Known Knowns and the Rest

Smoke and flames rise from buildings following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, one of Beirut's southern suburbs

Bilal Hussein/AP

Today’s notice: Searching for reliable war updates. NOTUS brings a pair of lawmakers together. Democrats face scared voters at town halls. The story of a landmark antifa terrorism case. And: “Bipartisan? Up here? There’s no bipartisan up here.”

Log on: NOTUS Editor-in-Chief Tim Grieve is doing an AMA over at r/journalism from 2-3 p.m. ET today. Follow along at u/notusreports.

THE LATEST

Fog of (a social media) war? In an age where X is filled with unverifiable information, AI slop is becoming harder to identify, Iranians don’t have access to reliable internet and Trump administration officials regularly shift their narratives and objectives — how can Americans truly know if Donald Trump is winning his war?

Trending

“Right now, it’s very hard to know what is certain,” said Carlton Haelig, a defense fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “There’s a lot of obfuscation going on, both from the Iranians but also for operational security reasons from the United States and Israel.”