🇺🇸🐘⚡️- Republican Congressman Tom Barrett (MI-7) is campaigning on standing up to Trump and the GOP for voting against the Iran War.

Barrett’s district includes Michigan State University, and he is facing off against DSA-aligned Will Lawrence, who is best known for calls to abolish borders, the police, prisons, and more.

🇫🇷⚡️- Le Monde, a major left-wing journal in France, indicates the political scene in France is likely to shift further right after last evening's riots. Most left-wing politicians outside LFI are shocked and voiceless at what happened.

🇫🇷⚡️- A few key numbers of the 17th October French riots from the first official reports : 1200 arrests, 150 wounded policemen and dozens of millions of euros in damage. Most of the damage was done to public building and hundreds of shops across France were pillaged.

🇫🇷⚡️- Police forces seem to refuse any blame on poor performances or outbursts from their ranks. Every statement of the police from unionized members or media source shifts the blame to Macron, a lack of governmental directives and a lack of funds.

🇫🇷⚡️- A second protester is reported to have died. A man had a cardio-vascular shock while in the protest march in Magenta boulevard in Paris.

🇫🇷⚡️- Limoges' City Hall's roof has entirely been destroyed alongside most of its insides. However, the structure has held up and local authorities hinted that rebuilding it was possible.

"Damages are heavy. The heart is heavy. But our determination is whole. Limoges went through many hardships and it always stood back up, composed and proud. This time will be the same." - Mayor of Limoges last night.

Images from Ici Limousin.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇪🇬⚡- The Egyptian National Defense Council, chaired by el-Sisi, has approved the deployment of Egyptian military forces to Saudi Arabia for 'defensive purposes'.

🇫🇷⚡️- Up to 1800 arrests reported, mostly in Paris.

🇫🇷⚡️- Cities with the highest damage, per C. Kelly at CNEWS:

Left-leaning (12): Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Rennes, Nantes, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne, Strasbourg, Rouen, Pau, Montpellier.
Right-wing (6): Limoges, Nice, Toulouse, Valence, Caen, Perpignan.
Centrists (2): Bordeaux (Renaissance), Angers (Horizons).

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron to address the nation tonight.

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: An inter-ministerial crisis cell in Paris planned for 6PM local time has just been cancelled.

This hints at a possibly significant announcement by Emmanuel Macron.

🇫🇷⚡️- The young Frenchman was reportedly a devout Catholic. He later posted himself stomping on the Palestinian flag he removed.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- "France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country. Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late! President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Donald Trump on Truth Social.

🇫🇷⚡️ - Activity is picking up in Paris as the police has been deployed in several areas to respond to the gathering of new unruly crowds.

🇫🇷⚡️- According to new informations, Emmanuel Macron's trip to the Middle East is maintained. He is expected tomorrow in Kuwait, then in the United Arab Emirates, in Bahrain, and finally in Qatar. Based on this, Emmanuel Macron will likely not announce anything too important at 8PM.

🇮🇷⚡- "Iran’s new heavy fighter will take off next year. The aircraft is entirely made in Iran," - Iran's Ministry of Defense.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "To the Great People of Israel:

Bibi Netanyahu has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran, with its 51 year old chant, “Death to Israel, Death to America! We will destroy the Little Satan and the Big Satan.”

What Country can survive when things such as this are allowed to be said, because eventually, they always end up being true? It would have been only a question of time until Iran would have put that ominous phrase into effect, but they have been systematically destroyed, both Militarily and Financially, and unless they change their ways, rapidly, we will soon finish the job.

If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so.

Bibi Netanyahu has been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition, including that coming from even Israel, itself. Despite all of that, he has endured and, in fact, he has thrived! I have watched Bibi under the most trying of times. Normal men or women in such situations would have wilted under the pressure — But Bibi did not wilt, he actually got stronger, and maintains that same Strength today. This is the kind of Partner that the United States of America is demanding of Israel, a Country for which it has done so much.

Please let this Letter serve to represent my Complete and Total Endorsement of Bibi Netanyahu in his upcoming Race for Re-Election as Prime Minister of Israel.

BIBI NETANYAHU WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!

Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump addresses the State of Israel on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Trump doesn't even understand America [let alone Israel]," - Yair Lapid, Israeli opposition candidate.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We should remember that Trump's expression of support does not guarantee success in the elections. And the one who learned this lesson this year is the former Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán. However, this is an important statement that Netanyahu's people have worked hard on," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "In the view of the Israeli public, Trump of October 2026 is not the same Trump of October 2025.

Last October, Trump was the most popular figure in Israel, almost across the entire political spectrum.

This October, Trump is perceived, primarily by right-wing Israelis, as someone who pledged to support the [Israeli] Air Force on their way to strike Iran, and then as someone who acted too hastily, leaving Iran standing," - Yaron Avraham of Israeli Channel 12.