Mario Nawfal

🇺🇸 Trump: "We have a blockade on the Trump Strait. How do you think the Arabs would like me calling it? I mean, we changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico; why can’t we change that name?" But… he actually changed the Gulf of Mexico? 😅 Writer: Lucas t.co/6koLDHg7s3

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Pentagon just handed DHS a military HEAT RAY to test on the southern border A memo signed by Hegseth loans Border Patrol the Active Denial System for seven months, an invisible beam that can hit people more than half a mile away and makes their skin feel like it’s inside an oven until they run. The Pentagon made sure the fine print says its own troops won’t touch the trigger... even the military wants its fingerprints nowhere near this one😅 The weapon has never been fired at anyone, not even in Afghanistan. Trump’s own DHS secretary killed the idea of using it at the border back in 2018, with one former official saying it meant “treating immigrants and citizens like enemy combatants.” With crossings near record lows and Border Patrol staffed up like never before, DHS is going to have to explain what changed and why the border suddenly needs a sci-fi weapon. Source: CNN / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸Trump: “We've defeated Iran militarily, financially, and otherwise.” He claims to have “obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity.” Sounds like the war is over from his POV but Iran is out there acting like they hold all the cards and blocking peace at every turn. Writer: Bri t.co/GUk0HLGWvK

🇺🇸Don't mess with a MAGA rally crowd Trump didn't hold back after a supporter threw punches at a disruptive protester. “Wow, thank you. That was great man.” “Who's the guy that threw that punch?” Did he really think that would fly with this group? Writer: Bri t.co/D2rktYy2PH

🇺🇸 Trump says America has gone 17 MONTHS with ZERO illegal immigrants admitted He said the border is the most secure ever and that nobody illegal has been let in for 17 months straight. Officials report 17 months with no releases into the country, and southwest border catches down 95% last year to under 99k. No wonder the crowd EXPLODES with this! Writer: Lucas t.co/FBUZ6RLDxC

🇺🇸 Republicans are BURNING cash in the south in a panic sprint towards the midterms Emergency funds are suddenly FLOODING into Mississippi, South Carolina, and Kansas. Seats that should be bulletproof… Kansas last elected a Democratic senator 94 years ago. Mississippi, 44. South Carolina, 28. Recently the GOP looked at Mississippi and decided it didn’t need more cash. Now they’re reviewing it. The party’s Senate committee took out a $20 million loan for the campaign strategy as it spends aggressively. Are these states ready to flip? Source: Axios / Writer: Bri

🇺🇸Trump: “Interest rates are very soon going to be falling just like oil, gas, everything is going to be.” We’ve heard this before, just like we heard he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours and no new wars… Yet here we are, and U.S. interest rates are heading in the opposite direction. Last month the Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75% to 4.00%, marking the first rate increase in three years. Writer: Bri t.co/zt7GtOOV7q

🇺🇸 Democrats lead the generic ballot by 11 to 12 points with two weeks to go, and Trump is campaigning in Louisiana... Kansas and Alaska are now live Senate races The early vote is where the numbers get real, with a pollster reporting turnout jumps among Black, Hispanic and Asian American voters who swung toward Trump in 2024, and the immigration crackdown reaching past "the worst of the worst" into Hispanic families, churches and workplaces. Charlie Sykes, former conservative radio host now at To The Contrary, covered the 1980 collapse as a young reporter and says this could be a year like that: "In 1980, it all moved and it moved very, very late. And all these guys were wiped out." Democrats could land 53 or 54 Senate seats, but Charlie says they can still blow Minnesota, Michigan and the Collins race with candidates who ran left of the mood, so the night to watch is Florida's governor's race, where a David Jolly win turns a wave into a tsunami. @SykesCharlie @WeTheBrandon

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe suspects Russia had a hand in its weekend chaos. Over the weekend, protests over the cost of living turned into looting and street fights in Paris, Marseille and Milan. So now France and Italy are looking into whether Russian-linked fake news online helped push things that far. In fact, Italy’s defense minister isn’t even waiting for the results, already calling it “hybrid warfare” through TikTok and YouTube. On top of that, Meloni’s told Italy’s spies to figure out if Moscow was really behind it. Still, nothing’s proven yet, and some analysts say blaming Russia is a little too easy when schools are falling apart and wages aren’t going anywhere. Whatever Russia did online, the anger on those streets was very much homegrown. Source: The Telegraph / Writer: Daniyal

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Significant bombs and munitions have reportedly been moved to Israel in just the last couple of weeks... and it’s starting to look a lot like February. Trita Parsi points out that diplomacy was still running back then too, right up until the strikes, and the worry is the same pattern is playing out now with only the timing left to settle, before the midterms or after: “So at least towards the end of that, the diplomacy was a sham. The decision had already been made.” If the call is already locked in, the next round of talks is just stage dressing. @tparsi

🇺🇸White House THREATENS Politico over Susie Wiles coverage Counsel Will Scharf gave Politico 48 hours to retract or correct three stories alleging internal tensions with Trump’s chief of staff, warning of legal action and DEMANDING a public apology. Trump dismissed the reports as fake news and denied any plans to replace Wiles. If the reporting is wrong, correct it. Don’t keep bullying the press into silence. Source: Axios / Lucas

🇮🇱🇵🇸🇪🇬Israel air force intensifies air surveillance over Gaza and Sinai Unverified reports indicate an Israeli Boeing 767 tanker and Gulfstream G550 operated off the coasts of Sinai and Gaza, reportedly backed by Heron drones running ISR missions. Heavy surveillance assets paired with mid-air refueling capabilities usually signal preparation for extended, intense operations. Source: @EGYOSINT / Writer: Bri

🇮🇱 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Israeli jets just flew all the way to Iran’s border days before Israel votes... and US officials reportedly worry it was meant to bait Iran into firing first. Trita Parsi says if Iran strikes, Netanyahu escapes the blame for starting it, and if Trump pivots to a deal instead, Israel could strike just to blow that deal up: “I would be extremely cautious against discounting the likelihood that the Israelis absolutely would do this.” Who in Washington is going to tell Israel its election calendar doesn’t get to set America’s next war? @tparsi

🇺🇸 Bessent says Trump’s policies are REACHING the people they were meant for. He pointed to major tax cuts, trade policies favoring workers, and the U.S. producing more energy than ever. He also claimed private-sector job growth has topped 1 million while the federal workforce has shrunk by over 300,000. The pitch is that tax cuts, energy dominance, and a smaller government are supposed to put more money and jobs in ordinary hands. Writer: Lucas t.co/MYzHc866Wd

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Signs the Houthis hit Saudi Arabia's Shaybah field again, a 500 megawatt fire lit up Khurais on NASA satellites, and Riyadh has said nothing... the world may already be short 5 to 8 million barrels a day Khurais is a 1.1 million barrel a day field that only produces when treated seawater keeps the pressure up, and he believes the plant that pumps that water was hit. Three of the East West pipeline's pumping stations were hit, by his count, on a route that climbs 3,000 feet. Chris Martenson, energy analyst at Peak Prosperity, says the silence is the data: "I would feel better if we at least had believable lies. But we're getting nothing." A 5 to 8 million barrel shortfall is the largest oil supply shock in history, and oil use tracks GDP almost one for one, so if Iran works through its declared target list, starting with Abqaiq, exporters everywhere stop selling, and at that point oil has no ceiling. @chrismartenson @WeTheBrandon

🇫🇷 France is getting clean again. Paris workers finished scrubbing the graffiti off the Republic statue yesterday, just days after the weekend riots. And they're cleaning up the streets too, getting rid of burned-out cars and broken glass. But people are still stuck with the same high living costs, and France still has a mountain of debt. Cleaning up the mess was the easy part. Writer: Daniyal t.co/VrtQeQOPxZ

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 The US and Israel have drawn up a post-midterm strike plan for Iran with Pickaxe Mountain at the top of the list... and Trump already canceled it once this month Both militaries were on highest alert in early October when he postponed at the last minute, which one commander calls "day-to-day whiplash." The plan is short and intensive, aimed at nuclear sites and missile stocks while steering clear of refineries so gas doesn't climb higher, with longer November nights as the window. Tehran says 72 hours is a "fantasy" and its answer is Aramco's refineries and the internet cables. The first phase of this war strained Patriot stocks to 2030 and put Brent at $110, and nobody can explain why round two ends differently. Source: New York Times / Writer: Daniel

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Explosions rock Lipetsk as Ukrainian drones reportedly breach Russian air defenses Air raid alerts rang out across the region as a fresh wave of strikes rained down. Emergency services are assessing casualties, but the real damage is to Russia's domestic air defense posture. As drone raids escalate, repeated strikes on Lipetsk prove deep Russian hubs remain wide open to persistent attacks. Source: WFW on TG / Writer: Bri

🚨🇬🇧 Turning Point UK's CEO was filmed offering an undercover reporter a menu of beatings, stabbings and killings through a Glasgow contact who says he arms the UVF Al Jazeera’s undercover operation started in 2021 when a reporter joined the British offshoot of the American student group. Its CEO Jack Ross, a Conservative candidate in 2023, introduced the reporter to Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal and self-described UVF member, agreed on camera to pay him to stage a fake pro-Zimbabwe rally, and priced out what Nesbitt’s friends could do to a person, from cutting faces to MURDER. The UVF is the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Protestant loyalist paramilitary from Northern Ireland’s Troubles that killed over 500 people between 1966 and 1999, including 33 in one day in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and is still banned as a terror group. Since the peace deal it has run mostly as a drug gang that kept the name and the guns. Nesbitt reportedly met the reporter in a London hotel, offered to have a fictional business rival “finished,” claimed he’d personally stabbed a man to death, showed a shotgun and pistol on a video call and said the fee would buy weapons smuggled from Scotland into Northern Ireland. Ross says it was a joke. The joke came with a price list, a weapons demo and a smuggling route, and the police now have a name and a video... and wasn't particularly funny. Somebody in Turning Point UK’s donor base should be asking when the fundraising dinners turned into this. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇷🇸 Belgrade streets are FILLING UP tonight as students make their final push before Sunday’s vote in Serbia The Student List, born from the Novi Sad canopy protests, has emerged as a major rival to Vučić’s party, with one poll even putting it slightly ahead. After 2 years of protests, the movement is now betting on the ballot box. Writer: Lucas t.co/r1TIJ7Pipf

🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Daily news recap: Betting markets give Eisenkot 53% to Netanyahu’s 27%... and that could make a strike before the vote more likely. Netanyahu got a one day bump when Trump endorsed him, then slid right back, and the fear is that a losing prime minister hits Iran, draws a response and uses the emergency to delay the October 27 election. Losing could cost him far more than his job: “If he loses this election he could very well go to jail.” Would Netanyahu really blindside the president who just endorsed him? @WeTheBrandon

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: unconfirmed reports of a second IRGC missile launch unit hit by an airstrike in the Sirik hills on Iran's Hormuz coast Source: @TabzLIVE / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇵🇸🇮🇱 Seinfeld star Jason Alexander says a table of Palestinian artists formed a human shield around him when gunshots rang out in Ramallah Before the trip, a Palestinian friend told the Jewish actor that Muslim hosts would take a bullet for an invited guest, and Jason didn’t fully believe him until Israeli troops fired into the air during a nearby raid: “He wasn’t kidding. They’re not going to let me get hurt.” Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel

🇮🇱 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Daily news recap: Dozens of Israeli jets flew all the way to Iran’s border and turned back... and some US officials suspect it was bait. Israel called it a training run ahead of its October 27 election, video shows Iran trucking ballistic missiles into position in the west, and Iran’s foreign minister says diplomacy only returns once Washington accepts it has no military option. The bet here is that Israel moves before Israelis vote: “The Israelis are going to hit first.” If Israel strikes and Iran answers, Washington gets pulled in whether the midterms are over or not. @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 Israeli jets just launched a "massive power projection operation" toward Iran as US embassies order families out of Qatar, Jordan and Bahrain... the only other times this year came after the bombs were already falling Explosions reportedly hit Iran's Hormuz coast tonight while NBC reported diplomats evacuating, and the jets taking off from Israel are the same ones that rehearsed a refueled run to the border on Monday. Anthony Aguilar, retired Army lieutenant colonel, says the rehearsal is over: "This could be the thing that they were rehearsing." Anthony believes the Roosevelt's Japan stop was to load bombs, and by his count only six bunker busters remain, so Trump's MOAB is the weapon in play. A slow C130 only works close to the coast, so the first targets look like Iran's power and water, which is exactly the kind of strike Iran says makes Gulf infrastructure fair game.

🇾🇪 🇸🇦 🇮🇶 Daily news recap: Pro Houthi channels are openly talking about invading Saudi Arabia... and Iran friendly militias in Iraq could hit the kingdom from the north. The Houthis are hitting the border, building up and riding a fresh battlefield win, while attacks out of Iraq keep piling up, which could add up to a two front push on Saudi Arabia’s southern provinces: “It’s a possibility. It’s something we have to entertain now because we’re in a really weird moment.” Saudi defenses were built to handle one front at a time, and the kingdom may soon have to deal with two. @WeTheBrandon

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia may have ZERO REASON to accept a ceasefire in Ukraine, and Putin could be preparing to demand even MORE territory. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (Ret.) warns that while Zelensky now appears willing to freeze the war along the current front lines, Moscow may have already moved beyond that possibility. He argues that Russia has gained additional territory in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk, while Ukraine faces mounting shortages of troops and air defenses. And he believes Putin knows EXACTLY how much leverage he has. Give Moscow everything it demands, or watch Russian forces keep advancing until Ukraine faces TERMS OF SURRENDER. @DanielLDavis1

🇭🇹🇸🇻 Haiti's gangs may have just made the WORST and LAST mistake of their lives Four Salvadoran aviation technicians disappeared after armed gangs ambushed their vehicle near Port-au-Prince. Bukele emphasized that they were there to perform medical evacuations and SAVE LIVES. Now, a military rescue operation is ongoing and Bukele delivered a BRUTAL ultimatum to the gang leaders, directly in Haitian Creole. “We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with yours too.” Writer: Sol t.co/uHD1T4LFqo

Israeli fighter jets are flying close to Iran again now, after dozens did on Monday, keeping Iran on their toes before the actual attack begins Also today, U.S. embassies told staff to leave with their families (as they did in March when the war started), and troops are leaving bases in Qatar, Jordan and Kuwait I cannot believe I'm saying this, but unfortuantely, war seems imminent

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇷🇺 The U.S. just HIT Iran with fresh sanctions and handed Russia’s Lukoil extra time. The Treasury’s new Iran list hits 5 people, 4 companies and 9 ships, all in one go. And on the very same day, Lukoil reportedly got until November 21 to sell off its foreign assets. Tough on Iran, easy on Russia, that’s been the vibe in Washington lately. Source: Mehr News Agency / Writer: Daniyal