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October Surprise Watch 10/27 The Gift of Early Voting [1]
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Date: 2022-10-27
Justice
Florida
Politico: Documents show top DeSantis officials were personally involved in Martha’s Vineyard flights
Newly released documents show that top staffers for Gov. Ron DeSantis — including his chief of staff — were directly involved in the state’s program to send migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. In the two weeks leading up to the Sept. 14 transport of almost 50 Venezuelan migrants to the island, DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, sent text messages and had phone calls with Larry Keefe, a former Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney who is now DeSantis’ hand-picked public safety czar. The messages make clear that Keefe was in Texas helping coordinate the flights and had the full support of the governor’s chief of staff, according to records released by the governor’s administration late Friday. The DeSantis administration is facing multiple lawsuits over the program, including one filed last Monday by The Florida Center for Government Accountability alleging DeSantis was not releasing records related to the flights. The Treasury Department’s watchdog is looking into whether the Florida governor improperly used money connected to federal Covid-19 relief funds to pay for the flights while a sheriff in Texas is probing whether the flights broke any laws.
No, not migrants. Entirely legal refugees.
Orlando Sentinel: Judge orders DeSantis to release records on migrant flights
Paywalled.
Judge orders DeSantis administration response on migrant records County judge has ruled Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office failed to comply with a public records law request asking for text messages, communications and other documents related to flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last month. Judge J. Lee Marsh issued a decision ruling the governor's office has 20 days to comply with the public records. Florida’s DeSantis Poised to Send More Migrants North in Border-Policy Protest [Stunt] Weeks after Gov. Ron DeSantis orchestrated a flight of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, his office and a contractor indicate more trips are planned. Michigan
x Today, three defendants were found guilty of material support for terrorism, gang membership, and possession of a weapon while committing a felony in support of the plot to kidnap and kill me.
Now, hear me loud and clear: I will not let anyone get in the way of the work we do. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) October 26, 2022
Truth
Inflation rates by country, September, Trading Economics
The former guy's Diet Coke valet ratted him out.
The man responded every time Trump wanted a coke; he would push the “diet coke” button to alert his valet. The valet served him twelve diet cokes daily from a hallway refrigerator just steps from the Oval Office and dining room. When confronted with security video evidence of moving documents out of the storage room at Mar-a-Lago, that man told untruths to the FBI, but he eventually reported the traitor to the FBI with solid evidence that TFG had top-secret documents at the Mar-a-Lago residence. In addition to fetching the ex-president a soda over and over, he was tasked with doing internal errands, including being ordered to move the boxes of illegally held secret documents from the storage room of the Palm Beach mansion to Trump’s residence.
Another woman has come forward with claims that Herschel Walker was involved in her abortion
Identified as Jane Doe, the second allegation was announced Wednesday by attorney Gloria Allred. According to Allred, the woman was in a romantic relationship with Walker and has evidence that Walker knew of her pregnancy and plans to terminate it. The woman also alleges that Walker drove her to the clinic to abort her pregnancy. While the woman plans to remain anonymous, she will share evidence to support her claims, Allred said.
Elections
More Big Lie goings on and other Wrong-Wing shenanigans than you can shake a stick at, or than I can cover here, but there are plenty of DK Diaries about them, and many other sources.
Election terrorism continues. Volunteer at the polls if you can. We have less than two weeks to go.
Ukraine
Remember,
When Russian troops fled the Ukrainian town of Balakliia last month, they left behind thousands of documents that detail the inner workings of the Russian war machine. x The documents - some half burnt in a furnace in the bunker - show Russian troops anxious over the arrival of HIMARS and grappling with desertions and casualties. One soldier said it was like playing "roulette". Ukrainian strikes could land anywhere.
https://t.co/sb7ha9pMKg — Mari Saito (@saitomri) October 26, 2022 Iran x Pessimists caution that mass protests have rocked Iran’s theocracy before, and the regime snuffed them out by shooting, torturing and censoring. Yet there are reasons to think that this time may be different
https://t.co/S3WC7I5CaV pic.twitter.com/ZKjNXuTUdF — The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 27, 2022 US imposes new sanctions on Iranian officials over crackdown on protests Wednesday’s Treasury Department sanctions target the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence organization and the IRGC’s deputy commander for operations, as well as two officials in the Sistan and Baluchistan province, “site of some of the worst violence in the latest round of protests,” the agency said in a separate sanction. The Treasury Department also sanctioned numerous Iranian prison officials, including Hedayat Farzadi, the warden of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. In addition to the sanctions related to crackdowns on protesters, the Treasury Department also designated two Iranians and the school they founded – Ravin Academy – which “trains individuals in cyber security and hacking,” as well as Samane Gostar Sahab Pardaz Private Limited Company, “one of the main operators of social media filtering services in Iran,” the Treasury Department said. “Hackers trained at the Ravin Academy have been involved in directly disrupting the communication of those protesting against the Iranian regime,” Blinken said. Environment
World Set to Heat Up Above 2°C as Climate Action Moves Too Slowly, UN Report Warns
This analysis starts from current government targets for curbing greenhouse gases. So we have to pressure the world’s more hidebound governments to get real.
The US has started a massive course correction with the Inflation Reduction Act. We can do much more by holding both houses of Congress, and expanding our majority in the Senate.
European gas slumps below €100 for first time since Russia cut supplies
Mild weather and large amounts of fuel on storage have helped reduce prices
CNN reports that Dutch TTF gas is down from €350 in August on monthly continuous contracts.
LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] ships play waiting game off Spain's coast as higher prices eyed
Some storing LNG due to full inventories in Europe
Others waiting for prices to rise in late November, sources say
Wave of LNG tankers is overwhelming Europe in energy crisis and hitting natural gas prices
About 10% of the LNG vessels in the world, 60 tankers, are sailing or anchored around Northwest Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Iberian Peninsula, according to MarineTraffic.
The vessels are considered floating LNG storage since they cannot unload and the situation is impacting the price of natural gas and freight rates.
Natural gas is critical for European energy needs into the winter and Russia has reduced its supply of gas as a result of the war in Ukraine, but existing storage capacity is at 93%.
President Biden offered to help Europe with LNG exports when the Ukraine war threatened supplies. That is currently not an issue.
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