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Lula wins Brazil presidential election - reports

President Lula after Flavio Bolsonaro mocked his missing finger: “I will not allow a militiaman to call me ‘nine fingers’. He has never worked a day in his life. He doesn't know what an employment book is.” Lula’s little finger was amputated after an industrial accident as a metalworker in 1964.

Lowest approval since Truman is pretty fucking impressive. I think we can do better, though.

NEW: New Mexico AG, @nmdoj.bsky.social, just announces that a judge has issued a judgment in the amount of $25 BILLION against Meta for lying to consumers and users about how Meta collected, protected, shared, and used their personal information.

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

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As we approach the crucial midterms, Donald Trump remains laser-focused on the issues most important to financially struggling Americans—golden ballrooms and fancy golf courses. He’s such a smart, relatable man-of-the-people that way.

📌It's important to understand that Katie Zacharia wasn't fired for being a liar, she was fired for being an incapable liar, and the most notorious liar in the world -- Trump -- simply won't abide that.

Elizabeth Holmes went after Tyler Shultz & Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on daily basis for months. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten: "You Can See Everything,"

During the measured, reasoned exchange we all watched? The only thing heated is the CNN editors burning down journalistic integrity

CNN giving @abdulelsayed.bsky.social’s haters the headline they want after he destroyed a bigot and showed he’s more of a patriot than they will ever be

Someone on Reddit perfectly captured the market's reaction to the flying Tesla Roadster demo.

What a ride this film is! I'm more excited than ever to chat with @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social next Tuesday at 9 am Pacific/Noon Eastern, right here on the AT Protocol: stream.place/niedermeyer.online

Sometimes I feel like some of these conservatives go onto these panels expecting not to be challenged at all 🤦‍♂️

Bari Weiss' handpicked foreign editor referred to the allegations facing Benjamin Netanyahu as a "sideshow" and told correspondent Holly Williams she was "wrong" to try to mention them in her story, per leaked audio I obtained of Tuesday's heated internal meeting. www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

How crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne, who owns ~12% of Tether, and Ben Delo donated ~$100M to Nigel Farage's Reform, the largest donations in UK history (David Segal/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"With #Yandex data centers under constant attack, I’m starting to worry that the White House will issue yet another demand to stop the strikes. After all, it would be a tragedy if Russia’s valuable bot traffic dried up just before the midterms." @tatarigami.bsky.social

Democratic Ukraine attempting to influence U.S. elections by reducing fascist Russia's ability to influence U.S. elections?

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

Trump’s last 3 press secretaries: Kayleigh Karoline Katie

The Defense Department first awarded the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal a $67 million deal shortly after George Kollitides started at the Pentagon. Then came a bigger, no-bid contract for the firm: $281 million working with Kollitides’ office.

Trump to his braindead MAGA cult supporters: "I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap."

Checking back on this…

Says a thug in a regime of thugs

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎

By Navi Pillay ( 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate ) My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

Whatever ICE was supposed to be, it’s now fully a personal militia for the #PedoPresident and his little penis Stephen Miller. It has to go.

Jon Ossoff didn’t just show up to debate Mike Collins. He owned the stage. Calm, confident, prepared, and in complete control. Collins, on the other hand, looked like he regretted showing up.

First Lady Natalie Harp gets off Bribe Force One moments ago after another long day of traveling with the guy she once said is "all that matters to me" (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)

Donald Trump is unfit for office. Full stop. Let’s be clear: pushing for the death of the very people you swore to protect is dangerous, reckless, and a betrayal of your oath. The American people deserve better.

For years, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has set out to erode our system of checks and balances of power and to concentrate power in the hands of one person: President Trump. Now he’s quietly making it all happen. 🔊 Listen to this episode: propub.li/3TzIyaA

a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal

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But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker

Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.

JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir storms Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police protection.

I’m not a 🏈 fan I was adopted by white people too A teammate of Kaepernick’s said: “ I want to protest, but I need to ask my owner”  Collin, says: “I did not think in my lifetime I would hear a black man say I need to ask my owner for permission”🤦🏽‍♀️ #USDemocracy www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n... 

And how did that work out?

As George Carlin said, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."