From Paris, where police hauled in two Louvre jewel thieves, to Virginia, where a DNA swab and a blunt confession closed a murder, to Caracas, where Maduro cries war at a carrier offshore, the week belonged to hard pressure and harder truths. Welcome to Sunday, October 26th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Ballots, bullets, and brinkmanship: as NYC voters line up early for Mamdani, Cuomo, and Sliwa, Robeson County counts the wounded from a Halloween party shooting, and President Trump says he is 100 percent open to a Kim Jong Un meeting as his Asia trip begins. It’s Saturday, October 25th 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
I came for wheel-to-wheel combat and got a choreographed runway show where Saturday crowns the winner and Sunday parades the cars.
High standards aren’t toxic; they’re the cure, learned the hard way one rep, one minute, one bite at a time.
Trump brands himself anti-globalist, yet his tariffs, combative rhetoric, and forward-leaning deployments bind America more tightly to great-power competition, raising risks to our security and national cohesion.
America isn’t a dream anymore; it’s a rigged casino where grocery lists read like defense contracts, your rent notice is a hostage note, and the house will keep winning until we break the machine.
As Trump jets to the Indo Pacific for a knife edge sit-down with Xi, a U.S. carrier steams south and Zelensky presses full sector sanctions, squeezing Moscow as cartels feel the heat. Welcome to Saturday morning. It’s October 25th, 2025 and this is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
US strikes drug boat, Rubio tours Gaza center, Croatia revives draft duty. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.
A U-Haul ignored commands, slammed into reverse toward the Coast Guard gate, and in a heartbeat the sentries answered with gunfire, leaving the driver wounded, a bystander grazed, and the island sealed under hard blue lights.
Writing is the long, bloody slog between inspiration and execution, but when it hits—when the scene fires clean—it’s like kicking in a door and finding the whole damn world on the other side.
The ghosts in McGarvey’s weren’t haunting the bar—they were teaching the living how to remember without breaking.
Treating Venezuela as a target board for drug war theatrics swaps strategy for spectacle and ignores the hard truth that cartel profits, legal ports of entry, and U.S. demand thrive despite bombs, while the real fix lives in reform, cooperation, and treatment.
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