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🇨🇳 🇯🇵 China is already halfway through its own version of Japan’s lost decades, just without the crash that would make everyone notice. Monetary analyst Jeffrey Snider says every five year plan out of Beijing boils down to one question: “How do we get from where we are today, which is an economy that’s slowly, slowly being strangled and withering to sometime in the future where we’re leading the fourth Industrial Revolution?” Betting a whole economy on technology that doesn’t exist yet leaves Beijing hoping the future shows up before the bill does. @JeffSnider_EDU

🇺🇸 Am I the only one who had no idea what “Midnight Ballerina” means? She got me with, “I danced full-time up until I was 8 and a half months pregnant!” $20K a month?! Please tell me more about the gender gap and pay equity… Writer: Jamie t.co/y6ZyzjGqjc

🎃🦦🇺🇸 If this isn’t one of the cutest things you’ve seen all weekend, you incapable of being loved by anyone! Writer: Jamie t.co/Twr2tDVrMM

🇸🇦🇾🇪 Riyadh reopened two terminals at its airport Saturday night and the Houthis answered within hours: it's still a target, and anyone who flies from it does so at their own risk That is the shape of this war now. The Houthis hit what Saudi Arabia can't function without, the airport that killed 13 and wounded 300 on Oct. 10, the Aramco tower, the Dammam terminal, and Riyadh answers by trying to break the siege of Taiz and bombing fuel lines in Saada. Reuters has the kingdom betting on a ground counteroffensive after the Houthis grabbed Red Sea coastline last month; the WSJ has IRGC officers sitting in Yemen choosing the Saudi targets. Each side is going after the other's lifeline, and neither has cut it. Here's the problem for Riyadh. A capital whose airport reopens under a standing threat is a capital that has already lost control of its own airspace, and Patriots fired at $20,000 drones are a trade the kingdom cannot keep making with a US stockpile that won't recover before 2030. Britain's Typhoons just deployed to help, and CBS says Washington is only now weighing whether to fly cover for the Saudis. So the real forecast: the Houthis will keep hitting Riyadh's airport until either American jets show up over Saada or Riyadh's own offensive takes the Taiz-Aden road and gives Tehran a reason to stop. The first of those is a decision for Trump, and he's about to spend his carriers on Iran instead. Source: Reuters / WSJ / Writer: Daniel

🌦️🌪️ If you’re tired of all of the videos of humans causing destruction and chaos across the world, fear not! Here’s a video of Mother Nature destroying human shit in the most brutal ways. Writer: Jamie t.co/mi4Xexoa9m

🚨🇮🇱 Tuesday may be the most consequential election in Israel's history, and the 100,000 people in Hostages Square tonight know why: the world has stopped giving Israel the benefit of the doubt The rally was about an inquiry into Oct. 7 that Netanyahu has blocked for three years, and the voices were bereaved fathers and freed hostages. But the subtext in the square was bigger than one commission. It was the sense, said plainly by a first-time voter to AFP, that Israel has to change how the world sees it, and that Tuesday is the last clean chance to do that from the inside. Years of war in Gaza, Lebanon and now Iran have done something no enemy managed: they turned ordinary public opinion in Israel's closest ally against it. AIPAC quit endorsing candidates this week because its name costs votes. A Democrat leading the Michigan Senate race calls Israel a friend who takes your money and starts your fights, and his numbers WENT UP. The prime minister is campaigning on finishing Iran "together" with a president at 31% whose own voters are done with the war. Fair or not, that bill doesn't stop at Israel's border. And as unfair as it is... Jews in Paris, London and on American campuses get judged for decisions made in Jerusalem that they had no part in, and they’re the ones who absorb the hostility when Israel’s conduct goes wrong. The world's message has been delivered loudly enough: change how you fight in Gaza, change how you treat Lebanon, change the assumption that Washington will always write the check. A Netanyahu win promises the “job to finish” with Iran and another year of the same verdict from the same crowds abroad, and that verdict falls on Jews who never cast a ballot in Israel. Tuesday is the day Israelis decide what the rest of the Jewish world has to answer for next. Source: Times of Israel / AFP

🇨🇳 Chinese banks have stopped lending and are piling into government bonds instead. Loans have shrunk to record lows this year, and Jeffrey Snider traces the slide back to 2008, when China bet everything on being the factory floor for customers who eventually stopped buying: “It’s no longer just an economic problem in China. It has become a banking problem in China.” Banks that won’t lend are telling you exactly how much they trust the economy around them. @JeffSnider_EDU

🔥🇺🇸 BURNING BUSHES IN TEXAS! Neil Bush, the underachieving son of late President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, and brother of former President George W. Bush, has gone rogue and thrown his underappreciated support behind Democrat Talarico for the Senate! George Jr’s daughter, Barbara Bush Jr., has also donated to a PAC behind Talarico. Might be time to prune the Bushes! Source: Fox News / Writer: Jamie

🇺🇸Tesla FSD saved a driver from an UNHINGED trucker. A reckless truck driver tried forcing a car into a concrete divider until self driving AI instantly dodged the crash. This is why we ride with Tesla. Worth every penny for safety alone. Writer: Bri t.co/XpwfkXSArW

🇺🇸✈️ Can you imagine how different your life would be if you had grown up in something like this? You'd automatically be the coolest kid on the block. Minus the kid’s room in the belly of the plane… it really gives kidnapping-victim vibes. Everything else is top-notch! Writer: Jamie t.co/gxwPkK8p5F

🇺🇸⚾ Nothing to see here but a couple of off-season MLB players chowing down on baby dinosaur ribs ahead of tonight’s World Series Game 2 in Milwaukee. Writer: Jamie t.co/Esuve89UUb

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 The idea that China would overtake the US economy died back in 2008... most people just never noticed. Monetary analyst Jeffrey Snider says the mainstream is roughly 15 years late, because the property collapse, the growth plateau and a factory model that hit its ceiling were all sitting in plain sight: “The idea that China was going to overtake the US died in 2008.” Anyone still bracing for a Chinese takeover is planning around an economy that stopped growing into that role a long time ago. @JeffSnider_EDU

🔥🇺🇸 He may not have been the best American President, but damn, I hate to admit it, but Obama might have the quote of the year with this one: “There’s gold everywhere… what’s up with the gold?! He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory!” He’s not wrong about all the gold… It’s becoming excessive. Writer: Jamie t.co/aYnikgRfvm

🚨🇺🇸 Gunfire erupts outside a Florida A&M homecoming party, with multiple people reportedly shot near the football stadium Shots rang out around 9:45 Saturday night on Perry Street near Bragg Memorial Stadium, and police still haven't said how many were hit or how badly. FAMU says its hearts go out to the victims and insists the campus is safe, but it's asking everyone to stay away while Tallahassee police work the scene. Source: New York Post / Writer: Daniel t.co/rfoXtzpMdM

🇪🇸 Spain apparently felt left out, so it decided to join the riot party. MASSIVE looting and chaos is now burning through Barcelona. Writer: Bri t.co/GI2AxUhbZs

🇺🇸🇫🇷 Tim Dillon: “France has this great history of protest, and young people were like, ‘hey, we gotta do something here!’ Then I think some other groups joined in. It could have been some of the younger migrant types, and some of the left-wing anarchists jump in.” He’s right! These marches always start out with the best of intentions but ultimately attract the worst of the worst opportunists. Source: TimDillonShow (YT) / Writer: Jamie

🚨🇺🇸 Shooting near Florida A&M's Bragg Stadium in Tallahassee, with multiple victims and police telling everyone to clear the area Tallahassee police say the number of people hit and how badly isn't known yet. FAMU put out a shelter-in-place alert for Perry Street and says campus itself is secure; Florida State told its students across town to stay indoors as a precaution. No suspect description and no word on whether anyone is in custody. Source: WTXL / Writer: Daniel t.co/4dyFjIPBqy

I don’t watch @WWE that often… but watching Big Mami plow into @karmen_wwe, and the way she just flew like a rag doll, gave me life! 🤣 I hope she’s okay! Writer: Jamie t.co/F2AJabpdV0

🇺🇸🐦 You know this guy thinks he’s the most badass mf’er on the planet! If this happened to any one of my friends, I would never have heard the end of it! We would hear this story as often as Trump’s weightlifting bullshit! I hope this never happens to any of my friends! Now me, on the other hand… Writer: Jamie t.co/ModFejxePH

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's chief negotiator cancels his trip to New Delhi before the BRICS forum opens Monday... citing "unforeseen circumstances" Ghalibaf is the speaker of parliament and the man who leads Iran’s talks with Washington. If anyone in Tehran had a good reason to be abroad this week, it was him. The forum runs Oct. 26-27 and Iran is sending a delegation without him. Nobody has explained why. Tehran expects to be bombed. The supreme leader hasn’t been seen in public since the strike that killed his father in February. So the simplest reading is that Iran’s leadership is staying put and out of sight until it knows what Washington is going to do. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Even hawks like Rubio may now see the Iran war as a mistake... and no one around the president wants to be the one to say it. Professor David Gibbs says the people closest to this war are scared of what comes next, which leaves the White House in a place where bad calls go unchallenged: "It's just a very toxic environment that makes it very vulnerable to miscalculations." Wars rarely end well when the people who know better keep their mouths shut.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's chief negotiator cancels his trip to New Delhi before the BRICS forum opens Monday... citing "unforeseen circumstances" Ghalibaf is the speaker of parliament and the man who leads Iran’s talks with Washington. If anyone in Tehran had a good reason to be abroad this week, it was him. The forum runs Oct. 26-27 and Iran is sending a delegation without him. Nobody has explained why. Tehran expects to be bombed. The same Fars report that called the attack certain said that if US strikes kill Iranian officials, American politicians become targets. The supreme leader hasn’t been seen in public since the strike that killed his father in February. So the simplest reading is that Iran’s leadership is staying put and out of sight until it knows what Washington is going to do. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel

🇫🇷 Some of these protests have better cosplay than a comic book convention! Writer: Jamie t.co/8raqRBBuOA

🇺🇸 @joerogan shared his experiences coming up in Hollywood in the 90s... Definitely doesn't sound like an experience I would have enjoyed. The fame just doesn't seem worth it. Writer: Jamie t.co/JIr9qKngiC

🇮🇳⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ A group of trans “dancers” in India were upset when police failed to act on an issue, presumably due to their condition. They protested by taking to the streets and using their "talents", and a lot of other things that are hard to unsee! 😳 Writer: Jamie t.co/HuB2pSZ1Vj

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump says America is making “hundreds of billions of dollars” off the war in the Middle East... with gas over $4 and 70% of voters saying they’re WORSE off than last year To be fair... there’s real money behind it, since America is now the world’s top oil and gas producer and every spike sends export cash to Texas and the Gulf Coast. The problem is that money ends up with PRODUCERS, while Americans are paying more for basically everything and the Pentagon has already burned through more than $45 billion on the war. Ten days out, voters are going to vote with their wallets, and “the country is making money” is a tough sell to the guy chewing his fingernails watching the meter as he fills his truck, or the mom wincing at the register over her groceries. Writer: Daniel t.co/viy2FRnl6c

🇪🇸 She only took enough coffee from Starbucks to get her through until all this unrest in Spain passes. She'll totally go back and pay for it once they reopen after the repairs. I’m fairly sure she will, maybe… Writer: Jamie t.co/BzvOs3Ch0W

🇮🇱 🇮🇷 One regional commander firing by mistake could set off a chain reaction that ends with nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Professor David Gibbs walks through how fast the dominoes fall once that first shot goes out, and the worst case starts with Israel reaching for tactical nukes: "If Israel were to launch even tactical nuclear weapons, that would be Iran's response. And that would be a terrible, horrific event." The only exit left is a deal both sides can live with, even if neither gets to call it a win.

🔥🇺🇸 UPDATE: The prayers to Wilford Brimley worked, everybody! The fire sparked after an explosion at the Quaker Oats factory in Cedar Rapids has been brought under control. The patron saint of oats and soggy warm cereals comes through yet again! Writer: Jamie t.co/cHt1pp9cs1

Getting dizzy just watching this😅 But man those drums never missed a beat! Writer: Bri t.co/ZWf9NcbPrG