Grape Bowl Full of Dust

#Oklahoma #electricity #EnergyTariffs

Wonder when Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment is going to get the hint

Every time you shake him, more misdeeds fall out…

Before the 2008 crash, Wall Street hid massive financial risks using accounting tricks. Now Big Tech appears to be following the same playbook. Americans and our entire economy are at risk because Trump’s regulators are choosing to look the other way.

He’s drunk. Slurred words is Hes pretty far gone right here.

One thing people are missing from the new Jim Comey charges. They came 2 days after Aakash Singh was promoted to PADAG. Comey has been arguing that Trump keeps hiring people for the primary purpose to prosecute him, and this is consistent with that. emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...

If you want to ensure ads never use your personal data in this way, you’ll need to make sure Personal Intelligence is turned off: arstechnica.visitlink.me/0kCaFp

#Oklahoma #BrainDrain

Elon Musk uses ties with other tech bro media monopolists and raw cash payments to successfully suppress distribution of Alex Gibney's explosive documentary "Musk." After TikTok Suspended Its Account for Two Days, the Elon Musk Documentary is Almost Gone From Theaters, and Musk

Reason number 999 we must flip the Senate: Pete Hegseth could end up there without ever facing the voters. The very definition of mediocrity failing upward — from the Pentagon straight into the United States Senate.

Simon & Shuster has responded to Jared Kushner's threats by accelerating the release of Matt Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early (today). Buy your copy immediately. www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

#Robot #Dogs

#Fraud #CyberSecurity

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.

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

The problem fearmongerers have is @NYCMayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social exists

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

Join us tonight, Monday, at 8pm ET for a special Substack Live. There’s an anti-authoritarian movement afoot in elections around the world. Voting allows us to alter the course of history. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-in-th...

One out of three so far. Let's get the hat trick, Y'all. Go out and VOTE BLUE.

Lula’s surprise comeback comes after weeks of student-led organizing and campaigning on his behalf, and amid accusations that U.S.-based tech companies were suppressing Lula’s reach online in favor of his Trump-aligned opponent.

WELL DONE BRAZIL 💙💙

one handy thing the CCP and Putin have demonstrated is you can just ban these companies from operating in your country. replacements will sprout up extremely fast

Hoping that the world has remembered that fascism never actually works out for the majority of people.

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... An outbreak of bird flu at a mink farm in Utah – and the response from its owner and regulators – have sparked concerns from infectious disease experts about the Trump administration’s ability to manage such viruses.

Lula Goes HARD

Everything is delayed by two hours as courts extended voting after complaints of blocked public transit by Bolsonaro supporters, and worries about bad weather. www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...

While oil is known to float, new research finds that over time it can permeate even extremely deep marine habitats, with animal populations declining by as much as 80 percent.

The Charges against Bradley Benavides Assume an Investigation into the Laptop that Never Happened emptywheel.net/2026/10/25/t...

When you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work.

Flávio Bolsonaro may revive his father’s program to transform the Amazon into ranches, strip mines, and plantations.

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

This new report today with my NYT colleague Anton Troianovski follows up on our earlier reporting this month on the Lukoil deal that would bring financial benefits to business partners of the Witkoff and Trump families. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

Three days after the August primary, election workers in one Washington county went to check for late mail-in ballots. They expected no more than a few dozen. Instead, there were more than 500 — each a vote that wouldn’t count.

I’m curious how much Dan Sulivan knew about these deals. There’s something fishy afoot, and I feel like It’s been in the making for a while. koots.com/bars/russian...

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Last year, Anna Paulina Luna was a huge proponent of banning members of Congress and their family members from buying or trading public stock. Guess whose family members have a stake in a private drone company that has received more than $30 million in government contracts over the past year?

Turning Point UK CEO Jack Ross fired after being caught on hidden camera quoting prices for assassinations. This is Turning Point. Charlie Kirk was killed after he pulled support for Israel. Kirk knew about Israeli infiltration in U.S. government.

⚡️ Poland accused social media giants of acting as "silent allies" to Russian intelligence by failing to curb Kremlin bot networks. united24media.com/world/social...

“Winning over voters who abstained or cast null votes, and flipping as many others as possible, is at the heart of Lula’s strategy as he tries to do what no presidential candidate has ever managed in Brazil: overturn a first-round defeat like the one he suffered to Bolsonaro on 5 October.“

Two critical elections tomorrow: the runoff for the Brazilian Presidential election which could cement Trump’s influence over South America if Bolsonaro wins; and the snap election in Serbia which Putin will be closely watching.

Here's the NYT story about how Trump is inviting Russia into AK to drill for oil. Literally selling out Alaska to Russia. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...