BREAKING - Dozens arrested in Paris as day of protests begins across France

Protesters across France called for street demonstrations against rising living costs, joining high school students' grievances over education conditions

At least 36 lawmakers reported receiving white powder letters since Oct 15. Most went to home/district offices; many intercepted. Substance non-hazardous in preliminary tests. FBI/USPS/Capitol Police investigating.

Senators: Ted Cruz (Houston), Susan Collins (Portland + DC intercepted), Mike Rounds (Sioux Falls), Pete Ricketts (Omaha), Chris Murphy (Hartford), Kirsten Gillibrand (NYC), Lisa Blunt Rochester (state), Schumer/Padilla/Coons/Warnock/Klobuchar (mostly intercepted, locations mixed).

House: Torres (Bronx), Panetta (Santa Cruz), plus dozens of other district offices (mostly Dems). Reports still emerging.

🇨🇦⚡️- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a "serious incident" caused a major fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta.

🇨🇦⚡️- FIRMS data shows a large fire spreading northwest from its point of origin at CFB Wainwright.

Priest reportedly gave sermon on spontaneity of death just before falling crucifix killed him during livestreamed Mass in Ecuador

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It’s a cognitive war out here, and the lowest common denominator enjoys an unearned advantage on the battlefield.

Social media tends to reward mobthink, fan fiction, extreme ideology, hyper-partisan takes, outrage, fear, negativity, and the rest with engagement and virality.

Posts and comments that are sober-minded, rational, positive, well-sourced, nuanced, educational, or balanced are DOA.

Before social media this was also true, but not as ubiquitous.

For my generation, the decline in discourse and the rise of irreverent, idiotic-yet-popular takes started with Jon Stewart and The Daily Show. That show did tremendous damage. Alex Jones destroyed many minds as well, but from a different angle.

Now we live with the consequences of those shows and the many copycats of them. The online and media spaces pursue attention and revenue—not clarity, not truth.

Discourse, as a means of sorting differing perspectives and information in order to arrive at an understanding, let alone a point of agreement, is extremely rare.

Support and defend the places you still find that and the people who promote it. Strive to become one yourself.

JUST IN - Trump blasts Fox News for defending Democrats and giving their views more airtime than Republicans, calling it "ridiculous."

NEW: Kim Jong Un’s death rumors spread across social media

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A tanker carrying Russian diesel will depart for the United States on Thursday, state media quoted Russia’s deputy prime minister as saying, in the first such shipment under a US-Russia diesel deal.

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NEW: US Federal authorities bust massive marriage fraud ring that arranged 200 bogus weddings to get green cards, Washington Times reports

BREAKING - US embassy orders all American staff, families to leave Saudi Arabia: diplomatic source (AFP)

READ: https://insiderpaper.com/us-embassy-staff-families-ordered-to-leave-saudi-arabia/

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To the gang leaders and gang members holding our four compatriots hostage in Haiti:

Our kidnapped men are not combatants. They are aviation technicians who are part of our mission in Haiti, within the framework of an international mission. Our mission consists only of pilots and technical personnel, whose primary job is to carry out medical evacuations and save lives, not to wage war.

However, they were kidnapped in a cowardly manner while returning after buying food at a market in the area.

That is why, today, we have launched a military operation to rescue them. We have a single objective: to bring our four compatriots back home alive, without any harm.

However, I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today's attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive.

And do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too.

We still have time to avoid this.

Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was before the kidnapping.

The decision is in your hands.

https://fixupx.com/nayibbukele/status/2112981920741310695

A dolphin that appeared pink has attracted attention online after it was video filmed swimming alongside darker dolphins near Qantab Beach in Muscat, Oman.

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