Would be (not) funny if a broken CDU tilts midterm elections.

Senator Chris Murphy wants a national security review of Musk's Twitter deal

'We should be concerned that the Saudis, who have a clear interest in repressing political speech and impacting US politics, are now the 2nd-largest owner of a major social media platform'

A ship carrying Russian crude sailed from the country’s Sakhalin-I project in the Far East, marking the first export from the project in five months trib.al/IpwYbfO

Biden likes Raimondo so much he spent twenty minutes on the phone with her young son convincing him it would be OK to move to DC.

Elizabeth Warren and progressives feel differently about the potential Yellen successor at Treasury. Me and @gavinbade

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There's not been enough scrutiny of the fact that Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has been propped up with cash from Qatar & Saudi Arabia

In the US, some fields fertilizer is evaporating from the soil and plants are struggling to emerge from the ground. Almost three-quarters of the US’s winter wheat growing area is in moderate to intense drought trib.al/I41tdZ3

Mood

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Brandon Spencer at ABB, which helps develop technology for energy companies, at North American Gas Forum brings up the 'talent war' oil industry is facing:

'I’m losing people to a different part of the company focusing on electric vehicles.”

Poten & Partner's Majad Limam at the North American Gas Forum describes the global gas market next year if China's economy comes out of lock down while Europe is still looking to replace Russian supply - 'A knife fight in a phone booth.'

Speaker at this conference just referred to the United States as a 'company' which I'm assuming was a slip of the tongue but still jarring.

Over heard at the industry conference:

'I just looked you up online. You only have five followers!'

#SocialShame
#ExclusiveNotSmall

DEVELOPING: ABC15 Arizona has obtained the security footage of alleged voter intimidation at Mesa drop box. Full video is 20 minutes long, we have edited it and blurred the voter. There's no audio on original video, but voter claims he was photographed and accused of being a mule.

The people freaking out the observers the state is sending to Harris County are truly freaking out over nothing

there is so much to worry about

one of those things is not 'state sends totally normal observers to county that routinely messes up voting'

With quarters bearing her likeness set to ship Monday, Anna May Wong will be the first Asian American to grace U.S. currency.
The honor has excited Asian Americans: 'Nothing is more American than our money,' an interviewee told Terry Tang
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