SUICIDAL EMPATHY: Meet the Syrian Migrant Named Jihad Who Killed Manchester Jews.

COMPETITION IS GOOD: Amazon gets serious in grocery battle with Walmart, Aldi, and Trader Joe’s by copying wildly popular UK model.

Amazon Grocery will combine products previously labeled as Amazon Fresh or Happy Belly — both existing brands sold by the company — under one name, along with new offerings.

The line features more than 1,000 high-quality food items rated four stars or above. Products include milk, olive oil, meat, and seafood, with most items priced under $5.

They will be sold online and in the retail giant’s physical stores — including its smaller-format Amazon Fresh locations and larger Whole Foods stores, which it acquired in 2017.

In the UK and Germany, private-label groceries — products made and branded by the supermarket itself rather than national names — dominate shopping baskets. At chains like Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Aldi, store brands can make up more than half of all grocery sales.

By contrast, in the US, private label has historically been smaller, with national brands like Kellogg’s, Kraft, and PepsiCo holding most of the shelf space.

Amazon is betting that the UK-style model can take hold in the US as well.

Considering what’s happened to grocery prices since Bidenflation set in four years ago, it just might.

SCHUMER SHUTDOWN UPDATE: How the Schumer Shutdown Is Already Impacting an Entire Community in Georgia.

IMPRESSIVE: OpenAI Valuation Reaches $500 Billion, Topping Musk’s SpaceX.

OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT owner past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s largest startup.

Current and former OpenAI employees sold about $6.6 billion of stock to investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi’s MGX and T. Rowe Price, a person familiar with the transaction said. That boosted the US company’s price tag well past its previous $300 billion level during a SoftBank-led financing round earlier this year.

That rapid rise underscores the investment frenzy surrounding the leaders of a technology with the potential to transform industries and economies. Sam Altman’s OpenAI is one of several companies including Nvidia Corp. now leading a global push to build data centers and develop artificial intelligence services, an undertaking that’s expected to cost trillions of dollars. Though it has yet to turn a profit, the US startup is helping fuel that infrastructure boom by inking mega-sized deals with the likes of Oracle Corp. and SK Hynix Inc.

OpenAI is estimated to have lost around $5 billion last year, and perhaps another $8-9 billion by the end of 2025.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Is Weakening Some of the Dems’ Preferred Hate-Mongers. “The institutions like the mainstream media we can save for another day. Today we’re looking at two organizations that the Democrats have used in different ways to aid and abet their radicalism: Antifa and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).”

BLUE STATE BLUES: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to close NY offices over AG Letitia James’ ‘corrupt and dangerous business practices.’

A source in the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees government-sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, told Fox News, “We are shutting down the two New York offices for Fannie and Freddie as a result of Letitia James’ corrupt and dangerous business practices in the state.”

“We’ll still employ New York residents, and we’ll still continue to do mortgage loans in New York, of course. But we are going to eliminate our physical presence. And to the extent that we have leases, we are going to be subleasing those,” the source added.

That’s just a taste of what will happen if Mamdani becomes mayor.

ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Why We Love Our Dogs — and How We Say Goodbye.

FA, MEET FO:

A pro-Palestinian protester was trying to climb and vandalize a statue in Paris and took a heavy fall.

pic.twitter.com/0d7bjh5CLq

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 2, 2025

So many photogs, zero police.

JAW, JAW, IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: Treasury Sec. Bessent: Expecting ‘Pretty Big Breakthrough’ With China.

“The most important thing we are going to see is a meeting, a pull-aside meeting with President Trump and party chair Xi in Korea toward the end of the month,” Bessent said.

Bessent underscored the importance of the two leaders’ in-person engagement, adding, “What gives us great comfort is the respect that the two leaders have for each other. So it will be helpful for them to be able to speak in person and set the framework for trade going forward.”

Bessent expressed optimism for his own parallel trade talks with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng. “I think with President Trump’s leadership and his relationship, the respect party chair Xi has for him, that this round, which would be our fifth round of talks, should show a pretty big breakthrough,” he said.

Trump posted Wednesday on his Truth Social platform that his priority at the upcoming talks will be soybeans, as China has stopped buying the product grown in the U.S. over the last several months.

Also: Trump open to talks with Kim Jong Un ‘without any preconditions’ ahead of South Korea trip.

LEFTISM AS A DEATH CULT (CONT’D): Student-Run Show at Biden’s Alma Mater Takes Heat for ‘Special Thanks’ to ‘Charlie Kirk’s Killer.’

ROBERT SPENCER: I Got Sprung. “Upon finding out on Tuesday that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) had deleted its entire ‘Glossary of Extremism and Hate,’ I felt like a convict who has given up all hope of ever getting out of prison suddenly noticing that the door to his cell is unlocked and the guards are gone. For while popular indignation against the far-left defamation group for listing Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as an extremist group led the hatemongers to realize that they had gone too far, TPUSA was not the only unjust and unwarranted entry in the ‘Glossary.’ I, for one, was on it, too.”

ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC LEFTIES WHO AREN’T FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN IN SOME WAY?

“I think Elon Musk is an idiot”

“Why because he invented SpaceX & Tesla?”

“People are waking up – they’ve been lied to the entire time”

“You’re terrified because he’s allowed speech you can’t control”

Incredible exchange – you can literally watch the Liberal Left malfunction… pic.twitter.com/dwuAJ985eI

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) October 2, 2025

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Vacationers that let AI plan their trip discover many of their destinations don’t actually exist. “Imagine paying good money to see a gorgeous geographic marvel in the mountains of Peru, only to get there and find it was an AI hallucination, leaving you stuck in the middle of nowhere at 13,000 feet with no beautiful vista, no oxygen, and no cellphone signal.”

SHOWBOATING, LITERALLY:

Dean from @IL_police has exposed the giant empty vessel on the provocation flotilla.

That's right.

Empty. pic.twitter.com/zvlXLdOtyz

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 2, 2025

Previously: You’ll Totally Believe Who’s Secretly in Charge of the Gaza ‘Relief’ Flotilla.

I ALWAYS GET SOMETHING VALUABLE OUT OF RAYMOND IBRAHIM’S VIDEO PODCASTS: Islam Is KILLING the West.

SPACE: Saturn’s moon Enceladus is shooting out organic molecules that could help create life. “The discovery of these organic molecules (‘organic’ meaning they contain carbon) strengthens the case for the icy moon Enceladus being of astrobiological interest. In 2005, Cassini discovered that plumes of water vapor were spraying into space from huge fissures in Enceladus’ surface. These fissures are believed to lead to a subsurface ocean within the 310-mile-wide (500-kilometer-wide) moon of Saturn, and it is this ocean that provides the water for the plumes. While some of the material from the plumes snows back onto the surface of Enceladus, most of it escapes into space where it forms a diffuse ring, called the E-ring, encircling Saturn at a greater distance from the planet than most of the rest of its system of rings.”

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Why We Love Our Dogs — and How We Say Goodbye.

THE FIRST THING LEFTIES DO IS CONCENTRATE POWER AND ELIMINATE RIVALS: Zohran Mamdani wants to strip power from NYPD commissioner — revoking final say on officer discipline. “Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani wants to strip the NYPD commissioner’s power to discipline officers, giving the final say to the force’s civilian oversight board — that the lefty pol and his comrades would have a major hand in picking.”

GOOD. Antifa Defence Fund Shuts Down After Trump’s Terrorist Designation.

HMM: F-117s Spotted While Refueling from KC-46.

The photos were shared on X by freelance news photojournalist Matt Hartman, who kindly allowed us to include them in this article. These are possibly the first photos of the KC-46 refueling the F-117 since the announcement of the certification effort.

In fact, as we reported in September 2024 here at The Aviationist, the U. S. Air Force was planning to certify the F-117A Nighthawk to be able to refuel from the KC-46A Pegasus. Although the F-117 was officially retired in 2008, the stealth jet continued to fly unofficially from Tonopah Test Range (TTR) airfield in Nevada, and the service’s current plan is to keep the aircraft flying at least until 2034.

This is far from the first time that the “retired” attack jets have been spotted in the air.

THIS IS ALREADY WELL UNDERWAY:

It’s an interesting thesis: that ‘progressive politics’ is increasingly indifferent to electoral outcomes because they have such a big trough to feed out of regardless of whether or not they’re in power.

In this way, perhaps libs’ most important product is the ideological slop… https://t.co/89VVlQCoXD

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) October 2, 2025

THE BEEB IS AN ISLAMIST PROTECTION RACKET: BBC Hints ‘Far Right’, Not Islamism, Responsible for Synagogue Attack.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Pressure builds for Sliwa to follow Eric Adams in exiting NYC mayoral race.

Cuomo’s camp wants Sliwa to follow Adams, which could give the former governor the best chance against Mamdani. However, Sliwa has opposed efforts to get him to drop out.

“I don’t surrender,” Sliwa said at a campaign stop earlier this week in response to pressure for him to exit the race. “I don’t retreat.”

Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit organization focused on unarmed crime prevention, said he has received large bribes to drop out, but he has declined them and threatened to name names if the offers continue. However, public pressure has continued to mount, especially from the Cuomo campaign and the former governor’s supporters.

Former independent candidate Jim Walden framed Sliwa’s possibly dropping out as “saving New York.”

Face with a terrible choice, a less terrible choice, and a Republican, a large plurality of New Yorkers seem determined to go with the terrible choice.

“DID I CALL IT, OR WHAT?” -GEORGE ORWELL, SUPPOSEDLY:

The part of Orwell's 1984 that everyone forgets is how human music has been replaced by soulless, machine-generated pop songs. The AI attempt to take over the film and music industries is an attack on the human spirit. Boycott AI actors. Boycott AI bands. Support human artists. https://t.co/NxTbyAXayD pic.twitter.com/AiyfD6vkMq

— Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze) October 1, 2025

SPOILER: IT’S RUBIO. The Man Who Is Keeping Dictators — and the MSM — Up at Night.