@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-10-23 07:03:45
"Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/22/britain-prepare-infrastructure-attacks-hostile-states-wes-streeting
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-10-22 00:25:51
White House counsel warned Politico on Monday that the outlet had 48 hours to retract or correct stories about Chief of Staff Susie Wiles or face consequences (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/21/white-house-politico-retract-stories-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-10-22 18:41:20
Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/amazon-trump-midterms…
@exil_inselette@norden.social2026-10-23 07:17:05
Ein #HimmelweiterUnterschied:
Wenn die unchristliche Union und die unsozialen Demokratischen sich Politikstil und Inhalte bei den Nazis abgucken, verlieren sie Wähler*innen ans Original.
Wenn die unchristliche Union und die unsozialen Demokratischen sich Politikstil und Inhalte bei @…
@rae@bne.social2026-07-24 05:14:25
After working in the NT in the lat 80s, early 90s, I thought I'd covered every crazy story about the local politicians. ( My favourites were the MP who punched another fan while at the footy, and the Mines and Energy minister drinking water from the Ranger tailings dam to prove uranium was safe.)
I didn't expect them to keep electing crazy people in the 21st century.
"NT minister claims Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if territory doesn’t use more groundwater"…
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-10-23 10:34:43
I was at an apolitical event honoring people finishing their academic degrees in the health sector recently, and the last speech, sort of as if it was added as an after thought, tried to give a political message, which received immense applause, but just wasn't a message to me.
The speaker said “we need to be loud against all organizations that are against humanitarian principles”. My first thought was: Wow, we can't even name the dangerous ideology anymore, yet alone the organization…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-23 02:43:41
Corey Lewandowski, a former political adviser to Donald Trump and top aide at the Department of Homeland Security,
is under criminal investigation over allegations he profited off his role in the US government,
three US officials and a fourth person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-10-22 21:25:57
Caryle Murphy, a former WaPo correspondent whose reporting from Kuwait during the Gulf War earned her a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, dies at 79 (Amanda Covarrubias/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-23 05:38:39
Federal prosecutors on Oct. 22 announced the arrest of a Virginia politician and a half dozen others in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme.
According to an indictment filed Oct. 14 in the Eastern District of Virginia, state Sen. Lille Louise Lucas and six other co-defendants
are charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijua…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-10-22 14:30:53
Politico corrects a story to say Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had no direct role in setting up Katie Zacharia's Sean Hannity interview, after a White House threat (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/6164894-politico-corrects-s…