I think it's fair too say I dislike Elon Musk more than the average bear. Let's see if I can prove it in this video shall we?
golden seed chick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2qi69OYKRw
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Sunday, October 18, 2026
TikTok bans Musk documentary account
from The Verge
Just ahead of the wider release of Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary, TikTok has banned the film’s social media account from its platform. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film’s distributor, Bleecker Street, was informed Friday afternoon that a “permanent suspension” was imminent. Bleecker Street has not yet responded to a request for comment from The Verge.
While TikTok has no official affiliation with Elon Musk, part owner Larry Ellison appears in the film via a text message offering to help Musk fund his Twitter purchase.
Last month, YouTube, Meta, X, and TikTok all faced backlash for rejecting ads for the film. YouTube and Meta quickly reversed course, calling it an “error.” However, TikTok and X have refused to change their stance, and neither platform has allowed paid advertisements for the film.
Banning the documentary’s account, however, marks a serious escalation, and one laced with a dash of irony — shortly before the account was removed, it posted that people should see the movie “before it gets shut down.”...
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
West Bank Settlers Attack, Hospitalize Washington Post Journalist in Olive Grove Attack
(Fascists love beating on women don't they? Makes em feel strong. Of course these supremacist inbred fascists go a little further and kick the woman while she's down and then steal everything of value she has on her playing into the worst stereotypes of covetous thieving Jews but who cares. They get away with anything over there.)
from AntiWar
Violence against Palestinians and the press has been on going problem in Israel in general for years, but the level of such incidents in the occupied West Bank has reached a fevered pitch in recent months, with Israeli settlers attacking people with virtual impunity.
The latest attack saw Washington Post veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine among the casualties. She and others were attacked by settlers clad in black near the town of Birzeit. The 63-year-old Levine was wearing a press vest and helmet, and was knocked to the ground and beaten badly enough to put her in the hospital. Others involved in the olive harvest were similarly beaten and at least one was shot.
Israeli troops arrived at the scene during the attack, but reportedly did effectively nothing to stop the settlers, firing tear gas at the Palestinians and then standing by the settlers as the beatings continued...
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Pentagon Plans To Withhold Report on Minab School Massacre Past Midterms
from AntiWar
Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which massacred at least 120 children, through the midterm elections.
According to an earlier Bloomberg investigation into the attack, within hours of the strikes, Pentagon personnel were aware that the US was responsible, but the Trump administration has still not admitted to carrying out the attack.
The new Bloomberg report said that advisors to US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have conveyed to other Pentagon personnel that the report on the massacre, which found flawed intelligence, outdated imagery, and an overreliance on AI contributed to the attack, will not be shared with the public before the November 3 elections. Officials said the investigation has been all but complete for several months...
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Friday, October 16, 2026
EU summit: Zelensky brings begging bowl to Brussels under Trump cloud
from RT
Vladimir Zelensky has put the pressure on his European backers by joining the second day of an EU summit in Brussels, in the week he chose to lash out at US President Donald Trump, and as European leaders grapple with soaring energy bills and the prospect of a difficult winter.
The gathered EU leaders will unlikely welcome having been effectively cornered into backing Zelensky’s “forever war” policy while attempting to secure ongoing US support in a week that protests and national strikes over pay and public services intensified across the continent.
Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election
from WSWS
The midterm elections in the United States, now less than three weeks away, are expected to deliver a repudiation of US President Donald Trump and his policies of war, dictatorship and social austerity. Trump’s approval rating is at a record low.
While appealing to working-class anger over the cost of living and social inequality, the Democrats are making clear that their central priority is a massive and catastrophic escalation of the war against Russia. The Democrats agree with Trump’s assault on social programs and the working class. Their conflict with Trump turns above all on what they claim is his insufficiently aggressive and consistent pursuit of the global interests of American imperialism.
Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, speaking for the party’s leadership at the Warsaw Security Forum on October 13, declared that a Democratic Congress “means that aid packages [to Ukraine] move not in nine months, but in nine days or nine weeks.” “If Democrats gain control on Capitol Hill, renewed Ukraine aid will be a priority,” the trade publication Breaking Defense wrote, reporting his remarks...
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Secret and ‘Illegal’ Trump Plan to Spin Off Federal Student Aid Office Sparks Outrage
from Common Dreams
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to remove the Federal Student Aid office from the Department of Education and establish a new independent agency tasked with managing roughly $1.6 trillion in debt owed by more than 40 million borrowers.
The plan, first reported by The Washington Sun on Thursday, comes as President Donald Trump works to illegally dismantle the Education Department without congressional authorization and assails student aid programs. Legally spinning off the Federal Student Aid office—the largest segment of the Education Department—would require an act of Congress, something that administration officials have “acknowledged internally,” according to the Sun.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, expressed outrage over the administration’s reported plan, noting that the Trump administration has already gutted the student aid office’s staff.
“Tens of millions of Americans are depending on government to actually work here,” Murray said in a statement. “This intentional sabotage only threatens to create true financial chaos in people’s lives.”...
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Would a Democratic Congress change US policy on Iran, Palestine?
from al Mayadeen English
With the November 3 US midterm elections approaching amid mounting economic pressure and growing public opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran, the possibility of Democrats regaining control of Congress has prompted debate over whether an electoral shift could alter Washington's policies toward West Asia.
Since Washington and "Israel" launched their military aggression against Iran on February 28, 2026, the confrontation has evolved into a prolonged regional crisis, disrupting global energy supplies, straining American military resources, and exposing the costs of Washington's regional security commitments.
The repercussions have extended into US domestic politics, where rising fuel prices and dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump's handling of the war have provided Democrats with an opportunity to challenge Republican leadership...
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Trump Cancels Planned Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution
(A couple ways to look at this. First, the pending False Flag op wasn't fully sanctioned so they put it on hold or maybe they figured they didn't need them anymore to gin up support for a full on war on Iran. Second, and I believe more probable, they understood (from posts like my previous ones) that there was a serious flaw in their design. The illegal (according to military code) broadcast of an execution to the public all of a sudden and out of the blue (Hasan supposedly did it 17 years ago) would be so out of place and off the wall it would be obvious they were trying to bait a violent response from some 'sleeper cell' they make up. In short, it would be an obvious pretext to their false flag(s?)... so now what? It could be nothing or it could be the video is released by someone and they get Max Blumenthal to write up another bullshit story about how it got out and triggered the 'Islamists' This is a better narrative because it doesn't appear so contrived nor will it open the DoD to pending lawsuits.)
from the NYT
President Trump on Thursday canceled the Pentagon’s planned livestream of the execution of the Army officer who was convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting.
Pentagon officials said last week that the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, would be broadcast via livestream, a decision Mr. Trump initially said he supported.
But in private, Mr. Trump quickly began to deliberate with his advisers amid widespread criticism of the decision, and learned after the announcement that Mr. Hasan is paralyzed, according to several people familiar with his thinking. The president’s main concern was whether broadcasting the execution would deter other mass shootings, according to a White House official who was granted anonymity to discuss his thinking.
In a social media post on Thursday, Mr. Trump said he still believed that a televised execution would be a “strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with terrorists and SCUM,” but that “many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device.”...
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