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Brazilian judge orders investigation into JD Vance illegally financing Bolsonaro's campaign in Brasil www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

At least 6 US Attys have been DQ'd as wrongfully appointed since Jan 2025: Central District of CA (Essayli); Nevada (Chatta); Northern D of NY (Sarcone); Eastern D of VA (Halligan); NJ (Habba); New Mexico (Ryan Ellison). DOJ seeking SCOTUS review of 2d & 9th Circuit rulings.

How vision systems and other technologies have revolutionized the packing of cherries [via Cowen]

Judge has dismissed superseding charges against FBI agents because prosecutors inexplicably failed to obtain the required finding of probable cause from a judge. Incompetent or lawless? Both? x.com/sarahnlynch/...

Probe that led to charges against 2 former top FBI officials was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel hours after Trump gave a speech denouncing Intel officials for favoring Biden, according to FBI agent, who said he feared case would be seen as political www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

To be clear: The grand jury return was not for this case! The magistrate just had to pause to deal with returns from other cases. And the first one happened to be a no-bill. bsky.app/profile/anna...

$NFLX losing its edge... @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub... entertainment.substa...

NEW: In the golf course case, Judge Reyes will hold a hearing Friday or Monday, ordering Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward to attend. In addition to the show-cause order raised in her Monday opinion, Reyes now wants answers regarding Trump's Truth social post issued later Monday as well.

Day 4

(Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme ​Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said. @reuters.com 🇧🇷 $EWZ www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Hearing was supposed to start at 11 am. Defense counsel was present at scheduled start time. So was FBI agent Bryan Witt (who was listed on affidavit for superseding complaint). But Witt said he was waiting on 3 DOJ attorneys.....approximately 30 min later, appears they are all here now.

It is short and so I assume they are looking into things but it is... interesting... that the NYT piece on the new House Dems report on Trump ties to Epstein simply does not mention the brand new rape allegation and says whatever this is instead www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

Florida early voting update: Early in-person turnout among Republicans has fallen off a cliff. At R+0.4, the total early vote in the state is about as blue as 2018, 5 points higher than this point in 2022, and 10 points higher than in 2024. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-early...

the ADL is more mad about Zohran calling a neighborhood Eastern European than Elon giving a Nazi salute Zohran derangement syndrome is real

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

Which state has America’s worst gerrymander? After a year of redistricting battles, we have an answer. 🎁Gift article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Well played

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

this is borderline self-parody www.latimes.com/california/s...

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Maurene Comey must be REINSTATED to her federal prosecutor job with backpay, a federal judge has ruled. He adds that accepting Trump DOJ's position would "unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system." Doc buff.ly/CDtADgH

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

To somewhat push back: the Israeli electoral system is fine, actually. The trend the thread describes of personality vehicle parties is real, but it obscures the origin of it. It's not inherent to the system - it only emerged after Sharon broke Likud during the Gaza Disengagement.

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.

Trump and Musk have given the best reason why not to buy American. Customers - governmental and private alike - around the globe will take note of this and act accordingly, and I wouldn't be surprised if this won't be limited to US military products only. Alternatives are now national security!

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

very nice talk by @maggieappleton.com. the demo at the end is a lot like the thing I am about to open source that lets agents in the terminal spin up arbitrary HTML pages that talk back to the agent

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

This week’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 9th century, BnF Latin 1, f. 327v

Meanwhile, at the monastery for academically challenged monks: “Guys, it’s seven, the answer’s seven!! A full hand plus two more fingers. How many times are we going to do this ?!?” 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2200, f. 58r

Time for this weekend’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 10th century, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.644, f. 79r

Doing quick check-ins where everyone on the call proves they're not running on a commercial LLM by reciting a minified but still safety-filter-prohibited summary of the steps to synthesize methamphetamine

Bundeswehr personnel figures released for September. Despite an official narrative (by Pistorius) of the service in October including "more than 190,000" troops September figure is 186,200, a minor reduction from August (186,356). Via "Augen Geradeaus"/@wiegold.de: augengeradeaus.net/2026/10/pers...

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that normal Starlink operating speeds were restored after more than a week of disruptions. n.pr/4yyf3UN

The ideal day is sometime between January 3rd and January 20th. That would ensure a Dem Congress could prevent a new VP from being appointed/confirmed. And would make Vance to have served more than half of this term for 22nd Amendment purposes.

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The world is getting more of its electricity from renewables but less from nuclear power. If the world is to reduce its carbon emissions and tackle climate change, it needs to move away from fossil fuels to low-carbon power.

it’s genuinely fascinating how San Francisco “progresssives” have somehow aligned themselves with republicans and the Koch Brothers in their opposition to funding mass transit

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...