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Lula packed Brazil’s Supreme Court with his own lawyer and justice minister and had them lock his rival up for 27 years.
Back in 2023, after taking power, he named Cristiano Zanin and Flávio Dino to the court. In 2025 both voted to convict Jair Bolsonaro of a coup plot and hand him the sentence.
That court had previously wiped Lula’s own corruption convictions in 2021 so he could run again.
On election day, Zanin ordered the polls kept open another 2 hours, 3 minutes before they were supposed to close. Both sides had asked, but the call came from Lula’s former defense lawyer.
Even after Bolsonaro was barred and jailed, Lula still trailed Flávio 45–47 in the first round and only scraped past him by under 4 points in the runoff.
Flávio still refuses to concede. Lula called the win a defeat for denialism and lies.
Two of the judges who put his rival away were the men he put on the court. Voters barely picked him. The court cleared the path.
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When @realDonaldTrump was elected for his first term, innumerable people including most of my academic colleagues said that the worst realities would befall the United States. None of those things happened. They then said that he would wait until his second term to end democracy, institute martial law, etc. None of those things have happened. Is there a SINGLE honest individual amongst those people who is willing to admit that they were grossly incorrect and hence irrationally unhinged?
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🇺🇸 Did Trump get a BBL? 😂
You know all of those videos that keep showing something weird happening on Trump’s backside?
He’s good friends with Nicki Minaj, and he really cares about “aesthetics”, and ASSES! You heard the speech!
I’m just saying… it would explain some things!
Writer: Jamie
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🇷🇸 Belgrade turned into one giant dance floor tonight
Thousands of people are out on the streets dancing after the students won the election and Vučić admitted defeat.
After everything they’ve been through, they’ve earned this one.
Writer: Daniyal
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🇸🇪 Like a moth to a flame, if there’s a left-wing protest, Greta Thunberg will be there.
But what does she do other than sit on her butt? 😂
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