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🇨🇳 China is building 91% of the WORLD’S NEW SUPERTANKERS while its navy still faces the Strait of Malacca problem. Clarksons data shows Chinese shipyards took most new orders this year, including the bulk of the largest oil tankers. China Merchants and COSCO Energy already operate two of the world’s biggest tanker fleets. One company that only owns these giant tankers, DHT, has already locked in half its open days for the rest of the year at $509,100 a day. Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that sea control and chokepoints determine global power. China can build the ships, but most of its oil still passes through Malacca, a strait it doesn’t control. Building the fleet is one thing. Ensuring its oil reaches China without relying on another navy is the harder part. Source: World Ports, The Merchant News / Lucas

🇺🇦 “Busification”: The new term used to describe conscripting men in Ukraine against their will and transporting them to recruitment centers. Busification = kidnapping. Conscript = victim. Writer: Jamie t.co/TcYXSZSjok

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran has reportedly landed 135 strikes on 84 energy sites across 7 Gulf countries... and the jets meant to answer were barely 50% mission-ready before the war even started A Reuters survey, as relayed by former Marine and State Department official Matthew Hoh, puts the war's running damage to Gulf energy infrastructure far past anything officially admitted. The American side is flying on borrowed parts, with squadrons calling across the flight line to grab six jets before deploying, carriers kept 1,000 km off the Iranian coast, and 60-year-old tankers reportedly flying out of Israel across the whole Arabian Peninsula to meet them: "That's why you see this five weeks, six weeks, seven week breaks that they're taken." Only about 20 of the big bunker-busters were ever built, so the next round runs on exhausted crews and a thin shelf, ends when the maintenance bill comes due, and leaves Iran choosing what to hit in between. @WeTheBrandon @MatthewPHoh

🇺🇸 HERO father pursued gunman inside school to STOP attack He didn't hesitate to run toward the danger and took the shooter out before he could kill more. Police confirmed the 16 year old suspect lived in Bend. We don't know anymore details yet. Families of the victims have now been notified. Thoughts are with the entire community 💔 Writer: Bri t.co/ZqNZj6IPTC

🇺🇸 The new Tesla Roadster reportedly hits 0 to 60 in 0.81 SECONDS That’s faster than you can blink, and it gets there with an ultra-high-pressure air tank, seats molded right into the chassis and steer-by-wire controls. UNBELIEVABLE. Source: @Tesla / Writer: Daniel t.co/Y3aePcKqCa

🚨🇺🇸 The new Tesla Roadster just FLEW over a row of Teslas and flipped upside down mid-air A fan-suction system said to pull up to 2G lets it stick upside down, with SpaceX tech packed inside. @elonmusk promised a car that could basically fly, and he wasn’t kidding😅 Source: @Tesla / Writer: Daniel

🚨🚔🇺🇸 Whoop Whoop... that's the sound of tha POLICE! Talk about an extended bonus episode of Live PD! Prince George’s County, MD officers picked up 77 perps on outstanding warrants in a single night! Alleged rapists, sexual assaulters, you name it, all behind bars today! Way to go fellas… and ladies! Writer: Jamie t.co/zl1I5fPBrV

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🔥 Welcome to a fanboy’s wet dream! An Avatar cosplay featuring Sophie Rain, Aishah Sofey, and Piper Rockelle. I bet a few people are already searching for the original. Writer: Jamie t.co/dPZaK9F0sx

🚨🇺🇸 A random bystander took down the Oregon school shooter in under three minutes... in a district that BANS guns on campus Three minutes. That's how long it took police to reach Silver Rail Elementary in Bend after a teenager with a long gun walked in, and by the time they got there he was already dead on the floor, killed by a civilian nobody has named yet. He'd already murdered a 5-year-old, an 8-year-old, an 11-year-old and their teacher. A 7-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher are fighting for their lives tonight. Here's the part the lawyers are going to fight over. Bend's school district banned every firearm on its property in 2022, permit holders included, and state law says a gun on campus has to be unloaded and locked in a car. Police won't say where the bystander was standing or whether he was supposed to have a gun at all. So the system said no guns, the killer brought one anyway, and the only thing that stopped him was someone who may have also broken the rule. Whatever the circumstances, the person is a HERO. Source: New York Post / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Pentagon reportedly has a MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS plan for Iran’s military sites The GBU-43/B MOAB is among the options for energy infrastructure and nuclear targets, including Pickaxe Mountain. The U.S. last used it in Afghanistan in 2017. The White House says all options remain open to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Trump has said he won’t strike before the midterms, but the strike plans remain ready… Public pauses and talk of “productive talks,” while military options stay on the table. Classic. Source: CBS News / Lucas

🇺🇸 I guess they were doing viewer-submitted questions at the Maine Senate Debate tonight. A woman asked Sen. Collins if the U.S. democracy was under attack. She like an old lady who couldn't care less what will happen in 5 or 10 years: “I think our democracy will be just fine!” You think… but you’re not sure? Comforting! 🗑️🔥 Writer: Jamie t.co/91QFlOYMAT

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump rules out nukes on Iran but won't deny the "mother of all bombs" plan: "We don't have to" Asked on Newsmax about CNN's report that the Pentagon has written the 21,600-pound MOAB into its Iran strike packages: "The mother of all bombs is not nuclear. It's not nuclear at all. But the mother of all bombs is one big bomb." He added "I wouldn't use nuclear. We don't have to," and said he has no plans to send ground troops. If the MOAB story was wrong, he would say so, and instead he explained what the weapon is. That's confirmation. So the “fireworks show” is on the menu and the president is now describing the fireworks. What’s missing from the picture is Iran’s response, because if the plan assumes Tehran will absorb a MOAB strike and let America walk away without answering, somebody has been watching the wrong war for seven months. Source: Newsmax, CNN / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 Trump says THE ONLY THING they can impeach him for is making the country REALLY STRONG 😅 Can you imagine that moment? Democrats in the House chamber, solemn faces, one reading the articles aloud while the other side tries not to laugh. “Article I: He made the economy too strong. Article II: He made the military too effective. Article III: He made energy too cheap.” I wanna watch that session so bad 😂 Writer: Lucas t.co/vQKYWjQzoF

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline is reportedly shut with 4 pumping stations knocked out... and the repair clock may run years, not months Riyadh built that line as the escape hatch for when Hormuz closes, and if it is down, the kingdom can't move crude by sea or by pipe. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson says an analyst he follows has pushed the repair estimate from five years to seven to ten, against Aramco's own two-year figure, and that Treasury is watching for the next move: "They'll have little choice. And that's one of the things keeping Scott Bessent up at night." A kingdom that can't sell oil starts selling US debt to cover the gap, so the pressure on Riyadh to cut a deal with the Houthis now comes from Washington's bond desk as much as its war room. @WeTheBrandon @NewSonof

🇺🇸 🚨 HEARTBREAKING: 3 children aged 5, 8, and 11 killed in Oregon school shooting A teacher was also murdered alongside the children. A 7 year old and a 54 year old teacher are currently in critical condition. 💔 Writer: Bri t.co/QhIlCX8AhL

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump isn't HOLDING BACK on Zelensky, and he started floating some stories about what Ukrainians are saying "I watched an interview of a young woman the other day from Ukraine. And she said, 'President Zelenskyy has destroyed our country. President Zelenskyy has taken our men away from us. Our men have no legs, no arms. Our men in many cases in mental institutions or they're dead.'" You made Trump an enemy; you know the consequences 😂💀 Writer: Lucas t.co/zYGec0M9hh

🇺🇸🇬🇷 Trump was asked if he would give Kimberly Guilfoyle a pardon… are you kidding me?! He's DEFINITELY waiting for *'The Devil Wears MAGA'* to come out first! Make sure she takes it easy on him and Don Jr., obviously! 🤣 Writer: Jamie t.co/BB8PeMyxMp

🇺🇸 Who fucking cares about the numbers you could have done on the Clintons or Obama?! EVERYONE CARES about gas prices and affordability… and, oh yeah, the WAR! Writer: Jamie t.co/3591Eaz7XP

🇸🇦 🇾🇪 🇺🇸 Daily news recap: Sending Saudi Arabia's regular army into Yemen's mountains could end with the Saudi regime itself falling. The Houthis claim they hit a Saudi Eurofighter, a great plane that was never meant for close air support, while the US has A10 Warthogs built for exactly that job sitting around waiting to be retired. The fighters Riyadh really needs are the combat ready veterans MBS pushed out because he saw them as a threat to his rule: "Sending in a regular armed force from Saudi Arabia will lead to a disaster." Whatever Riyadh decides, the US has every reason to stay out of the middle of this fight. @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine is STRIKING BACK after Trump’s energy deal, with drones hitting industrial and warehouse sites in Russia’s Moscow region Russia says hundreds of drones headed toward Moscow overnight and disrupted airports. The strikes come right after Trump announced an energy ceasefire with Russia that Zelensky said he never agreed to. While Trump is talking about a deal that keeps Russian energy flowing, Ukraine is still hitting facilities inside Russia. Zelensky has reasons to be mad at both, but the war didn't start the day Russia crossed the border. NATO did the big stretch way before that. Writer: Lucas t.co/3RR3S7YBEr

🇺🇸 The Justice Department is suing California over 20,000 suspected noncitizens on its voter rolls. Here’s the problem, as the DOJ sees it: California mails a ballot to every active registered voter, whether they ask for one or not. So the DOJ says it asked the state to clean up its rolls and set those ballots aside. California refused. Now it’s filed an emergency case to stop suspected noncitizens from voting. The midterms are less than 3 weeks away, the ballots are already out, and now a judge has to decide fast. Source: @AGToddBlanche / Writer: Daniyal

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Newsmax Reporter questions Trump's loyalties: “Do you trust Netanyahu? Kimberly Guilfoyle?” TRUMP: “I don't trust anybody… in the world of politics, I don’t trust anybody.” That’s probably the most honest truth he’s ever told! Writer: Jamie t.co/jYNMdskuzt

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Army just admitted the one-missile Patriot era is over after seven months of Iran burning through interceptors faster than Lockheed can build them The general in charge of buying the Army's missiles laid it out at the service's big annual convention: five separate programs now hunting new interceptors, from a sub-$1 million Patriot round to a Stinger replacement to a second missile for a new launcher the Army built to fire several types and then loaded with only one. Each program will hold open shoot-offs in 2027 instead of picking a single winner, and the Army just ordered an older Patriot missile for the first time in decades because it's "being produced." His own words give it away. The goal was 2,000 new Patriots a year, and now the conversation is "is it 4,000, is it 6,000, is it 8,000." Here's the plain version. For years America bet its air defense on one great missile from one company, and that worked fine as long as nobody made you shoot a thousand of them in a month... Then Iran did exactly that. Every salvo took two or three $4 million Patriots to stop, the Saudis are running short right now, and nobody can build them fast enough. None of these programs were dreamed up this summer, most were already on paper. But there's a difference between knowing you should fix something and watching the stockpile counter drop night after night. The war might not have necessarily invented the fix, but it did abruptly and violently end the debate about whether America could afford to keep putting it off. Source: The War Zone / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇺🇸 A bystander shows HOW CLOSE he came to being shot by the shooter outside Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon He says the shooter almost got him, and a round went right by the driver’s seat through the window. A true miracle that this guy is alright! 🙏 Writer: Lucas t.co/BifV4MDqcS

🇺🇸 The @Tesla Roadster reveal will be UNIMAGINABLE! NO LITERALLY! I’m having a hard time imagining what’s going to happen to whatever makes it to the end of that curve! Writer: Jamie t.co/il2WLQEf9o

This is what I mean by UNIMAGINABLE... LOOK at these DRINKS they're serving! Writer: Jamie t.co/EhpvkpkLDy

🇧🇬 I would feel bad if they had actually worked hard for all of the nice things they have… but fuck them! You don’t get to steal from the people and live like a king! Dude thinks he’s at Mar-a-Lago! Writer: Jamie t.co/alKuKhENhf

🇺🇸🇮🇳 BACK IN U.S. CUSTODY! An FBI MOST WANTED fraud suspect arrested in India in September now faces charges. Manjit Singh Bedi, who ran a Tacoma grocery store, allegedly exchanged SNAP EBT benefits for cash and kept half the money. The scheme allegedly stole at least $600K between 2024 and 2025. After being charged, he fled to Canada and flew to India. He’s one of six suspects on a new fraud list caught in three months, tied to over $2B in alleged fraud. Punjab police arrested him, and the FBI is working on his return. Source: FBI / Lucas

🇺🇸🪙How is this even legal? Is this not considered political promotion? They usually wait until someone kicks it before they put their face on a coin… Not in the Democratic People’s Republic of the United States of America! Writer: Jamie t.co/J5Plc2Mb72