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There’s a story which may well be apocryphal: at an art exhibition in the 1880s the Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin took General Helmuth von Moltke (the elder) on a tour of the gallery.
There he led the general in front of his painting, “The Apotheosis of War,” (1871).
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Breaking: Channel 11 has now also revised its exit poll, wiping out the Zionist opposition’s lead. Likud is briefing journalists that a “massive polling error” will soon become apparent.
She assembles a team at the diner. A special ops veteran with a dark past. A wise-cracking street-smart grandma. A nerdy outcast who’s a tech whiz. A funky lesbian mechanic. Season finale is a no-holds-barred shootout in which The Birds are finally defeated. Or ARE they
“U.S. political discourse” & it’s just outrage merchants peddling AI videos of themselves at chain restaurants wearing Tom Cruise’s “Tropic Thunder” hand prostheses & tacticool clothing to gin up a fake controversy
while we are still fighting a war with no plan
fuck it’s so bleak
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When travelling the famous 'Red Arrow' express train from Moscow to Leningrad in the 1960s, Shostakovich would carry a pair of pliers in order to cut the wires of the speaker in his compartment blaring out idiotic patriotic music. A metaphor for us all.
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As the U.S. and Russia try to will some grand bargain into being through timed leaks about energy deals and economic side quests, Yury Ushakov let slip an interesting admission yesterday about how his boss views even a desperate Trump’s ability to deliver what Moscow wants. (Hint: Trump can’t.)
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Channel 12 says Netanyahu will get 24 seats at the Knesset, Eisenkot 22.
Most TV stations predict 52-53 seats for the opposition, 50 for Netanyahu - 17-18 for Arab parties.
Likely deadlock at this stage
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I'm honored to have received @Milreporters 2026 award for Enterprise / Feature Reporting for two stories I did about the CIA's Zero Units for @RollingStone. Here is the first story: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
Chapo traveled to the White House in October 2025 for a summit. Instead of a meeting and photo op with President Trump, they sent VP Vance instead. Wonder why.
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Lewin was very responsible for the gutting of USAID. he runs out before the midterms
Jeremy Lewin, a top Rubio adviser for Venezuela and Cuba, is leaving the State Department ahead of the midterms
axios.com/2026/10/27/rubio-a…
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Vladimir Putin used most of his call with the leaders of Finland and Norway to lecture them about medieval Slavic history, underscoring the difficulties Europe faces in asserting itself in upcoming peace talks with Russia.
w/ @maxseddon @HenryJFoy @FT
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Ok. But you do remember that Obama won the 2008 election even after the "guns & religion clinging kind of comment," and then again four years later, right?
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BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4imQyUu
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I can confirm that @FlavioBolsonaro is no longer in Brazil and is on his way to the United States.
A US protective operation is underway to ensure his safety.
"...so we visited a suburban Cheesecake Factory in this swing state, where voters told us in no uncertain terms that they would NOT be voting for Barack Obama OR Saddam Hussein in next week's election..."
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Breaking news: Trump considers dropping sanctions on Putin’s “slush fund”
The move would be the latest U.S. concession to Moscow.
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Damn, the way he just can't let this go you'd think he'd invested all his Trump Coins in ".si" domain names to resell or something
Lol even the WSJ's Editorial Board is like "We will go to the friggin' MAT over Cheesecake Factory!" but doesn't say a word in defense of the sitting president
I think it’s mostly lame that MAGA and Fox types are trying to make the Saddam-Cheesecake Factory line into an outrage. But I think it’s hilarious that nearly all of them are offended on behalf of the Cheesecake Factory and not Trump. I haven’t heard anyone defend Trump’s interior design. The logic of their freakout is, “How dare you say the Cheesecake Factory looks like the Trump White House!? The Cheesecake Factory is awesome!”