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Jordan H. @jordanehoser.bsky.social · 6h
"Officials from Abin, Brazil's spy agency, "confirmed the existence ‌of interference from the United States as well as Russia" www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Brazil briefed French, German officials on alleged US, Russian election interference
A French and German delegation travelled this month to Brasilia, where intelligence officials briefed them on alleged ​US and Russian interference before Brazil's election, according to sources and do...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
“.. While crude flows from Persian Gulf nations (ex Iran) have recovered to 80% of pre-war levels, the same is not true for refined products. Their exports of gasoline, jet-fuel, and diesel, remain at around 50% of pre-war levels.” @javierblas.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 8h
BREAKING: A mysterious package from Germany sent to a military unit in Nowa Dęba, Poland, has hospitalised three people. Two Military Police officers and a civilian experienced skin irritation. 133 evacuated, chemical teams on site. Cause unknown.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 9h
“Putin has gone even crazier,” a senior Ukrainian official told The Economist. “He ordered attacks on everything civilian. They want people to be afraid of going to the supermarket.” www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
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Putin’s new bombardment of Kyiv has a terrible logic
A Russian terror campaign aims to cripple the capital even before winter hits
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h
Trump expressed support for the Iraq war as it started. He later criticized Bush for not stealing oil or doing enough war crimes (namely targeting innocent family members of insurgents). Then he acted on that vision of war with Iran, and it's failing badly. Enough Trump-absolving revisionist BS.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Jordan H. @jordanehoser.bsky.social · 9h
An explosion has occurred near what appears to be the Tishreen Thermal Power Plant in Damascus, Syria. The Arab Gas Pipeline (AGP) network connects directly to the Power Plant. The pipeline carries Egyptian-origin natural gas. The cause of the explosion is unknown at this time.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 11h
The witness said the Indian captain, after being stabbed by the First Officer and before collapsing, managed to unlock the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to enter and intervene.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14h
Google has relented and is now willing to pay publishers whose content shows up in AI overviews. The pilot program has 100 publishers which hopefully expands significantly. We need the value exchange between websites and search engines to remain so we still have an open web.
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Jordan H. @jordanehoser.bsky.social · 13h
Nick Schifrin, PBS NewsHour's foreign affairs and defense correspondent: "Senior Israeli official tells me the #FlyDubai incident was designed to be a "9/11 style attack"
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Senior Israeli official tells me the #FlyDubai incident was designed to be a "9/11 style attack" in which an Omani pilot tried to take over the plane. The official says he was stabbed by his Emirati co-pilot and then subdued by passengers, which also included former pilots, who landed the plane in Saudi Arabia. The plane carried 174 passengers, 166 of whom were Israeli. "We are relieved," "it's a miracle during Sukkot," the official tells me. The plane is scheduled to land back in Israel within the next few hours.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As I point out in my article, the real reason is absolute bans on all arrivals, not "tough vetting." Several of these bans have already been found illegal, yet the administration refuses to comply with court orders. www.cato.org/blog/legal-i...
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Legal Immigration from Majority-Muslim Nations Was Cut 96% Since 2024
In 1965, Congress explicitly prohibited discrimination based on national origin in issuing immigrant visas, but it should go further to protect Americans’ right to associate freely with people born in...
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mullin is lying. These were not identified as "high-risk" nations, and it was not "tougher vetting" that cut entries. The absolute number of denials is LOWER now than under Biden. They just aren't even processing applications, and you owe every American sponsor an answer.
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are entering the last three months of this year, which so happen to coincide with the end of the rainy season - the dynamics are bound to increase to a degree I actually wonder what may appear. Al-Qaeda, Russia and Islamic State all have a decision to make. Strange trio.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gasoline will have a big impact on September CPI. EIA data show Sep YoY gasoline inflation is 36%. Diesel (not a line item in CPI) will be worse, at 68% YoY. (Diesel demand is half of gasoline by volume; shows up more on the PPI side, and/or embedded in inflation of other goods with lag in CPI)
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 30/09/2026
ICE has booked over 600,000 people into detention since January 20, 2025. About 65,000 people are detained on any given day, but the cumulative count shows how many families, workplaces and congregations have been touched. austinkocher.substack.com/p/over-60000...
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Over 600,000 People Booked Into ICE Detention Centers Since Start of Trump II Administration
65,000 people are currently in ICE detention, but the full impact is much larger and most detained people are deported. 1.75M people could be detained by the end of the second Trump administration.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The White House closely follows my work. You should too!
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Times reported that one of the suspects called emergency services nearly an hour before a farmer separately alerted police after seeing vans and men wearing balaclavas near the base.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 29/09/2026
617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
There have been no approvals for new transit projects in the entire 2nd Trump Administration. This graph, produced in March 2026, remains accurate now, in September 2026.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Say what you want about Russia, but which other country has made South Korea, Taiwan, China, and Japan find each other tolerable?
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 29/09/2026
Will be interesting to see what happens next, as Moscow's sabotage campaign against European states supplying weapons to Ukraine is acknowledged openly like this. I assume more sanctions? More weapons contracts? Round and round we go?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"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..."
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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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has cut legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries by 96% from 21,096 legal immigrants and refugees in Dec. 2024 to 808 in Feb. 2026. Far more severe than anything in his 1st term, falling disproportionately on spouses of US citizens and skilled immigrants... www.cato.org/blog/legal-i...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.
Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.
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Jordan H. @jordanehoser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Russian Ministry of Defense: A long-range Tu-95 strategic bomber crashed in Amur Oblast in the country's Far East." Video of the event:
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Jordan H. @jordanehoser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Iraqi Ministry of Defense: "There are currently no elements of the international coalition present on Iraqi territory."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Latest post considers the ‘forgotten war’ of Sudan. I consider the state of the fighting, the humanitarian crisis, and the logic of partition. This is another example of the difficulty of extracting a good peace from a bad war. (This one is free). samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...?
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The Sudan War: is there any way out?
Since April 2023 Sudan has been consumed by a vicious war that gets far too little attention in the West.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lmfaoooo It's like we've been saying for a long time! The economy sucks ass!
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two people found dead, at least 40 rescued and several missing after makeshift boat carrying estimated 60 people capsizes off Puerto Rico, U.S. Coast Guard says; survivors report machete altercation forced people into the water.
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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kurt Olsen, who sought to overturn 2020 election results for Donald Trump, resigns from Justice Department, sources tell CBS News.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 28/09/2026
Jennifer Jasey, whose acting credits included appearances on the X-Files and the L Word, was arrested as part of Project South, a sprawling probe into alleged police corruption. Jasey faces charges related to her alleged tracking of a woman.
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How a former actress turned private eye ended up in the crosshairs of the Project South police corruption probe
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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More information on the 5 men in RAF Fairford incident being bailed:
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Jordan H. @jordanehoser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An F-16 intercepts a helicopter above Chicago.
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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dozens killed and injured amid heavy fighting between Somali government forces and South West state militants in Baidoa, local sources tell Kaab TV; power station, federal government forces base and hotel bombed.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 28/09/2026
South Korea demands apology from Ukraine for denying an agreement to keep the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to Seoul confidential. Ukraine disclosed last week that it had sent two North Korean soldiers to South Korea, adding they were "not easy to capture alive" u.afp.com/S9MB
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 28/09/2026
South Korea is demanding an explanation and apology from Ukraine after Zelensky disclosed the transfer of two North Korean POWs. Seoul says Kyiv had agreed to keep the move secret, then falsely denied any confidentiality pact existed. "Seriously damaged trust" [...] "could harm bilateral relations"
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South Korea demands apology from Ukraine over disclosure of North Korean PoW transfer
South Korea's presidential office ‌demanded an official explanation and apology from Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea and then fals...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An Iranian cruise missile struck a ship in the Strait of Hormuz two weeks ago, injuring eight U.S. Marines. They suffered smoke inhalation and possible traumatic brain injuries with concussion-like symptoms but were not seriously hurt… x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2104385…
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Pekka Lund @pekka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Notice what's missing here: did Mestre's team actually allow training on their data in Claude's settings? Even if it mattered (unlikely), that's the difference between the product working as specified vs. serious accusations being made. A responsible article shouldn't leave such question open.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…
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What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Egypt Warned Netanyahu of Impending Attack on Israel Before Oct. 7, per WSJ
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The Economist @economist.com · 27/09/2026
Reliably Republican counties skew older, but they have significantly higher death rates even after adjusting for age, as our charts show
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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping at one point if he would to like to buy some American armaments, US Ambassador to China David Perdue says.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
US Ambassador to China David Perdue says in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The IDF released drone footage it says shows a Palestinian child transporting weapons in central Gaza. The military claims an operative used the child to move the weapons into a civilian home. The IDF did not say when the footage was recorded.
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The IDF released drone footage it says shows a Palestinian child transporting weapons in central Gaza. The military claims an operative used the child to move the weapons into a civilian home. The IDF
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Police declare major incident at UK's Fairford air base, used by US air forces with multiple vehicles arriving on site- www.reuters.com/world/uk/sec...
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Police declare major incident at UK's Fairford air base, used by US air forces
British police said on Sunday they had arrested several men on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act ​and the army was examining a number of vehicles after security was ‌stepped up at a Briti...
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/09/2026
New from ArtificialAnalysis: The price of compute per KG set to surpass the price of cocaine in 2029
Line graph titled "The Compute-Cocaine Crossover: $/kg, 2024-2030E" comparing the price per kilogram in USD (logarithmic scale) of NVIDIA compute hardware against illicit drugs and gold over time.
Key elements in the chart include:
 * Subtitle: "Chart 1. Compute is the only commodity whose $/kg rises every generation while everyone else's supply chain gets more efficient."
 * Gold: A constant horizontal yellow line at $138k/kg.
 * Cocaine (US wholesale): A white line sloping downward from around $35k/kg in 2024 to about $15k/kg by 2030.
 * NVIDIA NVL72 Racks (Actual & Projected): A green line starting at $3.2k/kg in 2024 for the GB300 NVL72 ($5M / 1,580 kg), rising to $5.5k/kg in 2026 for the Vera Rubin NVL72 ($8.8M), and continuing upward as a dashed projection until it crosses above the cocaine curve around 2029–2030 ("Crossover SemiAnalysis est.").
 * Fentanyl (Wholesale): A constant flat red line at $3.5k/kg.
 * Cannabis Flower (US wholesale spot): A constant flat dark-green line at $2.4k/kg.
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