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Meanwhile more Israelis are leaving than arriving, many renewing foreign passports. The ultra-Orthodox double as a share of the population every 25 years, and have largely avoided military service. 39% now fear violence between Israelis, as many as fear a nuclear Iran. #Israel #Election

His youngest son Gal was killed in Gaza. So were two of his nephews. He promises an independent inquiry into October 7, accountability for violent settlers, and military service for the ultra-Orthodox. #Israel

Who is the man trying to unseat Netanyahu? Gadi Eisenkot, the army chief Netanyahu himself appointed in 2014. He joined the war cabinet after October 7, then quit, saying Netanyahu prolonged the war and endangered the hostages. #Israel

Ten European countries, including the UK, Germany and Poland, have joined France’s nuclear “forward deterrence” plan, the WSJ reports. Nuclear-capable Rafale jets could deploy across Europe. Italy said no. The Baltics weren’t invited. #Europe

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.

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing

“Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” 💯

Gary Lineker was a football presenter and dared to voice an opinion and was fired. This anchor of one of the BBC's flagship political shows writes in a fascist rag and it's no problem at all. The BBC has zero credibility.

Power of Social Media? André Janones, 42-year-old politician from Minas Gerais, runs a viral Whatsapp channel, that, in the lead up to the elections, had attracted in excess of 10 million followers. Janones named the following "Lula's Army" urging them to recruit voters⤵️ www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...

And they did it the hard way: near-total state control of the media, spyware on activists' phones, a leader calling them a foreign coup. Their answer was the highest turnout since 1992 and 250 candidates who had never held office. Every opposition movement facing a strongman just got a playbook.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

We asked if the Bolsonaros would concede. Now we know. Flávio says it’s “impossible to concede” and will seek to annul an election he lost by 4.3 million votes. His complaint: polls were kept open two extra hours. He didn’t mention his own campaign asked for that too. #Brazil #Bolsonaro

The "influencers" are dropping like flies

The MAGA influencers weren't enough to save Putin's favorite candidate in the Serbian elections. Vucic has just conceded.

Congratulations Brazil, you didn’t Trump yourselves. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

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By the way, the name of his heroic coworker is J.D. Thompson. The BBC featured a new interview with him in July 2026, nearly 59 years after he saved Randall Champion. He spoke about climbing the pole, giving Champion mouth-to-mouth, and the moment Champion finally took a breath.

This man was dead weight, hanging high above the ground after touching a high-voltage line. His coworker climbed up, held him in place, gave him mouth-to-mouth. Randall Champion survived—and lived another 35 years. Rocco Morabito’s photo, “The Kiss of Life,” won the Pulitzer Prize. True heroism.

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

Is @jneill.bsky.social on his hols? 5 points short of top score #board200 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🪄 189 points in 6 words 🔥 streak: 1 puzzlist.com/lettergrams

Burnham is correct to imply a de facto link between free movement of people and Dublin/Eurodac - all of the non-EU countries agreeing to free movement with the EU are also associated with the Dublin rules. BUT they are all also associated with Schengen. Would the EU insist on it for the UK too?

I have a friend who is a social worker doing the same work as this social worker. She has also told me stories of women like Amy Acton's mother.

I’m all for preparedness for war, but making ourselves dependent on technologies and companies in cahoots with potential enemies isn’t the most obvious choice.

Unbelievable And yet, the Catholic Church still exists.

Christmas shopping can help dogs too. 🎄🐾 From gifts and cards to treats for four-legged family members, shop with purpose this Christmas and help support vulnerable dogs with every purchase. https://www.dogdeskshop.com/

Instead of using American economic power to pressure the country that started this war but shows no capability of winning it, Trump is offering that country economic relief while criticizing the nation that is successfully defending itself.

I have written this week’s @RestIsPolitics newsletter, on how difficult I find it to answer the question “what do you do?” Economic, social and technological change means more of us struggle with answering it, I think therestispolitics.beehiiv.com/p/the-questi...

Free movement as part of a future UK-EU relationship has more support when linked to benefits to trade and opportunities for UK citizens My blog based on new @britishfuture.bsky.social research for @freemovement.bsky.social 👇👇👇

© Natalia Polikarpova. 'The Silence of the Forest.' Pastel on pastelcard paper, 2024. 65 × 45 cm.

After the recent Trump rallies, it's a novelty to see a president able to fill a venue again.

It’s just the beginning... Can't wait for the trials 🍿🍿🍿

Antique folding camp table uses an accordion-scissor leg mechanism that expands and locks into a sturdy tabletop that folds away for storage. IG: @antique vintage_rust

A Christian man said - this Angry Troll who ‘growled’ at the reporter manifested the Beast, as in the 666 Beast 😖

And Anton has separately written with Jim Tankersley our NYT colleague based in Berlin a piece about talks with Putin to push Europe to start buying Russian gas again--a proposal that would turn years of American energy policy upside-down www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

This new report today with my NYT colleague Anton Troianovski follows up on our earlier reporting this month on the Lukoil deal that would bring financial benefits to business partners of the Witkoff and Trump families. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...