🇫🇷🗳 Far-left French presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

"The presidential election is not a beauty contest except, of course, if we were to win in the first round. It is a platform for common issues, that is why it is a transition program towards a new form of society because that is how we lay the concrete foundations for it in response to pressing issues. Capitalism is a pressing issue and so the radical left is radically determined.

Now, let me tell you about the new France. Contemporary France is a new world. Everybody knows that we don't like the map. It's about the money. We don't like France for one reason: either you love her the way it is or you don't. But we do love her.

The new France, this new world is that of generations of every ethnic origin, that of women in positions of leadership, which was not the case when the current Constitution was adopted, that of a massively urbanised and well-educated population like not seen before, this is the creolisation of France, of all the music, of all the cultures! This new France walks forward with pride and I ask her to never lower her eyes!"

🔗 BFM (@BFMTV)

🇵🇱 Poland's Nawrocki leads Tusk 53% to 36% on trust as voters split over top court

The pollster's October 1-11 survey of 1,028 adults has 34% distrusting Nawrocki and 51% distrusting Tusk, according to its trust report. The 17-point gap is wider than in April, when Tusk drew closest at 42% to 49%, and narrower than the 23 points of July. Its other questions point the same way: 51% rate the president's work as good and 39% as bad, the same 51% as in August and September, while 33% are satisfied and 54% dissatisfied with Tusk as head of government.

That standing is Nawrocki's main asset a year before the parliamentary election due in autumn 2027. Tusk's Civic Coalition (KO) still leads the party vote, with 30.6% against 18% for Law and Justice (PiS) in a United Surveys by IBRiS poll on October 2-4, but the same poll gave KO and the New Left only 220 of the 460 Sejm seats and a possible right-wing alliance 240. A president who polls about three times the score of the party that backed him has a claim to lead that camp, and his veto gives him the means to keep the government from delivering before voters decide.

Pollsters do not agree on the size of the lead. A phone poll of 1,100 adults by IBRiS for Onet on October 23-24 put Nawrocki at 46% trust and 44.2% distrust and Tusk at 38.6% and 53.4%, a gap of 7.4 points. In that series the president has fallen at every reading since 54.8% in June, and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is one point behind him on 45%. CBOS shows no such slide, with 53% in both September and October. Its figure counts any positive score on an 11-point scale as trust and mixes face-to-face, phone and online interviews.

Both surveys were done before October 30, when a judge suspended the Constitutional Tribunal's president and his deputy and police deployed around the court. The first polls since then show neither man winning the argument. In a United Surveys by IBRiS poll of 1,000 adults for Wirtualna Polska on November 2, 38.6% said neither side was right in the dispute, 28.7% backed Nawrocki and 26.6% the government, a tie within the 3% margin of error.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/poland-s-nawrocki-leads-tusk-53-to-36-on-trust-as-voters-split-over-top-court-482793/?source=eu-today

🇸🇦⚔️🇾🇪 The Royal Saudi Air Force took a page out of the Israeli Air Force's playbook in Lebanon and Iran and carried out a double tap airstrike in the village of Al-Shariyah, Sana'a Governorate killing a number of civilians and first-responders.

The 2nd strike was recorded by the Al Masirah TV station right as first-responders were searching for the injured in the village.

Local sources report 25 civilians and first-responders killed including children and 30 more injured.

🔗 barry with the NED (@bonzerbarry)

🇺🇸✡️ The Republican Party hundreds of thousand of dollars for Laura Loomer to post on X/Twitter

The right-wing activist Laura Loomer has been paid by private clients to make political posts on social media without publicly disclosing the payments, according to a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump and three others familiar with the arrangements, shedding light on what they say is a business practice of one of the Trump administration’s most influential online firebrands.

The allegations were made by Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and three other people who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Two of the three people said they had paid Loomer directly to post political messages on her X account, where she has 1.9 million followers. The third said they had overseen clients who paid her to post on the account. The three spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Bank transaction emails and a wire transfer statement reviewed by The Washington Post appear to show four payments totaling more than $60,000 sent to Loomer and a Florida-based company registered in her name, King Breaker Media, since May of last year.

The documents do not specify the purpose of the payments, but two people familiar with the arrangements said they were for political posts.

Loomer, one of Trump’s best-known online acolytes, denied to The Post that she is paid to post on social media. She instead described herself as a journalist and activist and disputed the idea that she is an influencer paid to promote any political cause.

The new claims about Loomer’s influence business could add fuel to a growing debate about the little-regulated industry of political messaging on social media, where influencers on both sides of the aisle have operated in a legal gray area between advocacy and advertising.

Bruesewitz first posted his allegations on X on Thursday. Many of the details about Loomer’s alleged online influence operation have not been previously reported.

Bruesewitz said in an interview with The Post that he had paid Loomer for tweets last year. He said the money had been sent through his political consulting firm, X Strategies, for posts related to policy issues. He declined to specify what clients.

Despite brokering these deals himself, he believes that they should require clearer disclosures and have “gotten out of hand.”

Loomer disputed Bruesewitz’s account and said that his firm contacted her last year offering to pay her for research.

“He paid me to make a one-page research document for him, and then he wanted me to distribute the information. And that’s what I did,” Loomer said. Asked where she was expected to distribute the research, she said, “Either X or maybe an article.”

Two of the people said that Loomer charges $3,000 to $5,000 per tweet, and sometimes more.

Loomer said she does not have set pricing for consulting work. “I certainly don’t charge $5,000 for a tweet,” she said.

🔗 https://unwall.app/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/11/07/trump-ally-laura-loomer-paid-thousands-political-tweets-people-familiar-say/

🇺🇸 President Trump asks UFC CEO Dana White to be the next White House Press Secretary.

Trump also asks Dana White to bring various UFC fighters with him to “defend us against the Lunatic Left.”

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🇮🇱 Israeli President Isaac Herzog announces he will task Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government after securing the backing of 67 lawmakers, compared with 46 for Netanyahu. Eisenkot will formally receive the mandate on Sunday at 5 p.m., with 28 days to form a government.

🔗 Faytuks News Network

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Central Command announces conducting airstrikes against the M/V Huda in the Gulf of Oman as it attempted to depart regional waters without CENTCOM's authorization after visiting an Iranian port. Airstrikes were conducted against the stern, disabling the ship.

🌍 🇺🇸 ✡️ Large crowd of Black Hebrew Israelites chanting near Joyce Kilmer park in the Bronx

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👨‍💻 🇺🇸 📈 YouTube is now the most-watched TV distributor in America, and it’s pulling away, per WSJ.

YouTube’s share of all US TV viewing time has climbed to about 14%, up from roughly 9% at the end of 2023, per Nielsen data charted by The Wall Street Journal.

That puts it ahead of every traditional media giant, including Disney, NBCUniversal and Fox, and well ahead of Netflix at about 8%.

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