Very important to keep this point at the front while the neolib opportunists use this as yet another corralling effort in the USA.
Despite how happy I am for Brazil, the hypocrisy of the international applause is hard to ignore. The same actors cheering Lula’s 4th term called Chávez a dictator for it and vilified PSUV for “human rights abuses” while turning a blind eye to Lula’s troops committing rape and war crimes in Haiti. Lula is afforded their sympathy because he maintained neoliberal economics, played nice with Noboa and Jolani, blocked Venezuela from BRICS, and aligned with U.S. intervention abroad. This election result is, without a doubt, a victory for the sovereignty of Latin America against egregious election interference. But not all those applauding are cheering for our sovereignty. And, as yet another Latin American country joins U.S. mercenaries in Haiti, it’s pretty gross that certain ‘human rights activists’ (especially the Latin American pachamama libs) ignore the stain on humanity that was MINUSTAH simply because it was in service of the U.S. interests.
How many articles would Jacobin have written about Lula being a self absorbed asshole or something long before his political program was built?
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⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported.
Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia.
The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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I'm very very sad tonight. I just learned that Stephen Biesty passed away in 2024 at 63... He is one of my favorite artist. Rest in peace.
Sometimes I remember that the Democratic Party coup’d Henry Wallace in 1944 and you still delude yourselves into thinking we’re a few liberal elections away from what we deserve. Things are not bad cause we want it that way, it’s cause too many keep opting for the same okie doke.
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The LA Times wrote about the police union (Bass’s biggest donor) honoring Daryl Gates two weeks ago.
Shouldn’t Karen Bass disavow the police union’s endorsement?
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Karen Bass’s police Chief sent an honor guard (on duty cops) and a helicopter to honor Daryl Gates. You paid for it.
The police union held the Daryl Gates event. Bass needs to reject the union’s endorsement & demand the $5.6M the union is spending to reelect Bass be returned.
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We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C.
This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny:
Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn.
THREAD 👇
ALT Close-up of Sen. Lindsey Graham wearing a dark suit
ALT Close-up of Rep. James Clyburn wearing black square frames, a dark blue suit, and a red patterned tie
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RIP to Richard Riehle, who had more than FOUR HUNDRED credits, including the stressed out liaison in “Office Space” and the prison guard who spun a “bullshit story” in “The Fugitive.” 🙏🏻
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In the last few months:
The Orioles owner said he bought the team because all of his friends who had sports teams made more than he ever could in private equity
The Padres sold for $3.9B, 63% more than the previous record
The Angels then sold for $4.0B, beating the Padres record
So why then are billionaires lighting money on fire by bailing out other billionaires from the apparent financial ruin of owning a baseball team?
It's because they're all making billions in appreciation and teams like the Yankees can sell just 16% for $2.6 BILLION (MLB of course waived the 15% cap lol) with an additional $1B in tax-exempt revenue bonds to refinance debt in their other business ventures
Seriously, who would pass up on an infinite money glitch like that?
I'm begging you all to realize owners just want a cap to make accounting easier. They're lying about competitive balance to create a narrative that is only in place to win them cost certainty
The “organizer” to politician pipeline has been devastating for demands based movements.
Bass is too opportunistic and too cynical to give a shit about Daryl Gates. Raman is too new to L.A and too vacuous to give a shit about Daryl Gates.
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The LAPD labor contract expires in eight months. The next mayor will begin negotiations w/the police union in the next few months.
The police union is spending a ton of money to support Bass, and will expect big raises in return. Her last police contract broke our city:
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We no longer have ANY Blue Collar artists in R&B. We have Jazz sophisticates, Kingpin wannabes, Queen Beys, Talented Nepos, Those Ready To Rule their imaginary fiefdoms . We don’t have bus/drivers who can REALLY sing.
Nobody’s looking either.
