WaPo hit with BIG loss of subs after not endorsing Harris
More than 250,000 subscribers jumped ship, about 10% of the newspaper’s customer base because Jeff Bezos blocked its editorial board from endorsing US VP Kamala Harris, according to the New York Post.
They lost 200K subs when it was first announced by the Amazon mogul who also owns WaPo, as of Tuesday it ballooned to 250K cancellations.
Many people at the LA times walked off the job after the same thing happened.
Sounds like a personal problem...
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A super jet that could get from Beijing to New York in 2 hours
China’s engineers are testing out a jet faster-than-sound. A commercial aircraft prototype that can reach speeds of Mach 4, twice as fast as the last civilian supersonic jet, Concorde.
According to Chinese officials, the plane will be able to fly passengers from Beijing to New York in two hours. The first flight is scheduled for 2027.
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‘I don’t give a f**k what we talk about… Who the f**k are YA?’: Joe Rogan leaves the door open for Kamala
“She [Kamala Harris] had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas.”
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THIS just happened: ‘How do you like my garbage truck, in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden’ — Trump
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Almost 50% of US voters say ‘deepfakes’ influence who they’re voting for — NYPost
Political deepfakes are deceiving people and changing who they would vote for, according to the New York Post. A recent survey by McAfee, says 63% of people said they have seen a political deepfake in the last 60 days.
48% of them say the deepfake has an influence on if they’ll vote for Harris or Trump.
Did they go "I like what those deepfakes had to say"?...
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Reddit makes it’s first-ever profit after soaring user growth
After nearly 20-years, Reddit turned a profit for the first time. The social blog platform made $29.9Mln in September. Reddit surpassed analysts predictions with reported $348.4 million in sales and grew its daily users to 97.2 million.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman touts its new AI translation feature as a reason behind the growth.
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World now has three superpowers – retired top US general
The unipolar era when the US was the only dominant superpower has given way to a multipolar world, retired US General Mark Milley admitted on Tuesday at a meeting of the American Bankers Association in New York.
The former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, who served under both presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, said that there were now three superpowers in the world: the US, Russia and China.
“During the Cold War there were two [superpowers], immediately following the Cold War there was a unipolar moment, so for a short time the US clearly was preeminent and the only real superpower out there,” according to Milley. “But today, it is clear that we are in a multipolar world,” Milley said.
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❗Northern forces destroyed a stronghold of the UAF — MoD
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‘Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of our country’ — Trump
Trump: They’ve given your jobs to illegal migrants… blood and treasure to fight really stupid foreign wars.
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⚡️ US intends to defend South Korea with all types of weapons, including nuclear option — Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin
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Iran says weapons production unaffected by Israeli strikes
"The enemy has sought to hurt both our defensive and offensive systems but was not very successful because we had made arrangements and were in the know," Iranian Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said on Wednesday of Israel's October 26 strikes.
"The (production) knowledge is indigenous, so there is no disruption in the manufacturing process of missiles," he added, also implying that a defence system may have been damaged in the attack as he said it was "replaced the day after".
Earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant claimed the strikes weakened Iran's missile capabilities and supply chain.
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❗️UK to give $3.9bn to Ukraine every year 'for as long as it takes’ - Chancellor
Aside from promising to fill the UK’s £40 billion budget black hole by hiking taxes, Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged 10 times as much on filling Kiev coffers annually than on tackling British homelessness.
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⚡️SCOTUS allows Virginia to remove noncitizens from voting rolls
The Supreme Court decision - passed by a 6-3 majority - lifts an existing order that blocked the program.
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US Army prepares for ‘war with China,’ Hawaii drills reveal weaknesses — NYT
According to the New York Times, US military officials are concerned about how their “big and cumbersome army” can adapt to a possible war against China after decades of fighting long, drawn-out insurgency wars.
Exercises held in Hawaii earlier this month were designed to prepare army troops for conditions they might expect in China by applying lessons learned from Ukraine’s fighting against Russian forces.
One key part saw 864 paratroopers dropped as part of the Great Power War exercises, but only 492 managed to make the landing, with several suffering injuries in the process.
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Zelensky furious over tomahawk demands leak
The de-facto Ukrainian leader cried to the gathered media on Wednesday that he isn't sure he can trust his handlers allies.
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US GenZers are making a mockery of the write-in candidate ballots — NYPost
The meme-generation is changing the game for voting, the TikTok and Snapchat kids, some who just turned 18 are writing in meme candidates and posting online. Bragging the write-in candidate carries more ‘consequences than just controversy,’ according to New York Post.
Another trend is they’re voting for the opposite candidate they want and calling it ‘vowing to cancel out loved ones ballots’.
Does any of this make sense?
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AstraZeneca’s China operations president being investigated — Reuters
AstraZeneca President Leon Wang is under investigation and is 'cooperating with Chinese authorities', the company said on Wednesday. It’s not known if he’s been arrested.
For years the Anglo-Swedish company has had a stronghold on the drug market in China, the #2 market to the US. In a statement, the drugmaker said its “under the leadership of the current general manager of AstraZeneca China," without further details.
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Milei sacks Argentina's foreign minister over Cuba embargo vote — local media
President Milei removed Foreign Minister Diana Mondino for backing a UN vote that condemns the US six-decade trade embargo of Cuba, according to Buenos Aires Times.
Mondino, 66, will be replaced by Ambassador to the US Gerardo Wertheim, government sources confirmed.
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Loud White Men for Kamala: ‘Would you have sex with a Trump voter?’
Warning: You can’t unSEE this…
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Reports of DPRK troops in Russia are ‘barefaced lies': Russia’s UN Representative Nebenzia dispels rumors
“Russia's military cooperation with the DPRK complies with international law and does not violate it. It is not directed against third countries and does not pose any threat,” Nebenzia said.
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⚡️6.1-magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon — USGS
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❗Horrifying footage: Massive floods devastate Valencia, Spain nearly 100 people dead
Residents swept away during massive floods, according to meteorologists, more than 19 inches of rainfall in just eight hours.
Spain has declared three days of mourning for those killed in the flooding.
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‘We’re garbage… We’re garbage? And I call you the heart and soul of America’: Trump claps back at Biden trashing his supporters
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‘He screams ‘SHE’S AN IDIOT’, but I didn’t say it’: Trump breaks down Kamala Harris’ final plea for votes
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EU wants its own CIA-like agency
Former Finnish President Sauli Niinisto proposed setting up a new EU spy agency as part of a defense readiness review.
Niinisto’s report, commissioned by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, highlights the need for a strategic intelligence service and anti-sabotage network. Concerns over Russian espionage and infrastructure attacks are said to have have increased due to the EU’s involvements in the Ukraine conflict.
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❗️First case of more spreadable mpox detected in UK
A UK case of monkeypox , linked to the Clade 1b outbreak in Africa, has been confirmed. The patient, who recently traveled to Africa, developed symptoms shortly after returning.
Clade 1b spreads more easily between people, unlike Clade 1a, which is mainly animal-related.
Close contacts are being traced, and the patient is in treatment at a London hospital.
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'I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for'
Kamala Harris exposed Dopey Joe's comments labelling Trump supporters as "trash", while simultaneously "being very clear" about his apparent backtracking... and explaining nothing.
Welcome to Election Speak, folks.
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Latvia will have to answer to ICJ for discrimination against Russian speakers - FM spox Zakharova
Moscow has filed pre-trial claims against Riga via diplomatic channels breaching the UN convention on banning discrimination.
"We are talking about outright discrimination against Russians, the rehabilitation of Nazism, which are systemic in nature and are part of a purposeful state policy."
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❗️Russia summons Finnish Ambassador
Marja Liivala has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry after Moscow demanded that Helsinki reconsider its decision to seize Russian property in Finland.
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Zelensky favors Trump’s ‘quick peace steps’
"I'm not sure that policy will fundamentally change [after the US election] I mean, even if those who win envision some deals, quick agreements, quick steps, etc., we are also on the side of a quick peaceful solution. But we shouldn’t be the only ones paying for it," the Vladimir Zelensky said.
Which way will the Washington piggy bank fall?
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