Uneasy Reckoning

• ⚰️😔 A detailed reconstruction of the US strike on an Iranian primary school in Minab last February has revealed at least 123 children among the dead, with the Pentagon still withholding its formal findings more than 120 days later. Meanwhile, indirect US-Iran peace talks in Doha wrapped up with little progress, as negotiators circled back to issues supposedly settled weeks ago rather than tackling the harder question of Iran’s nuclear program.

• 💰🪙 Trump’s 2025 financial disclosures showed he earned more than $2 billion, largely through Trump-backed cryptocurrency ventures, including over $1.4 billion tied to memecoins and crypto token deals unavailable to ordinary investors. Many retail traders who followed him into those same assets are now sitting on losses as deep as 98 percent.

• 🎆😬 White House officials are privately fretting over crowd sizes at Trump’s July Fourth celebration on the National Mall, after sparse attendance at an earlier speech on the mall left the president furious. With triple-digit heat forecast and security restrictions barring coolers, organizers are already bracing for another underwhelming turnout.

• ⚽🇧🇪 Belgium pulled off one of the tournament’s most dramatic moments yet, coming back from two goals down to beat Senegal 3-2 in extra time at the World Cup, with Youri Tielemans netting a 125th-minute penalty to seal it.

The day’s news cuts across grief, accountability and spectacle, with unresolved questions about civilian deaths in Iran sitting alongside domestic political theater and World Cup drama. The weight of what remains unanswered in Minab looms over everything else.