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Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Going through old notes today, I was reminded that the NY Times' Peter Baker wrote in January that Trump had "changed the definition of normal." It helps us understand NYT's shortcomings when we realize it accepts the idea that Trump gets to decide what's normal.

Under Lulu, Amazon deforestation rates have been plummeting—by 41%. The planet won tonight. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

This dumb hack has no power to do that. States don't have to listen to anything he says.

Hey Elon, I have a message for you. Representative Jim Himes

Elon Musk just poured half a million dollars into this race to try to keep his puppet Mike Lawler in office, just like he did back in 2024. But the Hudson Valley can’t be bought. Mike Lawler has sold out to his trillionaire and corporate backers at our expense —

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Laughed pretty hard at this quote

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

Energy Secretary Wright is campaigning with Ken Paxton today in Texas. A reminder that government officials partaking in campaign events should not be normal.

As the network's climate coverage greatly decreased under Weiss, CBS also aired segments discounting scientific warnings and downplaying consequences of federal climate policy.

Bruh

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME! 😤 BIDENS FIRST 2 YEARS WAS SPENT FIXING THE GLOBAL FAILURE d/t COVID & krasnov's DISASTER! THEN WENT ON TO HAVE AN ECONOMY THAT WAS THE "ENVY OF THE WORLD"

Corporate media is owned by oligarchs that want fascism. It’s not exactly mysterious…

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

sharks smell blood

That Mississippi Senate race is sneaking up on the Republicans.

Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

MAGA+MAHA=EUGENICS

Amen girl!!!

While your time as Ambassador to Greece may be coming to an end, our investigation has not. We have asked you a series of questions, and we look forward to your responses.

“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.

YES!

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

I'm attending WisDems's event, “Bridge Building Canvass in Kenosha!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate. On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…

That ache in your heart, that pit in your stomach, that's what reminds us we're all in this together, that we're not just one United States, we're one united people.

Sen Jon Ossoff (D-GA) just gets it, if you’re tired of the high costs, chaos and corruption we can’t allow despair to make us not want to vote. Check your registration, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot to get a #BlueWaveIn30Days

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Its just a coincidence this dude discovered people of South Asian descent were a problem after an African American-South Asian woman became the presidential nominee of one of the two major parties. Yeah, that's it. Just a coincidence.

Remember this is why we need Democrats to take back power in DC so that they can stop some of these cuts that take effect after the election. #LetsGetVoteReady by checking your voter registration status, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot. Your vote is your voice so use it.

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

Multibillion-dollar schemes like A7 are much easier when the United States simply gives up on countering Russian sanctions evasion. The Kremlin agent gloating in this story could show a bit more humility. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...