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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…

"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

Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises
Be Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state

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…

Top Democrats in Congress have joined a California immigrant and the Nevada State Democratic Party in
suing the Trump administration over its unprecedented voter fraud probes in both states
and broader efforts to meddle in state-run elections nationwide
— alleging they are a
“pretext to seize control over elections.”

A California immigrant and a Nevada group, joined by top Democrats, sue over federal election probes
The lawsuit accuses Trump and his administration of using “shoddily compiled lists of supposed noncitizens” and “coercive threats" against state officials to assert federal control over the midterms.

Today is a good day to poke your management to join the Open Source Pledge:
#PHP #Node

Open Source Pledge
Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do.

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 @…

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&quot…

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…

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-…

White House to Politico: Retract stories or face "consequences"
The White House counsel demands corrections or retractions.

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/

Caryle Murphy, who won the Pulitzer Prize reporting from Kuwait, dies at 79
A longtime Washington Post reporter and correspondent, Ms. Murphy was one of the only Western journalists to stay in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion in 1990.