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Congratulations to my friend Lula on his electoral victory. Democracy and multilateralism have won in Brazil. Europe’s partnership with Brazil is thriving. We will remain by your side for the years to come.

this is why keeping corruption out of government is not some sideshow, it’s fundamental to effective governance if you cannot trust the people in charge of public health because “they changed their story due to bribes” is a legitimate inference, that is a crisis all on its own

ICYMI: Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Get the real story at www.theonion.info.

Damn these gringos can play ball

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Regime Orban cai depois de 16 anos pra um aparentemente menos pior. Aí chega uma galera e fala PENA QUE CAIU PRA UM CENTRO-DIREITISTA PSDB DELES BLABLABLA. Galera só tem cruz pra oferecer, bicho. Proibido sorrir. Repelente de voto do caralho.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen decided Friday to move ahead with the provisional application of the Mercosur trade agreement, brushing aside a judicial review launched by MEPs that has suspended the ratification process. https://l.euronews.com/QUks

@bft.wtf Tether was buying gold all trough last quarter at extreme prices, these are being used to back USDT too, not just their gold token. So if gold prices crash it would crumble crypto www.reuters.com/technology/t...

46 thousand are dead in Iran, the Iranian regime is doing the numbers that Israel did without dropping a single bomb, just pure butchers work of gunning people down

Quantos sinais eu preciso mandar?! Eu vou trazer a praga de volta! Eu juro por mim!

Looking forward to the Pretti Good Act which will dismantle ICE forever.

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

Geração de empregos e moradia, fortalecimento da indústria naval e do nosso parque industrial. Governo do Brasil trabalhando pelo povo gaúcho.

Chegando agora ao Rio Grande, no RS. Vamos entregar 1.276 novas moradias do Minha Casa, Minha Vida e assinar novos contratos do Programa Mar Aberto, da Petrobras. Serão 5 navios gaseiros, 18 empurradores e 18 barcaças. (+)

I, for one, look forward to buying Argentinian beef at my local store.

As the repression intensifies, and the loss of innocent lives continue, we are monitoring the situation carefully. Europe stands with the people of Iran in their legitimate fight for freedom.

alright I’m quitting twitter, I’m really gonna quit this time. checking in to the methadone app.

Germany's economic malaise stems from weak net exports (purple). Fiscal stimulus and debt build-up only make that worse. The fix is to get the overvalued Euro down, by getting the ECB to acknowledge rising risk of deflation in the Euro zone. The ECB is at the root of so many bad Euro zone policies.

the male struggle of: do I have a cough because I am getting sick or because there is too much dust in my apartment

Quite remarkable. This morning's CPI data confirm that US inflation is picking up, with a broad-based rise that's coming from all kinds of places. But the Fed - under pressure from the administration - is almost certain to start an easing cycle next week. Not great really...

Seasonal adjustment of US data has been a problem ever since COVID. So it's best to just line up 2025 core CPI inflation (purple) with previous years. This makes it clear that an inflation pick-up is happening, right in the middle of the year when inflation is usually low...

Wordle tip: Today's wordle is something thats missing from this picture

It’s very funny that in rhetoric Trump goes “this trade negotiations are about REINDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORIES ONE BILLION US STEEL MILLS” and then in practice he’s like “uhh can you lower the taxes on Facebook”

US tariff rates continue to spike to new modern highs amid the trade war—in official data released today, tariffs rose to $28B on $288B in total imports, pushing average effective tariff rates to the highest level in decades at 9.7%

Charge para o @iclnoticias.com.br

DEATH TO AMERICA!

🚨 BEAKING NEWS! 🚨 The Gerontocrats have fled the NYC mainland following its fall to socialist Zohran Mamdani. Sources say he will establish a government in-exile on Staten Island with the goal of eventually reclaiming NYC. Mamdani has promised to purge all remaining Cuomintang on the mainland.

@kenwhite.bsky.social can you explain the charges against Diddy being dropped? idk if it is just court procedure being over sensationalized for clicks or if it's actually a big deal

Russia was planning operation Zeus to murder thousands of civilians across Ukraine on the night of June 1 to get an upper hand with negotiations in Istanbul, that was until Ukraine’s operation web declawed them and destroyed nearly half their strategic bombers. Russia aborted the mission.

russian nuclear aircrafts are shredded, happy Pride

Here's a map of the Roman road network in the time of Hadrian, ~125 CE. There were 29 military highways, 372 great roads joining 113 provinces. In total, it was more than 400,000 km of roads (250,000 miles). For comparison, the US interstate highway system is ~48,000 miles of road.

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

@josephpolitano.bsky.social an idea for an article, using $Trump coin as a measure, how much does influence with the president costs www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

@josephpolitano.bsky.social Assuming the tariffs stay like this, are tariffs on china higher than they were on liberation day?

there are two types of italians and they are both laughing

JD Vance when he sees the new woke pope

JD Vance v. The Papacy

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

Today I talked with @juliavargasjones.bsky.social for @cnn.com about the bomb plot in Lady Gaga”s concert in Brazil.

ProPublica report: 1 million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30% 200K more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade #DOGE Return on evil www.thefarce.org/taxpayers-wi...

I agree that the world would be a better place if Stifler got all of Chris Pratt's roles, but maybe that's a little on us for still calling him Stifler

The first question I've been getting in all chats around the IMF/WB spring meetings: how big is the political risk premium in the US Dollar and how much worse will it get? Lots of buzz how European investors are making a structural reallocation away from the US and how Asian SWFs are doing the same.

The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928 - Bespoke Investment via WSJ