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• @Business 

• President Donald Trump’s administration is working behind the scenes on fallback options if the Supreme Court strikes down one of his major tariff authorities.
• Ukraine plans to hold talks in Switzerland with US officials on the potential parameters for a peace agreement with Russia, according to a senior Ukrainian official. 
• A Japanese official blasted China’s claims that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has altered Japan's position on a Taiwan crisis as “entirely baseless,” calling for more dialogue to stop ties between Asia’s top economies spiraling. 
• Japan's Defense Minister said Tokyo is on guard for any potential security crisis in the region. 
• What to Know About the COP30 Climate Deal.
• The breach, which happened Tuesday, includes personal contact information, donation details and other data from fundraising and alumni engagement, Harvard said on its website. 
• Bet on a football game, an election or the price a stock will hit hours from now. How gambling and investing are starting to look the same these days. 
• Division at the Federal Reserve has intensified in recent weeks, with officials staking out disparate positions ahead of the central bank’s December policy meeting — all while Chair Jerome Powell stays silent. 
• What happened to the global economy this week — in charts. 

• @Zerohedge 

• Any Ukraine-Russia peace plan has to: 1) Stop the killing while preserving Ukrainian sovereignty. 2) Be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine. 3) Maximize the chances the war doesn't restart. Every criticism of the peace framework the administration is working on either misunderstands the framework or misstates some critical reality on the ground. There is a fantasy that if we just give more money, more weapons, or more sanctions, victory is at hand. Peace won't be made by failed diplomats or politicians living in a fantasy land. It might be made by smart people living in the real world. @JDVance. 
• State Department Sounds Alarm: Mass Migration Is an "Existential Threat To Western Civilization".
• *US MAY FIRST CONDUCT COVERT OPERATIONS ON VENEZUELA: REUTERS. 
• VTOL Air Taxi With Military Applications Flies On Hybrid Power For First Time. 
• Finely-Balanced Fed Meeting Faces Risk Wobbles & Distorted Data: Goldman. 
• Deutshe Bank: "In our reading, equity positioning is now underweight for the first time since July (-0.15sd, 34th percentile)."
• Lawmakers Want To Block US Purchases Of Chinese Chipmaking Equipment. 
• Trump Ends TPS For Somalis In Minnesota After Explosive Report Reveals Welfare Fraud Network Funding Overseas Terror. 
• EU-Digital Summit Exposes Europe's Innovation Crisis. 
• How Trump's Own Appointees Aided Russiagate Plot Against Him.
• New MAGA Weapon: 'Fight Tanks' For Rural America.

• @BarronsOnline

• Had bullish commentary on (BBAI) and (BMY).

• @IGSquawk 

• Weekend markets update: #DAX 23221 -0.06% #DOW 46288 -0.01% #NASDAQ 24298 +0.10% #FTSE 9580 +0.01% #HANGSENG 25496 +0.01% #EURUSD 11508 -0.05% #GOLD 4067 +0.05% #USOIL 5816 +0.30%.

• @WSJ

• A 3-year-old was put on ADHD meds for acting up in daycare. That was the first of six different psychiatric drugs. How a childhood of overmedication begins. 
• Mao Zedong once said that China must wield both the pen and the gun against its adversaries. It is a strategy China is now intensifying for Taiwan.
• The new nuclear race is here. But unlike during the Cold War, the U.S. must prepare for two peer rivals rather than one. 
• House leaders want to change the rules to rein in censure votes after a week of fighting
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• The remarks come a day after another another Fed official said there is room for a cut, and show the challenge Fed Chair Jerome Powell faces in trying to build consensus
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• @CNBC  

• AI Christmas: The latest devices from Amazon, Meta, Google and more.
• These are the most oversold stocks in the market that are ripe for a near-term bounce.
• This week in AI: Brushing off new bubble warnings, Google’s AI comeback and Nvidia’s China threat. 
• New IRS reporting requirements will make a classic crypto 'tax cheat' risky starting with 2025 return. 
• The fast-casual bowl boom is over. Wall Street isn't sold on Cava, Chipotle deals to lure back spenders. 

• @MarioNawfal

• CANDACE OWENS: THE MACRONS HAVE TAKEN OUT A HIT ON ME. "Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens.

• @LauraLoomer

• I predict millions of GOP voters are going to be sitting out 2026. It’s sad to see. Hopefully we are able to codify President Trump’s agenda, stop the judicial coup and get mass deportations before the Democrats win in 2026. We have less than one year before Dems win.

• @TheIntelSCIF

• TINA PETERS is in prison because she is a key witness to the stolen 2020 election. Tina Peters is now in solitary confinement, has a serious health condition, and needs to be released immediately. Many believe they are purposely doing this to end her life in prison to cover up their election fraud. What kind of prison system are we really running? This is going to look real bad if she isn't released and something happens to her. FREE TINA PETERS! (video)

• @zeeee_media

• So a court just essentially ruled Pfizer can go ahead with their plan to put “compliance ensuring” chips inside medicine? (video)

• @GunOwners

• @AGPamBondi just made the argument for banning EVERY HANDGUN IN AMERICA. (pic)

• @MikeBenzcyber

• USAID's Domestic Color Revolution Network. In this subscriber stream, I went through
  @DataRepublican's viral thread and added context, color & details about USAID cells plotting to use domestically the Dept of Dirty Tricks tactics they were formerly trained & tasked to do abroad. (video)

• @GenFlynn

• Thanks to @ShawnRyan762 for exposing two of the most disgusting games for kids, Roblox and Minecraft. Keep your kids away from them. (video)

• @LauraLogan 

• Are members of DOJ going after Ed Martin? Is this another example of how these agencies are occupied by subversives? BREAKING: DOJ Not Going After Adam Schiff, It’s Going After Ed Martin and Those Who Uncovered Schiff’s Mortgage Crimes!?! | Joe Hoft.

• @WallStreetApes

• Glenn Beck exposes the Islamic takeover of America. - America now has full-time Islamic schools, over 300 nationwide, many of them in Texas. - American kids spend hours memorizing the Quran. - These schools receive federal tax dollars to operate, example: Good Tree. Academy Quran first curriculum, segregated classes. In Texas - In the last 24 months. Dallas Fort Worth has 200 Islamic centers. - Houston another 100 plus Islamic centers. - The Muslim population ranges from 313,000 to 420,000. - Texas has Muslim only communities. - Texas has Sharia law compliant financing institutions. (video)
• BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel officially declares Thomas Crooks acted alone when attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. All these details discussed by Elon Musk and Joe Rogan are officially ‘nothing to see here’. (video) 

• @BreannaMorello

• BREAKING NEWS. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody by federal police and is currently detained in Brasília. The Supreme Court order cited risks of him fleeing ahead of a more than 27 years prison sentence. The Brazilian Supreme Court is rigged with corruption. Pray for Bolsonaro.

• @C_3C_3

• Want your blood to boil? Lawrence Reed was arrested at least 49 times over 25 years and spent around 900 total days in prison for violent crimes. Tina Peters was arrested 1 time and was sentenced to 8 years for catching the Dems cheat in 2020. Our justice system is broken.

• @WesternLensman 

• Incredible exchange here as Hakeem Jeffries gets IRATE with CNBC’s Becky Quick for daring to press him on his robotic ACA talking points: Quick: *Cuts Jeffries off to try to make him actually answer a question* Jeffries: “You can ask the question, I’ll provide the answer!" Quick: "Answer the question, instead of going back." Jeffries: "I'm providing an answer in order to provide context!" Quick: "It's important context to make me realize that I don't think you want to get a deal done. I think this is something where you'd like to see the rates go higher and allow the Republicans to hang themselves with that." Jeffries: "That's absolutely a ridiculous assertion. Shame on you for saying that! It’s not a partisan issue for us!" Quick: *eyeroll* This guy absolutely loses it at ANY semblance of media pushback to his scripted, robotic regurgitations. (video)

• @RWMaloneMD

• Yep- The bill releasing the Epstein files was not about protecting victims or predators; it was written to protect the intelligence "community." Congress needs to pass a bill making the use of honeypots in any way, shape or form - by our government or other government's on our soil illegal. No exceptions.

• @JimFergusonUK

• BREAKING: New leaks suggest major gaps in the official narrative around the Trump shooter — and lawmakers are demanding answers. The New York Post has released new photos of Thomas Crooks, showing him posing with a handgun and a bolt-action rifle, along with screenshots of past online behavior — including violent posts and other disturbing details. None of this appeared in the congressional report. Two members of Congress now say Biden’s FBI restricted their access to key information, limiting what they were allowed to review during the investigation. According to them, the final report is incomplete because federal officials blocked crucial lines of inquiry. Their words — not mine: “We were stymied by what the feds let us look at.” “They didn’t tell the full story.” Whether the FBI withheld evidence intentionally or not is still unknown — but the fact that elected officials are openly saying they were stonewalled is extraordinary.

• @TheChiefNerd

• Rep. Tim Burchett Says the Falling Out Between MTG & Trump is Over Israel “They're in a complete disagreement right now … She's upset about the perceived control of Israel, and Trump's embracing of Israel.” (video)

• @EricLDaugh

• If the Republican Congress could pass universal voter ID, citizenship, and ban mass mail-in voting, the United States electoral map would shift HARD in favor of the Right. Just do it. Your concerns about Democrats "taking advantage" of no 60-vote filibuster in the Senate are moot when you consider they'd likely NEVER be able to win after our elections become 100% secure.

• @RenzTom

• I’ve always liked and respected @RealJamesWoods but is this a joke? Bondi needs more time? Sir, have you seen the Comey indictment? Did you watch the Diddy case? By this time under Biden hundreds of freedom loving Trump supporters were in jail for the FBI/Democrat led J6 hoax… we have done nothing against the leftist leadership behind the violence being perpetrated against ICE. And none of this even considers the outright lies from the AG on Epstein - who she ignored while acting as AG of Florida - or the massive fraud from Pfizer - who she represented as an attorney. I’m sorry but 11 months is more than enough time. Bondi is either corrupt or wildly inept. I don’t care which - she has to go and no PR spin in the world will change that. MAGA sees it and I’m terrified of what’s going to happen in the midterms if Trump doesn’t right the ship… we CANNOT afford Dem majorities that will inevitably impeach the President but the base is NOT going to come out unless we start seeing some REAL accountability. For our country I’m praying the administration wakes up and starts firing the new Pence/Barr like officials around Trump.

• @McBrideLawNYC

• The FBI claims Thomas Crooks never tagged or replied to Willy Tepes. That’s a lie. This screenshot from @mirandadevine’s reporting shows Crooks replying to and tagging him. Does @FBIDirectorKash’s FBI care about truth for @POTUS Trump? (pic)

• @PatriotMarkCook

• If anyone hasn't yet seen the @realtinapeters sentencing, YOU NEED TO. I have shown this to attorneys all over the Country. They have never seen anything like this. Not only is this 'judge' out of his mind, but Tina was not allowed to enter her EVIDENCE into her Trial, and even I who spent many many months investigating and uncovering all kinds of evidence, was not allowed to testify in her trial about anything except 'BIOS passwords'. If you want to see TRUE EVIL, here you go. And remember, this could be your wife, your mother, your grandmother. If these demons will do this to Tina, they will do it to ANYONE that dares to question expose their secrets. (video)

• @disclosetv

• NOW - Canada PM Carney says AI data centres must be carbon neutral, by paying carbon credits, "We need a price on carbon, I salute my neighbor, the European Union, in pricing carbon and putting in place a CBAM."

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.