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The Great Replacement Theory is now formal doctrine at Axel Springer Verlag, publisher of Politico among other publications.

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New York Fed: Trump's 2025-26 tariffs contributed 2.9% to US goods price inflation, via higher prices for imports AND domestic goods. Without the tariffs, "goods prices would have fallen slightly." All exactly as most macroeconomists forecast.

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SpaceX looks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips in financing led by Apollo

The tech bros move in tandem in all things. It's the nature of plutocrats. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to raise $40bn in a financing effort led by Apollo Global Management to purchase Nvidia chips as the AI and rocket group amplifies its bet on the chipmaker’s advanced technology.

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Blockbuster debt deal is the latest sign of the vast spending on chips and other infrastructure underpinning AI

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How a record-breaking El Niño could supercharge California’s winter storms

What will El Niño mean for the US? No one is quite certain. But here's a forecast suggesting that California above 7,000 ft will be pummeled with unprecedented amounts of precipitation, particularly in the winter. This matches several prior strong El Niños. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

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The abnormally strong El Niño may boost extreme weather, flooding and erosion of the coast.

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Zach Lahn denies he lives in Kansas. But his critics have the receipts. He lives in Kansas, and he's putting his kids through a school he founded and funds... in Kansas. bsky.app/profile/theb...

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Embattled Congressman Gets GOP Lift After Abuse Allegations

After a meeting at an antiabortion pregnancy-care center in Ashland, Max Miller called Sen Jon Husted (R-OH) “as entertaining as a two-by-four” and “as smart as a box of rocks.” He boasted, “My chances of winning are much better than his.” He has specialized in nasty attacks on fellow Republicans

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Ohio Rep. Max Miller receives backing from Republican groups and says Trump is “incredibly supportive.”

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Because US citizens are not permitted to criticize the Leader, why, it's in the Constitution.

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So what, exactly, was going on at the biological weapons laboratory outside of Irkutsk? Read this.

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Exclusive | U.S. Escalates Pressure on Russia Over Siberia Lab Death

The US has warned Moscow that its failure to disclose details about the death of a lab worker from a plague research center in Siberia violates international health obligations. The problem: the US is now also routinely violating those obligations. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

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The U.S. has warned Moscow that its failure to disclose details about the death violates international health obligations.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Rob Sand to Zach Lahn: "You literally voted in Kansas in 2018, and in '20, and in '22. You registered to vote in Iowa less than two years ago—it'll be coming up next month. This is not about why you're in Kansas, this is about the fact that you're not in Iowa."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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(S+) Ex-BND-Chef Hanning soll Analyse für Geheimdienst von Aserbaidschan erstellt haben

The former head of BND was doing intelligence analysis for the Azerbaijani intelligence service, a likely proxy for the Russians. (This is in addition for all the work he did directly with the Russians). www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

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Mehr als 2000 Geheimdokumente soll sich der frühere BND-Chef Hanning illegal beschafft haben. Aber wofür? Nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen gingen vertrauliche Informationen womöglich an einen Kontakt aus dem K...

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US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds

US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds. But wait: this is just the beginning. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Francis Halzen for Work on Neutrinos

Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering a telescope that paved the way for a new kind of astronomy. Scientists used this telescope, embedded deep in the ice at the South Pole, to detect neutrinos whizzing in at high energies from far reaches of the universe.

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The Nobel Committee honored Francis Halzen for his “vision and scientific leadership” of a telescope within the ice at the South Pole.

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In case you ever wondered about NYT's near perfect alignment with ADL, AIPAC and Bari Weiss on their ideas about Zionism and antisemitism, here's your proof, courtesy of Carolyn Ryan. On this as so many other issues, Mamdani is right, and NYT is disconnected from reality. bsky.app/profile/froo...

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Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet

Methane—86 times more powerful than CO₂ over 20 years—is being emitted from thawing permafrost all over the Arctic. This is expected to add 20% to global warming this century, more later. Important when every fraction of a degree counts. phys.org/news/2026-10...

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As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They're bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas made from decomposing plants an...

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federal prosecutors and faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced Jan 28. DOJ said Rush siphoned off $194mn in government funds, using his position at the CIA to create an elaborate scheme designed to facilitate his “maximum self-enrichment at the expense of the United States.”

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CIA officer arrested with gold bars admits he exposed secret intelligence source to a foreign official

A high-ranking CIA officer arrested after federal agents found roughly 600 lbs of gold bars stashed in his home also disclosed details about a secret US intelligence source to a foreign official, prosecutors said Tuesday. David J Rush, 49, admitted to one count of wire fraud under an agreement with

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David Rush, who was fired, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and will be sentenced Jan. 28.

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The News You Need, Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The News You Need, Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • Trump is Praying for Domestic Terrorism • German Espionage Thriller Ripped from the Pages of John le Carré • The Scourge of the Kavanaugh Stops • Trump Tariffs Yield Record Trade Deficit • Palmer Luckey Builds His Fortune the Old Fashioned Way

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Who’s Hoping For Domestic Terrorism?

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The oil flow resumes through Hormuz, But the Cost of Shipping it Out Is Staggering

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Dalio Says We’re Nearing Point Where AI Bubble May Burst

While the flow of oil through Hormuz has now reached about 85% of its normal rate, the cost of moving it has become staggering as a result of insurance and special security. The cost of carrying oil from inside the Persian Gulf to China rose to a record $1.3 million a day Monday, according to data

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Billionaire Ray Dalio warned that artificial intelligence is a “classic bubble” that is nearing a bursting point thanks to rising interest rates and the need to turn wealth into cash.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5h

from the Baltic Exchange in London. The rate averaged close to $60,000 a day last year and has soared as the number of shipowners willing to cross Hormuz dwindled. These arrangements may not be sustainable. Iran has increased the pace of attacks over the last few days.

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Thiel’s “useful idiot” line was his third attack on the American pope, aired the same day Axel Springer handed him its award in Berlin. JD Vance, who credits Thiel with reopening the door to his faith, said nothing.

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“A Useful Idiot for the Chinese Communists” — Peter Thiel Attacks Pope Leo XIV for the Third Time

The billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s Senate race, and whom Vance credits with reopening the door to his faith, went after the American pope again on Thursday in Berlin. The vice president has…

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A panel of Trump voters in Michigan harshly spurn Republican nominee Mike Rogers and embrace the Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed instead.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson: For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline.

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The El Niño Effect, graphically summarized

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Trump's memecoin grift moves into its next phase as insiders dump their holdings

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Exclusive: Paxton privately blames campaign woes on Iran war, gas prices

A sign of a campaign in free fall: Ken Paxton's own staff keep leaking clips of him blaming all his problems on Trump.

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The GOP Senate candidate told donors he doesn't "know what was behind some of the decisions."

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Max is right. Note how major US corporate media report stuff like Rubio's pablum without pointing out to their audience that Rubio is the man attempting to gut WHO and cutting off long-standing US cooperation with the agency. bsky.app/profile/maxb...

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Zach Lahn's campaign for Iowa governor in free fall after he was obliterated by his adversary in the televised debate

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The US urges the immediate evacuation of all Americans from Russia due to an outbreak of the plague.

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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

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Still amazing how few Americans have read key pieces of the Epstein files. Like EFTA01250883.pdf.

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CCTV cameras show inside Russian city on 'lockdown' after plague outbreak

CCTV cameras show iRussian city of Irkutsk on 'lockdown' after plague outbreak at biological warfare laboratory on the city's outskirts. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

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This is properly unsettling

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Trump Goon’s Disgusting Restaurant Meltdown Revealed

I realize of course that things really aren't going Scott Bessent's way, but reading this it's hard to escape thinking that he has a severe personality disorder. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-s...

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The vile revelation was just one of many damning details exposed in a shock report about the top Cabinet member.

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‘Lady Trump’ was convicted for fraud and then pardoned by the president. The White House didn’t say why.

Nevada Republican politician Michele Fiore, nicknamed “Lady Trump,” collected money for a memorial to 2 fallen police officers but spent it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her of fraud. Trump pardoned her because he sees himself in her criminal conduct.

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“Justice Interrupted”: The latest installment in MS NOW’s series examining the clemencies and pardons by Donald Trump — and the fallout from them.

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A great demonstration of the irreality of Israeli politics. Netanyahu's theme on the third anniversary of Oct 7 is that he will block Hamas rule in Gaza. But in fact Netanyahu enabled Hamas rule in Gaza for years in order to assure a split with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.

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Inside Bessent’s Treasury: Tension, Turnover and Unmet Economic Goals

The new WSJ portrait of Scott Bessent shows a Treasury Department in crisis and chaos and a secretary cracking under pressure. Definitely not a good look. And destined to damage confidence in the Treasury and its products still more. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Ahead of midterms that could turn on high prices and borrowing costs, the secretary dresses down officials.

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