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  Fetterwoman https://bsky.app/profile/sashat.bsky.social/post/3mzbizr2r3c2h

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  Trump Team Arranged Private Jet to Help Bolsonaro Flee Brazil Trump personally helped failed right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro flee to the United States, according to a new report in The New York Times. Bolsonaro, who would have faced multiple criminal investigations if he stayed in Brazil, landed in Miami Wednesday after losing Brazil’s presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But he wouldn’t have made it without the Trump administration’s hel...

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  The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice. The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say that they had been offered to Trump for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, wit...

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  The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The deal, which is contingent on approval from the U.S. government and the Kremlin, is for a sprawling set of oil fields, refineries and gas stations around the world owned by Lukoil, one of Russia’s biggest energy companies. The l...

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  Dutch intelligence services captured and flipped a Russian hacker operating for the GRU (Russia’s foreign military intelligence agency) in late 2017. By the end of the year, the operative had given them access to a GRU server containing screenshots of Jared Kushner’s iPhone X, and the Dutch spies were able to reverse-engineer the original method the GRU used to penetrate the phone’s then-state-of-the-art security. This gave them access to a continual image feed (albeit without audio) of the p...

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  Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the illegal cuttingof some 1,300 acres of forest. The tech giant was given a week to draft a report explaining its actions, which soon became a flashpoint for Europe’s growing outrage over the data center boom. New reporting by the Guardian shed fresh light on the impacts of Google’s deforestation. After the 1,300 acres of pristine boreal forests were reduced to...

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  The GOP loves nothing more than to bang the drum about how Democrats are going to let all the undocumented people double vote and also maybe hack the voting machines to only return results for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in every race across the country, even though she’s in Congress. And still, somehow, it’s GOP operatives and true believers who keep actively, consciously committing voter fraud. In the latest, it’s Scott Presler, a top GOP grassroots organizer. Presler owns a house in...

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  Europe has days, not months, to save the International Criminal Court from collapsing under US sanctions, a Dutch MEP has warned.  “We don’t have six months, we have six days, banks and services are leaving now,” said Dirk Gotink, from the centre-right European People’s Party, during a debate in the European Parliament.  Earlier this month, Washington announced sanctions against the ICC, based in The Hague, in an attempt to cripple what it considers a “rogue” institution. The US delayed t...

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  On Monday, a longtime GOP insider warned that Donald Trump is pushing the United States into an “axis of evil” alongside its greatest adversaries. According to political commentator Charlie Sykes – who broke with the Republican Party over its embrace of Trump – new reporting by the Wall Street Journal on a potential summit between Russia, China, and the U.S. suggests that Trump has once and for all abandoned America’s allies in favor of its enemies, and he’s dragging the country with hi...

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  TRUMP MOCKS WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM WHILE CONGRATULATING MEN ON GOLD The president complained to that he would also have to invite the women’s team to White House https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mocks-us-womens-hockey-team-gold-medal-1235521057/

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  Gallup found that world opinion of the United States has fallen to its lowest point in 20 years. When Pew Research asked people across 36 countries this spring if they trusted various world leaders to do the right thing, Trump was trusted least — less than Putin, Xi Jinping, and Netanyahu. https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-us-tourism

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  Hackers stole records tied to millions of current and former California public school students, including names, addresses, demographic details and disability information. The breach at testing provider ETS exposed data after an unauthorized party used a compromised login. State officials say those affected are eligible for 24 months of free identity-protection services and identity-restoration help. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-16/state-testing-student-data-hack

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  When times get hard, people often look to their friends for support. Last week Donald Trump — approval underwater, stretched thin as gas prices skyrocket, battered by a disastrous war that he started, and staring down the barrel of midterm elections that could wipe out his party for years — looked east, to Vladimir Putin of Russia. The result was an oil deal that experts say is a desperate move of political theater, a plea to voters that hurts U.S. interests in the long run. And worse — it...

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  A billionaire tax, a fired press secretary, and the chilling raid on Ilhan Omar's home. We unpack it all: https://equl.org Robert Reich, IMCA

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  Trump’s election fraud task force is going after the people who investigated him The White House task force that Donald Trump charged with uncovering evidence of election fraud hasn’t produced any. Instead, it has shifted to releasing records that his administration is using to build a public case against officials who investigated him. 
The president initially promoted the task force, led by pro-Trump journalist John Solomon, as part of a push to uncover election fraud. 
But more recent...

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  Lawyers for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) on Friday accused federal authorities of 💥 ignoring key restrictions that a judge placed on the search of the lawmaker’s D.C. residence this week and demanded the immediate return of all property seized from the home. 
In a letter sent to Justice Department prosecutors, attorneys Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz condemned the investigation into Omar’s immigration history as a 🔸 politically motivated attack on one of Donald Trump’s chief critics, sayin...

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  Odds are that the Trump administration has no case at all against Omar — as is true of thousands of other cases it has lost against immigrants so far. Instead, the raid on the Minnesota congresswoman’s home must be understood more as a campaign stunt by a president desperate to distract from his economic failures and the disastrous war in Iran. Omar herself called the raid “pointless” and “the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies.” This isn’t even the first...

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  RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117453985536135517 "Trump cheapens everything he touches. He wants everything to be in his image. He tears down the East Wing. He puts his name on the Kennedy Center. Now he has tried to put someone in that job who reflects him, not the country and the values and the power of this country."

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  Priscilla Till is running for Mississippi governor in the 2027 election The educator and civil rights activist is a cousin of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was kidnapped and killed by white men while visiting Mississippi in 1955.  https://www.mississippifreepress.org/photos-priscilla-till-emmett-tills-cousin-announces-campaign-for-mississippi-governor/?utm_content=buffer6fd16&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=bufferthreads

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  Rodger Marshall is playing catch-up as he races to avoid becoming the first person to lose a Senate contest to a Democrat in Kansas in nearly a century. He faces the most serious challenger for a Kansas senator in over a decade as his party stares down a grim environment under Donald Trump’s second term. National Republicans are pouring millions into the state to prop him up; national Democrats are responding in kind, and Democrat Adam Hamilton, a well-known United Methodist pastor, is...

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  An influencer who played a key role in hoax claims that James Talarico was in a mental health facility has a long history of social media posts that favorably invoke Nazi Germany, express antisemitism and anti-Black racism, criticize miscegenation and call for “remigration” of refugees. On X, the Lake Oswego, Oregon, resident Ryan Amacher, known online as Rhein Amacher, has described Muslims as “sub-human”, claimed that Black Africans are “monkeys” with low IQ, characterized immigrants...

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  Flagstaff, Arizona, was the first city to have outdoor lighting rules, adding them in 1958. In 2001, Flagstaff became the first recognized Dark Sky City. Their rules regulate how much light can be used, what type, and where it can shine. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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  Planning A Stargazing Trip: The Bortle Scale is the standard tool for rating night-sky darkness and is useful for travelers deciding where to go. It runs from Class 1 (the darkest possible skies on Earth) to Class 9 (inner-city light pollution). Most flagship Gold Tier International Dark Sky Parks measure Bortle 1 or 2 where the Milky Way is bright enough to cast a faint shadow and the zodiacal light is visible to the naked eye. A few practical tips apply across destinations. Plan visits...

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  Trump signed an executive order on Friday night exempting Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month, offering an economic lifeline to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin as the United States turns to Russia for help lowering gas prices. The new sanctions were intended to target Russian officials, oligarchs and financial institutions, and were part of legislation that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July after spend...

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  In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has dropped all pretense, torched a couple decades of American policy, and undermined 18 months of his own diplomacy. He lifted sanctions on the import of Russian diesel fuel, in violation of the letter and spirit of laws that he himself signed. He has threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine, unless Ukraine agrees not to target Russian refineries, thus demanding that Kyiv give up its most effective weapon while asking nothing from Russia in e...

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  Trump's "communist" panic isn't just senile ranting. It's a strategy. It comes straight from a book Bannon and Vance endorsed, a genocide-themed screed that calls for dehumanizing Democrats as demons who don't deserve rights. The "Unhumans" playbook, exposed https://www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-keeps-talking-about-communism-the-unhumans-playbook/

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  RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117021215493505628 In September 2024, billionaire hedge-fund owner John Paulson — an adviser to the president and one of his biggest fundraisers — gave an interview supporting Trump’s tariff proposals on CNBC. “What you see is a hollowed-out American manufacturing base. And we need to protect American jobs and protect American manufacturing,” Paulson said. “We can’t have Americans — American producers closing American factories and offshoring.” Paulson is a...

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  In the small hours of June 30, Joe Klima lay awake in bed. A little before 5 a.m., he rose and packed his lunch. Ahead of Klima was his last shift at the Conn Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio — everyone’s last shift, because the factory was closing. At a time when the president of the United States said the country was in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance, the 150 people who still worked at the plant were losing their jobs, and seeing many of them offshored to China https://www.w...

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  It’s the day after Mother’s Day, the first one Elizabeth Soto has spent apart from her three children. Sitting in jail in Wichita Falls, Texas, her face is washed out by the overhead fluorescent lighting, and her dingy jumpsuit blends into the cinder block walls surrounding her. Speaking through a glass separator, she tells me she celebrated the holiday with her children over the jail’s video-call system while they had dinner at their grandmother’s. “I’ve been a full-time mother all of thei...

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  FOR YEARS, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs. Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of those North Korean hackers is raising the alarm on just how effective and far reaching the targeting of individual employees and contractors has been in breaching organizatio...