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Robert Rutledge retweeted
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
I can't get over how close elections can be.
In the Brazil election, if one person in fifty flipped their vote, the outcome would change.
To me, that's a tiny margin. Tiny tiny tiny. I just don't understand how *any* election can be this close.
Robert Rutledge retweeted
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection Sunday, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of President Trump.
cnn.com/2026/10/25/americas/…
After “Homeland”, “The Diplomat” is the second political drama series I know, where a woman President of the US is written to embody a Trumpist authoritarianism.
A woman. For some reason.
In “The Diplomat” they even echo his hair.
Resolution about Travis in "Nobody Wants This" (Netflix) S03E03 ("Housewarming")?
Taken directly from "Mad About You" S01E04 "Out of the Past" - where Jamie tells Paul that Lynn Stoddard (his college crush) thinks of him as the one who got away.
This is a stunning polling result. I've never seen anything like it.
If Democrats absorb its meaning, it could change all of politics going forward.
New: Low-info voters, who put Trump in the White House, now look even more anti-Trump than high-info voters, and give Dems bigger margins on the generic ballot.
1 out of 3 Trump voters who can't name the party in charge of Congress now back Dems for 2026
gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-lo…
Of all the Trump 2024 voters, the low-information voters (who are about 1/3 of his support) are swinging hardest away from the GOP in 2026.
This is an absolutely stunning polling result by G. Elliot Morris' "Strength In Numbers" blog.
gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-lo…
Are there crimes - other than rape - that can result in a mass pile-on of accusations and harassment, when the victim is identified?
Because I think it's the only one.
BREAKING: A judge in New York on Friday decided the former Cornell University student known as Jane Doe can pursue her sexual assault claim against the university and seven fraternity members while remaining anonymous. abcnews.link/6VDZ0s4
Will it be the tariffs on road salt?
BREAKING:
The United States is expected to remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian products in a bid to help Maine Senator Susan Collins and other Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/4i6fCyU
I'm sure I'm not alone in watching S04 of The Diplomat and thinking it's a continuation of the story of Josh Lyman.
Even though @bradleywhitford's character is nothing like Lyman.
Wars, corruption, inflation and tariffs.
That's what the Trump administration brings us.
Just what Rs need. Trump’s ambassador to the UN saying the Iran war can last another year. giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
PPV, please!
BREAKING: President Trump must sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11, a judge orders. apnews.com/article/trump-bbc…
Robert Rutledge retweeted
Trump on Amy Acton: "If what the mother said about the daughter is half right, she has no right even running for the governor of Ohio..."
KC: What about what the daughter said about the mother?
TRUMP: "I don’t know what she said."
KC: "That the mother remained married to her stepfather who sexually abused her when she was 12 years old."
TRUMP: "When did she make that statement? Was it just recently?"
KC: "Years ago. He was charged with it."
Corruption, inflation, tariffs and war.
That’s what the Trump administration brings us.
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
Robert Rutledge retweeted
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…