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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting in today’s presidential runoff, moving the close of polls from 5pm to 7 pm Brasília time.

A very wonderful touching story. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

ProPublica: Ken Paxton says he's tough on crime. His trust invested $600,000 in a convicted fraudster's company. "The blind trust's investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general's financial ties with … executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates."

The historic Emmanuel bourdon in the south tower has rung continuously since 1686, surviving the French Revolution and the 2019 fire. Notre-Dame de Paris 🇫🇷. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

The only surprise here is that he didn't say he feels bad for the stepfather.

I really don’t care. Do you?

“they’re characteristic, in different ways, of the breakdown of civic leadership and professional principle under Donald Trump.” We need to know more about who—and what—is driving the breakdowns in disciplined integrity and public trust.” www.commonwealmagazine.org/falling-occa...

I believe this with every ounce of my being.

Can we help crowd source it? No, I’m serious

Hitman. The final unanswered question that might bring Trump down: As an admirer of the murderers Putin and Kim, as a mob boss by instinct and affectation, (with 'fixers'), has Trump had inconvenient people killed? Has he, perhaps, had people "removed" from his path all his adult life?

Find your a fella that’ll dance for you just like this.

The allegations are so numerous and so specific, and the denials so broad, that they are startling to read. If even a fraction of the allegations have a significant factual basis, this will be a scandal for the ages.

In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

I'm old enough to remember when Jared Kushner thought it was a good idea to use the Russian embassy to conduct secure communications during an American presidential transition

Good on Monica Alba for persisting with a thoroughly legitimate question. Trump’s attack on her answered the question: Sexual abuse means nothing to Donald Trump. Zip, zero, zilch.

Of course the adjudicated rapist couldn't care less about someone being raped.

I really don’t know what else to call this other than a psychopathic circle jerk.

I wish the New York Times‘ news side read the New York Times’ editorials.

"Winning in American elections is about expectations as much as who claims more seats," writes @sbg1.bsky.social. So will a predicted Democratic surge materialize and, if so, will it match or beat the party's own soaring expectations? www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The @cookpolitical.com report moves 19 more House districts in the Democratic direction. As of now, it rates 220 seats, a majority, as "lean Democratic" or stronger not counting any of 17 tossup races. apps.apple.com/app/id535886...

RIP Caryle Murphy, who reported from inside occupied Kuwait in 1990, hiding from Iraqi troops. She would roll a typewritten story into a tube, dress as a jogger, run past an embassy and throw the tube over the wall to get the story out. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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Trump’s speech in Florida today was so incoherent even Fox cut away.

The US is rushing to move diplomats and their families out of several Middle Eastern countries amid fears of a regional escalation, CNN reports.

Desperate.

My latest on what European investigators are uncovering about Russia’s attacks across Europe. Meanwhile, the traitor in chief continues to reward war criminal Putin and give Russia a green light to escalate.

This has to be one of the wildest stories I have read in awhile. Kushner’s phone was hacked by GRU, the Dutch recruited one of the agents & ended up stumbling into screenshots from Kushner’s phone. Then the Dutch hacked into his phone & were able to see everything, including secret bank accounts Wow

Elon Musk deadder.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

@11tulips.bsky.social I think of this moment every day. We could have had this brilliant woman.

What one city can do, another can do.

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“Mark Carney. The better American & hope of the free world” -Der Spiegel 🇨🇦

Good article to read as we consider our specie’s rush towards sustained ignorance. “pathetically nostalgic for the mental lassitude of pre-literate people”

"When we do have traitors, like I said, it’s usually something quiet, it’s something in the shadows, it’s something in the background. It’s not the freaking president and the wealthiest man in the country joining forces to fuck us all." Full ramble here: gregolear.substack.com/p/an-unfatho...

Zelenskyy: “I believe that even the Russians need Ukraine to join NATO, because that would provide them with greater security than Ukraine remaining outside NATO. That is my personal opinion.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister:

Kushner appeared to transfer large sums from the account to other people, including a warlord, a mercenary and a former hit man.

Princes and Thieves, a book by investigative journalist Matthew Cole, says Dutch intelligence hacked the phone of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and watched him access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars that came from a bank in Azerbaijan, Vanity Fair reports.

Bird’s got no business, none, being this adorable!

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

If I have to shelter my neighbours in the attic I bloody well will.

Great show last night. Thanks to the brilliant @jentaub.bsky.social for joining us. Full show is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKE4...

Zelenskyy: “We can't change the truth. We can't compare me and Putin. “Putin killed children. He is a terrorist.”

Netanyahu: “I invited Palmer Luckey here. “Palmer Luckey heads a company called Anduril, which I believe is the leading weapons manufacturing company in the United States. “He talks about the possibility of underground penetration. “He talks about unmanned systems underground.

CSIS projects it will take at least three years to rebuild pre-war inventories and warns of a “window of vulnerability” in any conflict with China.

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.