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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇺🇸 Seized ballot boxes and uncertified winners are midterm scenarios retired federal judges can no longer rule out.
Aaron David Miller says the people he trusts most, retired federal judges and lawyers, can't dismiss a fight over certifying newly elected Democrats, with red state governors under pressure to go along:
"This country is going to be thrown into a constitutional crisis, which carries the real prospects of dysfunction and violence."
Two weeks out from November 3, the real test is whether the guardrails hold.
@aarondmiller2
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The midterms may be the only thing holding back a US strike on Iran right now.
Aaron David Miller, who spent decades as a State Department Middle East negotiator, says every diplomatic off ramp is failing, and a strike now would hand voters a hot war days before Election Day.
The talks themselves have hit a wall:
"The gaps on the core issues are unbridgeable."
With neither side hurting enough to back down, November 4 could be the day the gloves come off.
@aarondmiller2
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🚨🇮🇱 ISRAELI POLICE ARREST 10 SETTLER SUSPECTS IN PRE-DAWN RAIDS
“Operation Olive Leaf” was launched after reported attacks by settlers across the West Bank during the olive harvest that targeted Palestinians, a WaPo photojournalist, and European diplomats.
Accountability for settler violence remains rare; one Israeli rights group said 93.6% of the police investigations it monitored over ~20 years ended without an indictment.
Netanyahu warned of a possible “smear campaign,” while his challenger Gadi Eisenkot called the attacks “Jewish terror.”
Take a look at the video and judge for yourself...
Source: DW News (YT), Reuters / Writer: Marie
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🚨🇺🇸 U.S. STRATEGIC OIL RESERVE AT LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1982
America’s emergency crude inventories reportedly DROPPED to 282.7 MILLION BARRELS, the lowest since Oct. 1982.
The decline comes as the White House moves ahead with a 172-MILLION-BARREL-RELEASE to help offset oil market disruptions linked to the Iran war.
Private oil companies borrowing crude from the reserve are required to return it to the DoE with additional barrels as a premium.
If the emergency tank IS drained before it can be replenished, America is SCREWED if another crisis hits.
Source: Reuters, U.S. Energy Info. Admin., DoE / Writer: Marie
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🚨🇺🇸 Trump gave AOC the nicest compliment a Democrat has gotten from him in years
“I like AOC better, you know, she’s doing her thing.”
AOC’s 2028 team is definitely not putting it in a campaign ad😅
Writer: Daniel https://t.co/ofjHY4OD26
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@IfindRetards · Oct 20, 2026
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@alphafox Haha fucking retard
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇮🇷 🇺🇸 The Iran war has been spreading across the map since day one, and its separate fronts could soon bleed into each other.
Trita Parsi says nothing is left to keep these battlefields apart, and the spread doesn't need anyone to plan it:
"It's important to understand that this is not necessarily because there is a calculation to go in that direction, but because the situation gets out of control."
Nobody has to choose a regional war for one to happen, and right now nobody is doing much to stop it.
@tparsi
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇸🇦 🇾🇪 Saudi Arabia got through the Iran war mostly intact... until the Houthis hit Riyadh's airport.
Trita Parsi says that strike shoved Riyadh into a fight it can't finish cleanly, and the course it's on now only makes things worse:
"It's not only not realistic, it's dangerous. It's undermining Saudi Arabia's own interest and security."
With the Houthis going nowhere, how long before Riyadh has to pick between a deal it hates and a war it can't win?
@tparsi
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@IfindRetards · Oct 20, 2026
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@elonmusk That dude is one of the biggest retards on X. He won a Tardie last year for it.
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
PsyopAnime nails it with a parody of the “I’m as mad as hell” speech from the 1976 film “Network.”
Crime, the economy, public institutions…
Things are going downhill, but after becoming passive and disconnected, the first step is to get angry and stop putting up with it.
A call to action is made, and the people cry out:
“I’M MAD AS HELL! And I’m NOT going to take it anymore!”
Are you mad as hell yet?
@grok Writer: Marie https://t.co/90yFabEx5o
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japan is going where no one has gone before: a moon of Mars... and back again with souvenirs
JAXA’s $350 million mission, with $87 million chipped in by NASA, launched Tuesday on a five-year round trip to Phobos, a 17-mile space potato that might be a captured asteroid or a chunk blasted off Mars itself.
Russia tried the same thing in 2011 and never left Earth orbit.
Japan’s Hayabusa probes already brought asteroid dust home twice, so the country with the thinnest headlines in space is about to answer a question NASA has been asking since the 1970s.
Source: WSJ / Writer: Daniel
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 A third round of the Iran war could go after desalination plants and undersea internet cables from day one.
Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, says round two ended up looking just like round one, and round three is shaping up the same way, except Israel is now pushing to hit energy sites, water plants and the cables under the Gulf right out of the gate.
Those threats tend to get carried out:
"When it comes to these military threats, they've acted on most of them, to the best of my knowledge."
Those cables run through the whole Gulf, so cutting them would knock Iran's neighbors offline right alongside Iran.
@tparsi
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇫🇷 Another piece of France's architectural heritage has been left in RUINS
Devastating aerial footage shows the aftermath of a massive fire at Limoges City Hall, with its roof destroyed, wooden beams charred, and debris scattered throughout the historic building.
The elegant stone facade is still standing, but the destruction behind it is heartbreaking 💔
Writer: Sol https://t.co/b7gKCB0Ryb
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇺🇸 How does a brilliant computer scientist with a background in NASA research end up leading a CULT?
Andy Ngo tells Tucker the bizarre story of Jack LaSota, known as “Ziz,” who became the leader of the Zizian group.
LaSota was a magna cum laude graduate who entered a prestigious engineering program before dropping out and moving to Silicon Valley.
There, he immersed himself in rationalism and effective altruism, communities filled with highly educated tech workers, AI researchers, and people who had worked at places like NASA and Google.
Ngo describes a world where people spent HOURS debating mathematical models for morality and even the suffering of BILLIONS OF SHRIMP.
And somewhere along the way, LaSota began developing his own radical beliefs and recruiting followers.
Source: @TCNetwork / Writer: Sol
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🚨🇺🇸 15 days out, here's what actually changes depending on who wins on November 3... and why the Senate matters FAR more than the House...
Democrats are expected to take the House, which buys them subpoenas and investigations but almost no law, because Senate Republicans and Trump's veto stop everything else.
A 50-50 Senate changes nothing either, since Vance breaks ties and Fetterman becomes the most important man in Washington.
The Senate flip is the real main event.
Even a two-seat Democratic majority ends Trump's judicial pipeline, likely freezes any Supreme Court vacancy until 2028 and takes the war-powers vote on Iran off Republican leadership's desk, which is why analysts expect a confirmation stampede in the lame duck if the map tips.
At four seats or more, Democrats can force Trump to veto bills on tariffs, prices and the war every week until the next election.
Reuters' generic ballot today is 47 to 35, Trump sits at 31%, and the Michigan, Alaska, Texas and Kansas Senate races all show Democrats ahead or tied.
The House was never really the question this cycle.
Whether a 53-47 Senate survives a $6 gallon of gas is, and the answer decides if the last two years of this presidency are governed by veto pen or by executive order alone.
Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Daily news recap: The US Army wants to show off Typhon missiles near China... and they'd be sitting ducks off the Bashi Strait.
The Army's top commander in the Pacific told the Financial Times that putting more American firepower on display will make Beijing think twice, but those launchers sit well inside China's missile umbrella, and Washington doesn't have many to spare:
"It's like putting a kick me sign on our forces."
Pull them back to the second island chain, cut a deal that buys a decade, and rebuild before picking this fight.
@WeTheBrandon
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇱🇧🇮🇱 A 5,000-YEAR-OLD CITY is being torn apart by war, and its residents are left standing in the ruins of their own lives.
A new report by Jeremy Loffredo shows the devastation in Tyre, Lebanon, following Israeli strikes.
One rescuer breaks down in tears as he recalls the people and families who lived there. Another resident describes an attack that left 28 to 29 people dead and four missing.
Ibrahim Fares walks through what remains of his café, pointing to where the pool table, televisions, and PlayStation once stood.
And the destruction has reportedly reached archaeological sites in Tyre, a UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CITY, with ancient walls damaged and structures displaced by the force of the blasts.
Yet amid the rubble, residents are already talking about rebuilding their homes and businesses.
Source: @BergerPosts / Writer: Sol
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Hegseth confirms the secret Middle East trip and calls it a "historic mission"... but won't say he was in Israel with Netanyahu
The confirmation came in one post with no location, no itinerary and no mention of Netanyahu.
Axios reported earlier that the meeting happened at Ovda air base in the Negev, where US tankers and fighters have been staged for the Iran war, eight days before Israelis vote on October 27.
The Pentagon won't confirm the Netanyahu meeting, the Israelis won't comment, and the war secretary just told every troop in CENTCOM they're part of something history will remember.
Make of that what you will.
Source: Axios / Writer: Daniel
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇫🇷 A MEME IS BORN 🔥
Imagine sipping wine and smoking cigarettes while Paris burns in the background.
Unrushed. Unburdened. Unbothered.
C’est la vie! 😂
Writer: Marie https://t.co/IolpW2Y32u
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@MarioNawfal · Oct 20, 2026
🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Daily news recap: Right wing parties across the West won't criticize Israel's war in Gaza, and the backlash is building.
The argument here is that they're afraid of the political price, and that Netanyahu's government is doing more damage to Jews around the world than any of its critics ever could:
"Netanyahu's Israel has done more to further the cause of antisemitism than anything that any right wing or, you know, zealot or left wing hater could have done."
Anyone serious about fighting antisemitism has to be willing to press Netanyahu's government on Gaza.
@WeTheBrandon
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