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Trump on solar panels: "They kill all the animals. The animals jump on them and they fry."

Every Texas bar has that one guy. He’s loud. He’s obnoxious. He makes all the women feel uncomfortable. He adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Ken Paxton — and I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4zY7fwQ

After a shock election loss, Flavio Bolsonaro has defied a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports and left Brazil for the U.S., sources say.

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Another tough day in the Bluesky Don’t Censor Early 19th-century French Romantic Art Challenge

Join us for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood including backbenchers’ #FMQs and a Scottish Government Debate on Scotland’s Commitment to International Climate Justice. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

Voice recognition.................. in Scotland?!

Of all the bbc presenters, Webb’s politics are the easiest to read - because he puts them in newspapers and doesn’t even try to hide them in broadcasts His politics are also mind numbingly predictable

New homicide statistics for Scotland in 2025-26 show that: Of the 56 victims recorded in 2025-26, 73% (41) were male and 27% (15) were female. 67% (10) of the female victims were killed by a partner or ex-partner. www.gov.scot/publications...

Also, pay attention to what Elon Musk is now saying and doing in US politics. This is extreme, extraordinary and unprecedented.

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

'It's offensively cheap': How #solar power is quietly becoming bigger than #nuclear www.bbc.com/future/artic... via @BBC_Future

World’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the polluting causes of #climate breakdown, they are also increasingly cashing in on the catastrophic consequences, according to a study by Oxfam. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Guess who's just been on Radio 4 having his tummy tickled by the absolutely useless Nick Robinson?

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

On Sunday, during stormy weather, a TUI Cruises passenger ship clashed with two container ships while departing Germany on its way to the Canary Islands.

Before publishing a tough book about Trump, Bob Woodward called Bezos to warn him. “Don’t worry, I have your back, Bob,” Bezos said. “I’ll always have your back.” Always turned out not to be as long as it used to be. Takeaways from Woodward's new memoir. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices

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⚡️Ukraine strikes Russian plant producing missile and bomb batteries in Yelets, General Staff says. A fire broke out on the territory of the Energia plant following an overnight attack on the battery plant in the city of Yelets in western Russia overnight on Oct. 26, Ukraine's General Staff said.

It’s amazing that MAGA labels every election result is doesn’t like as “stolen” or an example of “fraud “, but when Putin “wins” almost 90% of the vote in his crooked elections, they don’t make a peep.

Trump administration's firing of prosecutor Maurene Comey was unlawful, judge rules reut.rs/4zUoGy7

Sen. Adam Schiff, tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should testify before the Senate on the Starlink satellite limitations that disrupted Ukrainian military operations.

Der Entwickler von @deck.blue - dem Tweetdeck für die Atmosphere - @gildaswise.com ist übrigens aus Brasilien und hat über den @deck.blue Account von den Wahlen in seiner Heimat berichtet. Probiert deck.blue doch mal aus!

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh has entered the race to become the next United Nations secretary-general, attracting attention for her Palestinian heritage and diplomatic work on Gaza.

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Brazil, look what you were up against and look what you did. A stunning victory for workers, for indigenous peoples, for the Amazon, for hope.

The sole survivor of her family… now she is gone too. Eight-year-old Fatima Al-Bayouk lost her entire family to an Israeli strike in 2023. Yesterday, Israeli forces killed her too, south of Deir al-Balah, Gaza. (Ramy Abdu)

A 130-meter ferry powered by 250 metric tons of batteries is the world's biggest electric passenger vessel, and ushering in a new era for clean shipping.

Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pulled off a dramatic comeback on Sunday as he clinched election victory against right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro, who trounced him in the first round u.afp.com/SyJ8

what a night

Lula holds Brazil, Vučić defeated in Serbia. A bad day for the fascists. A good day for democracy. So it goes

WE'RE 3 MILLION VOTES AHEAD. WE'RE GONNA WIN THIS. É LULAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

FUCK FASCISM

Beautiful scenes in Serbia tonight where a student-led protest movement has overthrown the corrupt and autocratic Vučić regime. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

Scenes from Belgrade afte Vučić lost the election in Serbia. From N1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQL...

This is big news for the Balkans and Europe. Vučić gambled and lost to a young democratic student led movement. Could we finally see some progress toward Serbia and Bosnia joining the EU?

Wow!!!

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

they're now trying to go against the supreme court order of postponing the election until 7pm BRST

NEW: this is so bizarre