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[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

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[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: A massive explosion on the gas pipeline feeding Syria's Tishreen thermal plant near Damascus Airport has taken three power stations offline, Tishreen, Deir Ali and Al-Nasiriya, per Syria's SANA and Reuters.

Tishreen is southern Syria's largest thermal station and all three sit on the same gas feed, which is why a single pipeline failure took out three at once.

It is the second Syrian gas pipeline attack in two days, after a sectional valve on the Shoula-Deir ez-Zor line was sabotaged on Monday night, cutting flow from the Jbeissa plant.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: President Trump calls on Jerome Powell to resign from the Fed Board.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Unusual Whales has launched an app for Options Traders on Robinhood’s AI Agent Marketplace.

Here is Robinhood CEO discussing Robinhood's push into agentic trading:

[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just cleared the way for Tennessee to execute Christa Pike tonight — convicted of torturing and murdering her 19-year-old classmate with a box cutter in 1995. She was 18 at the time, making her one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in America.

[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just cleared the way for Tennessee to execute Christa Pike tonight — convicted of torturing and murdering her 19-year-old classmate with a box cutter in 1995. She was 18 at the time, making her one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in America.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The Eritrean Army has invaded Ethiopia, crossing into the the northern parts of the Afar region.

[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

I should not be shadow banned this is bullshit.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: OpenAI partners with Synopsys to develop an AI model capable of designing, testing, & optimizing computer chips.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Robinhood announces 24/7 trading for US stocks and ETFs, including weekends.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate for Q3 GDP drops to 3.7%, from 5.0% on September 25

[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

@Kalshi The cost side is what matters: Moody's says feeding that 10% takes 45 GW of new generation and $110B — mostly natural gas, adding $25–30B a year to electricity costs. And the grid can't keep up: data center development is outpacing new generation and interconnection capacity.

[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

The twist: that's a big upward revision — economists expected it to stay at 1.5%. Stronger consumer spending and investment did it, but it's backward-looking: September consumer confidence just hit a near-12.5-year low and the August trade deficit reached a year-to-date high. Solid Q2, shakier now.

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

U.S. electricity prices are rising at their fastest pace in decades.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

HUGE: A very large plume of smoke is visible at the Abqaiq Oil Processing facility in Saudi Arabia, according to weather satellite imagery.

Earlier today, it was being reported that Houthi forces struck the facility using drones and missiles.

The facility is one of the most strategically important energy installations in the world, with an oil processing capacity of ~7 million bpd (barrels per day).

Contributed by: @BeamTracker_

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: US job openings dropped -256,000 in August, to 7.08 million, their lowest level since March.

Available vacancies have now declined by -506,000 since April.

The decline was driven by real estate and rental and leasing job openings, which fell -62,000, to 47,000, their lowest since September 2015.

Since January 2025, job openings in this sector have plunged -144,000.

Furthermore, job openings in manufacturing and construction declined -54,000 and -48,000 last month, respectively.

As a result, there are just 48,000 more available vacancies than unemployed workers, down from 419,000 in July.

The Fed cannot ignore the weak US labor market.

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

BREAKING: US forces exit Iraq after 23 years and $1.7 trillion spent

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Rate hike odds drop to 34%, half of where they were before John William's speech yesterday. Also, prediction markets and SOFR have converged as arb has been "arbed away."

[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

The sourcing matters: this is from a Reuters-reviewed informal Russian diplomatic "non-paper," not a formal threat — and Russian embassies in at least three European countries issued similar statements this week. NATO's Allison Hart condemned it as "irresponsible nuclear rhetoric." Loud messaging, not a posture change.

[Warp Speed News @WarpSpeedNews]

@kimmonismus The hardware angle is the real story here: DeepSeek is reportedly deploying 160,000+ Huawei Ascend chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, and a credible open-source CUDA alternative would blunt US chip export controls. Models are the headline; the chip stack is the race.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Middle East crude exports have recovered to 98% of prewar levels, per JPMorgan