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Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...
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Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...
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Authentic Brands Group is leading a coalition of plaintiffs suing Anthropic for allegedly training Claude on Elvis Presley songs. They are seeking $41 million.
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Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here: www.youtube.com/live/WT6jf56...
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For folks interested in the Brazil runoff election (Bolsonaro Jr v. Lula) @taniel.bsky.social is kind enough to manage a thread of returns.
I'm going to start this thread on the presidential count in Brazil—so people who are interesting can follow along. With 3% of vote counted, Lula up 51.3 to 48.7 (that's a lead of 103K). Pattern in 2022 & in R1 was Lula down big at 1st, then closing gap, but that's shaken up by today's 2-hour delay.
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Here is the TLDR of the 9th Circuit hearing: DOJ will lose. It will be either 2-1 or 3-0. It will be on jurisdiction and perhaps on the merits. The argument was a debacle for Trump and the DOJ lawyer who argued it. Watch for details. www.youtube.com/live/EsuYPbm...
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Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led protests. nyti.ms/4zegOaY
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‘Blowout Territory!’ CNN’s Enten Declares Democrats Are Poised To Retake The House
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Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here: www.youtube.com/live/WT6jf56...
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No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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Something I think is important, that other folks have tended to skip over ... the DOJ argument relies on the effect of hypothetical confused voters, but Alaska uses ranked choice voting, and confusion wouldn't disenfranchise anyone. They could simply rank both Sullivans without a problem.
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lemme see if I get it GRU hacks Kushner's iPhone Dutch intelligence (MIVD) then recruits GRU spy, gives them hacked phone MIVD discovers that Kushner has 2 bank accounts (one Azerbaijani, one Israeli) where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposit money
This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...
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Two years later, DOJ still fighting over whether Trump's blanket pardon for Jan. 6 defendants inadvertently swept in other egregious crimes committed by Jan. 6 defendants. Kelley was convicted by a jury of conspiring to murder his investigators. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
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UPDATE: Judge Lamberth, taking what he was given from SCOTUS, moves quickly to get notice of the preliminary injunction out to all class members. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Trump admin’s request to end trans-related care in prison. The request to immediately end gender-affirming medical care for trans people in prison was based on an extreme anti-trans argument. Only Thomas and Alito sided with the admin. New, at Law Dork:
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FINRA margin. 2012, opening of the casino. There's about 30 cents of uninvested liquid cash available for every $1.00 of outstanding margin debt? Historically, that would fall under the category of "jacked to the tits" in bro language. Get the source data & check: www.finra.org/rules-guidan...
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Link for the wise and good looking subscribers who pay my wages 😘 - www.ft.com/content/3f98...
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Me on this week's dress rehearsal for a proper AI reckoning 300 free clicks- as.ft.com/r/652f6bc3-7...
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"SB Energy, majority owned by Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank and backed by OpenAI and Nvidia, has not completed a single data centre, and has $174bn in capital needs in order to satisfy contracts worth $430bn in future revenue, largely from OpenAI." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Katie Zacharia was in the middle of an interview with WSJ when she was ousted. She was telling The Journal about her plans for the role. Then Jason Miller knocked on her door. 'JD wanted to chat with us real quick.' Zacharia never returned — to the interview, or the job.
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BoE scrutinises Barclays over claim traders misrepresented private credit exposure - scoop by @ortenca.bsky.social Martin Arnold www.ft.com/content/f312...
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South Korean data centre builder tumbles 30% on trading debut ft.trib.al/Cp6OmAq
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"Alphaville doubts that any of the index providers would be willing to say anything about the current state of US financial regulation and integrity" www.ft.com/content/b354...
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Yet MORE evidence that Wedgewood/Andrew Prater was insider trading: bsky.app/profile/corn...
Okay, this is clearer-cut insider trading for Wedgewood: 7/5 poll gets released showing Hong up, Barnes second. Then this Kalshi account makes trades on Barnes. Second poll gets released on 7/21, but interestingly, the user never sold! So may have lost all money, lol. kalshi.com/ideas/profil...
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🚨 VILE: Vivek Ramaswamy’s new attack ad against Amy Acton features her estranged mother, who stayed married to the man who sexually abused her daughter at age 12, even after his arrest. Now even conservatives are calling the ad disgusting. The horrifying story behind Vivek’s attack:
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Dem Candidate In Arizona: My Rape Was Not A ‘Hoax’ Concocted for Votes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...
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Company was formed last month and will disappear next month: it’s a pop up smear operation bsky.app/profile/texa...
Pamphlets purporting to come from a transgender rights organization — mailed to families across Texas and igniting criticism from conservatives — came from a company formed last month in Wyoming. The Texas Transgender Student Union listed a Houston-area post office box as the address on the mailers.
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This is what the flyers look like. Not from a real organization. Their entire purpose is to increase the salience of trans issues before the election. Billionaires can do this because we are in a completely unaccountable environment. The Federal Elections Commission has not had a quorom in 2 years.
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In an operation that costs millions of dollars, a deceptive flyer that is intended to spark moral panic among parents about trans issue was sent out across Texas. Hey, do you know of anyone obsessed with trans people that just dumped a ton of money in Texas? newrepublic.com/post/216856/...
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For those who are STILL skeptical: bsky.app/profile/corn...
I found one set of Kalshi bets from AndrewOhio53 allegedly behind Wedgewood: They posted a fake 6/25/26 LA poll (that was wrong by 18 pts) with Fleming up is posted, which moved odds. But AndrewOhio53 did NOT bet on anything until well after the fact. Which is funny. @beshearstan.bsky.social
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UPDATE: I found Wedgewood’s Kalshi account. He goes by Andrew and has been insider trading using the fake polls that he was posting. I reported this to Kalshi, hope they do something about it @gelliottmorris.com
We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...