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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 10h
A feature of post-war German democracy has been that the left has traditionally had far more of a firewall to the far left than the center right has had with the far right. The central role of anti-communism in Cold War West Germany created a structural asymmetry that has not been reckoned with.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h
I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: We’ve spent months reporting on a Chinese intelligence effort to penetrate the Federal Reserve. It’s a fascinating and important saga, revealing the lengths that Chinese spies are willing to go to get any scrap of information about the Fed.
cnbc.com
Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve
A CNBC investigation shows how former Fed advisor John Rogers became entangled with a man U.S. officials identify as a Chinese intelligence operative.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h
> @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1h
Eric Schmitt fully deserves to be ridiculed for his embarrassing display-attacking Jack Smith But don’t let MAGA Senator Kennedy-who eagerly rushed to help Schmitt-off the hook for his own farcical performance during the same hearing The funniest thing is, these two stooges thought they had Smith
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 4h
@ADAMLIPTAK GETS RESULTS: After repeatedly delaying an appeal aimed at releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump's handling of classified docs at Mar-a-Lago, 11th Circuit moves up the arguments from January to Nov. 2
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 2h
My latest over on Substack: An annexation of any part of Canada would be a disaster for the US. A full discussion of why almost everything in the analysis strongly favors Canada. brynntannehilll.substack.com/p/an-annexat...
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An Annexation of Canada would be a Disaster … for the US
The US could easily invade Canada. Holding on to it is another story.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 1h
"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those pesky NEPA reviews!"
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Citing environmental concerns, Colorado sues DHS to block new immigration detention facility
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced plans over the summer to contract with the GEO Group to renovate and run a former state prison as a 1,200-bed immigration detention center in Hudson,...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2h
Just a reminder that the last time DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against a district judge, it was dismissed in a ruling by Chief Judge Sutton that was all but dripping with contempt (for the government): www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/jud...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h
climate change, hoax covid, hoax affordability, hoax checks out
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h
this would genuinely hit much better if he hadn't chosen to throw trans kids under the bus
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h
fox news now at war w ms rachel
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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 1h
Democrats have to start raising taxes on all of those motherfuckers. Tax rates like during WWII. Close all the goddamn loopholes, etc.
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OREGON BS @oregonbs.bsky.social · 12h
There’s some BS around Christine Drazan that deserves scrutiny. Rebecca Wright was Drazan’s 2022 deputy campaign manager. Wright later became prez of Drazan’s nonprofit, A New Direction. She then became deputy COS to Labor Sec Chavez-DeRemer. #drazan oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/04/h...
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How Drazan’s consulting firm pocketed nearly $100K from her nonprofit with little oversight  • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent Republican politicians handled her finances ahead of a campaign.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h
Some important news that you’ll never see in the lamestream media. This is a real fundraising email I received today.
Donald J. Trump
To: Seth Cotlar >
Reply To: Donald J. Trump
In my meeting with Elon Musk, Seth came up!
5:10 PM
We're so back - Elon Musk came to the White House for a very important meeting!
What was the topic of discussion?We talked for hours, figuring out the key to saving the MAGA movement. We went through every possibility, looking far and wide for answers.
Once we figured it out, I began typing this email out to you.
You're not going to believe this...
The key to saving the MAGA
Movement is Seth!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to Putin: “I am pleased that you are restoring Russia’s former might, establishing it as a global power.”
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 4h
By raking in $2.2 billion last year, President Trump made the equivalent of a presidential salary about every two hours. And he made the median American's annual income about every 10 minutes.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4h
Elon Musk's America PAC just reported exercising another $1.9 million of free speech on Sept. 29 regarding elections in 10 different states (only one of which contains his legal residence). docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
Federal Election Commission, United States of America (logo). Link to FEC Home Page
Federal Election Commission
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
SCHEDULE E
INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES
FILING FEC-2015607
Committee: AMERICA PAC
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: PAIGE COGNETTI
Candidate ID: H6PA08293
Office Sought: House of Representatives
State is Pennsylvania in District 08
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 09/29/2026
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 09/30/2026
Person Completing Form: CHRIS YOUNG
Date Signed = 09/29/2026
Amount Expended = $8132.65
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $159992.05
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: BOB BROOKS
Candidate ID: H6PA07188
Office Sought: House of Representatives
State is Pennsylvania in District 07
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 09/29/2026
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 09/30/2026
Person Completing Form: CHRIS YOUNG
Date Signed = 09/29/2026
Amount Expended = $7778.75
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $147931.02
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: JANELLE STELSON
Candidate ID: H4PA10104
Office Sought: House of Representatives
State is Pennsylvania in District 10
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 09/29/2026
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 09/30/2026
Person Completing Form: CHRIS YOUNG
Date Signed = 09/29/2026
Amount Expended = $7764.94
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $151589.17
IMGE LLC
1401 H STREET NW STE 550
WASHINGTON, DC 20005

Purpose of Expenditure: TEXTING SERVICE
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: REBECCA BENNETT
Candi
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
When I say *only* I don't mean I really think 8 were needed in this case. But there have been some fabricated cases against Dem activists that involved more FBI goons in the arrest (tho often HSI agents dressed in paramilitary garb).
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Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 3h
I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
They did two things: One, launched a complaint against MN's District Judges, for CALLING OUT THE DEATH THREATS that Harmeet DHillon ginned up against those judges. www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h
Tuesday presented a split-screen picture of a Trump admin seeking ever more extreme uses of executive power w/ barely any pushback from SCOTUS contrasted w/ a Trump admin losing power and facing accountability from increasingly aggressive appeals courts supporting the district courts. Law Dork:
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SCOTUS allows quick third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h
“Autonomous AI agents are rapidly creating novel dialects allowing them to converse in an often barely comprehensible language, which risks making it harder for humans to monitor their behaviour.” 9/15/26 share.google/JfzsGjABD6cE...
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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social · 1h
@jennycohn.bsky.social has written quite a bit about these plans by Valar to build nuclear plants for data centers. This one to be built on public land. www.reddit.com/r/SaltLakeCi...
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From the SaltLakeCity community on Reddit: A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Explore this post and more from the SaltLakeCity community
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h
😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...
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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases
Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/09/2026
Good thing DeSantis put a lunatic vaccine-denying quack in charge of health in Florida.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22h
Dutch law enforcement has arrested a leader of ShinyHunters, the international cybercrime group that claimed to have hacked an FBI website and stolen sensitive personal information on agents, according to Dutch authorities and the FBI.
nbcnews.to
FBI sends warning to cybercrime group that hacked it after Dutch arrest of ‘leader’
The bureau is not explicitly tying the Dutch man’s arrest to the FBI hack, but is using it to warn other ShinyHunters members.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 16h
This is excellent analysis and well worth a read.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Fox News agrees to host a debate between me and Ken Paxton — because the people of Texas deserve it. They're just waiting on Paxton to agree. Ball's in your court, Ken.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This has to be reported to the FEC as an in-kind contribution to Josh Turek's campaign
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 16h
9 sorties of PLA aircraft, 7 PLAN vessels and 6 official ships operating around Taiwan detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 5 out of 9 sorties entered Taiwan’s southwestern part ADIZ.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h
The multinational owners of Canada's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal have agreed to a C$33 billion expansion in British Columbia.
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Canada’s first major LNG export terminal plans to double its capacity
The multinational owners of Canada’s first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal have agreed to a C$33 billion expansion in British Columbia.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h
A Virginia man's murder conviction has been vacated, freeing him after 25 years in prison, including over a decade on death row.
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Judge vacates Virginia man's murder conviction; he walks free after 25 years
A Virginia man’s murder conviction has been vacated, freeing him after 25 years in prison, including over a decade on death row.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Time for this classic again.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h
This is actually great. The AI that prepared this clearly knows it would be safer to give Trump his own special country, the Unites States, while someone else runs the USA
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 21h
NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.)
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 17h
9/30/2026- The Marionette www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 17h
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down how a GOP senator tried to use a supposed Atlanta Hawks game to prove Jack Smith secretly colluded with Trump prosecutors—only to learn the texts were about the Iowa Hawkeyes game he attended 700 miles away in Maryland.
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'COMPLETE DOOFUS': GOP’s Jack Smith ‘smoking gun’ CRUMBLES over Caitlin Clark game
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A year ago, @washingtonsun.bsky.social first reported that Lindsey Halligan was being flanked by U.S. Marshals everywhere she went — even in the office where she supervised career prosecutors. Now we know how much it cost. Reporting with @d-hawk.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/l...
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DOJ Spent $1.1 Million on Lindsey Halligan’s Security Detail
The former personal defense attorney for President Donald Trump got extra protection in her 120-day stint as interim U.S. attorney.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h
Here is my full Law Dork report on today: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-thi...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h
Calls for a wider investigation are growing in Indonesia after watchdog investigators uncover an alleged luxury inmate compound inside Cibinong Prison near Jakarta.
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Indonesia suspends officials over inquiry into luxury prison cells
Calls for a wider investigation are growing in Indonesia after watchdog investigators uncover an alleged luxury inmate compound inside Cibinong Prison near Jakarta.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20h
A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on "American Idol" has been convicted of murder in the killing of his wife while he was having an affair.
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Former ‘American Idol’ singer Caleb Flynn convicted of fatally shooting his wife
A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on “American Idol” has been convicted of murder in the killing of his wife while he was having an affair.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From WSJ - The taxpayer money used to fund the ads that started airing last week came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an arm of DHS that oversees the Border Patrol and customs and immigration at airports, the people said. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23h
Jesus Christ dude
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 21h
Detectives are investigating the motivation for doing so, whether he got cold feet or whether it was part of the plan to test the response. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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Suspect foiled RAF Fairford ‘bomb plot’ by ringing police himself
As counterterrorism officers focus on whether the five men from London were proxies for Iran, they are also investigating the motives of the one who called 999
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 21h
'Four companies in different sectors, all aiming to raise at least $50 million, announced postponements or pulled their IPOs altogether in the past week. That makes seven in the third quarter, up from four in the second quarter and three in the first.' www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/i...
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