Brutus

Brutus

@thatbrutus.bsky.social

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Replying to @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Well as the old adage goes, “if you see one cockroach, there’s probably like one more from the Netherlands but that’s it”

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This is how it works repeatedly with Trump — something pretty much everyone agrees is fucked up then Trump jumps in to side with the fucked up thing, and the result is not a story that's like "Trump sides with fucked up thing" but to change the fucked up thing to instead become "controversial"

CNN@cnn.com

President Donald Trump on Thursday encouraged Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to keep running a controversial ad featuring his opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/3UH9xBq

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it's not the only thing going on here but i would submit that if the single fact you knew about Acton's relationship with her mother is that the last time they spoke or saw each other was when Acton was 12, that alone might call into question Acton's mother's authority as a character witness

That one character from the Third Episode of Edge Runners is going to hit the internet like a goddamn nuke when more people start watching the show.

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Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

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Wow. Vivek Ramaswamy admits he was responsible for the despicable attack ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother.

The Rooster@rooster.info

Conman comes clean, admits it’s his ad. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

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the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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"Perhaps the bleakest factoid is that the US is even less popular as a tourist destination than Nazi Germany in the 1930s." This is a really big deal on so many levels. It's also so damn depressing. Trump really does ruin everything.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

New in PN: Who wants to visit an authoritarian America? "Data shows the US on its way to being as unpopular a tourist destination as Russia, & for roughly the same reasons. In both countries, a tourist who runs afoul of the govt might spend months in a freezing warehouse without no legal counsel."

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Beating up a woman at a Trump rally is ghastly. But she didn't exactly inspire civility when she arrived in a shirt reminding the crowd of their icon's ties to child sex trafficking. by David Brooks

unironically so hyped for the next season of Edgerunners, the last couple of trailers have destroyed my doubts that this will be bad.

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called it baby

Micah@rincewind.run

I believe someone can manage a fractional Scaramucci this term, it's gonna happen

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An even better response would be “I thought that JD converted to Catholicism and was busy now telling the pope how his views aren’t Catholicism.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KARL: JD Vance called your views 'left wing radicalism dressed in the skin suit of our religion' and said they 'aren't Christianity.' ADAM HAMILTON: I thought it was a sad statement that the VP would come here and attack the faith of the pastor of the largest church in the state of Kansas

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i am increasingly of the belief that this type of shit is at least as corrosive to democratic society as out-and-out fascism is

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel calls on Democratic lawmakers to set aside plans to impeach President Trump if they win a majority in the House, pushing them instead to pass an ethics reform package.

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Replying to @rincewind.run

stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually