Jack Draper III

"He did not imagine that it was easier to begin a war than to end it." --from Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

O governo Donald Trump está ciente da ida de Flávio Bolsonaro aos Estados Unidos e vai conceder asilo ao senador do PL, segundo aliados da família que mantêm relação com o país. 📲Leia mais na #Folha: mla.bs/5cab984133 🎦Pedro Labigalini

We must protect our humanity from the big tech AI oligarchs who do not value it.

Should a Democratic administration take office in 2029, I bet they'll find themselves envying the George W. Bush administration, whose primary complaint about the status of the White House grounds as they moved in in early 2001 was just that some keyboards were missing the W key...

Apoiadores de Lula se reúnem em celebração no Marco Zero, no bairro do Recife. 📲 Leia mais na #Folha: folha.com/politica 🎦 Francisco Silva/Arquivo pessoal

'Eu queria agradecer ao povo brasileiro, a generosidade que eles têm comigo há muito tempo. E nesse segundo turno, agradecer a generosidade da juventude brasileira que foi para a rua, foi para rua para defender a democracia.' #Lula2026 #Lula4

After watching a lot of hemming and hawing and self-consciousness about the subject from Anthony Bourdain, and stipulating that I still love Bourdain, I like the contrast of this working-class cook just saying "I am a chef" the second he won a Michelin star with no compunction and never looking back

Record swing in turnout numbers from 1st to 2nd round keeps Lula in office for his fourth term

Quem é André Janones do "Exército de Lula" g1.globo.com/google/amp/m...

At the height of the pandemic, Isabella Weber was ridiculed by mainstream economists for arguing that corporate price hikes were driving inflation. Since vindicated, she tells Jacobin how we can save democracy from the crisis of capitalism.

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

This Brian Flores document is some one the most racist dogwhistle shit *put in writing* I've seen in an employment discrimination suit. frontofficesports.com/article/bria...

Lula comemora aprovação no Senado da PEC do fim da escala 6x1

Brazil's Congress approves shorter workweek

'O ofício pede que seja disponibilizado transporte adequado a eleitores de comunidades tradicionais, bem como intérprete linguístico e cultural, além da garantia de que pessoas acompanhadas de filhos menores não sejam barradas da votação.'

The message from United Auto Workers members in their recent internal elections, in which President Shawn Fain and his slate are poised to win big, is clear, argues former Fain Chief of Staff Chris Brooks: they want their union to keep fighting.

'When so much of contemporary culture feels familiar even before it is encountered, and when bloated tentpoles try to pass themselves off as the height of cinematic artistry by insisting on a 70mm release, bright shines the nugget that had previously fallen through the sieve.'

'Uma sociedade fundada na escravidão e acostumada a ser servida tende a considerar natural a disponibilidade permanente do tempo alheio. Quem pode organizar o domingo em torno da eleição talvez nem se pergunte se a pessoa que preparou sua comida ou limpou seu quarto conseguiu chegar até a urna.'

A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause. https://wapo.st/4ANsaDS

We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his new memoir, "No Land to Stand On." It details his 104 days of detention inside a Louisiana ICE jail after he was targeted for arrest and deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Palestine campus advocacy at Columbia University.

Can we finally listen to and join with Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun's vow? FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, I NO LONGER SHALL TINKER WITH THE MACHINERY OF DEATH. #Abolish www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...

🚩Em artigo exclusivo, Tiago Paraíba e Rafael Rocha analisam os possíveis desdobramentos e consequências para a esquerda pernambucana tanto em caso de vitória de João Campos quanto de Raquel Lyra nas eleições de 2026 🧐

🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:

Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully.

"Ava" says, "I’ve worked in the broccoli fields since early 2000. I enjoy every part of my job from cutting to packaging. I can do it all w/my eyes closed. I have years of experience, but I'm not paid for it. I don’t get incentives, benefits & just earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

Donald Trump and every member of Congress should be working for the American people — NOT their stock portfolio.

When AI insiders warn that their products could wipe out humanity, they mean that their own work is maximally important and demands unprecedented investment. This extinction fantasy distracts from the real damage AI is already doing.

Great feature by @anamariecox.com on the Texas Senate race. It's a good story to say that James Talarico is using progressive Christian language to ju-jitsu the religious right. But the boring, accurate reality is that Texans are fed up with being governed by Republicans.

A company with up to $5 billion in assets could qualify as a small business under new federal rules, making them eligible for contracts and loans earmarked for SBA support. The companies building data centers for Big Tech, for example, could get small business credits. Great story from Zachary Groz.

First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

authorities to use Missouri’s 2022 congressional map for November. The U.S. Supreme Court also blocked the newer map Thursday, leaving the 2022 boundaries (which produced a 6 Republican-2 Democratic delegation) in place for the midterms.

So rather than put Texas ABC affiliates in the middle of it, Kimmel says the full interview will be posted to YouTube instead. This is where we are now. A candidate interview gets moved off broadcast television because local stations are worried about what the federal government might do next.

This is part of a wonderful series that @prospect.org published in August. Judy Heumann (1947-2023) is one of the amazing Americans featured in the series about whom I was inspired to learn a lot I didn't know. prospect.org/2026/08/07/a...

The slaughter on the high seas continues. The U.S. killed four more civilians in its recently renewed boat-strike murder spree -- this time back in the Caribbean. We're tracking every strike @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Fascinating discussion of the 1983 Chadha decision that neutered the congressional veto power that had been considered constitutional up to that point. But does its scope really include the War Powers Act, as presidents in office have assumed ever since? youtu.be/Foo8-1qUlPo?... From @levernews.com

'“Transparency was thrown entirely out the window, replaced by outright deception,”...the Washington bureau chief for the NYT said [...] “That’s a terrible precedent. And the fact that it left journalists and staff members unknowingly exposed to a potential threat made it much, much worse.”'

Maior avião elétrico do mundo realiza primeiro voo nos EUA; veja o vídeo

Austrália tornou-se o epicentro das extinções de espécies

#AcessoLivre | [externo] Ao entrelaçaram política, meio ambiente e cultura, elas trazem à tona a presença dos corpos d’água em espaços urbanos. Leia no texto do @nonadajornalismo.

'The question is, while it does make it possible to have democracy, is capitalism the ideal system or the best possible system for democracy? And to that, the answer is no.'

Interesting exchange related to capitalism / socialism between Jen Psaki and Abdul El-Sayed on MSNOW, 7-28-26 (4 pages)

'CDC currently supports treatment for more than 14 million people with HIV & uses its PEPFAR role to perform vital global health security work reaching pandemics beyond HIV. This work would end on 10/1 unless Congress intervenes to stop implementation of State’s policy' healthgap.org/press/activi...

'"Há meses existe uma emergência de saúde pública causada pelas interrupções mortais do seu governo na programação do Pepfar e na ajuda global de saúde, e não vamos permitir que esse fato seja apagado", discursou Asia Russell, da organização HealthGAP, após tomar a palavra.'

Definitely a clear difference in foreign policy related to Brazil between Biden & Trump, to Biden's credit. Biden on Brazil was pro-democracy, pro-environment, pro-worker; while Trump tries to export election denialism & neocolonialism there, & even threatens their super popular payment system, Pix

The President's war with Iran is such a fiasco that he's now back to threatening to commit war crimes. This is wrong and must stop. Congress needs to end this war, not rubber stamp a $1.5 trillion military budget.

It should be clear by now that Trump does not actually care about "election integrity." If he did, he wouldn't have made cuts to the government agencies tasked with protecting our elections from foreign influence.

What about the damn masks? Are they going to make masks part of their official uniform now?

After ranting that reports of a Pentagon casualty were “baseless and malicious,” top Pentagon spox Sean Parnell admitted that ~100 troops were injured since July 7. But the official Pentagon database tracking U.S. casualties continues to show no U.S. forces were wounded in action during July.

"I am still very concerned that this speech is intended to lay the groundwork for the administration to interfere in the midterms and that his speech is going to ratchet up pressure to interfere in the midterms."