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Why Is Susan Collins Mixed Up in the Virginia Governor’s Race? The “pro-choice” Maine Senator used her email list to support embattled Virginia gubernatorial aspirant Winsome Earle-Sears, who has called abortion “genocide.”

NEW: Susan Collins, who claims to be pro choice, is raising money for an anti-abortion candidate who’s slated to lose the Virginia governor's race. A donor email sent on behalf of Winsome Earle-Sears comes as Collins' approval rating has plummeted to net negative 20 points. Me in @newrepublic.com:

This adage in particular is hilarious because Jesus is recorded on multiple occasions just straight giving people fish. At no point does he teach them to fish. He does tell seasoned fishermen to let their nets back out & they are miraculously filled, but he doesn’t teach them HOW, he just provides.

that seems like a good idea. let’s start there

I was still a kid, but I remember when Sarah Palin was nominated, I felt like maybe we had slipped into bad alternate universe

Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

ICE says man shot by agent in Ontario was interfering with an operation A man was shot by an ICE agent in Ontario Thursday morning after he tried to intervene in enforcement action, the department said.

This keeps happening, and the excuse is always the same: “they tried to run us over.” ICE even admitted the man shot wasn’t the original target. Since when does ICE handle traffic stops anyway?

abc7.com/post/ontario...

Planet Labs satellite pic of part of the massacre in Al-Fashir/El-Fasher taking place the last few days when RSF took control of the Darfurian city. Shared by the UN's HRW.

Sat pic of a massacre in Al-Fashir/El-Fasher taking place the last few days when RSF took control of the Darfurian city. An estimated 270,000 civilians are trapped. Estimates of those murdered since the city fell range from 2000 to 3500, perhaps higher.

SBS News (AU) calls it Rwanda-level.

An anti-drug police operation in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro has resulted in more than 100 killings.

Rio authorities’ decisions leading to such a disastrous operation should be investigated. Families of victims deserve truth and justice.

Leader of Exile Group Tells of Spying for Cuba (Published 1992)

Kind of insane story I came across while reading for the dissertation:

Apparently one of the main players of a major Cuban exile terror org defected in the early 1990s, revealing himself to be a double agent for Cuban intelligence, saying they gave him supplies

www.nytimes.com/1992/11/11/u...

what happened to GL-PvdA? it’s astonishing how few seats they have after the merge.

Belgium is a good place to live. I have a job here now and I don’t plan on going back to the US. The cities look nice and there are a lot of benefits for workers. It also seems like a good place to raise kids.

What a waste of money.

A cartoon showing a man between a white construction worker and a black man. He points to the black man and says "Careful mate ... that foreigner wants your cookie" The man in the middle has a plate full of cookies; the construction worker has one cookie; the black man has no cookies.

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

A “historic win” in a “fractured political landscape”: papers

A “historic win” in a “fractured political landscape”: papers www.dutchnews.nl?p=259322

“Sheldon Yett, the UNICEF representative to Sudan, said in an interview that the situation in el-Fasher, was ‘an absolute catastrophe,’ w/thousands of children already suffering from disease & famine before the takeover of the city by the RSF.

‘Now it’s hell on Earth with lots of guns,’ Yett said.”

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Graph with count of signed executive orders per presidential term as function of days in office, for presidents since Eisenhower. Lowest line is GW Bush 2 ending at 118. Highest so far is Carter with 320. But the current term for Trump (only 283 days so far) jumps out because of the steep upward curve to now already 210.

USA: Executive orders signed, days since start Presidential term, post-WWII.

Sudan war: Reports of mass killings in el-Fasher in Darfur have echoes of country's dark past Some are warning of a genocide unfolding in Darfur - violence that is linked to killings there 20 years ago.

Sudan war: Reports of mass killings in el-Fasher in Darfur have echoes of country's dark past

Interesting piece on why Doctor Who has failed to fly for Disney. I'm not sure such an incredibly British institution that's been part of UK telly for 62 years (it's 10 days older than me!) really translates into an international franchise model like idk the Marvel films.

Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism…

And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…

America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.

I’ve seen a lot of politicians complaining about people being lazy and not wanting to work but I’ve never seen a country as decisively anti-work as Belgium

Mexican WWII poster

Here is another absolutely spectacular Mexican WWII poster

Hybrid war or holy war: Do ISIS and Russia share the same playbook? ISIS and Russia use similar tactics: propaganda, disinformation, and targeted recruitment of vulnerable groups. Hybrid warfare today, terrorism back then – methods designed to destabilise societies.

Hybrid war or holy war: Do ISIS and Russia share the same playbook?

Really is Christmas for Criminals out there because all the federal agents and federal prosecutors aren't doing anything about real crime, they're spending their time either kidnapping people or prosecuting stuff like this:

"look, Pope, the two natures of Christ are kind of like the two teams of Chicago, you wouldn't want anyone to confuse them, would you?"

Sudan's army loses key city of el-Fasher to rival RSF paramilitary force The UN has raised the alarm over reports of "atrocities" committed by the RSF.

Sudan's army loses key city of el-Fasher to rival RSF paramilitary force

With Russian cyberattacks on the rise, NATO nations ready to play offense

With Russian cyberattacks on the rise, NATO nations ready to play offense

Is Germany's far-right populist AfD spying for Russia? – DW – 10/26/2025 German politicians are making serious accusations against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. They allege the party is studying the country's critical infrastructure — in the interests of the Kre...

The AfD, Germany's fascist party, collects information about German infrastructure, water management, digital networks and the energy sector, and sends it to Putin.

It is time to ban far-right parties that collude with the enemy, or impose severe penalties on them!

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feds rolling in full battle rattle in head to toe multicam will never not look corny, but especially when they are visibly rattled by suburbanites in their pajamas