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I will not argue with people on the internet. I will not argue with people on the internet. I will not argue with people on the internet. I will not argue with people on the internet. I will not argue with people on the internet. I will not argue with people on the internet. I will not argue with…

Every time I've decided not to block someone who introduces themselves as an annoyance, I come to regret it not long after. Trust your gut, folks.

Couldnt agree more.

Lula Goes HARD

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Brazil runoff live updates: Lula has defeated Bolsonaro, electoral court announces - The Guardian (Live) www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... Woo! I've read Amazon rainforests will be under the risk if Bolsonaro won, so please let me have relieving moment.

Meta is accused of election interference in Brazil after restricting Lula's Instagram while recommending Bolsonaro's accounts. 1,613 foreign-funded political ads were uncovered generating 171M impressions. Brazil has ordered Meta to explain its conduct.

This right here. Send 'em packing!

Truly in tears. This is such, such good news.

My girlfriend’s 96-year-old grandmother, still sharp as can be but ailing, braved going out to vote for Lula. She lived under dictatorship and said she wants to die knowing her family will not have to live what she lived. She braved the rain and lack of access to do her part. A legend.

It’s telling that the Israel Foreign Ministry is saying Brad Lander, a proud and vocal Jewish person, traveled to a “foreign country.” When Israel wants the moral high ground of saying it speaks for all the Jews, it is all of our homeland. When we ask it to be better, it’s a foreign country to us.

If the new Congress is smart at all, they will collaborate with European and Asian investigations into his business practices and questionable life. Hit him from all sides, all around the globe. 

if Zohran Mamdani used the word "Shylock" the ADL would have called in a nuclear strike on New York City by now

Scoop — @danielbiss.bsky.social is headed to Michigan tonight to speak with Jewish voters about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social “I have seen from him a genuine commitment to Jewish safety as a part of his commitment to the safety and security and dignity of all people” Biss says he’ll tell voters

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest.

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

That’s explicitly it yeah

every democratic member of congress should be giving meta hell right now, and every democratic state government needs to be announcing investigations for election interference — these were early voting events

You gotta watch this all the way to the end.

In competitive authoritarian countries, regime allies limit and control mainstream media visibility to opposition figures and media. We're not there yet, but this is what it looks like.

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The federal government is going after Ilhan Omar only because of her race, gender, religion, and party, openly admitting they have no probable cause and aim to manufacture something. Worse because she’s a sitting member of Congress. That makes it an attack on her constituents and US democracy too.

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

Gonna say it again and again until y’all get sick of me: America has become an authoritarian state.

Breaking News: The Justice Department is investigating whether major TV networks violated federal antitrust laws when they briefly suspended pool coverage of President Trump, according to people with knowledge of the department’s action.

I miss living in the Twin Cities.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

In 2025, ICE attorneys started refusing to identify themselves in immigration hearings, but doing this in actual federal court seems like a new step

So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts

Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.

The reckoning is here…

I swear, if the Democrats won't campaign on "The president says major American cities getting nuked is a small price to pay"

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Dems need to win PA by around 9 points to flip its Senate (~D+11 nationally). In that situation, they likely also take the state legislatures of WI, MI, AZ and NV Gov. Dems would have the votes to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over the line and eliminate the Electoral College.

This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls

Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.

CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴