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“Brazilians have made their choice at the ballot box, and the Amazon rainforest has another chance,” a climate expert said of Lula's surprise reelection on Sunday.

Why isn’t EVERYONE pointing this out?

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Interested in conversation analysis? Loughborough University's DARG team @darg-sessions.bsky.social are holding the next one-day online *CA for Beginners* on January 14th 2027. More info here: emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin... Registration in online at store.lboro.ac.uk £45 Students £90 Professionals

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in new comments Thursday, did not rule out that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results — a process over which the federal government has no authority. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

republicans’ closing message could not be clearer: they are the party of pedophile rapists

NEW: The Wisconsin Politics Group Chat reacts to the one and only general election debate between David Crowley and Tom Tiffany. Crowley is sounding like a pragmatic leader, Tiffany like someone who can't be trusted. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/wisconsin-...

🤷🏼 whoopsy atlantablackstar.com/2026/10/21/a...

There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

Elizabeth Warren Is 💯% Correct...

Gare du Nord, Paris France Art Nouveau style entrance to the Métro in cast iron & glass. Now protected as a historic monument. Designed by Hector Guimard from 1900. #Architecture #ArtNouveau #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday

Of course vance defends vivek's vile, indefensible ad. The GOP will always side with rapists, abusers and bullies. What kind of man makes such an ad? What kind of man defends it? Not a good man. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Racial profiling + ICE abuse lead to death. Link: buff.ly/8DrOocs

Komorebi.

Voted early today. Go and do it before Election Day to avoid whatever b.s. scams the repubs try to pull on Nov. 3rd.

A portrait of the Ontario Minister of Transport

Sen. Jon Ossoff sees the big picture. And articulates it beautifully.

“CNN’s coverage of the moment featured a terrible headline suggesting El-Sayed’s disavowal was the news, rather than his compelling defense of the Constitution…Furthermore, it turns out America Next is a nonprofit founded by Tommy’s dad’s old boss, Bobby Jindal... Jindal still seems involved…”

And there’s more: “A conservative PAC called America Next offered College Republicans $200 to travel to an upcoming El-Sayed town hall to “boo” him and ask him inflammatory questions—hoping to spark embarrassing viral moments for the candidate.” Wow, did THAT backfire big time.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

“Elon Musk, the guy with all the White-supremacist-aligned thoughts and connections, is by far the biggest funder of Ken Paxton in Texas and of GOP candidates across the country. They are taking millions from a hate merchant. And he owns them. Period.” My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.

Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

I'm not sure I'd have Abdul cook my hamburger. Because he burned this guy pretty bad.

Autumn.

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Robotaxis routinely fail, causing traffic chaos, in temperate San Francisco. Now, as Doug Ford rips out bike lanes, #Toronto is being told to step aside + welcome Waymo. Snow, streetcars—it ain’t gonna end well. And why is Canada’s largest city allowed to be a test ground for the tech bros? 👇

Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action. This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.

Dem state AGs and state legislatures need to open up immediate investigations into how the platforms are interfering in these elections on behalf of Trump and the Rs. bsky.app/profile/ezra...

remember tiktok is basically owned by Trump cronies now.

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

Good trail run on a cool autumn day.

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

meanwhile, in Paris

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AP: "Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the Catholic Church’s pastoral services to Catholics in the U.S. military…stipulated that any Catholic soldier assigned to the U.S. Army firing squad should ask to be excused from that duty, which he described as contrary to the teachings of the church."

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

Enjoyed the annual UWSP DPT 5k today! Congrats to the UWSP DPT student organization on a well-run race!

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Within a generation, almost all of the interurbans were gone, tracks torn up, urban dwellers forced into car ownership. So how did it happen—and could something like interurbans come back? I dug into the story in High Speed, my transit and train travel blog: www.highspeed.blog/interurban-n...