Janet Sternberg

For my research on misbehavior online, I studied both rules (norms, formal and informal) and laws (regulations). What rules and laws have in common is that both require enforcement in order to be effective. Without adequate enforcement, neither rules nor laws mean much at all. Enforcement is key.

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

Outubro essa sendo um mês histórico para m a classe trabalhadora. Fui eleito deputado federal pelo Rio, aprovamos o fim da escala 6x1 e Lula foi reeleito para derrotar o golpismo. A luta continua, agora ainda mais forte.

Eu queria que isso aqui vazasse e virasse uma matéria mostrando do que a gente escapou.

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

"president trump...i could use your help here" "i am sorry flávio but i am busy attacking bill maher"

If Brazil and Serbia can do it, we can do it too. joycevance.substack.com/p/live-on-de...

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

“Brazilians have made their choice at the ballot box, and the Amazon rainforest has another chance,” a climate expert said of Lula's surprise reelection on Sunday.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

And then he stiffed them!

somebody just needs to tell them a Black Harvard professor was involved

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

A viral WhatsApp channel and student-led protests played a key role in the veteran Brazilian leftist’s election victory

You can put aside socialist-leftist prescriptions about how dangerous that alliance is, if you would like. But everything I read, across the political spectrum, agrees that these countries are connected. It is just civic maturity to pay attention to Brazil's election.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

The groups are suing the Trump administration over three policies that block refugees from obtaining green cards, subject them to re-vetting, and speed up the process of ending their legal immigration status. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

“Recently, Eduardo Bolsonaro told a right-wing podcast host that he would also advise his brother to flee Brasil if he lost the Brazilian presidential election. "If my brother doesn't win, I'm in favor of him leaving the country. Absolutely. Absolutely," said Eduardo Bolsonaro.“

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Gonna try boosting the positive possibilities, like Brazilians did. I already voted for Angie. Florida needs a change like her!

Big Angie Angie.  8 days to go, and Absent Ashley keeps going further into hiding.  Y’all know what to do. Let’s send Moody home.  Vote on or before Nov. 3 for ANGIE NIXON: Angie4Us.com/early

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Even with all the levers of power he has his hands on, and even with control of every mechanism in the federal government, Trump has been unable to find election fraud. So he's crowdsourcing it now.

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.

The Grand Old Rape Party

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

Num dia você clica em um link para um grupo de WhatsApp e no outro você descobre que fez parte de um fenômeno que o mundo inteiro olha com espanto e admiração, tentando extrair lições para replicar em outros lugares. Às vezes é maneiro viver momentos históricos.

Ever heard someone say "protest doesn't change anything"? Brazil and Serbia just proved them wrong. 🇧🇷🇷🇸