Happy Wednesday Everyone! Today’s newsletter: 950 words…3.6 mins
🗞 Today’s Edition: Typhoon Ragasa, Dallas ICE Sniper Attack, Houthis Hit Israel, Afghan Teen’s Flight Adventure, White House’s New Walk of Fame, Alibaba Partners With Nvidia…& much more!
🚨 Watch For:
TikTok deal to be signed this week
📜THE HIGHLIGHT
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Main: The Dallas ICE field office area; Inset: Joshua Jahn, Unused rounds of ammo marked “Anti-ICE” in blue ink.
🥷 Dallas ICE Sniper Attack: Political Violence Goes Federal
A sniper opened fire on ICE’s Dallas field office early this morning. He has been ID’d as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn.
Jahn, from a rooftop across the street, used a rifle to target the sally port where detainees were being escorted inside.
Result: 2 innocent detainees killed, 1 hospitalized, Jahn died by self-inflicted gunshot as police closed in.
No ICE agents were harmed.
💡 FBI find: Unused rounds recovered beside his body were marked with “ANTI-ICE” in blue ink, pointing to an explicit political motive.
🚨 The fallout:
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem + FBI Dir. Kash Patel condemned the shooting as part of a rising wave of targeted violence against ICE.
VP JD Vance, Sen. Ted Cruz, and AG Ken Paxton demanded beefed-up federal protection, calling ICE agents “frontline targets.”
Investigators are probing possible accomplices or extremist ties.
🎯 Why it matters: This isn’t just another mass shooting—it’s a direct strike at federal immigration authority. The attack escalates ICE’s already volatile place in U.S. politics, where enforcement officers are now caught in the crossfire of America’s immigration wars and innocent detainees senselessly lost their lives.
♟️THE CHESSBOARD
Geopolitics Decoded In 3 Moves
🌪Typhoon Ragasa Slams Asia And…Brings Dinner
Typhoon Ragasa—the strongest storm of 2025—has left a deadly trail across Asia.
In Taiwan, flash floods in Hualien killed 17 people after a barrier lake burst; 17 more remain missing.
Hong Kong saw flights canceled, streets swamped, and waves “taller than lamposts”. A viral clip shows a torrent of water bursting through hotel doors flooding everything in its way.
In southern China, nearly 2 million evacuated as Ragasa made landfall near Yangjiang with 120 mph winds, triggering landslides and blackouts. The government deployed $21M in disaster relief.
But not all was bad news. The typhoon also flooded the street with…fish! Pictures and videos of people fishing in the streets in groups and proudly taking some home for dinner; have gone viral
🦈Bottom line: When the storm brings dinner, I guess you could call that a silver lining.
🛩 Afghan Teen Survives “Wheel-Well Flight” to Delhi
A 13-year-old Afghan boy from Kunduz stunned authorities after surviving a 1.5-hour flight from Kabul to Delhi by hiding in the landing gear compartment of a Kam Air Airbus A340.
Found in white pajamas wandering the tarmac, he told Indian officials he thought the plane was headed to Tehran, not Delhi.
Wheel-well stowaways almost always die from hypoxia + freezing temps—making this survival nearly unheard of.
💡Bottom line: India repatriated him back to Kabul, while the case exposes serious lapses in airport security.
🚀 Houthis Hit Eilat, Iron Dome Misses
Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a drone strike on Israel’s Red Sea resort city Eilat (Sept. 24), wounding 20+ people—two critically—after the drone detonated near a hotel and shopping strip.
Israel’s Iron Dome twice failed to intercept it leading to a military investigation.
Houthis framed the strike as “solidarity with Gaza”, part of nearly 90 missiles + 40 drones fired at Israel this year.
The Houthi terrorists refuse to learn from Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza - and will learn the hard way. Whoever harms Israel will be harmed sevenfold.
💡Bottom Line: Israel’s hitting back with airstrikes on key Houthi positions in Yemen, underscoring the Red Sea’s evolution into a new frontline in Iran’s proxy war.
🗽THE EMPIRE FILES
Political Drama From DC To NYC
Left: The White House Walk of Fame; Right: President Trump viewing the newly installed frames; Inset: President Biden’s frame
🖼✒ Trump’s Walk of Fame: The Ultimate Diss Track
The White House unveiled a “Presidential Walk of Fame.” Every former President got a gold-framed portrait—except Biden.
His spot features a photo of an autopen, signing Biden’s name - Trump’s favorite prop to question Biden’s mental acuity.
President Biden’s spokesperson has not yet responded to a request for comment.
💡Bottom line: It’s a petty, peak-internet troll move straight out of a Mean Girls subplot and the American culture wars continue.
🫥 DOGE's Epic U-Turn: "JK, We Need You Back"
Hundreds of federal workers fired under Musk's DOGE are getting rehire letters after the government realized it can't function without them.
The chaos: GSA lost 79% of staff, leases went haywire, and many got paid while they were benched.
Same thing's happening at the IRS, Labor Dept, and National Parks—turns out the cuts were far too aggressive.
💡Bottom line: Officials say the changes are intended to better serve the agencies and taxpayers, though critics argue the initial layoffs caused needless disruption and no real cost savings.
🤖 CODES & POWER
Tech Wars, Crypto Chaos, and AI’s Black Mirror Moments
💰 Alibaba’s AI Glow-up
Alibaba stock jumped 10% after teaming up with Nvidia and announcing a wave of new data centers across Brazil, France, the Netherlands, and more.
It also showed off Qwen3-Max, a trillion-parameter AI model built for coding and autonomous bots.
⚡CEO Eddie Wu says AI spend will blow past $53B, putting Alibaba Cloud front and center in the U.S.-China AI showdown.
📲 IG joins the 3B club
Instagram has officially joined the 3-billion-user club, a milestone announced by Mark Zuckerberg that puts it alongside Facebook and WhatsApp in Meta's elite trio of hyper-scale platforms.
Meta hadn’t dropped IG stats since 2022 (back when it was 2B). Now it’s leveled up—basically tripling in a decade.
⚡Zuck hopped on IG to celebrate: “What an incredible community we’ve built here.” Translation: 💰💰💰.
📺 FUN FACTS & TRIVIA
MTV's First Video
The very first music video to air on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, which premiered when the channel launched on August 1, 1981