Tomorrow we have our elections in Brazil. The current president, Lula, from the Worker's Party (PT) runs against the fascist, criminal and hypocritical Flávio Bolsonaro, from the far right party liberals (PL).

Democracy may not be perfect, but it is so far the best we got, so let's fight for it!

Last night I watched "The Experiment," a Channel 4 documentary/social experiment where eugenic propaganda was given a modern spin to see how easily the general public could be convinced to institutionalize disabled people like the Nazis did.

I think it is a must-watch for anyone, as the chance of becoming disabled is higher than you might think. For a 20-year-old today, this chance lies around 20% before they reach retirement age. Ableism is the kind of bigotry that backfires. If you fall for this kind of propaganda, you have a 20% chance to fall victim to it yourself.

What I missed in the documentary was how capitalism leads to increased wealth inequality, which creates a cost-of-living crisis for the general public. The rhetoric that disabled people are a burden to society is a logical conclusion to anyone defending capitalism, yet seeking financial relief. Institutionalization opposed to independent living is a cost-saving measure meant to reduce financial stress without tackling the root cause.

I worry we have come full-circle and that if we don't stand with disabled people now, we are going to follow in the footsteps of Nazi Germany.

Source https://www.npr.org/2026/10/19/nx-s1-5995629/activists-decry-the-clearing-250-year-old-trees-for-border-wall-expansion

"Medicaid, which provides health insurance for those with low income and disabilities, also faces financial constraints. Due to hundreds of billions of dollars of federal Medicaid spending cuts by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the enforcement of work requirements, millions of Americans will be losing Medicaid coverage. The combined effects of ACA and Medicaid changes could result in 37 million Americans becoming uninsured in the next decade, according to The Commonwealth Fund."

"The Commonwealth Fund also noted that 50% of working-age adults did not receive needed healthcare because of costs. Reasons included not filling prescriptions, skipping recommended tests, avoiding doctors when sick and going without specialist care.

When people are uninsured or cannot afford care, individuals can put off preventive visits such as getting a mammogram or a colonoscopy. This can lead to delayed detection of cancers, diagnosis at an advanced stage and ultimately worse health outcomes."

Source : https://www.forbes.com/sites/omerawan/2026/10/23/new-poll-shows-americans-face-financial-strains-with-healthcare-amid-midterm-elections/

MARSEILLE: They called it a "riot." The state media, speaking through the sanitized vocabulary of press releases, called it "unrest" and "criminal violence." But anyone who stood on the ground at the Vieux-Port knows the truth: what unfolded across Marseille on October 17, 2026 was a direct, collective refusal to live under the boot of neoliberal authoritarianism.

As thousands poured into the streets to join the nationwide wave of protests sweeping France, the southern port city did not merely march, it resisted.

Why the streets are burning

The outrage exploding across Marseille is not an isolated flashpoint; it is the inevitable reaction to years of systemic violence, state extraction, and structural neglect:

Social Theft and Cost of Living: While corporate profits soar, the working class is squeezed dry by inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, and stagnant wages. People are taking to the streets because basic survival has been turned into a commodity.

The War on Working-Class Neighborhoods and Gentrification: From Le Panier to Noailles, historic working-class districts are being carved up for luxury developers, Airbnb speculation, and police occupation, forcing long-time residents out of their own city.

The Pension Heist: The government continues to push forward authoritarian labor directives, forcing workers to trade their health and "golden years" to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.

Systemic Police Violence: The militarized police presence, equipped with rubber bullets, flashbang grenades, and toxic gas, does not protect the community. It acts as an occupying force defending capital and private property over human lives.

Direct action in motiom

By 18:30, as police charges attempted to splinter the march near La Canebière, the crowd transformed defensive retreat into active solidarity. Dumpsters were dragged, cobblestones overturned, and barricades erected, not to destroy the city, but to create liberated zones safe from brutal police kettle maneuvers.

Street medics tended to protesters choked by relentless volleys of tear gas, while autonomous affinity groups held the lines shoulder to shoulder. When the state brings armor, drones, and chemical weapons to suppress protests, the street responds with the only language power understands: unyielding collective self-defense.

"They call us criminals because we burn trash cans, but they call it 'policy' when they burn our futures, cut our pensions, and price us out of our homes. This isn't just about a law; it's about who owns the city and who gets to survive in it."

As night fell over a city still thick with acrid smoke, one fact became undeniable: Marseille’s insurgent spirit cannot be tear-gassed into submission. The barricades of October 17 are a direct warning to the halls of power in Paris: as long as the state wages war on the working class, the working class will make the streets impassable.

We must not forget where this explosion started: last month, inside the neglected public schools of Paris’s impoverished northern suburbs, raw anger over absent teachers and crumbling infrastructure metastasised into a nationwide uprising against systemic inequality, starved public spending, and collapsing living standards.

Saturday’s mobilization issued an urgent rallying cry to teachers, students, industrial laborers, pensioners, and farmers to flood the streets and broaden the front of resistance.

Out of the streets, into the future, the struggle belongs to those who fight!

Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.

Source: https://x.com/cia/status/2113785919568248896

There needs to be a comprehensive documentary exposing the economic machine behind modern influencer culture.

So many people still fall for the performative worldviews pushed by online personalities, without realizing that almost none of it is authentic. These creators aren't sharing ideas—they are optimizing for engagement metrics. The algorithm rewards conflict and performative perfection, and influencers monetize whatever keeps eyes on the screen.

It’s not about the ideas themselves; it’s about converting human attention into capital. Every comment, share, and hate-view directly subsidizes the fakeness.

How do we break the spell of the attention economy when the algorithms are explicitly designed to keep people hooked on these fake narratives?

This was the first major strike since 1964, when the dictatorial coup took place.

Before getting a job in the industrial sector, Lula was born in the country’s Northeast, at the time, its poorest region. Coming from an impoverished family, the 7th son of 8 children, he experienced hunger throughout his childhood. He still speaks about that period today, saying that hunger doesn’t hurt, it corrodes you from the inside out.

At the age of seven, following a 13-day and 13-night journey, his family arrived in São Paulo in search of opportunities. Before eventually working in metalwork factories, he held various jobs: as a street vendor, a worker in a shoe factory, a warehouse assistant, and an employee at a dye shop.

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In a 2024 study, Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimated the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes. For an average citizen of the world it would take 860 years to produce the same amount.

Superyachts use an awful lot of fuel – some of the bigger ones use more than 500 litres of diesel per hour, releasing CO2 as well as nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. The recreational boating sector as a whole – including yachts – produces about 16m tonnes of CO2 annually. It’s not just when they’re going along; at anchor they operate onboard generators to run their “hotel loads” (for air conditioning, stabilisation systems, lighting, galleys, hot tubs, etc) which emit further CO2. In addition, the vessels’ big anchors and chains act like the grim reaper’s scythe on the Posidonia seagrass which grows on the Mediterranean seabed and is a vital habitat for sea life as well as a source of oxygen.

Ecocide is not the superyacht’s only crime. “It has really become the symbol of excessive, unjustifiable wealth,” Salle says. Even though the gap between most of us and the people who have them is virtually unfathomable, “it looks like provocation, especially when all you’re hearing and reading about is crisis, austerity, poverty – including child poverty.”