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would've been 40 today... the world is a little less bright without you in it, John 💔

JFC.

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*.

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.

NEW: DOJ is suing to prevent Alaska from certifying its election results until the state investigates whether the other "Dan Sullivan" on the ballot created "voter confusion" to the detriment of incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan. w/ Greg Svirnovskiy www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

BREAKING: Officials in the Ahmed Soliman case tell the court the government can’t return him to the US on the ICE flight I reported was scheduled to land there tomorrow because it has been canceled. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Aw shit, here we go again

Zelenskyy: "It is important that the world does not stay silent about this. And it is important that the United States really see what is happening and who is responsible for this war continuing."

Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2

Per Russian media, “Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory.”

As flagged by @uebey.bsky.social, it turns out this story from earlier in the week is about Brenden Cuni, the ICE officer who was seen in a construction vest holding a rifle moments after the ICE shooting of a man in Marble Hill yesterday. /it has yet to be confirmed whether he was the shooter.

Real talk by Dutch politician, Anna Strolenberg on Jane Doe & the predatory male tech industry. "I stand with Jane Doe. Abusing women is not a business model. Whether it’s spyware to track women’s phones, or nudify apps used to undress women, Big Tech has made millions off the abuse of women."

This is a photo of some rocks and sand. It was taken earlier today, with a camera 247,000,000 km away. It was taken on Mars. And now you're looking at it on your screen.

Apples, man. Pretty interesting.

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

*NY ACCUSES POLYMARKET OF RUNNING ILLEGAL GAMBLING OPERATION *NY GOV. HOCHUL, AG JAMES ANNOUNCE POLYMARKET SUIT IN STATEMENT

Judge Kelly orders hard passes returned to White House reporters for @CNN @MSNOWNews & @politico immediately. They were pulled in violation of Fifth Am Due Process. No stay pending appeal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

At 3:30pm ET, US District Judge Tim Kelly will hold a hearing on whether to grant a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Trump's 9/18 directive to bar @cnn.com, @msnownews.bsky.social, & @politico.com from the White House grounds. I’ll try to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org /1

Footage from another angle shows the massive scale of the explosion at a Syrian Ministry of Defense weapons and ammunition depot in the Aleppo countryside.

ICE agent shot a man in the torso during a traffic stop in North Austin today. He's in serious but stable condition. Austin PD wasn't involved; the mayor wants local police on the investigation for third-party eyes. ICE has been out of control since they started this B.S.

Magical swallow sunset tonight. 🪶

For years, Alaska officials prosecuted (& persecuted) a community of American Samoans in the city of Whittier, threatening them with years in prison for the crime of voting. You may have read about this when we covered it in Bolts earlier this year. HUGE NEWS: Alaska just dropped all charges.

A sign of concern about the batshit crazy duo of Trump and Bessent. The Dutch central bank has shifted more than 78 tonnes of gold from New York to London in a politically sensitive move, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”. www.ft.com/content/1749...

🧵 I just read another piece about the U.S. starting to slide from "reverse brain drain" into "brain drain" — which, from a national security and prosperity perspective, is a terrible development. The specific case here is Canada's success in luring U.S. academics.

It’s a lesson that if in 2029 or 2033 or ever we get a chance to fix what’s broken, we have to fix it and ignore institutionalist complaining. Cause they will complain.

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers' bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, has died while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. https://to.pbs.org/45O4zVF

❤️‍🩹 Life keeps going on in Kyiv, even amid constant bombardments and air raid alerts.

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

this is great i wish they’d put me in a swaddle and knock me out for scans

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

A little bit of Perseids next to a little bit of the milky way.

🚨 BREAKING: Another Delaney Hall Prisoner Has Died — and ICE Tried to Cover It Up. This is the second Delaney Hall prisoner death over the last month and the third total—that we know of. www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/breaking-a...

That's 125 degrees Fahrenheit.

"it's possible to get ai to prove the goldbach conjecture but not write a readable essay" is the funniest, and likeliest so far, scenario

In the moment, extending “temporary” protections is the compassionate choice. Over and over for decades with no permanent fix, it starts to seem like a missing-stair problem. And now DHS is just throwing people into the gap in the stairs. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

The 30 July 2026 Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a remarkable shot of the Sun photographed through a wildfire smoke-filled sky that turned the star a deep red. So I tweaked it to look like we're orbiting an M-class red dwarf star with a close-in system of rocky planets, like TRAPPIST-1.

The greatest birds to watch in history. 30 million years strong. 🪶

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...

The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.

My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cool new behavior caught on video! This is a special type of octopus known as a #papernautilus (aka #argonaut) and her shell is a little less than 5cm. Watch as she extends and retracts her fleshy mantle - at the end, she rapidly retracts it all! #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

OPINION: "[A]nytime I read a story involving a young Black man, a child or a family facing an unimaginable loss, my mind immediately goes to my sons. I think about their faces. I think about the parents receiving the phone call that changes everything," Erica Powe writes.