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NEW: Ted Cruz is demanding answers from proxy advisers Glass Lewis and ISS after they opposed a series of corporate moves to Texas, including ExxonMobil's. Republicans/Trump admin have been targeting the firms re: ESG/DEI (GIFT link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Flock CEO Garrett Langley said he’d like to not do any more media interviews. “The media gets to say whatever they want to say about you,” he said. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social responds. Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDwX...

Reports in Isreal: 'Here are the results after 100% of the votes have been counted: Netanyahu - 53 Eisenkot - 47 Arab parties - 19'

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Fox News just shifted numerous races toward Dems. Some real stunners here: *KY-06 (Trump +15) now Toss Up * NC-11 (Trump +10) now Lean Dem *Ohio Senate race now Lean Dem (!) On the pod, @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on broadening map/Trump's delusions about it: newrepublic.com/article/2172...

Here's a final installment in my series on how polls could go wrong next week. This time, I show evidence that pollsters may not be reaching enough Trump voters from red, rural areas www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-28...

CITADEL: “.. at some point the challenge could be less about finding an investment-grade backstop, and more about finding the actual buyers willing to absorb more of the risk ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Behold: the pivot from new-debt supply to new-equity supply. 🤓 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“.. I haven’t had an issue with an iPhone breaking for 10 years,” he adds. “Maybe it’s just a bad batch of initial ones. But I am concerned that it’s an actual design flaw.” @wsj.com $AAPL www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Local news in Louisiana. @wwltv-mirror.bsky.social www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Fox News dying with Trump. (Semafor)

Silicon Valley AI political groups turn on each other in the 2026 election www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/a...

This was Biloxi, Mississippi, yesterday, where Pete Buttigieg rallied with Scott Colom. Notice anything about the crowd? It’s predominantly white, showing support for a Black Democrat running for the US Senate in Mississippi. That’s worth paying attention to. #BlueWaveIn6Days

All but 3 chip stocks have fallen since late June $SMH $SOXX Markets @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

A U.N. General Assembly committee has adopted by majority vote a Japan-led resolution seeking the abolition of nuclear weapons.

> @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/28/u...

Lisa Murkowski is by far the most important Republican Senator to watch depending on how this midterm turns out: -Her fellow Republican Dan Sullivan might lose to Mary Peltola -If her friend Susan Collins loses, she has first dibs on becoming the top Republican on Appropriations -She's up in 2028

They’re still counting in Israel with a population smaller than London. Netanyahu seems to be doing better than predicted, but no clear picture yet on who might be able to form a government.

Ukrainian drones have hit a major chemical plant in Novomoskovsk, Tula oblast. It’s burning. #explodey

Initiative process, voter turnout focal points in Arkansas secretary of state’s race arkansasadvocate.com/2026/10/28/i...

900+ women criminally charged for their conduct during pregnancies arkansasadvocate.com/2026/10/28/r...

The same basic logic applies to bonds. Bolsonaro would have gutted social spending. Bad for the economy, good for bond holders. That’s why BRL 10y yields dropped 125 bps after first round, and why they’re up 250 now.

In the case of Lula, it’s straightforwardly obvious that his fourth term will be less friendly to corporate profits than Bolsonaro. An “ideology-neutral” assessment on growth is a mixed bag, not clear either way. But depressed Bolsonarists are now panicking and they own lots of Brazil’s market.

In other words, the equity pain is a behavioral dislocation more than a rational assessment of the outlook.

Some context around this, from a markets person. Historically in LatAm, leftist victories have led to sharp losses over the ~3 months after an election where the left wins. Stocks also typically underperformed into those victories. But 3y post-election, returns for leftists have been *higher*.

The Plot to Enslave America. Harsh treatment of student borrowers both makes those currently in the labor pool more willing to submit to exploitation and future workers less likely to go to college (where they could compete with the aristocrat children of the elite). Big win for the oligarch class

"The firm that created the ad is the Strategy Group – an Ohio-based firm that’s come under fire for handling part of a sketchy $220 million Department of Homeland Security ad deal. The firm’s CEO...is married to [ex-DHS spox] Tricia McLaughlin." – @swin24.bsky.social and @jsweetli.bsky.social

THEY LOST MICHAEL CERNOVICH

“He’s no longer a viable business model” is poetry. The Independent: Trump merchandise stores are shutting down across the country. ‘He has peaked’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says 'true' election results due in one or two days.

“Survey after survey has shown that business owners overestimate how many customers drive to their stores vs walking or biking. In a 2012 Los Angeles study, more than half of the store owners on the bike-laned part of the boulevard thought most of their customers drove. The actual number was 15%.”

So America helped Russia murder Ukrainians, including baby Anhelina in a stroller, and after CBS reported it the page is down? I am enraged that America is helping Russia in its genocide www.cbsnews.com/news/photos-...

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear. “After defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is now overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.” #Solar

As a mathematician who refuses to use AI, I get asked "but what if AI cures cancer?" Answers 1) AI has so far murdered and harmed an incredible nu,ber of people in a variety of ways 2) cancer isn't one disease, progress is incremental 3) if my gran had wheels she would have been a tram

Justin J Pearson’s republican opponent sent unsolicited dick pics to multiple recipients when he was as old as 53. He admits to it, but calls his behavior “youthful indiscretion” and a “distraction.” www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

JUST IN: DOJ seems to suggest that no charging decision has been made in its "complex" investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, urging Judge Boasberg to keep the search warrant under seal until it is "fully executed. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

NEW: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska just endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor — crossing party lines in the final week ahead of Election Day.

Some important caveats when looking at early voting in Texas: 1. Yes, largely Republican counties like Montgomery are shitting the bed in IPEV, but Texas doesn't register by party. 2. A lot of Hispanic voters in the Valley vote Democratic in primaries but vote Republican in the general.

BREAKING: A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to Sunday’s election, per WaPo

American institutions (and individuals) have more often than not punished Indigenous children and Black and Brown children— actual children— as adults, while excusing the behavior of white men. But hearing a white man calling his actions at 53 a "youthful indiscretion" really takes the cake.

Notice that CORECIVIC confirmed the SD death, not ICE. A man died at the Folkston Ga. ICE camp on Friday, and ICE confirmed it the next day. The person in SD died Saturday, plus the third person in AZ over the weekend. ICE has yet to acknowledge either. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Since SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, Southern states can now redraw a dozen majority-Black districts in time for the 2028 elections, triggering the largest drop in Black congressional representation since the end of Reconstruction. And that’s just the beginning.

News from the Pedophile Party: Georgia Republican candidate for House District 42 was arrested today on charges of child molestation. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Israel potentially being unable to move past Netanyahu because the supposed moderates can't stomach making a coalition with Arabs really says a lot about how deep the racism is there.

This hack of the FEC website only seems to be accomplishing one thing right now: Making it impossible for political groups to file their required paperwork so that Americans know where money is being spent.

I remember seeing a deposition video of that guy, I think. Didn't know his ass from his mouth, if you asked him.

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.