Vivek Ramaswamy, Flavio Bolsonaro, and the Corrosive “Never Apologize” Culture What happens to a political system when admitting error is vilified as weakness, refusing to apologize is venerated as courage, and shamelessness is embraced as a virtue?

After the first round of Brazil's Presidential voting on Oct. 5, Bolsonaro appeared to be the clear frontrunner to defeat Lula in this Sunday's run-off after Bolsonaro's party crushed the left all over the country and Bolsonaro finished in first round ahead of Lula. Since then,…Mostrar mais

Isso seria censura pura e simples -- a criação, pelo Judiciário, de leis eleitorais que não existem. Moraes abusou esse regime de censura para ajudar Lula em 2022 (e durante anos antes e depois disso), mas isso seria uma forma grave e perigosa de censura eleitoral.

I spoke with the independent journalist @infinite_jaz, who was present during the violent, brutal attack by Israeli settlers -- terrorists -- on the WashPost photojournalist Heidi Levine and others. He explains how ordinary this is now, with the full participation of the IDF.

When Bari Weiss fired CBS' London Bureau Chief Claire Day for reporting negatively on Israel, she replaced her with one of the media's most brazen Israel loyalists: Shayndi Raice, who is a Zionist caricature.🇮🇱 She's now predicatably attacking CBS journalists for showing Israe…Mostrar mais

New poll from one of Brazil's most "prestigious" firms shows Bolsonaro with a 2-point lead over Lula for the Oct. 25 run-off. Worth noting that all of these big firms again dramatically under-counted Bolsonaro voters for the 1st round, yet this firm got the 2022 run-off right:

It's worth remembering that Obama, in 2016, was asked by The Atlantic's neocon editor, @JeffreyGoldberg, why he didn't do more to protect Crimea and E. Ukraine. Obama said Ukraine is a vital interest to Russia, but not the US, and it'd be insane to risk war with Russia over it.

As conversas entre Fred Kachar e Vorcaro são, obviamente, um escândalo para a Globo por vários motivos. Mas há um aspecto que é tão patético e que, embora possa parecer trivial, é bastante revelador: A maioria das conversas consiste em Kachar mandando mensagens a Vorcaro, implor…Mostrar mais

We used to hang very similar warning posters on the walls of our studio, but we never managed to make them as concise and to the point as this one from the Cornell protesters:

As was completely predictable (and predicted), Trump's policy of bombing speed boats near Venezuela and Colombia has killed hundreds of people while having no success in impeding the flow of cocaine into the US. In fact, reports the @WSJ, cocaine is more plentiful, purer and che…Mostrar mais

Alguém se surpreende que grandes setores da esquerda e seus ativistas de estimação na mídia (como o "Reporter Renatinho") estejam acusando a Veja de cometer crimes e defendendo a prisão de seus jornalistas pelo "crime" de publicar reportagens que prejudicam Lula? "Democracia":

All year long -- even back to 2025, when Jair Bolsonaro, from prison, surprisingly chose his son Flavio as his party's candidate -- most people I know, and most in media, though Lula's chances to be re-elected were very high. Yet here we are. Incumbency is a high albatross.

Any America leftist who looks at the resounding vote of Brazilians this week against the party that has occupied their country's presidency for 18 of the past 24 years, and casually announces that the main cause or even a major cause of their collective decision is US interferenc…Mostrar mais

One of the best things about the internet is that you get to be all things all at the same time.

In the wake of their devastating, nationwide, unexpectedly crushing defeat, The Brazilian Left -- just like the Democratic Party does after they lose -- is now attacking the voters themselves, saying they're too stupid to realize how much Lula did for them. Some, of course, are s…Mostrar mais

One note about Brazil's elections with relevance for the democratic world: The biggest vote-getters for Congress -- record-setting vote totals -- were young people, often very young, with a massive social media presence, including many influencers. For better or worse, that's th…Mostrar mais

Brazil's election count coming to an end with the slimmest margin yet between Bolsonaro and Lula: now about 2%. Still: very hard to see how Lula will leap ahead for the Oct. 25 run-off given tonight's huge right-wing wave and the right-wing tilt of the 4 candidates behind them.

Flavio Bolsonaro will end up ahead of Lula in the first-round of voting, but will fall short of the 50% needed to win outright tonight. 🇧🇷 The run-off is October 25. Given who the voters are who voted for other candidates behind the two of them (more right-wing than left-wing)…Mostrar mais

Close to 50% of the vote in Brazil: Flavio Bolsonaro contines maintaining a large 8.5 point lead over Lula. No poll predicted any margin like this. Most predicted Lula ahead with a second round needed. Definite under-counting by Brazil's major pollsters -- yet again -- of the s…Mostrar mais

Last of two major polls in Brazil for tomorrow's election shows an extremely tight and unpredictable race. One has it Lula/Bolsonaro (46/45), the other Lula/Bolsonaro (45/42). If nobody gets 50%, run-off is Oct. 25. Run-off: one poll has Flavio: 44/42; the other Lula 47/46.

Brazil's largest media outlets have been vehemently anti-Bolsonaro ever since he was ran and won in 2018. But now they are all warning that the pro-Lula wing of the Supreme Court is censuring for Lula and otherwise interfering to manipulate and prevent a free election:👇

For most of the year, I thought there was a roughly 20-30% chance that if Flavio Bolsonaro looked like he'd beat Lula, or if he did beat him, the pro-Lula wing of the Supreme Court would just bar his candidacy or overturn the election. Now I think it's about a 50% chance. This…Mostrar mais

Kathy Hochul made an extremely dumb statement about the state of rape law in NY, the state of which she's the governor -- the statement was barely coherent, but to the extent it could be discerned, it was false -- and she got appropriately community-noted over it.

I would like to make a statement about swans. Most people know they're among the most beautiful animals, but they are also behaviorally fascinating. We had two couples, but one of the females died a year ago, and they instantly turned into a throuple. They are never more than a…Mostrar mais

The NYT obtained mountains of documents, emails and chats collected by Cornell as part of the Title IX investigation into the rape accusations. There is nothing that definitively exonerates the defendants, and some scraps that can be used to convict them as part of the online mo…Mostrar mais

Right: but other than all this, how did the Iraq War go?

The Cornell Case: Using mob justice to decree people guilty of horrific crimes and ruin their lives over it -- with no due process, before they're charged with, let alone convicted of, crimes -- is framed by the mob as righteous and noble. In fact, it's sinister and dangerous:

Listen to this Israeli military analyst speak in English to an IDF spokesman, where they boast that the law they just got Trump and Congress to enact to mandate greater "cooperation" between the US and Israeli militaries will tie the hands of a future US President whom Americans…Mostrar mais

Dogs, dogs and more dogs: a key receipe for human happiness (adopt from shelters or rescue them from the streets; our own shelter: www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-people-amp-ani...):

CNN rightfully gets a Community Note, showing the best use of this feature to prevent deceitful "news":

Good @NYT article on how -- with two weeks before Brazil's election -- its most powerful judge Alexandre de Moraes is widely seen as an authoritarian threat, and his sleazy corruption scandal is weighing Lula down because he's Lula's "important ally." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/world/americas/...Mostrar mais

Meu deus: isso é só triste agora:

In late 2024, Charlie Kirk asked me to appear on his show to discuss, among other things, what he called "the uniparty's" obsessive drive to censor Americans' speech in order to protect Israel. It's hard to imagine today's "Charlie Kirk Show" airing any of this.

With two weeks before Brazil's national election, Lula, 80, is being further dragged down in his re-election bid by a major, sleazy scandal implicating his key ally, Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. Polls have shows Flavio Bolsonaro rising and he's becoming the favorite.🇧🇷

Trump has systematically betrayed most of his core, MAGA-defining political commitments (other than closing the border). Wars, foreign policy, his empowerment of the Deep State, and extreme swamp-driven self-enrichment are the most obvious examples. But his attacks on free spee…Mostrar mais

The Fall of Brazil’s Tyrannical Judge May Be Imminent: Moraes and His Sleaze Are Exposed With Brazil's presidential election exactly one month away, his desperate moves to survive may imperil Lula's re-election and Brazilian democracy itself. [link in the next tweet]

The more both parties and corporate media obsess on the supposed evils of Hasan Piker, the more Abdul El-Sayed rises. The 2016 lesson of Trump was that voters don't care about the taboos and fixations of DC/media discourse. When will that be learned?

Como o editorial do @Estadao fez, a @Folha publicou um editorial: “A Moraes cabe a renúncia”. "Não há mais lugar no STF para Moraes. Se o ministro não renunciar, restará ao Senado, por meio de um processo de impeachment, livrar a corte desse fardo." www1.folha.uol.com.br/opiniao/2026/09/a-mo...Mostrar mais

Editorial do @Estadao: "Moraes tem de sair do Supremo" "Não tem mais condições de seguir como ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) e deveria pedir exoneração do cargo, para o bem da própria Corte." www.estadao.com.br/opiniao/moraes-tem-de-s...

Trump campaigned on mass deportations but instead had Marco Rubio and ICE focus on deporting those who criticize Israel. A federal judge yesterday ruled the obvious: targeting people for criticizing Israel violates the 1st Am. Congrats to @TheFIREorg. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/us/politics/tru...Mostrar mais

Everyone associated with or involved in the online left comes to this conclusion sooner or later.

NEW: An absolutely bizarre case with huge implications for US National Security and Brazil: The Biden-Era C.B.P. Fabricated an Immigration Document Used to Imprison a Top-Level Brazilian Official. A U.S. Federal Judge Just Ordered Full Disclosure to Find Out Who Did It.

Oh absolutely, @ADL. It's totally a wacky "conspiracy" that people who have loyalty to Israel exert significant influence over US foreign policy and funded Tom Massie's defeat. It's just like believing the earth is flat or the moon landing was fake. www.adl.org/resources/article/antisemitic-...Mostrar mais

Brazil's presidential election is about 6 weeks away (Oct. 4). Polls have long shown Lula with a modest lead over Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro (whose father, the former President, is imprisoned). The latest poll shows Lula with a 7-point lead over Bolsonaro in the first round (though 5…Mostrar mais

Yet another pastor arrested for grooming and sexual contact with a minor children over whom he and his wife have guardianship. I don't believe in drawing policy sweeping conclusions from repeated anecdotes, but since so many do, here's the newest one: www.thenewsenterprise.com/news/state/forme...Mostrar mais

Sobre a crença de autoglorificação de alguns jornalistas -- de que o jornalismo é uma espécie de área extremamente complexa e especializada (semelhante à neurocirurgia ou à engenharia aeroespacial) -- que ninguém poderia exercer com competência sem um diploma na área:

Minha nova coluna na @Folha sobre a tentativa de Flávio Dino e Moraes -- com o apoio da esquerda -- de ressuscitar e reimpor o esquema de 1969 da ditadura para controlar o jornalismo. Em 2009, o STF declarou que ele violava direitos constitucionais.

When Mike Johnson was elected House Speaker, he ascended to his tribunal to give the traditional address to define his Speakership. Guess what he said would be the first bill he would push to the floor (hint: it had nothing to do with Americans)?

As a result of the Trump/Netanyhau Iran War -- as well as the bipartisan policy of feeding weapons to Israel and Ukraine -- the US has all but depleted its anti-missile systems. There is also basically no missile defense for the US's Persian Gulf dictatorship allies. This global…Mostrar mais

There are few if any House members who have so consistently and gluttonously spewed unvarnished bigotry and hatred like @VoteRandyFine has. So of course the leaders of "the 2 parties" -- @MikeJohnson and @RepJeffries -- unite in defense of him, invoking principles of anti-bigotr…Mostrar mais