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Authorities in Utah are holding a news conference Tuesday to pin another decades-old homicide on serial killer Ted Bundy.

Where we are as a country www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

Gideon Rachman says that even if, as now seems likely, Israeli and US voters each deliver an electoral thrashing to their leaders, we can expect Netanyahu and Trump to carry on with a sharp escalation of the Iran War just the same—because they can, and pointless acts of violence are second nature.

Starlink / Starshield speeds have finally been restored fully for Ukraine. Elon Musk was the person who restricted them and he has been lying about everything related to this crisis the last two weeks.

The quincy institute doing multiple events with noted far right lunatic joe kent is wildly irresponsible

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

🇷🇺 Since a mass mobilization drive in 2022, which sparked a panicked exodus across its borders, #Russia has relied mostly on large financial incentives to lure soldiers to fight. Evidence suggests that is now slowly giving way to coercion and deception. www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/e...

The last time a Bolsonaro didn't accept an election result, the Biden administration strongly discouraged him from a coup attempt Now that another Bolsonaro won't concede defeat, I worry that the Trump administration might encourage him and his supporters to get the election annuled

In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

Never thought I would utter the phrase: "Thank God, Lula won."

Yep, just to add even more color for how bad this is—there are tons of American made vehicles that are basically only exported to Canada because they’re too expensive for most consumers in Mexico and too big for consumers in Europe/Asia. One of endless reasons it was dumb to start this trade war.

There are 9 days until the Midterms, 744 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 818 days until the next optional Inauguration Day. Midterms progress: █████████▒ 98% Presidency/Regime progress: ████▒▒▒▒▒▒ 46% Until Next Inauguration : ████▒▒▒▒▒▒ 44%

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

🇵🇱 Polish range of answers to "How are you?" ("Fine, thanks, how are you?" is not an option) - somehow it's flying (jakoś leci) - dickish but stable (chujowo ale stabilnie) - old poverty (stara bieda) - could be worse (mogło być gorzej, peak expression of Polish happiness)

Russians kidnapped him, imprisoned, horrifically beaten and sexually assaulted. Witkoff: how humanitarian! 🤦‍♀️

Mark Galeotti: "I'm sure they were aiming for a military target and missed. After all, why waste munitions?"

Slow news day over at the New York Times

My latest article at @warsight.bsky.social

Soldiers used to get shot in Northern Ireland Aspects of the response were ugly, but I don’t recall it involving demolishing neighbourhoods www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's hard to treat the riots in France as an expression of youth frustration with education spending, when churches and synagogues are being attacked, and rioters are chanting the lyrics to "MRH" and waving Algerian flags. 🤔

Over the past five years, North Korea has quietly deprioritized the two relationships most analysts still treat as central. So what is Pyongyang chasing instead? (Members Only) warontherocks.com/2026/10/read...

The pro-russian German neo-Nazi party has been hacked by a Ukrainian living in America. It does not really come as a surprise that the email correspondence clearly shows that AfD members have apparently been paid by the russians. (source: Die Zeit, and mdEP Erik Marquardt)

One Russian paper today concludes that the war in Ukraine has reached “a fork in the road: either real peace talks on the entire range of issues, or the next level of escalation.” What the Russian press is saying about the prospects for peace. #ReadingRussia

The real crime here is they even failed to use the obvious name for their company: Jurassic Bark.

New Covert Shores article on chinese uncrewed surface vessel (USV) - www.hisutton.com/Chinese-MCM-...

Millions of American men have dropped out of the workforce—and it’s not because of the job market, Keith Humphreys and Brent Orrell write. theatln.tc/IV1eo6Nn

Why the fuck talk to this guy? He does not deserve a platform and can't be trusted to use it responsibly. Has anything material changed about what we know about what he did? Talk about that if there's anything to talk about.

From Elizabeth Tsurkov

The Musk empire turducken is about to reach its final form as Elon makes his biggest play yet to stuff his struggling companies into his more successful ones.

#otd 1967: Tens of thousands march against the Vietnam War, confronting armed soldiers at the Pentagon. Protesters place flowers in rifle barrels. Hundreds are arrested. The Cold War’s battle over communism is tearing American society apart.

This is a masterpiece of a chart. Well done @theboysmithy.ft.com and @amyborrett.ft.com. Take some time to understand it. Jealous

US Democratic congressional nominee Lander detained by Israeli authorities in West Bank reut.rs/4jzKkTB

Guy who pardoned insurrectionists says what?

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

It’s all this It’s all fuckin this

Trump is the president of the plutocracy www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/trum...

Ken Griffen: Trump's tax cuts for billionaires were an error of judgment of epic proportions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I guess The Onion wouldn't be doing this if she liked Hasan Piker

You don't have to do this, @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. It's a choice. They want to defund you. They think you're a propaganda arm of an evil government. You will never win them over by showing them grace when they show absolutely none towards you.

Budanov...if you're listening...

Indirectly supporting the Machine is what the name of the band should be.