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actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea: The act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty.

[Eric the editor 🌎🫂 @Editor_of_Eric]

Thurs news:

- Elon Musk receives shipment of attention he ordered

- Shell claims Q3 2022 profits reflect significantly higher price gouging per gallon than Q3 2021

- Magical Truth Social shares turn $100 into $16, almost overnight

- Herschel Walker secretly aborts campaign

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Judge says the officer was protecting "your government"... our government.. the peaceful transfer of power after an election

"He was protecting America," she emphasizes

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Judge: "People need to understand that they can't do this .. or anything like this again. They can't try to force their will on the American people, once the American people have (spoken) at the ballot box"

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Corporate greed is Shell making a record $21 billion in profits over the last 2 quarters and spending $26 billion on stock buybacks and dividends this year to enrich its wealthy stockholders while working class Americans struggle to pay $4, $5, $6 for a gallon of gas.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

@harrisonjaime @PalmerReport Only 100 people get to be senators in America. We should vote for people who can do the job. #Georgia

[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

The missile programmers are part of the Russian Armed Forces’ vast Main Computation Centre of the General Staff (GVC), and working with @the_ins_ru and @derspiegel we’ve identified the 33 military engineers involved with cruise missile attacks in Ukraine. https://t.co/9NtCFlg8v2

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Also Bezos.

Which is to say, if Elmo finally helps us understand that it is never a good idea to let billionaires dictate outcomes, can we apply the lesson more broadly, please?

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

If we're going to talk about how Elmo is not a reliable enough billionaire to be able to run key infrastructure, can we also talk about how Zuckerberg is not either? He's less impulsive but no less destructive.

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

A nonprofit called Clean Up the Lake is removing trash from Sierra lakes. What they found in June Lake was startling. https://t.co/QQjeZloDUy

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

I can't decide which will end up landing more Republicans in prison, Jan6 or PPP fraud.

https://t.co/QQmFByxg8w

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Liz Cheney gets the honors. Discusses "multiple" criminal referrals.

[Fresh Air @nprfreshair]

"The flushing [of documents], the staff who was aware of this had all kinds of speculation about why. They all uniformly believed it was things [Trump] didn't want people seeing." @maggieNYT https://t.co/45H6u4r8Mp

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Zelensky begins his address tonight with this: “Today was a good and mostly sunny day on the territory of our state. The temperature was about 20 degrees and the sun shining. Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. But it was also warm…” 🤔

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Ukraine unveils stamps celebrating Kerch bridge explosion - hours after the attack

Timing of the Post Office announcement, just hours after the Crimea bridge was destroyed, raises questions about the nature of the explosion

Thread 🧵⬇️
https://t.co/Gcfob4zriM

[Alya Shandra @AlyaShandra]

Russia managed to build the Crimean bridge only thanks to a bunch of Dutch companies that violated sanctions to help Russia & concealed the evidence. The 🇳🇱 investigation is still ongoing, none have been punished. My report about them and others:
https://t.co/c3998HvL7I

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

… the clause that is the focus of this case is the part forbidding attempts by force to “prevent, hinder or delay” execution of U.S. laws—in this case, the laws surrounding the transfer of Presidential power. The 12th & 20th Amendments & Electoral Count Act. … /8

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

… Here’s the text of the seditious conspiracy statue. The 1st version was enacted shortly after the Civil War broke out. … /6
https://t.co/lWLh1mo4RH

[Oceanography @Oceanographyy]

I didn't know they could do that .

[Save Ukrainian Souls @galcpmedia]

#UkrainianArmy rescues a puppy🐶 from starvation and shelling in #Kherson region Southern #Ukraine #dogsoftwitter #puppy #Dogtober