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Serbia and more importantly Brazil had good election results on Sunday.

“Lula wins Brazil election, stops the Latin America right wing wave with Bolsonaro defeat” 10/26/26 (Trump & the Tech Bros must be really upset.) 1/

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

Wow. Vučić has conceded Serbian election. Massive moment for the entire Balkans

Illegal alien admits to sabotaging U.S. ally fighting former Soviet communists. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Don't know how many times I've watched this, but makes me chuckle. #prettiest #funny

remember when #SpaceKaren had a black eye? #spaceX #tesla #elon

Maybe you know sb who doesn't understand the difference between good and evil. Show them this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWT...

When Trump promised America a Golden Age, he neglected to mention everything would be priced as though it were made of gold.

Trump arriving in Clemson, South Carolina today

Call me old fashioned, but to call something a “flying car” it should be a car and capable of taking flight, and to call a car “full self-driving,” it should be able to drive itself fully.

It's time to defund Elon. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

Say what now?

Rich serial liar said words! The job of the free press is to uncritically repeat those words in headlines, and spread them widely for free.

It’s incredible what now happens in plain sight while the media fails to hold anyone accountable. We’ve reached the point where the satire is funny until you remember it’s describing reality.

The leader of the Republican Party supports murderous anti-American war criminal Vladimir Putin. Will Republican candidates be repeatedly asked if they denounce Putin? The Republican Party's biggest donor also boosts a German Neo-Nazi party. Will Republican candidates be asked if they denounce AfD?

Milk so aged it could itself be a weapon. '94 President Clinton praises Ukraine’s courageous decision to surrender its nuclear arsenal, pledging full US support for its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. He also considers it unlikely that russia would ever attempt to seize Crimea.

The Telegraph obtained information that it was Elon Musk’s idea to reduce the maximum speed of Starlink-controlled (interceptor-) drones in Ukraine, then got cold feet that this might backfire on Starlink in the European market and then finally blamed Trump for this episode.

The oil prices are currently escalating. This evening they jumped by almost 4% in a matter of minutes and it is no surprise. The Iranian regime is currently fully enjoying their freedom to strike ships in the Strait of Hormuz while feeling safe that Ukraine is getting blamed for it.

School shootings like the one in Bend, Oregon, are reported by the # of dead kids. But every surviving child carries the trauma, as do their families and everyone affected by previous shootings. Trauma upon trauma, generation after generation. Societies that tolerate this are profoundly broken.

Ukraine's drones made inoperable by restrictions on the speed permitted by SpaceX's Starlink network. Musk blames Trump. Any country relying the US or foreign tech companies will be held to ransom, can't defend itself. Need own satellites and systems to fight new imperialism.

Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive. ​Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph.

All pedantic birders (= all birders) listen out for geographical/chronological birdsong mistakes. The commonest complaint is any period costume drama featuring the three-note song of the collared dove, which first bred in Britain in 1957.

Kyiv received "no warning from its partners" before the overnight Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital, Volodymyr Zelensky laments. So trump already suspended giving the Ukrainians satellite intel??? Where's Europe at? Get those friggin' satellites up!

“Totally under control” now hangs in the museum next to “unsinkable.”

How will MAGA know what to think? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Horrific moment of a Russian missile strike in Pisochyn (just outside Kharkiv) just now. At least 3 people are confirmed killed ‼️ 9 are injured. The fire is still raging, the death tall is likely to rise.

Now that's the kind of cyberpunk information warfare I was promised. For better and worse.

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

The daughter of the White House chief of staff is getting paid 35k A MONTH to lobby for a small section of Serbia. Why? So this section can splinter off an be a pro-ruzzia failed state.

18% of voters pick 52 senators. Democrats won 7 of the last 9 presidential popular votes yet hold just 3 SCOTUS seats. Republicans have a tilted House map and a huge cash advantage, and they STILL want to suppress votes. Imagine having the casino rigged and being afraid to deal the cards.

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

Mood.. 😅

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

My favorite former Republican congressman, Adam Kinzinger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2tf...

*Strait* of Hormuz? Looks pretty crooked to me.

French minister invites UK to ‘come all the way back’ to the EU

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Whatever happened to Q-Anon? Never see those flags anymore.

What's the difference between 51 Senate seats and 60? You still need 67 to get trump removed.

Revisiting an old analogy; AI will do to software what the internet did to journalism. We’ll get 10x more software. More apps, agents and niche tools but fewer profitable software companies and fewer full-time developers. Software becomes abundant but the economics of software gets brutal.