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🚨🇺🇸 The Air Force told Congress it needs 1,509 combat-ready fighters by 2035 and can't currently meet the 1,145 floor lawmakers already set The service's own report says it wants to change how jets are counted so backup and attrition aircraft show up in the total, because the Iran war proved those get flown too. Eighty-one airframes have been lost or damaged since February, the F-35 is behind on upgrades, Boeing can't deliver F-15EXs on schedule, and the FY27 plan leans on a reconciliation bill that's in doubt for 14 of its F-35s. Add it to the pile: Patriots and THAADs not back to prewar stocks until 2030, zero THAAD deliveries this fiscal year, Gulf bases the Pentagon isn't sure it will rebuild, and a Navy with one carrier on station. The Air Force's top planner says the number isn't about Iran. The shortfall it describes is EXACTLY what the war exposed. Source: Breaking Defense / CongressGov / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 Backing Trump COST Kid Rock his corporate deals. He does not care. He says he saw it coming and would rather keep speaking his mind. Most people in that world pick the safer lane. He took the hit and kept going. And we all know, if there’s one thing Trump values, it’s loyalty. Writer: Lucas t.co/muRAhzB9UZ

🚨🇺🇸 Trump just rolled back into DC after yet another rally. But it doesn't stop there. Iowa was already added to the schedule before he got through the front door for tomorrow. The pace is RELENTLESS. I'm tired just watching😅 Writer: Bri t.co/w2644A6Dv7

🇾🇪🇸🇦 Yemen's Saudi-backed government declares tribal gatherings in Houthi territory "legitimate military targets" and tells civilians to stay home The Defence Ministry's case is that the Houthis use tribal rallies and cultural events to recruit children and young men for the front, so the rallies themselves are now on the strike list. The warning comes with Saudi jets already hitting Saada's phone network and Ras Isa's fuel line. A tribal gathering in northern Yemen is a few hundred people, their elders and their kids. Targeting them is how a counterinsurgency ends up bombing the people it needs to win over, and the Houthis have run on exactly that grievance for twenty years. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel

🇮🇱 Israel just DETAINED a U.S. congressional nominee Israeli forces rounded up Brad Lander in the West Bank alongside rabbis, foreign activists, and Palestinian farmers during an olive harvest. The scale of the sweep is unbelievable. Troops detained over 40 foreign activists and dozens of Israeli citizens. This is a terrifying new pattern. Representative Ro Khanna was detained by Israeli forces in July. Washington needs to wake up. Writer: Bri t.co/ZGPEvVHf8e

🚨🇺🇸 Texas just shattered its early-voting records on day one... the Senate race Republicans haven't lost since 1994 is a toss-up Harris County beat its old midterm opening-day mark by 41,000 votes, Dallas topped even its 2020 presidential record, and Republican Collin County jumped 15,000 over 2022. Both parties showed up. Talarico leads Paxton 48-46 in the Hobby School poll and 47-45 in Marist, after raising $64 million last quarter to Paxton's $18 million. So Texas could actually go blue… two years after Trump carried it by 14 points. Nobody writing a 2026 preview in January had this on the board, and if Talarico pulls it off, Democrats suddenly have a real road to the Senate and every assumption about the electoral map goes straight in the trash. Source: Latin Times, AFP / Writer: Daniel

🇮🇱 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 The heavy Israeli fighter jet activity may not be another rehearsal this time... it could be the real thing. With the US Navy now holding far south in the Arabian Sea, Anthony Aguilar says the signs to watch are refueling tankers circling in fixed loops over the Persian Gulf near Kuwait and Iran’s air defense radars starting to light up: “This may not be another rehearsal. This could be the thing that they were rehearsing.” If those tankers start circling and the radars light up, the drills are over.

🚨🇺🇸 “Did you marry your brother?” should be the easiest question in politics... and Ilhan Omar somehow made it harder😅 Trump wasn't buying her response: “'Not to my knowledge'... that’s not a good answer. That’s an answer a lot of us assume.” With federal prosecutors reportedly holding her DNA, the country may soon get a much clearer answer than “not to my knowledge”… but when a simple “no, he’s not my brother” was right there and she didn’t say it, tells us everything we need to know. Writer: Daniel t.co/u4Sos3wSl8

🚨🇺🇸 Terrifying details emerging from the Oregon school shooting. Becky Drury, a teacher heard the gunfire and rushed to slam her classroom door shut. But the gunman was already there and shot her POINT BLANK. Her hand was nearly severed. She knew she was too badly injured to fight back or protect anyone else: “So, I did the only thing I could do, which was to pretend to be dead in the hope he would not shoot me again.” Three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher were killed 💔 The motive remains unclear. Source: NBC / Writer: Bri

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran's shadow tanker fleet is empty: the 90 million barrels it parked off Malaysia are gone and the blockade has cost Tehran $25 billion The floating reserve was the regime's bank account, crude ferried to Southeast Asia and sold to Chinese refiners two months at a time. Kpler says it hit zero in mid-October, China is buying from Brazil and West Africa instead, and the rial has lost a third against the dollar since July. Oil is 30 to 40% of Iran's budget. Credit the Navy: this is the one lever of the war that appears to have worked exactly as sold. Source: WSJ / Kpler / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Israel’s jet runs to Iran’s border could be rehearsals for air cover over a US backed Kurdish push into Iran. Anthony Aguilar admits he has no sources confirming it, but reading who’s deployed in the open, he points to CIA paramilitary officers and special forces still working in Iraq long after the official pullout: “We may have left with what you would consider conventional forces on the ground, but we have maintained special operations, clandestine operations.” Iran’s fresh drone strikes on Kurdish groups in Iraq suggest Tehran is already reading the map the same way.

🇺🇸 INSANE! El-Sayed wants to go back to the pre-9/11 system that let the hijackers in He says the U.S. doesn’t need ICE and can return to the old INS days when America was “a lot safer and more secure.” 9/11 happened under INS. That’s the reason Congress created ICE and the Department of Homeland Security in the first place. Several of the attackers were already in the immigration system the old agency was supposed to track. Writer: Lucas t.co/6IAKYzXi2d

They built a robot that can get run over, get back up, take out thieves with killer moves, and still have the energy to put on a light show… Comforted? Terrified? Yes. Writer: Bri t.co/QMbzn5kTQd

🚨🇺🇸 A protester got punched at Trump’s South Carolina rally, and the President immediately turned into a boxing announcer “WHO threw that PUNCH?” Then went right back to his speech without missing a beat. These rallies are becoming like hockey matches at this point😅 Writer: Daniel t.co/dG6upKWOPL

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 One reported strike on one Iranian missile site makes no sense as an opening move... which is why the embassy evacuations matter more than the explosion Iran hits a ship a day, so taking out a single launcher changes nothing and invites the disproportionate response Tehran has promised. Matthew suspects someone wanted Iran to fire back, and he doesn't think it was Washington. Matthew Hoh, former Marine and State Department officer, says the departure orders are the better signal: "I think you got a better than 50% odds that when the State Department evacuates people, something is going to happen." Iran skips Israel unless Israel strikes first and goes hunting the US fleet and the Gulf hosts instead. If Israel does join, both its refineries and its remaining ports go dark, and that is a price Netanyahu can run on. @WeTheBrandon @MatthewPHoh

🚨🇺🇸 Trump says the Vivek ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother "doesn't have anything to do with Vivek" “It’s a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much, but I don’t think that has anything to do with Vivek.” For the record, Vivek's campaign produced it and is spending $4 million to air it. Somebody let Trump walk onto this PR landmine completely unbriefed, two weeks before the midterms and on the most radioactive ad of the whole cycle. Someone on his team should be looking for a new job. With Acton up seven and Republicans across Ohio begging Vivek to pull it, the smart move was as much distance from this mess as possible. Writer: Daniel t.co/8wDQI7J3pW

Someone didn't finish the David and Goliath story and underestimated the underdog. Well…Goliath hit the floor hard… Writer: Bri t.co/xXnxnrN1ix

🇮🇷Iran is literally running the clock out on peace talks to tank Trump right before the midterms The regime is convinced that the U.S. will strike following the elections so they want to ensure the president suffers a political blow. “Iran is preparing for renewed Israeli and US attacks, not for a deal with America to end the war.” Trump has insisted the war will end soon but Iran is keeping the Strait completely jammed up and prepping for war. Source: NY Post / Writer: Bri

🚨🇺🇸 Ilhan Omar ANSWERS “NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE” when asked if she married her brother 🤨 Really?... That's your answer? One would think that making sure you aren't marrying a possible sibling would be at the TOP of the wedding- day checklist😅 Writer: Lucas, Daniel t.co/SJYqUQxcaI

🇧🇷 Eduardo Bolsonaro calls a packed Manaus rally a NIGHTMARE for the radical left!!! He shared a video of thousands in the Amazon capital backing Flávio. Hard to dismiss when the streets in Manaus fill up like that. INSANE 🔥 Writer: Lucas t.co/zbmnATMbdm

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The third US carrier group reportedly stopped in Japan to load up on bombs, and it’s due to link up near Iran around October 27, the day Israel votes. Retired Green Beret Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar says the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Makin Island, carrying the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, left San Diego on October 4 and pulled into Japan, home to major US weapons depots, under a cover story about training: “They stopped in Japan under the guise of a training mission to load up on a lot of ammunition.” Why haul that much firepower halfway around the world if nobody plans to use it?

Nice try with the decoy…thieves scroll TikTok for tips and tricks too 🤣 Writer: Bri t.co/wUMLtr3ym5

🚨🇷🇺 MASSIVE blasts reported in the Moscow area Unconfirmed footage shows huge fires exploding as alleged strikes tear through. Large explosions have occurred in the Moscow region multiple times over the past month due to increased Ukrainian drone attacks. Writer: Bri t.co/clGVIPCRuk

🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺 Kyiv is under another MISSILE STRIKE tonight, with explosions and damage across the city Russian ballistic missiles hit residential areas and infrastructure on the east side, injuring at least 6 people and keeping air alerts active for hours. Writer: Lucas t.co/gH2jCNjXct

VP Vance is greeted by Cincinnati Bengals TE Drew Samples The rest of the team didn't seem particularly impressed😅 t.co/E4qMgAOFAJ

🇲🇦🇮🇱 Morocco is reportedly closing a deal for Israel's David's Sling, a 300km missile shield that would need Trump's sign-off and would sit across the water from Ceuta and Melilla Rabat already runs Israeli Barak MX and Spyder batteries, is shopping for 400km LORA ballistic missiles, and has bought $2 billion in Israeli arms since the Abraham Accords. David’s Sling is a Raytheon co-production, so the sale runs through Washington, where Morocco signed a ten-year defense roadmap. Three months ago thousands of migrants poured into Ceuta in two days, at least 18 drowned, Spain sent in the army and Moroccan police stood by until it was over, the same lever Rabat pulled in 2021 to get its way on Western Sahara. Nobody has proven Morocco opened the gate, but Madrid acted like it believed it. A kingdom that can flood the border on command and shoot down what flies over it has two pressure points on Spain, and NATO has never said Article 5 covers either enclave. Source: El Español / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 🇶🇦 🇧🇭 🇰🇼 The Pentagon is weighing which Gulf bases to rebuild and which to walk away from... and US bases in the region may barely exist a decade from now. Trita Parsi expects a stretch of mutual denial, where Gulf states buy more American weapons to keep Washington calm while they spread their bets and build economic ties with Iran: “I find it extremely unlikely that 5 to 10 years from now, there will be many bases in the region by the United States.” Decades of American bases bought the Gulf its protection, and now the Gulf is shopping for a cheaper kind. @tparsi

🇺🇸 Trump says drug prices DROPPED 50-90%, DEI is gone, and every American kid got a seeded investment account The numbers line up with the deals and orders already signed, even if the exact savings vary by drug. The accounts are set up so parents can start building something for their kids from day one instead of waiting on another government program. Writer: Lucas t.co/vIuP9IpRY9

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 US embassies are ordering families out of Qatar, Jordan and Bahrain... and the next round on Iran may be 48 hours away, midterms or not Two Iranian missile sites were reportedly hit tonight, and the New York Times says Washington and Israel are preparing the big strikes for after November 3. Larry Johnson, former CIA, doesn't buy the wait, because the evacuation order is the real countdown: "They've issued the order for evacuation. So they want to get the people evacuated first." He doesn't think Iran hits Israel yet, but when it does he expects both of Israel's refineries, the ports at Haifa and Ashdod, and the airbases to go on the list, with Dimona added only if Iran's own nuclear sites are struck. Any Gulf state that hosts a launch becomes a target, so the countries with the most to lose are the ones Washington is about to use. @newsonof @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸Kid thought he was one tough guy...until a real one showed up. He went from AR swagger to “yes sir” in 0.2 seconds 🤣 Writer: Bri t.co/7tN3gRxQq6