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- According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Musk poured tens of millions of dollars into Republican campaigns and conservative groups even before he publicly endorsed Donald Trump in July. Conservatives helped conceal Musk’s contributions through so-called social welfare or “dark money” groups that do not have to disclose their donors and can raise unlimited funds. Mother Jones
- With Israel now so deeply immersed in a widening conflict, it is unclear whether it can escape what Anthony Pfaff, the director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College, in August called the “escalatory trap”. The Guardian
- More than 6,000 police officers are running for public office in Brazil’s municipal elections this month. About 45 of them are building their political careers off of their success on social media. Authorities and experts worry about the violent content around which they’ve built their online personalities. Rest of World
- Meet Eduard Habsburg, author of The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times. He is 57 years old and a lifelong James Bond fan. He also likes zombies, sci-fi and Star Wars. ... A pious Catholic, he is delighted with his wife (a baroness), his six children (five girls, one boy) and especially his last name. “It’s 80 percent cool to be a Habsburg, I have to admit it,” he said in an interview last year. The Dial
The theorists of a “new order” in the Middle East have a highly disappointing track record to say the least. It is baffling to hear Netanyahu, whose mental and ideological outlook is defined by violence and war, promise to liberate the Iranians.
After a rail worker’s accident led to massive delays, Salvini asked for the ‘name, surname and tax code of the person’ who made the error. Opposition parties: ‘Salvini wants the name and surname of the person responsible? He should put down his own.’
The right has an idea of what a party should be like: leader-focused, referendum-oriented, televised, focused on social media, revolving around a hard core of loyalists. The left has borrowed the same model.
Austria’s Freedom Party represents everything the Italian premier wants to distance herself from, a dark mirror of a past to be forgotten. A very different message came from Salvini, sounding like he might have indulged in too much of the bubbly.
High-tech Israeli drones monitor every movement, and almost nowhere is safe. Every night spent among the mazes of houses on the narrow streets is the same as another round in a game of Russian roulette.
About 53% of the population is below the poverty line, an 11% increase in six months. Over 5 million people can’t even afford the food they need.
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