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• @Business 

• President Donald Trump said he had made “progress” on Venezuela in regards to halting the flow of drugs amid speculation that his administration is preparing to strike targets in the country. 
• Disney and YouTube TV reached an agreement to restore channels such as ABC and ESPN to the online video service.
• It’s becoming an urgent question: How much pain can retail traders take in a market that still sits near records — but now swings more violently? 
• The US government lowered the percentage of flights airlines must cut across 40 major airports, ahead of the weekend. 
• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic signaled that while he was able to support the most recent two interest-rate cuts, he wasn’t yet convinced about another move next month. 
• A group of moderate House Republicans urged Senate leaders to help negotiate a deal to address the impending expiration of health care subsidies, saying failure to do so “would risk real harm to those we represent.”
• Google plans to invest $40 billion in three new Texas data centers, ramping up its footprint as competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic map out their own multibillion-dollar bets in the state. 

• @Zerohedge 

• Bipartisan Congressional Report Finds CCP Manipulates Global Mineral Prices.
• New Heart-Kidney Syndrome Affects 90% Of Americans... And You've Probably Never Heard Of It.
• China Warns Citizens Against Travel To Japan Amid Serious Taiwan-Related Dust Up.
• The Swamp Got Bigger, Better Paid & More Secretive Since 2020.
• Berkshire Builds $4.9 Billion Stake In Alphabet; Adds To Chevron; Sells More Apple And Bank of America.
• *BLACKROCK TO FORM €2 BILLION DATA CENTER JV WITH ACS.
• US Agrees To $330 Million Sale Of Fighter Jets To Taiwan, Drawing Rebuke From China.
• Secret US Memo Links Venezuela To 'Chemical Weapons Threat'.
• Waymo Launches First US Freeway Robotaxi Rides In California And Arizona.
• Hegseth Announces New Military Campaign 'Operation Southern Spear'.
• 5,000 Dead People Getting SNAP; 500,000 Getting Benefits Twice: Rollins.
• BLS SAYS IT WILL RELEASE SEPT. JOBS REPORT NOV. 20, 8:30AM.
• Chicago Mayor Asks The UN To Intervene In Trump's Deportation Efforts.
• Dip-Buying Frenzy Rescues Stocks From Back-To-Back Weekly Bloodbaths; Crypto Ugly.      

• @WSJ

• U.S. farmers harvested huge crops this fall, according to the Department of Agriculture, which released its first projections since the start of the government shutdown.
• Energy reality has dawned even on Nantucket, as the high cost of Massachusetts's climate policies has arrived.
• President Trump said he is withdrawing the nomination of Donald Korb to be the Internal Revenue Service’s top lawyer, pulling the plug on the pick just days before Korb was set to be confirmed by the Senate. 
• Breaking: President Trump is lowering tariffs on more than a hundred food items, a major rollback that modifies the reciprocal levies he imposed on almost every trading partner.
• AI data centers are driving an energy crunch. Some warn the U.S. grid can’t keep up. Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova, says his company can deliver. He explains how. 
• Top consulting and finance firms are wooing elite-school students earlier than ever. “As soon as you move into your dorm room, you might get pinged by McKinsey.”

• @CNBC 

• Dan Sundheim’s D1 Capital buys AI-linked names in third quarter.
• Dan Loeb's Third Point leans back into tech, doubling Microsoft bet and adding Nvidia, Amazon.

• @MarioNawfal

• INTERVIEW: “XI HAS LOST CONTROL OF THE MILITARY - POWER IS SHIFTING TO ZHANG YOUXIA” “The military commander would still have the final say, but in a regular sort of setting, usually the political commissar is the one that's more in control. The PLA is not the Chinese military, it is the People's Liberation Army, which is the CCP's military. My current belief is that Xi Jinping's situation is that he has lost the control of the military and that people who are against Xi are clawing back power through Zhang Youxia.” (video)
• CHINA TO JAPAN’S PM: “RETRACT OR ELSE” OVER TAIWAN COMMENTS. Beijing is not subtle this week. China just publicly blasted Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi for her “egregious” remarks on Taiwan - and warned Tokyo it “must bear all consequences” unless she walks them back. What’d she say? In parliament, Takaichi stated the obvious-but-taboo: a Chinese attack on Taiwan could be a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan - language that legally opens the door to a military response under Japan’s security laws. Beijing heard that as: “If you invade Taiwan, Japan might fight.” Diplomatic meltdown incoming.

• @ClaytonMorris

• So Ukraine's Minister of Defense has fled the country and has no plans to return according to multiple reports. He's tied to the theft of millions of US tax dollars and Euros. Just so we're on the same page this would be the equivalent of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fleeing to another country.

• @nixksortor

• JUST IN: The White House unveils the amount of DAMAGE done by the Schumer Shutdown. - Cost Americans $15 BILLION PER WEEK. - 5.2 MILLION airline passengers impacted. - 1.4 million federal workers went unpaid. - 42 million lost SNAP benefits. NEVER forget what Democrats did. (video)

• @mazemoore

• Bill Gates hung out with Epstein before and AFTER Epstein became a convicted sex offender. His relationship with Epstein is even said to have played a role in his divorce. Any Democrats mentioning his name? Of course not. They wouldn’t dare. (video)

• @overton_news

• VP Vance says that if you zoom out and look at the shutdown from 30,000 feet, you can see exactly how extreme the Democrats’ demands really were. They weren’t negotiating. They were trying to codify the most radical parts of the Biden era under a Trump administration. “They wanted $1.5 trillion, a lot of that healthcare benefits for illegal aliens.” “They wanted us to undo all of the great border policy we’ve been doing.” “They wanted us to refund NPR and PBS.” “They were basically saying that we want to the far-left’s priorities to dominate in the Trump administration and unless that happens we are going to set the entire country on fire.” “A really disgraceful moment for the far-left of the Democrats and frankly a very revealing moment for the American people.” (video)
• VP Vance just revealed what Democrats told the administration behind closed doors during the shutdown — and it’s far more desperate than anything they said in public. They admitted their far-left faction had gone totally off the rails…but there was nothing they could do. It was a political hostage situation. “Privately we were having conversations all the time and frankly, privately the Democrats would recognize the position their far-left was crazy.” “But they all feel a little bit like they are being held hostage by their far-left.” “You said it well, Chuck Schumer, this probably ended his career and he was the person who was fighting more than anybody to keep the government shutdown.” “So the far-left, they are never going to be satisfied unless the Democrats are willing to burn down the entire country.” (video)

• @MJTruthUltra

• No longer a “conspiracy theory”… Check out what’s on Amazon Prime now. “If your average citizen knew the truth of what’s going on and what they’re being exposed to without their consent, they would be outraged.” We’re living in the age of mass public disclosure now. (video)
• Tucker Carlson vindicated…Megyn Kelly released a short clip of a conversation between Tucker Carlson, herself, and Charlie Kirk at a TPUSA event. In the clip, Charlie urges Tucker to "GO MAX" on the regarding Epstein being an Israeli intelligence asset. (video)

• @WallStreetApes

• Documents reveal the Los Angeles Fire Department was in on the coverup of the Pacific Palisades fire. Fire official exposes the department purposely withheld information about the re-ignition site in their after action report. “So, the fire department willfully covered it up and kept the secret”. (video)

• @Geiger_Capital

• *WARREN BUFFETT’S BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY BUYS 17.8M SHARES OF $GOOGL *GOOGLE TO INVEST $40 BILLION IN 3 NEW TEXAS DATA CENTERS. Even at the end, he’s still got it.

• @EmeraldRobinson

• Where's Jeffrey Epstein's client list? Where's Seth Rich's laptop? Where's the Nashville shooter's diary? Where's Hunter Biden's laptop? Who planted pipe bombs on Jan 6th? Who leaked the Supreme Court's Dobbs opinion? The FBI's job was to HIDE IT ALL from the public.

• @JackPosobiec

• BREAKING: A MASSIVE BETRAYAL in Indiana! Spineless RINO legislators just killed the GOP redistricting push, handing Gavin Newsom & Dems the House. Weak Senate Pres @bray_rodric won’t even vote on it. MAGA is mobilizing to PRIMARY these RINOs.

• @HustleBitch_

• APPLE JUST ACTIVATED THE FIRST STEP OF A NATIONAL DIGITAL ID SYSTEM - AND THEY’RE PRETENDING IT’S “CONVENIENCE.” Apple’s new Digital ID lets TSA scan your passport straight from your iPhone or Apple Watch and it's already live at 250+ U.S. airports. But here’s the catch they don’t say out loud: It can’t replace your passport. It can’t cross borders. It doesn’t work overseas. So why launch a passport that doesn’t actually do anything? Because this is Phase 1: get everyone comfortable syncing their identity to a device. Phase 2? Make it required. Phase 3? Control who moves and who doesn’t. If this is just the rollout… what happens when they turn the rest of it on? (video)
• A JUDGE JUST CONFIRMED IT - AMERICA’S SECRET LICENSE-PLATE NETWORK HAS BEEN TRACKING YOU… AND NOW ANYONE CAN ACCESS IT. Flock Safety has quietly built the largest private surveillance grid in the United States in thousands of cities, millions of cameras, logging every car, every trip, every pattern, 24/7. Police were told it was locked down. “Secure.” “Private.” Then a Washington judge dropped a bomb: EVERY photo these cameras take is now a PUBLIC RECORD. 
• WEATHERMEN EXPOSED: “THEY’RE READING SCRIPTS FROM RAYTHEON. THESE STORMS ARE BEING STEERED AND MANIPULATED.” Geoengineering Watch founder Dane Wigington told Tucker Carlson that America’s weather forecasts are written by defense contractors, not meteorologists. “How did meteorologists know seven days in advance that Hurricane Harvey would stall over Houston for three days? How could they possibly know that?” (video)

• @glennbeck

• MAJOR questions must be asked and ANSWERED after recent revelations on the failed Trump assassin in Butler, PA: Why did the Biden's FBI hide Crooks’ violent anti-Trump phase online? Why did the FBI, after the election, still toe that line? Why did FBI Director Wray insist Crooks didn't leave a significant online footprint when we now know he did? Why did they ignore the insane number of red flags Crooks must have tripped about assassinations in online searches while other Americans were arrested for memes? Why did they clean the crime scene prematurely? (video)

• @HealthRanger

• Tiffany Cianci is the second person this week to allege that Susie Wiles has crushed MAHA. “She was a huge lobbyist and negotiated all of Pfizer’s demands during Covid.” “To pacify the donor base, [Susie Wiles said] we’re going to give Bobby Kennedy HHS, we’re going to plant a bunch of … people around him to roadblock him, then we’re going to put agrochemical lobbyists in charge of the EPA, and we’re going to put a bunch of lobbyist darlings for industrial food companies in charge of the USDA.” I am publicly calling for Trump to fire Susie Wiles. She is doing unspeakable damage to MAHA and MAGA, in my opinion. (video)

• @KobeissiLetter

• BREAKING: JP Morgan says the AI boom will drive +$1.8 trillion in new bond sales in 2026. Magnificent 7 CapEx is now running at an annual rate of over +$600 billion. AI is prompting biggest wave of investment in US history.

• @BennyJohnson

• This is verifiable proof that all Democrats showed with their email release is that Epstein was an intelligence operation targeting President Trump. Let's break it down: (video)

• @EvanAKilgore

• HOLY SHIT: Tucker Carlson just DESTORYED any shred of credibility the FBI had left. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino MUST RESIGN if this is all true. The FBI is lying to the American people about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. This should PISS YOU OFF. (video)

• @ShannonJoyRadio

• This interview with Dr. Hatfill was bombshell. Implicated Susie Wiles and Stefanie Spear. More candor than I have EVER heard in my time in politics. (video)

• @MdBreathe

• The woman controlling @SecKennedy - HHS Deputy COS Stephanie Spear - hates
  @POTUS and has communist ties. Here are the receipts: (pic)

• @EvanAKilgore

• SAVAGE: Candace Owens just compiled a list is 10 verifiable LIES that
  @TPUSA has made following Charlie Kirk's assassination. Everyone needs to see this. (video)

• @laralogan

• Why is there no outrage over this? We are going like lambs to the slaughter. God help us all.

• @DerrickEvans4WV

• BREAKING: China secretly bought a trailer park in Missouri which SHARES A FENCE with a US nuclear bomber fleet. They hidden behind multiple shell companies to pull it off. “It's…where America's largest fleet of B-2 bombers take off.” This is CRAZY.. (video)