurance agent. The investigator visited the neighborhood of one accuser and asked questions about her children. The incident frightened her so much that she withdrew from the case, reducing the charges by two counts.

Even so, the brothers were convicted on all ten remaining counts. In his closing remarks, Jones rejected the defense’s claims: "Now that you've seen these women for yourselves, you know how wrong that is. What walked into this courtroom was not shame. It was courage and resolve. It was the truth."

After the verdict, Clayton also spoke strongly, saying the jury recognized the brothers’ behavior "for what it was -- calculated, brutal s*xual abuse that, unimaginably, the defendants celebrated." He added that "federal s*x offenses are all too prevalent in our society and all too often go unreported and unpunished. Today, we take an important step in our fight against s*x trafficking."

The Alexander brothers represent a group of extremely wealthy and well-connected men who sometimes operate for years—sometimes decades—believing they are untouchable. Their money and influence often allow them to silence or intimidate anyone who tries to challenge them.

By the time federal charges were filed in December 2024 and all three brothers were arrested during early-morning raids at their Miami homes, investigators had already spoken with about 60 women while building the case. The crimes described stretched back more than fifteen years. During that time, the brothers continued doing record-breaking real estate deals, attending White House events, and selling a $24 million mansion to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

This long period without consequences was not accidental. It was the result of wealth and power acting as protection—used not only to attract victims but also to pressure and shame those who later tried to speak out. The women who eventually testified did so at great personal risk. Federal prosecutors who worked on the case for years played a major role in finally bringing justice.

Money should never buy protection from the consequences of serious crimes, and in this case, it ultimately did not.

The verdict also raises a larger question the Trump administration has avoided answering: when will the Justice Department investigate the wealthy and well-connected men named in the Epstein files with the same determination used in the Alexander case? The Alexander brothers’ names appear in those files as well, with a witness placing them at Epstein’s New York residence and accusing them of crimes involving minors.

Evidence about Epstein’s wider network—and the powerful individuals connected to it—still sits within the Justice Department. Meanwhile, survivors continue waiting for justice that has not yet arrived.

If the Trump administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi truly wanted justice for Epstein’s victims, they would already know what that process looks like—because it just occurred in a Manhattan federal courtroom. It involves years of careful investigation, dozens of interviews, and supporting survivors even when they face intimidation.

Instead, that evidence remains unused while powerful individuals continue their lives without consequences. Every day this continues, survivors remain without the justice they deserve.

Because of the bravery of the survivors who testified and the determination of prosecutors who pursued the case, at least three abusers will now face the consequences of their actions.

🚨 THE WAR HAS NOW REACHED THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM:

Iran has warned people in the region to stay at least 1 kilometer away from US and Israeli banks and financial centers.

This warning came after the US and Israel carried out strikes on Iranian banks during the night.

Iran replied by saying US and Israeli banks “should wait for our painful response.”

Think carefully about what this means.

– First the attacks focused on military targets
– Then it moved to leadership figures
– Then oil infrastructure became a target
– Then water infrastructure
– Now banks and financial institutions are involved

With each passing week, this war is crossing another line.

Iran’s joint military command announced that banks and financial institutions are now officially included on their target list. The AP also confirmed this report.

This conflict is no longer only about missiles and bombs. The IRGC also released a statement saying “the enemy will no longer have security anywhere in the world, even in their own homes.”

Because of this, the FBI has moved to a higher alert level across the United States. The DHS also warned about possible cyberattacks targeting American financial systems.

Iran doesn’t necessarily need to bomb a bank in New York. A large cyberattack on financial networks could create massive disruption.

And Iran is known to have some of the most advanced state-supported hackers in the world.

This conflict began with physical attacks. Now it is shifting toward something that could damage the US more than any missile.

The financial system.

I’ll post more updates soon. Turn on notifications because this is EXTREMELY important.

Many people will later wish they had followed earlier.

JACKPOT: Average tax refunds have now crossed $3,700 in the middle of the filing season — and the Trump administration says recent tax relief measures are helping return more money to Americans’ pockets.

AMERICAN POWER: President Trump highlighted the strength of the U.S. military, saying the country is gaining strong respect around the world.

"The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us before."

🚨 HELP FIND LIA SEELY

Lia Seely is a 15-year-old girl who has been missing since March 1, 2026, from Yates Center. Police believe she could possibly be traveling toward Parsons.

📄 Case Details:
• NCIC #: M738830393
• NCMEC #: 2079116

Police and her family are asking the public for help. Even a small detail or tip could help bring Lia back home safely.

☎️ If you know anything about Lia Seely’s location, please contact:
• Yates Center Police Department: (620) 625-8640
• Parsons Police Department: (620) 421-7060

Please share this post. Every share can help and may bring Lia closer to being reunited with her family. 💙

Trump says it’s an ‘honor’ to keep Strait of Hormuz open for China and other countries