Musa Okwonga

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Brazil’s election had three winners, says Miguel Lago: Lula, civil society and Jair Bolsonaro, from his jail cell. “Lula’s Final Chapter”: a symposium from @equatormag.bsky.social and @alameda.institute, with Rodrigo Nunes, Anna Raposo de Mello and Juliano Fiori. www.equator.org/articles/bra...

October 27, 1962, was arguably the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a day when human error, rushed preparations, aggressive tactics, and sky-high tensions could have set off World War III intentionally or by accident at least four separate times. Here’s what happened (a long thread):

Neither the consequences nor the astonishing nature of this victory are being discussed enough.

Looking forward to the possibility of Israel voting out the guy who committed genocide in Gaza in favour of the guy who explicitly declared war crimes to be an inherent part of Israeli tactics in Lebanon And then being gaslit by the media that this counts as progress

A 22-year-old Somali asylum seeker with no criminal record was snatched by DHS and flown to Gitmo with 11 other Somalis. @motherjones.com got him on the phone. youtube.com/shorts/nVRFE...

What's good for the market is bad for the people. Seeing the foreign investors that were looking to loot Brazil run away is heartwarming.

Meanwhile Erika Hilton, a congresswoman in Lula’s party, has called on the Federal Police to investigate acts of violence committed by Bolsonaro supporters during the election (including the fatal attack by seven men on Marcelo de Oliveira Rocha, a Lula supporter they were filmed beating to death).

no amnesty

Meanwhile Erika Hilton, a congresswoman in Lula’s party, has called on the Federal Police to investigate acts of violence committed by Bolsonaro supporters during the election (including the fatal attack by seven men on Marcelo de Oliveira Rocha, a Lula supporter they were filmed beating to death).

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

Can’t even fill a right wing village hall meet because of woke.

Meta and their pervert glasses sent all of my favs to the Ballon d'or and its made me really sad

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Fixed it 🔧

The Lads clearly know who Turning Point UK are, and not just that but that they are "unabashedly racist" and have links to both Reform and the Conservatives. Reeeaaaaally feels worth commenting on the fact that this organisation was recently exposed as claiming to be able to contract assassinations

Listen to that echo. Sweet soul music.

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

🤔 they can’t get anyone to migrate to their events?

Here's a direct link to House Dem's Judiciary Cmte report. The executive summary begins: "A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s." democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

They've started a reward fund for credible, independently verifiable information that leads to the arrest and conviction of any person found to be criminally responsible for causing Nolan Wells’ death. They're shooting for $1million and they're at $380K unitegive.com/c/justice-fo...

It’s been a wild 24 hours for me on BlueSky and I’m getting so many messages asking what can be learned from Brazil and applied globally on top of the below. Once again, I’m not a political expert but this is what I’ve seen as a consensus amongst specialists and voters so far 🧵

This is how Biden should have gone for Trump but this is the problem when you go through life thinking you have no apex predators. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

“We all bet we’d get to destroy the Amazon and workers‘ rights, our shareholders are furious“

Erika Hilton aciona PF para investigar casos de violência praticados por bolsonaristas durante eleição: A deputada federal Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) acionou a Polícia Federal (PF) para investigar a onda de violência provocada por bolsonaristas após o primeiro turno das eleições. A… #revistafórum

damn they’re not messing about

“In Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first victory speech, he praised ‘our general’ Andre Janones, the brains behind the online campaign that ensured his stunning comeback.” (Michael Flynn must be fuming) 1/

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

The people you meet and learn from. The best people are kind in every aspect of their lives (my mentor at uni spent his whole life working to improve labour rights).

New podcast up! Real Madrid win the Clásico at Camp Nou, plus some talk about the big Premier League results from the weekend and more. Available on the free feed, or ad-free to members. www.patreon.com/stadio/posts...

Lula Goes HARD

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Erika Hilton, who was instrumental in ending Brazil’s six-day working week. Absolute heroes both of them.

Serbia’s student-led movement has delivered a historic election upset, ending 14 years of rule by Aleksandar Vučić’s party. Millions celebrated across Serbia and Europe.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

That sizeable gap between the first and second round in the Brazil elections is fascinating because it gives you a trailer of what each leader will be like in power. Lula was saying, how can we move forward as a nation. Bolsonaro’s message was “look who we will get to hurt once we are in charge“.

Owner at my local cafe in Berlin came to take my order and within a minute she was saying “oh my god Brazil gives me hope”. She was overflowing with joy. Something extraordinary happened last night. I keep thinking about the alternate timeline, if Bolsonaro had won, and I shudder.

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Bolsonaro was also promising to sell off Brazilian resources like rare earths and other strategic minerals, basically facilitating American imperialism and value extraction from the country. atlasinstitute.org/flavio-bolso...

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.