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I created a "BlueSky for Abdul" donation campaign with a goal of $10,000 for Abdul. If you hate the Islamophobic campaign directed against him, and appreciate how he is fighting against Trump's fascism, please donate what you can.

Fascism can be defeated it has been defeated before and it will be defeated again we will unmake their creations with our own hands and burn them to ash in the wind Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

A part of this not mentioned is that Texas used to let kids transition. I volunteered at a camp for trans kids in Houston when I was in college (pre transition I know I know how did I not know I was trans). Guess where part of that camp was? Texas Children’s. That’s how much we lost

Sometimes I read published journals or books and I am like damn if I made the same claim with the same evidence (or lack thereof) and tried to publish it, reviewer #2 would personally come to my house and kill me.

“They have dragged people from their houses, and prevented the media from getting into the district to cover up what is happening. “Netanyahu and his gang are using Palestinian land to displace Palestinian people, closing the city, closing the mosque, to achieve their political goals.”

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

Another data point for the “Yglesias brain is cooked” hypothesis. Imagine thinking that it doesn’t matter for American democracy if other countries are taken over by autocratic regimes. We just saw the result when Orban lost power and a bunch of conservative influencers had their income vaporized.

The only election overturned because of fraud in my life time was a 2022 congressional election in NC because the republicans literally took blank ballots and filled them out for the republican candidate

"In Rouen, a video...shows far-right activists charging protesters, some of whom are beaten on the ground. According to Libération, the police then intervened against several people who had just been attacked while some of the assailants stayed behind the police cordon" www.20min.ch/fr/story/fra...

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

someone really wants to join his dad in jail and/or the hospital

These anti-trans Dems are saying "biological males" should be banned from girls sports because they know exactly how bad it sounds if they say "transgender girls" should be banned from girls sports. They're using "biological males" framing as a sort of self-justification and self-soothing.

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.

He really wants to join his father in jail.

Trabalhadores e trabalhadoras do Brasil, uni-vos. Nós merecemos respeito.

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

So Lula not only won, he basically doubled his margin of victory from 2022. I'm guessing he won thanks to voters who didn't love him, but were terrified to see Flavio given near-dictatorial power. It's going to be a messy next chapter for Brazil, but at least it'll be a fight, not a curb-stomping.

And on AI: “I don’t want to depend on Chinese nor American AI. I want to create a Brazilian intelligence.” He also mentioned having Brazilian data centres dealing with our intelligence. “We will no longer be a peripheral country. We want to be central.”

let's fucking go

BRAZIL'S LULA: WE WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE RUN THIS COUNTRY, WE WILL MAKE PEOPLE PARTICIPATE MORE IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

BRAZIL'S LULA: WE NEED TO REGULATE DIGITAL PLATFORMS

The president is demanding that Republican Senate candidates stand next to him at rallies where he talks about asses (mostly one man’s) and brags about making gas prices higher. If his candidates lose, it’s because the elections were rigged.

Ha!

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.

Lula beat Flavio Bolsonaro today by about 3.5 points (51.8% to 48.2%), approximately twice his 1.8-point margin over Jair Bolsonaro 4 years ago.

A popular uprising of Serbian students — who put forward a list of experts and technocrats to oust the country's corrupt mini-Putinist strongman — have succeeded spectacularly. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Now let’s learn from Brazil. The Right sabotaged the elections, interfered with transportation, used AI to makeup shit. They still lost. People power. Power to the people. #brasil

Lula Goes HARD

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.