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open.substack.com/pub/platypus... Zeros for thought.

This is ASTONISHINGLY thorough.

WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The annual influenza vaccine is back on the list of mandatory immunizations for broad categories of airmen. In a new memorandum, the Air Force spells out the personnel categories for which commanders must require the seasonal flu vaccine every year. Learn more:

Elon Musk has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has spent in his entire lifetime.

(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...

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

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

Ken Paxton, while trashing Talarico's Christianity, manages to mispronounce "Christianity" two different ways in the span of three seconds

Natalie Harp is sitting right next to Trump as his car rolls up to his Qatari bribe jet #TravelWithNatalie

COMING UP: Preliminary hearing before magistrate judge Faruqui in the criminal case of former FBI agents charged with false statements to Congress and obstruction. Things could get very interesting... I'm here in the media room for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along!

Amid the brouhaha over allegations of limits on intelligence sharing and the proved throttling of Ukraine's Starshield, a 3rd way Trump is aiding Putin hasn't had much press - the blocking of supplies of paid-for Patriot interceptors. This delay is costing Ukrainian lives.

The shift away from the US continues. Ten countries have now signed on for Macron’s Forward Deterrence initiative, including the UK, Germany and Poland, WSJ reports. Under the plan, France would station nuclear-capable fighter jets across Europe as trust in the US erodes.

Remains possibly the worst spokesperson for anything, at any time

US consumers paying the most for fuel price spikes from Iran war, study says reut.rs/4iGQYq7

AI will create new types of jobs, for example, documenting 60,000 severance packages in minutes that’s previously used to take months

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90

Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90 www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

“Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios,” the Florida Republican said in 2025. Then the federal contracts started rolling in.

I hope that a defeat of Flavio Bolsonaro and Darline Graham drives a stake through the heart of nepo-politics, leaving Don Jr. worried and sad.

Judge asked to compel Trump administration to disclose emails and texts about Kennedy Center plans

I love accounts like this, which not only post beautiful old pictures, but care enough to credit the photographer

Lula really had to defeat a whole family tree of fascists and he did it

Yep

YES Brazil Re-Elects Lula, Rejecting Predecessor’s Son www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Brewers erase four-run deficit to stun Rays and take 2-0 World Series lead

CyberBoroshno analysts report Russia shut 44 times and restricted 4 more airport operations across 30 airports between October 23 and 25, peaking at 15 simultaneous closures on October 24 at 11:03.

Satellite imagery shows two buildings damaged at Russia’s Proton plant in Oryol after the October 23 Ukrainian missile strike. One housed silicon wafer production, while the adjacent building produced microchips for Russian weapons systems, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. #Russia

More photos from the site of the strike on the Energia plant in Yelets, Lipetsk region. Several missiles hit the plant, the whole area is covered in smoke, the strike was likely carried out with SCALP cruise missiles.

Thick black smoke is observed in Yelets, Russia, where the AO Energiya plant was just attacked. It is now assumed that 3-4 Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG missiles were launched and hit the facility. #Ukraine

www.wsj.com/business/ene... People are saying that Putin thinks it will just be easier if he can buy back Alaska….

😬 Trump sounds like hell during bizarre pre-rally gaggle 😬 Trump could barely speak, but what he said was nutso. He claimed his uncle invented radar, said he could "violate" Prizker and send troops into Chicago, and had a weirdly contradictory answer when asked who he golfed with today. Supercut:

LOL! Ukraine's defence advisor, Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov says Musk is lying. It was impossible for them to use Starlink in Russia, because it's already restricted, he posted on his TG channel (translation below) #StandWithUkraine

Ukraine has also hit an Ozon warehouse in Omsk.

“It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the U.S. interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope,” Mr. Riddle said in a brief interview. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Tens of thousands of Lula supporters rally on eve of Brazilian election runoff

"People are leaving “I Voted” stickers on a memorial residents have set up to honor the late Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. 'Seventy of these stickers. We counted,' Araujo’s son Ronaldo beamed in a video. 'Thank you guys for voting and thinking about my dad.'” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Getting special exemptions for SpaceX that put it into stock indices unprecedentedly early, thereby getting money from big funds that can buy only safe investments, was worth more to Musk than all the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s spent trying to buy elections. Much more. Incredibly corrupt.

Putin released a single American hostage, Stephen Hubbard, in exchange for Trump lifting sanctions on Russia so they can earn billions more to fund their war machine.

Seeing the Brewers return to the World Series for the first time since 1982 is a treat for one sportswriter who covered their ALCS win then and got a taste of Milwaukee as a great baseball town.

Trump doesn't mind corruption. He minds not getting his cut. @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social explain why Corey Lewandowski may be in trouble for breaking Trump's one unbreakable rule: Nobody gets to cash in on the president without his permission.

The illegal voters Scott Presler was trying so desperately to find in Pennsylvania were living in his own home Really is the perfect distillation of the election denial movement

Oil hits $115 a barrel for the first time since May, adding to the economic strain just 11 days before critical midterm elections that may turn in part on affordability. @iankmsmith.ft.com @urbandirt.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8948...

Just did a live session with Adam Kinzinger. We went deep into US politics, why Trump is doing what he is doing, what the Democrats might do in response, and ended with a discussion of what is happening in the Russo-Ukraine War. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/live-with-...