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Putin praised Elon Musk and called him one of his "American" partners, this come after weeks of Musk antagonizing Ukraine and throttling their air defence. "Elon Musk is genius, a real genius." "We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk."
🚨BREAKING: Nearly 2,900 voters in one Georgia county have yet to receive the absentee ballots they recently applied for and are blaming their local officials’ hiring of an out-of-town vendor for the delays, they charge in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Nearly 3,000 voters in key Georgia county haven’t received mail ballots yet, dangerously close to Election Day deadline
Cobb County voters want a judge to order their election board to overnight absentee ballots to them to make the Nov. 3 deadline.
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The losses this year have felt even more heartbreaking at a time when these caring, wonderful voices have been most appreciated. Rest in peace, sir.
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 7h agoFans across the world mourn the passing of a true and irreplaceable legend. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart took the starship Enterprise to places it had never gone before.
There will not be another like him, and with the sad news of his passing, our thoughts are with his wife Sunny, his family, and his many friends. Our culture is so much richer because of Sir Patrick Stewart’s life and work.
🚨 PSA FOR NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS 🚨 Roughly 4,400 mail ballots had been flagged for problems. While 742 had been fixed, 3,672 remained at risk of not counting.
🚨 A bombshell new House Judiciary Democrats report details allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, including five who accuse Trump of sexual assault. The report also alleges a sweeping DOJ cover-up. We broke down the explosive findings.
Bombshell House Report Accuses Trump of Involvement in Epstein Sex Crimes, DOJ Cover-Up
House Judiciary Democrats detail allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Epstein and accuse his Justice Department of a sweeping cover-up.
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NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.
Alaska Natives’ early voting hampered by unlawful closures
At least 18 early voting sites in Alaska Native communities have yet to open, which is hampering turnout among a historically disenfranchised population.
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For some reason DOJ is asking for a protective order regarding polygraphs in the Brian Cole case (the accused pipe bomber). It may have to do with his attempt to graymail DOJ over the Shauni Kerkhoff part of the investigation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization
Anthropic says Claude pulled Georgia data on its own.
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NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...
The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin
Or why now’s the time to buy a wind-up radio
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Democracy won tonight in Latin America. Even against an American billionaire and his company intervention. A full criminal investigation of Meta and Mark Zuckerberg is required.
Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections Statement posted 8 hours ago. "This is the first time to our knowledge that favours made to politicians such as the Bolsonaros have been programmatically made user-facing to such an obvious and biased extent.”
Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
Meta staff are holding the Big Tech company’s leadership accountable for decisions they say could compromise the credibility of the democratic process.
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Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...
Colorado priest from Uganda released after 13 months in ICE detention in Aurora
After 13 months in an Aurora immigrant detention center, where he became reliant on a wheelchair as his health deteriorated, a Ugandan priest who has lived in Colorado for more than 25 years was relea...
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The governor of Bahia calls out the election sabotage, which has been reported in at least 10 states now, and demands extended voting hours. This is a shit show
JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...
How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)
The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
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1/2 Corrupt SCOTUS rules against voters again. The Supreme Court just made voting harder for New Hampshire students, letting officials reject student IDs even as supporting proof of identity. Eligible voters could lose their chance to cast a ballot. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
Supreme Court rules NH can block voters from using student IDs
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled New Hampshire’s top election official can fully stop voters from using their student IDs when showing up to the polls in the midterms — a request backed by …
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More attempts to encourage the UK public to stockpile food and water for three days.
Streeting: Prepare for supply chain disruption from cyber or climate emergencies
The defence secretary says the UK needs to be ready for scenarios including impact to essential supply chains.
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Some government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on October 21 after vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used programming language, were uncovered using AI. Raphael Satter explains why.
Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills, new analysis from @nesta_uk in @CarbonBrief Contradicts idea, which has become embedded in UK media and political narratives, that UK’s net zero target is to blame for high energy bills www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-ex...
MAJOR UPDATE: Shortly after this published, I obtained another document confirming this will be a removal flight only. If carried out, it would be the largest third-country removal to Africa so far: 25 people to Eq. Guinea, 30 to Burundi + 100 to Central African Rep. prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...
It Should Be a Rescue Flight; Docs Show It Will Be Another Immigrant Expulsion - The American Prospect
Documents show an ICE flight is expected to land in the African country where immigrant Ahmed Soliman, who a federal judge ordered to be returned, is currently imprisoned.
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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.SCOOP: I've obtained documents showing an ICE flight is scheduled to land Thursday or Friday in Equatorial Guinea -- where Ahmed Soliman is still imprisoned and seriously ill, despite a federal judge ordering his return to the US more two weeks ago. prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...
🇩🇪 For the first time, the Bundeswehr has acknowledged the threat of Russian sabotage against German troops in Germany as "significant." This is the second-highest threat level on the country's armed forces' internal scale, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung.
I feel like I remember a time when it would have been an explosive scandal if the CEO of a public company said shit like this
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last wk.This is an overt threat. Full stop.
I have appreciated Stephanie Rhule's perspective on the economy and our world going all the way back to early days at Bloomberg! I'm sure this will be a worthwhile read.
Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle@moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 3w agoStephanie Ruhle is publishing a book about her journey from Wall Street to TV. "The New Rules: Work, Life, Money and the Power of Minding Your Business" comes out in March. You can pre-order it now. #thenewrules #book #newbook #bookrelease #stephanieruhle #goodnewsruhles
You really can't go wrong assuming every accusation is a confession these days.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.
🚨 What we're tracking today: 1. Moscow-tied communist groups catalyzed France's protests. 2. Russian satellite moves away from target, for now. 3. Romania: drones it downed were likely Russian. 4. Midterm risks remain ELEVATED. trackers.america2.news?r=h-a04d7a
America 2.0 Live Trackers
Live, evidence-based trackers for fast-moving stories: one rating that moves only on evidence, what would change it, and the sources.
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🚨 Britain’s top Army general, Sir Roly Walker, warns that citizens must prepare for the possibility of war and make sacrifices for national defense. He says the military will need the public’s support to “take the fight to the enemy.” Watch:
If lefties continue to makebelieve what actual Dems are actually doing based off Beutler posts rather than learning what they are doing and magnifying it, they are the ones protecting corruption.
Joseph O'Neill@josephoneill.bsky.social · 2w agoIf Dems don't seize hold of the "corruption" theme, Republicans will. And because Dems continue to protect the Republican brand, voters will conclude, not unfairly, that both parties are as bad as each other. Either you're strongly anti-corruption or you're corrupt. No middle ground on this issue.
