Disaster Nationalism, out in October from @VersoBooks

"Government insiders have told the Guardian the project can be approved on a strict reading of Britain’s climate obligations, in part because once the oil is exported, the emissions from burning it no longer count against domestic targets. “Miatta has more latitude than you might think,” said one."

This is insanity masquerading as creative accounting.

#Budget2026: lots of small measures but nothing that seriously addresses the scale of the cost of living crisis, now set to worsen sharply over the next year. Banks, making extraordinary profits in the last few years will be breathing a sigh of relief that they got off so lightly

"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s."

Incredible reporting here from @awinston

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This is the Israeli opposition: demanding Palestinians endorse the Nakba and the Israeli ethnostate and that they participate in the genocide of their own people.

I wrote something for @thenation about lessons for the left from Lula's historic victory

Brazil’s election had three winners, says Miguel Lago: Lula, civil society – and Jair Bolsonaro, from his jail cell.

“Lula’s Final Chapter”: a symposium from @Equatormag and @alamedainst with Rodrigo Nunes, Anna Raposo de Mello and Juliano Fiori equator.org/articles/brazi…

RT @BRASILWIRE: President Lula states that he will "go all out" against Meta, saying that Brazil will not accept a foreign company negative…

Colonizers and enslavers have always developed and used technologies to calculate the evaluate the lives of the colonised. My review of NAZA and the inflation in Israeli Necro-Economics from the Al Aqsa intifada to the genocide. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/…

I worked the Brazilian elections for France 24.
For what it's worth (and armed with a degree in History and Politics!!), here's my take on what happened.

How did Lula win the runoff? By winning over those who didn’t vote for him in round 1. His biggest gains came in places with more women, more white voters and more evangelicals. 🧵

How did Lula come from behind to crush Bolsonaro?

In short, turnout.

Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in 1st round and won eliminated candidates' votes.

A remarkable mobilisation. 2nd round turnout usually below 1st.

Full on crisis underway in Israel as the military is pushing back on a Netanyahu order re Iran

Don’t mean to be a downer but he’ll have to govern with the most conservative/ hard right legislature in the country's recent history.

🚨 Lula Mounts Comeback, Wins Brazil Election

With 96% of polling stations counted, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pulled ahead of Flávio Bolsonaro by about 4.1 million votes, 51.73% to 48.27%, according to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Projections show Lula ential term against the son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, who beat him by more than 2 million votes in the first round and led the early count tonight.

Datafolha, the polling institute of the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, has called the race for Lula. So has Andrei Roman, CEO of the pollster AtlasIntel, even though his firm's final poll on Saturday had Bolsonaro narrowly ahead. The Brazilian outlet ICL also called it for Lula. The TSE has not yet declared an official result.

Serbia's Vučić concedes election defeat to student-led protest movement bbc.in/4sst0lV

🚨🇧🇷 Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin extended voting nationwide by two hours, to 7 p.m. Brasília time, after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's campaign reported bus shortages in nine states during Sunday's runoff against Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of jailed olsonaro.

🔸Electoral rules require cities to run free transit at weekday levels on election day. In Salvador, in Lula's northeastern stronghold, Bahia's electoral court ordered the arrest of the city's mobility secretary, Pablo Souza, for withholding buses. In São Paulo, a court had ordered Mayor Ricardo Nunes, a Bolsonaro ally, to put out the full fleet. Lula's campaign says still only about 60% of buses were running.

🔸 Zanin stepped in after justice Kassio Nunes Marques, who has faced criticism over his alleged bias in favor of Bolsonaro, failed to rule before 5 p.m. when voting was set to close, leading to scenes of confusion at polling locations as some sites were forced to reopen.

🔸 Lula told reporters he had never complained about an election, win or lose. "But this time something abominable is happening," he said, according to The Guardian.

🔸 The fallout could reach beyond a delayed count. Eloísa Machado de Almeida, a constitutional law professor at FGV in São Paulo, said that if mayors coordinated with the Bolsonaro campaign to keep people from voting, Flávio's ticket and any mandate it wins could be annulled, and he could be barred from running.

🔸 It's not the first time. In the 2022 runoff, which Lula narrowly won, federal highway police under then-President Jair Bolsonaro stopped buses carrying voters, mostly in the northeast.

🎥 Overcrowded bus garage in São Paulo's East Zone and Lula says right to vote is under attack across Brazil

🇫🇷 Far-right groups attacked protesters in 14 French cities during Saturday's nationwide marches, according to Mathilde Panot, who leads the left-wing France Unbowed in parliament. "The police were present but allowed these individuals to act. Why?" she asked.

In Nice, dozens of hooded militants beat demonstrators, injuring three people, before police arrested 11 of them. France Unbowed lawmaker Louis Boyard said about 50 neo-Nazis "armed with knives and iron bars" roamed the city freely, and demanded answers from Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez: "Why did the Ministry of the Interior do nothing to prevent this violence?"

Nuñez, briefing reporters Saturday evening, blamed "radical far-left and ultra-left militants" for breaking away from the marches "to commit illegal acts," without mentioning the far right. He said nearly 1,000 people were arrested nationwide on Saturday.

📢 🇫🇷PTO EXTRA 🇫🇷 📢- @Sapronov27 on the origins of the French protests, the scale of police violence, the decadence of late stage Macronism, and what the implications of the protests are for next year's elections:

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Information exclusive Blast : le Premier ministre a préparé la coupure des réseaux sociaux pour le 24 octobre

Deux jours avant la manifestation du 24 octobre, le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a demandé à Orange, SFR, Free et Bouygues Telecom de se tenir prêts à couper l’accès à TikTok, Instagram ,Snapchat et X. Blast révèle la lettre et le compte rendu de la réunion qui a suivi, où les opérateurs ont exprimé leurs doutes. Le gouvernement avait déjà utilisée cette mesure liberticide en Nouvelle-Calédonie en 2024, avant d’être désavoué par le Conseil d’État.

Par @yanmdi.

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Incroyable opération de manipulation sur télé Bolloré.

@CNEWS présente comme provenant de Paris des images de manifestations en Albanie pour faire croire à la préparation de violences par les manifestants !

Allô @Arcom_fr vous comptez réagir ?