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Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

3 hours ago the Brazilian Supreme Court rejected any challenge to the election results. Just now Flavio Bolsonaro has dropped his objections. Lula is President it cannot be stopped, and Flavio Bolsonaro will be going on trial for corruption. And then to jail.

We are going to end humanity and decided to enjoy it while we can.

The tech industry and Trump are trying to rush data centers and nuclear waste storage on public lands and legally lock them in. westwise.substack.com/p/the-senate...

The tech industry wants to ram AI into our lives whether we like it our not. They are even telling us that it may end humanity in several scenarios. One scenario they don’t want to share is the climate consequences from the amount of pollution and water use. apnews.com/article/anth...

Microsoft is displacing human jobs and livelihoods to build machines.

Europe is living through an “era of darkness” as multiple wars and competition between the U.S. and China trample the rules-based global order, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said today.

Damning report on Trump and Epstein

Iran wasn't running out of firepower. It was holding back. Now vessels are being sunk, missile tests are accelerating, and the scale of attacks is expanding dramatically. What we're witnessing should terrify Trump's war planners.

Nepal is an another climate disaster that the world has moved on from. The cost to rebuild is astronomical. The UN Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage has approved a mere $20 million. www.reuters.com/business/env... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

The youth showed up in massive support in Brazil and Serbia. The youth are demanding change across the world. The mid terms will be one of the last few chances American youth will have to create a better future before entrenching us in a techno oligarchy allied with a Christofascism and a Mad King.

Why is the media refusing to cover the Cuban humanitarian crisis manufactured by Trump and Rubio? news.un.org/en/story/202...

Trump and Rubio are going to try to make Lula’s term hell. I hope other countries make trade deals with Brazil and provide support in other ways. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

The world needed hope right now - and Brazil delivered it. After a wave of pro-American far-right candidates swept Latin America, Lula defied the odds. The world's fourth largest democracy has been saved from far-right authoritarianism. Here's to hope ✊

The Heritage Foundation adviser who recruited 12 bishops to pray over Trump in the Oval Office claimed a Ph.D. from an Italian university that doesn’t grant doctorates. His listed bachelor’s school is a high school. A Vatican official called the meeting an insult to Pope Leo XIV.

Brazil to Trump: Drop Dead

Bulgaria, what’s going on? Low voter turnout during these times. 🤯 www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Tonight was also a win against the tech oligarchy for trying to sway the Brazilian election. Shame on Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. You lost.

Brazil keep Lula safe and please start building a coalition of up and coming leaders for the future so you don’t go back and forth. We promise we will try to do the same and never get to the point of Don Jr. running. 😬

Thank you Lord. First Serbia and now Brazil. Congratulations Brazil!!! LULA!!!!

Lula over 50% www.reuters.com/graphics/BRA...

I need a Brazillian Wasserman .

These people are so lost from humanity. If you can’t genuinely come up with what is special about your own daughter and feel so overwhelmed that you use an AI agent to give you answers, then you are very broken. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it Wendell Berry

Brazil needs to look at the devestation of Indonesia from deforestation that will affect their economy for a long time. The promised riches from Bolsonaro will be short term gain for miners and ranchers with long time pain for the whole country. www.democracynow.org/2026/10/23/h...

Memphis is in an extreme drought while city leaders carelessly allow Elon Musk to drain our aquifer by over 820,000 gallons a day with no water recycling plant.

If Brazil falls to Bolsonaro the Amazon will be decimated and corruption will take over South America.

Wow. The Student List movement is posed to defeat authoritarian leader Vucic following nearly two years of protests against government and institutional corruption. Congrats Serbia. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Chaos in Brazil as widespread voter suppression alleged due to disruptions of public transportation. Counting of ballots in the presidential election reportedly suspended. Judge orders polls to stay open for 2 more hours. g1.globo.com/politica/ele...

Lula 🙏 🦋 🌴 🐸🪲🦎🦜

It would be comical if it weren’t so deranged that Trump supporters think Dems are going to take away their freedoms while under Trump the freedoms of the press, speech, reproductive autonomy, books, voting access, birthright citizenship, due process, and protest have been attacked or diminished.

For Serbians, ousting the Russian-backed Vucic regime after its decade of looting the country is serious business, so serious that some come directly from their own wedding to cast ballots.

Extreme heat killed more than 50,000 Europeans this summer. Climate change was responsible for two-thirds of the death toll. Those are the stark findings from two new peer-reviewed studies in the academic journal Nature Health. 🔗 vist.ly/5pvw3

The Republican Party is being backed by some of the most harmful individuals, corporations, and groups in society. Koch, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Ellison, Putin, Netanyahu, the oil industry, the coal industry, and Christian nationalists to name a few. History will not be kind to any of them.

Another thing that Trump, Netanyahu and Putin share is a love for threatening world nuclear annihilation if they don't get their way and a conviction that this is a very effective negotiating device. Actually it's strong evidence of moral depravity and disrespect for the dignity of human life.

Grim stories from Brazil. Indigenous voters going to the city a day early because they don’t trust their state not to cut off their travel routes on election day: www.instagram.com/reel/De4z6kP... - while many flights to the north east, a pro-Lula region, have been cancelled without explanation.

Praying for Lula and the Amazon Rain Forest today.

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Obama: "The one thing that the current president is focused on other than home improvements is enriching himself ... we've got a US ambassador shaking down a donor to pay off her credit card bills. We learned a Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon so he paid one of Trump's lawyers $50 million"

Brazil votes on Sunday in an election that will help shape the future of the world: fascism or social progress. I’ve joined 40 MPs and 10 union general secretaries warning against Trump’s interference in Brazil - which is a blatant attempt to stop Lula winning. Read our statement below.

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Hey Alaska, how do you feel about this deal? Trump sold you out! American CEO resigns over a $25 billion scandal in Alaska involving Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and the sanctioned Russian energy company Novatek, who was secretly financing the Gas venture. united24media.com/world/sancti...