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This is a wild and infuriating story.

Israel 07:17 ET: "About 31.5 percent of potential voters had cast ballots as of noon, the most by that time of day in an Israeli election since the 1970s, according to Dean Livne, acting director general of Israel’s Central Elections Committee" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10... Knesset Likud Eisenkot

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

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

Lessons abound

Brazil and Serbia pointing the way tonight!

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

This seems like a big deal

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

Overall he's grabbing most of the waterfront south of the (also seized) Kennedy Center, west of the National Mall. This is the people's land. Maybe it's about ego, but he's also grifting taxpayer money & land for his MAGA elites, & it's gotta be stopped. stickycomics.substack.com/p/trumps-dc-...

Amy Acton, Dems' nominee in Ohio, has long said she was molested by a man her mother married when she was a young child. There was a court battle. She went to live with her dad at age 12 ,a& she no longer talked to her mother. Ramaswamy released an ad ft the mother attacking her daughter as a liar.

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Women in state prison are more likely to have a disability, struggle with mental health, and been unhoused as a child. By almost any measure, women in prison are worse off than men — leading up to and during incarceration. Prison is no answer for marginalized, traumatized women.

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

It never gets old.

It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.

This kind of idea is helpful. When Trey Gowdy made Hillary sit for a ridiculously long Benghazi hearing (when it had already been investigated six times over), I donated $10 to her campaign for every hour they made her sit there. Total was 11 hours. Let MAGA abuse fill their target's coffers.

This is so good.

The timeline cleanse of all timeline cleanses. Absolutely adorable and amazing

Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

A man dug a tiny waterhole in the Brazilian rainforest, then set up a camera to see who would show up for a drink

Northeast Brasil (Lula’s base) will come last

desire to consolidate executive power, serve the exact same despotic purpose. But the most chilling, uncomfortable parallel lies in the cynical weaponization of faith. Hitler’s public persona as a Christian was a highly calculated manipulation.

🧵 I agree with every word in this thread. People keep calling Carney the new leader of the free world. I'd maybe give him second place, but no one is in the same league as Zelenskyy.

Glory to Ukraine. -Michael Jochum Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition. michaeljochum.substack.com/p/a-true-pat...

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...

Insane. The most corrupt president in American history, with no close 2nd. 🏆 🇺🇸

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

You can tell a lot about someone’s character by how they feel about the government providing free school breakfasts for children.

So, now we have two different ways to extinguish ourselves within a decade.

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! On September 11th, the preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature measured 2.98°C above the 1991-2020 mean, which was 4.03 standard deviations above the mean. No previous year has broken 3SD. The Climate 8-ball is feeling oblong.

"Marshall, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills ... Marshall's lawyers garnished patients’ paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate."

He'll have banned everything by midnight.

Please don’t rake

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

We are such a clown show.

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