Darcy James Argue

Flávio Bolsonaro rumoured to have fled Brazil after presidential election loss Authorities demanded he hand over his passport after loss to Lula but far-right senator remains unaccounted for www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

If you are too young to really remember the Obama years, conservatives were like this every single day. He really did just break their brains.

@adambecker.bsky.social book "More Everything Forever" is a fucking masterpiece that got me thinking about a lot of these parallels. I read it the same week as I reread Norm Cohn's "Pursuit of the Millennium" and thought was: This keeps happening.

One of the most important financial stories out there if you want to know how and why the same five evil guys wind up owning everything.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

This, but also, as a liberal I believe in freedom and human rights for all people, all around the world. That translates into rooting interests in elections where freedoms and rights are on the ballot, as they often are.

So long as billionaires like Musk and Zuckerberg are using their wealth and power to influence elections in countries they don’t live in, I think it’s probably okay for the rest of us to celebrate when they fail.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

Instead we should focus on which messages, ideas, and visions beyond "we need to beat the far right" have mobilized large parts of society. We should understand the organizational structures behind these victories and acknowledge that they are about more than defending the status quo.

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

spare a thought for a millennial about to move back in with his dad

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

Honored to be made a "coastal elite" because I think the more than two centuries in which the White House wasn't a gaudy monstrosity was not in fact an insult to ordinary working people

Vivo o Brasil! Viva o Povo Brasileiro!

don't vote for me or my son ever again

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Check out how easy this is.

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

Why should we believe the guy who lied about not doing this?

Weird -- several well-compensated pundits assured me that Trump would be much tougher on Netanyahu

Not to ruin anyone’s Sunday afternoon, but Brazilians are voting for president today. We’ll start getting returns at 4pm ET, and, based on the results of the first round it’d be a clear surprise if Lula survives against Bolsonaro — even if polls have tightened in the last two weeks.

Musk is lying about Ukraine using civilian Starlink on combat drones. Since February, any Starlink terminal operating in motion has needed military Starshield authorization. No Starshield – no connection. Using civilian Starlink on drones was technically impossible. Period.

Happy 1st anniversary to the comeback of the Bored Ape Yacht Club as a metaverse !

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

This seems like a big deal

scared to imagine a divorced ethan klein

Just to link to the story, as this really hasn't been as big a story as it should be.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Ax ex-cop shot this dad and left him to die at the scene.

But if we gave our number years ago, they're still reaching out to us every single day. I haven't made a donation in 2 yrs and I'm still getting several daily texts. It feels like they don't care. They don't have the decency even to stop texting when we report them to spam several times a day. 

As a fairly selective political donor, I'm prepared to say I'll give everything I can to a candidate or org who'll straight-up say "if you see my name in a fundraising text, it's not me asking and I didn't endorse it"

I’ve been complaining about the disgusting/insulting/amateur-hour 90s-chain-style ActBlue emails in detail to the DNC/DCCC, with examples, since 2022. A lot of the other Democratic voters online who were also begging them back then to stop the spam— simply unsubscribed and blocked them all 🤷