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Major Kong to Ground Control

@bigstape.bsky.social

☸️🇺🇦🇨🇦 Will entertain requests for astrophotography targets. If you follow me for the space pix, be prepared for some politics. And chronic illnesses. Amateur astronomer Hoagiemouth Wannabe 🇦🇺 In an abusive relationship with my immune system.

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Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social

Where we are a a country: the Secretary of State waning a Nobel Peace Prize winner not to peaceably assemble because that won’t lead to democracy. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...

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As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

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🚨 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA VOTERS! More than 7K voters had their registrations flagged over questions about their residential addresses, & the ACLU is raising serious concerns about errors. Check your voter status NOW. If it says “Challenged,” contact Fulton County Elections.

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BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge extends court-ordered block on Trump's renovation plans for historic public golf course in Washington.

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1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

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Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s PM Jonas Gahr Støre held a joint call with Vladimir Putin on October 27, in consultation with Ukraine. They discussed ending Russia’s war, future negotiations and upcoming meetings in Abu Dhabi. #Ukraine

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

❗️Bloomberg reports Putin is preparing talks with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre on prospects for a Ukraine peace deal. The calls could take place Tuesday and would mark his first direct contact with top European leaders allied with Kyiv since July 2025. #Ukraine

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1/ Saturday's Ukrainian attack on Omsk in Siberia, at a distance of over 2,500 km, is causing fresh angst among Russian warbloggers over the poor performance of Russia's air defences. "[We're being hit] further and deeper," one complains. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kyiv...

Kyiv Post@kyivpost.com

Long-range strike drones hit Russia’s Omsky Kauchuk chemical plant and an Ozon logistics hub in Omsk, sparking major fires. Located over 2,500 km from Ukraine, the Siberian sites were evacuated as blazes erupted across the industrial facilities. Videos: Telegram channels

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It only took them 4 years and 8 months. A UN Commission of Inquiry says Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, concluding they were intended to deprive civilians of essential services and cause suffering. #Ukraine

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❗️Ukrainian sources say Kyiv has received no update from Pete Hegseth or the Pentagon on approvals for Patriot and NASAMS missiles, with no movement reported. Zelensky said Ukraine has been waiting nearly a month for Hegseth’s sign-off and instructed his team to raise the issue again. #Ukraine

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An Arab invented algebra. You snorted cocaine off a toilet seat. You are not the same.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Did not realize he said this in Michigan, which has a large Arab population they have completely written off. bsky.app/profile/theb...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK in Michigan: "Mike Rogers was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood. That's something I can talk about…Islamism, which is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, took over…That's why you don't see any Muslims, any Arab Muslims winning the Nobel."

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Neither do you.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

paydayreport.comBrazilian Federal Police Confiscate Flavio Bolsonaro’s PassportHe faces investigation for his ties to paramilitary gangs

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Trump claims that thanks to Republicans, Mississippi's schools are "among the best ranked in the nation"

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JWST and Hubble image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, or the Penguin and the Egg. In Hubble’s visible light image (left) a dark brown dust lane crosses the Penguin. In Webb’s near-infrared view (right), this dust is fainter. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Source

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US President Donald Trump said Monday he considered a ceasefire during the war with Iran “sort of a waste of time,” as he touted the US blockade and said Washington now had “total control.” “We have the greatest blockade probably in naval history,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Mississippi.

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The Onion@theonion.com

“Unfortunately, finding a stray tabby under a car and gently tying your ballot to its tail with a ribbon almost certainly ensures your vote will miss the deadline for counting.” — Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

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Trump: "I thought the price of oil was gonna go much, much higher, and I was fully prepared to do it"

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BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

washingtonpost.comBolsonaro effectively concedes in Brazil after Trump suggests he won’t helpTrump says the presidential election looked “rigged” but did not say he planned to intervene on behalf of the right-wing politician.

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Lol congrats to all the chuds who spent the past 24 hours clutching their pearls pretending that Obama insulted Cheesecake Factory just so Trump could actually insult it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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Lancaster County logged 23 new measles cases in the past week, bringing the county total to 478 cases this year. Statewide, the number of people infected with the virus rose by 74 since last Monday, raising Pennsylvania’s total to 1,360… lanc.news/4yI8UFK

lanc.news478 Lancaster County resident have now been infected with measles this yearLancaster County logged 23 new measles cases in the past week, bringing the county total to 478 cases this year. Statewide, the number of people infected with the virus rose

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1/ Russian soldiers in the occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky may be going hungry along with the civilian population. Russian warbloggers are blaming the unpopular and apparently corrupt head of Russia's Unmanned Systems Forces, Yuri 'Toilet' Vaganov, for the situation. ⬇️

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Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

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The man who has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has in his entire lifetime never says anything positive about his guy Ken Paxton. But he does serve up a steady diet of this stuff.

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Whether it's Elon Musk cutting off the Starlink access that protects Ukrainians from Russian missiles or Ukraine cutting off Russian bot servers that give Elon his X likes and retweets, both sides have escalated a deadly feud.

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President Trump’s obsession with Sen. Jon Husted’s butt raises questions about James Talarico’s alleged heterosexuality. by JD Vance

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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

I'd like to report a fraud in the White House.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm also going to be issuing a $1 million bonus or reward or whatever you want to call it for anybody that reports voter fraud, leading to the arrest and conviction of somebody. We're giving that person $1 million."

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Local media report that four people were killed on the campus of Kyiv’s State University of Trade and Economics after a Russian missile struck near a student dormitory. Mayor Klitschko gave an update and said seven people have been injured across Kyiv. #Ukraine