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Deep sea life in the Gulf of Mexico (not Gulf of America, Trump!) crashed by 60% following the Deepwater Horizon 4 million barrel oil spill, and 16 years later shows little sign of recovery, new research - based on thousands of samples - shows.
e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwat…
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A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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Ronan Farrow reported in 2023 that the Pentagon signed a SpaceX contract to keep Musk from being able to cut off Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity at will. Colin Kahl described it as a way to lock in service so Musk couldn’t just flip the switch.
WSJ now reports U.S. officials say Musk ordered the Oct. 14 Starshield slowdown anyway, after speaking with Trump.
If that reporting holds, the guardrail didn’t hold.
1/3 Musk ordered last week's slowdown of Starshield, which Ukraine fights on, after talking with Trump, per @WSJ. In '23 the Pentagon signed a contract with SpaceX to “prevent Musk from turning off the switch," per fmr Under Sec of Defense Colin Kahl.
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there. The speed has not been restored. And the delivery of interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles is still delayed. We’re waiting for interceptors that were already agreed on. But they are still not coming. This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every single day.
All of this is happening while we continue our quite successful operations on the front. We keep defending positions. Things have become harder – partly because of the Starlink and Starshield policies and speed limits. But our frontline is still holding and I am proud of how strong our people are.
From an address at the Hudson Institute. (2/3)
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😂😂😂. “ well sir, that’s really not how knowing someone works”. Too funny🤭. #Vote. #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
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Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela was negotiated in secret. Now we know why. The contract just leaked, and it doesn’t say what Trump says it says.
What it does say is that we bought 35 percent of a company for a penny a share. The company is run by Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan businessman who’s been investigated for money laundering in Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. DOJ officials reportedly asked foreign governments to close those investigations and let him travel.
The parent company is registered through a Barbados shell, so nobody can see who the other owners are. Any dispute goes to a court in Texas. One person involved said it was built to insulate the deal from future administrations.
The company pumps about 200,000 barrels a day. America burns through that in 15 minutes. If this were a good deal, they wouldn’t have had to hide it. I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
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Kaiser is cutting 49 radiologic technologist roles in Northern California, including mammographers, sonographers, and CT and MRI techs, effective Dec 12.
First it was the admin layer. Now it's the imaging room.
These layoffs come on top of 161 permanent California cuts already in state layoff filings.
In March I said Kaiser was shifting from people-driven to system-controlled operations. This is what that looks like when it reaches clinical work.
Watch for more small filings, not one big headline.
Kaiser Permanente workforce changes are coming. Healthcare is shifting from people-driven operations to system-controlled operations.
December: exits began
January: exits accelerated
February: inflection period
March: hiring flips
I expect the layoffs and exits to be across California, Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, and the Mid-Atlantic.
Not one headline cut either... but distributed reductions over the next 1–2 quarters.
It looks like 2-5K?
Admin, HR, Mid-layer.
Margin compression is real.
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My latest for @19_forty_five
Trump keeps turning on our long-term friends, and dictatorships are not reliable partners, no matter what Trump thinks. By the end of Trump's presidency, we are going to be more isolated than any American can remember
19fortyfive.com/2026/10/amer…
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ has secured 1,125 screenings across ~350 IMAX theaters, claiming an unprecedented 94%+ share of U.S. IMAX screens on opening day.
(Via: @daichannoeiga)
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We are past the point of political disagreement. We are witnessing a catastrophic collision between unchecked narcissism and obvious neurological decay. It is the most dangerous intersection in American history: a man with the absolute power of the Presidency and the absolute cognitive failure of a person no longer tethered to reality.
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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia.
I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.
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The Trump administration’s cuts to weather satellites will set the country back nearly a decade, experts say. The loss of data used to observe, forecast and research extreme weather could prevent the US from making major advances in weather prediction in the coming years. cnn.it/4k6eD4o
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n Morrow County, Oregon, Amazon cools its data centers with groundwater that was already carrying nitrates... farm chemicals washed off the fields. That same water sits under the county's homes.
Here is the loop. The water runs through the data center, some of it evaporates, but the nitrates never do. What comes back out is stronger. It gets sprayed across the farmland, sinks through the sandy soil, and lands back in the same aquifer 45,000 people drink from.
Investigators measured the discharge averaging 56 parts per million... about eight times Oregon's safety limit, with samples as high as 73. Residents and local health advocates are reporting rare cancers and pregnancy complications.
Amazon calls the investigation misleading and says its water is a small part of the system. Over 40 percent of the county lives below the poverty line.
Via Andy Diaz
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram suspended the No Kings Instagram account for today’s No Kings' day of action.
Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the account promoting Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary.
Elon Musk promoted the fake story about James Talarico on his X while donating over $150 million to help Ken Paxton.
Your reminder that Trump’s billionaire allies control what you see on TikTok, X, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube — and they have a vested interest in making sure Dems don’t take the majority, so Trump isn’t investigated.
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🚨 BREAKING: Meta pulled down the main No Kings Instagram accounts. We demand answers for why this happened during our National Day of Action
Meanwhile, millions are mobilizing—they cannot silence us
Follow for updates: @ACLU, @MoveOn, @Public_Citizen & @IndivisibleTeam -TN
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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk came to Donald Trump with the plan to throttle Ukraine’s use of SpaceX’s Starshield satellite internet network, sources have told the Telegraph.
The tech billionaire made the proposal during the US President’s row with Volodymyr Zelensky over strikes on Russian oil refineries.
‘The reality is that they were both in it,’ a senior source said of Musk’s and Trump’s involvement.
But after a night of carnage in Kyiv caused by the slowdown, Musk was alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe.
The SpaceX boss then proceeded to tweet, blaming the US administration, and ultimately, President Trump for authorising the slowdown.
‘He tweeted out that he was innocent and that it was the US administration that did it,’ the source said.