Quick reminder that China is Putin's biggest enabler in his invasion of Ukraine. As US tariffs flood the world with cheap Chinese goods, there's no gain to allowing this stuff into your country. That applies especially to the EU, because China is indirectly waging war on you via its proxy Russia...

The damage from the tariffs that are in place is starting to be felt. And the collapse in migration is an enormous and underappreciated shock to the American economy

Bringing tactics from the war on terror to America’s backyard

From the Editorial Board: Once again, Mayor Brandon Johnson has made clear what Chicago suspected all along — that his administration isn’t merely allied with the Chicago Teachers Union, it is one and the same, even when it is supposed to be on the other side of the negotiating table.

This one comes with a nice interactive pulldown table of (partial) pen names used in the CCP's official People's Daily. We aim to serve!

"United States will participate with four F-35s jets in the dual-capable aircraft role for the first time, with that role previously performed by the F-15E Strike Eagle.”

The team behind a new museum aims to show the Mexican painter as a daughter, sister and aunt. “To understand Frida, you need to understand her family,” says its director

Delighted by the news today that the Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado. Very well deserved. A great day for #Venezuela. ¡Muy merecido!

Propose Nobel Peace Prize 2025 for Maria Corina Machado…

@natsecguy.bsky.social called it in October 2024 👏🏻

Go Cubs Go, Go Cubs Go…🎵

I nominate Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado

FRITZI RITZ BY LARRY WHITTINGTON MADE IT’S DEBUT 103 YEARS AGO ON OCTOBER 09,1922

Explosions in Kyiv as Ukraine’s capital and its energy facilities come under “massive” Russian missile and drone attack, according to Ministry of Energy. Mayor Klitschko reported power and outages. I briefly lost power in city center. As I type this, Ukraine’s air defenses are countering drones…

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The president’s economic team has decamped to Washington, trying desperately to confirm American support

"Without aggressive and concrete efforts to curb carbon dioxide pollution, most of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will by the end of the century experience temperature levels well beyond those considered safe for humans" #ClimateEmergency

This idea being pushed now that Maduro’s departure will unleash a migration surge from #Venezuela is smelling just a little bit desperate

This idea being pushed now that Maduro’s departure will unleash a migration surge from #Venezuela is smelling just a little bit desperate

This is the way to do it

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this." The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Here's a good report on the election from the dream team of @schmidtsam.bsky.social @marialuisapaul.bsky.social @datab.ae and Ana Vanessa Herrero www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

When a judge told Claudio David Balcane González “Welcome to the United States,” he sobbed. He had finally been granted asylum. Then ICE detained him for 63 more days @marialuisapaul.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.

Not Venezuela’s president, though. He lost the July 2024 elections—badly—but refuses to depart. “De facto leader of a criminal regime” would be more accurate.

Brazil is confident the World Bank will be its main partner in launching a $125 billion fund to protect tropical forests — one of the country’s flagship initiatives for the COP30 climate summit in November.

Brazil’s exports to the U.S. are being crushed by tariffs from the world’s largest economy according to fresh data published on Monday, hours after a “positive” phone call between the presidents of both nations.

Biden NEC chief and ex Fed vice chair Lael Brainard say tariff impact coming. Tariffs "They are just beginning to work their way through the pricing system." In Trump 1.0 "it took six to nine months for [China] tariffs to push prices up." www.thewirechina.com/2025/10/05/l...

Important thread on precedents on National Guard use over state objections, from @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social, and nobody knows it better.

Reuters re Cuba: Another co-belligerent alongside Russia

Tired: Takaichi is going to run a radical administration Wired: Takaichi is going to organize a "re-run of late second Abe" administration

Putin "mocks the West's silence" as Russia fires 53 missiles and 500 drones at Ukraine's civilian infrastructure, Zelenskyy says The weapons contain 100,000+ components from US, UK, German, and other Western companies still supplying Russia euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/05/p...

It’s always easier to destroy rather than build…

Lubs da Cubs

Trinity Church’s organ was severely damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks. Nearly 10 years (and $17 million) later, its replacement has been unveiled. Hear the sound of its 8,041 pipes. nyti.ms/4gUeWvJ

BREAKING U.N. Security Council approves militarized, 5,500-member force to take on Haiti’s gangs and clear the way for its first presidential and legislative elections since 2016 – an acknowledgment the Kenya-led police mission it once supported has failed to wrest back control wapo.st/4gOTW9D

Would you like to write for The Economist? We are seeking an Asia correspondent. The role involves extensive travel across the region. Find out how to apply here

The UN nuclear watchdog has been unable to verify the size and location of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium since June. Here's what we do, and don't, know about the country's atomic capabilities

US government to take 5% stake in Lithium Americas and joint venture with General Motors, source says reut.rs/46xuodL

Our October issue with a focus on submarines and undersea warfare is now live on our website! usni.org/magazines/p...

Marshall: For the Democrats to sit there and blame Republicans for the plight of rural hospitals is just so wrong. Collins: But couldn't the president just say these demands are ridiculous and not post a video with Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero?

Assisted her arrange interviews with foreign leaders several times. A true original. RIP

I'm surprised the Venezuelan government hasn't been producing relatives to tell their stories.

With 99% of votes counted, the pro-democracy and pro-EU Action and Solidarity Party is projected to win 55 seats out of 101 in Moldova's parliament – a clear majority. The faction loyal to fascist Russia was defeated, despite a massive effort by Moscow to manipulate the result.

"The United States and Mexico launched a new bilateral initiative aimed at disrupting the flow of illicit firearms across their shared border, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday."

From the editorial board: Here in Illinois, the most urgent threat to democracy is concrete: political maps deliberately and specifically designed to disenfranchise voters.

President Trump plans to attend an unusual gathering of U.S. generals and admirals at a military base in Virginia on Tuesday. The event comes at a moment when Trump has pushed for a new kind of war-fighter culture at the Pentagon.

Portrait of Cristina My Sister, 1928

"We’re nowhere near ready for a world in which artificial intelligence can create a working virus, but we need to be — because that’s the world we’re now living in," Tal Feldman and Jonathan Feldman write. https://wapo.st/46LZAF4