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Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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.

Oh my.

🔴 Patriot missiles expended in the Middle East could have sustained Ukraine's air defenses for several years. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

With 83% of the vote counted nationwide, Lula has stretched his lead to 2.8 million votes. That's a lead of 51.4% to 48.6%. That puts him on track for a victory that could be larger than his 1.8% win four years ago, which would be an immense comeback. He's even up in Minas Gervais now, by 0.6%.

NEW from me: Last year, Mark Carney set a goal to double Canada's non-US exports by 2035. Today, he's already halfway there In response to Trump's tariffs & threats, Canadian businesses, consumers, & even tourists are taking difficult steps to decouple from the US🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/how-canada...

1/ Belgrade, Serbia, tonight, after the snap parliamentary election victory of the Student Ticket. n1info.rs/english/news...

One of the largest turnouts in months in Georgia. This is the 697th consecutive day of protests, the same week the Constitutional Court began hearings to ban the major opposition parties.

So, Musk lied when he accused Ukraine of violating Starlink’s terms of service. What a surprise. NOT.

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

Hudson Bay polar bears tracked by satellite telemetry are patiently waiting for sea ice to reform. It's 2 C in Churchill & -1 C in Arviat today so the Bay won't be cooling very fast but the temperatures are about average so with luck freeze-up will come in November this year.

⚡️Update: Starshield operations restored to normal speed, Zelensky confirms as Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink terms. Elon Musk said that Ukraine's military violated the terms of service for Starlink, adding that the "loophole" has now been closed.

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...

Referendum highlighted the rural/urban divide, with the small cities situated between big cities and rural Alberta.

This appears to be the only real element of discord beyond the label (which fair enough, Von Der Leyen was free-styling a little too much with that). I'm not entirely clear what the reason is for Austria's opposition. Just a reflexive position against the use of nuclear power for energy generation?

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Suspects of the attack on Christian church in Jordan are at large, manhunt is ongoing with Jordanian elite units sweeping multiple areas for the car two terrorists used in operation. It's safe to say this is a jihadi attack, and Islamic State is the main suspect (for now).

THROUGH GAS PIPELINES My god what a people 🇺🇦💪

I am not crying🥹

My latest: Ukraine’s Starshield access is still crippled, no-one is taking the blame, and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are dying because of it. kyivindependent.com/analysis-ukr...

Jeeeeeeeesus

this is truly the best tankie bait ever devised by humanity

The US government is now asking Elon Musk to restore the access they say was never removed, Elon says was shut down by the US government, and both briefly tried to pretend was down due to a technical glitch, in between darkly hinting Ukrainians deserve to die for being stubborn or ungrateful.

After multiple waves of ballistic missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of this morning, and another ballistic missile air raid alert sounding a few minutes ago, Kyiv remains defiant and unbreakable.

“Zelenskyy is, it is now rote to say, leader of the free world. If that is to mean something, we should take his lead. If Trump is going to meddle in domestic politics the world over — then levy that accusation at us — we should take the gloves off and tell the world who he really is.” YEEESSSSSSSS

This guidance was actually issued *before* the US embassy in Canada put out this unusual "fact sheet" outlining what it claims is a Canadian effort to influence the American election ca.usembassy.gov/fact-sheet-m...

As the count continues, we are getting a clearer picture of the results from Monday's AB referendum: 1. Separation was trounced 2. No real mandate on the heavily pushed Q1-9 Big picture: the Urban-Rural divide Cgy+Edm voted No on all questions Rest of Alberta (combined) voted Yes

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

A handful of Syrian winemakers are trying to sustain a modest industry amid economic pressures and changing regulations. https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/syrias-winemakers-press-on-under-new-alcohol-rules/

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This long Der Spiegel piece interviewing 10 IDF Gaza veterans does a remarkable job describing in detail from a first-person perspective the looseness of ROE, especially during the opening stages of the war, both for air strike cells and ground forces. But I don't see an English translation, so...

An update on projected results of the "other" 9 AB referendum Q's: Q6 flipped to No overnight, as expected. ** It still looks like all 4 "constitutional" questions will end up No ** The reason: most of the mail-in ballots are yet to be counted there. Those that have are 75% No.

This may be the most significant data breach in Canadian history. Not in terms of the numbers, but in terms of the nature of the records compromised. "More than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips leaked" www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

“This whole exercise has been a colossal failure, morally, intellectually, and constitutionally.” In the aftermath of the Alberta vote, our editor-in-chief tries to make sense of what just happened and the “cellular weakness” that’s been exposed in our institutions: thewalrus.ca/the-separatists-...

Good explainer as to why Ukrainian electronic warfare efforts can't thwart Russia's jet-powered drones. (From the @kyivindependent.com) kyivindependent.com/very-difficu...

This is utterly obscene.

Are you fucking kidding me?

This is the hospital in Kyiv that Russian attack hit today . For the second time . This time , attack hit the operating room - you are looking at it . A patient was wounded . You’d think I should be furious . You’d think world must

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

@brandimorin.bsky.social Brandi Morin reveals the many important takeaways from the massive turnout among Indigenous people in the Alberta referendum. indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/we-rocked-...