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Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

Come on now, behave. Florida is not going to fall. This is too much. What state would I direct all my hatred on to if Florida turned blue?

Yet again, everyone is removing any agency and accountability from Moyes, who famously exerts a lot of control over transfers within the 'committee'. Yes, he was screwed over by TFG at the end of the window, but why did we wait til the last minute to buy a right back, or a striker? Why no left back?

Argentine media says he may have crossed into Argentina to board a private jet to the US. An ally denied he had left Brazil. The investigation follows a Supreme Court order revoking his passports and banning him from leaving the country.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Meanwhile Erika Hilton, a congresswoman in Lula’s party, has called on the Federal Police to investigate acts of violence committed by Bolsonaro supporters during the election (including the fatal attack by seven men on Marcelo de Oliveira Rocha, a Lula supporter they were filmed beating to death).

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

It's fine that they want to feel this way. They just don't get to complain about the consequences, or the way supporters of other clubs treat them moving forwards.

Remember when the right wing would constantly lash out at everyone else for being snowflakes? These people are the biggest babies on the planet.

Bryan Johnson is a tool

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Netanyahu going full Trump. Must be looking bad for him.

Trump’s DOJ has charged James Comey AGAIN, this time under the Espionage Act over a 2016 New York Times story. In DOJ’s own words, Comey had staff talk to a reporter to “correct misinformation” in a Reuters article.

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It's not often that there are positive days in politics. But Lula winning in Brazil is absolutely seismic, and students turfing out the right wing government in Serbia is also brilliant news. Andy Burnham is openly talking about rejoining the EU, and London's Oxford Street is being pedestrianised.

Just because it's easy, doesn't always mean that you shouldn't

It's also a genuinely beautiful thing watching fascists cry, but that's a different story.

I know they are contesting it, and I know that they did an awful lot to sway the election in their favour in the first place, but this is the great thing about democracy. (So far) there hasn't been a coup, and Bolsanaro knows he lost. We don't live in Westeros. It's genuinely a beautiful thing.

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

No you see AI won’t replace jobs it will simply make the jobs easier

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.

Nigel Farage, 62, on Brussels: "Do we want a bunch of old men who we can't vote for, can't get rid of in Brussels, making the big decisions?" (the average age of an MEP is 50)

After having thought (constantly) about this for days now, one thing that sticks out for me is that you get to know the real, raw, balls out in the wind person behind the public persona for 3 different people involved in this move. And none of them are Elizabeth Holmes.

NEW — Former South Carolina Govs. David Beasley (R) and Jim Hodges (D) jointly endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews over Republican Sen. Darline Graham in the state’s Senate race.

Flavio Bolsonaro crying after losing the election. I hope that cheered up your day.

I'm sure Microsoft offering voluntary exit to a quarter of its workforce is not a sign of anything bad

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Based on WSJ sources, Trump administration officials are reportedly floating former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán for UN secretary-general, potentially backed by the US, Russia and China.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Either to dumb us down or to, indeed, inform, WH increasingly hints that Niki Minaj could be the next press secretary.

It's not often that there are positive days in politics. But Lula winning in Brazil is absolutely seismic, and students turfing out the right wing government in Serbia is also brilliant news. Andy Burnham is openly talking about rejoining the EU, and London's Oxford Street is being pedestrianised.

In Brazil, it appears that voters who opted for eliminated first-round candidates roughly broke even in the runoff (even if the candidates leaned right). But the big difference was: Millions of voters who cast 'null' or 'blank' ballots in the first round then voted for Lula.

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.

Serbia’s student-led movement has delivered a historic election upset, ending 14 years of rule by Aleksandar Vučić’s party. Millions celebrated across Serbia and Europe.

Just because it's easy, doesn't always mean that you shouldn't

* ANTHROPIC: CONCERNS RAISED THAT ADVANCED AI SYSTEMS COULD POSE CATASTROPHIC OR EXISTENTIAL RISKS TO HUMANITY WITHOUT APPROPRIATE OVERSIGHT @reuters.com $ANT

Is there a reason Alaska has so many Dans Sullivan? We approached the data systematically to find out. https://www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan-sullivan-dan-sullivan-alaska-data

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

What a heartbreaking read documentedny.com/2026/10/23/d...