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Israel's Lost Taboo: How Netanyahu's Party Is Officially Embracing Europe's Far-right Extremists (Haaretz March 2025) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"What followed was the discovery of a secret financial arrangement involving Trump’s son-in-law, the rulers of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and at least $2 billion. $750m passed into a UAE account also used to fund covert military operations. $1 billion reportedly went to Israel’s central bank..."

"It is now perfectly clear that #Trumpism is the manifestation of 21st century neo-fascism in the specific American context. That context is: Reactionary white supremacist Christian ethno-nationalism as a mass political movement, mediated by the contemporary information culture and environment."

"Fox News appears to have settled on this cycle’s October surprise, devoting at least 5 hours and 18 minutes of airtime from Saturday through Wednesday to riots in France that its propagandists claim are a harbinger for what will happen in the U.S. if Democrats triumph in the midterm elections."

Der Hausphilosoph der Techoligarchen zur Wahl in #Brasilien: Zeit für einen Militärputsch

In Brazil, it appears that voters who opted for eliminated first-round candidates roughly broke even in the runoff (even if the candidates leaned right). But the big difference was: Millions of voters who cast 'null' or 'blank' ballots in the first round then voted for Lula.

A single billionaire megadonor is propping up the Republican effort to stop Dems from flipping Pennsylvania’s Senate and gaining full control of government—to a much greater degree than Elon Musk is doing it at the federal level

So far, remarkably high turnout by young Black voters in Georgia. Eye-popping chart.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

Dieser Betrug ist bei der #NYTimes und vielen anderen Medien fest und systematisch etabliert: Republikanische Politiker oder Aktivist:innen werden als „ordinary Americans“ präsentiert und interviewt. Hab ich auch schon bei der SZ registriert. Vorsätzlicher Betrug. #Medienversagen

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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.

Lieber BW-Innenminister Hagel (CDU), „mit aller Härte des Rechtsstaats" gibt es nicht. Das Stichwort lautet Verhältnismäßigkeit, und das heißt: das mildeste Mittel, das wirkt. Wer vor einer Demo schon vom „Zurückschlagen" redet, verwechselt das Grundgesetz mit einer Kneipenschlägerei.

Beim ÖRR in #Serbien gibt es Bewegung. Der Chefredakteur und verantwortliche Redakteur von RTV Vojvodina ist zurückgetreten. Die Hauptnachrichtensendung) von RTV begann mit einer Entschuldigung an die Zuschauer: „Der öffentlich-rechtliche Sender hat seine Aufgabe über viele Jahre nicht erfüllt.“

„Nach Recherchen der Zeitung Libération waren rechte Gruppen in Nizza, Montpellier, Lille, Nantes, Rennes, Dijon, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Tours, Rouen, Toulouse, Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Bordeaux & Brest aufmarschiert.“

Peak Wall Street (Journal): The Bull Case for AI Armageddon For investors mulling the Anthropic share offering, a 10% chance of extinction may be a 90% win for your portfolio www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

‘While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.’ www.reuters.com/world/china/...

SAUDI ARABIA REPORTEDLY OFFERS HOUTHIS $1 BLN IN IRAN-BROKERED DEAL TO HALT ATTACKS – ISRAEL HAYOM

“If the AI bubble is going to burst, it’ll likely start as a credit event as neocloud and risky AI debt defaults, creating a cascade of devaluations, reduced spending and contraction (in multiples and growth).” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Ill-defined Republican forever wars in the Middle East, in many cases broadly supported by Democrats, have had a huge human cost, including the displacement of roughly 38 million people. This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900—except World War II. Rarely reported in US corporate media.

New NYT and Strength In Numbers polls this morning showing roughly same thing regarding national environment, around D+11-12 lead for Dems in the generic ballot depending on population. Double digit margin now a 50-50 chance in my modeling of all polls www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-21...

Smaller venues, empty seats, bored crowds, and a sleepy, confused headliner. The Trump rally is the defining political event of our era, repeated hundreds of times in all its grotesque glory, and now it's limping to an end. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rall...?

Will the Dems finally change US policy towards #Israel and #Palestine? Not long ago, this piece in the #NYTimes would have been unthinkable.

Israeli opposition politician Yair Lapid accidentally reveals the fact that all the most reliable allies of #Israel are ... fascists and authoritarians, often antisemites too. His consequence: he's in favor of the Israel-supporting fascists no matter what. 👇 bsky.app/profile/pigl...

Steigert KI wirklich unsere Produktivität? Yanis Varoufakis erklärt, wie Cloud-Kapital und schrumpfende Arbeitsmärkte zusammenhängen.

One thing I think it's important to realize is that the right has and has long had a built-in advantage when it comes to platform manipulation and SEO because these are fields that advantage unethical people and unethical people have sorted themselves into the GOP very efficiently.

The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution has increased dramatically in the last year.

Global sanctions against Israel over its violent support of squatters in the occupied West Bank will devastate the Israeli economy, but Netanyahu presents this isolation and economic collapse as a virtue that warrants giving him ruler-for-life status in Israel.

Bill Kristol: "Once upon a time, this stuff actually seemed to work for Trump. He built a whole lurid Technicolor artificial world for his supporters to live in. He lied and lied, and from time to time he won. But now it’s over. He’s done, the jig is up. Nobody believes."

Berlin lässt sich nicht einschüchtern und unser Kampf für bezahlbare Mieten geht jetzt erst richtig los.

Flávio Bolsonaro and Aleksandar Vučić... both have close ties, some of a financial nature, with Trump and his family, and in both cases this fact proved hugely damaging in the campaign.

I spent a week in Delhi, watching an extraordinary protest movement unfold. Here's what I saw, and what I think it means for India, and the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/o...

Thomas Phillips, longtime Republican chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, announces he's backing Democrat James Talarico for Senate. "Paxton’s longstanding reputation will embarrass Texas in ways our state simply cannot afford." www.beaumontenterprise.com/opinions/art...

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Trump fought a federal judge for weeks to keep his Election Day plans secret. He lost. One thing he has to hand over today: the order that sent agents to voters’ front doors in nine states. A nurses’ union already got that blocked. Now the rest comes out.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

On the campaign trail in Port Huron, Michigan, Trump flies into a wild rage against the Kingdom of Norway, escalating his invective in increasingly vulgar terms. He called Norway a ‘shit house country’ and said Norwegian immigrants are not welcome because Norway has not awarded him a Peace Prize

#Schweiz #Referendum gegen neue #AKW Wer von AKW-Trollen heimgesucht wird oder sonst nach guten Argumentationsquellen sucht: akademien-schweiz.ch/publications... akademien-schweiz.ch/news/neues-k... energiestiftung.ch/medienmittei... www.watson.ch/wirtschaft/e... www.20min.ch/story/43-mil...

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Billionaires, too. And maybe some chickenshit law firms and universities. Powerful executives cozied up to Trump. Now they fear a reckoning. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The big problem with AI, who is going to pay trillions for this stuff? deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-big-pr...

Der jüngste #Abbau beim Grossverlag #Tamedia schwächt auch den #Medienplatz #Bern weiter. Die «Hauptstadt» stemmt sich seit fünf Jahren dagegen. Doch die #Medienkrise geht weit über den Kurs eines einzelnen Konzerns hinaus. Text: Jürg Steiner, Marina Bolzli und Joël Widmer Bild: Manuel Lopez

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."