Mario Nawfal

🇺🇸 In 2008, California sold a high-speed rail dream. In 2026, Nick Shirley walked the alignment and called it a $15 billion ride to nowhere. No two cities linked, but the projected cost he puts above $200 billion to finish, and the comparison that makes people furious: China used those same years to lay more than 30,000 miles. He says money went to contractors who couldn’t work, and the route is already colliding with homes and farmland. You can argue his numbers, not the facts: the train was supposed to exist by now. Does this deserve any more funding? Writer: Val t.co/3wwS5k6pxk

Watch this girl drive in this parking garage and tell me she deserves to have a license. t.co/Ww0hSckz97

Defenders call Haaland a giant, but compared to Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson? Erling is 6'4" and still somehow the little brother here. Football strength vs strongman strength... it is NOT the same. Writer: Val t.co/2LEk9CsUyK

🇺🇸 The House killed Al Green's impeachment push 232 to 147, with Democrats helping again Forty-seven members voted present in the third failure of Green's effort in two years. He forced this one without leadership backing, over killings by federal immigration officers, and some colleagues told Axios privately it was a distraction with one week of session left before the midterms. Green's answer was that his critics lack the courage to face him. Watch what happens to that math after November 3. Right now Democratic leadership kills these motions because a losing vote becomes a Republican ad in a swing district. Flip the House and the calculation inverts: subpoena power, the gavels on Oversight and Armed Services, and a caucus whose base has spent seven months watching a war nobody voted for. Don't even get me started on GAS PRICES. The Trump team can see that too, which is why the defense is already being built. Impeachment still likely dies in the Senate, so the real damage is two years of hearings, and leaked testimony, straight through the 2028 primaries. Vance and Rubio would run while testifying about this war. That is the real fight Washington is actually preparing for. Source: Axios / Writer: Daniel

FOMO stream was supposed to be a stream, then Pinkchyu got ahold of Drake. She put him through a goth makeover in front of everybody... Nobody is recovering from this. Writer: Val t.co/2iWEEPnJkY

Thanks for showing me exactly who not to hire Writer: Sol t.co/kWFcYXBB4M

🇺🇸 218 signatures, that’s the number that can force a House vote on the Epstein files: no permission slip from leadership. Lauren Boebert was asked if another lawmaker might be the one who puts it over the top. She didn’t crown anybody: “We’ll see. We’ll see. We don’t even have all the Democrats yet. Y’all got to get them going.” Writer: Val t.co/GC3bHyAjJp

🇺🇲 Nothing says “f*ck Waymo” like 20 of them trapping your car in San Francisco traffic. The AI uprising has begun. Writer: Marie t.co/yGzdS5cNEr

🚨🇵🇸 Drake just premiered a new song and says "Pray for Gaza" For those who don't know, Drake is half Jewish, but has publicly voiced his support for Palestine in the past. Most notably, he was one of the first major artist to sign a letter to Biden, 23 days after Oct 7th, calling for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid into Gaza. He also called out DJ Khaled for staying silent. Both of Khaled's parents were born in Palestine. Writer: Daniel t.co/H8xsAlBeYK

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Coast Guard and FBI boarded a Texas-bound oil tanker mid-voyage after finding its network may have been compromised... A team of Coast Guard cyber operators, a vessel inspector and FBI Cyber Action Team agents went aboard the foreign-flagged carrier on August 21 before it could reach port, examining both its IT and operational systems and working with the crew to clear the threat. No operational disruption, no danger to crew, no environmental impact. Washington has not named an actor. Iranian media has been bragging about it for weeks. Mehr reported the ship lost communications for 30 hours on August 7 and claimed attackers reached engine-room systems, cut cooling flow and pushed engine speed. Tasnim ran the headline "No American Vessel Is Safe Anymore: Will Cannons Give Way to Codes?" The vessel in those reports is a 333-meter crude carrier that holds 2.3 million barrels, and it was sailing from Egypt's Sidi Kerir terminal, the exact route Gulf oil now takes to avoid Hormuz. Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇲🇨🇴 Sofía Vergara’s cleavage has more star power than half of Hollywood🤣 Writer: Marie t.co/7sraGLWiQU

🇬🇷 Ilias Kasidiaris walked out of prison today and immediately announced he is heading back into Greek politics. The former Golden Dawn spokesman and MP was released after serving his sentence, then told supporters he was returning to the “front lines” with plans for a new national party. Golden Dawn was a far-right Greek political party whose leadership was convicted over the group’s criminal activity. He has said he intends to run in Greece’s next general election, although his path back onto the ballot is still legally complicated: Greek law allows parties to be barred if their real leadership is tied to people convicted of serious crimes, and a Kasidiaris-linked party was already blocked on that basis in 2023. Will Greek courts actually let him turn it into an election campaign? Writer: Sol t.co/AkJnKehO7w

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: Reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw reportedly killed in the NBC4 helicopter crash in Los Angeles Officials have not released identities. LAFD confirms three dead total, two aboard the aircraft and one bystander standing in a parking lot. A fourth person was hospitalized. FAA and NTSB are investigating. Source: LA Times / Writer: Daniel, Marie t.co/3C3BEEjfpE

They spent years calling him an antisemite, but Tucker doesn't care. Norman Finkelstein; Princeton-trained, son of Holocaust survivors, author of Gaza’s Gravediggers, sits down and makes the case he’s been making for decades: Gaza, October 7, genocide, and a media machine that he says shuts the argument down by attacking the messenger. He says the official story is a lie. They go from 1948 to the war, from cancelled campus invites to him getting pushed out of Hunter College. Agree with him or not, you can’t meaningfully challenge an argument you refuse to let people hear. Source: @TCNetwork / Writer: Val

🇨🇳China’s latest mega-weapon is being called a SUBMARINE DRONE MOTHERSHIP. Satellite imagery over a Shanghai shipyard reportedly shows what is most likely a vessel that deploys drone submarines. China is already at the forefront of such technology as the only country to have built full-sized, uncrewed subs. Knowing Trump, this becomes a sub-measuring contest by week's end: "Ours is bigger, and frankly, much more beautiful"😂 Source: Naval News / Writer: Marie

🚨🇺🇲BREAKING: Los Angeles police say 3 people are dead and 1 hospitalized after a KNBC helicopter CRASHED in Chatsworth. The chopper was filming a deadly bus crash LIVE when it went down. At least 1 of the deceased was on the ground during the accident. Story developing… Writer: Marie t.co/vioXlzm6w3

🚨🇺🇲BREAKING: A Los Angeles firefighter CONFIRMED one person on the ground was killed when a helicopter crashed in Chatsworth tonight. Crews are searching the wreckage, and the LAPD is expected to give a statement. It is unknown at this time how many people were in the chopper and if there are any other injuries. Writer: Marie t.co/oG7oM6Yr1f

🚨🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi air defenses reportedly shot down a Houthi drone heading for Mecca Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki says the drone was destroyed south of the holy city Tuesday evening before it entered prohibited airspace, the second attempt on Mecca since a ballistic missile in July 2017. He called the city's security a red line. The Houthis call it a worn-out lie. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has already condemned heinous attacks on Mecca and Madinah. The Houthis hit Taif, 70 kilometers from Mecca, on Monday and wounded 13. Source: Reuters, AFP / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 More footage of the KNBC news helicopter that went down in Chatsworth, LA. Source: @kalanithegreat / Writer: Sol t.co/M4JIGOqDsC

🚨🇺🇲A helicopter in Los Angeles ERUPTED in a ball of fire after crashing while covering a deadly bus accident. The helicopter was reportedly in Chatsworth when it went down. Nearby trucks and infrastructure were caught up in the blaze. One person on the ground in a parking lot was reportedly killed. It is unclear how many people were in the helicopter or if anyone else was injured. Officials are unsure who owns the helicopter, but it is believed to be a news chopper. Source: NBC4 / Writer: Marie t.co/oRMHj8hnGl

🇺🇸 A news helicopter crashed in Chatsworth tonight while covering another fatal wreck in the San Fernando Valley. First responders converged on the site, but the cause is still unknown. Early accounts did not include the condition of those aboard. Two disasters in the same stretch of streets. Writer: Val t.co/TZm5l6okgI

🇺🇸 They asked him to give the money back... and he called that racist. Abdul El-Sayed was pressed over campaign cash reportedly tied to people linked to a group accused of financing extremist activity. But he didn’t walk through the donations, he flipped the question: "People like Mike Rogers want to make this race about the color of my skin or how I pray." Writer: Val t.co/EUjniLf2vy

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Washington approved $2.8 billion in heavy bombs for Israel tonight, built in the same factories that can't refill America's own magazines The sale went through this evening: 2,000-pound bombs and bunker penetrators, previewed to Congress as a formality. Eli Clifton points to the part nobody mentions. A president can stop a sale with the stroke of a pen, as the first Bush once did, and every shift that fills an Israeli order is a shift not spent refilling arsenals this war has emptied. The pattern runs deeper. Israel enters wars without defining victory and goes as far as it can until Washington says stop. Nobody has said it. And the Abraham Accords, sold as a security architecture, assumed the region's three strongest militaries could do as they pleased. A shut strait, a bombed pipeline and a Saudi collapse in Yemen have answered that. @EliClifton @wethebrandon

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: One person is confirmed dead after a helicopter crashed in a Los Angeles parking lot while covering a fatal bus collision Fire officials say the victim appears to have been on the ground, not aboard the aircraft. LAFD cannot yet confirm who the helicopter belonged to. It's destroyed with no visible tail number. Writer: Daniel t.co/CKYZl6ig9g

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Bab el-Mandeb handles about 12% of world trade, and the Houthis are now reported to hold Mocha and the Hanish Islands on the edge of it. Mocha is a Red Sea port, the Hanish Islands sit near the choke point between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, and together they give an Iran-backed force more say over what floats north toward Suez. Saudi Arabia cannot treat this as one threat: * Close or harass the strait, and energy and container traffic pay. * Hit Aramco sites and airbases inside the kingdom, and the export machine takes damage at the source. * Answer only with jets, and you degrade capabilities without reversing who owns the shore. Airstrikes are good at making a launch site disappear, but they are bad at evicting fighters from towns, ports, and islands. That gap is the whole strategic problem. Zoom out and the stakes leave Yemen. Continued Houthi gains tighten Iran’s hand on a waterway major economies need open, so Washington and Beijing both lose if this becomes a permanent tax on shipping. The question is simple: Can Saudi Arabia live with a hostile coast on Bab el-Mandeb... or does “containment” mean losing the strait in slow motion? Source: DW News YT / Writer: Val

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 America fired 70 Patriots and a dozen THAADs to stop 20 Iranian missiles over Jordan, a week's worth of interceptors in one night U.S. and regional officials tell the Journal the barrage carried warheads that split into multiple projectiles on approach, forcing three or four shots per incoming missile. Jets were still hit. By mid-July the tally was 1,700 Patriots, 200 THAADs and 150 Standard Missiles fired, against Lockheed's record output of 620 Patriots last year. Parnell calls depletion reports completely false. Cooper isn't concerned at all. Trump forwent a two-week strike campaign in July partly over this exact debate. Do the arithmetic. Seventy Patriots at $4 million and twelve THAADs at $12 million is roughly $400 million spent in one evening against missiles Iran assembles from stockpiled parts in tunnels. Iran isn't trying to kill Americans on every salvo. It is trying to empty the magazine, and Fabian Hinz says the cluster warheads are Tehran learning what works. Here is what that does to the options after November. You cannot strike Pickaxe Mountain without absorbing the reply, and each reply costs a week of air defense. Two weeks of strikes means ten salvos means months of interceptors gone, and then bases sit exposed. Trump already blinked at that math once. The next time, the choice is troops without cover or forces pulled back out of range, which is the concession Iran already wrote into the memorandum. Source: The Wall Street Journal / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: An NBC Los Angeles news helicopter has crashed in Chatsworth while covering a fatal bus collision, going down between two commercial buildings and catching fire LAFD got the call at 6:57 p.m. The station's live feed showed the aircraft descending before it cut out. Anchors on air said they cannot reach their colleagues. Number aboard and conditions still unknown. Writer: Daniel t.co/BD2NWSm5qm

🇾🇪🇸🇦 Houthi political figures are claiming their air defenses downed a Saudi F-15 Hazem al-Asad of the Shura Council and others are pushing it across X. No footage, no wreckage, no statement from the military spokesman. Treat it as unconfirmed until one of those appears. Sourc: @TabzLIVE on TG Writer: Daniel

🇸🇦🇾🇪 The Houthis now hold Perim Island in the middle of Bab al-Mandab, and THAT'S the gate to the Red Sea. They took Mocha, then the western coast, then the island that splits the strait. Missiles and drones have been hitting Saudi territory, and Riyadh is answering with airstrikes. This is a fight over the waterway ships have to use. More Saudi oil has already been pushed through this route after trouble around Hormuz. A Houthi grip on the coast turns that into leverage. Reports say Mohammed bin Salman asked Washington for U.S. strikes and didn’t get them, but intel and targeting help instead. Air power can hit launchers, but it does not automatically take an island back. So what can the Houthis can do from that coast, what will Saudi Arabia try next, and if that strait becomes a weapon, who eats the cost first? Writer: Val t.co/uoDG6NeESf

🇺🇸 Seven foreign nationals were just ARRESTED in Texas for illegally voting in the 2024 election, and every one of them had told the government they were a citizen in order to get a ballot The indictments came from the U.S. Attorney's office with the FBI and HSI on the case, and the defendants hail from Mexico, Nigeria, India and the Congo. Paxton : "Foreign influence has no place in American elections" For years the line was that noncitizen voting is a myth, and now there are federal indictments with names attached to them. One state went looking for this, so imagine what the other 49 would find if they did the same. Source: @KenPaxtonTX / Writer: Daniel