Markus Drake

Off social media for some time! If you want to keep up with what I am doing (travel to Taiwan, thinking about politics, movements and security), I will have a Telegram channel with pictures, text and sound, about once per week. See you on the other side! t.me/stresspass

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Not even close: Brazil’s election authority has declared Lula the mathematically certain winner of the presidential runoff. With 97.69% of polling sections counted, Lula has 51.74% and Flávio Bolsonaro has 48.26%. That puts Lula ahead by about 4.2 million votes.

Serbia, 56.0% sample of CeSID / Ipsos parallel count: National parliament election SL-*: 52.0% (+52.0) SNS+-EPP: 39.3% (-8.8) SPS/JS+-*: 2.3% (-4.4) SVM-EPP: 0.9% (-0.8) NDSS/PKS-*: 0.8% (-4.4) PDD+-*: 0.8% (+0.8) SDP/CDP-*: 0.5% (+0.5) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/serbia

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it's a tie at 47.24%!!!

Der Wahlsieger wurde bekannt gegeben. Vucic hat seine Niederlage eingestanden. Stimmung bei den Studierenden ist so

French government promises #LePen to provide “maximum security” for the RN rally in Orléans on Sunday. [...] according to my sources, demonstrations will be banned in the city. Not only is Macron acting as a stepping stone for the far-right, but he’s also censoring its opponents...

One month later: WhiteDate, WhiteChild and WhiteDeal are still offline. Signs of new infrastructure. No visible success. They might have reached out to #DDoSecrets to get their backups back. Telegram promises “testing soon”. Please hurry up! #WhiteDate #FarRight #RacistPlatforms #AltTech #Antifa

Antifa hackers are the only cool hackers left

Imagine any other industry, even within technology, getting to do and getting away with what AI-TechBros are doing? That’s right, they’d be sued out of existence - quickly.

"Severe injuries caused by LBD (flash-ball) rounds and explosive grenades have been documented across several cities. Two individuals, including a 17-year-old girl, reportedly lost an eye due to police projectiles in Strasbourg and Mulhouse."

Much easier to blame foreign actors than identify and address the domestic conditions that resulted in this level of violence.

Fresh AfD data leak needs more time to get fully analyzed but first glimpse shows all the classics. Party supporters use racist slurs and share antisemitic theories of Jewish world domination; there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots... www.heistberlin.com/news/afd-lea...

Riesiges Mail-Leak bei der AfD: Eine Website veröffentlicht mehr als 421.000 Parteimails. Darunter welche der AfD-Spitze, zu Parteiausschlussverfahren oder zu einem "Verkauf von Hakenkreuzfahnen und Drogen am Infostand". Die AfD spricht von einem "Hackerangriff". taz.de/Website-vero...

THE dramatic image from the protests in France last Saturday. Kids losing eyes to police teargas grenades aren't photogenic. But can you guess why the Limoges city hall was only 140 years old? Because the previous one was destroyed by revolutionaries in support of the Paris Commune in 1871.

A police officer in France fired a tear gas grenade at a high school student’s face, breaking his jaw and destroying many of his teeth. The incident outside a school in a Parisian suburb last month stirred a national outcry. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w...

PAXTON: hey we're catching a lot of shit for holding our final rally at the alamo, the site of an infamous Texas doomed last stand TRUMP:

Watch Sister Nancy Sylvester, a former president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, ask JD Vance how ICE’s conduct squares with the Gospel. He opened with a prayer for Pope Leo XIV and then turned to immigration statistics.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

THE dramatic image from the protests in France last Saturday. Kids losing eyes to police teargas grenades aren't photogenic. But can you guess why the Limoges city hall was only 140 years old? Because the previous one was destroyed by revolutionaries in support of the Paris Commune in 1871.

Don't get me wrong: it's very bad that a centuries old town hall caught fire, but a society that thinks this is worth getting preoccupied about and doesn't seem to much care about people losing hands and eyes and life is a society that needs a serious rethink of priorities

Lukusuositus Þórdís Elva Þorvaldsdóttirin ja Aija Salon kirjoitukselle: Verkossa leviävää naisvihaa pitää kitkeä tarmokkaammin. "Ilman sääntelyn tehokasta toimeenpanoa mikään ei muutu. Pohjoismaissa on edelleen puutteita sekä lainsäädännössä että sen täytäntöönpanossa." www.hs.fi/nakemys/art-...

"Standing Rock's concerns about [the Dakota Access oil] pipeline have not changed, and for ten years we have fought to protect our water, our Treaty rights, and our people ... Until this pipeline is shut down, we will continue to defend what generations before us protected for our children."

Do read this sparkling profile of Neha Bohra by Rohini Mohan "Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine When the police drag Bohra along the road,the protester leans back,face placid but eyes blazing,& delivers pitch-perfect political rhetoric in literary Hindi & English"

Modi has lost it. "The govt has responded by massively increasing the security presence in the capital. Around thirty thousand police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed, internet services have been disrupted, trains to Delhi have been cancelled, metro stations and roads have been closed."

Wer lügt hier? Die CDU! Wir haben alle 14 CDU-Abgeordneten gefragt, wie sie bei der Wahl des AfD-Landtagspräsidenten in Sachsen-Anhalt abstimmten. 2 sagten nichts, 4 meinten Nein, 8 Enthaltung. Aber: Es gab nur 5 Enthaltungen. Mindestens 3 CDUler sagen also nicht die Wahrheit. taz.de/CDU-luegt-ue...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

30 döda i rysk attack mot bussar i frontstaden Kramatorsk, som Ryssland försöker erövra. En femtedel av Ukraina är ockuperat av ryska invasionsstyrkor. Där finns tortyrfängelser där du hamnar om du säger emot. Frontlinjen är en knivskarp gräns mellan ett fritt samhälle och ett skräckvälde.

AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany

Cardinal Robert McElroy, less than a mile from the White House on World Day of Migrants: “We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” He told Catholics to fight every dimension of Trump’s war on immigrants.

In #collapse, the only "left" majorities that are henceforth possible in the global North are "imperial left" majorities, where low costs of living for all in the late imperial centres are enabled by intensified exploitation of the rest of the world and "natural sinks/resources".

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

Our Flock reporting just got five cops arrested. The Indianapolis officers were just criminally charged for spying on women. @aaronschaffer.com, @douglasmac.bsky.social and I found suspicious searches and got their agency to investigate. How many bad cops are still getting away? wapo.st/4xDOH3d

"Strong El Niños do not damage the world’s agriculture randomly. They damage it in a pattern that has been documented across 150 years, and the pattern is brutally consistent. To understand the geography of what is now forecast, start with where previous events did their damage."

Auch in Berlin wird das BSW mit jetzt nur noch 4,7% an der Sperrklausel scheitern. Aufgrund von 6-7 CDU-Überhangmandaten wird das neue Abgeordnetenhaus über 160 Sitze fassen. Zu Rechtsstreitigkeiten könnte die Verteilung der Ausgleichsmandate führen. www.wahlrecht.de/news/2026/ab... #aghw 1/4

MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN | Vorläufiges Endergebnis der Landtagswahl AfD: 38,2% (+21,5) SPD: 35,5% (-4,1) LINKE: 6,5% (-3,4) GRÜNE: 5,7% (-0,6) CDU: 4,9% (-8,4) BSW: 4,8% (NEU) FDP: 1,0% (-4,8) Sonstige: 3,4% (-5,0) Änderungen zu 2021 Wahlkreisergebnisse: whln.eu/ErgebnisseMV #ltwmv

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

What I want is "end Apartheid, Netanyahu to the Hague" and so I say that, not "free Palestine"