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I'm so excited for voting to be done on Tuesday. Every ad on the football commercial breaks are political. I look forward to seeing stupid liberty biberty ads or something once the election is dont
I've started using @bot to give me a morning brief based on what I follow on X and also what I'm intersted in. Its posted in a specifc slack channel so I can read through it there or in the app.
Been an intersting way to consume news
This is a dumb idea. Baseball, radio, and summer are all American
@DavidPSamson says MLB no longer needs radio: "We don't need baseball on radio anymore." The former Marlins president predicts on Nothing Personal that "radio will go the way of Kodak and Blockbuster." @JohnMamola has more. #MLB
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Shouldn't they focus on having good books? I mean they are a bookstore
With years of bookselling experience under their belts, a husband and wife have opened their first storefront in Grand Rapids with a focus on affordability and sustainability.
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How the Milwaukee Brewers are hitting *differently* than just about every other team in Major League Baseball View article
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“This is a country that was built from effectively nothing.
It was a country that was built by innovators, by entrepreneurs, by manufacturers.
On a bipartisan basis for decades, there was consensus in Washington D.C. that we should cut off all of that.
That we should send to the far corners of the globe, our manufacturing. That we should become dependent on supply chains located many oceans away, including in places that were bad actors and foreign adversaries.
@POTUS has uniquely stood up and ended that—and we are unleashing a new era, a new golden age of reindustrialization in this country.”
- Chairman, @BrendanCarrFCC | @newindustrials summit 9/16/2026
Today, @anduriltech and @qualcomm announced a new laptop that will eventually be 100% made in America, a “first step” toward creating a market for U.S.-manufactured components and total technological self-sufficiency.
Building computers in America should be a matter of “national pride,” says @PalmerLuckey.
@JonasYDu reports 👇
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Anduril and Qualcomm just launched BlueChip, a line of US-made laptops. Here's what you need to know.
BlueChip is a new computer product line from Anduril and Qualcomm. The first product is a rugged, waterproof, security-focused laptop. It's aimed at the military, government workers, police and first responders.
Anduril announced it today with the line "BlueChip. Built in America." The post says America made the first electronic computer to win a war. Now the country depends on its greatest adversaries to build the computers that run its economy and defends the nation. Founder Palmer Luckey says he wants to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. He means every individual component, not just assembly. Some of those parts are made only in China today.
Anduril will assemble the laptops at its Arsenal-1 plant near Columbus, Ohio. Circuit board assembly happens there. Qualcomm supplies its Snapdragon X Series chips, which TSMC builds at its new Arizona facility. The chips handle general-purpose processing and AI. The pitch also ties in Anduril's Lattice software, so AI can run in the field.
Anduril already has working prototypes. It plans to open preorders in 2027. Pricing isn't announced. Luckey estimates the laptops will cost about 20% more than typical high-end PCs.
Key numbers:
- About 90% of components come from the U.S. and allied nations
- Long-term goal: 100% American-sourced
- Orders open in 2027
- Estimated price: about 20% above high-end PCs
BlueChip is Anduril's move from unmanned jet fighters and robot submarines into laptops, with the aim of rebuilding an end-to-end American computer supply chain.
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The UN harbors a moral fugitive who spews hatred for America, the West, Jews, and Israel. Francesca Albanese is institutional poison, doing grave damage to the UN, and tarnishing the work of brave UN personnel who risk their lives to feed the starving and keep the peace.
I know it. You know it. All that remains is to do something about it. Start by saying publicly what you say privately: Albanese must go. @AmbUNReform
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Always good to defer to the guys who played the game to analyze it. My old friend @JDue51 does a fine job here, as usual, but it must be said, seeing it in slow mo makes it all look even worse, with men in blue just floating off into space.
Die hard #GoBlue fan, but I don't want to see the kicker again, until he's kicking PATs
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HOT OFF THE PRESSES. CHAOS INC. is growing. Who is behind the protests in France and Europe?
I was just on @FoxBusiness to talk to the amazing @dagenmcdowell about the findings of my new reporting at @FoxNews Digital:
🔴🟢 101 organizations in the "red-green" alliance across 9 counties are fomenting and amplifying the protests in France and Europe (up from 54 orgs yesterday)
🔴🟢 Only 1 in 3 student or youth; the rest are adults
🔴🟢 They plan “Acte II” on Saturday OCTOBER 24 with protests across France
🔴🟢 The protests are being amplified by the network in the US funded by Neville Roy Singham, the American communist tycoon living in Shanghai supporting the Chinese Communist Party.
READ HERE:
foxnews.com/world/global-cha…
For this reporting, I name names so that the myth of "student protests" can be pierced. Let me know of any organizations that I missed. Of course, I will reveal any ties, if any, of these organizations to governments from Russia to the Islamic Republic of Iran and China -- wherever the reporting takes us.
WHO'S WHO IN THE EXPANDING GLOBAL 'CHAOS INC.' NETWORK (101)
ACTE II, OCT. 24 – NEW (14)
🔴 Coordination régionale Bloquons tout Île-de-France — Île-de-France Regional "Block Everything" Coordination – PROTEST COORDINATION: Regional "Block Everything" organization behind the platform promoting "Acte II."
🔴 Peuple RÉVOLTÉ – People in Revolt — PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Organization helping operate the "Acte II" platform.
🔴 Maintenant! – Now! — PROTEST MOVEMENT: Civic movement participating in the "Acte II" platform.
🔴 Indignons-nous, Bloquons tout – Let’s Get Indignant, Block Everything — DIRECT ACTION: Protest collective promoting "Acte II."
🔴 Coordination nationale lycéenne – National High School Students’ Coordination — STUDENT/YOUTH: New national high-school coordination calling students into the streets Oct. 24 for "Acte II."
Angoulême, France
🔴 NPA Charente – New Anticapitalist Party–Charente (NPA 16) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local NPA chapter mobilizing for Acte II.
🔴 Action Antifasciste 16 — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on the Angoulême Acte II announcement.
🔴 Maison des Peuples et de la Paix – House of Peoples and Peace — ACTIVIST: Angoulême organization collaborating on the Acte II call.
🔴 Fanfare en lutte d'Angoulême – Angoulême Marching Band in Struggle — ACTIVIST: Local activist collective collaborating on Acte II.
🔴 Révolution Permanente Angoulême — Permanent Revolution–Angoulême – REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local chapter of Révolution Permanente, collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.
🔴 Organisation de Solidarité Trans (OST) Angoulême — Trans Solidarity Organization–Angoulême – ACTIVIST / SOLIDARITY: Local organization listed as an Acte II collaborator.
Caen, France
🔴 Caen Antifa Squad — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on an "ACTE II — 24 OCTOBRE" announcement.
🔴 Caen en Lutte — Caen in Struggle – PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Local organization collaborating on Acte II.
🔴 Solidarité Étudiante 14 — Student Solidarity 14 – STUDENT: Calvados student organization collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.
NOV. 20 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
Belgium (3)
🔴 Comac — MARXIST/SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian youth organization associated with the Workers' Party.
🔴 RedFox — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian socialist youth organization.
🔴 Vrede — ANTI-WAR: Belgian organization publishing and promoting the International Youth Strike manifesto.
France (1)
🔴 Mouvement National Lycéen — STUDENT/YOUTH: French high-school organization identified in the European Nov. 20 coalition.
Germany (6)
🔴 Schulstreik gegen Wehrpflicht — STUDENT/"ANTI-CONSCRIPTION": German school-strike network mobilizing for Nov. 20.
🔴 Die Falken — SOCIALIST YOUTH: German socialist youth organization involved in the international organizing process.
🔴 Linksjugend ['solid] — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Youth organization associated with Die Linke.
🔴 DIE LINKE.SDS — SOCIALIST STUDENT: German socialist university organization.
🔴 Socialist German Workers Youth, (SDAJ) — COMMUNIST YOUTH: Socialist German Workers Youth.
Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität — SOCIALIST: German socialist organization mobilizing around Nov. 20.
Ireland (1)
🔴 Militant Left — SOCIALIST: Irish socialist organization promoting the international mobilization.
Italy (4)
🔴 Rete della Conoscenza — LEFT-WING STUDENT: Italian student network helping build the international strike.
🔴 Unione degli Studenti — STUDENT: Italian high-school student organization promoting Nov. 20.
🔴 Coordinamento Universitario — STUDENT: Italian university network promoting the strike.
🔴 CGIL — LABOR: Italian labor confederation whose Nov. 20 general strike converges with the student mobilization.
Spain (1)
🔴 Sindicato de Estudiantes — SOCIALIST STUDENT: Spanish student organization identified in the international network.
United Kingdom (9)
🔴 Counterfire — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST / ANTI-WAR: Promoting the Nov. 20 international strike.
🔴 Left Unity — SOCIALIST: Promoting the wider European mobilization.
🔴 International Youth Strike — INTERNATIONAL YOUTH / ANTI-CAPITALIST COALITION: The coordinating coalition behind the Nov. 20 strike says student and youth organizations across Europe are organizing demonstrations, walkouts, assemblies, blockades and occupations. Its manifesto says exploitation, climate breakdown and war are the "essence of capitalism," calls NATO an instrument of "imperial interests" that "should be dissolved," and demands "radical system change."
🔴 North West Pensioners Association — ACTIVIST: Organizational supporter of the Nov. 20 actions.
🔴 Socialist Party — TROTSKYIST: Socialist party promoting the international strike.
🔴 Socialist Students — SOCIALIST STUDENT: British organizer advocating a "socialist future."
🔴 Stop the War Coalition — ANTI-WAR: Promoting Nov. 20 student mobilization.
🔴 Universities and Colleges Union @ucunion — The largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in UK "Further Education" and "Higher Education."
🔴 Young Greens — YOUTH / GREEN: British youth organization identified among supporters.
Amplifiers (8)
🔴 CODEPINK — U.S. ANTI-WAR / ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION: The U.S. organization has explicitly connected the French protests to its own planned Washington mobilization. "From France to the United States, the message is clear," CODEPINK said, before promoting its Nov. 10-12 "Taxpayer Uprising" demanding that federal spending go toward education, healthcare and housing rather than the military.
🔴 Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) — TROTSKYIST / SOCIALIST: An international socialist organization whose national affiliates include Britain's Socialist Party and Ireland's Militant Left. Its international website is promoting the Nov. 20 youth walkout under the campaign slogan "Fight for our future not their wars."
🔴 International Socialist Alternative (ISA) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: The international socialist organization says "Capitalism means war" and that it "wholeheartedly" supports the Nov. 20 strike. ISA says its members have helped organize Germany's anti-conscription school strikes and describes imperialism as the "highest stage of capitalism."
🔴 Party for Socialism and Liberation–Houston — MARXIST-LENINIST / U.S. CHAPTER: The Houston chapter of the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation is amplifying the French protest movement.
🔴 Progressive International — TRANSNATIONAL LEFT NETWORK: The international organization explicitly grouped the current protests in France, Spain, India and Albania in an Oct. 16 briefing and asked how the "new rebellions" could acquire organized political power. Most significantly, it said: "These are the forces that the Progressive International is working to support and connect."
🔴 Stop ReArm Europe — ANTI-WAR / ANTI-MILITARIZATION COALITION: A European coalition calling for demonstrations and actions around Nov. 20 under the slogan "Welfare, not Warfare." It says it supports students "refusing" militarization and calls on social movements, unions, civil-society groups, political organizations and parliamentarians to mobilize around the student strike.
🔴 teleSUR English — INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AMPLIFIER: The international media outlet amplified the French demonstrations with Oct. 17 coverage of clashes, fires and arrests in Paris, Lyon and other cities. This is evidence of international amplification.
🔴 World BEYOND War — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR: A global organization that describes itself as a movement to "end war" and says it is part of the Stop ReArm Europe campaign. It is explicitly promoting the Nov. 20 International Youth Strike and urging supporters to "join this resistance."
FRANCE — ORIGINAL NETWORK (54)
🔴 Organisation communiste révolutionnaire — REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST: Communist organization involved in protests.
🔴 Parti communiste français — COMMUNIST: French Communist Party whose leaders and activists joined the demonstrations.
🔴 Parti des Indigènes de la République — DECOLONIAL: Political organization that defends the student revolt.
🔴 Parti de l'égalité socialiste — TROTSKYIST: Socialist organization advocating workers' action committees.
🔴 Revolutionary Communist Group — COMMUNIST: British organization that connects the French protests to capitalism, imperialism and Palestine.
🔴 Révolution Permanente — TROTSKYIST: Revolutionary socialist organization promoting student-worker mobilization.
🔴 World Socialist Web Site — TROTSKYIST MEDIA: Socialist outlet framing the French protests around capitalism, austerity and militarization.
Palestine-solidarity organizations
🔴 Union juive française pour la paix — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Jewish organization that publicizes support for the protesting students.
🔴 Urgence Palestine — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Palestine organization that amplified protest-related material.
Labor and professional organizations
🔴 CGT Éduc'action — LABOR: CGT's education-sector organization.
🔴 CFDT Éducation Formation Recherche Publiques — LABOR: Education and research union supporting the student movement.
🔴 CGT — LABOR: Major French labor confederation involved in the October mobilizations.
🔴 CNT — ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST: Revolutionary-syndicalist union that declared students were "right to revolt."
🔴 Confédération paysanne — FARMERS' UNION: Called agricultural workers into the Oct. 17 mobilization.
🔴 FSU — LABOR: Education and public-sector union federation.
🔴 FNEC FP-FO — LABOR: Force Ouvrière's education federation.
🔴 Force Ouvrière — LABOR: National labor confederation.
🔴 SUD éducation — LABOR: Left-wing education union.
🔴 SNES-FSU — LABOR: Secondary-school personnel union.
🔴 Union syndicale Solidaires — LABOR: Left-wing labor federation.
🔴 UNSA — LABOR: National autonomous trade-union federation.
Advocacy, environmental and protest organizations
🔴 Amnesty International France — HUMAN RIGHTS: Reported on police treatment of minors during the demonstrations.
🔴 ATTAC France — ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Connected the mobilization to austerity and economic policy.
Coordination nationale du mouvement du 26 septembre — PROTEST NETWORK: Mobilization network that encouraged participation in Oct. 17.
🔴 Extinction Rebellion — ENVIRONMENTAL: Environmental direct-action movement appearing in the protest ecosystem.
🔴 FCPE — PARENTS: National parents' federation that called members to demonstrate.
🔴 Gilets jaunes — Yellow Vests: Decentralized protest movement whose Oct. 17 mobilization converged with the students.
🔴 Intersyndicale nationale VTC — PROFESSIONAL / LABOR: Private-hire drivers' coalition promoting participation.
🔴 Les Soulèvements de la Terre — RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL: Movement that celebrated the student revolt and called for antifascist mobilization.
🔴 Ligue des droits de l'Homme — HUMAN RIGHTS: Supported students and criticized police repression.
🔴 Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (MRAP) — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in the wider coalition.
🔴 SOS Racisme — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in supporting the movement.
International amplifiers
🔴 BreakThrough News — SINGHAM NETWORK / MEDIA: New York-based nonprofit amplifying the French protests internationally.
🔴 Indian Alliance Paris — INTERNATIONAL / DIASPORA: France-based organization connecting French and Indian protest messaging. Partnered with the People's Forum in Manhattan.
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
"On October 21st at 07:41 UTC, more than six hours before the coordinated release, Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo and published built images containing the fix. Like other distributors, Chainguard had received the patch in advance so its users could update the moment the vulnerabilities were disclosed. Any attacker could now study the fix in binary form while every other PHP user was still waiting for the release. This disregarded weeks of work by many parties toward a coordinated disclosure."
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The @WSJ got 71 economists together. (Link in replies). Their collective forecast, which sounds like the opening of Reagan’s “Morning in America” which followed a rough 1981-1982:
“One reason for the higher bond yield forecast is oil. Economists forecast that the U.S. oil-price benchmark will end 2027 at about $75 a barrel, down from $101 at the close on Friday but up from $67 before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February. In turn, their forecasts for inflation as measured by the consumer-price index fall to 2.3% by the end of 2027. The panelists provided forecasts before the release of the September CPI report.
Meanwhile, economists expect the economy to add 56,000 jobs a month on average over the next year.
The panel sharply revised its forecast for growth in inflation-adjusted annualized gross domestic product to 3.1% for the third quarter, up from 2% in the July survey. Of 64 economists who provided forecasts in both surveys, 60 saw growth for the quarter moving higher.”
