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Congratulations to Lula on his extraordinary reelection victory in the Brazilian presidential election. Lula has stood up for Brazilian workers & democracy — and will continue to do so in the next four years.

This is the best article of why Lula was able to turn it around. Populist FDR style “New Deal” policies in the country, the people of Brazil appreciate. This is the antidote to the right wing populism, oligarch/fascist fkry, consolidation of wealth and power, and use of hatred scapegoating the politically weak and marginalized people. This is to fascism what garlic is to vampires. FDR knew it and used it to beat back the rise of the Fascist NAZI movement in the USA in the 30s. It’s time for a New, New Deal. aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…

Putin and Trump hope it will - and likely are nudging it in that direction. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Bolsanaro and Vucic both lose on the same day. Hopefully Putins other fascist friends lose soon too.

Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede, "I am going to request the annulment of these elections." US right wing accounts linked to Trump attempting to push disinformation to help Bolsonaro's narrative. Flávio is more likely to face a criminal investigation for corruption instead.

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

Nothing screams America First more than Trump partnering with Russia and China to try to install failed Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán as head of the United Nations. These people are nuts.

It took Andy Burnham just three months to inherit the same levels of hatred and vitriol that drove Keir Starmer out of office. Apparently, we’re now supposed to believe that another lifelong public servant becomes PM and suddenly his mission is to deliberately “import rapists and criminals”, the phrase so many have been conditioned to repeat, and destroy our country. We’re supposed to believe that, are we? Despite immigration falling dramatically under this government and crime declining over the longer term. You can’t even let the man spend one evening at home filming a TV show to raise awareness for a cancer charity without people piling on with manufactured outrage. Just think about how ridiculous that is. Same narratives. Same fearmongering. Same manufactured outrage. And the same people falling for it, just as they did with Starmer. This has nothing to do with Burnham. It wouldn’t have mattered who was in power or what policies they pursued. A decade of manipulation has left people primed to have their fear and anger switched on in a heartbeat and directed at whoever those driving the outrage want to destroy. And so many have become part of that machine without even realising it.

Stephen King hit a nerve. I’ve never seen Elon so angry at him

I want Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, and Stephen Miller, poor and in prison.

Corrupt autocracies prefer to do business with other corrupt autocracies because the profits are personal on both sides, not for the state or the country. No oversight, no investigations.

Elon wants chip fabs on the Moon now. Lunar soil is 20% silicon, he says, so you just mine it, refine it, stamp out solar cells and chips. Next level of the video game. His words. He's a walking 1954 Popular Science cover. "Moon Factories by 1975!" You can picture him red-faced at some poor SpaceX engineer, jabbing a finger at a render: "I saw this in a magazine! Why can't you guys do this?" Because the magazine was fiction, Elon. That's why. Boring question one: water. A single leading-edge fab burns through millions of gallons of ultrapure water every day, the kind filtered and polished until it turns chemically aggressive and rips ions out of anything it touches. Making it takes an industrial plant of its own. On the Moon you'd be chipping ice out of permanently shadowed craters at minus 230 C and feeding it through a purification chain that doesn't exist, powered by energy that also doesn't exist. Boring question two: shaking. Lithography machines sit on tuned vibration isolation, springs and masses and counterweights engineered around Earth's gravity down to the millimeter. Lunar gravity is one sixth of that. Every spring rate and tuned mass in the stack assumes 1 g, and the Moon has its own moonquakes nobody has fully mapped. So forget shipping a fab up there. You'd have to redesign the entire physics package from scratch, in a hailstorm of charged abrasive dust that eats seals and bearings for breakfast. And here's the part that makes it funny instead of just dumb. NASA studied all of this while Elon was still in college. Ignatiev and Freundlich published the actual paper in 1991: waste silicon from regolith processing, vacuum-deposited thin-film cells laid right on the surface. Serious work, fifteen years of it, and by 2005 the best anyone could promise was 5-8% efficient cells sprayed on melted moon glass, economical only at megawatt scale. Chips? Never in the plan. Not once, in thirty years of study. Then a 2006 follow-up walked back even the crude version, because melted regolith is too lumpy and dirty to make a decent substrate. The 2025 research gave up on purifying lunar silicon entirely and just ships the semiconductor layer from Earth. Thirty years of papers saying "hard pass" and this guy shows up with the crayon version of a 1991 NASA study, calls it visionary, and the fanboys clap like he invented the Moon. He isn't a genius ahead of his time. He's a man who skips the reading, and it shows every single time he opens his mouth just to pump his cult stocks.

Elon Musk is afraid of Talarico because he [Musk] has a lot of business in Texas. It has nothing to do with principles or programs; for Musk, it's all about the Benjamins.

Just like 🇬🇧Reform slipping behind in the polls, 🇩🇪AfD is now also "falling to its lowest level in months"👇 Looks like far right parties with dodgy finances are losing their appeal (with Trump's totally corrupt 🇺🇸 administration also serving as a wake-up call)

Fantastic news. Nationalism, corruption, and flirting with Moscow have been sidelined, mostly by Serbian youth. They know that their future will be bleak if it doesn’t lie with Europe. Vučić’s defeat paves the way for hope—but the road ahead will be steep. bbc.com/news/articles/cw5yn3…

🇷🇸🇪🇺 Goodbye, Putin. Putin has just lost another ally in Europe: Serbia. In the same year, he loses both Orbán and Serbia. The student-backed list is projected to win an outright parliamentary majority. The entire Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia will be in Europe’s orbit. Whether you like it or not, Moscow.

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…

RT @peterjukes: Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous and ill thought out. Th…