Functionally extinct

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Lula Goes HARD

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

L'appartement du terroriste de Trappes était piégé. Depuis qu'on se fait rire au nez quand on alerte sur le risque terroriste d'extrême droite, la libération du discours raciste (cf, récemment, la "France des wallah" de Bardella) encourage le passage à l'acte. www.franceinfo.fr/faits-divers...

A fascist opened fire on people of colour in Trappes and Verriere near Paris, killing one person and injuring 5 more incl a 12 yo girl who was shot 8 times. He opened fire at a children's playground and a hijabi woman. He also shot dead a young black man. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

In 2022, Jordan Bardella called Trappes "a miniature Islamic republic, the European capital of Jihad. All of France's future is at risk if we don't take back control" And now someone opened fire at random people of colour in Trappes. x.com/j_bardella/s...

"The significance is not that an algorithm has replaced human violence. It is that these systems increase the scale, speed and bureaucratic distance at which violence is organised, while cloaking life-and-death decisions in the appearance of technical objectivity."

quelle tristesse! soupir... soupir... encore des soupirs...quelle tristesse www.ledevoir.com/culture/medi...

I wonder if there’s any group other than Muslims you could write this about and keep your column at @theatlantic.com

This Black MAGA creator says she “cannot believe the disrespect” after being removed from a San Antonio rally hosted by Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton!?!?! Why would they treat her this way???

Universities in the United States and Canada have fired, suspended and harassed employees for speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, often using ostensibly neutral disciplinary procedures to conceal politically motivated retaliation. electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...

Helm, an author-journalist married to National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell, wrote on X: “God help us authors who support Palestine & Palestine Action” re: Sally Rooney's publisher's announcement that her books can no longer be sold in the UK after she pledged the royalties to Palestine Action.

nainpoléon a déclaré la guerre à la .... jeunesse de France

"The Gun Violence Archive, which tracks shootings across the US, has documented 369 mass shootings in 2026 so far, defined as incidents where there were four or more victims injured or killed, not including the suspect.". 369 mass shootings in 2026 so far. 369!!

What is horrific about this graph is that Israel was buying more arms/GDP than anyone else in the world, and was using that armament to bomb a population of people trapped inside an open-air prison:

Not a novel observation on my part but the language ('agents' 'on their own', 'tried') here is a gift to the AI companies. 'Petroleum-flow agents, acting on their own, burst from BP's containment system and tried to gain access to a wide range of locations within the Gulf of Mexico,' kinda thing.

Maybe this kind of celebration is more apposite for someone who has been one of the intellectual architects of .. well let me stop there. thephilosophicalsalon.com/foucault-the...

Alberta separatism is a potent attempt to launder a broader far-right, anti-immigrant movement through the language of western alienation. The danger is that, even if separatism fails at the ballot box, it will normalize and build organizational power for a white nativist vision of Canada.

Is the internet finally unusable? Time to go back to faxes and landlines | First Dog on the Moon

After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson. buff.ly/v8VwPYu

I need someone to give me room to write about this moment in anti Muslim hate because there’s a reason Nidal Hassan is who is being killed by live firing squad. And it’s the same reason Ilhans house was raided.

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

The Mitchells vs the Machines ...

Getting fired by this White House for being too unethical. It’s like being suspended by the ‘86 Mets for doing too much blow.

At least 139 people, including children, have died after a boat carrying 305 migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti in east Africa, the International Organization for Migration said.

"Michel’s great virtue is his persistence,” said Haynes Miller, an M.I.T. professor emeritus of mathematics who is close to Dr. DeGraff and who says his friend is not an antisemite. 'He doesn’t give up. If he sees an injustice he will attack it.'"

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

Netanyahu demands probe into sources for award-winning Gaza film NAZA https://aje.news/4v4wvf

Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯