Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called.
An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.
Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24
📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg
Maybe an unpopular take on here, but, with the glaring exception of Maine, Chuck Schumer didn't do too terribly in recruiting Democratic Senate candidates.
-Cooper's set to win big in #NCSen
-Brown is in the lead in #OHSen
-Peltola is leading in #AKSen
-Turek is competing in #IASen
There's a reason this is Paxton's main throughline against Talarico, and it's not *just* culture war stuff; it's also about the theology in texas evangelical circles. You can't understand texas politics without engaging with it.
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
diesel is closing in on a $6/gal national average as wholesale prices surge tonight 13c/gal with new attacks and threats. BUT the real story may be out West- California could blow past $8/gal, and some pumps aren't even built to display what could come next.
Trump’s 9/11 comment that he went down to the scene to help has been a lie he’s repeated for 25 years. It’s his own version of stolen valor. He did nothing except go on TV & brag that he now owned the tallest building in Manhattan after the towers went down. Which was also a lie.
I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
one way the Internet is fake is that a lot of people online have been saying "uh I'm not a liberal, I'm a leftist" for over 10 years now, but for 95 percent of the population, liberal and democratic socialist are essentially synonyms