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In 2024, Brazil held Elon Musk’s Twitter/X accountable, using the same rules & laws it had used to regulate other large, social media platforms. And Musk was livid, attacking the country’s highest court: www.cnbc.com/2024/08/29/e...

Vivek Ramaswamy’s new Ohio governor ad about property taxes “accidentally” featured a registered sex offender in the background. Vernon Edwards, the husband of the woman featured in the ad, pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition involving a child under 13 and served eight years in prison.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

A Serbian nationalist leader who courted MAGA just lost in a landslide

We’ve been through this before but prediction markets are vibes machines until votes are actually being counted and then they become ruthlessly efficient high value information aggregators. “I don’t trust Kalshi” with 60% of the vote in is just silly. bsky.app/profile/love...

LULA

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.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a nationwide two-hour extension of voting in today’s presidential runoff, moving the close of polls from 5pm to 7 pm Brasília time.

A good day for democracy. Let’s keep this streak going.

BREAKING: BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

Not to make this about cis people but sometimes I feel like us trans women are more of an excuse to intimidate cis girls out of playing sports on threat of, calling it what it is, sexual assault.

Remember when Media & Political Elite promised US that Trump was tapping into “economic anxiety” not racism?

Column: Cody Campbell predicted Texas Tech would run it up on Cincinnati in the Sorsby Bowl. His mouth wrote a check Tech couldn’t cash in an embarrassing loss that alters the playoff race. bit.ly/4z1ta6a

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Hey guys, forgot to update everyone: I’m feeling more human today, AMA will be this evening somewhere between 8 or 9 eastern!

Wether it’s Vivek attacking a sexual assault victim or Acton being assaulted as a 12yo, both sides are at fault. Thank you for having the courage to say this Joe Manchin

They somehow tracked Acton’s birth mom down, found her living in a car with her cats, in a church parking lot, and took her to a video shoot to make vague accusations about her daughter, who she hadn’t seen in 40+ years, being a liar. Borders on elder abuse.

announcer: the one thing he can't do here is take a sack the qb:

🚨 BREAKING: Ukrainian military personnel and Defense Ministry experts confirmed Starlink and Starshield work at speeds above 161 km/h, Suspilne reported, citing ministry sources.

The polls must be bad.

please, my leviathan... it's very sick

"Hopes dashed? A few incels down under won't get their wankpanzer more like it. #TeslaTakedown

Brent crude oil high this year: $118.35 Today’s close: $117.12 (via Schwab) ⛽️

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Amy Acton's mother is the first woman Republicans ever believe in a rape case.

Don’t tarnish a person‘s reputation based on only one thing they did. Okay, sure, Amy Acton’s mother is a child-abusing pedophile protector. But that’s not all she is! She also kills kittens. So don’t be so quick to judge.

Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?

Alex Gibney told me that everyone he knows at HBO says "MUSK" will stream there in January, and they are making concrete plans about how that will happen... so if it doesn't happen, you'll know that Musk's investment in Skydance was why here's the clip: youtu.be/LSCoQbiTR98?...

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

What the Attorney General of the United States seems to not understand, but the people who matter do, is that Congress hasn’t given DOJ any authority to block states from certifying the election. This isn’t a thing. And we don’t have to pretend it’s a thing just because he says it’s a thing.

IRGC warns that if the U.S. continues to support the transit of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, "the scope of confrontation will extend to U.S. bases in the region."

Saudi Aramco evacuated its headquarters in Dhahran on Thursday, and staff have been asked to work from home, according to people familiar with the situation.-Bloomberg

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said on Thursday that four vessels involved in illegal oil transfers in the northern Persian Gulf were simultaneously hit and caught fire after being tracked by its forces on Wednesday.-Reuters

“Continuing the current situation will have strategic consequences, including that energy markets will not stabilize for the next three years,” he said.-Iran Intl

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned on Thursday that if war continues, it could keep energy markets unsettled for up to three years, according to state media.

It’s STILL not over. Spot prices in Great Lakes states keep rising. for now, there’s risk of further gas price increases for Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin, but not as much risk for Ohio. Illinois is complicated, but Chicago suburbs at lower risk as well for the moment.

diesel prices nationally will not fall below $6/gal prior to the midterms, and gasoline will not fall below $4/gal prior to the midterms- both will remain elevated until there is a clear de-escalation btwn US/Iran and Ukraine/Russia

How the turn tables… Hate to see it. $TSLAQ 🍿🍿

Was hoping to get Conman’s mom on the phone. Straight to voicemail but worth a shot?

JD Vance greeting Bengals players and most are ignoring him lol

$TSLA revenue growth. (via Bilello)

(NBC News) - The U.S. military has quietly been scaling back its troop presence at bases across the Middle East in recent days, and the State Department is ordering a further reduction in staff at multiple diplomatic posts in the region .. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...