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— ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 EXCLUSIVE: One of our sources in the U.S. intelligence community has shared with us an extremely sensitive top secret U.S. intelligence document, dated October 15-16, detailing Israeli preparations for an extensive strike inside Iran:

CEO of Anthropic, a well-grounded optimistic take.

Christian Nationalists sound a lot like the Taliban.

Happy to retire those expensive parked .io domains!

As if one needed any additional reasons.

In Vancouver, WA:

Reposting this graphic of when the red mirage dissipated in 2020. Take a deep breath, everyone, and hunker down.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

I've tried to approach this election unflinchingly & w/ clear eyes, but this is the absolute worst case scenario. We're in an epochal shift in American history of the worst sort, &, while it does not spell the absolute end of Amer liberal democracy, MAGA is a fatal illness. 1/

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via John Burn-Murdoch 2024 Democrats are the red dot. Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October. It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth. It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash. We must get big money out of our politics.

Western WA remains an outpost of sanity.

Grok knows. x.com/i/grok/share/s…

Trump has nominated Mike Huckabee as US amb to Israel. Time for a quick review of the views/agenda re: Israel/Palestine that this nomination effectively endorses 🧵

Oh, how the fallen have mightily: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/o…

Very helpful explainer about the rapidly shifting (im)balance of power in #Syria and the Middle East.

The net is vast and infinite...(?)