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Erika is an incredible parliamentarian, but you need to meet the person behind this idea: Rick Azevedo. A Black, gay man who worked at a pharmacy, and tired of being exploited, he set out to fight for his own rights and those of all workers in Brazil. They did it together.

Here's Lula celebrating tonight with Erika Hilton, a transgender politician who led the drive to end the six-day work week in Brazil. Erika showed workers solidarity, they showed her solidarity back. Solidarity is how fascism loses.

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A very welcome update to a case I wrote about: A district judge has rejected the Trump admin's attempt to intervene in and then unilaterally dismiss the NAACP's lawsuit against xAI www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The background: Elon Musk's company is powering its enormous data center with dozens of illegal, hazardous turbines in Black neighborhoods The NAACP sued xAI under the Clean Air Act, but then Trump tried to take over as plaintiff and dismiss *their* lawsuit ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Sadly...this is not going to happen, because leaders like @mark-carney.bsky.social would rather burn the planet down to appease their oil/gas masters and big tech overlords. So pathetic. . thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

New: Couple of guys from Kentucky just put out a new way to track money in politics. Been playing around with it—very impressed.

By popular demand: A follow-up thread on Russian bots, Yandex, Cloudflare, MAGA, AfD and "breathing easier" on social media. 1️⃣ We see no "dramatic drop" in traffic of Kremlin-aligned human trolls-for-hire targeting Russian domestic users (which we have been tracking for years).

My mother suffers from asthma, my disabled brother & I are pleading with you from Gaza. Our lives are destroyed. We are living on dirty sand without a tent, craving food & starving. Diseases have spread among us. ‼️We plead with you to help us buy a tent & food. Save us chuffed.org/project/1844...

If you're a fraternity alum (from any school/state) who experienced sexual violence as a member, I'm here to listen. I understand this is extremely sensitive and I will treat your story with the utmost discretion and care. Reach out— Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

YOUR NEW MAIL CARRIER Nearly 1,000 armed guards from Prosegur, with a history of alleged human rights violations, have descended on the United States Postal Service, deploying to at least 55 facilities across the country ahead of Election Day. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Trump officials at USPS have hired the “security” firm Prosegur to station 1,000 armed guards at Post Offices primarily in blue states. Prosegur has a history of human rights violations in Brazil. Mail your ballot at state-approved ballot boxes if at all possible, & avoid these pricks altogether.

*Anthropic* created and used a product which interfered with a murder investigation. It is Anthropic, a company full of people, which can be held accountable for its actions. "Agents" cannot. Don't write like they can.

Love this, from my hometown library. Please share! 🗃️ 📚 🗽 #BannedBooksWeek www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned

incredible this will get little to no coverage

"No longer do I have family there for me when I get out. They've either passed away or stopped talking to me because I am trans. I'm afraid of so many things ... My fear is compounded by my being trans because I know how judgmental society can be."

"All of these people were granted legal protection in the U.S. for fleeing persecution for their LGBTQ status in their countries of origin ... [M]ore than half of them were ineligible for asylum because of a restrictive Biden-era transit ban on asylum seekers."

"[T]he legislation would not place an outright ban on the use of Flock and similar cameras attached to license plate analytics software, nor would it ban the use of AI-powered surveillance systems ... DeFlock [(@deflock.org)] has mapped more than 143,000 APLR cameras across the lower 48 states."

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

My dear friend and her family in Gaza have lost everything; their home, livelihood, and security. This is the case for thousands of Gazans. 

They rely on us. Please give if you can. No amount of donation is too small. And help others. There are many Gazans in need. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1981...

"This is what a broken, corrupt political system looks like: [people] follow the rules, register to vote before the deadline, and still risk losing their ... right to the ballot box because their government failed to do its job."

If you design an app and include an intrusive notification that asks me whether I want to do something and only offers me a choice between "yes" and "later", and then just keeps prompting me, please know that everyone hates you

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"...to the extent that there is such a thing as a mandate..." thats their out. dems dont run on any coordinated concrete set of promised actions so you cant hold them accountable. they run on 'stopping the madness' & other general phrases that cant be measured. its just a job to 90% of these corpos

"The [US] policy of what UN experts have called ​'energy starvation' is wreaking devastation ... Like the Israeli siege that suffocated Gaza before and since the beginning of the genocide, the [US] blockade of Cuba reveals the racist and genocidal logic at work in colonial and imperial sieges."

Israel’s bombardment has damaged 82% of Gaza’s buildings, leaving many structures at risk of collapse. Residents of a six-story building that recently fell knew it was unsafe but stayed because they had no other shelter.

ICE is removing the names of its detainees who are facing final deportation orders from its public online database. The move will disrupt detainees’ legal challenges to deportation and leave their whereabouts unknown to their lawyers and loved ones.

The entire presidential television press pool — Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has agreed to suspend coverage in the wake of Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House

ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”

The Liberals’ move to privatize airport operations is a mistake. Experience shows that adding a profit element can’t help but increase costs and drive cuts to service. And any foreign ownership of critical infrastructure touching our national security is clearly unwise in these times.

All those Carney stans who keep saying he's playing some sort of "3d chess" with Smith and well never build the pipeline. You need to come back to Earth and admit reality. Carney is a Con and is pulled a con, by pretending to be a Liberal.