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Municipales 2026 à Toulouse : Moudenc, Briançon, Piquemal, Leornardelli… qui sont les candidats ?

La bataille s’annonce serrée entre Jean-Luc Moudenc, soutenu par une coalition droite-centre, et François Briançon, qui rassemble les forces de la gauche, hormis LFI. À l’extrême droite, le Rassemblement national mise sur Julien Leornardelli.

9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, 25 carts, and one very excellent BTS explainer

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.

Me in today’s “One First”:

From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED REPORTING bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... With additional reporting by Adam Bienkov.

Peter Jukes Co-Founder, Executive Editor Byline Times

#BorisJohnson #ConservativeParty #DonaldTrump #KeirStarmer #LabourParty #Tech #DataAndAlgorithms #UKPolitics #USPolitics

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

Just to put a pin in it, that hyped news coverage drove moltbook to a $100 million dollar market cap, the vast majority of which has been erased in just 8 days.

Yes, there was a real wedding during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show featured a real wedding. About five minutes into the performance at Levi's Stadium, a couple was married on stage.

A couple invited Bad Bunny to their wedding. He suggested they be part of his halftime show instead.

A NOTAM issued at Jose Martí international airport in Havana states that the airport has no jet fuel available.

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this:

1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume.
2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics.
3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number.

So many more details here in the piece. Go read!

this is so funny because it's like, oh my god, what an awful question for a news show. and then wham the answer is so much worse somehow

Yes, it's true. The US Attorney's office in New York prepared a draft of an announcement of Epstein's death that is dated one day BEFORE Epstein died.

Nothing fishy here....

all paid for with our tax dollars 😢

Actually, lots of people understood Bad Bunny 43 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish, even if there aren't any at the White House.

Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish.
www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...

fond memories of doing this with my pre-teen son... we also watched the "making-of" after each film 😭

Inside Bad Bunny’s Historic Super Bowl Halftime Show Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

would think it unlikely since his familys end-feb asylum hearing was pulled waaaay forward to this past friday. no decision but granted a continuance so they're in limbo 🥹

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.

It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

The part I want to add is that oral argument on this case was on Wednesday. So, I’d guess this was all written up already.

THIS. Every time bozos in the interior voted to give more weapons to the largest LE agency in the country terrorize people at the border and hold them in incommunicado detention in exchange for less enforcement in the interior, we only made today’s nightmare more possible.

@peta.org what say you?!

One more:

I shat with William Shatner for 5hrs in conversation in his LA backyard.

We shared personal stories of our lives & careers that we’ve never before shared publicly.

"Cosmos Confidential: Bill & Neil’s Excellent Bromance”

neildegrassetyson.com/books/2026-02-cosmos-confidential/

No, that kid was not Liam Ramos, as evidenced by his completely different head and face. Some of you really went off to the races with this.

Congress can begin viewing FULL Epstein files tomorrow at 9am in secure room at Justice Dept in DC

Yes… there will likely be some who show up when doors open

genius! did not require extra crew to move set pieces

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante