Deb Schlies🏕️🏳️‍🌈🐺🇺🇸

It's ridiculous that CEOs require millions of dollars in compensation when most employees under them are living paycheck to paycheck. So many problems in this world are caused by greed.

On this day in 1868, mobs of white people continued a massacre of at least 35 Black people in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, in an effort to suppress Black political participation.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION, YET?! 👇

Powerful…👇

Jeffrey Sterling, ex CIA: The military is punishing Maj Watson while claiming to follow the very rules that forbid it. Art. 13 of the UCMJ says no one being held for trial may be punished, and that pretrial confinement may be no 'more rigorous than the circumstances require to insure his presence'.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

www.salon.com/2026/10/26/w...

In Brazil, Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes issues an order: Flávio Bolsonaro, who just lost the presidential election to the incumbent Lula, stands charged with money laundering. He must surrender his passports and may not leave the country as the case is prepared for trial.

Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its ads focus on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign website never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.

Before the Brazilian election where progressive Lula beat right-wing Bolsonaro, Meta is accused of disrupting Lula's Insta and WhatsApp accounts Meta blamed "technical difficulties" That would be more believable if similar incidents had not happened recently in the US Tech billionaires are evil

Vote every Republican out. Stop the enabling of pedophiles.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Tough chart: Home prices, mortgage payments and incomes since 2020 — all indexed to zero. (via JBREC)

NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.

They're dancing in the streets in Brazil and Serbia, what wonderful news about their elections. So, two down, two to go. Have you voted?

I'm ridin’ with Lula…

Serbians reminded us: democracy doesn't defend itself. People do. Passionate people who refuse to tolerate corruption and abuse of power. Many Western countries have important elections coming up in the weeks & months ahead. Folks. This may be your final boarding call to defend your democracy too.

Whoopsie! Bet Putin's relieved.

"As pedophiles and predators continue to occupy the highest echelons of the U.S. government and walk free at universities across the country, 'Primetime' captures why public exposure can feel like the only recourse left when institutions fail to act."

Another dictator goes down as Vučiċ falls to the student movement in Serbia. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

In my lifetime, I've never seen anyone fight as hard for their country as President Zelensky Conversely, I've never seen anyone betray their country as hard as Trump…

The Trumpublican Tax is painful, very painful, let’s end the pain, VOTE BLUE!!!🗳️💙🗳️

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Humbled to have the 44th president with us in our movement to demand more for working people in Michigan. Change is in the air. 🤝

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Great news. Another dictator went down. The students won. Largest turnout in 30 years. They organized and took back their country. So happy for them. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Congrats Serbians!! 🎉🎉🎉

Leaving this beautiful, moving photo by Antonello Veneri here as a brief balm. Taken this morning in Salvador, one of the cities most affected by voter suppression, and showing the pure elation of Lula voters coming out of the polling station after exercising their democratic right.