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The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic, saying it trained its AI models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without permission, accusing it of copyright infringement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/a...

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil's presidential runoff for a fourth, non-consecutive term, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) has confirmed the victory. CONGRATULATIONS BRAZIL and congratulations Lula.

Elon Musk is spending $445M+ to buy the midterms for one very simple reason. He's terrified that a Democratic Congress might finally hold him accountable.

Elizabeth Warren Is On A Roll.......

Lula wins Brazil election! Stops Latin America right wing wave!

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet.

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The plan is to suspend the normal rules of capitalism and bailout inefficient companies by forcing households and businesses to pay more. Those rules are not suspended to help people.

So do we compensate ordinary businesses when they lose customers? No; that's the free market and consumer choice!

UK energy bills could rise even more. Regulator is considering a Market Stabilization Charge to guarantee corporate profits. This would force energy companies to compensate consumers’ old suppliers for lost profits when people switch away. What would the govt do? Watch the Minister's reply.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... Fantastic result

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Beware of finance industry lobbying. It hired PwC (the firm that delivers dud audits) to produce a report, claiming that UK banks face highest rates of tax. The report included taxes not borne by banks. Omitted countries that levy higher rates of taxes. Integrity never gets in the way of profits.

Michigan, let's make history in nine days.

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

We’re told to prepare for emergencies at home. Yet when local authorities ask for the full picture on ecological risk, the answer is often secrecy. How can communities prepare? asks Cllr Gary Champion.

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

This week's Budget must tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Tax the super-rich. End austerity.

Former President Obama walks out to raucous crowd cheering so loudly that he has to tell them to "Settle down!"

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

Today I wrote about Ai. 🤖 Check it out on Substack. BOOM or DOOM? donmcgowan333.substack.com/p/ai-boom-or...

I've worked w/ state AGs for years & have never seen them this prepared to fight election sabotage Trump is up against an unprecedented legal wall—and all of you More from the front lines, in this week's publisher's note 👇 -TN

Nailed it.

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A fitting end. Blaze engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ mountain retreat in Bavaria | Germany | The Guardian share.google/okKCMSzmsVXY...

The latest in our series on UK towns - data analysis from @michaelgoodier.bsky.social on the levelling up funding pots: Most levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ukraine again has a "stable connection" to Starlink, the government said on Saturday, after days of tensions with Washington over the SpaceX-made network crucial to the Ukrainian army's operations. Read more: u.afp.com/SyZG

A new era for the nation’s high street starts in two days. Nearly a kilometre of Oxford Street will become traffic-free, creating more space for people and marking the beginning of its biggest transformation in a generation.

Ukraine says Starlink and Starshield operating at 400 kph after week of throttling reut.rs/4BpaFKs

Benjamin Netanyahu laid the intellectual delusion for the deadly U.S. “War on Terror” and succeeded in submerging the entire American political establishment within it. @premthakker.bsky.social on Netanyahu's 40-year-old blueprint influencing everyone from Reagan to Trump zeteo.com/p/40-years-a...

End the tax breaks for big tech. Use the money to fund warmer homes!

Guidance for councils : Opening up access to planning information www.londonforum.org.uk/2026/10/23/g... From 31st October 2026, the National Scheme of Delegation will send even fewer applications to committee, and we fear decision-making will become less transparent. Here's some best practice.

Press disinformation alert: Ofgem’s gas shortfall was a rare stress-test scenario, not a winter forecast. Spread the word - and help us fight press disinformation www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/o...

What Happened to Medical Masks? From a Public Health Protection to a Public Order Issue netpol.org/2026/09/15/w...

Tommy Robinson ‘threatened people and acted like a bully’, jury told www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Properly blown away to win non-fiction readers’ choice for Who Wants Normal? at the Diverse Book Awards. It was voted for by the public, so that’s YOU lot. Thanks so much to all the readers who keep supporting this book.

Trump rushing to defend the woman who stood by her step-husband after he raped her daughter. It says something that this is entirely predictable rather than incredibly shocking.

The lovely folks over at @westenglandbylines.co.uk have published another article by little ole me. This was my take on Andy Burnham's conference speech a couple of weeks back. Check it out. 👇 westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/andy...

“You’re tweeting about the streamer... more than the Republican candidate you say you want to defeat.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social responds to @mattyglesias.bsky.social on Hasan Piker, and asks why center-left writers hold a streamer to a higher standard than politicians. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/matt-ygles...

Christiane Amanpour announced she’s leaving the network after 43 years, representing a “brain drain” & loss of stability for the cable news giant. @justinbaragona.bsky.social looks at what her departure means for the David Ellison-owned network & if others will follow. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/amanpours-...

Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?