(((Alan Tonelson)))

More moronic pinprick, tit-for-tat strikes on Iran by Trump.

Pretty stunning finding IMO: According to @ChallengerGray, Non-Profit organizations announced 4,742 layoffs in September - about seven times more than in Sept 2025. But ytd, such job cuts are down 28%.

"Florida is trending for [domestic US holiday travel in 2026." But in the seventh spot is...Pittsburgh?

TERPS WIN!!!!! TERPS WIN!!!!!!

.@LeonHadar's a must-read on Israeli politics. Esp interesting in his new piece on the election aftermath: If Gadi Eisenkot wins, expect "quiet coordination [with the US] through military channels, fewer public spats & more predictability, but also more willingness to say no."

Weirdly ignored this @WSJ article: Trump 2.0 tariffs have covered all the world's major automaking economies, not just China's. And that's a big reason why foreign automakers all over the world are pouring new productive investment into the US. More evidence that tariffs work.

Globalists like the @FT's @GideonRachman have been bemoaning for years how Trump supposedly has led the US to retreat from world affairs. Now he's saying that the Democrats' midterms wins will likely "lead to a further retrenchment of America’s global role"? SMH

A report below that the US Cheap Labor Lobby doesn't like Trump's appointment of deportations champion Stephen Miller as his chief of staff. Well duh.

Excellent reporting below by @AnaSwanson, @KeithBradsher & colleague on an apparent big failure of US tech export control vs China policy. But wondering how it squares with a recent @Reuters claim that Beijing doesn't want these H200 (second-best Nvidia) AI semiconductors.