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Brian Smith - 'get out the vote' retweeted
Not at those grocery stores. Farmers may get a bailout, but we won’t.
Brian Smith - 'get out the vote' retweeted
🧑🌾 UPDATE: Another “sOCiALisT” bailout handout for farmers getting crushed by Trump’s pointless trade wars and even more pointless actual war — just in time for the midterms.
upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/10/…
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Scoop: Top Republicans are banking on Trump’s promised $8 billion for farmers to stem GOP bleeding in farm states. It’s worked in the past just ahead of Election Day.
But the internal, taxpayer funded USDA account Trump is tapping doesn’t actually have enough $$ in it right now to make the direct payments. Congress will have to approve the new funds (a fight ahead in a GOP pkg or bipartisan year-end bill) or the admin will have to take it from another program, per Trump officials.
Farmers won’t get any payments until late Nov or Dec at the earliest, likely later. The disaster aid-like payment structure is coming later in Nov.
Farm state Hill Rs are still planning to push for another +$12 billion in year-end package. They've said farmers need +$50 million in aid to recover from the hit of tariffs and high fuel costs.
more w/ @YarrowGrace
politico.com/news/2026/10/20…
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PM Carney: "It's a great day for Canada. It's a great result for Canada. Thrilled that Albertans have chosen unity."
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Alberta rejects separatism, voting to stay in Canada in a triumph for Prime Minister Mark Carney bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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MAGA and Russian disinformation have massively fueled the separatist movement in Alberta, Canada.
Nevertheless, Albertans overwhelmingly voted to remain part of Canada.
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My statement on Albertans choosing to build a stronger Canada, together:
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The Republican tax bill and economic policies took money from the bottom 99% of Americans and gave it to the top 1% wealthiest Americans.
Republicans are fighting to keep more of your hard earned money — period, end of sentence.
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US electricity prices are skyrocketing.
The average price of US residential electricity has risen +11% since January 2025, to 19.6 cents per kilowatt-hour in August 2026, near an all-time high.
Average prices during the first 8 months of 2026 were +40% higher than in the same period of 2019.
The largest increase in residential electricity prices over this period was in Maine, at +90%, followed by California and New York, at nearly +70%.
This comes as the AI boom is intensifying electricity demand, with data centers requiring enormous amounts of electricity to power thousands of chips and cooling systems.
A 1-gigawatt data center can consume as much electricity as 800,000 homes.
As a result, wholesale electricity prices in areas near significant data center activity surged by as much as +267% between 2020 and 2025.
The AI revolution is driving a surge in electricity demand, and households are increasingly feeling the cost.
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Canadians overwhelmingly reject Alberta separation, defeating a movement pushed by Russia & US influence networks, courted by US Trump officials and embroiled in controversy over US Republican-linked campaign apps and unlawfully obtained voter data.
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Trump on Bombardier: “I always viewed them as a Canadian company. You know what I’m talking about. But now we find out they have a presence here, and we’re not hurting them if they’re in Kansas.”
By @jendlouhyhc:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Brian Smith - 'get out the vote' retweeted
And now there should be a full fledged investigation into foreign interference by the US and Russia. Who donated the money? Who in the trump admin met with these grifting seppies? What was US Ambassador Pete Hoekstras role in it? Out them all.
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Rejection of Alberta separatism was Trump's first midterm defeat
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Unknown hackers claim to have stolen 421,179 emails from Germany's far-right AfD, exposing Nazi greetings, swastikas and threats against a photographer. The party confirms a breach, but the explosive allegations are still largely unverified.
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Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."
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Trump products
Globe and Mail
by @deAdder
Substack:
deadder.substack.com/p/trump…
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BREAKING: The Dallas Morning News just announced they are endorsing James Talarico over Ken Paxton. The Dallas Morning News had previously endorsed Senator John Cornyn in every race he ever ran. This is amazing.
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BREAKING: Iran's IRGC is now threatening to completely cut off the world's internet, with spokesman Hossein Mohebi saying seven major cables run under the Strait of Hormuz that global data depends on, warning: "we are reminding them of this so that the enemy knows," per Fars News.
The threat follows Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf's announcement of a "Persian Gulf Data Authority" and SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaee's warning that over $2 trillion in data centers would be destroyed if war resumes.
The significance is the target itself. These cables carry roughly 99% of intercontinental data and trillions in daily financial transactions. A successful strike could wipe out 70% to 90% of the Gulf's internet connectivity, crippling global commerce. Iran is making it clear: if the US strikes its energy infrastructure, the next target will be the digital backbone of the global economy.