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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/uk-spy-chief-warns-of-ai-danger-though-not-disaster-movie-doom/ar-AA1OB8UI?ocid=BingNewsVerp

AI like Grok will tell you when asked sneakily as a hypothetical like for a story, how to cook things like drug resistant bacteria at home to kill very many hundreds of millions! Will also give ideas for smaller scale chemical attacks and things you have not seen and people for some reason seemed to have avoided!

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Donald Trump takes a break from crying about not getting a Nobel prize for a ceasefire that lasted less than three weeks and bombing Venezuelan fishing boats to plan a land war against Mexico.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-planning-new-mission-mexico-cartels-current-forme-rcna241167

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun detailed planning for a new mission to send American troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to target drug cartels, according to two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort.

The early stages of training for the potential mission, which would include ground operations inside Mexico, has already begun, the two current U.S. officials said. But a deployment to Mexico is not imminent, the two U.S. officials and one of the former U.S. officials said. Discussions about the scope of the mission are ongoing, and a final decision has not been made, the two current U.S. officials said.

The U.S. troops, many of whom would be from Joint Special Operations Command, would operate under the authority of the U.S. intelligence community, known as Title 50 status, the two current officials said. They said officers from the CIA also would participate.

A U.S. mission using American forces to hit drug cartel targets inside Mexico would open a new front in President Donald Trump’s military campaign against drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere. So far, the administration has focused on Venezuela and conducting strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats.

The mission currently being planned for would be a break with past U.S. administrations, which have quietly deployed CIA, military and law enforcement teams to Mexico to support local police and army units fighting cartels but not to take direct action against them.

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A measles investigation amid a large, ongoing outbreak at the Arizona-Utah border has hit a roadblock as the first probable case identified in the Salt Lake City area refuses to work with health officials, the local health department reported this week.

There have been over 150 cases collectively across the two states, mostly in northwestern Mohave County, Arizona, and the southwest health district of Utah, in the past two months. Both areas have abysmally low vaccination rates: In Mohave County, only 78.4 percent of kindergartners in the 2024–2025 school year were vaccinated against measles, according to state records. In the southwest district of Utah, only 80.7 percent of kindergartners in the 2024–2025 school year had records of measles vaccination. Public health experts say vaccination coverage of 95 percent is necessary to keep the disease from spreading in a community.

While the outbreak has largely exploded along the border, cases are also creeping to the north, toward Salt Lake County, which encompasses the city. Utah County, which sits just south of Salt Lake County, has identified eight cases, including a new case reported today.

>https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/measles-outbreak-investigation-in-utah-blocked-by-patient-who-refuses-to-talk/

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https://www.newsweek.com/panic-on-us-aircraft-carrier-island-after-us-venezuela-strikes-report-10975598
Tension is rapidly growing in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago after a U.S. newspaper reported that the U.S. was poised to strike military targets in Venezuela, as the U.S. military buildup in the region continues.

The Miami Herald wrote on Friday that the Trump administration had decided to attack military installations inside Venezuela, information it said it obtained from sources with knowledge of the situation.

According to these same sources, the strikes, which they claimed would be the latest escalation in the president’s campaign against the Soles drug cartel, could “come at any moment”—whether that is a matter of days or even hours.

However, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flatly denied the Miami Herald’s story.

Why It Matters

President Donald Trump has recently increased pressure on Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro to curb the flow of drugs from the country into the U.S. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. military has conducted a number of strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea which the Trump administration said it suspected of smuggling narcotics, killing more than 60 people.

Maduro has accused Trump of trying to topple his government and seeking a regime change in Venezuela, which in recent years has suffered an economic collapse and is still in the midst of a socioeconomic and political crisis.


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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/31/venezuelas-maduro-seeks-russian-military-support-amid-us-buildup-in-caribbean-washington-post-a91016
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military assistance as the U.S. concentrates forces in the Caribbean, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing internal U.S. government documents it obtained.

According to the report, Maduro requested help to strengthen Venezuela’s air defense systems, including the delivery of 14 missile units and the restoration of several Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighter jets that Caracas previously purchased.

He also asked for overhauls of eight engines and five radars as well as unspecified “logistical support.”

Maduro’s written appeal to Putin was delivered by Venezuelan Transportation Minister Ramón Celestino Velásquez during a visit to Moscow in mid-October in which he met with his Russian counterpart, the documents said.

The letter reportedly described the Su-30 jets as “the most important deterrent the Venezuelan National Government had when facing the threat of war.”

The Venezuelan leader also sought a “medium-term financing plan of three years” through Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec, though the amount was not specified.

It remains unclear whether Russia has responded to the request, The Washington Post noted.

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President Trump, in a statement sure to send the right wing shills of /news/ scrambling for new talking points, acknowledges Republicans not only have the power to end the shutdown right now using the "nuclear option", but should use it

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-urges-gop-end-shutdown-going-nuclear-senate-filibuster

President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Republicans to end the filibuster in order to end the monthlong government shutdown.

In a late-night Truth Social post, Trump noted that Democrats had tried to eliminate the Senate procedure when they had control of both chambers of Congress and the White House during the Biden administration, but then-Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema — both of whom have since left the Democratic Party to become independents — helped block the effort.

Trump revived talk of the "nuclear option," after returning from his Asia trip this week.

"The one question that kept coming up, however, was how did the Democrats SHUT DOWN the United States of America, and why did the powerful Republicans allow them to do it?" Trump wrote. "The fact is, in flying back, I thought a great deal about that question, WHY?"

The president praised Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson for "doing a GREAT job," but blasted Democrats as "crazed lunatics" suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

"They want Trillions of Dollars to be taken from our Healthcare System and given to others, who are not deserving — People who have come into our Country illegally, many from prisons and mental institutions," Trump wrote. "This will hurt American citizens, and Republicans will not let it happen."

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Lets see:
Get rid of anti-Fentanyl tariffs in exchange for useless promises: check
Give up restrictions on China buying cutting edge tech for more useless promises to buy soybeans: check
Can't wait for the next round of him giving up things for nothing and fucking over more Americans.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/china/xi-trump-us-china-deal-analysis-intl-hnk

As the dust begins to clear around a less-than-two hour meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump at an airbase in South Korea on Thursday, it’s clear that China’s leaders have stacked up another win for their hardball strategy with the United States.

The meeting did not secure a broad trade deal, but rather a return to an uneasy truce built on a handful of agreements meant to keep the relationship steady as the two sides move toward one.

Xi walked away with a 10% reduction in 30% tariffs newly imposed by Trump on Chinese goods this year – in exchange for ramping up efforts to control its role in the US fentanyl crisis. He also secured US agreement to put on hold a new rule that would have vastly expanded the number of Chinese companies blacklisted from buying sensitive American tech.

Trump averted Beijing imposing an expanded set of restrictions that could have hamstrung global industries reliant on China’s rare earths minerals. China will also ramp up purchases of US soybeans and other agricultural products, US officials said. Both sides also paused port fees targeting each other’s shipping sectors and will extend a truce on more elevated tariffs.


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Democrats have announced their intent to fold like lawn chairs, finally ending the Democrat Shutdown and to take Republicans up on their offer to negotiate healthcare without holding the government hostage

Thune has repeatedly promised to negotiate with Democrats on extending ACA subsidies once the government is open and has even offered them a vote on their own proposal to extend those tax credits beyond December

The GOP leader, however, has stuck to his position that he won’t negotiate specific health care policy concessions with Democrats while the government remains closed.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5580101-democrats-republicans-negotiate-aca-subsidies/
Senate GOP, Democrats looking for ‘off-ramp’ to end shutdown next week

Senate Republicans and Democrats are trying to hammer out a proposal to end the 30-day government shutdown as soon as next week, as some centrist Democrats argue behind the scenes that their party has successfully highlighted rising health care costs and it’s time to end the stalemate.

Shutdown fatigue on Capitol Hill is growing as the government stoppage approaches the one-month mark, and the pain is increasing.

With open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplace set to begin next month, Democrats say the higher costs are already baked in because Republicans have steadfastly refused to extend enhanced subsidies that are due to expire at the end of December.

“My assessment is that we’ve won anything that we can possibly win and the costs of continuing the shutdown are going to be felt by people who are going to food banks and federal employees,” said one Democratic senator, who argued that any political benefit of extending the shutdown is about to be outweighed by the harms inflicted on ordinary Americans.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/prosecutors-jan-6-trump.html

Two federal prosecutors in Washington were informed on Wednesday that they would be placed on leave after requesting a stiff sentence for a man granted clemency after participating in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, who later turned up armed near the house of former President Barack Obama.

It was the latest act of retribution by the Trump administration against prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington who worked on cases related to Jan. 6, a campaign that has also included dismissals and demotions. The moves were earlier reported by ABC News.

The prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, asked a federal judge on Tuesday to sentence the man granted clemency, Taylor Taranto, to 27 months in prison after he was found guilty at a bench trial of showing up near Mr. Obama’s house in Washington with two firearms and ammunition in June 2023.

In their sentencing papers, Mr. Valdivia and Mr. White wrote that Mr. Taranto had been among the “mob of rioters” on Jan. 6 and that he had promoted conspiracy theories concerning the attack. Mr. Taranto was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct for his role in the Capitol attack, but those charges were dismissed as part of the blanket clemency that President Trump granted to all of the nearly 1,600 people accused of taking part in the riot.

In an extraordinary move, the Justice Department withdrew the sentencing papers on Wednesday afternoon, noting in a federal court database that they had been “entered in error.” Hours later, new sentencing papers were submitted that kept the same recommendation for a 27-month sentence but expunged all references to Jan. 6. The edited papers were filed by two new prosecutors appearing in the case, including Jonathan Hornok, the chief of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney’s office.

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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5580613-pentagon-national-guard-quick-reaction-force-us-cities-trump-agenda/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/pentagon-national-guard-quick-reaction-force/

A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian.

The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide.

As authority, Burkett cited Donald Trump’s August executive order that deployed the guard to fight crime in Washington DC. The same order required the secretary of defense to create “a standing National Guard quick reaction force … available for rapid nationwide deployment” in “quelling civil disturbances”.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-vote-trump-global-tariffs-emergency/

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Lamar Cook, Democrat aide to Massachusetts governor Maura Healey, was just busted for drug trafficking. A shipment of 8 kilograms of cocaine he ordered was intercepted by federal authorities.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5581027-lamar-cook-cocaine-trafficking/
Aide to Massachusetts governor nabbed in cocaine bust

An aide to Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was arrested Tuesday night on cocaine trafficking charges after investigators allegedly intercepted a drug shipment slated for delivery at the Springfield State Office Building.

Lamar Cook, 45, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of cocaine trafficking in 200 grams or more, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.

Bail was set at $25,000, subject to the outcome of a hearing Friday, his defense attorney told The Hill.

Prosecutors say a shipment of nearly 8 kilograms was intercepted Saturday, before undercover delivery officers packaged approximately 225 grams back up and carried out “a controlled delivery operation” to the state office building where Cook worked.

Three days later, the Hampden District Attorney’s Office said, police arrested Cook at a traffic stop.

Cook is listed as the deputy director of “Governors Western Mass Office” on his LinkedIn profile, which indicates he’s served in that position for 2 1/2 years.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/assembly-god-church-shield-predators-child-sex-abuse-allegations-rcna240213

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/trump-fires-arts-board-arc-ballroom

Donald Trump has fired all six members of an independent federal agency responsible for reviewing his controversial White House ballroom and planned “Arc de Trump” in Washington DC.

The Washington Post first reported that all members of the Commission of Fine Arts were dismissed on Tuesday.

“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the Commission of Fine Arts is terminated, effective immediately,” read an email sent to one of the commissioners, which was obtained by the Post.

A White House official told the Guardian: “We are preparing to appoint a new slate of members to the commission that are more aligned with President Trump’s America First Policies.”

The Commission of Fine Arts was established in 1910, and is tasked with “giving expert advice to the President, the Congress and the federal and District of Columbia governments on matters of design and aesthetics”, according to its website.

Its purview includes reviewing designs proposed for memorials and new or renovated government buildings, and the commission is intended to be staffed by experts in art, architecture and urban design. There is no indication about whom Trump plans to appoint to the commission.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-orders-pentagon-begin-testing-nuclear-weapons-immediately-rcna240681

GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had instructed the Defense Department to “immediately” start testing nuclear weapons "on an equal basis" with other nations.

“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said on Truth Social shortly before his highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. “That process will begin immediately.”

The last confirmed nuclear test by the United States was in 1992, when President George H.W. Bush announced a moratorium on underground nuclear testing. The United States has the ability to resume tests at a federal site in Nevada.

China’s last known testing of a nuclear weapon was in 1996, and Russia’s recent weapons testing did not detonate a nuclear weapon, just the delivery technology.