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The Economist @economist.com · 14h
Switzerland is in fine fiscal fettle, with low debt, little inflation and correspondingly low bond yields. For other rich countries, “Be Swiss” may not be realistic advice—but even “Be Greek” would do
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Markets are waking up to the rich world’s reckless borrowing
Governments are still, alas, asleep
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h
minor boost for “Ken Paxton’s team wants him to lose” theory
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13h
Taiwan says it has not heard new US arms sales will be carved into smaller chunks reut.rs/46YpaHk
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Taiwan says it has not heard new US arms sales will be carved into smaller chunks
Taiwan Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Tuesday he had not ‌heard that the US was planning on carving up a potential $14 billion arms sale into smaller chunks, but added that Washington's commitments to Taipei's defences had not changed.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13h
The great Dennis Hastert has died. I hope the dirty snitches are happy. by Jim Jordan
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13h
EXCLUSIVE: Accenture contractor removed from FBI following damaging data breach, sources say reut.rs/3VRYyFr
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EXCLUSIVE: Accenture contractor removed from FBI following damaging data breach, sources say
The ‌Federal Bureau of Investigation removed an Accenture contractor on Monday over their role in a damaging data breach that exposed sensitive personal details of thousands of bureau employees, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20h
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12h
To be clear, these are strategic assets. They are nuclear-capable heavy bombers. This isn't some special forces A-team that got exposed and had to break contact. It isn't a planned redeployment. These are strategic U.S. military assets being run off the battlefield in Europe because of Trump.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 12h
If the US is unable to stop Iranian drones between Iran & England, then something has gone very very wrong with American air defense.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 11h
So this explains the bizarre attack on Zelenskyy by the South Korean president He probably knew this was coming out and wanted to get ahead of this investigation showing that SK is assisting the Russian terrorist genocidal regime
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Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 19h
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 17h
"An American polity increasingly turning against Trump has started to connect the degradations of his presidency to the Court that enabled many of them."
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Opening Day at a Court That Never Closed
The Justices face sharp public disapproval from identification with Trump’s autocratic rule.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 18h
meanwhile on Xitter...
Curtis Yarvin post on X on 10/5/2026: "Every time I’m in the UK I hear this. More and more people asking, subtly or straight out: what would Hitler do?

As if it was that easy. Have you looked around you? Man, Hitler wouldn’t even know where to start" 102.3 k views, 4:11 a.m. 74 replies, 51 shares, 997 hearts, 95 saves.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 17h
Bari Weiss and CBS:
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Bernard: Doesn't Look Like Anything To Me - Westworld
Alt: Bernard: Doesn't Look Like Anything To Me - Westworld
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 17h
Seeing Jaylen in a Sixers jersey will take some getting used to
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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 16h
Gosh, that didn't take long. Cue the outrage machine...
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 18h
GS: If Current Market Rates Persisted, Nominal Interest Expenses as a Share of GDP Would Increase Sharply Over the Coming Years, and the Debt-to-GDP Ratio Would Reach 132% by 2035, 10pp Higher Than in Our Baseline
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17h
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17h
SpaceX seeks approval for Florida gas pipeline to support Cape Canaveral launches reut.rs/4zdOO6R
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SpaceX seeks approval for Florida gas pipeline to support Cape Canaveral launches
Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking approval to build a natural gas pipeline in Florida to supply fuel for its rocket ​launched from Cape Canaveral, according to a state regulatory ‌filing from September.
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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 17h
What*The*Hormuz: No Lights, No Radio: Inside a Supertanker’s Hormuz Run ⚓The Reality of Running Dark ⚓Escalating Threat Levels ⚓U.S. Military Coordination ⚓The Economics of Risk ⚓Bridge Defense & Precautions ⚓Merchant Mariners on the Front Lines Video: youtu.be/xe28xMJxfZA
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17h
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Blade composition would be a variable. "“The Chinese and Taiwanese coasts are plastered with offshore wind. If the U.S. Navy and Air Force are not used to fighting in littoral environments filled with wind farms, then they’re at a huge disadvantage when war comes" spectrum.ieee.org/offshore-win...
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How Do Offshore Wind Farms Affect Military Radar?
With the right technology, offshore wind farms can bolster national defense, not hinder it.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/10/2026
What do they want from Ukraine and what will it take to get it? The NYT’s reporting on Kushner, Witkoff and a proposed Lukoil deal raises questions about business and peace talks. I followed the minerals, investor connections, costs and war risks. www.onestnetwork.com/what-do-they...
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What Do They Want From Ukraine and What Will It Take to Get It?
The minerals, money and business connections behind the deals; and the distance between access on paper and usable resources.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 05/10/2026
brazilians don't love either candidate. but they hate the status quo more. @gzeromedia.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kihz...
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Brazil's election signals a rightward shift across Latin America | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"New dating reveals the Las Playas Intaglio is 6,500 to 7,300 years old. Border wall construction scraped a 50-foot corridor through the ancient fish-shaped geoglyph. DHS waived cultural protections under the Secure Fence Act, enabling construction at the sacred site."
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/10/2026
Ah, so Trump’s DHS removed *one of two bedrooms* on the luxury private jet and kept the bar, marble bathrooms, and manta ray skin table — for deportations. Okay. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
According to Israel’s Walla News, citing security sources, the U.S. is expected to increase its military presence in Israel and across the Middle East in the coming weeks as troop, aircraft, and naval rotations continue and concerns grow over a potential escalation with Iran.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monday LIVE at 2p ET; National Affairs Editor @markfollman.bsky.social, @MotherJones magazine, knows more than most about ChatGPT and violence. He’s my guest for an eye-opening revelation on Substack. Join us: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Oil climbs after Yemeni Houthis attack Saudi Aramco sites reut.rs/4huHzlb
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Oil climbs after Yemeni Houthis attack Saudi Aramco sites
Brent crude ‌futures ⁠climbed to $103.06 a barrel.
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This might be the greatest pass Nikola Jokic has ever made!!!! Like come on!!!!
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think that evacuating strategic bombers from an allied nation 3400 miles or so from the conflict area is probably a bad sign.
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/10/2026
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
President Stubb: I want to remind everyone is that the Russian military was not capable of modern warfare when this war began, but now they are. So they are also gonna be much stronger when they regroup after the war. Our relationship with Russia will be very different.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also, more and more reports are confirming what should have been admitted for years. The Trump administration has business deals ready to go with Putin, once they can bully the Ukrainians into surrendering more of their land and people. This is the real Trump/Kushner win-win.
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Ari B Friedman @abfriedman.com · 04/10/2026
If you're not following Phillips P O'Brien you should. His background as a preeminent historian of strategy and economics of WWII, his moral clarity, and his realism have made him right about at startling number of things since the start of the most recent invasion of Ukraine.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s notable that while a whole chorus of Trump backers are saying he is winning the war with Iran, he is admitting time and again that he just wants out.
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The Northern Sun @thenorthernsun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
While a third aircraftcarrier is on it's way towards Iran?
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 04/10/2026
‘Many IPOs have been postponed owing to investors’ growing scepticism about the “tone deaf” valuations. Tech listings this year have on average fallen about 23% since their first day of trading, compounding worries that banks are overpricing deals to win mandates.’ www.ft.com/content/b892...
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Wall Street’s IPO fervour cools on tepid demand and valuation worries
Several listings have been paused in recent weeks as delay in Anthropic’s public debut sends a chill through markets
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
trump's pentagon: www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's it? "claim rested on 1 named source, ret'd Seattle det. Kerns...story was “bullshit” that he was misquoted, that he never traveled to Minn to investigate...way too far on their poetic license to make it into a big story...was pointing him in the right direction” emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/c...
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Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence - emptywheel
The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Actual Richie Tenenbaum level disaster
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russians tried to transport a Mi-2 helicopter on a pickup truck, but overturned along with it. The incident happened in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ukraine and Germany signed 15 agreements today with a total budget of €8 billion, Zelensky says, covering purchases and supplies of missiles, artillery ammunition, and other weapons, as well as joint production. The two countries also successfully tested a new joint interceptor drone, SPYS, he says.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“And then the Senator with brain damage switched parties so that the senile president could keep appointing drunks and rapists to his cabinet…” Explaining this all to future generations will be tough.
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Thom @nmfr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“He was a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024, reasoning that things weren’t getting better, so why not try something different.” This may sound harsh, but this truck driver SHOULD be haunted for the rest of his life. He deliberately chose his fate.
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