Porcelina

@porcelinarr.bsky.social

Public-sector STEM jockey, constant reader, language learner 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇪🇸🇲🇽🇫🇷🇰🇷🇮🇪 I’m 🟦 political (migration, inequality, climate, democracy) but I like jokes, art, books, and wonders of science & nature too.

​With the midterms coming up & everything that has happened the last 9 months, I felt like I needed to post something. Ignorantly, in the past, I only voted in presidential elections. Now I am voting in any election I can. Alex stood up for his community so now it is time we stand up & fight back.

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Would love to talk with editors from 1998 and ask them: If Congress dropped a 50-page report detailing, with witnesses on the record, that President Clinton raped women, would you put it on the front page?

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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

I think Mark Zuckerberg and Meta played a significant role in Lula’s victory in Brazil. Meta’s attempts to tip the scales in Bolsonaros favor galvanized Brazilians and helped push Lula to victory. Do we thank Meta? No. I hope they pay dearly for their connivance. ❤️ Lula 🖕 Mark Zuckerberg

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

The BBC Strikes Back

With so much going on right now, we pick up with an unusual Friday afternoon column to cover Trump’s defamation case against the BBC.

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In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then down to the old soccer field to invent a peace prize and award it to Donald Trump. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.