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“Rape culture is a society that condones male aggression both emotionally and physically towards women. It’s a society that has made sexual remarks, sexual touching, to rape itself, a norm for all members of the community & inflicts fear into the hearts of all women everywhere they may go.” #r4today

The same people asking that question would be calling him antisemitic.

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

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

UK Chancellor pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes'. Fiddling at the edges. Need redistribution of income and wealth. End profiteering in housing, energy, water, essentials. Increase tax personal allowance.

NEW | Have I Got Barely Any Views For You… THE AMOL RAJAN DISCONNECTION The former BBC big name’s big mistake is thinking that being well-known equates to be being well-liked. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-amol-r...

Nigel Farage is on #r4today again, peddling the myth that Brexit has been a success. I wonder if Nick Robinson will ask him some hard questions about his party’s finances.

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...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

“A ceasefire agreement in Gaza has not stopped what a group of independent experts commissioned by the U.N. say is genocide carried out by Israel in the territory, the team said in a new report Mon. They also accused Israeli forces of crimes against humanity, incl torture & rape, in the West Bank.”

Yissss

More and more flowers

Right, so, male influencers are being sent out to tell Black people that resisting data centers is wrong actually because people don't understand how to really measure their water use. It’s an appeal to scientific expertise intended to intimidate Black people.

Pres.Trump backtracked on disparaging rmks he made abt Libya at a rally on Sat after auths in the ctry summoned the U.S. chargé d’affaires. Libyan PM Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah responded: “We will not accept Libya’s dignity & its ppl being used as material for electoral disputes.” aa.com.tr/en/americas/...

Tanzanian opposition activist Twaha Mwaipaya has gone missing in Kenya, acc to a police report seen by Reuters. Mwaipaya was travelling by taxi to visit friends in Nairobi when ​three men intercepted the car & took him away, Amnesty Int. researcher Sikula Oniala said. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Lula Goes HARD

Bell Ribery Addy hits the nail on the head: “We alwys apologise to our equals.” The King refuses to apologise for slavery bec he don’t see ex-colonised ppl as equals. The purveyors of institutionalised racism use classism to oppress poor white ppl & racism to give them s/o to look down on. #r4today

The presenter of #r4today opines.

In its earlier reporting, #r4today highlighted Lula’s age as a potential obstacle to his presidential ambitions. Yet, when reporting on Trump’s possible response to Lula’s successful campaign, age suddenly becomes irrelevant.

I’m sure #r4today journalists would have been revelling in the results of the Brazilian election if the’f gone the other way. Cheer up, guys. There’s still the AfD in Germany and Marine Le Pen in France to pin your hopes on.

Tice says Lab is the party of welfare, unlike Reform who are the party of corporate welfare. MPs trough on state subsidies while asking the poor to cope w/ systemic violence. Who’s gaming the system? Ppl on benefits they can barely live on or MPs who legislate themselves a gravy train? #r4today

Sadiq Khan probably thinks Londoners need more exercise. And, to be fair, he might be onto something. #r4today

“BREAKING: Lula Calls for Arrests of Brazilian Mayors Who Cut Off Bus Service on Election Day” 10/25/26 … 1/

Here’s the editor of the Intercept Brazil as Lula tells the press that “something abominable is happening”

This is the Brazil thread you are looking for

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

The night before the election in Rio de Janeiro 😍

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

A very good thread on the policing of protest in France.