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Like Hitler, Netanyahu just can’t stop killing people even at the end.
Binyamin Netanyahu is gearing up for another series of strikes on Iran in the coming weeks, even if he loses the election. In fact, the prospect of such a loss may be driving his calculations economist.com/middle-east-an…
Lula must be a complete failure if he’s been president already three terms and hasn’t been able to turn the country communist. Or maybe Patrick here is just making shit up.
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Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating.
Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.
Senior Trump advisor previewing what he and the White House could do when they lose the US midterms. For them it is not a problem when a right wing loser pushes to annul the elections.
🚨@FlavioBolsonaro says he will request annulment of the elections🚨
Full transcript to follow ASAP.
This is the kind of Republican/Maga thinking that threatens our own election: they can’t believe more people voted against their exceedingly corrupt and dictatorial candidate so they insist that there’s fraud.
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Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization axios.com/2026/10/25/anthrop…
Bloodthirsty Netanyahu wants to start a new round of killing in case he loses the election and no longer has his finger on the trigger.
Breaking:
Israeli military demands formal authorization after receiving Order from Netanyahu to launch military strike on Iran.
jpost.com/israel-news/defens…
Programs which brought back the US auto industry from collapse should be taken seriously.
But yeah, Mary Kat, maybe you weren't around for the 2008 crash. It was kinda serious.
Trump allowing Russia to take control of a US LNG project. Why?
Because he does what Putin wants.
Trump-Putin scandal in Alaska.
"Joel Riddle, chief executive of Polar LNG until he resigned in September, said he had been misled...The true source of at least some of Polar LNG’s money was Novatek, a Russian energy giant under partial U.S. sanctions."
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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🧵Saw most of the new Musk documentary. You should see it. It is frightening. The woman he was seeing at the time of the 2024 elections with whom he had a child suggests that he suggested he may have done something with Starlink in the US 2024 elections, (beyond bribing people).
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40K people got to see what we are fighting for today. And what are we fighting for? Access to space on public land. The desire to not see an entire multipurpose space converted to an upscale golf course. Real radical ideas…
Let’s hope the MCM, and everyone else, can continue to use this park.
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US: Bird flu has been spreading for around two months on a Utah mink farm holding thousands of animals. None have been culled, workers aren't being monitored, and the USDA says it doesn't regulate mink. So thousands of animals are exposed, workers could be at risk, and nobody seems to be taking responsibility.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
You still have to have a position on sports, because the right will force you to take one. That is where Dems will continue to stumble.
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After seven failed attempts, some of which were thwarted by opposition from U.S. officials, Maria Corina Machado is back on Venezuelan soil, her aides confirm.
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Over half of all mail ballots spoiled in North Carolina’s largest county are due to new rules passed by the GOP-controlled state board of elections.
The county is also a Democratic stronghold that could sway election results in the battleground state. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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THE POPE, MELANIA TRUMP, AND THE UKRAINE CEASEFIRE
🕊️ Oct. 16: Pope Leo calls Putin. Pushes for a ceasefire
🕊️ Oct. 19: Pope Leo calls Zelenskyy. Same mission
😈 Oct. 23: Melania announces the ceasefire. The White House calls her the “exclusive intermediary”
The Pope wasn’t even mentioned.
