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Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war. To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha. The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people. And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final. We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it. Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made. They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making. One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

Anderson Cooper is BIG MAD that Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens crossed the aisle to endorse Republican Mike Rogers. Listen to his tone as he speaks to Stevens during this CNN segment. It’s as though a father is scolding his child for doing something wrong. He gets progressively more flustered. STEVENS: “Anderson, this is a broader point about what’s going on in our party…” COOPER: “It’s actually not. It’s really just a question of why you changed your mind?” This is CNN’s attempt to ridicule the Congresswoman’s decision.

BREAKING: Now the riots have spread to Switzerland. Barricades are going up, fires are burning in the streets, and police officers are under violent attack. Europe is descending into total chaos before our eyes. When will leaders wake up and restore law and order? Disgraceful! 🚨🇨🇭

On October 30, 2026, during an ICE enforcement action in Morristown, New Jersey, a federal agent physically engaged Alexis Brown, who was blocking an ICE vehicle. Video shows the agent, wearing a vest marked “POLICE ICE,” approach Brown; she then ends up on the pavement. She later stated that the agent body-checked her, knocked the wind out of her, and that the force felt disproportionate to her size. The agent told her it was a crime scene, directed her to leave, and provided only the identifier “13937 DHS” when asked for his name. Do you believe the agent’s response was appropriate for maintaining the perimeter, or did it cross into excessive force?

People always ask me why I'm so optimistic about the West. A few weeks ago, I told a friend I'd never been more bullish on our future. He looked at me like I'd lost my mind. So I gave him two predictions. First: the EU, as it exists today, is going to collapse. Second: we are going to hold a Nuremberg trial for communism. Not for people. For ideas. Because those ideas are still the ones killing us today. Then I explained why. There's one law I've watched play out everywhere, in startups, in family fortunes, in empires: The more a system is full of money and empty of intelligence, the faster it decays. Take the simplest example. The son or daughter of a billionaire who inherited the money but not the education that came with it. They become parasites on what their parents built. They don't understand what they're running. But they're surrounded by courtiers telling them they're brilliant, so they feel invincible. And they start breaking things, one confident decision at a time. That's the West's ruling class right now. And here's the part people miss: a decadent system with no intelligence left doesn't slowly drift. It collapses. Because it can't stop making mistakes, and every mistake is bigger than the last. Here's what that looks like in practice. In 2024, Marc Andreessen sat down with officials from the Biden administration. By his account, they told him not to bother funding AI startups. AI would be a game for two or three giant companies, working hand in hand with the government. When he pointed out that AI is just math, they told him that during the Cold War they classified entire branches of physics, and they could do the same with the math behind AI. Think about who they said that to. The man who wrote "Software is eating the world." The man who understood decades ago that whatever the state gets its hands on, it ruins. Nobody with a functioning brain walks into a room with Marc Andreessen and says that. Those people did. With total confidence. And now, this week: Donald Tusk. Police surrounding Poland's Constitutional Tribunal. Government-backed judges declaring the chief justice suspended. All of it on a Friday evening, while the elected president was on a plane to Senegal, forced to turn around and fly back to Warsaw. When you're winning the argument, you don't send the police to the courthouse. This is what decadence looks like up close. Endless money. Zero feedback from reality. High on their own supply. Surrounded by people who will never tell them no. Systems like that don't reform. They break. So yes, people find me optimistic. This is why. I'm not betting on these people fixing anything. I'm betting on what gets built after they've finished breaking it.

Now it all makes sense. The Trump rallies canceled and then shifted to Monday and now JD Vance not being at his scheduled FRAUD event in Minnesota today, looks like the focus is now on Zelensky and how best to remove him. No negotiating. Removal. “Russia's sprawling Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery in the Samara region is on fire on Friday, after suffering what appear to be multiple and widespread hits of a Ukrainian drone attack wave, with several pillars of smoke rising high above the complex, and seen for miles. Curiously, news of the fresh attack emerged just hours after the Wall Street Journalreported the Zelensky government had paused refinery strikes under pressure from the Trump administration.” zerohedge.com/energy/ukraine…

Michaels Arts and Crafts Store is refusing to frame photos of Donald Trump and the Moon Landing. The manager also refused Then an employee says “Our company hates the President.” They said Michael’s hates the President on camera The Michales employee says Donald Trump images are ineligible for custom framing because they are political and they hate the President Michael’s issued a statement on this “Michaels does not have a policy prohibiting the framing of political items, and we strive to welcome every customer. We’ve reached out directly to discuss your experience and ensure your project needs are met.” So these employees are outright lying because they hate Donald Trump The employees did not get fired and are still working for Michales

Before Big Orange came on the scene: 1) John McCain - 176 electoral votes 2) Mitt Romney - 206 electoral votes 3) Ohio, Florida and Iowa were swing States 4) Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were safely considered “The Blue Wall” Since Trump: 1) THREE consecutive election victories(one obviously stolen) 2) Ohio, Florida and Iowa have been taken off the board 3) Democrats now have to wage war to win Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania 4) Sent into Retirement: a) Jeb Bush b) John Kasich c) Chris Christie d) Jeff Flake e) Bob Corker f) Pat Toomey(voted to impeach) g) Ben Sasse(voted to impeach) h) Rob Portman i) Lamar Alexander j) Roy Blunt k) Richard Burr(voted to impeach) l) Paul Ryan m) Brad Raffensperger n) John Cornyn o) Bill Cassidy(voted to impeach) p) 9 of the 10 GOP representatives who voted to impeach Trump are gone 5)) 12 states(of 31 that register by party) had more Republicans registered than Democrats. Today that number is 15. 6) 2016 - Pennsylvania had 1 million more Democrat active voters. Today it is 25,811. 7) USAID stripped out and mass fraud uncovered in blue state. 2016 Democrats had a $40 million cash advantage. Today Republicans have a $165 million advantage. 8) SCOTUS: from Five conservatives to Six Donald Trump didn't ruin the Republican Party…he saved it!

A lot of focus has been on how the lawfare Slotkin promised to young Trump staffers is bad for our country. While that is true, there are also legal implications to her comments that will make it harder for Democrats to defend their oversight of the Trump admin before the Supreme Court. I’ll explain below. thefederalist.com/2026/10/27…

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes last year, you paid more than: Disney American Airlines Citigroup CVS DoorDash GoDaddy H&R Block HP Kohl’s Ticketmaster Palantir PayPal Roku Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Pizza Hut Taco Bell KFC Absurd. We need REAL tax reform.

Zelensky goes on TV complaining President Trump isn’t giving him enough billions, while American families are struggling at home. The entitlement is unreal! Trump wants to stop the killing and end the endless blank checks. America First means putting OUR country first! 🇺🇸🔥

I have warned about the military element of this plan but no one wants to hear it. You can’t overthrow a government without it. History is very clear about that.