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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran is threatening to cut the undersea cables that serve US military bases in the Gulf, covert ones included. Iranian security officials told Reuters the cables would be hit in a way that blocks repairs, and GPS signals in the UAE are being scrambled again for the first time in months. Less than 1% of global internet bandwidth runs through Hormuz, so the world stays online while the region slows to a crawl. The real damage would land on the US bases and Gulf banks wired into those lines. @WeTheBrandon

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Trump says Iran is faking the tanker attacks to spike oil before the midterms... and the independent counts just came back: October is the BLOODIEST month in Hormuz since the war started Twenty-eight confirmed strikes on ships this month, 113 since February by the Washington Institute's tally, 120 by the IMO's, 135 by UKMTO's, which says crews have mostly stopped calling them in. Reuters ran the fleet math: 1 in every 28 supertankers on the planet has taken a hit in this war... With 12 days to the midterms and insurers pricing every one of those strikes into the oil at $117, the real question is whether the White House keeps calling the attacks fake or finally makes stopping them the price of any deal with Tehran. Source: Reuters / Al Jazeera / UKMTO / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇲 BIG BETS ON AI MAKE INVESTORS NERVOUS Wall Street’s AI investment boom is under pressure as investors question whether tech giants can justify the billions they’re pouring into AI. U.S. stocks closed lower Friday, capping a rough week. Investors are now looking to next week’s earnings from Google, Microsoft, and Amazon for clues about how much more they plan to spend on AI, and if it pays off. Wall Street's worried AI’s profits won't catch up with its promises. Source: Reuters / Writer: Marie

🇮🇱🇯🇴🇸🇾 Syria's Druze refused to give up their guns after the beheadings... and a Jordanian scholar of jihadism says only Israel came for them Dan Burmawi, a Jordanian-born analyst who studies jihadist ideology, asks who radicalized the gunmen behind a reported ISIS attack on a Jordanian church today, if Israeli policy explains everything. Dan says this is a religious war against Israel and the West that has been running for 14 centuries: "Israel has been under attack since 1948. Not because of what Israel does, but because of who Israel is." He says the new Syrian government distributes Ibn Taymiyyah, whose rulings condemn the Druze even if they convert, which is why the Druze kept their weapons after the massacre and why Israel was the only country that stepped in. He also says Israel's survival now rests on Jordan and Egypt staying stable, so the real existential threat is either government cracking, which would leave the region's minorities with nobody between them and the men who wrote the fatwas. @DanBurmawy @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇲 Guy lost a bet with a 49ers fan 🏈 Writer: Marie t.co/p29zq0Z22q

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 Americans are reportedly traveling to Mexico to buy organs on the BLACK MARKET, and some don't even want to know where those organs came from. Investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller told Andrew Gold that she interviewed a doctor working for a cartel who claimed most of his organ trafficking clients were Americans. She also met an American who admitted buying a pancreas illegally. When she asked whether someone might have been MURDERED to obtain it, his response was chilling: “If this was your child, what would you do?” He told her he preferred NOT TO KNOW whose pancreas it was. Source: @_pblankNews / Writer: Sol

🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇸 A possible Trump-Netanyahu deal holds the Iran strike until after Israel votes on Tuesday... and a war after the US midterms lands right in the middle of Netanyahu's coalition talks Israel's election looks headed for a deadlock between the two blocs, and the fastest way to move opposition parties into Netanyahu's camp is a country back at war. Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, former IDF intelligence officer, is hearing that Trump and Netanyahu struck a deal, with the plans on ice for days, not cancelled: "There's going to be a massive escalation in Iran very soon, but it's not going to be before the elections." Striking before the vote would look like an election stunt and could backfire, and Shaiel flatly rejects the idea that the election gets suspended at all. He says the IDF has no plan beyond hitting and blockading until something snaps, and that Israel's own intelligence reads the regime as sturdier than before the war. @academic_la @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Iraq's prime minister has reportedly been told a US strike on Iran is coming in days. A senior US diplomat says it could happen this weekend, Trump laughed it off, and Britain's prime minister reportedly called him with concerns while leaders around him scramble to change his mind. Washington and Baghdad both warned Iraq's Iran backed militias to stay out, which may be wishful thinking: "And I think that's almost a guarantee that that's going to happen." Once they move, Iraq stops being a bystander. @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸🔥 This perfectly captures the current state of affairs in the U.S. Even America’s Pastime could give a flying f*ck at this point! Politics, groceries, bills, and gas prices are the only games Americans really care about watching and winning. Good Game! Writer: Jamie t.co/S8PveziBqm

🇺🇸 AOC’s “tax the rich” campaign spent $47,000 on 45 upscale hotel stays since April... including $5,044 at a Memphis boutique with an animal themed rooftop bar To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the revolution travels four star. Every single stay was at a hotel ranked luxury, upscale or upper upscale, according to FEC filings, with roughly another $5,000 spent on limos and chauffeurs. A GOP candidate who fled Cuba with his parents had a name for it: “She’s a champagne communist.” To be fair, the bills covered her whole team, but $24 million of her haul came from donors giving under $200, so plenty of $20 checks are now paying for rooftop bars... Source: New York Post / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Tucker wants to know how much the Iran war is REALLY costing Americans. The researcher and analyst Stephen Semler estimates the first 60 days alone cost the US a staggering $72 BILLION, including military operations, replacing expended munitions, damaged bases, and aid to Israel. And that's before the broader economic damage. Semler cites a Moody's analysis suggesting the average American household paid roughly $2,000 MORE because of war-driven inflation and higher fuel prices. He also accuses the Pentagon of withholding a complete accounting, claiming its publicly released figures leave out major expenses. Source: TCNetwork / Writer: Sol

🚨🇺🇲 Albany State University is on LOCKDOWN The Georgia college is on high alert after an alleged suspect in an off-campus domestic violence incident reportedly ran toward the school. A university alert sent out to students advised them to stay inside and warned that the suspect is ARMED. This story is developing…stay safe, ASU!! Source: WALB / Writer: Marie

🇫🇷 The City of Light is becoming the City of Metal Barricades… Will all of Europe’s shops look like this in the future? Writer: Marie t.co/9s7WEQtbO8

🇮🇹 Football ultras TOOK OVER the streets of a northern Italian town after social media threats warned of Milan-style riots, and the people supposedly planning the chaos NEVER SHOWED UP. Following recent unrest in Milan, anonymous messages called for trouble in Lecco, near the famous city. Local football ultras responded by flooding the town square, ready to confront anyone who came looking for a fight. Funny how the rioters seem to show up only when there's nobody willing to stand up to them. Writer: Sol t.co/28aHjANc7l

🇮🇷🇺🇸 14 Russian military cargo planes reportedly landed in Tehran in the last 24 hours as Brent SPIKED to $117... and the window for a US strike before the midterms may close this weekend Washington has now pulled embassy families from seven countries, another anti ship launcher on Iran's coast reportedly went up tonight without CENTCOM saying a word, and the account tracking those hits says they're isolated strikes on imminent threats, not the opening of a new operation. Larry Johnson, former CIA, puts a clock on it: "I think he'll do it before Sunday. If he doesn't do it Sunday, then I don't think it will happen before the midterms." Larry says the Russian flights are supposedly bringing air defense in and flying diplomats out. He’s told Saudi royals, including MBS’s immediate relatives, are leaving on charters now priced 50% higher. Iran’s 31 regional commanders are cleared to fire at will, and they answered the last decapitation attempt within 90 minutes, which he expects to be quicker this time. If the weekend passes quiet, the next real date is November 4... and Oman is already shutting a US base. @NewSonof

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The US has poured a staggering $352 BILLION into Israel since its founding, and Tucker wants to know where all that taxpayer money is going. Researcher Stephen Semler explains that Israel receives $3.3 BILLION annually through a program that essentially lets it buy weapons using American taxpayer dollars. Tucker's reaction? “Why would we just send the money to Lockheed then?” And Semler challenges the argument that military aid creates American jobs. He points out that between 1985 and 2021, US arms industry employment fell from 3.1 MILLION to 1.1 MILLION, even as annual military spending increased by nearly $300 BILLION in inflation-adjusted terms. More military spending, TWO MILLION fewer defense industry jobs. Semler argues that weapons manufacturers are ultimately focused on PROFITS, while American taxpayers keep footing the bill. Source: TCNetwork / Writer: Sol

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 America’s top general can legally BYPASS Hegseth and tell Trump to call off the Iran strike... Colin Powell did it twice and won both times, and nobody expects Dan Caine to try Larry says Goldwater Nichols lets the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs walk past the Pentagon straight into the Oval Office, and Powell did it to Cheney during the 1992 LA riots, with the caveat that a president can still refuse the meeting. Col. Larry Wilkerson, Powell's former chief of staff, says the law is sitting there unused: "That's what Caine should do. If he really feels that this is a terrible decision and it should stop." He adds the chairman should bring Trump a way to wind it down without losing face, and he doubts the current one has the knowledge or the nerve. On the other side, Iran has handed 31 district commanders their own missiles and standing orders to fire without waiting for Tehran, with backups in separate locations, so even a strike that kills half of them leaves enough to wreck Haifa and the Tel Aviv complex. The cleanest off ramp runs through one general's office, and the door is closed.

A bizarre video shows the iPhone Duo being put through a pretty WILD drop test with a Mous protective case Writer: Sol t.co/MAvd31hBtz

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Tucker explores why the Iran war is America’s LEAST POPULAR EVER Foreign policy analyst Stephen Semler: “It’s the most unpopular war since polling began… The Economist and YouGov polled Americans…13% points more people opposed the war than supported it. And over time it’s only gotten more unpopular.” “No New Wars” has been replaced by “war nobody wanted.” That's gonna leave a midterm mark... Source: @TCNetwork / Writer: Marie

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 US intelligence warns Iran has "substantially increased" plots to kill American officials abroad and some are in "advanced stages"... embassies in five countries are now being emptied The Director of National Intelligence reportedly put it in a one-page memo to Rubio and the CIA chief, saying the warning needs to reach more personnel than are currently cleared to see it. State followed by cutting staff in the UAE, Lebanon, Qatar and Jordan after ordering families out of Saudi Arabia Wednesday. The memo names no targets or countries. Trump's line at a recent Florida rally was "we may do another little Operation Epic Fury." Tehran's reply is apparently already in motion, aimed at the diplomats, and the one time this administration pulled embassy staff this fast was the week before February 28... Source: Axios / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 Speed might be one of the very best to come out of his VERY interesting generation! Dude realizes the importance of connection and kindness! Look how far it has gotten him… Let's start paying attention to more people like him… the world needs it right now! Writer: Jamie t.co/4bqL4Z407q

😻Because who doesn't love some toe beans and cheek nibbles on a Friday?! Writer: Jamie t.co/qY3yVgU1fJ

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The IRGC puts out footage of missiles hitting two supertankers on the US-protected southern route, with one shown dead in the water from an engine-room strike No ship is named and no owner has confirmed a hit, but it's the first picture Tehran has offered of the seven tankers it claims this week, and it shows light anti-ship missiles, the same weapons US strikes reportedly took off the coast at Sirik and Bandar Lengeh. Writer: Daniel t.co/2D8xHZIikI

🇹🇼 TAIWAN IS GETTING HAMMERED by Typhoon Champi, with massive waves reaching up to 26 FEET along the island's eastern coast. At least one person has died, 94 were reported injured in an early count, and more than 77,000 households lost power, with nearly 20,000 still in the dark as of 2 PM. The storm has also forced nearly 1,000 flight cancellations and the evacuation of 1,286 people, while schools, offices, and transport services face major disruptions. Champi reached SUPER TYPHOON strength before weakening as it approached Taiwan, but the footage of enormous waves smashing into coastal infrastructure is absolutely terrifying. And the island is still dealing with the aftermath of its powerful winds and dangerous seas. Writer: Sol t.co/suuxuHgFjV

🚨🇺🇸 $386 million against $158 million in the Texas Senate race, and the Democrat being outspent still leads by 6... the Republican money isn't buying what it used to In Florida, Byron Donalds spent $100 million and watched his favorability fall from 46 to 37, while David Jolly has led or tied in six of the last eight polls for governor, by Rick's count. Rick Wilson, Lincoln Project co founder who spent his career making attack ads, says the weapon has gone dull: "I don't know that money is doing what it used to do." His firm's data has the hard core MAGA base at 15 to 18% of Republicans, a growing share of the rest now call themselves non MAGA Republicans, and many plan to stay home. Rick's warning for the winners: if Democrats take Congress and keep a baseline war on Iran going to protect Israel, they get slaughtered in 2028. @TheRickWilson @wethebrandon

🇺🇸 Navy SEALs ride flooded mini subs through pitch darkness for up to 14 hours, and it’s as miserable as it sounds SEAL Delivery Vehicles fill with seawater the moment they leave the submarine, so the crew rides fully underwater the entire time, packed into a cramped tube and breathing through gear that leaves no bubbles behind. Your body keeps losing heat for hours, even in warm water, so a long ride feels like being stuck in a freezer full of seawater until the job is done. SEAL divers spent FOUR MONTHS clearing Iran’s mines from Hormuz, possibly with SDV help, and some of us still whine when the gym pool is a little chilly😅 Writer: Daniel t.co/eWgHBDwtr8

🇺🇸 In 2024, @NickJFuentes warned Republicans against voting for Trump, he reiterated his reasoning by going down a laundry list of questionable activities by the administration: “This is exactly what I’ve been talking about, and I said it last week; it went viral. I specifically said last week this entire Trump administration is a crime scene. This is a systemic illness. It’s not like it’s isolated. It’s not like all the departments and agencies are basically good, but you’ve got one or two isolated cases of bad behavior. This is a systemic problem.” He brings up some very valid instances that should probably be investigated, but likely won’t be under this Justice Department, or Congress for that matter. Writer: Jamie t.co/5zMxO8OdsD

🇺🇲 A rainbow over Air Force One… It’s a good look 🫶 Writer: Marie t.co/JVQ6u2VAtG

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iraq’s prime minister is reportedly briefed on a US attack within days and Britain’s leader is on the phone to Trump... while Iran tells Reuters it has full access to the Gulf’s internet cables Baghdad has reportedly been told it’s coming, London is calling to raise concerns, and the people close to the decision say it’s already made. What’s left is whether anyone talks Trump out of it. Tehran’s answer is to widen the target list. Two Iranian security officials told Reuters the cables running to military bases, including covert ones, would be hit in ways built to block repairs: “There will be no more red lines.” Reuters notes under 1% of international bandwidth runs through Hormuz, so the Gulf eats that pain first, and it’s already eating the oil: Iran claims two supertankers were struck today and the UAE closed beaches over a slick, on the same day Washington insisted Gulf exports beat pre war levels. Israel is opening its own front, with Netanyahu closing Hebron after two soldiers were killed and ordering a full West Bank lockdown prepared, while Hezbollah shows signs of mobilizing and Ron Lauder tells Israelis “you’re losing everything because of stupidity.” Every leader in the chain is now on the phone with Trump, and the only question left is whether anyone gets through before the aircraft do. @WeTheBrandon