“Meta (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp) internal docs admit that they cooked the algorithm against Lula during the first round” - Craig Johnson
#Lula #META
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2026/10/em-mensagens-internas-meta-admite-que-contas-de-lula-foram-prejudicadas-por-restricoes-engenheiros-falam-em-falhas-tecnicas.shtml
source: https://bsky.app/profile/cajohnson-craig.bsky.social/post/3mxyyolfiws2c
#Brazil abolishes six-day workweek in win for #Lula Signature policy of leftwing president approved by Congress ahead of run-off vote
https://www.ft.com/content/7f14509d-5807-4fff-b4a2-74f5429aaec2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Revealed: #VW, #Ford and #Tesla batteries linked to destructive deforestation of #indigenous lands
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/16/vw-ford-tesla-batteries-deforestation-indigenous-lands
Mines in supply chains of western carmakers linked to widespread deforestation of primary rainforest in nickel-rich lands inhabited by Tolaki people in #Indonesia
‚Das an einem Naturschutzgebiet geplante Luxus-Resort von Trump-Schwiegersohn Kushner an Albaniens Küste gerät ins Wanken. Anhaltende Proteste, Korruptionsvorwürfe und Ermittlungen setzen die Regierung in Tirana unter Druck.….‘
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/albanien-flamingo-revolution-kushner-luxus-resort-100.html
Was als friedliche Aktion von Naturschützer*innen begann, die mit Flamingos demonstrierten, wuchs zu einer Massenbewegung heran. Der Flamingo avancierte zum Symbol des Widerstands gegen den Ausverkauf Albaniens, Investorendeals und die Korruption im Land. Als die Polizei erste Proteste gewaltsam räumen ließ, schlug der ökologische Unmut in offene Wut um. Nun gibt es gewaltsame Ausschreitungen, inklusive Angriffe auf das Justizminiserium, Aktionen bei privaten Häusern von Regierungsmitgliedern, angezündeten Straßen, Blockaden. Dagegen setzt der Staat natürlich Polizeigewalt und Repression ein, welche aber bisher, die Proteste auf den Straßen in Tirana nicht eingrenzen können. Die Aufstände in Albanien erinnern an andere Austände aus der Vergangenheit, die als NON-Movements bezeichnet werden. Führerlose, unstrukturierte Proteste mit unklaren oder gar keinen Forderungen, die nur aus Unzufridenheit und Wut entstehen, die sich ib einem spontanen Moment auf die Straße ausbreiten. Diese Austände sind damit anarchistsich und durchaus auch eine Gefahr für die Herrschenden! Ob diese Aufstände es schaffen können nachhaltig Veränderung zu bringen ist sehr unklar. Bei ähnlichen Protesten in Nepal, Indonesien, Pakistan, Black lives Matters, Gelbwesten oder dem Aufstand in Chile 2020 hat sich gezeigt, dass diese Protestform oft nicht lange anhält und oft die Politik nicht zum umdenken bewegt, jedoch wird dadurch die als legitim wahrgenommene Ordnung in frage gestellt, was bei den Menschen ein nachhaltiges Umdenken auslösen kann. Bis dahin stehen wir in Solidarität mit den Protestierenden in Albanien!
RE: https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/117448299393448098
“A sundown town is a community that prohibited Black people from staying within its borders after dark, or from owning property. This was done through laws, signs, threats, harassment, or violence.”
#racism #history #BlackHistory #SundownTowns
'More than 150 years after the end of slavery and a generation after Civil Rights reforms, a new study finds that places designated as “sundown towns” in the past are more racist today. '
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/10/13/sundown-towns-linked-lingering-racial-bias
RE: https://todon.nl/@Persona/117448475448262259
“students had reported threats attributed to supporters of Flávio Bolsonaro, including messages that talked about ‘blowing up the department’.”
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@anarchistfront/117366694680288434
From the Language of Demands to the Institution of Agency
“One of the most significant transformations in Iranian society in recent years has been not merely an increase in protests, but the expansion of the ‘language of demands’.
Today, individuals—from children to students and workers—can articulate their experiences using more precise vocabulary, addressing everything from the right to psychological security and dignity to issues of discrimination, isolation, and quality of life…
For past generations, the very act of voicing a grievance was difficult. A child endured abuse, a student accepted humiliation as an inherent part of schooling, and the average citizen often lacked the language to name injustice…
society has gained the capacity to speak far more than the capacity to build.”
“in France, a major component of their riot control force is the Gendarmerie mobile, part of the Armed Forces; in the French case, then, it’s perhaps more accurate to call them policified soldiers…
what all French cops have in common is a predilection towards violence that exceeds their peers in neighbouring countries.”
#France #police #violence
https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/15/postcard-from-montpellier/
"The Leipzig left-wing Lina E. has just been released from preventive detention. Now the Saxon judiciary is following up and is trying to take her into custody again."
#freeallantifas #FreeLina
https://taz.de/Saechsische-Justiz-gegen-Antifaschistin/!6221972/
RE: https://todon.nl/@anarchismhub/117450364087011818
nazis will undoubtedly return home shortly with their tails between the legs
US liberals struggle to articulate any message to vote for Democrats beyond “you must vote to stop Trump” because neoliberalism no longer even pretends to legitimize the capitalist status quo. There is simply no room left for a positive vision, only opposition to something “worse.”
“Varisheh Moradi a prominent kurdish activist was convicted of ‘membership in a rebellious group’ by Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Abolqasem Salavati - the same judge who presided over her first case.”
#Iran #activists #kurdistan
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iran/1079744
Colorado. Michigan. 28 Democratic party elected officials with a national platform. Anti-trans ads being run by democrats. Ohio Dems censoring its LGBTQ+ caucus. South Carolina dems voting en masse for anti-trans policies.
Never think what happened to UK Labour can't happen here.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/post/3mxxgs6nzec2o
Greek Trials Turn Migrants Into ‘Smugglers’ and Minors Into Adults
Crete: Frontline of the New EU Migration and Asylum Pact – Part 3 of 3
https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/greek-trials-turn-migrants-into-smugglers-and-minors-into-adults/
🇦🇱 Albanian #students clash with police for 3rd consecutive day
https://aa.com.tr/en/europe/albanian-students-clash-with-police-for-3rd-consecutive-day/4090296
Student-led demonstrators clashed with police in the Albanian capital on Thursday for a third consecutive day, as protests demanding changes spread to several cities in the country, according to public broadcaster RTSH.
Protesters threw stones and fireworks at police and public buildings, while officers responded with tear gas and water cannons.
In response to Starlink throttling data used by Ukraine, I saw someone suggest nationalization of SpaceX as a response.
And yeah, I get the impulse. There is an appeal to the idea that the public should own an asset built with public resources, serving a function, owned by a fascist capitalist.
But…the US is currently run by that fascist capitalist’s best friend, another fascist capitalist. Nationalizing resources doesn’t place them under *public* ownership and command; it places them under the command of the state. The state is merely the bureaucratic and coercive arm of the capitalist class—but even if it weren’t, it’s still trivially easy for billionaires to capture the state and mobilize it for their own purposes (hence…Trump and Musk throttling Starlink to extort the Ukrainian state for their personal advantage).
It just feels so painfully naive to call for nationalization by the US government as a solution to people like Musk when the US government is run by people like Musk. The state and capital are already in bed together!
DC: Protesters demand global debt cancellation at US Treasury during IMF meetings week
As part of a global day of action yesterday during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, Debt for Climate US demanded cancellation of Global South debt in front of the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, DC. Over 200 flyers were passed out explaining the debt crisis and what the U.S. Treasury can do about it.
Countries in the Global South are economically strangled by massive debts imposed by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank. These institutions are under the thumb of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, who wields veto power.
The nearly $9 trillion in debt held by the IMF and World Bank leads to extraction of resources, disruption of ecosystems, pollution, and destruction of communities and cultures. Continuation of these debts is causing climate and ecological catastrophes for people everywhere.
Debt for Climate demands the unconditionalcancellation of the illegitimate debts of the Global South.