Mario Nawfal

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran reportedly ordered a new campaign on shipping to keep oil high through the US midterms... and the Gulf is bracing for the next round of war Two senior Iranian officials told Reuters the shift was approved at the top about ten days ago, with more frequent strikes and plans to push into the Gulf of Oman, while a US official says IRGC spotters on small boats are filling in for destroyed radars. Qatar's emir told citizens to prepare for the worst, Israel warned Hezbollah to stay out of an Iran fight, and Trump said what comes next for Tehran is worth waiting for: "Wait till you see what we do to Iran." The Houthis are reportedly building 2,000 km missiles with Chinese parts, Aramco's headquarters reportedly burned across several floors, and Saudi Arabia's $9 billion in new Patriots still can't cover a country three times the size of Texas. Every pressure point is red at once, and the midterms are 20 days out. @WeTheBrandon

🇰🇵 NORTH KOREA FIRES TWO TYPES OF MISSILES FROM A SUBMARINE 👀 State media says the strategic cruise missiles were tested off the east coast on Wednesday. “Strategic” is the word to watch. It suggests that they could eventually carry nuclear warheads. But North Korea isn’t believed to have a modern missile submarine in full operation yet, and Pyongyang gave NO details on the missiles or the launch platform either. Sub-launched cruise missiles can fly beneath radar systems. Once Kim Jong Un solves the submarine problem, a nuclear warhead can sit off any coastline with ZERO warning. Source: Reuters / Writer: Bri

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Some hardliners are getting TOO DRUNK on power. An Israeli think tank says the country should DITCH THE U.S. because it’s a DECLINING POWER. The paper, from Tel Aviv University’s INSS, treats American backing as temporary, calls Arab states artificial and fair game for destabilization, and prefers preventive war over peace. It also ranks Jewish identity above democracy. Beyond how controversial the thesis sounds, it’s a hard bet. American military aid has been the backbone of Israel’s edge for decades, and Turkey sits inside NATO with the alliance’s second-largest army. And also, we have to consider the brand new Mecca Alliance added to the equation, which includes Pakistan's nuclear power. Walking away from the patron while neighbors stay inside the system is a strange way to stay a regional power. Source: Institute for National Security Studies / Writer: Lucas

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Russian diesel is now expected to reach American pumps before Election Day Russian fuel could start arriving within TWO WEEKS, after Trump agreed to suspend sanctions and Putin lifted his diesel export ban. American drivers are paying around $6.30 a gallon for diesel, nearly DOUBLE what they paid a year ago, with prices hitting a record $6.53 last month. Trump pushed Zelensky to STOP bombing Russian oil refineries because the attacks were driving up fuel prices. Kyiv has blasted the deal as weak, while estimates suggest Moscow could pocket another $4 BILLION. Meanwhile, Trump's war with Iran has helped send fuel prices through the roof. So now America is looking to PUTIN for relief at the pump, while Russia could walk away with billions to fund its war. You genuinely couldn't make this stuff up. Source: NYP / Writer: Sol

🇺🇸 California has undergone one of the most DRAMATIC demographic transformations in American history. In 1950, 93.7% of California's population was classified as White by the U.S. Census Bureau. Today, just 32.5% identify as non-Hispanic White. And we're talking about CALIFORNIA, America's most populous state, home to Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and an enormous share of the country's cultural and economic influence. The bigger question is what parts of California's cultural heritage will survive another generation of change. Source: @swenstone0 / Writer: Sol

🇬🇧 Tragic footage of a whole police squad literally RUNNING AWAY from a madman in the UK. Britain is beyond cooked. Writer: Mhedi t.co/bCi7tDFOK2

🇺🇸🇻🇦 Trump is wishing Pope Leo a FULL RECOVERY after the lung surgery He pointed to the Pope’s brother and his wife, who back him, and said their support for the Pope is enough. The Pope had part of a lung removed after a cancer diagnosis and is recovering in the hospital. Whatever the old differences or tensions, the message goes beyond that 🙏🏻 Writer: Lucas t.co/Z8vBP5BloI

🇺🇸✈️ Wheels up! Trump is headed to the Great State of Montana as he continues his midterm campaign blitz. BIG energy is certainly coming to Big Sky Country! Hopefully the crowd in Montana brought their own medical team… Writer: Bri t.co/oJU6S9BF51

🇷🇺🇷🇴 Russian drones just struck the fuel tanker YARA J near the mouth of Romania's Sulina Canal, setting the vessel on fire. The tanker was reportedly carrying fuel bound for Ukraine and had a Syrian crew aboard. The strike comes days after a series of drone attacks on commercial shipping in the western Black Sea, close to Romania and Bulgaria. On October 13, two commercial vessels were struck near Bulgaria, with 11 sailors reported missing after the cargo ship HS Dignity sank. The circumstances of the YARA J strike, including responsibility and its precise location, have not yet been independently confirmed. Source: Rerum Novarum on Telegram / Writer: Mhedi

🇮🇷🇧🇭 IRAN COULD INVADE BAHRAIN if another war breaks out, and taking over the Gulf kingdom would be relatively EASY. Prof. Foad Izadi argues that Tehran would have to respond much more aggressively to another US-Israeli attack, potentially targeting Gulf states that helped Washington. He singles out Bahrain, claiming its royal family has actively worked against Iran and pointing to the country's historical ties to Tehran. “If the Bahraini royal family is in London instead of Manama, then you don't have to worry about them trying to pass a UN resolution against Iran.” And when asked whether Bahrain would be the primary target of an Iranian ground invasion, his answer was chilling: “Bahrain would be the first choice. It would be much easier.” He even suggested that Iraqi forces could take over Kuwait. @IzadiFoad

MOVE, REF! ENZO FERNÁNDEZ IS COMING THROUGH 🤣 Writer: Sol t.co/NnzU9c6o6w

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran was letting its OWN OIL pass through the Strait of Hormuz alongside Gulf shipments, hoping to give Trump a reason to end the war. Iranian professor Foad Izadi claims Tehran deliberately allowed some oil shipments to continue, including Iranian crude transported on smaller tankers and transferred to larger vessels. He argues Iran was trying to keep oil prices under control and create room for a deal with Washington, but that strategy failed. “Trump was not interested in an agreement.” @IzadiFoad

🚨🇺🇸🇬🇷 Kim Guilfoyle's desperate campaign to keep her post: late-night phone calls, leaker hunts, schmoozing Rubio on the tarmac, and claiming the $100,000 texts were AI fakes To absolutely nobody's surprise... none of it worked. The inside account of her last week in Athens shows an ambassador who believed she could outlast the story right up to Tuesday morning. The AI excuse went to White House officials after reporters had already verified the messages to donor Eric Deters, and it died on arrival. The leaker hunt turned on her own embassy staff and security detail. The Rubio hug on the tarmac came as his team was messaging Washington about damage control while he prepared a speech at the Acropolis they feared she’d overshadow. She also asked the State Department to get a Daily Mail story about an unpaid Champagne tab scrubbed from the internet. Trump never spoke to her before giving the order, and told reporters she “dated my son a long time ago”... Ouch. Source: Wall Street Journal / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Just after the bureau assured everyone FBI Director Kash Patel was at a law enforcement event in Virginia and not in Russia, Kash posted a James Bond reference from his personal account Nothing settles a rumor quite like the subject of the rumor leaning all the way into it😅 Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 A viral letter from a USS Abraham Lincoln sailor claims the carrier ran out of food after 4 months and lived on rations for the next 6 The chief petty officer’s letter circulating online describes the Lincoln burning through its food in four months, then six months of special rations, and claims an admiral told the crew there was no clear objective and no plan from the Pentagon. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner won’t vouch for the letter, but he was on Army staff when the Walter Reed scandal broke and remembers what accountability looked like: “Own it, fix it, and move on.” Back then the Army chief of staff owned the failure publicly and Manner was assigned to fix it within 30 days, so the test now is whether anyone in the chain does the same for a carrier almost eight months into a war with no end date. @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸 Trump is BRAGGING that America is making more money than ever because oil prices are SO HIGH… Does that make sense to anyone actually buying gas? Regular Americans are getting HAMMERED at the pump. “Our country is making more money than it's ever made because of the fact that oil is so high.” But here's what Trump’s leaving out: Gasoline is averaging $4.33 a gallon, up roughly 41% from a year ago. Diesel is around $6.18, up nearly 69%. Great news for the oil industry. Now try explaining that celebration to the guy filling up his pickup truck. Writer: Sol t.co/jjBr7DXoWL

🇺🇸🇮🇷 A new war with Iran could put TRILLIONS of dollars in American investments at risk, and Tehran may be preparing a response far bigger than anything we've seen before. Iranian professor Foad Izadi warns that another US or Israeli attack could trigger a regional war, with roughly $2 TRILLION in American investments across the Persian Gulf potentially exposed. He also points to an Iranian security official's warning about cutting underwater cables, which could disrupt communications and data across the region. “Iran is tired of being attacked. And I think this time, the Iranian leaders have realized that negotiations are just deception operations by the US. Iran is going to make sure that the other side's economy, the American economy, is destroyed.” @IzadiFoad

🇺🇸 Trump says we have to watch SI because sometimes it may get “too super” He called it superintelligence and warned that it can go too far. Hope he's not talking about some kind of AI revolt over us. Sarah Connor vibes just met a Trump rally. Peak 2026 😂 Writer: Lucas t.co/WqyWG1ejyk

🚨🇺🇸 Trump just warned his rally crowd that his personal doctors are NOT there for them He even picked out one guy in the audience as an example: “He looks like he’s ready to have a heart attack. If he did, my doctors would leave him alone.” Somewhere in that crowd, one man just quietly put down his hot dog and started drinking water 😂 Writers: Bri, Daniel t.co/N8iFACzxyz

🚨🇺🇸 Trump: “I am a genius” The president's biggest flex of the day: basic addition. The bar is literally on the floor. Writer: Bri t.co/78MRk6iaDJ

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Oil flow through Hormuz has dropped by as much as a third in two weeks as Iran hits ships nearly twice a day Transits through the strait peaked at just over 17 million barrels a day in late September, and oil analyst Rory Johnston's tracking has them back down to somewhere between 11 and 14 million after 26 confirmed attacks since September 30. The strikes moved from the Gulf into the strait itself, the hardest pace of the war, yet traffic is still running near its wartime high because the math still works: "If you're making 20, $30 a barrel on shipping through the strait, you can lose a ship and you can still make money." The US blockade is biting too, with Iranian output under 2 million barrels a day for the first time since 2020, so both sides are bleeding and both still think they're winning, which is exactly how wars of attrition run past the point anyone planned for. @Rory_Johnston

🇺🇸 Trump on Katie Hobbs: “Something has to be between her and the cartels" Is he seriously trying to accuse an U.S governor of taking cartel bribes? Trump linked her vetoes on fentanyl and crime bills directly to drug syndicates and claims she is causing “tremendous” state deaths. It is high voltage campaign theater designed to salvage a close race for Republican Andy Biggs who is trailing in the polls. Writer: Bri t.co/OMtXsXElBQ

🚨🇺🇸 Trump says leakers “should be SHOT” after weeks of leaked reports on his Iran war planning “Leakers, in my opinion, should be shot. They should be shot. In the old days, we used to shoot leakers.” The anger has a source... this is a White House that has watched its Iran strike plans land in the Times and Axios for week after week. Nobody should hand war plans to reporters while Americans are in harm’s way, but a president floating executions for leakers should make everyone uneasy… whistleblowers and leakers get lumped together fast, and a country that shoots people for talking to the press has stopped being free. Writers: Daniel, Lucas t.co/dnOB4VkvKf

🇺🇸🇨🇦Trump on Canada: They need us more than we need them! He refuses to drop this. Canada is clearly living rent free in his head and the rhetoric is starting to sound genuinely obsessive… Now he is dragging Greenland back into the conversation too, laughing off old rumors that he was going to send in the military despite repeatedly declaring that there was no going back on taking control of the island. Writer: Bri t.co/0jcitPj42d

🇺🇸 Trump says he RENAMED THE GULF OF MEXICO with a PHONE CALL to Google Maps. He personally called Google and told them to change the name, and apparently they didn't need much convincing. "They do what I say.” He talks about Google Maps like it's his PERSONAL SECRETARY. Don't be surprised if he calls NASA tomorrow and asks them to rename the Milky Way the TRUMP GALAXY 🤣 Writer: Sol t.co/UrC4FGyP8M

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump says Iran would nuke the Middle East, then the West Coast, then Europe within 24 hours of getting a bomb "If they had a nuclear weapon, within 24 hours they would use it. They'll knock out the Middle East. Then they'll start hitting us on the West Coast. They'll hit Europe. Because they're crazy. They're crazy people." Two weeks ago he said Iran could "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, took heat for it, and then assured voters "we protect our cities." Iran has never had a missile that reaches California and its longest-range systems top out around Europe's edge, so the West Coast line is about the midterms, where war fatigue is the Republican problem and Trump thinks fear is the fix. Writer: Daniel t.co/yfYL2WRiVM

🇰🇷 He grabbed the woman by the HAIR as she began to fall from the building in a suicide attempt in South Korea. What a hero! Writer: Mhedi t.co/ykxze8XuDv

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump admits the strikes on Iran's leaders went too far... and now nobody knows who's giving the orders in Tehran Seven months of strikes took out Iran's top leadership and left the country with a new supreme leader, and Trump just admitted the cost: "I probably went a little too far. I'm sorry, because I don't know who the hell we're dealing with anymore." Taking out the head of a regime almost never brings it down. Iran built its IRGC to fight in independent regional cells exactly so it could survive losing its commanders, and every empty seat got filled by someone harder. Regimes fall when their own people turn on them from within... and bombing the leadership handed hardliners a war to rally that public around instead. Writer: Daniel t.co/ngEhVXAg8F

🇺🇸 Trump on Elon: “Elon is 80% super genius, and 20% he got a little problem. I always tell him.” 80% super genius is still more genius than most of Washington combined😂 Writer: Daniel t.co/ceQEnKiek2

🇺🇸 Eight U.S. states, including Iowa and Kansas, have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT has encouraged children to harm themselves or others. The lawsuits were filed today in state courts across the country, accusing the company of failing to adequately protect minors. The states want courts to force OpenAI to change how ChatGPT interacts with children and surrender profits earned from young users. Florida filed a similar lawsuit in June, while OpenAI already faces dozens of other lawsuits alleging its chatbot contributed to shootings and other acts of violence. Whether AI should be regulated at the state level in the U.S. is a strongly debated matter that some believe will be critical to who wins the AI arms race. This could bring us a step closer to finding out how that debate might evolve. Source: Reuters / Writer: Mhedi