The guy who tried to turn the media gala into a massacre is staying behind bars for now..
Cole Tomas Allen didn’t enter a plea.. instead he bragged about his master’s degree in computer science while US Marshals held him down..
The Feds are saying he sprinted past the first line of security with a shotgun and three knives..
It’s the third attempt on Trump’s life in two years.. and the White House is officially done with “civility” talk..
While the courthouse stays under guard.. King Charles is sitting down for a bilateral at the White House right now..
He’s about to become the first British King to address Congress.. and he’s doing it while the US-Iran war is on the verge of a nuclear threshold..
But the real “black swan” of the morning is China’s DeepSeek V4 Pro..
It’s running on Huawei Ascend chips.. not Nvidia.. which means the US chip blockade just got bypassed..
They built a model that rivals GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3.0 for a fraction of the cost..
If China can run frontier AI on their own domestic chips.. the US “compute monopoly” is officially over..
On the trading floor.. the “Warsh Pivot” is the only thing the bulls are holding onto..
S&P 500 futures are slipping this morning as the technical trendline breaks..
The “desk pips” are calling for a drop toward 7,004 if we can’t hold the morning open..
One Tuesday morning in a prison jumpsuit.. one at a Royal tea party.. one at a Huawei server farm..
The security state is maxed out.. the tech moat is leaking.. and the “King” is in town..
Watch the 7,170 level on the S&P.. if it fails.. the “Black Monday” we dodged yesterday might arrive on Tuesday.