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Dr Ben Moat, who leads the Open Ocean Physics team at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), said: “The AMOC continues to show a weakening trend over the 20 years of observations. While the estimated rate of decline has been revised slightly since the last update, the overall conclusion […]

Iran War Cost Rises to $47.1 Billion, Pentagon Told Lawmakers The estimate through Oct. 16 shows that bombs, missiles and other munitions accounted for more than 60 percent of expenses https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/us/politics/iran-war-cost-rises.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Trump Is Already Undermining Confidence in Midterm Election Results from Alaska to California: ACLU A competitive Senate race has gripped the once reliably Republican state of Alaska. If Democratic challenger Mary Peltola wins the election against incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, it […]

From the technological Olympus of Silicon Valley to the urban canyons of Wall Street, a narrow club of vastly wealthy plutocrats sits on a ballooning share of the nation’s resources. One per cent of Americans at the apex of the economy are hoarding over 31% of the nation’s total wealth, a cool […]

Coastal communities across California were preparing for days of flooding amid potentially 'record-breaking tides' this week, as water levels began rising on Monday https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/oct/27/aerial-video-shows-california-flooding-amid-record-breaking-tides-video

The parents of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis earlier this year, accused federal officials of stonewalling them 👉and shielding their son’s killers. During a press conference on Tuesday, Michael and Susan Pretti made their first public […]

No ruling until tomorrow at least in California’s effort to get the Trump regime to stop@interfering with its elections. But a good sign: ‘U.S. District Judge David O. Carter of Los Angeles to the Trump DOJ: “This court believes that it would be wise that any threats to state and county […]

The Cerberus quadruped robot sold by Radeco is a modified version of the Boston Dynamics robot Spot equipped with military-grade equipment

Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement —but executives stood by the deal, while saying the robots would not be weaponized. On September 25, the […]

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On March 18, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed the reins of the US Agency for International Development to Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School, former investment banker, and affiliate of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. At the time […]

TIL : Epstein survivor Jane Doe was on the FBI’s radar for alleging that Trump attempted to orally rape her and subsequently punched her in the head when she was 14 years old.

Attorney General Todd Blanche’s July 2025 interviews with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell were reportedly a calculated effort to steer public blowback from the Epstein files away from Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a 50-page report on Monday accusing the […]

Grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony A federal grand jury in D.C. rejected an attempt by the Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on […]

Bolsonaro hads not been seen since Monday and missed a Tuesday-morning deadline to hand his passport to the federal police, fuelling rumours that he may have fled Brazil after losing on Sunday Lula slammed what he called Bolsonaro’s “shameful” attempt to flee. “This is what the family Bolsonaro […]

Israel election too close to call as exit polls give Netanyahu bloc slightly fewer seats Early indications suggest it will be some time before the shape of new government and who will lead it is clear […]

Allegations against Rep. Jimmy Gomez fuel momentum for DSA-backed challenger Gonzales-Torres Rep. Jimmy Gomez’s reelection bid, once helped by his high-profile fight against Trump’s immigration policies, is in peril as he tries to recover from allegations of sexual misconduct. The accusations […]

In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell argues that public debate focuses on the wrong measures of gun violence: mass shootings and assault rifles, while overlooking everyday shootings and handguns. He traces how violence is shaped by factors beyond the gun itself, including policing, school […]

Balcony solar is coming to California. Can renters actually use it? Property owners say solar panels on balconies and fences could affect their insurance, while renters worry that landlords could set their insurance liability requirements so high it would make the panels cost prohibitive. “If […]

South Korea weighs changes to permanent identity numbers after data breaches Regulators consider renewable identifiers as repeated leaks expose risks of linking personal information across services Shall the U.S. make Social Security Numbers renewable? […]

“This Is a God Thing” — House Speaker Mike Johnson Claims Prayers Will Help GOP Win the Midterms Polling shows that Americans have a negative view of Republicans in Congress and prefer Democrats to win in November […]

Mike Johnson Says Christians Must Vote For The GOP To 'Make Sure That The Righteous Are Ruling' https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/mike-johnson-says-christians-must-vote-gop-make-sure-righteous-are-ruling

Ahead of the midterms, John Oliver devotes an entire episode to discussing the rising prominence of extremist beliefs within the Republican Party – from white nationalism to antisemitism – and what it all has to do with Vandy potato chips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsBI4YxwIs

Mike Waltz and Cuban Foreign Minister Yell at Each Other at U.N. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz got into a screaming match with Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on Tuesday, after Parrilla approached Waltz’s podium mid-speech and called him a liar. This […]

Legendary musician Neil Young filed a $10 million lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s campaign committee for infringing Young’s copyright by playing his song “Rockin’ in the Free World” just before Trump took the stage to speak at an Oct. 12 Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio. Young sued […]

The Trump administration has reportedly advocated for far right authoritarian Viktor Orbán, ex-prime minister of Hungary, to serve in the top role at the United Nations amid the administration’s mission to weaken the organization and its role in advancing human rights across the globe […]

UPDATE: @justinjpearson.bsky.social on Brent Taylor’s Sexting Scandal🍆 “This is the type of predatory behavior that needs to be rooted out of our society and politics. Tennessee deserves leaders who respect women— not sexually harass, expose their genitalia to, or take advantage of them.”

YIKES! It seems @justinjpearson.bsky.social’s TN-9 opponent state senator Brent Taylor has a history of sending unsolicited nude pics to people who are not his wife. (No wonder Trump wants him in congress) www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

A growing company can outbid their rivals when acquiring other companies and/or hiring key personnel, because they can bid with shares (which they get by typing zeroes into a spreadsheet), while their rivals need cash (which they can only get by selling things or borrowing money). The problem […]

“At the request of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and under NORAD and USNORTHCOM authorities, NORAD and USNORTHCOM deployed ground-based air defense assets in and around Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Due to security considerations, we cannot provide tactics, techniques and procedural specifics. For […]

“The effort to beat [Prop 40] is nothing short of an Avenger-level effort,” said Trevor Traina, a Silicon Valley investor Many are aware of how it looks. Fighting a billionaire tax as populist outrage grows over inequality requires guile. In a recent memo circulated among donors and viewed by […]

Every Tuesday for the last few months, two dozen of the world’s richest people or their advisers hop onto a conference call and plan for war. The war is against a “wealth tax” on California billionaires, one that Silicon Valley’s most affluent see as an existential threat that could usher in a […]

By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration’s request that it immediately order California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/us/politics/appeals-court-california-ballot-suit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Mexico has become a showroom for the electric cars you can’t buy in the United States. Amid aging fleets of American Chevys and Fords is a growing stream of sleek new vehicles from Chinese EV brands you’ve never heard of, such as Zeekr, JAC and BYD. A wall of tariffs, trade barriers and […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to restrict a Biden-era policy that allows immigration judges to use their discretion to close thousands of deportation cases each year. Immigration advocates say the practice allows judges to ease loads on strained […]

Baseball was a passion for Kwong, a 71-year-old performance artist from Los Angeles. He knew that the wartime internees had played the game -- not just as a distraction from their predicament, but as a quiet expression of their loyalty to the United States. He wanted to stage an event that […]

From the technological Olympus of Silicon Valley to the urban canyons of Wall Street, a narrow club of vastly wealthy plutocrats sits on a ballooning share of the nation’s resources. One per cent of Americans at the apex of the economy are hoarding over 31% of the nation’s total wealth, a cool […]

Sweeping cuts to the premier US climate agency under Donald Trump have severely hampered the country’s capacity to forecast, research and respond to extreme weather events, former government officials and scientists have warned, as the US faces a cascade of hazardsfueled by a potentially […]

Benjamin Netanyahu has resorted to increasingly alarmist rhetoric and reportedly put pressure on Israel’s military to take action against Iran as his far-right coalition narrowly trails in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s close-run elections. The Israeli prime minister posted an AI-generated image […]

The deputy director and chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will resign after six months on the job, according to an agency email obtained by the Guardian. Dr Jennifer Shuford was appointed by Donald Trump in April as part of a four-person senior […]

The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro was banned from leaving Brazil and ordered to surrender his passports just hours after his dramatic loss in the presidential election to the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The ruling was issued by Alexandre de Moraes, the same supreme court […]

These billionaires aren’t just trying to sway elections. They are working to shape the country’s laws. ❌Charles Koch 🔸Net worth: $59.6 billion 🔸Source of wealth: Koch Industries 🔸Objective: Weaken administrative state and promote individual liberty 🔸Cases: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo […]