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WATCH: Chris Hayes is joined by author Matthew Cole to discuss his reporting in a new book alleging $2 billion in payments tied to Jared Kushner’s foreign policy work. Kushner calls the allegations “completely insane” and says they never happened.

New: In 2019, *1 day* after Trump rally crowd chanted "send her back!" abt Ilhan Omar, Schumer decried GOP "silence" over "despicable" chant Now, *14 days* after raid on Omar home, part of Trump attempt to literally "send her back," Schumer is silent. My story: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chuck-s...

Kavanaugh protected unconstitutional fascism. A Supreme Court justice leaves you conclude either he’s an incompetent fool or he’s a fascist.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

🚨BREAKING: Judiciary Democrats’ report details mounting evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities and DOJ’s cover-up; specific accounts involving 11 women provide more evidence of potential sex crimes. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

I am the book reviews editor at the Journal of International Business Studies, and I'm just putting my hand up to say that we never use AI in our peer review process.

Bom dia, Brasil! 🇧🇷💫

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

THIS 👇 HERE TOO........

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Agradeço de coração às mulheres e ao nordeste por salvar o Brasil da barbárie neoliberal (sim, neoliberalismo é barbárie). Minha camiseta favorita: #PyLadies Recife, com a frase “Dias mulheres virão” nas costas.

Failed to stop inflation? That’s letting Trump off the hook. Trump CAUSED price increases. His stupid war is why fuel prices are sky-high. Everything else costs more because of that.

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

“Holy fucking shit the kids just won this tonight!” Enjoy this from Serbia. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTfCLE8PW/

With 83% of the vote counted nationwide, Lula has stretched his lead to 2.8 million votes. That's a lead of 51.4% to 48.6%. That puts him on track for a victory that could be larger than his 1.8% win four years ago, which would be an immense comeback. He's even up in Minas Gervais now, by 0.6%.

Lula has taken the overall, countrywide lead back. With 62% of precincts counted, he is ahead 50.6% to 49.4%, which is an edge of roughly 900,000 votes. He is also getting the shift he needs (compared to the first round) in virtually every state that has reported most of the vote.

Here’s the editor of the Intercept Brazil as Lula tells the press that “something abominable is happening”

Christopher Hale: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent

This ad helps us understand the fascistic depths that Israel has sunk to. Utter madness.

"Why are Democrats turning against Israel"

VÍDEO: Drauzio Varella rompe silêncio político e declara voto em Lula, em defesa do SUS: Médico nunca havia revelado voto, mas, durante live com Janones, fez uma série de críticas à gestão Bolsonaro e aos projetos de Flávio para saúde: “Uma tragédia” #revistafórum

You’re working harder. Your money is buying less. Donald Trump did that. And he doesn't care. Go vote.

An extraordinary piece. @marisakabas.bsky.social details the “rich history of the GOP’s support for rape and abuse of women and children” with equal parts clarity and rage. www.thehandbasket.co/p/vivek-rama...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

Please, Brazil, give the planet a break and spare the rest of humanity a Bolsonaro redux. 🙏 'Nearly 159m Brazilians will vote in the election’s runoff on Sunday, with the pair tied in the polls after Bolsonaro won the first round on 4 October by 47% to 45%.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.

“People thought that things would change, but in reality nothing changed.” José, another fisherman who used to work for PDVSA, had a darker view: “The gringos came to rob everything—the oil, the minerals. We are rich in everything, but here, we don’t have anything.” Bu @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

I'm hoping it's #1, and also that as time goes on, more people will feel comfortable being out, open, and leadership providing LLM/"AI" haters. Like @aclanthology.org anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This is a five-alarm warning to every job and industry that relies on our sandy beaches and beautiful bluffs for its livelihood. Soon, you too could see your environment for sale to Big Oil, Elon Musk, and any other high bidder that buys its way into the White House ballroom.

The whole role of Rupert Murdoch TV as a fount for fact-free partisan political disinformation is really amazing. As reported in media around the world, Pope Leo placed calls to Putin and Zelenskyy and got them to agree this ceasefire for relief to the encircled city.

The grift & illegality under this administration will never be surpassed. "It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the U.S. interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope,” Mr. Riddle said in a brief interview." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Fascinating to see this morning how major US corporate media are simply ignoring this story. They don't want to report it. Indeed, they're afraid to do so.

Trofimov is correct: the key takeaway from the FT's blockbuster story is that the Trump family and cronies were exercising direct private control over this massive Alaska project, and they were using that control to benefit the Kremlin. Plain as day. But NYT couldn't understand what was happening.