Jenny Cohn

The “Save America Act” says that all states “shall” submit their voter registration lists to the DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge program, which has error rates as high as 14% & relies on data from SSA whose databases were mishandled by DOGE. I include this & other parts of the Act in my 8-point summary. 1/

“Brazil: defeated Flávio Bolsonaro ordered to surrender passports *** Far-right senator banned from leaving country as supreme court judge’s ruling makes reference to money-laundering case” 10/26/26

🙄 “Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat, calling the move to extend voting hours unprecedented — though BOTH HE and Lula made the request…” (Emphasis added.) share.google/qD6fuXschfo1...

“Zakaria posed a question with direct implications for India's national security: ‘Were India to find itself in another crisis with Pakistan, would it want its armed forces to be utterly dependent on a US satellite system controlled by Trump and Musk?’”

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

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

“Justices clash over pro-Lula WhatsApp channel at electoral court *** Technical review finds no misinformation cited by Bolsonaro campaign, as conflicting rulings expose tensions among justices ahead of runoff” 10/13/26 … 1/ valorinternational.globo.com/politics/new...

“How Lula turned his election fortunes around in three weeks With an energetic online push and social giveaways, Brazil’s president reignited his campaign between the first and second rounds”

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Brazilians beat back fascism by... voting harder? Organized offline and online around an election, using a mix of strategies aimed at both turnout and persuasion. Showed up in large numbers, and despite some very wealthy interests arrayed against them, succeeded? Huh. Pretty neat how that works.

Nothing will prevent pundits from meaningless attempts at trendspotting ("Is the populist wave receding?"). Still, there might be one fairly uncontroversial lesson: organizing/showing presence on the ground can really make a difference.

🙄 “Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat, calling the move to extend voting hours unprecedented — though BOTH HE and Lula made the request…” (Emphasis added.) share.google/qD6fuXschfo1...

MAGA having a normal one over on the Twitter machine

More evidence of an alliance between the “Tech Bros” & the “Catholic Right”. On 7/1/24, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale used his blog to thank Catholic hardliner Leonard Leo for his “advice & support” re: a SCOTUS brief that Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute had filed to help criminalize homelessness. 1/

I wonder how many fascist fanboys lost their shirts betting on Bolsonaro in the “prediction markets.”

I feel like the type of personality that trusts predictions markets as 'real info' and the type that trusts chatbot output are.....the same person Someone shallow and interested in the aesthetic of empiricism and grammar, not in the sweaty hard work of trying to be as right as possible about things

“Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case” 10/21/26 … 1/ www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/...

Mark Carney parabeniza Lula por reeleição e propõe fortalecer parceria entre Canadá e Brasil Primeiro-ministro do Canadá sinalizou o interesse em construir uma agenda conjunta focada na expansão econômica e na sustentabilidade para os próximos anos...

The fact that we've agreed to call these gambling sites "prediction markets" furthers their bullshit. They predict nothing and it's a disgrace that news orgs have partnered with them and pretend they have news value. THEY'RE JUST A BUNCHA LOSERS GAMBLING.