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Relationship Goals: Mulder & Scully but instead of investigating aliens and cryptids together— investigating irl monsters like #oligarchs, grifters, and #kleptocracies together.

ICC Sanctions Lawsuit Tests Trump’s Power Over Americans’ Speech share.google/EBOigmTKsfA1...

Yet another Russo-Iranian "shadow fleet" rust bucket oil tanker couldn't handle a storm🤷

Russia’s shadow fleet helps finance its illegal war against Ukraine. France boarded the DF Peak over suspected false registration. The EU extended and expanded Operation IRINI’s mandate to tackle shadow fleet activities in the Mediterranean.

Trump continues to signal to Xi that he should invade and take Taiwan, and the US will do nothing. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Elon Musk’s blindsiding of Ukraine spurs efforts by Europe, Canada and Japan to roll out satellites under their own control and rush to develop alternatives to StarLink and StarShield. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

It's weird seeing AI bubbles across the world begin to collapse in real-time because AI continually needs more input to function, every time it's used its trained and becomes shittier, but nobody's writing their own code now, so it's a death spiral for everyone who needs claude to work

Nigel Farage, Daniel Hannan, Aaron Banks: the remaining Brexiters look so stale and dated and old. Listening to them is like eating mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard open.substack.com/pub/arguably...

"There’s not enough room in my chest for all this joy". What incredible news to wake up to. First Serbia, now this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

When news broke on Oct. 23 that a ship was reportedly carrying a new supply of Russian diesel for U.S. President Donald Trump, one question immediately arose: How, after more than 20 rounds of EU sanctions, could European ships still be involved in facilitating that trade?

Ukrainian Civilians Died Because America Cut Off Intel and Satellite Links Along with Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, these tactics represent an in-kind contribution to Putin’s war By Jason Jay Smart https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/ukrainian-civilians-died-because

Not a surprise from this administration, but both unlawful and incredibly destructive of effective governance. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...

The regime is partnering with known (and likely hidden) criminals to steal Venezuela's oil.

Results of the Oct 18 strikes in St. Petersburg: Oil terminal – RVS-15000 & 2×RVS-10000 burned; 1 destroyed. Ruchyi depot – RVS-5000 destroyed, RVS-1000 damaged. OZON hub – 10,000+ m² fire. Southern Fairway Bridge – road damaged. Finland Railway Bridge – lift span damaged.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Zelensky says the U.S. is delivering just 12 Patriot interceptor missiles per month to Ukraine, roughly a quarter of the amount supplied under Biden, - Bloomberg "We have paid for the weapons," Zelensky says, referring to additional deliveries.

Zuckerberg shut down No Kings on Meta Trump banned news outlets from the White House Now TikTok wants to erase the “Musk” documentary Billionaires wants to control our information, because they believe uninformed masses are compliant-and more profitable for them This will backfire Spectacularly

Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the war looked markedly different. The battlefield had clear boundaries. Then came the drones. The front line in Ukraine has since blurred into a miles-wide wasteland where drones fill the sky and neither side holds control.

Polish PM Donald Tusk: “Everyone was aware that, with this shift in President Trump's position on Ukraine and Russia, Europe should support Ukraine even more. “Not everyone does this because they love Ukraine. This is not about symbolic solidarity.

“I’m just one person." A 2026 study found it only takes a small group of early adopters to pull everyone onto a network. That same pull works on the way out. Be one of the first to leave, and bring your people with you. #DeleteMeta www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Deleted my threads and Insta a few weeks ago and it felt liberating. I still have Facebook, but don't really use it and working on making it a shell that is only used for following community groups. Cybersec peeps I know have told me about the dangers of staying on these sites so glad I listened.

Trump tells Congress he doesn't care about what they think and lifts Russian energy sanctions www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

“Once dismissed as an eccentric pursuit, the task of galvanising Britons for “whole-of-society” responses to crises now preoccupies Whitehall.” economist.com/britain/2026...

I think one of the implications of drone warfare going forward is that powers are going to have fewer alternatives to occupy-and-govern as solutions to problematic neighbors, which creates a nasty kind of zugzwang because modern warfare also makes occupy-and-govern hideously costly.

This war really broke Jacobin and made them go Grayzone There was a time I found the reporting good and useful, one of the better magazines. It's been a long time, certainly not since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Last night, Starlink was reportedly restricted in Ukraine due to a political decision made in Washington. Europeans should be aware that it is dangerous to depend on a partly hostile government for your security, as they could blackmail you at any time. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

A Russian diplomat expelled from Bulgaria in 2021 amid an investigation into explosions at arms depots is now working at Russia’s embassy in Serbia, Radio Free Europe reports. Aleksandr Krasiy was accredited as an assistant military attaché this year. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

🇧🇬 On October 13, two ships were hit by drones about 24 km off the Black Sea coast of NATO member Bulgaria, Bulgarian Prime Minister said. Radev confirmed that one of the ships had sunk. He plans to summon the Russian ambassador to Bulgaria.

Out of the mouth of some fat kid who would have been flayed alive in Ranger battalion.

Absolutely embarrassing foreign "diplomacy"

Enjoying a vegan chocolate knot and the seaside. Just falling more in love with Ireland every day. #Ireland #cafe #vegeats

This is how you write a headline.

Just a lucky coincidence the sanctioned diesel travelled for 3 weeks to the sanctioning country to become unsanctioned the day before arrival. What were the chances? #UkrainianView

Our first research seminar on communities in late medieval Transylvania is by Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu coordinator of @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027 special strand on communities. Free, hybrid. 13 October, 5.30 BST. To join online register at forms.cloud.microsoft/e/irxCe8c5mC #medieval #Transylvania

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

"I am the code"

That’s not a misprint - more Latino voters have cast a ballot already than did at the same point in the 2024 presidential election.

As someone who worked previously at Treasury. No words. Absolutely no words can describe my anger towards this.

Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.

The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.

What life feels like today in the ‘fortress cities’ in the east of Ukraine — Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, as described by @nytimes.com. A difficult thread. But a necessary one🧵