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• @Business 

• Trump said he’s increasing US tariffs on Canada by 10% in response to a misleading anti-tariff advertisement by sponsored the state of Ontario that has roiled one of the world’s biggest bilateral trade relationships.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Trump administration will not abandon long-standing US support for Taiwan in negotiations with China to reach a trade agreement. 
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Brussels is considering all options to react to China’s rare-earth threat. 
• President Donald Trump said he expected to meet with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during his trip to Asia and that he was open to reducing tariffs on Brazil. 
• Policymakers in the US and Canada will take the spotlight in coming days, with rate cuts likely while the rest of the G-7 stays on hold.
• Moody’s Ratings cut France’s credit outlook to negative from stable, adding to warnings on the country’s bloated public finances. 
• Will AI kill entry-level jobs? Not necessarily. History suggests young workers may actually be best placed to adapt. 
• ExxonMobil has sued California, arguing that two new state laws violate the First Amendment by trying to force it to agree to a certain climate viewpoint, and conflict with federal regulations. 
• What happened to the global economy this week — in charts 

• @Zerohedge 

• The unhinged and hysterical rage over Trump's remodeling of the old, outdated, crusty East Wing is the type of reflexive anti-Trump meltdown that has so often made valid criticism of him fall on deaf ears. Classic boy-who-cried-wolf syndrome: -@ggreenwald.
• Japan Will Play A Much Greater Role In Advancing The American Agenda In Asia.
• Virginia Governor Declares Emergency Over Looming Loss Of SNAP Benefits; USDA Warns Funds Running Out.
• "You Have To Be Scared... Forcefully Rise Up": Democrat Leaders Ramp Up Resistance Rhetoric.
• Market's "In A Holding Pattern"; Goldman's Rates Traders See 2026 Fed Path 'Trickier'.
• Sweet Jesus: $NNE short interest at 41% of float. Big bump for $UUUU too, notably while there's broad sector short covering. (table)  
• I ran down the rabbit hole last night... What I've discovered is shocking. I searched through thousands of arrests in my county and every single Hispanic individual who has been arrested is labelled as "WHITE". Not one, not two... HUNDREDS. How long has this been going on?!!!! (pics) 
• 'Best Seasonal Window Of The Year Starts Next Week'; Citadel Flows Guru Says "Retail Remains Price-Setter".
• The Fragility Of The Digital Age.
• Walmart's Thanksgiving Meal Deal Returns To 2019 Low Price Levels.
• Gross has increased while nets have come down, pointing to shorts having increased. People are just simply not positioned for new ATHs.
• Trump Wants New "Golden Fleet" Of Future Battleships For Hemispheric Defense.
• They're Coming For Your Wood-Burning Stove... Again.
• "We're Living Through A Coordinated Sabotage Of Truth-Seeking Institutions".
• Germany And Poland Are Growing Weary Of Ukrainian Refugees And War.
• Financial conditions: lower is looser. Next week Fed cuts and QT ends. (graph)    
• BEN BERNANKE, JANET YELLEN URGE SUPREME COURT TO STRIKE DOWN MOST OF TRUMP’S GLOBAL TARIFFS, CALLING THEM BASED ON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. Are the misconceptions worse than those of the Fed about... everything? 
• Prominent Personalities Sign Letter Seeking Ban On 'Development Of Superintelligence'.
• Pentagon Orders Carrier Strike Group To Join SOUTHCOM Operations Near Venezuela.
• Life comes at you fast. (pic)
• “The Knicks want to make it clear that we do not endorse Mr. Mamdani for Mayor…We will pursue all legal remedies to enforce our rights”. Knicks send Zohran cease & desist letter over logo. 
• Congress Takes A Page From Louisiana: The Case For An American Energy Renaissance.
• Was Rubio The Saboteur-In-Chief Of Ukraine-Russia Peace Efforts? 
• BREAKING: Newly resurfaced excerpt from the 2016 deposition of Virginia Giuffre in relation to Jeffrey Epstein alleges that Billionaire Tom Pritzker (of the notorious Pritzker family) and cousin to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker slept with Virginia Giuffre. 
• Stocks Surge To New Record High After Cool CPI; Bullion Battered, Black Gold Bid. 

• @BarronsOnline

• Had bullish commentary on (EXE) and (PGR).

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 24190 -0.06%. #DOW 47190 -0.03%. #NASDAQ 25376 +0.06%. #FTSE 9633 -0.01%. #HANGSENG 26227 0.00%. #ASX 9044 0.00%. #CAC 9207 -0.01%. #EURUSD 11629 +0.01%. #GOLD 4116 +0.05%. #USOIL 6133 -0.30%.

• @WSJ

• The future of Argentina’s free-market experiment hinges on the country's midterm congressional elections Sunday.
• As President Trump goes to Asia, some countries in the region fear a ‘grand bargain’ with China on economic issues could sideline security.
• Gambling has a long history of attracting crooks. Addictive legal bets can spiral toward illegality. There’s a reason Congress tried to ban this in the first place, which the public might be rediscovering. 

• @CNBC 

• China opposes decoupling from the U.S., Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said Friday.
• Elite bull market takes control again with the S&P 500 touching 6,800 for first time ever.
• Bank of America names five stocks with more room to run before they report earnings.
• Wall Street barrels toward final week of October against backdrop of Big Tech earnings, Fed meeting. 

• @MarioNawfal

• ELON: TESLA IS TRANSFORMING THE ENERGY SECTOR WITH POWERWALL AND MEGAPACK. “We’re also making a huge impact on the energy sector with battery storage. With both Powerwall and especially with the Megapack, we are dramatically improving the ability to generate more energy from the grid. If you look at total U.S. energy capability, there’s roughly a terawatt of continuous power available, but the average usage over a 24 hour cycle is only half a terawatt because of the big difference between day and night usage.”
• ELON: OPTIMUS ROBOTS NOW PATROL OUR PALO ALTO OFFICES 24 HOURS A DAY. “We do have Optimus robots that walk around our offices at our engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Basically 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Any visitors that come by can stop one of the Optimus robots and ask it to take them somewhere, and it’ll literally take them to that meeting room or location in the building.”

• @LauraLoomer

• WATCH: Mamdani admits his goal for NYC is a Muslim takeover of New York! For those of you who are accusing @ZohranKMamdani critics of “Islamophobia”, just take a listen to his own words. He literally says he ran for office so he can increase the number of Muslims in America who are registered to vote so he can make America more Islamic. (video)

• @BasedSamParker

• BREAKING: CHARLIE KIRK ABANDONED BY CHIEF OF STAFF! After spending the entire morning at Charlie Kirk's side filming everything, Charlie's friend & TPUSA Chief of Staff Mikey McCoy appears to ABANDON Charlie at the very moment of Charlie's death. You simply must watch Mikey McCoy turn & walk away from Charlie in the very instant Charlie is mowed down. Mikey doesn't jump in surprise. He doesn't duck for cover. He doesn't rush to Charlie's aid. He doesn't run away in panic. He doesn't even try to capture any footage as he's been doing all morning! Nope. None of that. Instead, what he actually does is calmly strolls off. That's it. He just turns and walks away. No fuss. No muss. And no security accompanies him, so he's apparently not being evacuated for his own protection or anything like that. He just saunters off by himself. (video)
• BREAKING, FBI DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE: Ryne Simmons says the FBI tried to get him to DELETE his Charlie Kirk assassination video. Is this why we've gotten so little footage from witnesses?! How many witnesses followed these FBI instructions? Outrageous. Cover-up confirmed? (video)

• @ImMeme0

• British citizens are sending a fair warning to New Yorkers: “If Mamdani becomes the next mayor, this city is absolutely fvcked. Just look at what happened to London after Sadiq Khan took over.” (video)
• UNBELIEVABLE! DC journalist just exposed why Democrats are dragging out the government shutdown — “dark money from billion-dollar health insurance companies.” Even while the federal government is shut down, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Kaiser, and Molina are still getting paid directly from the U.S. Treasury under ACA provisions. The journalist claims Democrats are protecting these payouts, not federal workers or the military, because losing ACA tax credits next year would cost insurers billions. “This shutdown has nothing to do with healthcare — it’s about billion-dollar insurance companies keeping their cash flow.” (video)

• @elonmusk

• Did we forget how to solve crimes? - @rmcentush. This is concerning. (graph) 

• @MJTruthUltra

• Do you believe the government has genetically engineered ticks to cause us to get sick? Over the last several months, there has been a surge in tick-borne Meat Allergies from the Lone Star Tick.

• @NicHulscher

• We are the majority now. A recent Rasmussen Survey found 56% of U.S. voters believe COVID-19 "vaccines" caused mass deaths. What was once called a “conspiracy theory” has now become the mainstream view.

• @ValerieAnne1970

• Neomycin Is An Additive In 15 Vaccines..."When Injected Into A Person's Bloodstream, It Damages The Inner Ear, Causing Lifelong Hearing Loss." Dr Bryan Ardis. Neomycin Has A Black Box Warning That States... "Causation For Tinnitus, Hearing Loss & Profound Irreversible Deafness."

• @realstewpeters

• “If your average citizen knew the truth about what’s going on and what they’re being exposed to without their consent, they would be outraged and they would take action.” Climate Trails - Now on Amazon Prime. (video)

• @unusual_whales

• BREAKING: The White House is preparing an "imminent" probe to explore whether any US trade partners aren’t paying enough for medicines, per the FT.

• @EricLDaugh

• BREAKING: The red state of INDIANA has the chance to pass this Congressional map for the 2026 midterms. SHIFT: Republican: +2 Democrat: -2. There is NO EXCUSE it can’t be done. Make sure your local Indiana Senator knows redistricting is a MUST — or we’ll lose ground to Gavin Newsom. It’s crucial for President Trump! (map)

• @persianjewess

• Mamdani claims “I have never, not once, spoken in support of global Jihad.” Here’s a look back at all the times he never, not once, spoke in support of global jihad… (video)

• @ChristianHeiens

• If Indiana does not redistrict, the odds of a Democrat takeover of the House of Representatives next year skyrocket because Republicans would be leaving two guaranteed pickups off the table for no reason aside from their chronic addiction to losing.

• @AuronMacintyre

• If you want young people to stop embracing socialist rhetoric you have to stop this immediately. People who will never own a home because they’re being systematically acquired by speculators aren’t going to sit through lectures on the wonders of capitalism.

• @DC_Draino

• Democrats shut down the government demanding more healthcare dollars for illegal aliens. Meanwhile, hospitals like U of Miami use the 340B program to markup drugs and build palaces. This now deleted video proves they're lining pockets, not helping patients like the program intends. Reform! (video)

• @topheronx

• Obama criticized men for not supporting a Black woman in the last election—now he’s heading to Virginia to urge people NOT to vote for a Black woman.

OpenVAERS:  

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,026,944 Reports(+441 from prior report) Through August 29th, 2025.

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.