Important stuff is more fun, than fun stuff is important. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zum Tode betrübt.
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Sarah retweeted
🇧🇪BREAKING NEWS: THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT HAS COLLAPSED
PRIME MINISTER BART DE WEVER (N-VA) WILL VISIT THE KING LATER THIS MORNING TO DELIVER THE GOVT’S RESIGNATION
The De Wever govt of N-VA, MR, CD&V, Les Engagés and Vooruit has failed to reach an agreement on the budget
Snap elections by February may be on the table
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SCMP: "China’s central bank has set a weaker daily fixing for the yuan despite the offshore currency’s rise to a more than four-year high, signalling Beijing’s caution over the pace of appreciation amid external calls for a stronger yuan."
sc.mp/378oz?utm_source=twitt… via @scmpnews
Sarah retweeted
here's the entirety of the seeming mental breakdown Haley Stevens just had on CNN. One of the most bizarre and incoherent political interviews I can recall. Note how she's completely unable to explain why she changed her mind from supporting Abdul El-Sayed last night to endorsing Mike Rogers today.
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After detaining them for two months, six Palestinian teenagers from the village of Deir Sharaf were released from Israeli occupation prison after their families paid fines.
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"Abigail Ronson, a spokesperson for the Mike Rogers campaign, is a registered foreign agent for the state of Israel—one of two foreign agents working on the Rogers campaign, according to a review of foreign agent registration records."
"Ronson, who used to work for Senate Majority Speaker Mike Johnson, is a digital communications specialist at Convergence. In a May FARA filing, she also registered as a foreign agent for Israel, doing work for HAVAS Media Network via Brad Parscale’s Clocktower X LLC."
"Ronson is joined by at least one other Israeli agent on the campaign: Jesse Stokes is another Convergence Media staffer who registered as a foreign agent in October 2025 as part of the Havas contract. Stokes appears to pen many of Rogers’ press releases, and is the author on the April press releases announcing his Senate run, according to the document metadata."
- via @DropSiteNews
Sarah retweeted
New - Senate polls - Sienna
🔵 Michigan - El-Sayed +9
🔵 Texas - Talarico +7 (Flip)
🔵 Maine - Jackson +6 (Flip)
🔵 Ohio - Brown +5 (Flip)
🔵 Kansas - Hamilton +5 (Flip)
🔵 Alaska - Peltola +2 (Flip)
🔵 Iowa - Turek +1 (Flip)
Sarah retweeted
What? Europeans, Japanese & Koreans are paying > $1100/thousand cm vs <$300 for China & like $100 for Americans?
It's like China got this great & unexpected ally in de-industrializing their competition in all the traditional heavy industrial sectors.
Sarah retweeted
Trump: "I could've won the Vietnam War in a week"
(It's been 8 months and Trump can't defeat Iran)
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Trump dodged Vietnam and actually signed the deal to hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban. Then he says he “would have won” them, as he simultaneously repeats the mistakes of those wars today in Iran. Sad.
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A dentist from Ontario married a U.S. citizen, performed dentistry in "shortage areas" and was pursuing lawful status when ICE arrested him based on erroneous paperwork.
Judge Mike Davis said the "hubris" and "appalling" facts justify immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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This is an insane ad by Kansas Senator Roger Marshall, and when I first saw it, I thought it reeked of involvement by the candidate or the candidate’s spouse.
A classic case of a candidate feeling embattled and not feeling defended enough — it’s at this point that many candidates for office make the most reckless decisions.
And there’s no way professional Senate campaign staff or the NRSC would run such an ad.
And it turns out it’s much worse.
Per The New York Times, Marshall went around his campaign staff, hired his own film crew, then delivered the ad to his campaign and tried to get them to buy airtime for it. When they wouldn’t, he started passing the ad around to others, and that’s how it got posted on Twitter.
For those who aren’t aware, when Marshall was a practicing physician, he filed hundreds of lawsuits against patients. Some of those patients were arrested when they didn’t show up for court dates; others had their wages garnished.
Marshall frequently charged 18 percent interest on their bills.
Marshall’s billing practices were also first reported by the New York Times.
(Link to NYT story below)
Sarah retweeted
Saudi Ministry of Interior C295 ASW Persuader returns from the US-Saudi Drone Base in Umm Al Melh, 40km from the border with Yemen.
Sarah retweeted
US commentator Tucker Carlson claims Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressuring President Donald Trump to launch a nuclear strike on Iran, targeting an alleged underground enrichment facility.
Carlson says Trump could decide by November 7.
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“Zionism has brought millions of people to a state of utter derangement,” Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser said, noting that pro-Israel commentators struggle to even acknowledge that Palestinians are human.
Moser questioned the value of platforming such views in the name of “balance,” comparing it to debating the merits of Nazism or inviting a member of the KKK to provide an opposing perspective when interviewing a Black guest.
@WeTheBrandon | @BenMoser123
Sarah retweeted
A few days ago James Carville literally said he hoped that instead of a narrow Dem majority, he hoped Republicans win the House.
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My general thought here is that Trump is the most unpopular president since 1946 and that midterm saw the insurmountable New Deal coalition crushed by Republicans.
This time, Trump is unpopular not because he’s incompetent or unlucky but because of a very specific promise he made and then broke. He promised not to do new wars and instead to focus on bringing down prices.
Instead, he launched a new war that directly and painfully raised prices. And he and his family got extremely rich along the way.
He broke the contract, and I think he’ll pay an even higher price than the polls suggest.
I'm not a big defender of public media/academic polls in general.
As I've said, I largely ignore them and rely on higher quality private polls in my reporting.
But there are big misconceptions growing in some quarters that I think it would be good to head off.
A poll with a candidate at or near 50% is very different than a poll with the alleged leader at, say, 45%.
In other words, 50% to 43% is very different than 45% to 38%.
The smaller undecided is a meaningful factor.
And any Republican strategist or pol with access to high-quality private polling knows that their numbers are not meaningfully different than the New York Times polls.
If there is not a Blue tsunami as big as Connecticut, it will indeed be a very large polling failure across many states. But/and that will as true for private Republican polls as for the "liberal" New York Times polls.
The prospect that the polls have moved here in the final week from narrow Democratic leads in many key races to larger leads is perfectly consistent with voter behavior and with the news flow and political environment.
There might not be a Blue tsunami, but tonight there are more reasons to think that there will be than that there won't.