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🇺🇸 Maine voted 75% to ban superPACs and the case is now one appeals ruling from a shot at the Supreme Court... the lawyer who argued down Trump's tariffs is carrying it The target is a 2010 lower court decision called SpeechNow, which is what created superPACs two months after Citizens United, and that distinction is the whole case. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig says it lets the justices keep Citizens United intact and still kill unlimited money: "You can say Citizens United was completely correctly decided, but nothing in Citizens United means we have to have superPACs." Billionaires went from 0.3% of outside money in 2010 to 19% in 2024, and the first Trump voter Lessig met in Maine signed the petition and spent the day signing up every Trump voter who walked past, so if the First Circuit moves fast, 2028 could be the first election without them. @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸 Passengers are SWITCHING to United just to get Starlink on the plane!! United CEO Scott Kirby says people who stuck with the same airline for years are now booking United solely because of the Wi-Fi. Roughly half of United’s daily flights already have it, more than every other U.S. carrier combined, and the airline is installing it on about 20 planes a week. Starlink is already changing how people pick flights. Once it’s the standard, the difference is going to feel even bigger 🔥 @Starlink / Writer: Lucas t.co/9HGi9qG1g3

🚨🇮🇱 BREAKING: BOTTLES LAUNCHED AT BIBI, LITERALLY! Someone chucked a glass bottle at Netanyahu’s convoy earlier this evening. They’re still looking for the person responsible, but I'm sure it was either Hamas, Iran, or someone who thought he was at a ship christening. Writer: Jamie t.co/zl0a56eYEg

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Philip Pilkington thinks Britain could become the next major pressure point in the bond crisis. His concern: the UK is a large buyer of U.S. Treasuries. If Britain itself falls into a serious financial crisis, those purchases could weaken just when America needs them most. He sees Britain as one of the weakest links in the chain, with France another possible trigger. And if stress spreads through Europe, that could feed directly back into the U.S. Treasury market. That’s the part worth watching. America’s bond problem may not start in America. @philippilk

🇩🇪🇸🇪🇬🇧 Germany is shopping for a new fighter jet partner, and it has 2 offers Its own defense officials want to build the jet with Sweden and Spain, while Britain’s prime minister wants Germany to join the UK’s project with Italy and Japan. Germany needs a new partner because its jet project with France fell apart in June, after years of fighting between their companies. Advice papers inside Germany’s defense ministry say Sweden and Spain are the better bet, since those countries need the same kind of jet and Germany would get a fairer share of the work. They also take a swipe at Britain’s top defense company, BAE Systems, saying it didn’t treat Germany as an equal partner the last time they built a jet together. Nothing’s decided yet, and Germany’s defense minister hasn’t backed either option. And after how things ended with France, you can see why Berlin is taking its time. Source: POLITICO / Writer: Daniyal

🇺🇸 Anti-ICE students at Florida’s biggest university get OVERPOWERED by a counter-chant! Roughly 50 people gathered outside the admin building, asking campus police to scrap their deal with ICE. Conservatives showed up and started yelling “deport Sneako,” so loudly the original group got drowned out. On a campus of 55,000, that turnout speaks for itself 😂 Writer: Lucas t.co/woj20yygjV

🔥🇯🇵 Not every racist trope used in America has the same meaning and applies in other countries… and for all the traveling that Kai Cenat has done, he should know that. Instead, he's out there trying to throw hands with a straight-up ninja! They call it a language barrier for a reason, and I don’t think this Japanese guy intended to be rude. I do respect his bow and apology at the end, though! Writer: Jamie t.co/iCcH7hR7m4

🇪🇸 A Spanish TV reporter gets HIT by a BIG WAVE while covering the storm live. The wave crashed over the promenade wall in Ondarroa, slamming him and the camera. The signal briefly dropped, but both he and the camerawoman are fine. Reporting rough seas just got a LIVE demonstration 🌊 Writer: Lucas t.co/bYaX8r2s5T

🇵🇸Palestinians continue to be STARVED as food aid RUNS DRY The UN World Food Programme stripped 500,000 people of food assistance practically overnight. Funding shortfalls forced monthly assistance down from 1.6 million residents to 1.1 million. Rations were SLASHED and daily hot meal distribution collapsed for displaced families. Day after day survival is getting harder and aid support is grinding to a halt 💔 Writer: Bri t.co/0u2dHz0Pkf

Who’s doing the marketing for the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 game? Seriously, C.R.E.A.M. is the best you could come up with? Let me guess… You tried M.O.I.S.T. but couldn’t make it work? That is not a good song name for this game. Writer: Jamie t.co/CCSX8u7Un9

Apparently, Magnus Carlsen was just as much of a prick at the age of 13 as he is now at the age of 35. I don’t think there is a more arrogant person on Earth! I lied… I can think of at least one who is exponentially more arrogant… You know! Writer: Jamie t.co/I6nSMoZi7y

🇫🇷 French business owners are resorting to melee combat ⚔️ A bar manager in Limoges is standing guard at the entrance armed with a saber, declaring he’ll fight off rioters because "if I lose this, I lose everything." Looters expecting a quick smash-and-grab are about to learn what "You Shall Not Pass" actually looks like. Writer: Bri t.co/LIes9SUqz6

🌀Typhoon Champi is barreling toward a tiny island in Japan, causing total travel chaos Champi is packing 100+ mph gusts as it approaches Yonaguni, with Taiwan’s extreme peaks bouncing the storm's trajectory all over the map. HUNDREDS of flights have been canceled. Champi is expected to bring heavy rain and fierce winds to parts of Taiwan and eastern China through the weekend. Writer: Bri t.co/2P2XDhDfOF

🇮🇳 A traditional stick fight in India left 1 DEAD and over 100 INJURED last night. Thousands gathered for the annual Banni festival in Andhra Pradesh, where villagers clash with bamboo sticks as part of a centuries-old ritual. Despite police efforts to limit weapons, clashes after midnight sent dozens to hospitals with head injuries and other wounds. A centuries-old tradition, with deadly consequences. Writer: Lucas t.co/VvCi99Wh4W

🇫🇷 This woman is either incredibly stupid or a master of the clickbait arts. Last I checked, it’s still been less than a week since October 17 passed. How on God’s green Earth is this crazy train talking about her not having had a period since being gassed last week! I’m no lady, nor do I identify as one, and I’m not a doctor, but damn… she’s slow as pond water! Writer: Jamie t.co/tfoLYyzWFw

🇦🇱 THIS is an appropriate way to protest. Way to go, young Albanian man (maybe). It only becomes a riot if he stole that bread first. Writer: Jamie t.co/a3VqpuQQeC

🚨DAILY NEWS RECAP: The Gulf, Pakistan and Washington now expect a full-scale Iran war to restart, and some think this weekend... while Trump’s inner circle buys BUNKERS American planes are leaving Qatar and the embassy families are already gone, and every contact from Riyadh to Islamabad to DC says the same thing: the strike decision is made, regime change is off the table, and the only argument left is whether it starts this weekend or after November 3... Then it gets strange... Kushner joined the Zelensky talks only by video, and the island he’s building in Albania apparently comes with nuclear bunkers, which is why Albanians are rioting over it. Huge red flag. Thiel bought a compound deep in the Argentine mountains, one of the few places a nuclear war wouldn’t reach. Another blaring red flag... What do the people closest to Trump know that the rest of us don’t? People on the Hill are circulating one theory about chief of staff Susie Wiles... is she the firewall keeping John Brennan from prosecution, and keeping the CIA’s and Netanyahu’s interests inside the bubble? Iran names undersea cables and data centers as targets, the New York Times lays out a three day post midterm campaign with Pickax Mountain on it, Aramco clears its headquarters a day after a Houthi missile hit King Fahd airport, and Zelensky waits on Rubio to restore full Starlink speeds. Black October rounds it out: a 1990s PHP flaw has the NSA patching core servers and the FBI telling companies to pull the plug, Microsoft blames China, and US intelligence has tools built to make its own attacks look foreign. Put the pieces together and the picture only gets darker, especially since the people with the best information are the ones PACKING their bags. Watch this one before the weekend, because by Monday it may already be a whole different war. @WeTheBrandon

🇳🇱🇺🇸 A new book claims Dutch spies caught Kushner moving money from an Arab-funded account worth hundreds of millions. The excerpt alleges access to his phone revealed a Dubai account funded through Azerbaijan, with Arab leaders allegedly placing at least $2B in accounts tied to him. Kushner’s lawyer denies the accounts ever existed. Dutch officials and the banks have not confirmed the claims. The story is explosive if it holds up. So far it’s one author’s sources against a flat denial. Source: Vanity Fair / Writer: Lucas

🇫🇷 Riots raged through the French city of Saint-Étienne with nearly 100 shops LOOTED Local reports describe SMASHED windows and emptied stores across the city center. The mayor confirmed widespread damage and launched emergency aid for affected businesses. The cycle of looting and violence continues…😡 Writer: Lucas t.co/yFXcgydsrr

🔥🇫🇷 Bitchat is apparently the newest big thing to circumvent government and private surveillance. It has been surging on the app stores in France ahead of this weekend’s large planned protests. It uses Bluetooth mesh to send encrypted messages without cell networks or internet service. If you’re planning on going to the Saints vs. Steelers game in Paris… you really SHOULDN’T! Writer: Jamie t.co/5sR649GLKu

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran can cut the Gulf’s data line to Asia with a fishing dhow and a dragged anchor, no divers needed... and when the cable snaps, Abu Dhabi’s stock exchange could go dark with it The fiber bundles running through Hormuz are no wider than a fist, hundreds of dhows cross them every day with many tied to the IRGC, and he says the Russians have already done it in the Baltic. Malcolm Nance, former Navy cryptologist, calls it a knife to the jugular. He expects Israel to throw the first pitch, and Iran to answer by going after America’s Gulf partners: “They’re going to hit our buddies, and they’re going to make us regret the very day that they listen to our promises.” Malcolm doesn’t expect 200 or 300 missiles on Israel, he expects Gulf energy and data, and if Trump decides to take Iran off the oil market entirely, Americans pay $2 to $3 more a gallon almost immediately. If Iran moves first, his bet is Friday night, after prayers. @MalcolmNance

🇺🇸🚨 Pentagon authorizes DHS to test a military HEAT RAY at the US border. It fires an invisible beam from half a mile out, making skin feel like it’s trapped in a 500-degree oven. But imagine thinking more heat is going to scare people heading straight into Texas 🔥 Writer: Bri t.co/MCp7kpWK2s

🇺🇸 NYC officially votes to BAN Central Park horse carriages by 2028, ending an over 150 years old tradition HUNDREDS of drivers now face sudden economic extinction, though their union vows to file a legal challenge immediately. Animal rights groups had been campaigning for years to ban this. Then an 18 year old tourist died after jumping from a carriage, prompting his family to lead a furious legislative campaign. Mamdani promises transition assistance, offering retraining in transit, hospitality, and taxi sectors. But it’s a bitter twist for the hard working drivers who originally fled Uber to work the reins, only to be pushed right back into it. Source: NBC / Writer: Bri

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Troops and military families leak photos of burned aircraft, bombed barracks and self-dug foxholes from the Iran war, and say the Pentagon threatened them for sharing any of it The images come through MeidasTouch and VALOR Media from anonymous service members, contractors and spouses. What they describe, base by base: -Prince Sultan, Saudi Arabia: dining halls, workspaces and dorms destroyed; an AWACS and two KC-135 tankers damaged in one strike that reportedly injured 10 to 12; bunkers delivered with no doors; a photo sources say is a destroyed C-17 that the Pentagon has never acknowledged -Muwaffaq Salti, Jordan: three months of incoming so frequent the alarms couldn't keep up; F-15s, F-35s and Reapers damaged; a ballistic missile got past interceptors and hit barracks on July 17, killing three, with troops saying they heard the wounded calling from inside the flames; housing hit twice; troops told they were going home, then ordered to stay after throwing out their bedding -Camp Buehring, Kuwait: some troops lived out of a van in the desert for three months; September photos show the camp nearly abandoned -UAE: no warning the war was starting, no shelters, only security teams armed; troops hid in hotels ordering takeout or dug their own foxholes; leadership described as "rudderless" -Bahrain: Fifth Fleet headquarters damaged; families say evacuation planes were waiting but the Pentagon refused because it would "look bad at home," then the airport was hit; some paid tens of thousands to escape, hid in a mall parking garage, or were housed in residential buildings that were struck within hours; senior leaders reportedly flown out under cover of a "training exercise" -Across the force: no embedded press, rumors of year-plus extensions, troops saying they learned the war began from the news and don't know what they're fighting for The Pentagon’s latest number to Congress is $43.6 billion for the war, $45.1 billion with fuel, and base damage still isn’t in it. The people who lived in those bases just filled in the blank, and the strike plan for November expects them to do it again. Source: @MeidasTouch / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇺🇸🇫🇷 U.S. Embassy WARNS Americans to avoid protests in France after recent riots and looting The alert says more demonstrations are planned for Saturday and urges people heading to the NFL game in Paris on Sunday to stay alert. Europe really can't catch a break 💀 Source: U.S. Embassy Paris / Writer: Lucas

🇫🇷🔥 Okay, NOW this is getting serious! Now they’re having to evacuate the Ferraris from a dealership in France, and load up the property with barbed wire so they don’t get immigrated upon. Don’t mess with the Ferraris, man! Have some respect! Writer: Jamie t.co/AspUh8XP68

🇺🇸Trump’s State Department press advisor practices advanced diplomacy at a Wizards game 😭 Britt McHenry tossed a drink at a fan, got escorted out, and blew kisses while the crowd pelted her with rally towels. Reports say she snapped after hecklers hit her with misogynistic insults and trash-talked Kyle Kuzma’s fiancée Winnie Harlow. Better watch out if she becomes Pres Sec…front row reporters are going to need ponchos. Writer: Bri t.co/B035wwujgX

🇺🇸 Mamdani and the Teamsters are PUSHING a bill FORCING Amazon to hire its own delivery drivers in New York. At City Hall, he joined Teamsters President Sean O’Brien and Amazon workers to back the Delivery Protection Act, which would ban subcontractors for last-mile deliveries. Supporters say it ensures accountability for safety and working conditions, while opponents warn of higher costs and lost jobs in the 5 boroughs. Amazon keeps its logo on the vans while shifting liability elsewhere. The bill aims to close that gap, but the costs and job risks are real. Writer: Lucas t.co/MSkgIVIYN9

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 A senior Iranian lawmaker just asked Tehran to authorize NUCLEAR weapons if the US strikes again... for a bomb Iran says it supposedly doesn't have The committee chairman also wants Iran out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty the day a strike lands, and warned any country lending airspace will "pay a heavy price," which covers Iraq, the Gulf states and everyone the Israeli jets overflew Monday. The late supreme leader's fatwa called nuclear weapons forbidden; Netanyahu said Wednesday the son has "taken the safety off." Nobody outside Tehran knows which is true, and a parliament asking permission to use a weapon it officially doesn't possess is either theater for the pressure track or the loudest public hint yet that the fatwa is gone. Either reading hands the strike planners in Washington EXACTLY the argument they were looking for. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel