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A Venezuelan who fled Maduro’s regime now commands a roughly 250-strong battalion in Ukraine, most of them Colombians. José David Chaparro, 59, leads the Bolivar Battalion, a drone unit within Ukraine’s Security Service Alpha special operations center — The Kyiv Independent. 1/

BREAKING: Fully masked Islamists are now chasing down Zohran Mamdani, and threatening him. You have to laugh at the irony of this.

U.S. Army Abrams Tank and Stryker Combat Vehicle Get PERCH 2.0 for Under-Armor Attack Drone Launches

UPDATE | The Saudi coalition says it struck more than 80 Houthi military sites across Saada, Hodeidah, Jawf and Marib today. Riyadh is now saying it is hitting Houthi positions across four governorates, well beyond the immediate coastal front. If Houthi missile and drone launches continue at the same pace over the next few days, we’ll have a much better idea of how much this campaign is really degrading their deep-strike capability.

BREAKING: Since the start of 2025, US jobs numbers have now been revised down in 16 out of 20 months by a total of -793,000 jobs. This means that, on average, -39,650 jobs have been revised out of previously reported data each month during this period. The most recent August and July jobs numbers were revised down by a total of -60,000. Revisions to nonfarm payrolls have consistently occurred since the start of 2023. If we apply this average to the +29,000 jobs add in September's report, it would imply a -10,650 contraction in nonfarm payrolls last month. This would also mark their 3rd monthly decline of 2026, following a -156,000 drop in February and -10,000 in July. What is happening here?

After almost two DECADES without a new copper source anywhere in the U.S., the Florence Copper Mine in Arizona is now open and will produce TENS OF MILLIONS of pounds of copper PER YEAR and create HUNDREDS of good-paying jobs to the community. It was great to be there in person yesterday to celebrate the mine’s opening—a HUGE win for Arizona’s economy and its environment.

The U.S. mortgage market is in its biggest recession in U.S. history. Applications to purchase a home are down 58% from the pandemic peak in 2021. Today's mortgage purchase index of 145 today is lower than at any point in the 2009-2012 housing bust. And is now back the same level as 1995. Not only that, mortgage applications are also down 15% from last year, indicating a further short-term weakening is occuring. Roughly 70% of U.S. home purchases are financed with a mortgage. So declining mortgage applications are going to be a big problem for sellers. Track the areas with the biggest negative forecasts at: reventure.app/map/inriPyNjei

LeoLabs has detected another debris-generating event in orbit. This is the latest in a series of events we've seen over the last 6 months. Together, they point to a worrying trend for space safety and security, and underscore the critical need for persistent sensing.

I’ve found so often that Russians just have a knee-jerk reaction to cover things up. I’ve also found this is often because they’ve done something so tremendously awful, it needs a cover-up.

TERRORIST: “Hello, dad! Dad, I am inside Mefalsim [Israel]—open your WhatsApp right now, and see all the killed. Look at how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews!” FATHER: “Allahu Akhbar, Allahu Akhbar! May God protect you.” TERRORIST: “This is inside Mefalsim, father. I am talking to you from the phone of a Jew—I killed her and her husband—I killed ten with my own hands.” “Open your phone and see how many I killed, father. Open your phone, I am calling you on WhatsApp.” FATHER: Crying (unintelligible). TERRORIST: “I am in Meflasim, father. I killed ten! Ten! Ten, with my own bare hands! Their blood is on my hands! Let me talk to Mom—” MOTHER: “Oh, my son, may God protect you!” TERRORIST: “I killed ten all by myself, mother!” FATHER: “May God bring you home safely.” TERRORIST: “Father, go back to WhatsApp! I want to call you live from Mefalsim!” MOTHER: “I wish I was there with you!” TERRORIST: “Mother, your son is a hero. I was the first to enter under the guidance and with the help of Allah. Father, lift your head—lift your head!” (Talking to terrorists on the scene: “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill them! Inside, inside, into the city!”) BROTHER: “Mahmoud, Mahmoud. Come back [to Gaza]—that's enough, return.” TERRORIST: “Return? There is no return—it is victory or martyrdom. My mother gave birth to me for Islam, Alaa. Are you serious? How will I return? Look at WhatsApp—look at your phone—look at all the dead.”

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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) says 81 U.S. aircraft have been reported lost or damaged in the Iran war since February 28th, in a report updated October 5th. CRS built the list from news reports, Pentagon and U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) statements, and the Pentagon inspector general, and says it may change. Some damaged aircraft have since been returned to service. Fixed wing aircraft: 12 - F-15E "Strike Eagles" 7 - KC-135 "Stratotankers" 1 - E-3 "Sentry" 2 - A-10s "Thunderbolt II" 1- F-35A "Lightning II" 2 - MC-130Js "Commando II" Rotary wing: 1 - MH-60 "Blackhawk" 4 - AH-6s "Little Bird" 1 - AH-64 "Apache" 1 - HH-60W "Jolly Green" UAVs: 45+ - MQ-9 "Reaper" 3 - MQ-1 "Gray Eagles" 1 - MQ-4C "Triton" Photo: @MarkLynham1 Source: congress.gov/crs-product/IN1…

@ABC is refusing to correct this lie. @ByNathanLee's "analysis" is totally bogus, and he knows it, because Anduril provided him with the actual numbers - 1789 Capital has only invested a total of $50M in Anduril, and this so-called "major stake" is about 1/1000th of the company. The claim of $6B+ in "active or promised government contracts" is also a lie. Most of that amount is in hypothetical contract ceilings, which are (by design) larger than the government or the contractor expect to transact. The problem for Nathan and ABC, which they also know, is that a bunch of people, including the Governor, assumed they were telling the truth and acted on it. Admitting they got this wrong would make a legal judgement against them trivially easy. And so they lie.

Ukrainian attack drones hit Russia's Sasta machine-tool plant tonight, colocated with a major datacenter belonging to the Russian internet giant Yandex. Multiple explosions and a large fire were reported at the complex in Ryazan Oblast.

This is what a night in Kyiv looks like. Metro workers quietly pass through the station, careful not to wake the people sleeping on the platform while sheltering from Russian attacks. For some, it’s a workplace. For others, it’s the safest place to spend the night.

Ukrainian attack drones struck Yandex's Sasovo Datacenter tonight, one of Russia's largest, setting it on fire. The 35+ MW facility reportedly housed nearly 2,700 Nvidia A100 GPUs by 2021, imported before sanctions locked down Russia's tech sector.

A major outage hit Yandex following a Ukrainian Defense Forces attack on its data center in Sasovo. A “power supply disruption” was reported, leaving a wide range of Yandex Cloud infrastructure unavailable. The disruption affected computing resources, networks, data storage, databases, Kubernetes, cloud services, AI, and security and monitoring systems.

BREAKING: The Congolese migrant who beat the Swedish off-duty policeman Christian Zedig to death in a FIFA World Cup fan zone in Copenhagen was sentenced to 1 year. The judge also banned Nkumba Tshiembe from going to bars, restaurants, nightclubs and other places where alcohol is served after midnight for a year after his release from prison. The Congolese migrant is a repeat offender who has previously been sentenced for raping a woman, stabbing a man right next to the heart in a nightclub and several random assaults in public. The short sentence has caused outrage in Denmark and people are now calling for the law on “simple violence” to be amended so that longer sentences can be issued.

America's most popular router maker just got sued by five states for hiding how Chinese it really is. Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and Texas all allege the same thing about TP-Link, which controls 60% of the U.S. market: routers marketed as "Made in Vietnam" are actually assembled there with nearly all parts imported from China. Research, development, and manufacturing largely stayed in China too. Nebraska's lawsuit names the law that matters most: China's 2017 National Intelligence Law, which compels Chinese companies to hand over data to state intelligence on request. This isn't theoretical. The NSA and Microsoft have already documented Chinese state hackers exploiting TP-Link vulnerabilities to attack American organizations. Many of the compromised models can't even auto-update anymore.

The signs were right there.