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🇮🇷 🇮🇱 Iran has reportedly handed missile launch authority to commanders in 31 separate districts, each with backups buried in other locations. Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, says those commanders can fire on their own for the first 10 to 15 minutes of a war without waiting on Tehran, and that Israel badly underestimates what that means: “It doesn’t matter if you get half of them and they won’t get half of them because they’re all very well camouflaged and very deeply buried.” Decapitation strikes don’t work against a country that has already wired itself to keep fighting without a head.

🇺🇸 Georgia school bus OVERTURNS, reportedly with STUDENTS INSIDE A Rockdale County school bus, possibly carrying Salem High School football players and trainers, overturned in Georgia. Injuries have been reported, and at least two medical helicopters were said to be requested at the scene. The number or severity of injuries has not been confirmed. No word on what caused the accident, but the bus is MANGLED. Source: @CodyAlcorn, 11Alive / Writer: Marie t.co/noyMC4kQWv

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The White House confirms it: Iranian plots to kill American officials are in “advanced stages,” the threat is the highest of the war, and every indicator says the shooting restarts before the midterms Nearly every embassy in the Middle East is being emptied as a direct result of the intelligence, troops are off the bases in Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait, three carriers are closing on the Gulf, and US strikes have already hit IRGC launchers on the Hormuz coast three times this week without a word from CENTCOM. Trump’s promise was no attack before Nov. 3. The military is moving like that promise expired. Forget the post-election window everyone has been reporting. Washington doesn’t evacuate diplomats for a strike it plans to launch in three weeks; it does it for one it expects to answer for in mere days. The Guard, broke and down to speedboats and hit squads, has decided its best shot is to start the next round before America picks the time. Source: New York Times / CBS News / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Strikes on Iran look days away, and every warning sign is flashing at the same time. A senior US diplomat says strikes “absolutely” could come this weekend, Iraq’s prime minister has reportedly been told they’re coming, and Britain’s prime minister is reportedly calling Trump to talk him out of it. Iran has threatened the Gulf’s undersea cables, GPS in the UAE is being scrambled again, Israeli jets have flown to Iran’s border twice, and the West Bank is under lockdown. With this many signs pointing the same way, there’s very little time left to turn it around.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US is thinning out its embassies in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and the UAE days after ordering families out of Saudi Arabia State says the four posts stay open under "restricted operations" and nobody is being ordered home yet, which is one notch below the Riyadh evacuation and one notch above normal. The stated reason is the Houthis; the DNI's memo to Rubio the same day said Iranian plots to kill American officials abroad have reached "advanced stages." Troops have been pulled off bases in Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait since Wednesday. The diplomats are now following them, and this is the exact sequence Washington ran in the last week of February before the first strikes fell. Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel

🏀🇷🇺 Go for a layup, get punched in the jaw. HoopKnockout is all the rage in Russia! 🥊 Writer: Marie t.co/yJ76dzofBU

🇺🇲"The Experts" takes aim at the WAR ON DRUGS and the MANIPULATION of public opinion In the 44-minute pilot, a fictional PR firm deploys propaganda, spyware, and false-flag tactics to stop cannabis legalization in Texas. Co-created by and starring Kurt Metzger, the episode also features Jimmy Dore and Ryan Long, with Bryan Callen directing. The real joke? Those writing the public narrative have a story to sell. Source: @KurtMetzger @JimmyDore / Writer: Marie

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli forces reportedly launched a LARGE-SCALE military raid into Hebron in the occupied West Bank overnight. Military vehicles are moving through the city's streets as reports emerge of a major Israeli operation. Source: RoyaNewsEnglish (YT) / Writer: Sol t.co/Qd038annLQ

🚨🇺🇸 The dad who stopped the Oregon school shooter heard children pleading for their lives as he army crawled toward the classroom Kaylub Giamanco was driving home for lunch when he saw a teenager shoot at a pickup truck and a woman mowing the school lawn, so he grabbed the handgun in his truck. He told the 911 dispatcher he couldn’t stay on the line: “I’m sorry, I have to go in... People are going to die.” He crawled through a shattered window, found a teacher wrestling the shooter in a special education classroom, and fired before laying his gun down for police. His account of those few minutes is something every parent should watch. Source: OPB / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇺🇸 The surest sign a new election cycle has started? Democrats are blaming Elon for their mail again😅 James Talarico says every scary mailer and text Texans got about him traces back to one man: “ Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas.” Meanwhile, students across Texas are getting a transgender resource guide from a group nobody can find, with a return address that leads to a UPS Store... Talarico raised $64 million in a single quarter, so he’s hardly running on bake sale money. So by Talarico’s own logic, those mystery trans mailers nobody wants to claim must be the work of him and Soros... see how easy it is to blame a billionaire for your mail? Source: CBS Texas / Writer: Daniel

🇩🇪🇮🇷🇾🇪 Germany tells Iran and the Houthis to BACK OFF global shipping disruptions. German FM Wadephul accused Tehran and the Houthis of using maritime chokepoints to pressure the world economy, condemning attacks that threaten energy, fertilizer, and other vital supplies. He emphasized the risks facing the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian pressure and the threats to Bab el-Mandeb by Houthi attacks. Disruptions to either route can drive up shipping costs and put global supplies at risk. The comments came ahead of talks in Istanbul with European and regional partners. Germany is stepping up for the West; who else is following? Source: DW News, Fed. Foreign Office / Writer: Marie t.co/ELaPFGE0SS

🇱🇧 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Hezbollah is showing signs of mobilizing... and Iran's whole axis may be gearing up for its own final act. The Houthis keep pushing across the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq's Shiite militias look poised for something big, and Hezbollah has spent years stockpiling precision guided missiles underground, waiting for Israel to get stretched across Iran, Gaza and the West Bank: "I think they were consolidating, waiting for the final moment to drop the hammer." If all of them move together, Israel's election week gets a lot longer. @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸 Joe Rogan is wondering whether AI could eventually BREAK the internet's security systems, and he's got one particularly terrifying question: What happens to your money? Discussing reports of a massive security vulnerability dating back 14 years, Rogan hears about warnings involving counterfeit websites and an FBI advisory urging organizations to protect themselves. Then he takes the nightmare scenario even further. AI could eventually crack encryption, he speculates, making passwords completely USELESS. And with so much of the world's money sitting online, Rogan sees a pretty terrifying future if that ever happens. Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that your password is about as useful as leaving your front door wide open. Source: JRE (YT) / Writer: Sol

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇺 The CIA is openly recruiting Cubans with a Spanish-language guide on contacting the agency without getting caught, as Trump tells a Florida rally US warships will “stop about 50 yards off” Cuba on the way home from Iran The guide covers burner devices, stripping everything but a browser and a VPN, a fresh email, and avoiding VPNs based in Cuba, Russia, Iran or China, then asks for city, job and level of access. Langley ran the same playbook against Russia and China. Rubio, whose family left the island, posted that “now is the time.” Trump’s rally version ended with the Cubans raising their hands and Rubio flying in to “finish up the deal.” That isn’t how Havana falls. Cuba has no Maduro to grab in a night raid, its military runs the economy through GAESA and has nowhere to go if the regime goes, and the CIA guide exists because Washington knows it needs insiders to split first. The real bet is that nine months of watching Venezuela, plus a US fleet idling offshore after Iran, convinces a colonel in Havana that the losing side is the one he’s on. Source: AP / Writer: Daniel

🇸🇦 Saudi-led forces allegedly DOWNED a Houthi BALLISTIC MISSILE targeting Riyadh. A Saudi spox. claimed the Kingdom’s air defenses destroyed the missile before it could reach the capital. How much longer can the Houthis test the Saudis...what's the end game? Source: @CJFCSpox, Times of Israel / Writer: Marie

🇺🇸 Texas sues Sam Altman and OpenAI to ban ChatGPT for minors statewide... the ninth state in a month to say the company put growth ahead of kids Paxton’s complaint says ChatGPT was sold as safe while coaching children toward self-harm and unhealthy attachment, and it asks a court to require an independent safety check before any new model reaches Texans. Eight states, red and blue, filed the same week; Florida sued in June; dozens of private suits allege the bot helped users plan violence. Arizona’s filing says ChatGPT nudged teens to hide conversations from their parents, and Common Sense Media found OpenAI’s new teen protections don’t work and told the company to pull kids off entirely. Altman’s answer is that rules should cover “the entire AI industry.” Meta said the same before writing an $18 billion check in August. A company that lets its own agents hack other firms and can’t tell a 12-year-old from an adult has forfeited the benefit of the doubt, and Texas just put the burden of proof where it belongs. Source: Politico / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 Migrants heading to the US are being KILLED for their organs by criminal networks operating along migration routes. Investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller told Andrew Gold about meeting a man linked to the Gulf Cartel in Colombia, nicknamed “The Deboner,” who claimed he targeted vulnerable migrants, sometimes buying their organs and MURDERING others to harvest them. She initially doubted his story, until he showed her a disturbing video that appeared to show an organ being removed from a body. Her team decided NOT TO AIR IT. Van Zeller stressed she couldn't independently prove the footage showed organ trafficking. And the sickest part? The man targeted migrants because they could disappear on their way to America without anyone noticing. Source: @_pblankNews / Writer: Sol

🇵🇹🇸🇦 Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated what he thought was career goal No. 982, only for some football statistics platforms to CREDIT IT AS AN OWN GOAL. The Al Nassr superstar headed in a cross from João Félix, but the ball deflected off Al Faisaly defender Andrei Girotto before crossing the line. Opta, SofaScore, and Flashscore credited Girotto with the own goal, sparking confusion over Ronaldo's countdown to 1,000. But the Saudi Pro League and the referee's official report kept the goal under Ronaldo's name 💀 Writer: Sol t.co/3mcLHdhkD1

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 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